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The Alaska Arts Education Consortium has recognized former Kodiak High School teacher Bonnie Dillard as the 2022 Arts Advocate Champion of Arts in Education.
Dillard was nominated for the award by Peggy Azuyak, principal of rural schools in the Kodiak Island Borough School District, and JoAnne Knight, the arts and culture coordinator for the Munartet Project. The Munartet Project is a collaborative effort between KIBSD, Kodiak Arts Council, Kodiak College and the Alutiiq Museum to support teachers who are integrating art into their teachings.
“Bonnie is an amazing artist herself, which may be intimidating to some, but her way of bringing the artist out of the people in her classes is inspiring,” Knight saidin a statement released by AAEC. “She is a master of growing artists through her deep knowledge and respectful and effective teaching methods. She builds confidence and competence in those with whom she works. She is gracious and empowering.”
Dillard has made many contributions to the Kodiak community, including teaching art to students at rural schools, according to Azuyak, who used to be one of Dillard's students.
"I just think its important that we nurture [artistic talent] in our kids, especially our young kids," Dillard said.
One of the things that Dillard tries to do is teach art to students in elementary and middle school, she said. When Dillard worked at the high school, there were no art teachers in the elementary and middle schools, so she would arrange for high schoolers in the Arts Club to give lessons to students from Main Elementary School.
"I always tried to feed that hunger that kids have [at a young age], because middle school is such a difficult time and somethings that spark will get snuffed out," Dillard said.
Dillard continued to feed that hunger in young kids, even after her retirement. Dillard continues to volunteer and teach are in the community, Dillard said. One of the things that she is involved with is the Munartet Project.
Dillard’s work will appear in at least one more place in town. The Kodiak Asphalt Initiative will install a mural which was designed by Dillard and one of her former students, Marina Thomas, on the pavement in front of the building that houses the Kodiak Visitors Center, Kodiak Chamber of Commerce and the ferry office.
“Bonnie’s passion is bringing attention to the beauty of the natural world, and this is found in her own art pieces and the lessons she brings to the students,” Azuyak is quoted as saying in the AAEC statement. “She values the capacity of the arts to develop confidence, compassion and coping skills to young people. She also understands the importance of integrating arts with content to help promote learning and retention.”
The Alaska Arts Education Consortium is an organization that promotes both arts education and the utilization of art as a teaching method. | https://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/news/article_2428e340-b104-11ec-922a-b76dd658e053.html | 2022-04-01T01:44:40Z |
Former soldier reveals Argentine torture in Falklands war
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Some soldiers were buried up to their necks in snow, others tied to posts by their limbs.
Badly trained and poorly equipped, Argentine soldiers suffered shocking conditions and even torture during the 1982 Falklands War -- but it was inflicted by their own officers.
"The dictatorship's methods were transported to the Falklands," said former fighter Ernesto Alonso, who has launched a case against Argentina's military command for torturing soldiers during the war.
"In many cases the Falklands situation was being stuck between two enemies," Alonso told AFP, ahead of the 40th anniversary of Argentina's disastrous invasion of the British-held South Atlantic archipelago.
On one side, the British were "killing our comrades in battle," and on the other, Argentine officers were torturing their own men.
The Center for ex-fighters in La Plata, Alonso's home town, has collected statements from dozens of former soldiers and in 2007 opened a court case against Argentina's military leaders for torture during the war.
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"It was systematic, there was no precedent for what we went through in the Falklands where the state terrorism was exported," said Alonso.
"Over there the life of a sheep was worth more than a soldier... There were soldiers that died of hunger," added Alonso, who spoke of a "very traumatic experience."
"I was witness to the death of a soldier who was punished by sleeping outside of his position and one morning we found him between the rocks, covered by a poncho, almost frozen with convulsions. He did not survive the cold."
Alonso said he also saw "three soldiers tied to stakes in front of" barracks on Mount Longdon, near the eastern coast of the region.
Many Argentine soldiers came from warm climates and had never before experienced the biting cold of the Falklands' wind.
'Your whole body froze'
The court case involves 180 incidents, with around 100 members of the military implicated, although only four are to be prosecuted.
The trial has been delayed while the Supreme Court of Argentina decides whether or not such torture constitutes a crime against humanity.
But the former fighters' testimonies in the case have exposed the brutality of their tormentors.
"They lay us on our backs, made us spread our arms into a T figure and tied our legs apart with rope. With the snow and the cold, your whole body froze," said one ex-soldier.
"I was ordered to be buried alongside three other soldiers up to our necks in a pit with no coat, no helmet, for more than 10 hours in extreme temperatures and without food," said another.
Temperatures in the Falklands can drop to minus six degrees Celsius (21 degrees Fahrenheit), with snow and frost common in addition to the freezing winds.
Some soldiers said they were forced to eat feces, given electric shocks and were left without helmets during British bombardments.
Argentina's public prosecutor's office said on Thursday it was incorporating new complaints to the file, including "immersion in icy water as a method of torture and cases of sexual abuse in an anti-Semitic context against 24 victims," following analysis of newly declassified military documents.
'Worst oppressive apparatus'
Alonso was just 19 and enrolled in obligatory military service when dictator Leopoldo Galtieri sent an invasion force to the islands on April 2, 1982.
Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falklands, which Britain asserted control over in 1833 following earlier competing claims by the French and Spanish as well as the British.
Alonso arrived on the islands -- some 2,000 kilometers from his home in La Plata, in Argentina's northeast -- 10 days after the start of the invasion.
His company spent 64 days stationed on Mount Longdon, the site of a fierce battle just days before Argentina's surrender on June 14.
It was where 33 of the 649 Argentines who lost their lives during the war died.
Upon his return home he received no recognition nor psychological support.
"We were received by the worst oppressive apparatus of the dictatorship, and they imposed silence on us. That caused terrible damage," said Alonso.
But "talking was reparatory, we were able to transform our pain into a struggle."
Since the war, some 600 ex-fighters have died.
Alonso has been back to the islands five times since 2005. He has spearheaded a campaign to identify the bodies in around 100 unmarked graves in the Argentine cemetery at Darwin on the Falklands.
Successive Argentine governments have refused to repatriate the bodies, insisting they are already buried in Argentine territory.
Alonso is proud of the young men who fought with minimal training and inadequate weapons or clothing against the far more professional British armed forces.
But he does not want to "remain anchored" to the conflict.
Despite the horrors of war, Alonso still supports the state claim on the Falklands, as does 80 percent of the Argentinian population, according to surveys.
"The Falklands are much more than a war," said Alonso "The Falklands is in the DNA of all Argentines and clearly the dictatorship knew how to strike a chord in that DNA."
Source: AFP | https://briefly.co.za/world/124256-former-soldier-reveals-argentine-torture-falklands-war/ | 2022-04-01T01:44:40Z |
Daniel Radcliffe is hoping to stay far away from the ongoing discourse surrounding Will Smith’s Oscars night altercation with Chris Rock.
On Thursday, Radcliffe declined to speak about the controversial Academy Awards moment while being interviewed on “Good Morning Britain” Thursday to promote his new movie, “The Lost City.”
“I’m just so already dramatically bored of hearing people’s opinions about it that I just don’t want to be another opinion adding to it,” the “Harry Potter” actor said.
Radcliffe, however, can relate to the experience of sitting through an award ceremony as hosts and presenters take potshots at his expense. “When you’re going on stuff as a kid, you’re never quite sure if the joke’s with you or you’re the butt of the joke,” he explained. “So you sort of have a mode of just being like: ‘I’ll just keep smiling and laughing and maybe it’ll end soon.’”
Catch Daniel Radcliffe’s “Good Morning Britain” interview below.
Elsewhere in the interview, Radcliffe was asked about the longstanding rumor that he’ll be taking over for Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in a future installment of the “X-Men” franchise.
Though he acknowledged that the casting is simply a social media-based “fan theory at the moment,” he’s nonetheless flattered: “Who wouldn’t want to be compared to Hugh Jackman?”
“The Lost City,” which opened in theaters last week, follows Loretta Sage (played by Sandra Bullock), a romance novelist who gets kidnapped by Abigail Fairfax, (Radcliffe) an eccentric billionaire searching for the long-lost treasure referenced in Sage’s books. After cover model Alan Caprison (Channing Tatum) witnesses Sage’s kidnapping, he embarks on a bumbling quest through the jungle and save her.
In addition to “The Lost City,” Radcliffe is also set to star as “Weird Al” Yankovic in the Roku Channel’s “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.”
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated. | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/daniel-radcliffe-has-the-perfect-response-to-will-smiths-oscars-smack/130551/ | 2022-04-01T01:44:41Z |
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Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment,” Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to “Good Morning America.” “They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options.”
But Packer said Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,” Packer said. “And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no.”
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night’s ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer’s interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.”
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.”
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US Navy can no longer separate service members who are unvaccinated and sought religious exemption, federal judge rules
By Ellie Kaufman, CNN
The US Navy can no longer separate service members who are unvaccinated and have sought a religious exemption from getting a Covid-19 vaccine, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Monday.
A group of Navy SEALs brought the original suit against the US government last fall after the US military implemented a Covid-19 vaccine mandate. The group of SEALs asked that they not be reprimanded or denied deployments because they had requested a religious exemption to not be inoculated against the coronavirus, and it had not been granted yet.
In January, the lawyers representing the Navy SEALs filed a class action request, asking that all US Navy service members who have requested religious exemptions, over 4,000 of them, not be reprimanded or separated from service for requesting a religious exemption.
The federal judge from the Northern District of Texas, Reed O’Connor, granted the class action request in a court filing on Monday.
The Supreme Court last week agreed to temporarily freeze part of the lower Northern District of Texas court’s opinion requiring the Navy to deploy the Navy SEALs in the case, even though they remained unvaccinated per their religious exemption request. In O’Connor’s filing granting the class action, he issued an order in line with that Supreme Court move and said that the Navy could still take into account the service members’ vaccination status in deployment decisions.
While the Navy can no longer separate service members for requesting a religious exemption to remain unvaccinated, the Navy is not required to deploy unvaccinated service members, per the Supreme Court’s ruling.
The Navy released updated guidance to comply with the district court order granting the class action request on March 30. In accordance with the court order, the Navy will not impart any “adverse administrative consequences” on service members who have requested religious exemption from the Covid-19 vaccine.
According to a news release from the Navy, 4,282 active-duty US Navy service members and 3,267 US Navy Ready Reserve service members remain unvaccinated as of March 30, and as of March 24, the Navy has separated 732 members from the service for “refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.”
There have been 4,187 religious accommodation requests from active-duty US Navy service members and US Navy reserve members, the release said. There have been zero religious exemptions granted for active-duty or reserve Navy service members.
The deadline for active-duty US Navy service members to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 had been November 28, 2021 and for reserve members, it was December 28, 2021.
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CNN’s Tierney Sneed contributed to this report. | https://keyt.com/news/2022/03/31/us-navy-can-no-longer-separate-service-members-who-are-unvaccinated-and-sought-religious-exemption-federal-judge-rules/ | 2022-04-01T01:44:41Z |
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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s nuclear operator company said Thursday that Russian troops were leaving the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and were heading towards the country’s border with Belarus.
The operator, Energoatom said that the Russian military are also preparing to leave Slavutych, a nearby city where power plant workers live.
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Crew members and actors have claimed that Bruce Willis misfired prop guns and needed his lines fed through an earpiece while on film sets.
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The allegations, which have come to light after the actor’s family announced that he’s retiring from acting due to being diagnosed with aphasia, have been laid out in a new report by The Los Angeles Times.
Per the report, Willis alarmed movie staffers two years ago when he misfired a prop gun twice on the set of Hard Kill. Last year, it’s claimed he also asked why he was on a film set.
Sources also alleged that the veteran Die Hard actor struggled to remember his lines and was fed words through an earpiece known in the industry as an “earwig”.
A body double was said to be used in most action scenes – particularly those that involved the use of prop guns, the report added.
On the set of Hard Kill in Cincinnati two years ago, Willis allegedly fired a gun on the wrong cue twice on one occasion. No one was hurt in the apparent incident.
While the movie’s producer has disputed that the incident occurred, some actors and crew members have claimed that Willis did wrongly discharge the prop gun.
Actress Lala Kent, who played Willis’ daughter in the film, was in one scene supposed to be protected by his character from villains. “I’m supposed to think my life is about to end, and then my dad steps in to save the day,” Kent told the LA Times.
Willis was meant to deliver a line that served as her cue to duck before he fired a gun, but he allegedly shot the firearm without uttering the line. “Because my back was to him, I wasn’t aware of what was happening behind me. But the first time, it was like, ‘No big deal, let’s reset,’” Kent added to the paper.
She said that, despite asking director Matt Eskandari to remind Willis to say his line before firing again in the next take, the same thing happened.
Eskandari did not respond to calls from the LA Times seeking comment, but another employee said that he recalled Kent being shocked. Another crew member claimed that he recalled an incident in which Willis “did fire the gun on the wrong line”.
However, the film’s armourer denied that the incident occurred. Randall Emmett, who has worked on 20 Willis movies, and whose production company Emmett/Furla Oasis worked on Hard Kill also disputed the prop gun allegations.
“I fully support Bruce and his family during this challenging time and admire him for his courage in battling this difficult medical condition. Bruce will always be a part of our family,” Emmett told the publication.
A representative for Willis declined to comment to the LA Times.
Willis’ family spoke about his aphasia earlier this week. The condition is a language disorder that typically occurs after a stroke or brain injury, which significantly affects a person’s ability to communicate.
“This is a really challenging time for our family and we are so appreciative of your continued love, compassion and support,” part of the family statement read.
“We are moving through this as a strong family unit, and wanted to bring his fans in because we know how much he means to you, as you do to him.” | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/film/bruce-willis-aphasia-diagnosis-crew-members-claim-he-misfired-guns-and-forgot-lines-3195437 | 2022-04-01T01:44:46Z |
Alaskans lost more than $13 million to suspected internet crimes in 2021, federal data shows.
More than 1,700 suspected cyber crimes were reported in the state during 2021 — a 17.9% annual decrease from the previous year, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Complaint Center’s Report. The FBI released its stats on online crimes Monday.
The annual report showed that the most common cyber crimes reported in Alaska were government impersonation scams, extortion and phishing — where cybercriminals pose as legitimate institutions to obtain sensitive information, such as login credentials or credit card numbers.
Cyber crime is defined by the FBI as a crime that involves a computer and a network. The agency is the lead investigative organization for criminal violations of federal civil rights statutes, which includes cyber crimes and intrusions.
According to the report, internet crimes disproportionately affected Alaska’s senior population in 2021, with residents over 60 accounting for more than 30% of victims statewide. Last year, crime victims across the state lost the most money to investment, romance and email account compromise scams.
Nationwide, 847,376 Americans were targeted in suspected internet crime — a 7% increase from 2020 — and reported losses exceeded $6.9 billion last year.
The annual Internet Crime Report provides information about the offenses, victims and locations of cyber crimes. Alaska ranked 46th in the nation for the 2021 reported occurrences of internet crime per state.
Individuals who have information about or believe they are a victim of a cyber crime should immediately report suspected criminal activity to the IC3 at ic3.gov. Online tips can be submitted to the agency at tips.fbi.gov.
“The Internet Complaint Center gives the public a reliable and convenient mechanism to report suspected internet crime to the FBI,” a press release from the FBI’s Anchorage Field Office read. “By reporting internet crime, victims are not only alerting law enforcement to the activity, but also aiding in the overall fight against cybercrime.” | https://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/news/article_84bb2592-b104-11ec-8450-6f6a8fec7719.html | 2022-04-01T01:44:46Z |
Scandal-tainted candidates face off in Costa Rican presidential run-off
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Costa Ricans head to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, facing a choice between a candidate once investigated for corruption and another once demoted over sexual harassment allegations.
Both centrist former president Jose Maria Figueres and conservative ex-finance minister Rodrigo Chaves deny the allegations.
Campaigning has focused on how the hopefuls would address Costa Rica's central troubles: an external debt that is 70 percent of GDP, high levels of poverty -- at 23 percent -- and unemployment -- at 14 percent -- and corruption scandals in the public sector.
Chaves was a surprise qualifier for Sunday's run-off, having polled fourth ahead of February's first round.
He was the favorite in the most recent opinion polls, with almost 42 percent support, compared to 38 percent for Figueres, whose father Jose Figueres was also president.
But some 18 percent of people say they are undecided, which is what makes this election so hard to call.
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"It's very difficult to pin down what either Figueres or Chaves want to do," said economist and analyst Daniel Suchar.
Suchar said the country frequently faces the same problem, with voters focusing on the candidates -- and their foibles -- rather than their policies.
'Lifting economy is priority'
Costa Rica has been described as the "happiest" country in Latin America, but its vital tourism industry was hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
Alongside Peru, it suffered the largest fall in employment figures in the region between 2019 and 2020, a drop of 14 percent.
"At a socioeconomic level the country has radically deteriorated, even before the pandemic with structural unemployment and the weak situation of public finances," said Alejandro Molina, an analyst from the National Policy Observatory at the University of Costa Rica.
Tourism is one of the major motors of the local economy and Costa Rica is a world leader in environmental protection, making it a key eco-tourism destination.
"The priority right now is lifting and reactivating the economy... and creating employment options for the great quantity of unemployed people," 35-year-old auditor Andres Fonseca told AFP in the capital San Jose.
Whoever wins the election will face the challenge of governing without a parliamentary majority, and will thus need to work with opposition parties to pass any policies.
Both men have reached this final stage of the election despite the specter of past scandals.
Chaves, who spent six months as finance minister in the outgoing government, was investigated over sexual harassment complaints brought by multiple women while he was a senior official at the World Bank.
He was demoted, though not fired, and has dismissed his behavior as "jokes" that were "misinterpreted due to cultural differences."
For some of his supporters, Chaves's history has nothing to do with Costa Rica's election.
"I hope he will bring salvation... Those that criticize him are not in the economic situation that most of the population is in," said Rolando Gutierrez, a supporter.
Analyst Gina Sibaja said Chaves' continued appeal shows sexism is deep-rooted in the country.
"Those who lose the most are us women... He was victimized by his punishment and that has generated empathy, although mostly amongst men given that harassment in Costa Rica is an everyday occurrence."
Chaves, an economist who worked for 30 years at the World Bank, has been campaigning on corruption reform, vowing to "clean the house."
'They don't represent us'
Figueres, president from 1994-99, was investigated for allegedly taking some $900,000 from French engineering firm Alcatel, which has admitted to bribing officials.
The ex-president, who worked abroad at the time as executive director of the World Economic Forum (WEF), refused to give evidence in the case in 2004 and returned to Costa Rica only in 2011 when the investigation expired.
His father was the one who abolished Costa Rica's army as president in 1948.
Figueres has focused on his experience on the campaign trail, and criticized his opponent's lack of it.
"I will vote for Figueres because Costa Rica needs a change," said one of his supporters, Karla Zuniga.
"The economy has been destroyed and there is no clear decision making."
Figueres represents the centrist National Liberation Party (PLN), which won nine out of 15 elections between 1953 and 2010.
Chaves leads the newly formed right-wing Social Democratic Progress Party.
But at least one portion of the electorate is unimpressed with the choice on offer.
"Neither of them represents us," said Rocio Jimenez, a member of the Women to the Fore collective.
"They represent the whole patriarchal structure and neither of them will defend women's rights."
Some 3.5 million of Costa Rica's five million people are eligible to vote.
Source: AFP | https://briefly.co.za/world/124257-scandal-tainted-candidates-face-costa-rican-presidential-run-off/ | 2022-04-01T01:44:47Z |
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Demi Lovato is showing support for Ukraine with a new tattoo.
The singer, 29, debuted their new arm ink, which reads “choose love” on Instagram.
Sharing the motivation behind the tattoo in the caption, Lovato wrote, “Choose Love – always. I’m inspired by the work @chooselove and their partners are doing to support refugees around the world, including those fleeing Ukraine.”
The musician encouraged their followers to “take action” and donate to the Choose Love foundation to help those impacted by the war in Ukraine. A donation also enters fans into a contest that gives them a chance to win time in the studio with Lovato.
Lovato ended by showing love to the tattoo artist Gusak, writing, “it was such an honor learning about your home country.”
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The tattoo artist shared Lovato’s tattoo on Instagram, thanking them “so much for all you are doing, really appreciate it”
Choose Love foundation also saluted Lovato, noting in an Instagram post of the tattoo that the “Confident” singer is helping raise money for Ukraine. The foundation noted that “all funds will be donated to our Ukraine Crisis Relief fundraiser,” adding there’s up to $50,000 match in funding.”
Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues after its forces launched a large-scale invasion on Feb. 24 — the first major land conflict in Europe in decades.
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Details of the fighting change by the day, but hundreds of civilians have already been reported dead or wounded, including children. Millions of Ukrainians have also fled, the United Nations says.
“You don’t know where to go, where to run, who you have to call. This is just panic,” Liliya Marynchak, a 45-year-old teacher in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, told PEOPLE of the moment her city was bombed — one of the numerous accounts of bombardment by the Russians.
The invasion, ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, has drawn condemnation around the world and increasingly severe economic sanctions against Russia.
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With NATO forces massing in the region around Ukraine, various countries have also pledged aid or military support to the resistance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for peace talks — so far unsuccessful — while urging his country to fight back.
Putin insists Ukraine has historic ties to Russia and he is acting in the best security interests of his country. Zelenskyy vowed not to bend.
“Nobody is going to break us, we’re strong, we’re Ukrainians,” he told the European Union in a speech in the early days of the fighting, adding, “Life will win over death. And light will win over darkness.”
The Russian attack on Ukraine is an evolving story, with information changing quickly. Follow PEOPLE’s complete coverage of the war here, including stories from citizens on the ground and ways to help. | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/demi-lovato-supports-ukraine-refugees-with-choose-love-tattoo/130553/ | 2022-04-01T01:44:47Z |
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Tuesday's results
Winnipeg 8 Moose Jaw 1
Wednesday's results
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert 2 Brandon 1
Swift Current 6 Lethbridge 4
Regina 3 Saskatoon 2
Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 2
Kamloops 8 Prince George 2
Friday's games
Calgary at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
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Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Swift Current at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 2 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Regina at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17049937.php | 2022-04-01T01:44:47Z |
No jail for LA building owner over explosion that hurt 12
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of a downtown Los Angeles building where an explosion injured 12 firefighters has been allowed to enter a judicial diversion program that allows him to avoid jail time. A court commissioner on Wednesday granted Steve Sungho Lee’s request to enter the two-year program. Lee owned a commercial building that caught fire in May 2020. Firefighters on the roof and inside the building had to run for their lives when a ball of flames erupted from a vaping supply warehouse. City prosecutors filed more than 160 charges against Lee and his companies over alleged safety violations. They’ll be dismissed if Lee follows the diversion requirements. | https://keyt.com/news/california/2022/03/31/no-jail-for-la-building-owner-over-explosion-that-hurt-12/ | 2022-04-01T01:44:48Z |
USDA forecasting higher food, grocery costs in 2022
(Gray News) - It looks like elevated food prices are going to continue this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The USDA released its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and predicted the cost of groceries would continue to increase to as much as 4%.
According to the Consumer Price Index, grocery and supermarket food prices were already 8.6% higher in February than last year and up nearly 1.5% from January to February in 2022.
As reported by the Associated Press, prices for U.S. consumers have continued to jump recently, leaving families facing the highest inflation rate since 1990.
“We’re getting into this situation where we have spiraling inflation,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors. “Inflation in one area drives inflation in another.”
Currently, the CPI reports all food categories are increasing in price other than fresh vegetables. Last year, the beef and veal categories had the most significant price increase of 9.3%, and the fresh vegetable category had the smallest at 1.1%. However, no food categories decreased in price in 2021.
Poultry prices are also expected to increase up to 7%, with egg prices predicted to increase up to 3.5% in 2022.
Overall, grocery store and supermarket food purchases are expected to increase up to 4%, with restaurant purchases or food away from home forecasted to increase up to 6.5%, according to the USDA.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wdtv.com/2022/04/01/usda-forecasting-higher-food-grocery-costs-2022/ | 2022-04-01T01:44:48Z |
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — As the number of people fleeing Ukraine slows, authorities in Poland and other neighboring nations are encouraging refugees from the war to find jobs, especially in health care and education.
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR reported Thursday that the daily number of arrivals recorded by the countries that border Ukraine dropped below 40,000 on Wednesday, the fewest s ince Russian troops invaded five weeks ago.
Poland’s Border Guard registered more than half of the new arrivals, maintaining a pattern seen since the start of the war. Of the conflict’s more than 4 million refugees, almost 2.4 million went to Poland, according to the country’s border agency. It’s Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.
Humanitarian organizations and other observers have attributed the slowing of the Ukrainian exodus in recent days to several possible factors, including residents of surrounded and besieged cities having no way to safely evacuate. Others may be reluctant to leave their homes and hoping to wait out the hostilities, observers say.
A spokesperson for Poland’s Border Guard, Anna Michalska, said the numbers could pick up again if Russian attacks continue.
Recent legislation passed in Poland allows refugees from Ukraine to obtain ID numbers that entitle them to free medical care, education, social benefits and the right to work for 18 months.
Many Poles are putting up refugees in their homes or volunteering in civic groups that bring all sorts of assistance.
Refugees in Warsaw have submitted about 700 applications and some 100 have been hired for jobs in the Polish capital’s medical centers and schools, according to city officials.
To boost the employment drive, Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and Deputy Mayor Renata Kaznowska met Thursday with the director of the Bielanski Hospital and some Ukrainian and Polish staff members.
“Our guests are full of fortitude, they want to start to help us right away, they want to find jobs,” Trzaskowski told a news conference.
Kaznowska said employment and professional activity were the best way to integrate the adults who have fled Ukraine into Polish society.
Educators are also needed to help thousands of refugee children adjust to their new school environment, where lessons are taught in Polish and where the curriculum is largely different from the one in Ukraine. Adjusting the school system will cost over 440,000 zlotys ($105,000) in Warsaw alone, city authorities said.
Two nurses who are in the hiring process, speaking in Ukrainian mixed with Polish, said they appreciated the chance to continue their careers.
Olena Halych had to fight back tears as she spoke of fleeing home near shelled Bucha “to save my children.”
“I want to truly thank people in Poland for offering us shelter,” Halych said in Ukrainian. “I have found a job at the Bielanski Hospital, I want to really thank you for that.”
Hospital director Dorota Galczynska-Zych said the new recruits have provided valuable skills, and added that language has not been a barrier.
Some 570,000 refugees have reached Warsaw, a city of some 1.8 million, and some 300,000 remain in the capital for now, Trzaskowski said.
In Romania, which has received over 608,000 refugees, 35-year-old Uliana Polyakova from Odessa was busy Thursday registering at the Brasov city refugee center’s integration office that helps find accommodation, jobs and access to social assistance.
“Some people told me to arrive here at the center … in case we need medicine or something else,” she said, as her 7-year-old son enjoyed some screen-time nearby. “(A) Romanian family invited us to live with them. I did not expect that Romania is so kind to Ukrainians.”
“We’re not here because we want to leave Ukraine, me and my husband want to live with our relatives in Odessa,” she said. “I hope that the war is over in two weeks, one month, and we will go home.”
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Stephen McGrath in Brasov, Romania, contributed to this report.
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New footage of Chris Rock reeling from Will Smith slapping him onstage at the 2022 Oscars on Sunday (March 27) has emerged online.
Smith took offence to a joke that Rock made about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, while he was presenting an award. He said, “Jada, I love you. GI Jane 2, can’t wait to see you,” in reference to her shaved hairdo which was seemingly cropped short due to her alopecia.
After initially appearing to laugh at the joke, Smith walked onto the stage and slapped Rock across the face. Once he had returned to his seat, he shouted at the comedian: “Keep my wife’s name out your fucking mouth.”
Later on in the ceremony Smith became emotional during his acceptance speech for Best Actor (King Richard), seemingly justifying his violent actions for “love”.
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In new footage following the aftermath of the slap where Rock presented Summer Of Soul with the Best Documentary Feature award, he is seen looking bemused and at one point shrugs towards someone in the crowd.
Smith initially apologised to the Academy and those watching the ceremony, however, he did not directly say sorry to Rock.
He has since done so, with Rock saying yesterday (March 30) at his first stand-up show since the incident that he was “still processing” what happened. The Oscars has launched a formal review into the incident while condemning Smith’s actions.
Meanwhile, Summer Of Soul producer Joseph Patel has said that Smith “robbed” Questlove of his winning moment at the 94th Academy Awards.
Today (March 31) Joseph Patel posted a thread on Twitter to share “some thoughts and feelings on what happened”, adding that he’s “still sort of processing” everything.
“I think what Will did was selfish,” he continued. “It robbed the category of its moment. It robbed the other excellent and amazing films of their moment to be acknowledged in what was a STRONG year for docs.
“And it robbed Summer Of Soul and our team of our moment. Of a loud, enthusiastic cheer for a celebrated film.”
Read up on the history of Oscars controversies here. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/film/new-video-emerges-of-chris-rock-looking-stunned-in-moments-after-will-smith-slap-oscars-3195338 | 2022-04-01T01:44:52Z |
Millions of people across the country either lost their jobs, had to leave the workforce or had their pay decreased during the pandemic. The result: Families had less money but more expenses and at-home responsibilities during the past two years, according to Stacy Barnes, Alaska Housing Finance Corp.’s director of government relations and public affairs.
Homeowners certainly were not exempt from these troubles.
To help, the U.S. Treasury distributed $9.9 billion in financial relief for homeowners as a part of the national Homeowner Assistance Fund as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Alaska received $50 million from this fund. The money can be used to pay for mortgages, utility bills and property taxes.
“One of the things that we have learned throughout this program is that Covid 19 didn’t discriminate by sector,” Barnes said. “There are so many Alaskans who were impacted financially by this virus, who were struggling or are continuing to struggle and this federal funding could provide some relief to those families.”
Across the state, 8,135 people — including 377 people in Kodiak — had applied for homeowner housing assistance as of Tuesday, according to the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. Applications close at 11:59 p.m. Monday.
Households with income at or below 150% of the Area Median Income can qualify for homeowner assistance. However, households below the Area Median Income are prioritized, according to the AHFC.
The Area Median per capita income in the Kodiak Island Borough is $32,495, according to the most recent U.S. Census.
Homeowners must live on their property as their primary residence and be able to demonstrate the financial hardships directly related to circumstances with COVID. It’s easy to check eligibility, Barnes said, and the application itself can take less than 5 minutes.
After all of the applications have been processed money will be distributed, Barnes said. AHFC will try to distribute funding as quickly as it can, but it is not clear how long it will take, Barnes said. People can expedite this process by including all of their filings — including government identifications and tax records — with their applications, she said.
People can go to www.AlaskaHousingRelief.org to check their eligibility and apply for homeowner housing assistance. | https://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/news/article_e645cf0c-b103-11ec-b5b6-1f32da64f1fe.html | 2022-04-01T01:44:53Z |
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Police have identified remains found inside a garbage bag left on a Toronto sidewalk this week as those belonging to a missing woman.
In a police report on Wednesday, Toronto police confirmed the remains were of Tien Ly, 46, formerly the owner of the nail salon Beaute D’Amour on Yonge Street.
An employee of the salon, identified only as Francis, recognized the pattern on Ly’s nails in a picture released by authorities on Tuesday.
Police also released images of Ly’s red, long-sleeve Armani Exchange shirt that she wore. Authorities are now investigating the case as a homicide.
According to Francis, Ly was last seen by customers around 5 p.m. on Sunday, and the salon was still locked with her phone inside on Monday morning. Cheryl Obrunt, a regular at the salon who visited the business that Sunday, told Global News she “immediately knew” it was the owner when she saw the pictures of her nails.
“She’s always, always here,” Obrunt said, adding Ly seemed a “little out of sorts” when she last saw her on Sunday. Ly was reported missing on Tuesday.
Police were informed around 1:30 p.m. on Monday that Ly’s then-unidentified dismembered body had been found by a person near Eastern and Berkshire Avenues. Authorities believed the person responsible for the murder used a collapsing shopping cart to move the remains.
Constable Alex Li said police believe Ly lived with her son Dallas Ly, 20, in a condominium unit near Carlaw Avenue and Dundas Avenue East; however, they have been unable to contact him.
According to Li, officers are now looking for Dallas Ly and are “concerned” about his well-being “because of what they found at the residence.” Authorities have not classified the 20-year-old as a person of interest or a suspect but have asked that he contact Toronto police immediately.
Speaking to CTV News, a salon employee said he tried to call Dallas Ly to ask about his mother after finding her cellphone inside the salon, but could not reach him.
Those who may have information should contact the Toronto Police at 416-808-7400 or send an anonymous tip to 416-222-TIPS (8477) or at www.222tips.com.
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DENVER (AP) — A man who shot and wounded two demonstrators while apparently aiming at a Jeep that was headed toward the crowd during a protest in suburban Denver in 2020 was convicted Thursday of several charges.
Samuel Young, 24, was found guilty of two counts of second-degree assault, four counts of attempted manslaughter and a single count of illegally discharging his gun, The Denver Post reported.
Several hundred people who attended the July 2020 protest in Aurora to bring attention to police violence walked onto and blocked all of the lanes of Interstate 225. Shortly after, a Jeep approached from behind and headed toward the crowd, prompting Young to fire five shots.
Two shots hit the back of the Jeep, and two shots hit fellow protesters. One man was shot in the leg, and another man was grazed in the head. A woman also broke her leg when she leaped from the highway.
The driver, who pulled off the highway and contacted police after the shooting, was not criminally charged. During Young’s trial, prosecutors said he didn't intend to hurt any protesters.
The protest was organized in support of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was arrested in August 2019 after someone called 911 to report a suspicious person wearing a ski mask and waving his arms while he walked down the street.
He was arrested by Aurora police and injected with 500 milligrams of ketamine by EMS workers called to the scene. He suffered cardiac arrest, was declared brain dead and taken off life support less than a week later.
McClain’s death became a national rallying cry along with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in protests calling for police reform. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Jury-convicts-man-who-shot-protesters-in-suburban-17049894.php | 2022-04-01T01:44:53Z |
Phala Network (PHA) traded 1.5% lower against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 20:00 PM ET on March 31st. Phala Network has a total market cap of $76.93 million and $13.40 million worth of Phala Network was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last week, Phala Network has traded up 9.1% against the dollar. One Phala Network coin can currently be bought for $0.28 or 0.00000620 BTC on major exchanges.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002189 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 3.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.62 or 0.00003558 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded up 1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.65 or 0.00004286 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002191 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded 1.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $17.01 or 0.00037265 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded down 4.5% against the dollar and now trades at $48.94 or 0.00107216 BTC.
Phala Network Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “Phala.Network is designed to guarantee the reliable execution of smart contracts while keeping the data secretly. Confidential contracts run in miner nodes with Trusted Computing capable hardware, which guarantees the secrecy of the contract data. “
Phala Network Coin Trading
It is usually not possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Phala Network directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Phala Network should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Coinbase, Gemini or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase Phala Network using one of the exchanges listed above.
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EPA upholds Trump-era decision not to regulate contaminant
By SUMAN NAISHADHAM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency says it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants. The agency says the Trump administration’s decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The Trump administration had concluded that the chemical compound was not found widely enough in drinking water or at levels of public health concern to warrant federal regulation. That decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protection. Environmental groups sharply criticized the Biden administration Thursday for not reversing that decision. | https://keyt.com/news/money-and-business/ap-national-business/2022/03/31/epa-upholds-trump-era-decision-not-to-regulate-contaminant-2/ | 2022-04-01T01:44:54Z |
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to endorse the African Union’s new transitional mission in Somalia and authorized it to take action against al-Qaida and Islamic State extremist groups and conduct a phased handover of security responsibilities to Somalia’s government.
The African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia, known as ATMIS, replaces the African Union Mission in Somalia, known as AMISOM, which has been in the Horn of Africa nation for 15 years trying to build lasting peace and security.
While the resolution adopted by the council recognizes significant changes in the security situation since it authorized AMISOM in February 2007 and improvements in Somalia’s capability to respond to security challenges, it also reaffirms “the need to combat terrorist threats by all means.”
Only in the past few years has Somalia begun to find its footing after three decades of chaos from warlords to the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group and the emergence of Islamic State-linked extremist groups. Last year, a political crisis further postponed long-delayed elections and lower house elections which were to be completed on March 15 are still not complete, further delaying the vote for a new president.
The British-drafted resolution authorizes the new ATMIS mission to support the Somali forces “in providing security for the political process at all levels.”
The Security Council underscored that completing the electoral process without further delay and achieving “a peaceful transition of power” will help Somalia move ahead with its national priorities and support its 2021 transition plan which outlines steps toward the gradual handover of responsibilities for security from international forces to the government.
The council reiterated its objective “of enabling Somalia to take full responsibility for its own security, including through assuming the leading role in countering and addressing the threat posed by al-Shabab.”
The resolution authorizes ATMIS to conduct jointly planned operations with Somali security forces “to degrade al-Shabab and affiliates linked to ISIL,” an acronym for the Islamic State group.
The council authorized AU member nations to deploy up to 19,626 uniformed personnel, including a minimum of 1.040 police, until Dec. 31, and endorsed the AU Peace and Security Council’s decision to reduce the peacekeeping force by 2,000 by that date. It authorized a reduced force of 17,626 between Jan. 1 and March 31, 2023, and noted that a joint proposal including the AU and Somalia envisions further cuts to 14,626 in September 2023, 10,626 in June 2024 and “zero personnel” by the end of December 2024.
The resolution welcomes the Somali government’s intention to generate 3,850 new security forces by December 2022, 8,525 new forces by September 2023 and 10,450 new forces by June 2024.
AMISOM was funded by voluntary contributions, especially from the European Union, with logistical support from the United Nations. The Security Council urged U.N. member nations, including new donors, “to consider providing predictable, sustainable and multi-year support for ATMIS.”
After the vote, Britain’s deputy U.N. ambassador James Kariuki thanked council members for their support “in the adoption of this landmark resolution.”
U.S. deputy ambassador Richard Mills said the resolution “provides a vital opportunity to build on AMISOM’s efforts and take the next steps to roll back al-Shabaab, enabling Somalia to provide the security and stability required for the Somali people to achieve their aspirations.”
“Al-Shabab is a formidable and adaptable threat to Somalia, and to East Africa more broadly,” he said. “As al-Qaeda’s largest and best financed affiliate, al-Shabab represents a threat that requires a vigorous and broad-based response. The ATMIS mandate provides the opportunity to adapt and reinvigorate the African-led, international effort against al-Shabab.
Albania’s political coordinator Arian Spasse noted al-Shabab’s increased attacks on security forces and civilians in recent months and called on the government again to complete elections.
“It is crucial the newly elected government turn its focus to the deteriorating security situation, to the undertaking of reforms, and to the humanitarian crisis caused by the unprecedented droughts, which is plunging the population into another famine,” he said. “Further delays will give al-Shabaab more time to overshadow the government’s effort to provide peace and prosperity, and will fuel al-Shabab propaganda as an alternative to a democratically elected government.”
Somalia’s U.N. Ambassador Abukar Osman expressed disappointment that the council’s resolution didn’t provide more funding for its security forces, address the need for a unified and centralized command for ATMIS, and greater logistical support
Addressing these issues will ensure that the resolution is aligned with Somalia’s strategic document on security, he said. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/un-authorizes-new-au-mission-in-somalia-to-combat-extremists/ | 2022-04-01T01:44:57Z |
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Anna Davis was little more than a silhouette from right of the ninth green as darkness fell quickly at the end of a long day at the Augusta National Women's Amateur. The only light came from a video board and headlights from carts making their way in.
Not the least bit rattled, the 16-year-old from San Diego pitched with perfect pace to 2 feet to save par and post a 4-over 76 at Champions Retreat, one of only nine players to finish the second round.
What started as lingering thunderstorms turned into a heavy rain that delayed the start of the second round for for seven-and-a-half hours. That led to what should be a longer day, but far more fun on Friday.
Fifty-one players will finish the second round in the morning — some with only one hole to play, others with nine holes — before heading over to Augusta National for a practice round.
It starts with an elite competition. It ends for so many of them with a dream come true.
Of the nine players who finished, Davis was at 2-over 146 and in a tie for eighth, virtually assured of being among the 30 players from a field of 60 who advance to the final round at the home of the Masters.
No one was under par.
Beatrice Wallin of Sweden was 1 under for the round through 16 holes and even par for the tournament, tied with Amari Avery, who also was 1 under for the day through 16.
Joining them at even par was Hailey Borjas, the Californian who plays at Michigan. Her day ended on a sour note with consecutive bogeys. Even so, she was excited for Friday.
She was at Augusta National earlier in the week, driving down Magnolia Lane and having a group dinner hosted by the club chairman.
“Seeing Augusta for the first time, it was like a dream come true,” Borjas said.
She was more excited about her first chance to play it than her position in the Augusta National Women's Amateur, in its third year but already considered elite among amateur events because of where it's at.
“I don't really like to think about golf when I'm playing golf, if that makes any sense," Borjas said. “I like to talk about other things, like shoes. So to think about Augusta National tomorrow will keep me going.”
U.S. Women's Amateur champion Jensen Castle had the best round going at 2 under through 16 holes, leaving her one shot out of the lead.
The course was just as difficult as the opening round, when strong wind allowed only five players to break par. The wind subsided after the rain, though it left the course soggy and longer, even as the greens were slightly more receptive.
Rose Zhang, the No. 1 amateur in the world, made progress by not really going anywhere. She put together one bogey and 13 pars and improved from a tie for 39th to a tie for 26th.
Rachel Heck of Stanford, the No. 3 player in women's amateur golf who won six times in one semester last year as a freshman, was going the other direction. Heck had a pair of double bogeys in her opening four holes and was 5 over through 10 holes, leaving her outside the projected cut line at 6 over.
The cut is a hard 30. Any ties lead to a sudden-death playoff to see who advances, although everyone gets to play a practice round at Augusta National on Friday.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Rain-slows-Augusta-Women-s-Amateur-as-no-one-left-17049897.php | 2022-04-01T01:44:57Z |
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Tap on These 5 ETFs as Recession Fears Grip Wall Street
Wall Street participants have been keeping a keen eye on the bond market and developments in the Russia-Ukraine peace talks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average snapped its four-day winning streak on Mar 30 and declined 0.2%. The other two broad market indices, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite, also lost 0.6% and 1.2%, respectively.
Market participants have been having bouts of fear since the inversion of the U.S. 5-year and 30-year Treasury yields on Mar 28 for the first time since 2016. Intensifying the concerns, the spread between the 2-year and the 10-year rate was about to invert on Mar 29. These movements in the bond market intensified the fears of the U.S. economy heading into a recession. Notably, the spread between the 2-year and 10-year yields remained near 3 basis points on Mar 30.
In this regard, Stephanie Lang, chief investment officer at Homrich Berg, has commented that “The big talk right now is that at any given point in time, recession can be on the horizon. Typically, you won’t see a recession for an average of 20 months once a yield curve inverts. Our antennas are up that recession risk is heightened; that doesn’t necessarily mean that there’ll be one this year, though next year is more of a concern for us,” as mentioned in a CNBC article.
Considering the tough market conditions, let’s find out some investment options for the market participants who wish to ride safe:
Vanguard Health Care ETF VHT
The healthcare sector is a good defensive investment option as several investors believe that consumers will have to purchase healthcare products even during tough and uncertain times. Currently, the Russia-Ukraine war crisis and the Fed’s aggressive stance on rate hike are causing a lot of market uncertainty. Undoubtedly, the pandemic also triggered a race to introduce vaccines, tests and treatment options, opening up investment opportunities in the healthcare sector.
Vanguard Health Care ETF seeks to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Health Care 25/50 Index. VHT has AUM of $17.17 billion and charges 10 basis points (bps) of fees (read: China's COVID-19 Lockdown Brings Back Focus on Healthcare ETFs).
ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF NOBL
Dividend aristocrats are blue-chip dividend-paying companies with a long history of increasing dividend payments year over year. Moreover, dividend aristocrat funds give investors dividend growth opportunities compared to other products in the space but might not necessarily have the highest yields. These products also form a strong portfolio, with a higher scope of capital appreciation against simple dividend-paying stocks or those with high yields. As a result, these products deliver a nice combination of annual dividend growth and capital-appreciation opportunity and are mostly good for risk-averse long-term investors.
ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF seeks investment results before fees and expenses that track the performance of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index. NOBL is the only ETF focusing exclusively on the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, which are high-quality companies that not just paid out dividends but also raised the same for at least 25 consecutive years, with most doing so for 40 years or more. NOBL amassed $10.31 billion in its asset base. ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF has an expense ratio of 0.35% (read: Take Shelter in Dividend Aristocrat ETFs Amid Ukraine-Russia War).
SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust MDY
Considering the mixed sentiments, mid-cap funds are gaining attention as they provide both growth and stability compared to their small-cap and large-cap counterparts. Investors seeking to capitalize on the strong fundamentals but are worried about uncertainties should consider mid-cap ETFs.
SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and the yield performance of the S&P MidCap 400 Index. MDY has AUM of $20.83 billion. SPDR S&P MIDCAP 400 ETF Trust charges a fee of 23 bps (see: all the Mid Cap ETFs here).
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF QUAL
Quality stocks are rich in value characteristics with a healthy balance sheet, high return on capital, low volatility and high margins. These stocks also have a track record of stable or increasing sales and earnings growth. Compared to plain vanilla funds, these products help lower volatility and perform better during market uncertainty. Further, academic research has proven that high-quality companies constantly provide better risk-adjusted returns than the broader market over the long term.
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF provides exposure to the large- and mid-cap stocks exhibiting positive fundamentals (high return on equity, stable year-over-year earnings growth and low financial leverage) by tracking the MSCI USA Sector Neutral Quality Index. With AUM of $23.43 billion, QUAL charges 0.15% of fees.
Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF SPHD
Demand for funds with “low volatility” or “minimum volatility” generally increases during tumultuous times. These seemingly-safe products usually do not surge in bull market conditions but offer more protection than the unpredictable ones. These funds are less cyclical, providing more stable cash flow than the overall market.
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Pedro Almodóvar has taken issue with Will Smith’s references to “the devil” in his Oscars address, saying that “it was a fundamentalist speech that we should neither hear nor see”.
The filmmaker reflected on his experience attending last Sunday’s (March 27) awards at which he was seated close to the action of Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock on stage and, later, watched Smith accept his Best Actor award for King Richard.
In an awards-week diary for IndieWire, Almodóvar wrote that he wasn’t impressed with the language that Smith used in his acceptance speech. In particular, he didn’t like Smith revealing that Denzel Washington had cautioned him in the aftermath of the slap: “At your highest moment, be careful. That’s when the devil comes for you.”
Smith said: “Richard Williams [whom he portrayed in King Richard] was a fierce defender of his family. In this time in my life, in this moment, I am overwhelmed by what God is calling on me to do and be in this world.
“But Richard Williams, and what I loved, thank you D. Denzel [Washington] said to me a few minutes ago, he said, ‘At your highest moment, be careful. That’s when the devil comes for you.’ It’s like I want to be a vessel for love.”
Smith continued: “Art imitates life. I look like the crazy father, just like they said. I look like the crazy father just like they said about Richard Williams. But love will make you do crazy things…I want to apologise to the Academy, I want to apologise to all my fellow nominees.”
Almodóvar wrote that it was “a speech that seemed more like that of a cult leader. You don’t defend or protect the family with your fists, and no, the devil doesn’t take advantage of key moments to do his work”.
He continued: “The devil, in fact, doesn’t exist. This was a fundamentalist speech that we should neither hear nor see. Some claim that it was the only real moment in the ceremony, but they are talking about the faceless monster that is the social media. For them, avid for carrion, it undoubtedly was the great event of the night.”
Elsewhere, the Spanish director, whose film Parallel Mothers was nominated for two Oscars, said that Smith’s assault of Rock “produced a feeling of absolute rejection in me”.
During the 94th Academy Awards ceremony Smith slapped presenter Rock onstage after the comedian made a controversial joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, regarding her shaved hair that had seemingly been cropped short due to her alopecia.
Approximately an hour after the altercation, Smith took to the stage after winning the Best Actor gong. While he apologised to the Academy and those watching the ceremony, he did not say sorry to Rock directly. He has since done so.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which organises the Oscars, has since claimed that it asked Smith to leave the 2022 ceremony after the assault, but the award-winning actor refused. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/film/pedro-almodovar-criticises-will-smith-fundamentalist-oscars-devil-speech-3195426 | 2022-04-01T01:44:58Z |
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as President Joe Biden tapped the nation’s emergency oil reserves amid spiraling prices. The Fed’s favorite inflation gauge also spiked to the highest level since 1983. Cisco Systems (CSCO) was a top blue chip, while Leaderboard stock Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) gained on a positive pain treatment study.
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Volume was mixed, rising on the New York Stock Exchange but falling on the Nasdaq according to preliminary data. Today marks the quarter- and month-end rebalancing by pension funds.
Meanwhile, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell about three basis points to 2.33%. Oil dipped sharply, with West Texas Intermediate crude falling 6.5% to around $101 per barrel.
Biden Taps Oil Reserves; Inflation Spikes Again
Oil prices fell after President Biden moved to tap the nation’s emergency supplies.
He unveiled his plan to release 1 million barrels per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a bid to cut spiraling gas prices. The reserve has typically been used for emergencies such as natural disasters.
The Democratic president’s move comes as his party seems to be struggling heading into the midterm elections.
Biden blamed Vladimir Putin and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war for forcing his hand. Global oil prices have spiked amid wide sanctions against Russia.
“Our family budgets, your family budgets to fill a tank, none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge spiked to levels last seen in the early 1980s.
The core personal consumption expenditures price index popped 5.4% compared to the same time last year, its biggest jump since 1983.
Jobless claims also rose last week to 202,000. This was higher than analyst expectations.
Nasdaq Dips As Stocks Get Spanked
The Nasdaq fared best out of the major indexes, falling 1.5%. Chip giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) was one of the worst performers as it fell nearly 8.3%.
The S&P 500 was having slightly worse luck, dipping 1.6%. Etsy (ETSY) was among the worst laggards here as it fell 7.6%.
The S&P sectors were all negative. Utilities and consumer staples fared best while financials, communication services, technology and consumer discretionary were the worst laggards.
Small caps fared a bit better than the major indexes, the Russell 2000 closing down 1%.
Growth stocks were the best performers. Nevertheless, the Innovator IBD 50 ETF (FFTY), a bellwether for growth stocks, gave up 0.9%.
Dow Jones Slumps As Intel Stock Suffers
The Dow Jones Industrial Average had a painful end to the quarter. It fell about 550 points, or 1.6%.
Cisco stock was one of the better performers on the Dow Jones today, but still fell 0.5%.
Caterpillar (CAT) fared best with a 0.1% dip while Amgen (AMGN) skidded 0.3% lower.
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) was the worst performer, dipping 5.6%. Intel (INTC) also struggled, falling 3.6%.
Leaderboard Stock Gets Pain Treatment Boost
Vertex Pharmaceuticals was boosted on news that it conducted a successful middle-stage study on the VX-548 pain therapy.
This new treatment could be used as an alternative to opioids if it continues to make progress. The experimental drug could now enter late-stage testing later this year.
Vertex said a high dose of the drug provided significantly greater pain relief over the first two days after surgery than a placebo. Lower doses did yield a meaningful benefit vs. a placebo in the trials.
An alternative to opioids for acute pain is desirable due to their addictive qualities. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died amid the so-called opioid epidemic.
An estimated 40% of opioid overdose deaths involved a prescription opioid, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
VRTX stock was one of the better performers in the stock market today with a 1.7% gain to 260.97. It rose higher in its buy zone from a 255.03 entry.
Vertex is a member of the prestigious IBD Leaderboard list of leading stocks.
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Recent IBD Stock of the Day Dutch Bros (BROS) is worth keeping on your watchlist for now.
It has slipped back below the cup-with-handle base’s ideal entry point of 62.11. BROS is currently testing support at its short-term 10-day line, MarketSmith analysis shows.
If it can regroup and then rally back above this entry, then the consumer-spending play could offer a buying opportunity.
The firm saw same-store sales jump 10.1% in Q4 vs. the year-ago period. Analysts see adjusted EPS up 3% in 2022, before 60% growth in 2023, according to Zacks Investment Research.
The company is also investing heavily to drive further growth. Capital spending will range from $175 million to $200 million this year, including $15-$20 million for a new roasting facility to enable future growth.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of a downtown Los Angeles building where an explosion injured 12 firefighters has been allowed to enter a judicial diversion program that allows him to avoid jail time and potentially have all charges dismissed.
A court commissioner on Wednesday granted the diversion request for Steve Sungho Lee. He and his companies must pay more than $125,000 in investigative fees, make sure the property meets fire and building codes and arranging for Fire Department training.
Lee owned a commercial building on East Boyd Street in the city's Toy District that caught fire on May 16, 2020. Firefighters had to run for their lives when a ball of flames shot out the building and scorched a fire truck across the street.
Firefighters inside the building had to run through a wall of flames he estimated as 30 feet (9 meters) high and wide, and those on the roof scrambled down a ladder that was engulfed in fire.
Fire officials said the building was a warehouse for Smoke Tokes, a wholesale distributor of supplies for smoking and vaping products including butane hash oil, a concentrated cannabis extract that can be eaten, smoked or vaped. Highly flammable butane is used in the manufacturing process.
Most of the injured firefighters still haven't returned to work and one, Capt. Victor Aguirre, was hospitalized for more than two months and all of his fingers had to be partially amputated, according to a lawsuit he filed against the building and business owners.
Aguirre alleged that the area contained “hundreds of illegally and improperly stored butane canisters and thousands of illegally and improperly stored nitrous oxide cylinders.”
A fire department report concluded that the blaze, which spread to a nearby building, was fueled by an “excessive quantity” of the containers.
Investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded that the fire started under a storage rack in the building and that a worker with a lit cigarette was seen in the area. The cause of the fire was ruled accidental.
However, city prosecutors filed more than 300 misdemeanor charges of violating fire and safety codes against Lee, his companies and owners of businesses in the building and nearby properties. That included more than 160 counts against Lee and his companies.
If Lee meets all conditions of his judicial diversion program for two years, the charges will be dismissed.
“Mr. Lee will be deemed by law to have never been charged," said his attorney, Blair Berk. “The exhaustive federal investigation of the tragic fire objectively concluded that the cause was accidental, and there was no finding of any wrongdoing by Mr. Lee or his companies.”
City Attorney Mike Feuer opposed diversion for Lee, noting the severity of the fire, the injuries suffered by the firefighters and Lee's alleged failure “to take steps which could have mitigated the extent of the blaze."
The owners of Smoke Tokes and another business, Green Buddha, agreed in November 2020 to pay $139,000 each to cover investigative costs and to move out of the building. Charges against them were later dismissed. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/No-jail-for-LA-building-owner-over-explosion-that-17049830.php | 2022-04-01T01:44:59Z |
Chicago school district investigating after teacher hung stuffed Black doll on a string from a projector screen
By Caroll Alvarado and Rebekah Riess, CNN
An investigation is underway at Chicago Public Schools after a teacher hung a small stuffed Black football player doll on a string from a projector screen in their classroom, according to a letter sent to parents by the school’s principal and obtained by CNN.
The March 29 letter from Joyce D. Kenner, principal of Whitney Young Magnet High School, says the teacher “indicated” he had come across the doll in his room and “wanted the students to see if someone would claim it.” The letter went on to say that “a colleague approached the teacher about the doll and the conversation between the two became contentious.
“Our administrative team investigated the incident and spoke with the teachers,” Kenner’s letter said. “An official incident report has been created and filed with CPS.”
“Chicago Public Schools (CPS) strives to foster safe and secure learning environments for our students, families, and colleagues. Our schools and the District investigate and address all complaints and allegations of wrongdoing in accordance with District policies and procedures,” CPS said in a statement to CNN.
The district said the teacher who hung the doll is suspended while the investigation is ongoing. CPS has not identified the teacher.
According to Kenner’s letter, school administrators also met with a group of students Tuesday morning to discuss the incident.
“We gave students an opportunity to voice any concerns and recommendations they had. We plan to follow the disciplinary protocol established by Chicago Public Schools,” the letter said.
Kimberley Henderson, whose daughter is a sophomore and one of three Black students in the teacher’s US history class at Whitney Young, spoke to CNN.
“When I saw the picture, that’s when I went over the edge. That was unbelievable to me,” Henderson said, referencing an image of the stuffed doll circulating on the internet. “I don’t believe that he should be in front of any children, but I want to make sure that he’s not in front of mine.”
The Chicago Teachers Union said in a statement about the incident that “practices that mitigate the harm of racial biases must be ongoing, and consistent” in the city’s schools.
“Mayor (Lori) Lightfoot has a responsibility to provide a safe space for every member of our school communities, which is especially important in a district that serves a student population that is 90 percent Black and Brown children,” the statement read. “Any definition of ‘safety’ must include creating and reinforcing an environment of equity and inclusion for all students, staff and faculty of color.”
CNN reached out to the mayor’s office Thursday for response to the union statement.
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CLAVERIA, Philippines (AP) — With assault weapons ready, U.S. and Filipino marines sprang from amphibious vehicles and transport helicopters to defend an island from potential aggressors in a war exercise and show of American firepower staged on Thursday in the northern Philippines.
The exercise — held in far-flung Claveria town across the sea from China and Taiwan — fits into a strategy unveiled in February by the Biden administration to considerably broaden U.S. engagement in the Indo-Pacific region by strengthening a web of security alliances and partnerships, with an emphasis on addressing China’s growing influence and ambitions.
Watched by invited journalists, the mock combat ended with the allied forces successfully securing the island before it could be seized by invaders in a clear warning to would-be aggressors in a region with multiple trouble spots.
“We should indeed improve our preparation for external aggression,” said Philippine regional military commander Maj. Gen. Lawrence Mina, who spoke with reporters as the marines took combat positions on the sandy beach and a narrow trench under the scorching summer heat.
“It’s high time because we never know if we’ll get embroiled in the unfolding events that we’re hearing in the international scene,” he said. “At least we’re ready.”
The beach landing and coastal defense maneuvers were part of one of the largest combat exercises in years between the longtime treaty allies that began Monday and would include live-fire drills, aircraft assaults, urban warfare and civic projects mostly in northern and the western Philippines, which faces the disputed South China Sea.
Col. Timothy Brady Jr., who heads the U.S. 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, said he was “very pleased” with the outcome of the mock beach maneuvers, which started in the nearby coastal town of Aparri.
“Certainly, the objective of what we’re doing is demonstrating the strength of the alliance as well as the commitment to regional security,” Brady said.
Called Balikatan — Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder — the annual exercises will run up to April 8 with nearly 9,000 navy, marines, air force and army troops, including 5,100 American military personnel, to strengthen their joint fighting capabilities and readiness “for real-world challenges,” according to U.S. and Philippine military officials.
First staged in 1991, the Balikatan exercises are anchored on the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty, which commits the United States and the Philippines to come to each other’s aid in case of an attack.
When President Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016, he threatened to scale back U.S. military activities in the country as he nurtured closer ties with China and Russia but walked back on many of his threats, including a move to abrogate a defense pact that would have restricted American forces from largescale combat exercises in the country.
China’s “coercion and aggression spans the globe, but it is most acute in the Indo-Pacific,” the strategy paper said, citing Beijing’s “economic coercion” of Australia, the intensifyingpressure on Taiwan, bullying of neighbors in the East and South China seas and theconflict along the Line of Actual Control with India.
“Integrated deterrence will be the cornerstone of our approach,” the strategy paper said. “We will more tightly integrate our efforts across warfighting domains and the spectrum of conflict to ensure that the United States, alongside our allies and partners, can dissuade or defeat aggression in any form or domain.”
Last week, U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John C. Aquilino said China has fully militarizedat least three of several islands it built in the South China Sea, arming them with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming equipment, and military aircraft in an increasingly aggressive move that threatens all nations operating in the disputed waters.
“I think over the past 20 years we’ve witnessed the largest military buildup since World War II by the PRC,” Aquilino, using the initials of China’s formal name, told The Associated Press in an interview on board a U.S. Navy reconnaissance aircraft that flew near Chinese-held outposts in the South China Sea’s Spratly archipelago, one of the most hotly contested regions in the world.
China has been staging threatening exercises and flying military planes near Taiwan’s airspace, including on Feb. 24, when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, in what it calls a warning to Taiwan independence supporters and their foreign allies.
Chinese officials led by President Xi Jinping say they are committed to using peaceful means to bring Taiwan, which they claim as Chinese territory, under Beijing’s control. Chinese military action against the island in the short- to medium-term is generally considered a remote possibility.
While adhering to a One-China policy — recognizing Beijing as the government of China but allowing informal relations and defense ties with Taipei — the U.S. said in its strategy paper that it “will also work with partners inside and outside of the region to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, including by supporting Taiwan’s self-defense capabilities, to ensure an environment in which Taiwan’s future is determined peacefully in accordance with the wishes and best interests of Taiwan’s people.”
The U.S. and its allies have been routinely sailing warships through the Taiwan Strait, between the island and mainland China, to visibly demonstrate that they are international waters, and conduct major naval exercises in the region.
Beijing maintains its military profile is purely defensive, aimed at protecting what it says are its sovereign rights. But after years of increased military spending, China now boasts the world’s second-largest defense budget after the U.S. and is rapidly modernizing its force with weapons systems.
China is also expanding its nuclear arsenal, with the Pentagon saying Beijing is on track to field at least 1,000 warheads by 2030 — five times the current number.
Philippine marine Col. Romulo Quemado said the Balikatan exercises were complementing crucial efforts to bolster his country’s coastal defense, including the acquisition of armored amphibious vehicles, but were not meant to antagonize any particular country.
“Deterrence is all about perception,” Quemado said.
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Shares of Piedmont Lithium Inc. (NASDAQ:PLL – Get Rating) have received an average rating of “Buy” from the eight analysts that are currently covering the stock, MarketBeat reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a hold recommendation and seven have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 12-month target price among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $91.71.
Several research analysts have recently weighed in on PLL shares. Zacks Investment Research raised Piedmont Lithium from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on Piedmont Lithium from $84.00 to $92.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, March 24th. Finally, B. Riley upped their price objective on Piedmont Lithium from $89.00 to $95.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 17th.
In other Piedmont Lithium news, Director Jeffrey T. Armstrong acquired 2,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 25th. The stock was bought at an average cost of $43.78 per share, with a total value of $109,450.00. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Michael D. White sold 1,744 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, January 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $54.18, for a total value of $94,489.92. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 2,993 shares of company stock valued at $158,511 over the last three months. Insiders own 4.50% of the company’s stock.
Shares of Piedmont Lithium stock traded down $1.91 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $72.99. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 526,319 shares, compared to its average volume of 431,188. Piedmont Lithium has a 12 month low of $40.65 and a 12 month high of $79.99. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $57.82 and a 200 day moving average of $57.06. The company has a quick ratio of 10.65, a current ratio of 10.65 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01.
Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ:PLL – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Sunday, February 27th. The mineral exploration company reported ($0.67) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.46) by ($0.21). As a group, equities analysts predict that Piedmont Lithium will post -1.49 EPS for the current year.
Piedmont Lithium Company Profile (Get Rating)
Piedmont Lithium Inc, an exploration stage company, engages in the exploration and development of resource projects in the United States. The company primarily holds a 100% interest in the Carolina Lithium Project that include an area of approximately 3,116 acres located within the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt situated to the west of Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States.
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The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has claimed that it asked Will Smith to leave the 2022 Oscars ceremony after he slapped Chris Rock, but the actor refused.
Acknowledging that it still could have “handled the situation differently”, the Academy has alleged that it did take decisive action in requesting Smith leave on Sunday (March 27).
Per The Guardian, the Academy’s board of governors, which met yesterday (March 30), said they had initiated disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct.
During last week’s 94th Academy Awards ceremony, Smith slapped presenter Rock on-stage after the comedian made a controversial joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, regarding her shaved hair that had seemingly been cropped short due to her alopecia.
“Things unfolded in a way we could not have anticipated,” the Academy said in a new statement. “While we would like to clarify that Mr Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused, we also recognise we could have handled the situation differently.”
The Academy added that Smith has the chance to defend himself in a written response before the board members meet again on April 18. The Academy said that disciplinary action for Smith could include suspension, expulsion or other sanctions.
Initially, the Academy had condemned Smith’s assault, writing on social media last week that it “does not condone violence of any form”.
The Academy does not condone violence of any form.
Tonight we are delighted to celebrate our 94th Academy Awards winners, who deserve this moment of recognition from their peers and movie lovers around the world.
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 28, 2022
But in its fresh comments issued yesterday, the tone of language appeared stronger. “Mr Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.
“Mr Rock, we apologise to you for what you experienced on our stage and thank you for your resilience in that moment. We also apologise to our nominees, guests and viewers for what transpired during what should have been a celebratory event.”
Smith initially apologised to the Academy and those watching the ceremony. However, he did not directly say sorry to Rock.
He has since done so, with Rock saying yesterday (March 30) at his first stand-up show since the incident that he was “still processing” what happened.
Meanwhile, new footage of Rock reeling from Smith’s slap has emerged online.
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Five fetuses were found in the Washington DC home of a self-proclaimed anti-abortion activist who was indicted this week on federal charges for allegedly blocking access to a reproductive clinic.
DC’s Metropolitan Police Department made the shocking discovery after responding to a tip of “potential bio-hazard material” at a home in Southeast DC just after noon on Thursday.
Lauren Handy, a 28-year-old activism director for anti-abortion group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising had been staying at the house, according to WUSA9.
She was one of nine people charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday by a federal grand jury that accuses the group of traveling to the capital to block access to the reproductive health center.
Homicide and forensic services detectives were seen removing evidence in red biohazard bags and coolers from the home, video from the outlet shows.
Handy told reporters that “people would freak out when they heard” what was stored in coolers and said she expected the raid “sooner or later.”
DC Police Executive Assist. Chief of Police Ashan M. Benedict said Thursday the fetuses appeared to have been aborted legally under DC law.
“There doesn’t appear to be anything criminal about that — except for how they got into that house,” Benedict said.
Benedict said the investigation into Handy’s home was separate from the federal investigation that led to her indictment.
The five fetuses were collected by Washington’s medical examiner and the investigation is ongoing, cops said.
According to the indictment, Handy had called the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient named “Hazel Jenkins” and scheduled an appointment in October 2020.
Once she arrived, eight others forced their way inside of the clinic and began blocking the doors, prosecutors said.
Five of them chained themselves together on chairs to block the treatment area as others blocked the employee entrance to stop other patients from coming inside, the indictment alleges. Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge.
Handy, along with the eight others, was charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, which prohibits physically obstructing, intimidating or interfering with a person seeking reproductive health services.
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.
Soskin “spent her last day providing an interpretive program to the public and visiting with coworkers," a Park Service statement said.
She led tours at the park and museum honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit after learning that “she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white," according to a Park Service biography.
“Being a primary source in the sharing of that history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”
Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.
“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”
Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921 but recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 while living with her Creole family in New Orleans, according to the Park Service biography.
Her family then moved to Oakland, California, and Soskin remained in the San Francisco Bay Area, where in 1945 she and her first husband founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the area, the biography said.
She also was a civil rights activist and took part in meetings to develop a general management plan for the Home Front park. She has received several honors.
She was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.
In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas tree at the White House.
In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.
Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. Glamour Magazine named her woman of the year in 2018. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Oldest-U-S-active-park-ranger-retires-at-100-17049910.php | 2022-04-01T01:45:06Z |
Parents reach $250,000 settlement with Texas city after son, 3, dies after contracting brain-eating amoeba at splash pad
By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN
The parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last year after a contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba at a splash pad in Arlington, Texas, have reached a $250,000 settlement with the city.
Bakari Williams died last September after spending five days in the hospital with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a rare and often fatal infection caused by an amoeba called Naegleria fowleri, according to previous reporting from CNN and affiliate KTVT.
Williams contracted the infection from a splash pad that officials later determined was improperly tested and maintained.
At a news conference, attorneys for Williams’ parents said the child’s death was preventable.
Family attorney Brian Hargrove said the $250,000 is the maximum economic recovery allowed against a city under the Texas Tort Claims Act, according to KTVT.
Arlington, in a statement, said the settlement will include a “significant investment in the installation of health and safety equipment and other improvements for our public pools and splash pads.”
The city will distribute a new policy manual, the Bakari Williams Protocol, that will guide staff on water treatment, according to Hargrove and the city. “We plan to share this information with other agencies in the aquatics industry so they can learn from our hard lessons,” the city said.
New technology will automatically shut off any splash pads where water readings are not in the acceptable ranges and the addition of QR codes will allow visitors to see real-time information about water quality, the statement, obtained by KTVT, said.
“We want you to know that Bakari was a sweet, beautiful and innocent child who did not deserve to die in the manner that he did. For us, this case has been about public awareness,” Williams’ mother, Kayla Mitchell, said at the news conference, according to the affiliate.
“We want to make certain that nothing like this ever happens again. We want to make certain that what happened to our son, what happened to our family, does not happen to anybody else,” said Mitchell.
Naegleria fowleri is commonly found in soil and in fresh warm water such as lakes, rivers and hot springs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It can also be found in poorly maintained or unchlorinated pools.
The organism infects people when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose, according to the CDC. The Naegleria fowleri amoeba then travels up the nose to the brain, where it destroys the brain tissue, the CDC says.
Investigation into the source of infection
City and Tarrant County officials were notified by the hospital September 5 of the child’s condition, according to a joint news release issued that month. The county health department started an investigation and determined two possible sources for the exposure to the amoeba — the family’s home in Tarrant County and the Don Misenhimer Park splash pad in Arlington.
The city immediately closed that splash pad, the news release says, and out of an abundance of caution closed the other three public splash pads for the remainder of the year.
On September 24, the CDC, according to the news release, determined the child was likely exposed to the organism at the splash pad after tests confirmed the presence of active Naegleria fowleri amoeba in water samples from the park.
“It breaks my heart. I’m a father of four, a grandfather of five kids from 2 to 7 years old. I cannot imagine having to bury a child or a grandchild like that,” Arlington Mayor Jim Ross told KTVT at the time
Low chlorine levels likely a factor
The city of Arlington conducted an investigation into the splash pad’s maintenance, equipment and water testing procedures. Officials determined the water quality testing data needed improvement.
“We have identified gaps in our daily inspection program,” Deputy City Manager Lemuel Randolph said in the 2021 news release. “Those gaps resulted in us not meeting our maintenance standards at our splash pads. All of the splash pads will remain closed until we have assurance that our systems are operating as they should, and we have confirmed a maintenance protocol consistent with city, county and state standards.”
Records from two of the splash pads, including the one at Don Misenhimer Park, showed employees did not consistently record, or in some cases did not conduct, water quality testing that is required before the facilities open each day, according to the news release. The testing includes checking for chlorine, which is used as a disinfectant.
A review of the logs determined that water chlorination readings were not documented two of the three days that the child visited the park in late August and early September, the news release said.
“Documents show that chlorination levels two days before the child’s last visit were within acceptable ranges,” reads the release. “However, the next documented reading, which occurred the day after the child visited, shows that the chlorination level had fallen below the minimum requirement and that additional chlorine was added to the water system.”
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On paper, robovacs should be awesome.
A little, autonomous suction device that roams around your house every day, keeping things tidy? Maybe you attach a mopping pad to the back so that it scrubs your floors too? Yes, please.
Those seemingly simple, but lofty goals are often accompanied by high price tags, further locking in the idea that these wee dirt busters are going to transform our homes.
That is, until you start it up for the first time and it sucks up your cat's catnip toy. Or tangles itself on a pair of shoes that your kid left in the hall. Or it simply beeps at you from the corner of a room, completely confused about how to return to its dock to recharge itself.
So you take additional steps. You go through the house every morning, picking up all the detritus that your family leaves behind. You block off areas of rooms that you know the robovac just can't navigate. If it has an app, you even dig into the maps, marking off "no-go" areas.
But it still finds its way into places it can't get out of. The cat finds its toys and drags them into the middle of the floor, where they get sucked up again. Then it leaves behind a hairball that the robovac promptly smears everywhere.
You wonder why you ever thought this was going to change your life.
Enter The Roborock S7 MaxV.
What Is It?
The latest robovac/mop from Roborock is by far their greatest device yet. Technically, it shines above all other robovacs and delivers on its lofty feature set. It has improved mopping detection (where it raises and lowers the mop pad when it detects carpeting) and uses next-gen Reactive AI guided by a more powerful camera system with an LED light that lets it operate even in the dark.
It has the most suction power of any other Roborock vac, 5,100Pa, has a roomier dust bin and mopping reservoir to better accommodate the 180-minute average runtime. Once the bot has mapped your home, it'll be able to top itself off to finish a job (rather than having to charge to full). But even if it does need a full charge, it can do so in under 4 hours.
The S7 MaxV Ultra version comes with Roborock's all-new auto-empty dock. But it's more than just a place to empty the dustbin. There are two water reservoirs—one clean, one dirty—so that the S7 MaxV can top off its water tank and clean the mopping pad with fresh water and a scrubbing brush.
Setting It Up
Just getting the Roborock S7 MaxV Ultra is an experience. The S7 MaxV is available on its own or with the auto-empty-only dock introduced last year, so it comes in a separate box and it's practically petite next to the giant box for the Empty Wash Fill Dock.
You'll need a fair amount of wall space, but then if you're using a two-robot system to vacuum and mop, you probably have the room set aside already. Then it's just a matter of pairing the dock and the robovac, inserting a dust bag into the dock, then filling the clean tank with water.
You can start your first clean from the unit itself, but to get the best experience, you really need to hook up the S7 MaxV to your home wifi network and control it with the Roborock app. The app gives you access to things like firmware updates and detailed maintenance monitoring (like when to clean various filters, sensors, and brushes).
In the app, you can also access the detailed map the S7 MaxV makes of your home. Then you can divide it up into rooms, mark obstacles, or even customize how the robovac mops and vacuums each room. But the great thing, possibly the best thing is that you don't have to if you don't want to.
The S7 MaxV is more than capable of figuring out what kind of flooring it's on and adjusting its vacuuming and mopping levels accordingly. It'll automatically get its mopping pad out of the way when it encounters a rug or carpeting. It'll increase suction when it encounters carpet and then back off when it's on a hard surface.
First Run
The first run of a new robovac is always nerve wracking. I hang out in the back room, listening for alerts or watching for notifications on my phone, waiting to see what, inevitably, foiled the robovac's progress.
With the S7 MaxV Ultra, I didn't have to give it a second thought. It cleaned my entire house, correctly identifying where it was supposed to mop and where it needed to vacuum. If there were cords, it avoided them. The cat? It avoided that too. Basically, anywhere it took a peek and said "hm, that looks like it could cause trouble," it marked it on the map and found a path around it.
After it was done with a room, it would trundle back to the dock, where a rapidly-rotating bristle brush scrubbed the mopping pad and sprayed it with fresh water to clean it. The S7 MaxV would refill its water reservoir from the same tank, then head off to the next room.
In a couple of hours, my floors were cleaner and I had a full map that I could divvy up and label, allowing me to create routines like after-dinner cleanup of just the kitchen and dining room. At no point did I have to go rescue the bot or untangle something from its rubber rollers. It was, without hyperbole, the easiest first run I've ever had with a robovac.
One Month Later
The great thing about the S7 MaxV Ultra? Its performance has stayed as consistent as that first day. That's not to say it's 100% maintenance-free. I've had to flip it over a few times to dig out hair that's tangled around the end of the rubber brush bar. And the Ultra dock itself requires regular attention.
A full cleaning cycle on normal mopping mode uses up a large amount of water. I have to refill and empty the water tanks every two runs. The one annoyance is that the robovac will loudly declare that you need to refill the tank, then continue cleaning the mop even though there's no water. It'd be nice if there was an option to have it auto-pause and let you refill.
Then there's the one ick factor that's impossible to get around. The dirty water tank is essentially a concentrated slurry of everything the S7 MaxV Ultra has picked up off your floor. On the one hand, it's good to know it's working. On the other, it doesn't smell great. Thankfully, the seal on the tank is good enough that you won't know it until you dump it out.
That said, smelly gunk can also accumulate in the dock where the mop pad is cleaned and dirty water is diverted into the other tank. If you don't clean that out at least every two weeks, you'll have a major mess.
But having to do some basic wipe-down and refill maintenance on my robo-butler every few days is a very small price to pay for the reliability and cleanliness I get in return. Should I vacuum and clean my floors every day? Yes. Would I do it manually? Please, hold on a second while I recover from my fits of hysterical laughter.
Where Can I Get It?
You'll be able to get the S7 MaxV Ultra on its own for $859 ($769 the first two weeks) or purchase the S7 MaxV Plus (with the auto-empty dock, no mop refill) for $1,159 on Amazon next week, April 8.
The Ultra model with the Empty Wash Fill dock will be available the first week of May for $1,399. If you're thinking about the Plus model, it's worth the short wait and couple hundred extra for the Ultra dock. The auto-empty dock is good, but the Ultra dock takes the S7 MaxV's autonomy to a whole new level.
The Roborock S7 MaxV Ultra gives you the consistently clean floors you've always wanted, with the worry-free ease that other robovac companies promised but haven't delivered. Don't waste your money, this is the last robovac you’ll ever need to buy. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykarcz/2022/03/31/the-roborock-s7-maxv-ultra-is-the-greatest-robovac-system-ever/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:08Z |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Dreamville Festival is not just a showcase for musical artists but also other artists. ABC11 caught up with one of the artists creating a piece for the festival.
Zach Bender said, "200 people applied essentially, and four people got chosen."
Bender, a Raleigh-based artist, was one of those four.
He took a chance and created a masterpiece to be displayed at this year's Dreamville Festival.
"They really wanted artists to kind of take their own kind of direction with it and that's what submitted was the idea that you wanted to do," he explained of the process.
It took him six days to create a piece that would grab your eye, full of some of his favorite artists.
"I had three panels that were 4 foot by 8 foot," he explained. "From there, it was coloring each panel, and I actually used a projector to try to project the drawing because I had done a complete drawing of the thing."
The final product is certainly eye-catching.
"Earth Gang has the like, their symbol, which is the world, what could I do with the world and then I thought of the Tarot card. J. Cole is the strength card, Rico Nasty is the high priestess and J.I.D. is the star," he said.
Bender said he just started working full time as an artist and this makes him feel comfortable with his decision.
"I believe it allows artist that are not like huge yet a platform to show what they can do and that's what I took it as," Bender said.
He said he also feels honored to have been chosen by the festival team.
"There's not like a whole lot of like huge nationally recognized festivals that are showcasing NC artists specifically, and I definitely think it's something that is really important to J. Cole and that as awesome that he's doing that," he said.
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Terriers hometown rookie backstopping team in run to Canalta Cup
The Yorkton Terriers are onto the semifinals in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) Playoffs after taking out the third-ranked Melfort Mustangs in seven games.
Head coach and general manager Mat Hehr said it all came down to defence in the end.
“We jumped out to a three games to one lead and they battled back and we took it to a game seven, and we got a huge win on the road,” Hehr said.
In the seven game win, there was one Terrier in particular who was instrumental in the upset.
Yorkton's own Kael DePape, who has played all but one season of his hockey career in his hometown, stole the show. The rookie goaltender stopped 241 shots in the series, including a 45 save, double overtime win in game two.
“Growing up, you always wanted to be playing for the Terriers, being the starring goalie for the Terriers, it's just an amazing feeling,” DePape said.
The 19-year-old goalie remembers when he was in the Gallagher Centre, watching playoff hockey, cheering for the team.
Thanks to COVID-19 and his team missing out on the postseason in years past, round one was actually DePape's first playoff action since his second year of Bantam, five seasons ago, with the AA U18 Yorkton club.
“Going in, you almost forget what playoff hockey is all about. It's a completely different game and you just got to jump right into it,” he said.
DePape admitted he never thought he'd be in this position, being the starting goaltender, playing Junior A hockey in his hometown.
Many believe he's the frontrunner for both the goalie and rookie of the year this season.
“It would be crazy, honestly. I never thought coming into the year that I’d be getting nominated for any of those awards, just getting that recognition is unbelievable,” DePape said.
Hehr said DePape’s play was a big reason the team got past the Melfort Mustangs in round one.
“I think in playoffs, goaltending wins … game seven, you only allow one goal, some extremely timely saves for us. It was awesome to see,” he said.
The Terriers will have to lean on their super rookie if they hope to get past the Estevan Bruins, the top ranked team in the SJHL.
Back in 2019, the Terriers, as the eighth seed, were able to knock off the number one Nipawin Hawks.
Game one of the second round series will be in Estevan Friday and Saturday before the two teams shift to Yorkton for games three and four on Tuesday and Thursday.
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The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a $9 million fine for the thief in a 2012 maple syrup heist. | https://regina.ctvnews.ca/terriers-hometown-rookie-backstopping-team-in-run-to-canalta-cup-1.5843615 | 2022-04-01T01:45:08Z |
Community transmission rates of COVID-19 have dropped substantially in every Maine county.
Data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday indicate that all counties have a low risk of community transmission.
This comes as the number of Mainers hospitalized with COVID-19 stayed below 100 for the last week and a half, and daily reported COVID cases have stayed below 500 for nearly a month. On Thursday, 97 Mainers were hospitalized with the virus, according to Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention data.
Of those, 16 Mainers are in critical care and another four are on ventilators.
COVID-19 cases have been steadily falling throughout the state after reaching record levels throughout December, January and early February. On Thursday, another 206 coronavirus cases were reported. The statewide death toll from the virus now stands at 2,202. | https://bangordailynews.com/2022/03/31/news/covid-transmission-is-low-throughout-all-of-maine/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:08Z |
Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest superhero is not, in the conventional sense, either "super" or a "hero," but he does have an unorthodox ailment and a weird skill-set to separate him from mere mortals. His name is Morbius, and while watching his origin story, you may get the feeling that somewhere in the cinematic multiverse, wires got crossed.
The film begins with a helicopter, transporting a cage to the sort of mist-shrouded isle you half expect King Kong to be inhabiting. But Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is looking to capture smaller game as he approaches the mouth of a cave, hobbling with difficulty on two crutch-like canes.
Positioning himself behind the wires of the cage, he slices open the palm of his hand and, as a roar of batwings echoes from inside the cave, murmurs to the copter pilot "if you're gonna run, do it now."
A rare blood disease treated with a bit o' bat
It's tempting to say "consider yourself warned," but the film's first hour or so, while unremarkable, is decently crafted.
Born with a rare blood disease, Michael Morbius has spent his entire life working on two things — a cure, and origami paper-folding. Natch, it occurs to him to fold together bat and human DNA.
Because the FDA would be unlikely to approve human trials, he and his beautiful co-researcher Martine (Adria Arjona) head in a cargo ship for international waters off the coast of Long Island in the company of eight thuggish mercenaries — think bloodbags — and once Morbius has been injected with bat DNA, it's just a matter of time before things go vampiric.
Let it be said that some side-effects from dabbling in "chiropter-y" are less ghastly than others. Bat DNA evidently gives you great cheekbones and abs to go with increased strength and speed.
Less salutary effects include new fangs that sprout from his gums with decades of decay baked in, and claws that erupt from his fingers pre-filthed. I mean, sure...why not? Except this is a man whose hair has the kind of sheen that comes from brushing it three times a day.
One other thing: he now needs to drink human blood every six hours. Happily, on his way to declining a Nobel Prize, Dr. Morbius invented "artificial blood," though that only fools his system for a while.
Color coded smoke effects for a Jekyll and his Hyde
If you're expecting a conventional Marvel movie, you should be aware going in that what Director Daniel Espinoza and his writers have come up with is more a horror flick with Marvel bells and whistles.
That means Leto's Morbius gets purplish smoke effects to go with those fang-baring snarls as he's riding air currents in subway tunnels, while the similarly afflicted Hyde to his Jekyll – a schoolboy chum played as an adult by an amusingly hopped-up Matt Smith, gets blue-ish vapor trails and snappier lines.
But there isn't much tension to their story. Or logic. At one point, Morbius overhears some counterfeiters passing fake $100s, and commandeers their printing press to make what appears to be an artificial-blood machine — because the technologies for fake-bills and fake-blood match up? Maybe that works better in a comic book.
Bat guys everywhere you look
Speaking of which, when the DC Extended Universe first announced that Twilight star Robert Pattinson would play the lead in The Batman in their corner of the superhero multiverse, it seemed like a nice inside joke — from Vampire-teen to Bat-man. But now that the Marvelverse has Leto going full Dracula, it seems as if the casting maybe could've gone the other way 'round.
Leto is as persuasively haunted by the dark side of vigilantism as Pattinson was, and as a result of corporate positioning, is maybe more determined to avoid being a villain. Not unlike Venom, Morbius was a bad guy when he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man comics, back in the 1970's. He needs to be at least an anti-hero now, if a franchise is to be built around him.
But bad guy/bat guy...who's to say? As the trailers reveal, another DC bat-guy, Michael Keaton, shows up in his non-batty baddie Marvel persona Adrian Toomes, just to mess with the heads of anyone trying to keep cinematic universes straight.
But bloodlines will have to be clarified in more robust "Morbius" episodes to come, this origin story being merely adequate, and by Marvel standards, slightly anemic.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wvpublic.org/2022-03-31/jared-leto-is-marvels-bat-man-in-the-vampiric-morbius | 2022-04-01T01:45:08Z |
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
01-02-27-29-30, Cash Ball: 3
(one, two, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty; Cash Ball: three)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
01-02-27-29-30, Cash Ball: 3
(one, two, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty; Cash Ball: three) | https://www.ctinsider.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash4Life-game-17049899.php | 2022-04-01T01:45:08Z |
People who suffered from even mild cases of COVID-19 face an increased risk of being diagnosed with diabetes within a year of recovering from the illness, a new study reports.
Researchers found that people who had COVID-19 were about 40% more likely to develop diabetes within a year after recovering, compared to participants in a control group. The likelihood of developing diabetes grew if the patient suffered from a serious infection that led to hospitalization or a stay in intensive care.
"What's surprising is that it is happening in people with no prior risk factors for diabetes" before becoming infected with COVID-19, said Ziyad Al-Aly, the lead author of the study.
These latest findings add to a growing list of studies showing that people who suffered from COVID-19 are at risk of facing other long-term health problems. Those include heart and kidney ailments and chronic fatigue.
Al-Aly also helped lead the study that showed the prevalence of cardiac issues in people who survived COVID-19 infections.
This newest study, published Monday in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, analyzed data from more than 180,000 patients from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The study's authors compared patients who tested positive for COVID-19 and survived the illness for more than a month with more than 4 million other people who didn't contract COVID in the same period. This data was also compared with another 4.28 million patients who were treated at the VA in 2018 and 2019.
The paper states that around 1% to 2% of people who have been infected with COVID will develop diabetes as a result. That may seem like a small number, but nearly 80 million people in the U.S. have had COVID, Al-Aly told NPR — meaning 800,000 to 1.6 million people developing diabetes who might not have otherwise.
"That translates to a really significant number of people with new onset diabetes in the U.S. and many, many more around the world," Al-Aly said.
Nationwide, approximately 34 million people had diabetes pre-COVID, according to Jorge Moreno, an internal medicine physician at Yale University who didn't work on Al-Aly's study. Doctors expect roughly 1.5 million new people to be newly diagnosed with diabetes each year during normal times, he told NPR.
What to look out for
This study shows that as a nation, more attention needs to be paid to the long-term effects of COVID-19, Al-Aly said. More vigilance can start at the doctor's office.
"We need to start treating COVID as a risk factor for diabetes," Al-Aly said, adding that each person who has come down with the virus needs to be screened.
Moreno told NPR he believes this study will create more awareness among general practitioners and endocrinologists, like himself, to screen patients who have had COVID for diabetes and other complications.
Those who've had COVID should also be closely monitoring their health and changes in their body, Moreno said, and should seek help at the first sign of an issue. Major symptoms for diabetes include increased thirst, frequent urination (which is not influenced by how much liquid consumed) and blurry vision. Major weight fluctuations are also a sign.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kunc.org/npr-news/2022-03-31/covid-19-infection-increases-your-risk-for-diabetes-a-new-study-says | 2022-04-01T01:45:08Z |
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Despite 93 percent of patients reporting satisfaction with the service and expertise provided at rural health providers, price transparency and wait times created difficulties for some patients.
Wipfli, a healthcare accounting and consulting firm, surveyed 1,045 people on their experiences with rural health providers, the company announced on March 31. Although a majority of respondents reported overall satisfaction, there were some issues.
- While only a quarter of patients looked at rural health providers' prices, almost 30 percent of those who did couldn't find any prices published.
- About 37 percent of patients experience longer wait times for treatment over the course of the pandemic.
- Thirty-six percent of respondents said they used telehealth, but only 30 percent said they prefer it to in-person visits. | https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-experience/despite-overall-satisfaction-patients-struggle-with-some-aspects-of-rural-healthcare.html | 2022-04-01T01:45:08Z |
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in India on Thursday on a two-day official visit, his first trip to the country since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine last month.
Mr Lavrov will hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today. He is also expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Russian foreign minister arrived in India after concluding a two-day visit to China.
Mr Lavrov's visit to India coincides with that of US Deputy National Security Adviser Daleep Singh and British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.
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US not seeking to change India-Russia ties, says Ned Price
As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is on a two-day official visit to India, the US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price on Thursday (local time) said that every country has its own relationship with Moscow and Washington is not seeking any change in that.
"Different countries are going to have their own relationship with the Russian Federation. It's a fact of history. It's a fact of geography. That is not something that we are seeking to change," Price said during a press briefing.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov To Meet S Jaishankar Today
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is on a two-day official visit to India, is expected to meet and hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is on a two-day official visit to India, is expected to meet and hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday. | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/sergey-lavrovs-india-visit-live-updates-russian-foreign-minister-to-meet-s-jaishankar-pm-modi-2855876 | 2022-04-01T01:45:08Z |
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48 years of service: Say goodbye to Hollowood
Paul Hollowood always expected to spend his professional life racing to emergencies with lights and sirens clearing the path before him.
His plan was to follow his father’s footsteps into the Fire Brigade. “As a kid I spent half my life at the Carlton fire station. When we played footy and cricket out the back, the firefighters would join in.”
The fire service had a father-son rule, which meant Paul was to be fast-tracked into the service. The trouble was you had to be 21 to join and at 16 he was done with school.
His father suggested he join the police as a cadet, learn that trade and then slip over to the fire brigade when the time was right.
“The trouble was that as soon as I joined I found I really loved policing,” he says. And so he stayed - for 48 years, retiring on Friday, April 1, as a superintendent.
While Paul’s career was long and varied, his most important investigation was fire-related, into the 2009 Black Saturday disaster that cost 173 lives.
As an experienced homicide investigator, Hollowood was used to a crime scene that might be the size of a room or a backyard.
The Black Saturday scene was 350,000 hectares - 86 separate sites of blackened, smouldering devastation.
The first challenge was to find and identify victims lost in the furnace. The Victorian Institute of Forensic Services identified every one - a modern scientific miracle.
There were 521 serious injuries, 3394 buildings destroyed and 726 vehicles melted. One way of dealing with the aftermath would have been to decide it was just too big, accept the death toll and complete a general inquiry with broad conclusions.
Instead, it was decided each individual victim and every grieving family was entitled to the truth, resulting in Australia’s biggest police investigation.
Hollowood was then in charge of several investigative units, including the Arson Squad.
“Because of the extreme weather, for about a week before Black Saturday we were aware of the growing risk, but no one was prepared for what happened,” he recalls.
“I was duty Crime Department Superintendent on the day, and it was as bad as it could be. Units were reporting from around the state saying it was utter chaos.”
Police set up the Phoenix Taskforce and initially 400 Crime Department detectives were sent into the field. It would take two years, more than 100,000 investigative hours and result in taking more than 5000 statements.
If each case went before the Coroner in the usual way, the process would have taken years and traumatised thousands of witnesses and family members.
“It soon became apparent that we just couldn’t do this the traditional way,” Hollowood says.
Police experimented with “electronic briefs” that were more than online versions of the vast paper files that would make up one case. The final interactive product was both brilliant and awful.
The before-and-after satellite photos show the lottery that is life and death. There are well-prepared properties, seemingly bushfire-proof, that are obliterated, while others dropped into the scrub, often built without planning permits, are spared.
Click on the mouse and you see a man standing proudly by his house. Click again and a graphic program shows the man trying to save the property, his wife urging him to go, his car idling in the garage if he needs to escape.
Then the call to 000 when he yells above the roar of a wall of fire that he is trapped. Then he is gone.
Instead of having to sit in a sterile courtroom and hear strangers describe their loved ones’ last moments, Hollowood says, “we were able to sit with relatives and explain exactly what happened”.
As a young cop, Hollowood was part of a group that benefited from a change of policy that fast- tracked talented young police into criminal investigations, becoming a detective in Brunswick. Soon he was assigned to homicide and by the age of 32 was running a team as a Detective Senior Sergeant.
In June 1991, six-year-old Sheree Beasley was abducted from outside a Rosebud milk bar, with witnesses saying they saw a distressed girl driven away by a middle-aged man.
Her body was found stuffed in a Red Hill stormwater drain three months later.
Initially the case was treated as an abduction and a taskforce formed to try and find her. After her body was found it became a homicide investigation, with Hollowood in charge.
It would take 18 months to lay charges and Hollowood had to enlist the help of a police killer to resolve the case.
One of the first routine suspects was church elder and convicted sex offender Robert Arthur Selby Lowe. He was telephoned and asked about his movements after his work car, along with 775 others, were flagged as similar to the vehicle in the abduction.
He was called in for a further interview in August but gave an alibi for the day of the crime.
After the body was discovered, Hollowood ordered a review of known suspects: “We kept coming back to Lowe.”
It wasn’t only the police who had their doubts. Lowe occasionally consulted psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs, who became increasingly concerned at the sinister nature of her patient and tipped off police.
Hollowood decided to use a court-approved bug in her office. Lowe, he recalls, used Hobbs as a sounding board, never telling the truth but rehearsing versions of events he could later use if confronted again by police.
After Lowe was charged, Hollowood found another ally. Armed robber Peter Reid, convicted of the 1982 murder of Senior Constable Stephen Henry, gave evidence that Lowe had confessed to him inside jail.
“Lowe was using Reid as a jailhouse lawyer and Reid had no time for a child killer. Reid had done a drafting course in prison and was able to map out the abduction better than some professionals,” says Hollowood.
If you work homicide, you deal with offenders who kill for a variety of reasons. Then there are the stone killers, those who turn murder into business and see life as a tradeable commodity.
None was worse than Alistair Farquhar “Sandy” MacRae, implicated in 20 suspicious deaths.
“I would have to say that he would be Australia’s worst known multiple murderer, and we will never know how many people he has killed. He had no regard for life at all,” says Hollowood.
After quitting as a standover man for Melbourne’s biggest vice ring, MacRae moved to a 10-hectare property at Merbein, near Mildura. This was no retirement move, as he began to lure people to his property on the promise of buying marijuana in order to kill them.
In 1987 police found the body of Domenico Marafiote buried under MacRae’s chicken coop.
Two years earlier MacRae had shot and killed his victim (he had already dug the grave) before driving to Adelaide to kill Marafiote’s parents Carmelo, 69, and Rosa, 70. He was desperate to find the money that Marafiote was to use for the marijuana deal but didn’t find the cash, which was sewn into Rosa’s clothing.
Hollowood says it was over a space of a few years that law enforcement went from a craft for the crafty to a profession. He began in an era when short-tempered detectives in short-sleeved shirts had a tendency to punch suspects with a short right to gather information, and worked through to a time when tertiary-educated investigators drinking short blacks punch a keyboard to gather intelligence.
“The big change was from the early 1980s to the late 1980s. We started taking statements on typewriters and ended with video-recorded interviews. We could only collect blood group samples and there was no DNA. We were only allowed to present black-and-white crime photos because colour ones were considered likely to inflame a jury.
“We moved from caveman days to professional in a few years.”
He learnt it was the cop who went one step further that made the difference, such as the search-and-rescue sergeant called in to look for a body who spotted a tiny piece of rug - “no bigger than a thumb” - stuck on top of a barbed wire fence in arid Mallee country.
Concentrating on the area from the police helicopter he spotted a darker area of disturbed sand. “The victim was buried there, wrapped in the rug. It had caught when the offenders carried him over the fence. I was amazed he could spot the piece on the wire.”
Professional criminals have also changed, Hollowood says. “They robbed banks or were safe-breakers or committed fraud. Now they are opportunistic. They may commit robberies, aggravated burglaries and then frauds.”
Paul Hollowood has a loyal group of police admirers who respect his coolness under pressure, his guidance and his legendary work ethic. He has his detractors as well, those who have been bruised as he has always been more concerned about results than popularity.
One admirer is Assistant Commissioner Bob Hill, who as a young homicide detective learned that with Hollowood the job always came first: “Paul was the consummate professional but a hard taskmaster, who demanded the very best from his staff. If I needed advice, he has always been the first person I turned to.” | https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/48-years-of-service-say-goodbye-to-hollowood-20220330-p5a9cc.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_victoria | 2022-04-01T01:45:08Z |
No more COVID-19 restrictions within Belize; some travel requirements remain
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
As of Friday, April 1st, all remaining COVID-19 restrictions within Belize will be lifted as per the Ministry of Health and Wellness. Restrictions mandating facemask wearing and social distancing will be lifted, and activities such as concerts and large gatherings will be allowed. Night clubs and bars will also be allowed to operate. The only restrictions that remain in place are the requirement for visitors/tourists ages five and above to present proof of immunization or a negative COVID-19 test upon arrival, and Belizeans planning to travel out of the country must be vaccinated.
According to Minister of Health and Wellness, Honourable Kevin Bernard, the accepted testing for unvaccinated foreigners is rapid tests done within 48 hours or a PCR within 72 hours before travel to Belize. Tourists arriving in the country, either by air, land, or sea, who are not vaccinated and do not have the required test will be tested at the entry point at their own expense. Belizeans are allowed to travel into and out of the country with proof of vaccination and are not required to be tested. If they are unvaccinated, they will be allowed to leave the country only when a valid reason is produced, like for a medical condition.
The new Statutory Instrument (SI) No. 61 of 2022 confirms lifting the mentioned restrictions. However, it warns that anyone testing positive for the virus at any entry point will be mandated to quarantine at their own expense at a government-designated facility. Anyone breaching this mandate commits an offense and can be fined up to $5,000 or serve time in prison for six months. The SI reminds visitors that travel insurance is still required before traveling to Belize. The insurance tourists must purchase can be found at www.belizetravelinsurance.com and covers medical, lodging, and cancellation expenses when testing positive for COVID-19.
Minister Bernard reminded the public to exercise caution as COVID-19 is still around, and the pandemic is far from over. “The responsibility now lies on the people. We expect that Belizeans continue to remain vigilant,” said Bernard. The minister said he would continue using the face mask in indoor places and practice social distancing whenever necessary. Bernard also pointed out that it is now time to address other health issues such as nutrition, non-communicable diseases, and mental health. He encourages unvaccinated Belizeans to get the vaccine as there is still plenty of it available free of cost.
The daily COVID-19 report shows only 234 active cases countrywide on Thursday, March 31st. There are only three hospitalizations at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit in Belize City, one patient is fully vaccinated, and the other two are not. To this date, 654 persons have perished due to complications caused by the virus. The total amount of infections detected over the past two years, when the first case was detected in San Pedro Town in March 2020, is over 57,000, and over 522,000 tests have been done in the country.
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5 fetuses found inside DC home of anti-abortion activist
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police found five fetuses in the home of a self-proclaimed “anti-abortion activist” who was indicted this week on federal charges alleging that she was part of a group of people who blocked access to a Washington, D.C. reproductive health center.
The Metropolitan Police Department says officers were responding to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a home in Southeast Washington on Wednesday when they located the five fetuses inside.
A local television station, WUSA9, captured video of police searching the home and reported that the home belonged to Lauren Handy. The 28-year-old was one of nine people charged in an indictment that was made public on Wednesday that accused the group of traveling to Washington, blocking access to the reproductive health center and streaming it on Facebook.
The station, which first reported the discovery, said Handy told a reporter that “people will freak out when they hear” what detectives found inside her house. Handy did not respond to a message sent to her Facebook profile seeking comment.
Police said the five fetuses were collected by Washington’s medical examiner and the investigation is ongoing.
In the indictment, prosecutors said Handy had called the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient and scheduling an appointment. Once there, on Oct. 22, 2020, eight of the suspects pushed their way inside and began blocking the doors, according to the indictment. Five of them chained themselves together on chairs to block the treatment area as others blocked the employee entrance to stop other patients from coming inside, the indictment alleges. Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge.
Handy and the eight others were charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The federal law, more commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.witn.com/2022/04/01/5-fetuses-found-inside-dc-home-anti-abortion-activist/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:08Z |
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Bruce Willis is getting support from his A-list pals amid a difficult time.
Following the news that the “Die Hard” star has been diagnosed with aphasia, famous friends have offered their well wishes on social media.
On Thursday, John Travolta posted an Instagram tribute to his former co-star and recalled a sweet memory of the action movie icon that illustrated their close bond.
“Bruce and I became good friends when we shared 2 of our biggest hits together, Pulp Fiction and Look Who’s Talking. Years later he said to me, ‘John, I just want you to know that when something good happens to you I feel like it’s happening to me,'” John wrote, captioning a pair of throwback photos of him and Bruce, including a shot that featured John’s late wife, Kelly Preston.
“That’s how generous a soul he is. I love you Bruce,” John added.
Bruce’s family, including his wife, Emma Heming Willis, ex-wife Demi Moore, and his three oldest daughters, Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah, announced the actor’s aphasia diagnosis in a joint Instagram statement earlier this week. The post revealed that the 67-year-old’s condition is “impacting his cognitive abilities” and he is now “stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him” as a result.
“This is a really challenging time for our family and we are so appreciative of your continued love, compassion and support. We are moving through this as a strong family unit, and wanted to bring his fans in because we know how much he means to you, as you do to him,” the message continued. “As Bruce always says, ‘Live it up’ and together we plan to do just that.”
In addition to his three grown children with Demi, Bruce is also dad to his and Emma’s girls: 9-year-old Mabel and 7-year-old Evelyn.
Bruce Willis & Demi Moore: See Their Heartwarming Moments As A Blended Family
View GalleryThe whole crew is known for their close bond. Just earlier this month, Demi gave Bruce a cute shoutout for his birthday alongside a recent-looking photo of them spending time in the kitchen together.
“Happy birthday, Bruce! Thankful for our blended family,” she wrote in her caption.
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Call Of Duty competitor Kenji has been caught using hacks after footage attempting to prove his legitimacy actually recorded him using wall-hacks.
As reported by Dexerto, suspicions first arose during a 2v2 tournament in Call Of Duty: Vanguard, where Kenji’s opponents – going by iLuhvly and Sasuke – suspected he was using cheats to compete.
In an attempt to clear his name, Kenji then uploaded a physical recording of him playing Vanguard with his monitors in view – something that’s typically done in competitive games to prove that no hacking software is being used.
Unfortunately for Kenji, that’s exactly what he had running: in the footage he uploaded, a wall-hack – software that highlights enemies through walls – is visibly running on his game, which you can see below.
GG's Kenji CAUGHT 4K BOXES ON HIS MONITOR CAM! thanks to @iLuhvly the hacker detective and @CallenDisplay! #HACKERDOWN #4K pic.twitter.com/GSfef7SShH
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Since accidentally incriminating himself, Dexerto reports that Kenji has been banned from Checkmate Gaming, the tournament-hosting platform he was competing on, and has deleted all of his social media channels.
Hacking in competitive Call Of Duty scenes remains a significant issue for the game. Back in November 2021, a Call Of Duty: Vanguard tournament with a £5100 prize pool had its results overturned when it turned out that the winner had been using hacks.
In January 2021, a Warzone competition on Twitch – this time with a £180,000 prize pool – was also thrown into chaos when a competitor was found cheating during the tournament.
Shortly after Vanguard was launched, Activision launched a new anti-cheat service called Ricochet, which has found mixed success. Though cheating hasn’t been entirely eradicated in the competitive scene, in December 2021, it was announced that 48,000 accounts were banned for hacking in just one day.
In other news, Epic Games is being sued over a copyrighted dance move that it’s allegedly added to Fortnite without permission. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/gaming-news/call-of-duty-semi-pro-caught-hacking-in-video-he-filmed-to-prove-innocence-3195342 | 2022-04-01T01:45:11Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police found five fetuses in the home of a self-proclaimed “anti-abortion activist” who was indicted this week on federal charges alleging that she was part of a group of people who blocked access to a Washington, D.C. reproductive health center.
The Metropolitan Police Department says officers were responding to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a home in Southeast Washington on Wednesday when they located the five fetuses inside.
A local television station, WUSA9, captured video of police searching the home and reported that the home belonged to Lauren Handy. The 28-year-old was one of nine people charged in an indictment that was made public on Wednesday that accused the group of traveling to Washington, blocking access to the reproductive health center and streaming it on Facebook.
The station, which first reported the discovery, said Handy told a reporter that “people will freak out when they hear” what detectives found inside her house. Handy did not respond to a message sent to her Facebook profile seeking comment.
Police said the five fetuses were collected by Washington’s medical examiner and the investigation is ongoing.
In the indictment, prosecutors said Handy had called the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient and scheduling an appointment. Once there, on Oct. 22, 2020, eight of the suspects pushed their way inside and began blocking the doors, according to the indictment. Five of them chained themselves together on chairs to block the treatment area as others blocked the employee entrance to stop other patients from coming inside, the indictment alleges. Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge.
Handy and the eight others were charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The federal law, more commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/5-fetuses-found-inside-dc-home-of-anti-abortion-activist/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:10Z |
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At first glance, legislation passed by the House of Representatives that gradually raises the age to 75 for required minimum distributions of tax-deferred accounts seems like a glittering retirement present for seniors. If enacted—the bill must still pass the Senate—the new rule will allow many retirees to delay taxation of a significant chunk of their wealth for another three years.
But some retirement experts say the legislation will result in many seniors paying higher taxes over the long run. “It’s going to raise the lifetime taxes for a fair number of people,” says Boston University economist Laurence Kotlifkoff, who also sells retirement-planning software. That’s because the delay will result in higher required minimum distributions, or RMDs, for “a large number of people” when they do take them, pushing them into higher tax brackets, Kotlifkoff says.
Under current law, retirees must begin withdrawing money from individual retirement accounts, 401(k)s, and other tax-deferred accounts at age 72. The House on Tuesday, by a bipartisan vote of 414-5, approved the Secure Act. 2.0, which would raise the age for beginning RMDs to 73 next year, 74 in 2030, and 75 in 2033.
William Reichenstein, head of research for Social Security Solutions, also believes that delayed RMDs will result in higher lifetime taxes. Reichenstein did a calculation for a 72-year-old retiree with a $3 million tax-deferred account. If that retiree began RMDs immediately, he would withdraw $109,489 to meet the requirement. If he waits until age 75, assuming 6% annual growth in his investments, the RMD would rise to $145,246. Not only does the money have more time to grow, but the RMD rate at age 75 is currently 4.07%, compared with a 3.65% rate at age 72.
The required distributions grew by about $35,750, Reichenstein notes, adding “you might not only be in a higher tax bracket but you could also be forced to pay higher Medicare premiums for several years going forward.”
Indeed, large RMDs can cause huge tax problems for retirees who accumulated much of their wealth in tax-deferred accounts during their working years. Whereas RMDs can push higher-income retirees into higher tax brackets and Medicare brackets, they often result in higher taxation of Social Security benefits for middle-income retirees.
Of course, RMDs don’t prevent retirees from withdrawing money far earlier. Some retirees begin taking money out of their accounts at age 59½, the minimum age for withdrawals without paying a 10% penalty in most circumstances. But others, particularly those who have large pensions or Social Security benefits, or those who have saved a lot of money in after-tax accounts, don’t touch their tax-deferred accounts until required.
If Congress delays the age for RMDs, many are going to wait even longer before pulling money out of tax-deferred accounts. That may be a mixed blessing for them when it comes to taxes.
Write to [email protected] | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/how-the-secure-act-could-trigger-higher-taxes-for-some-retirees/130511/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:12Z |
Letter: Lee, Romney should confirm Jackson to court
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The heavyweight title is inching closer to unification — uh, maybe.
News dropped this week that heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk's rematch with Anthony Joshua is likely to go down in early summer. And if Usyk wins, that could set up a unifier for later this year with the other heavyweight champ, Tyson Fury. But that’s leaping way ahead.
First, Usyk vs. Joshua would take place in June with Saudi Arabia reportedly being considered as the site.
Usyk battered Joshua before a sell-out crowd at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in September to capture the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts.
Then, in the ultimate First Blood move: Usyk returned to his homeland following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and joined a territorial defense battalion, promising he was armed and willing to kill. And so a Joshua rematch looked doomed. But then the Ukrainian sports minister granted permission to Usyk to leave the country — and to begin training for the rematch.
Usyk confirmed the bout on Instagram, writing: "I decided to start preparing for a rematch with Anthony Joshua. A large number of my friends support me, all the rest of the good and peace, Thank God for everything."
If Usyk smashes Joshua again, that could set up a unification bout with WBC champ Fury by November or December. But first Fury must face the mandatory No. 1 contender Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium on April 23. Fury has tossed out the idea of retirement after the Whyte fight. Yeah, right. Fury is all about legacy and knows his legacy will only be cemented if he unifies the division’s titles, which hasn’t been under one champion since Lennox Lewis held all the gold 22 years ago.
There are two monkey-wrenches. The first one is if Joshua wins. Will Usyk get a mandatory rematch as the former former champ? Most definitely. Usyk also has said he wants to unite the heavyweight titles.
The other monkey-wrench is if Whyte beats Fury. Don’t laugh. It wouldn’t be surprising if Fury came in hungover (figurative speaking) after his scintillating trilogy win over Deontay Wilder. Fury’s trainer SugarHill Steward surely know how dangerous Whyte is, recently saying: "Listen, this is the heavyweight division, the most exciting division in boxing. Everybody has a chance. That's why it's one of the big daddy divisions, because anything can happen in the heavyweight division."
But at least, there’s movement, with Joshua and Usyk nearing a deal to for a fight in June. And that’s one step closer to getting what we want: an undisputed heavyweight champion. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonystitt/2022/03/31/anthony-joshua-vs-oleksandr-usyk-ii-gets-the-heavyweight-crown-closer-to-unification/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:14Z |
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- The UNC men's basketball team will be getting a pep talk from some of their youngest fans at UNC Children's Hospital this week.
For the next few days leading up to tipoff in the historic Final Four matchup of Duke vs. North Carolina, the hospital will be sharing videos of patients wishing the Tar Heels good luck.
"I know you can beat Duke," said Tyler Layman, 11, of Asheboro in his video recorded from his room on the hospital's seventh floor.
"I want them to feel pumped," he told ABC11. "Like, ready to get out there and beat Duke."
Layman, who had to have an emergency appendectomy for a ruptured appendix ended up at UNC's Children's when complications from the first surgery led to infections and the need for a second operation.
During his eight-day hospital stay in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels faced off against St. Peter's in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Layman still got to watch the game and cheer on Carolina surrounded by his family and a new stuffed Rameses his grandmother picked up for him on Franklin Street.
"I think the nurses outside thought I was in pain because I was screaming really loud," he said.
Kaitlyn Baron, Child Life Specialist, spent the week by his side; it's her job to help young patients and their families cope with extended hospital stays.
"I learned maybe midway through the week that he was a Tar Heels fan," she said.
Baron said March Madness and the Carolina victory that sent the Heels to the Final Four are just what the doctor ordered.
"It was something to kind of give him a sense of normalcy," she said. "And then as it got closer to the end of the week and he was starting to feel better, I think it was also a motivation for him to complete the steps that Nursing and the team was hoping he would do so he would be in a good place to be able to be discharged."
Discharged on Thursday, Layman will make it home with plenty of time to prepare for Saturday's big game.
"I feel like a lot of pressure's being put on them so I'm a little nervous but I think they can do it," he said. "Carolina's winning."
UNC Children's Hospital patients wish Tar Heels good luck in Final Four against Duke
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San Luis Obispo man arrested for six years of molesting his stepdaughter
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. – A San Luis Obispo County man was arrested on Wednesday after officers found out that he was molesting his 11-year-old stepdaughter for six years and her mother for three years, according to the county Sheriff's Office.
The Sheriff's Office received information on Monday that an 11-year-old girl had been molested by her stepfather, a 36-year-old man, and found out from the young girl that it had been happening since she was the age of five, the Sheriff's Office said.
On Tuesday, the girls mother also told detectives that she has been a victim of the same man for the past three years, adding that he would force her to have sex and orally copulate him "on a daily basis," according to the Sheriff's Office.
The mother notified detectives that the man had packed up all of his belongings and left the house after he became suspicious of an investigation into the allegations.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations helped sheriff's detectives and learned that the man was scheduled to fly one-way to South America from Los Angeles, the Sheriff's Office said.
The man was arrested at LAX on Wednesday on a multiple-count felony, no bail arrest warrant.
“I am proud of the great work by our Detectives which took a dangerous and predatory criminal off the streets,” said Sheriff Parkinson. “I am grateful for the close cooperation we had with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations to bring this case to a successful conclusion.”
The man was booked into the San Luis Obispo County Jail on Thursday, on multiple charges including lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 by force, continuous sexual abuse of a child, sexual intercourse or sodomy with a victim under 10-years-old, rape by force/fear, and rape by threat of retaliation. | https://keyt.com/news/san-luis-obispo-county/2022/03/31/san-luis-obispo-man-arrested-for-six-years-of-molesting-his-stepdaughter/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:14Z |
Work underway for new urgent care facility in Regina
Work has begun at the site of Regina’s future urgent care centre.
The “first-of-its-kind facility” in Saskatchewan will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The facility will offer patients an alternative to the emergency room for immediate treatment in non-life threatening situations, such as minor breaks or sprains and illnesses or fevers.
The centre will also staff psychiatric nurses and social workers for 24-hour mental health and addictions supports.
"This new urgent care centre will be staffed with a multidisciplinary care team, including mental health professionals, to provide patients better access to urgent medical attention for a variety of needs," Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) interim CEO Andrew Will said.
"This will provide residents of Regina another option for more immediate access to health care not only for physical needs, but also for mental health concerns."
Construction is slated to begin this spring on the lot at 1350 Albert St.
Will said the new centre will help reduce wait times for mental health and addictions treatment, while freeing up time and space in the ER.
“By diverting patients away from the emergency room it will make care there happen more quickly as well,” he said.
Reducing ER wait times is a priority, Will said, but he could not give a specific target that the SHA is working toward.
According to Mental Health and Addictions Minister Everett Hindley, the urgent care centre is just one example of how the government is working to build up healthcare capacity across the province.
“It helps bolster our overall healthcare system,” Hindley said.
“There’s going to continue to be pressures as we have a growing population and growing demands to make sure we can address the healthcare needs of the people in Saskatchewan.”
Planning is currently underway for an urgent care centre in Saskatoon.
The Regina facility is expected to open in mid-2023.
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Ontario has 'eliminated all our defences' against COVID subvariant: epidemiologist
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Sweet justice: Ringleader of Canada's notorious maple syrup heist must pay more than $9M in fines, top court rules
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a $9 million fine for the thief in a 2012 maple syrup heist. | https://regina.ctvnews.ca/work-underway-for-new-urgent-care-facility-in-regina-1.5843609 | 2022-04-01T01:45:14Z |
NJ Joins States Favoring Private Transgender Name Changes
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Former President Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner provided "helpful" information to the Democratic-led House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a member of the panel said.
Kushner, married to Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, who was also a senior adviser, is the most high profile member of Trump's inner circle known to have appeared before the committee.
He voluntarily appeared for a remote interview that started at 10 a.m. and lasted at least into the early afternoon hours, several sources familiar with the committee's work said.
Kushner's meeting came two months after the panel asked Ivanka Trump to voluntarily appear before the committee. Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Ivanka Trump and the committee are engaged in conversations, but no final plan has been reached on her appearance.
"The expectation is that it will take place, as to when I can't tell you right now, I know we are engaging her as a committee," Thompson said on Wednesday.
Virginia Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria told NPR the conversation with Kushner was "helpful." She told MSNBC that Kushner was able to substantiate information and provide his own take on different reports on the Jan. 6 attack.
Luria said it's valuable to hear firsthand accounts from witnesses such as Kushner directly.
"I think that the committee really appreciates hearing information directly from people who have relevant facts about January 6, and the fact that Jared Kushner came as a witness is helpful to building the story of our investigation," Luria said.
One source familiar with the committee's discussions but unable to speak on the record said there were details that Kushner couldn't remember but the source noted that like other witnesses, it has been more than a year since the attack on the Capitol and it is not uncommon for some to not recall some specifics.
Kushner was traveling back from Saudi Arabia on Jan. 6, 2021, but Thompson said he believes that he could help the committee understand more about the events that led up to that day.
"We think because he was an integral part of the administration, it's, I think, important for us to find out if he knew anything about the planning before January 6 and to get it from him," Thompson said.
Thompson, who was not at House votes on Thursday and voted by proxy, had said a day earlier if Kushner's interview went well, the panel would ask for additional communication details, such as call and text message records.
Thompson had previously waved off interest in Kushner but said the committee's staff has continued to reach out to potential witnesses.
"We have an excellent staff, and staff has been actively engaging a number of witnesses, including individuals or their attorneys and Kushner's attorney will be the same," Thompson told NPR on Wednesday.
The White House on Wednesday said it had waived executive privilege claims for Kushner and Ivanka Trump, allowing them to share certain details with the panel.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kunc.org/npr-news/2022-03-31/jared-kushner-provided-helpful-details-to-the-jan-6-committee-a-panel-member-says | 2022-04-01T01:45:14Z |
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As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is on a two-day official visit to India, the US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price on Thursday (local time) said that every country has its own relationship with Moscow and Washington is not seeking any change in that.
"Different countries are going to have their own relationship with the Russian Federation. It's a fact of history. It's a fact of geography. That is not something that we are seeking to change," Price said during a press briefing.
He continued by saying, "What we are seeking to do, whether it is in the context of India or other partners and allies around the world, is to do all we can to see to it that the international community is speaking in unison, speaking loudly against this unjustified, unprovoked premeditated aggression, calling for an end to the violence using the leverage that countries including India, have to those ends."
Price made these remarks amid Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's visit to India. He is expected to meet and hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today.
"...We understand that what we are asking for, what we are calling for is that all countries use the leverage that they have to make sure that that message is coming across to Vladimir Putin loud and clear," he said.
While answering India working out any rupee-rouble conversion for trade, Price said, "I would refer to our Indian partners when it comes to any such rupee-ruble conversion that may have been discussed."
Price further said, "When it comes to the Quad, one of the core principles of the Quad is the idea of a free and open Indo Pacific that is specific in that context to the Indo Pacific, but these are principles. These are ideals that transcend any geographic region."
"It's not in our interest. It's not in Japan's, Australia's, or India's interest to see flagrant examples of countries whether in Europe, whether in the Indo Pacific, whether anywhere in between, of countries flouting, violating rules-based international order," he added.
Russia launched its invasion on February 24 after recognizing the Ukrainian breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as "independent republics." Russia has since continued to maintain that the aim of its operations has been to "demilitarize" and "de-nazify" the country.
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many Western nations and European countries have imposed tough sanctions on Russia targeting its economy and financial system. | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/india-russia-relations-what-us-said-on-india-russia-ties-ahead-of-russian-foreign-ministers-visit-2855870 | 2022-04-01T01:45:14Z |
The Star Entertainment Group chairman John O’Neill will pocket $125,000 a month to act as the casino group’s chief executive while it looks for a permanent replacement after its boss resigned this week amid an explosive public inquiry into its operations.
The company said on Friday it had started the search for a new managing director and CEO after Matt Bekier resigned on Monday, taking responsibility for the group’s probity failings.
The NSW inquiry into The Star Sydney, triggered by reports in this masthead, has heard how Mr Bekier tried to challenge an audit warning it was failing to tackle money laundering, while the casino ignored warnings it was working with “junket” partners linked to organised crime and enabled $900 million of fraudulent transactions on Chinese bank cards.
Mr O’Neill, a former Australian Rugby Union and Football Federation Australia boss and a Star board member since 2011, will be paid $1.5 million per year - or $125,000 per month - on top of his existing package, bringing his annual pay to $2 million.
Mr Bekier would be “available in the short term to provide handover assistance as the board requests”, the company said.
The Star also said that it “acknowledges the need for accelerated board change” and would make new director appointments in due course.
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Post Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:POST – Get Rating) was the recipient of a large growth in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 2,370,000 shares, a growth of 46.3% from the February 28th total of 1,620,000 shares. Approximately 4.2% of the shares of the company are sold short. Based on an average trading volume of 497,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.8 days.
In related news, Director Thomas C. Erb purchased 1,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, February 8th. The shares were purchased at an average price of $105.38 per share, for a total transaction of $158,070.00. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Insiders own 9.60% of the company’s stock.
A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of POST. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in shares of Post during the 4th quarter worth $28,221,000. Parkside Financial Bank & Trust increased its holdings in shares of Post by 173.7% during the 4th quarter. Parkside Financial Bank & Trust now owns 2,586 shares of the company’s stock worth $292,000 after buying an additional 1,641 shares during the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Post by 2.0% during the 4th quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 4,786,818 shares of the company’s stock worth $539,617,000 after buying an additional 95,320 shares during the last quarter. Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC increased its holdings in shares of Post by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC now owns 114,694 shares of the company’s stock worth $12,929,000 after buying an additional 3,967 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans increased its holdings in shares of Post by 0.8% during the 4th quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 15,435 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,740,000 after buying an additional 115 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 90.41% of the company’s stock.
Post (NYSE:POST – Get Rating) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, February 3rd. The company reported $0.29 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.34 by ($0.05). The company had revenue of $1.64 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.64 billion. Post had a net margin of 1.01% and a return on equity of 4.58%. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.72 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts predict that Post will post 1.11 earnings per share for the current year.
A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on the company. Zacks Investment Research raised Post from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $112.00 price objective on the stock in a report on Monday, December 27th. Truist Financial lowered Post from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and decreased their price target for the stock from $120.00 to $70.00 in a research note on Thursday, March 24th. StockNews.com started coverage on Post in a research note on Thursday. They set a “hold” rating on the stock. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group decreased their price target on Post from $132.00 to $85.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, March 16th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $107.17.
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Post Holdings, Inc operates as a consumer packaged goods holding company. The firm engages in the operation of center-of-the-store, refrigerated, food service, food ingredient, active nutrition, and private brand food categories. It operates through the following segments: Post Consumer Brands, Weetabix, Foodservice, Refrigerated Retail and BellRing Brands.
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WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don’t have an answer for how that’s going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that’s a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs.” Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?” Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden’s social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden’s agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven’t abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden’s economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they’d help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4 percent 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.
Story by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | https://bangordailynews.com/2022/03/31/news/nation/house-passes-35-a-month-insulin-cap-as-dems-seek-wider-bill/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:14Z |
ECU Speech and language pathologist explains aphasia following Bruce Willis diagnosis
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) -A local expert is sharing her insights into aphasia after Hollywood actor Bruce Willis announced his diagnosis with the condition.
ECU speech language pathologist Sherri Winslow says aphasia is an acquired language disorder. She says it can be caused by a stroke or brain injury, and sometimes infections or degenerative conditions as well. She says the condition causes a lack of access to language, and it can impact a persons ability to speak, understand things, and read and write. She says the condition is common and affects millions of Americans every year. The main treatment for aphasia is speech and language therapy in which people practice and relearn language skills and develop new ways to communicate.
Winslow says, “There is a chance for improvement. It’s always difficult to say how fast that improvement will occur and how long the improvement will occur.”
You can contact the ECU Speech, Language, and Hearing clinic if you or a loved one need help with the condition.
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The enhanced program is driven by increased global demand for automation solutions. According to a recent IDC Thought Leadership White Paper, The Economic Impact of UiPath Robotic Process Automation: $55 Billion a Year by 2025, sponsored by UiPath, “the economic benefits expected by the use of robotic process automation (RPA) software by UiPath customers will grow at a blistering pace, from $7 billion worldwide in 2021 to $55 billion in 2025.” In addition, a 2022 UiPath survey of U.S. executives found that 78% are very or somewhat likely to invest more in automation to offset the impact of the labor shortage.
UiPath has added to its robust program to help technology partners win more business and break into new markets. The program provides a range of benefits that enable technology partners to confidently develop, test, certify, and market their solutions and go to market faster.
New features within the Technology Partner Program include:
- Automation Build Benefits: UiPath is investing in tools for partners to create their own integrations more rapidly. Partners will also be offered more robust trial license access, training material to enhance their build efforts, and support to enable the partner and UiPath to extend their platforms and expand their customer bases.
- Sales and Business Development Benefits: Technology Partners can now monetize their listing via the UiPath Marketplace, drive greater awareness of their company and listing with UiPath Sales Teams, and leverage insights from UiPath experts to expand offerings to new industries or lines of business.
- Marketing Benefits: UiPath offers technology partners many opportunities, including access to the Partner Marketing program, a turn-key marketing campaign solution. This program enables companies to promote their partnership with UiPath and the value to customers through a menu of ready-to-go marketing campaigns. Technology partners also can have their listing and company information included on the UiPath website and portal.
The UiPath Technology Partner Program provided a lot of excitement and a solid foundation for Qlik to build and deliver a direct integration between Qlik Cloud analytics and the UiPath end-to-end enterprise automation software platform.
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Small to midsize technology companies have unique needs and capabilities. To serve this market, the UiPath Technology Partner Program offers two partner tiers: a free self-service tier and a paid tier, the latter of which provides more dedicated support and access to additional benefits that enable the technology partner to scale their membership faster. The enhanced Technology Partner Program is tailored around the needs, ambitions, and aspirations of each partner.
“Technology companies choose to partner with UiPath because they want to work with the leader in the automation space,” said Dhruv Asher, Senior Vice President, Head of Business Development and Product Alliances at UiPath. “We value our technology partners because they enable UiPath to extend our platform and make it ubiquitous via our partners’ technology and customer base. The turn-key marketing programs and other innovations in our Technology Partner Program will help showcase the value these companies deliver to our joint customers every day.”
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Card game Storybook Brawl has been hit with ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ reviews on Steam after developer Good Luck Games was purchased by a crypto company that has discussed plans to integrate “gaming and crypto transactions”.
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On March 22, Storybook Brawl developer Good Luck Games announced that it had been acquired by crypto company FTX. As part of the announcement, FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried shared that the company “saw an opportunity to be the vanguard for the ethical integration of gaming and crypto transactions in a way that hasn’t yet been done in this space.”
The acquisition itself – and news that cryptocurrency transactions will likely appear in the game – has garnered backlash from fans who don’t want Storybook Brawl to have anything to do with crypto.
Recent reviews on Steam have plummeted down to an ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ rating, with Storybook Brawl now maintaining a ‘Mixed’ tag overall. As visible on Storybook Brawl‘s Steam page, the vast majority of these reviews express anger at the acquisition.
“Good Luck Games was acquired by FTX, a cryptocurrency company, as a way to “help crypto make inroads with gamers.” I want no part of that and I don’t want crypto “making inroads” in things I’m interested in. Uninstalled,” reads one review.
“Enjoyed the game, but can’t condone NFT in any form. Moving on,” added another.
Likewise, YouTube comments for Storybook Brawl‘s latest Developer Chat are just as negative.
“Very disappointed by this move. Needless to say, I will not be supporting SBB going forward,” commented YouTube user ‘Y2A Alkis’.
Another comment by ‘ChurchnSarge’ reads: “Honesty pretty disappointed to hear this. Put a lot of hours into the game, and hearing that you’ve been acquired by [a] Crypto company is uh… a deal breaker. I hope things work out for you, but I don’t see how it will.”
Many disgruntled fans have also raised questions about what this means for the game’s presence on Steam, as Valve has banned games that are built on blockchain technology or allow for cryptocurrency trading – something that Storybook Brawl‘s new owner seems set on implementing.
In other gaming news, UK gamers spent a record £7.1billion on the games industry in 2021, with more growth expected for 2022. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/gaming-news/card-game-storybook-brawl-review-bombed-after-crypto-acquisition-3195346 | 2022-04-01T01:45:17Z |
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey refused to say Thursday if transgender people actually exist, twice dodging direct questions on the subject just a day after he signed legislation limiting transgender rights.
The Republican worked instead to defend his signatures on bills that bar transgender girls and women from playing on girls high school and women’s college sports teams and barring gender affirming surgery for anyone under age 18.
When specifically asked if he believed that there “are really transgender people,” the governor paused for several seconds before answering.
“I’m going to ask you to read the legislation and to see that the legislation that we passed was in the spirit of fairness to protect girls sports in competitive situations,” Ducey said, referring to the new law that targets transgender girls who want to play on girls sports teams. “That’s what the legislation is intended to do, and that’s what it does.”
Asked again if he believed there are “actual transgender people,” he again answered slowly and carefully.
“I … am going to respect everyone, and I’m going to respect everyone’s rights. And I’m going to protect female sports. And that’s what the legislation does,” Ducey said.
Ducey’s response was “appalling,” according to the Arizona director of the Human Rights Campaign, a national civil rights group that advocates for equality for LGBTQ people. The organization worked to ensure families and transgender young people came to the Capitol to testify against the bills as the Republican-led House and Senate considered them this session.
“It’s quite shocking that he can’t even address trans people or even say that he thinks they exist,” Bridget Sharpe said.
Wednesday’s signing of the two transgender bills and a third that bars abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and is currently unconstitutional put Ducey right in the middle of two top issues national Republicans are highlighting in the runup to November’s midterm elections.
Ducey also signed election legislation that minority Democrats said amounted to voter suppression by requiring longtime Arizonans to be thrown off the voter rolls if they did not prove their citizenship and residence location.
The governor leads the Republican Governors Association, which is charged with helping elect GOP chief executives in U.S. states. He in is the last year of his second term as Arizona governor and term limits bar him from seeking reelection.
The top Democrat in the state House, Rep. Reginald Bolding, called Wednesday “probably one of the darkest days we’ve seen in the history of Arizona.”
“With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Ducey has hurled Arizona backwards to its ugliest past,” Bolding said Wednesday. “And today, he put in jeopardy pregnant people, transgender youth in danger and curtailed voting rights for people of color.”
Social conservative groups and the Arizona Republican Party praised Ducey’s action. The Center for Arizona Policy, whose president shepherded the abortion and women’s sports bills through the Legislature, called it a victory.
“Thank you, Governor Ducey, for taking a bold stand for women athletes, vulnerable children, and the unborn by putting your signature on (the bills) in the face of intense opposition from activists,” Center for Arizona Policy president Cathi Herrod said in a news release she posted on Twitter.
She said the legislation protects the unborn, ensures a level playing field for female athletes and shows that “Arizona will do everything it can to protect vulnerable children struggling with gender confusion” by enacting the surgery ban.
Ducey said the surgery ban protects children from irreversible decisions.
“These are permanent surgeries of reassignment that are irreversible, and those discussions can happen once adulthood is reached,” he said.
The American Civil Liberties Association has vowed to sue over the surgery ban. U.S. Supreme Court precedent currently says women have a constitutional right to abortion until about 24 weeks of pregnancy, although it is considering whether to uphold a 15-week ban enacted in Mississippi and may overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision enshrining a woman’s right to choose.
Arizona joins 13 other states in enacting laws preventing transgender girls and women from playing on girls teams. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a transgender sports ban in his state, saying it would harm transgender girls, but the Legislature overrode the veto. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb also vetoed a sports bill, but lawmakers hope to override his action as well. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/arizona-governor-wont-say-transgender-people-exist/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:17Z |