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Angola to striking doctors: Forget your salaries
Angola announced on Thursday the suspension of salaries of striking doctors, who represent the vast majority of the profession in the country and have been demanding better working conditions for ten days.
“We will not pay the salaries of the strikers,” said Labor Minister Teresa Dias at a press conference.
Most of the country’s approximately 5,600 doctors joined the movement last week for the second time in four months, but some are providing essential services.
The doctors’ union called the strike after 20 children died in a single day at a pediatric hospital in the capital Luanda. The deaths were caused by a shortage of medicines and medical equipment, according to the organization’s president, Adriano Manuel, who was fired for raising the alarm.
The government has conceded a 6% increase in basic salaries, which is “insufficient”, Miguel Sebastiao, the union’s secretary general, told AFP.
Doctors denounce hospitals in lack of material, medicines, and accuse the government of building new establishments without providing staff.
“The emergencies, intensive care units, all these services continue to function,” said Sebastiao.
Angola is rich in natural resources but a large part of its population lives below the poverty line despite the oil windfall.
The rate of doctors per capita is lower there than in Haiti or Afghanistan, according to the World Bank. | https://www.africaglobalvillage.com/angola-to-striking-doctors-forget-your-salaries/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:44Z |
Drake has sparked rumours that he’s set to release new music soon by sharing an image taken in a recording studio.
As Music-News.com reports, the Canadian star suggested that he is currently working on the follow-up project to last year’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ by sharing a behind-the-scenes photo on his Instagram Stories this week.
The post in question, which was uploaded without a caption, sees an unknown producer working at a mixing desk in a dimly-lit studio space. A keyboard sits beside the console beneath a large speaker stack, and it appears that Drake took the shot while sitting on a sofa.
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Earlier this month, Drake revealed that he was planning some “highly interactive shows” in New York and Toronto. Further details are yet to be confirmed.
“They’re gonna be something different, something that I’ve never done before. Gonna be a highly interactive experience,” Drake explained in a radio interview.
“My brothers will be there, it’s gonna be great to see y’all, hopefully get a chance to speak with you, [and] hopefully learn a little more about each other. I’ll have the dates for that coming soon, I can’t wait.”
Drake’s most recent headline show took place back in 2019. Last December, he performed alongside his former rival Kanye West at a Free Larry Hoover benefit show in Los Angeles, California.
Nicki Minaj recently revealed that she’s “discussed” having Drake on board as the executive producer of her next album, the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Queen’.
In a two-star review, NME described last September’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ as a “tepid record that sounds like its creator is treading water”. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/drake-sparks-new-music-rumours-as-hes-pictured-in-the-studio-3195335 | 2022-04-01T01:45:47Z |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Gov. Ron DeSantis floated the idea Thursday of changing Florida law to revoke the Walt Disney Company’s right of self-rule in the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the Florida-based seat of the Magic Kingdom.
In the days since DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education bill into law, which opponents call the “Don’t Say Gay” law, opposition to the legislation by Disney has provoked talk of using state legislation to take away the company’s ability to self-govern its lands. Disney first got the right of legal self-control in 1967, with passage of the Reedy Creek Improvement Act.
According to historical documents from the Reedy Creek Improvement District, then-Florida Gov. Claude Kirk signed the RCID Act into law in May 1967, creating two municipalities: Bay Lake and Reedy Creek, which was later renamed Lake Buena Vista. The location, nestled between Orange and Osceola counties, would later become the site where Walt Disney World was built.
The RCID Charter created a 25,000-acre of land as a special taxing district. At the time, it was considered remote and uninhabitable, but now is the site of one of the busiest theme parks in the United States.
To make Disney’s plan happen, the area had to get special privileges from the state of Florida to essentially run itself.
“In 1967, the Florida State legislature, working with Walt Disney World Company, created a special taxing district – called the Reedy Creek Improvement District – that would act with the same authority and responsibility as a county government,” RCID says on its website.
Enter an era of the Magic Kingdom living a life of self-determination and self-rule.
Now, following the company’s public opposition to HB 1557, DeSantis and other state lawmakers have said they’re considering revoking that charter through a repeal of the RCIA, potentially ending Disney’s right to rule in Central Florida.
State Representative Spencer Roach, R-Fort Myers, tweeted on March 30 that he met with colleagues for a second time to discuss repeal of the decades-old law. In Ponte Vedra Beach on Thursday, DeSantis said he wanted to repeal it but not just over the current political fight, and not just the privilege that Disney currently enjoys.
The governor’s words are reminiscent of the state’s 2021 “Big Tech Censorship Crackdown,” in which a law was passed to allow lawsuits against companies like Facebook and Twitter over banning political candidates and equating it to a fight over free speech.
In his speech in Ponte Vedra Beach, DeSantis said the point was to take away the power of “woke” corporations from interfering in Florida politics.
“I would not say that would be retaliatory. The way I view it is there are certain entities that have exerted a lot of influence through corporate means to generate special privileges in the law. I don’t think we should have special privileges in the law at all,” DeSantis said. “Some of these things have developed over the years. I had to deal with this last year, when we passed a law last year to protect Floridians from big tech censorship. The idea was to let them be able to sue under the ‘Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act,’ protect political candidates from being de-platformed, stuff that was good. And it’s being litigated in the courts, which we knew it would. But at the 11th hour, the Legislature slips in a provision in that law that said ‘If you operate a theme park, it doesn’t apply to you.’ And that was meant solely to protect Disney.”
DeSantis said when the provision was added, he had to decide whether to veto the bill and “throw the baby out with the bath water” or allow it to become law as-is, with the protection for theme parks. To be clear, Disney is not the only theme park in Florida. Universal Studios, SeaWorld, Legoland, Busch Gardens and Discovery Cove are all in the state, to name a few.
DeSantis claims he isn’t just targeting Disney over his administration’s current disagreements with the company.
“I don’t think it’s retaliatory, I just think that Disney’s posturing has alienated a lot of people now. And so, the political influence they’re used to wielding, I think has dissipated, so the question is ‘Why would you want to have special privileges in the law, at all?'” DeSantis said. “And I don’t think that we should. But it’s not a matter of acting like those were really great policies. I think that those were policies over decades that were embedded in Florida’s law, largely because they wielded a lot of influence. I think because they’ve been able to do that over the years, I think that’s why they’ve gotten so, that’s one of the reasons they’ve got so far over their skis on this parental rights stuff.”
He said he thinks Disney is used to getting their way, and not having lawmakers stop them. DeSantis said he thinks that’s different now.
“They’re not used to having people that will stand in their way and say ‘Actually, the state of Florida’s going to be governed by the best interests of its people in Florida,” DeSantis said. “We’re certainly not going to bend a knee to woke executives in California. That is not the way the state is going to be run.”
Other than the “big tech carve-out” from 2021, he said he’s never given Disney anything while he’s been governor. DeSantis said he wanted to “reevaluate any special privileges of the law,” not just Disney’s. | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/florida-gop-considers-revoking-disney-worlds-right-to-self-rule-over-dont-say-gay-opposition/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:46Z |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Got a dime you can spare? Coins are in short supply — again.
Retailers, laundromats and other businesses that rely on coins want Americans to empty their piggy banks and look under couch cushions for extra change and “get coin moving.”
A group of trade associations that represent individual businesses including banks, retail outlets, truck stops, grocery stores and more is asking the Treasury Department for more help convincing Americans to get coins back in circulation.
The consequences of the circulation slowdown hit people who don’t have an ability to pay for items electronically, they say.
“If retailers are not able to offer change for cash purchases consumers who rely on cash will be vulnerable,” the associations said in a letter to Treasury.
For example, people who do their laundry at coin laundry mats could have a harder time finding change to wash their clothes. And on a larger scale, people who don’t have cash access aren’t able to patronize certain card-only businesses.
It’s not a coin shortage America faces, but a lack of circulation.
“We can’t print our way out of this problem,” said Austen Jensen, a senior vice president for government affairs at the Retail Industry Leaders Association.
Jensen’s group, along with the American Bankers Association, National Association of Convenience Stores, and National Grocers Association, is trying to meet consumer demand and wants a new public campaign to increase coin circulation.
Jensen said his group is also encouraging member retailers to find creative ways to deal with the shortage of coins, including rounding-up purchases for charity promotions. And he says businesses with multiple locations could send coins from one store to another.
This is not the first time during the pandemic that the issue of low coin circulation has arisen.
The coronavirus disrupted consumers’ buying habits and shifted purchases largely to plastic cards to such an extent that in July 2020, the Federal Reserve restricted coin orders by financial institutions.
The Fed also convened a U.S. Coin Task Force, made up of representatives from various federal agencies, which led to a campaign encouraging the public to get coins into circulation.
This February, the task force issued a State of Coin report, which said pandemic lockdowns slowed small transactions that generated change and there was a temporary aversion to cash for perceived hygienic reasons. The report also said the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Mint contracted with a third party consultant to review the coin supply chain.
Coin deposit volumes began to increase gradually starting in the summer of 2020, but businesses say the problem has come up again as people have stopped using coins and have stuck to plastic cards.
The issue has had the biggest impact on people who don’t have bank accounts. An estimated 22 percent of U.S. Americans were “unbanked” or “underbanked” in 2019, according to the Federal Reserve.
The Treasury Department has yet to respond to the letter. The government encourages people to help get coin moving by spending it with retailers, taking it to their banks and credit unions, or using a coin recycling kiosk like the ones found at grocery stores. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/got-a-dime-businesses-seek-treasury-help-with-coin-shortage/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:49Z |
Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde and Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel discussed the upcoming 2022 NCAA Final Four on Wednesday’s episode of the “College Football Enquirer/College Basketball Enquirer” podcast.
The podcast included Forde and Wetzel making predictions for the outcome of Saturday night’s Duke vs. North Carolina men’s basketball game.
No. 2-seeded Duke enters the matchup 32-6 overall. No. 8 seed North Carolina comes into the game 28-9 overall.
The winner advances to face either Kansas or Villanova in the NCAA Tournament national championship game on Monday.
Pat Forde, Dan Wetzel pick UNC vs. Duke basketball in Final Four
Pat Forde picked Duke.
Dan Wetzel picked Duke.
“Duke has better talent,” Forde said. “They have been more consistently good. (Duke head coach Mike) Krzyzewski said, ‘We had a bad week.’ He basically owned that we overblew the last-game-at-Cameron thing and put too much pressure on our own kids. … His very young team did not handle it well, and since then, boy, they played well. They had stretches against Michigan State (in the second round) and against Texas Tech (in the Sweet 16) and then again against Arkansas (in the Elite Eight) — maybe five-minute stretches. But when the game was close where they just absolutely were brilliant offensively and good enough defensively.
“They’ve added a little zone to the repertoire now, so they can mix,” Forde continued. “They’ve got size; they’ve got speed; they’ve got guys that can shoot. They’ve got everything you need to win a national championship title. I don’t know whether they will, but they’ve got enough, I think, to beat North Carolina, which has obviously raised its level of play incredibly starting March 5th in Cameron. And they’ve got great players, too. They have size; they have shooters. When their guards are playing the way they have been — Caleb Love especially, but RJ Davis as well. This could be a heckuva fun shootout if those guys are hitting. I think then we’re looking at 77-75 or something, but if they’re not — if Caleb Love is back to going 4-for-18 and not guarding very well that sort of thing. Then it’s all on (UNC forward) Leaky (Black)’s shoulders, and that’s too much to ask.”
In their earlier meetings this season, Duke beat North Carolina 87-67 on Feb. 5 in Chapel Hill, and North Carolina beat Duke 94-81 on March 5 in Durham.
“I’m with Duke, too,” Wetzel said. “I just think they have too many good players — Wendell Moore, AJ Griffin, (Paolo) Banchero, Mark Williams. These guys are all NBA-bound. Jeremy Roach is a great player — I don’t know if he’s NBA-bound or not but he might be. They just have so much talent.”
This is Krzyzewski’s 13th trip to the NCAA Final Four as the Duke head coach.
“Nobody has more experience than Mike Krzyzewski in coaching the Final Four … in terms of the men’s side, so my guess is he’s just running this like he normally does,” Wetzel said. “At this point, the pressure and the finality, it wouldn’t matter whatever is going on, so this is it.”
Forde and Wetzel both predicted Kansas to win the other Final Four game. Forde predicted a Duke win over Kansas in the national championship game, and Wetzel went with Kansas over Duke in Monday’s title game.
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Hubert Davis is the North Carolina men’s basketball head coach.
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This article originally appeared on The Fayetteville Observer: National expert picks for Duke vs. UNC basketball in NCAA Final Four | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/pat-forde-dan-wetzel-predictions-for-duke-vs-north-carolina-basketball-in-final-four/130549/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:48Z |
French authorities froze two helicopters owned by sanctioned Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov on the French Riviera last week. A spokesperson for the French Ministry of Economy and Finance confirmed to Forbes that the two helicopters—an Airbus EC-175 with the tail number M-DLBR and a Eurocopter EC-155 with the tail number M-DLBA—were frozen in Le Castellet on March 22 and in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on March 25, respectively. France sanctioned Usmanov on February 28 as part of wider European Union sanctions, which Monaco adopted the same day.
Usmanov, 68, is one of Russia’s richest people. He was an early investor in Facebook. His largest holding is a stake in iron ore and steel giant Metalloinvest and he also owns shares in Chinese consumer electronics firm Xiaomi as well as smaller holdings in telecom, mining and media.
The helicopter marked M-DLBR was last recorded in Le Castellet on November 13, 2021, while M-DLBA was last seen in Monte Carlo on March 1, according to public data. Both helicopters were registered in the British crown dependency of the Isle of Man until they were deregistered on March 3. In practice, deregistration makes an aircraft “stateless” and deprives it of a valid certificate of airworthiness, meaning it’s no longer insurable and can’t fly until it’s registered in a new country. M-DLBR is owned by Cayman Islands-based Crystal Sky Limited and M-DLBA is owned by Caymans-based Margaux Aviation Limited, according to the Isle of Man Aircraft Registry. Forbes estimates the two helicopters are worth a combined $26 million, based on prices for new and used models.
A spokesperson for Usmanov told Forbes that Usmanov does not own the helicopters. “Most of the property [mentioned by Forbes], including the two helicopters, have been transferred into irrevocable trusts. Mr. Usmanov does not own them,” he said. “The process of moving property into family trusts started many years ago and had nothing to do either with evading sanctions or with hiding wealth.”
Margaux Aviation Limited is linked to Usmanov via its prior ownership of an Airbus A340 jet owned by Usmanov, while M-DLBR has been photographed on Usmanov’s 512-foot superyacht Dilbar. Both helicopters are associated with Dilbar, which has two helipads and is valued at $588 million by yacht valuation experts VesselsValue. Both Dilbar and the Airbus jet were blocked by the U.S. Treasury Department on March 3, the same day Usmanov was sanctioned by the U.S. The Airbus—worth at least $350 million, according to the U.S. Treasury—was last seen in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on February 28. Usmanov was born in the former Soviet republic and holds dual Russian and Uzbek citizenship.
Dilbar is currently stuck in the German port city of Hamburg, where it has been stationed for refitting work since October. Forbes reported on March 3 that work on the ship had been halted and the Ministry for Economy and Innovation in the German state of Hamburg said that the yacht could not leave port. Forbes reported on March 8 that the 96-person crew on the yacht had been fired because Sarnia Yachts, the firm that employed the crew, was no longer able to pay salaries due to EU and U.S. sanctions.
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Updated on March 31 with comment from Alisher Usmanov’s spokesperson. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/03/31/exclusive-france-freezes-ownership-of-two-helicopters-linked-to-sanctioned-russian-billionaire-alisher-usmanov/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:50Z |
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The first standalone Borderlands spin-off is a loving tribute to tabletop gaming but is it still an entertaining action role-player?
We don’t think we’ve ever seen a publisher and developer less interested in promoting their own game than with Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. It came out last week to absolutely zero fanfare, with the only reviews being, inexplicably, for the PC version. We weren’t sent a PlayStation 5 copy until the day of launch and as we type this there are only five others on Metacritic; so it wasn’t surprising to find that the game did so poorly in the weekly retail charts it ended up being beaten by Kirby And The Forgotten Land.
All of this points to Wonderlands being a complete stinker, that all concerned wanted to forget about as soon as possible, but it’s nothing of the sort. It’s an overblown Borderlands 3 expansion, that gets old long before it has a chance to justify its outrageous asking price, but it’s still an above average co-op shooter that should’ve been an easy sell to Borderlands fans everywhere.
The concept behind Wonderlands is inspired by Borderlands 2 expansion Tiny Tina’s Assault On Dragon Keep, from 2013, which is now available as a standalone game and is basically the same idea on a smaller scale. Which is to say it’s Borderlands but set in a fantasy universe, with spells and crossbows, and the conceit that you’re actually playing a tabletop role-player similar to Dungeons & Dragons, where Tiny Tina is the Dungeon Master.
Considering how obnoxiously unfunny much of Borderlands 3 was, we feel we should already be sick of Tiny Tina, but we’ve always found her one of the more tolerable main characters. Her shrill voice performance can be grating but there’s an emotional vulnerability beneath all the bluster that is oddly endearing. Also, she likes crumpets, which forgives a lot.
Although other Borderlands regulars do appear as the story continues the focus is on new characters Valentine (a narcissistic would-be hero), Frette (a robot), and… you. As the game starts you have to create your character in traditional role-playing style, before you’re thrown into a generic Tolkien-seque world to fight some reanimated skeletons.
Despite what you’d imagine, there’s not much more emphasis on melee combat than normal Borderlands. It is a little more developed, with new weapons waiting to be retrieved from loot boxes, but much of your time you’ll just be using crossbows and steampunk style guns, some of which even have the same manufacturers as Borderlands. You collect ammo in the normal fashion or use spells which recharge automatically. You even get a shield, except it’s now called a magical ward.
Technically, Wonderlands is an action role-player, because you have stats and skill points to deal with every time you level up, but so was Borderlands 3. Both have numbers flying out of enemies as you hit them, and both have complex skill trees to unlock and customise your character with. Wonderlands does lean into everything more with the separate stats and more involved inventory, but in straight gameplay terms the two games are very similar.
What heads off any complaints about this not being a proper role-playing game is not the gameplay but the obvious love the writers have for tabletop gaming. Wonderlands is a love letter to Dungeons & Dragons and given how the venerable role-player game is enjoying a modern renaissance at the moment that seems, despite 2K and Gearbox’s attitude, to be perfectly timed.
However, it’s somewhat ironic that the character customisation is less involved than Borderlands 3, since the level cap is 40 and the six character classes are a lot more restrictive than the multiple skill trees of the Borderlands protaganists. Eventually, you do get to use the abilities of a second class but speccing out your character requires a lot more thought, and compromise, than Wonderlands’ parent game.
Another difference from Borderlands is that there are no vehicles, not even a horse, so most long journeys are carried out via an overworld map, from where you can also pick up side quests and visit randomised dungeons to grind for experience points. The map is presented as if it’s the one Tina is actually using, complete with dropped snacks and taped together sides, but once you can just fast travel everywhere it becomes entirely superfluous.
Unfortunately, the same can be said of the plot, which is interposed on the action at seemingly random intervals, as the endless stream of dad jokes and internet memes suddenly gives way to what’s supposed to be heartfelt drama about Tina’s fear of being alone. Apart from the fact that that’s exactly what happened in Assault On Dragon Keep the serious drama happens so irregularly it feels increasingly out of place.
Another problem is the side quests, which are all almost exactly the same: go to a location, kill everything you find there, and be disappointed by the lacklustre loot you get as a reward. What makes the side missions unique is not what you do but the jokes and pop culture references, from The Witcher to Harry Potter. Some of these can be funny, it’s true, but rarely enough for you not to feel the trip was a waste of time.
If Assault On Dragon Keep didn’t already exist Wonderlands would be a lot easier to justify. What’s most damning though is that while there’s a lengthy endgame the main story in Wonderlands is barely twice the length of the older DLC and yet costs a staggering £65 on current gen formats (£60 on last gen). The only bright side to this borderline criminality is that given the game’s already proven a flop it’ll be in the bargain bins before you’ve even finished your Easter eggs.
If it wasn’t for the price, and the fact that the cel-shaded art style really doesn’t suit the fantasy theme as well as it does the sci-fi one, we’d be happy to recommend this as at least the equal to Borderlands 3. The four-player co-op, including split screen on a single TV, is great fun, although that does require you to know three other people that are aware Wonderlands even exists.
Why it’s been sent out to die like this we’re not sure but while too much of it is too similar to previous games the enjoyable addictiveness of the original looter shooter shines through, even if it’s almost obscured by all the bad jokes and lack of innovation.
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands review summary
In Short: A reskinned Borderlands 3 that would’ve been much better off as an expansion, given it’s too short to justify the outrageously high price tag and too long to hide the lack of variety and new ideas.
Pros: The core gameplay is just as much fun as Borderlands and the developer’s love for tabletop gaming comes through loud and clear. A wide range of co-op options, including split screen.
Cons: Much too similar to Borderlands and Assault On Dragon Keep, with dull quests, a clunky plot, and mostly bad jokes. Offensively expensive given the short length.
Score: 6/10
Formats: PlayStation 5 (reviewed), Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, and PC
Price: £64.99
Publisher: 2K
Developer: Gearbox Software
Release Date: 25th March 2022
Age Rating: 7
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2022 TYR PRO SWIM SERIES SAN ANTONIO
- March 30th – April 2nd, 2022
- Northside Swim Center, San Antonio, Texas (CDT)
- Prelims 9AM / Finals 6PM (CDT)
- Long Course Meters (50m)
- Meet Central
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- Live Stream
- Live Results
Men’s 400 IM
- World Record: Michael Phelps (USA, 2008): 4:03.84
- American Record: Michael Phelps (USA, 2008): 4:03.84
- US Open Record: Michael Phelps (USA, 2008): 4:05.25
- Junior World Record: Ilia Borodin (RUS, 2021): 4:11.17
- Pro Swim Record: Chase Kalisz (USA, 2018): 4:08.92
Top 8:
- Jay Litherland (DYNA-GA) – 4:19.63
- Joaquin Gonzalez Pinero (UN-13-FL) – 4:21.79
- Hector Ruvalcaba Cruz (AGS-GU) – 4:23.29
- David Schlicht (SUN-AZ) – 4:23.59
- Charlie Swanson (NOVA-VA) – 4:25.32
- Mikey Calvillo (IU-IN) – 4:25.54
- Matheo Mateos (AZFL-FG) – 4:27.97
- Leon Marchand (UN-AZ) – DQ
Coming off an incredible freshman season at ASU, French Olympian Leon Marchand swam a 4:10.38 in tonight’s final of the 400 IM, however, he was disqualified. The time would have been the fastest in the world, coming in well under the current top mark of 2022: Tomoru Honda‘s 4:10.75 from earlier this month.
MEN’S 400 IM – TOP 5 TIMES OF 2022
Marchand was DQ’d on the controversial “Lochte Rule”. If you need a refresher, the ‘Lochte Rule’ is an unpopular rule FINA put in place for IM races, named after Ryan Lochte. The rule states that underwater dolphin kicks performed on the back are classified as backstroke, meaning that kicking underwater on the back during the freestyle portion of an IM is illegal. Per FINA rules, exactly 1/4 of an IM race must be done in each stroke, therefore “swimming backstroke” by doing underwater kicks on the back results in disqualification.
FINA has taken steps to soften the rule after it received a largely negative response from the swimming community, however, it’s clearly still resulting in disqualifications.
Nonetheless, Marchand’s time of 4:10.38 lands very close to his personal best of 4:09.65, which he swam last summer. He was excellent on the back half of the race tonight, splitting 1:09.30 on breaststroke and 58.69 on freestyle, even though he was “swimming backstroke” for a portion of the free leg. | https://swimswam.com/leon-marchand-swims-world-leading-410-38-400-im-but-gets-dqd-for-lochte-rule/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:50Z |
MANKATO — Minnesota State men's hockey player Dryden McKay has been named a Hobey Hat Trick finalist for a second consecutive season.
McKay, a two-time All-American, is 37-4-0 with a .934 save percentage and a 1.28 goals-against average this season.
He was named the CCHA Player of the Year and CCHA Goaltender of the Year earlier this month, and is a top-three finalist for the Mike Richter Award, which is given to the country's top goaltender.
The other finalists for the Hobey Baker award are Denver's Bobby Brink and Minnesota's Ben Meyers.
The Mavericks (37-5) play Minnesota in the Frozen Four April 7 at Boston. | https://www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/mckay-named-hobey-hat-trick-finalist/article_1e96fa44-b135-11ec-8e6f-074569e5e406.html | 2022-04-01T01:45:50Z |
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
4-7-3-9
(four, seven, three, nine)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
4-7-3-9
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The San Jose Sharks got the blunt end of the stick that marked six-straight losses the Arizona Coyotes faced before going into last night ... or rather, they got the sharp end. The Sharks faced the blade for four goals-against, two at the hands of Coyotes’ rookie forward Jan Jenik, for a final score of 4-2, ‘Yotes.
It wasn’t for a lack of effort. Despite the long odds of making it to the postseason, the Sharks have been playing some impressive hockey recently, considering the pendulum nature of the season.
Many teams who are on the cusp find a way to put everything out on the ice around this time of year, hoping to force their way into a Wild Card spot. The Sharks are not that, nor are they playing that way. But as of late, they have at least rallied around a palpable camaraderie in the locker room, perhaps, incentivized by a brighter future to come.
Coming into Arizona, the youngsters were not quite as impactful as in the previous game, but they still played a palatable game. Perhaps highlighting the point: Scott Reedy is riding his first multi-game point streak after redirecting a shot from Ryan Merkley, on what has been an impressive rookie-studded second power play unit.
The perfect power-play redirect @scottreedy19 | #SJSharks pic.twitter.com/k39BkNW6Km
— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) March 31, 2022
The big guns also got on the board in the form of a Brent Burns goal. James Reimer didn’t play the greatest overall game, but he made enough stellar saves to give his team a chance of winning for the majority of the time — and after the past few years of Sharks goaltending, it’s hard to complain.
Furthermore, we saw accelerated development in Noah Gregor and the aforementioned Merkley, who seem to be coming into their game. Gregor led the way in zone entries with his speed, while Merkley continues to become a more poised and adequately rounded defenseman with every game.
But the Sharks needed more goals than just the two they earned, only one of which came off the effort of a core veteran. Despite the solid performances in this game, the team needed the stellar performances of Reimer and the rookies that we saw against the Anaheim Ducks.
For what it’s worth, it’s fruitless for any club to expect their rookies to contribute in every game. The Sharks’ core may have been found wanting in a guy like Timo Meier, especially after coming off a hat trick in the previous game. Yet, despite all of the fanfare surrounding the guy, and Meier having the highest-producing season of his career, he’s not on par to be Auston Matthews-level, at least not yet.
In other words, Toronto Maple Leafs’ Matthews is a bonafide star, while Meier is still just a starlet: Meier’s admirable 0.5 goals-per-game average (30 goals in 60 games) is a far cry from Matthew’s 0.8 mark (49 in 61 games), which is to be expected from a generational talent in Matthews. If the team is looking to the future, they still need star-power in their offense.
As for Reimer, it was a bit of a surprise to see the Sharks’ tried-and-true starter play first against Arizona in a back-to-back, instead of against the much more formidable Colorado Avalanche tonight. Given that he stopped 28 of 29 in an athletic contest against the Ducks in the game previous, more weight is added to the argument that he should have gotten the night off against Arizona.
So how were the Sharks to pull off a win? All the team had to do was replicate what Arizona’s previous six opponents had done: exact their game and eventually outscore the Coyotes, who had just nine goals in their previous six games. The Sharks, after all, were one of those six teams who outscored Arizona, by a mark of 4-2 on Mar. 20.
But none of that accounts for the sentinel that was the Coyotes’ netminder Karel Vejmelka. No slight on Vejmelka, who is rightfully recognized for 39 saves on 41 shots, many of the extraordinary variety. But in terms of stumping the Sharks, it may not be as cut and dry as a solid night in net for the Coyotes.
Než se podíváte na tenhle zákrok Karla Vejmelky (@vejmelkarl), radši si dejte strečink! @ArizonaCoyotes | #Yotes | #Vejmelka pic.twitter.com/7ee8nDeQBO
— NHL Česko (@NHLcz) March 31, 2022
Consider the larger body of work by Vejmelka this season: He’s logged 39 starts, with an admirable .906 save percentage (SV%), but a 3.38 goals-against average (GAA), facing an average of about 33 shots per game. Compare that to last night’s game: .951 SV%, two goals against on 41 shots — last night’s performance is a fortunate outlier.
He’s also a rookie, who has started the majority of Coyotes’ games this season but is otherwise mostly inexperienced, like many of the goaltenders the Sharks have faced this season.
In fact, in the 13 games the Sharks have played so far in March, they have faced their opposition’s back-up goaltender for the majority, a total of nine times: Anthony Stolarz, Cal Peterson (twice), Spencer Knight, Pavel Francouz, Karel Vajmelka (twice), Mike Smith and Lukas Dostal. Of those nine games, the Sharks have won just three.
There are some considerations, as Smith is not inexperienced, but a true back-up, Peterson is arguably soon to supplant Jonathan Quick for the starting position, and Knight is probably the best goaltending prospect in the league, but the argument is the same: the Sharks struggle to score, even against lesser competition in net.
Three ringing posts can attest to that — Tomas Hertl hit two posts and Logan Couture hit one during the game — but beyond that were many chances that looked good but just could not convert.
It wasn’t a hard game to watch for Sharks fans, as there were plenty of dominant stretches between whistles where San Jose was in possession and generated the majority of chances, but it was painful during the stoppages to see most of those chances amount to nothing.
Losing to a last-place team never feels good, but considering the situation the Sharks find themselves in at this point in the season, it’s probably best not to dwell in the divot for too long. San Jose’s scoring struggles are well-documented at this point. The most recent stat cited as of late has been that the Sharks have just six skaters with double-digit goals on the season. The bottom two of that list, Alexander Barabanov and Erik Karlsson, both with just 10.
But the trouble of not-scoring is a two-pronged problem: not being able to generate chances, and not being able to finish when chances are there. If this game is a checkpoint, it shows that the Sharks are at least able to solve half of the problem.
To solve the other half will probably mean an attack on two fronts: further development of potential-wielding youngsters like Gregor and Merkley, and targeting a bonafide scorer in the off-season. | https://www.fearthefin.com/2022/3/31/23004227/san-jose-sharks-at-arizona-coyotes-game-recap-score-results-analysis-karel-vejmelka | 2022-04-01T01:45:51Z |
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The history of Italy, home to the Vatican, is historically tied to the Catholic church. So it comes as no surprise that there are an estimated 65,000 churches—or chiese—in Italy. But what may surprise you are the vast quantities of churches that have been abandoned and left to decay. Across the country, it's an all-too-common phenomenon and it's something that Dutch photographer Roman Robroek wanted to learn more about.
To do so, Robroek explored Italy from north to south and photographed 100 examples of church architecture that have fallen into decay. According to Robroek, there are at least 1,000 abandoned churches reported across the country, and the actual number may be even higher.
What we see in his photographs are stunning pieces of craftsmanship slowly crumbling. There is water damage eating away at frescoes, delicate stuccowork crushed under the weight of collapsed roofs, and nature beginning to take back these manmade structures. From small local chapels to large church complexes, Robroek's visuals are a fascinating look at this changing culture in Italy.
As the Dutch photographer explains in his essay, this abandonment isn't necessarily due to a decreased enthusiasm for the Catholic church. In many cases, it's a byproduct of a phenomenon happening across Italy—ghost towns. As young people leave smaller towns for urban centers where employment opportunities are more plentiful, villages are slowly fading into oblivion. Over time, the villages become ghost towns with a near-zero or zero population.
These abandoned churches may also be due to a lack of investment on the part of the Church. Without funds to repair or upkeep the architecture, many parishes simply cannot maintain or renovate their churches. Over time, even with the best of intentions, they may slowly fall to the wayside.
“It might seem incredible that such stunning, artful churches are in this state of decay, but it all connects to the same issues,” Robroek writes. “the lack of community and the economic desolation of an area that has long past its prime.”
Still, Robroek sees the value in exploring these decaying churches and he hopes that others will follow his lead in using them as a teaching lesson.
“Today, abandoned churches in Italy and elsewhere offer a unique glimpse into the past,” he says. “A source of reflection, perhaps, as they prompt us to think about the future. If a church, once the most important haven in the community, can become a pile of ruins, what does that say about what we hold certain today? These are the traces of the past of many communities, and if we follow them, we can see where we all came from and perhaps where we’re going.”
Twenty-five images from Robroek's Chiesa series are currently available as NFTs on OpenSea.
Chiesa is photographer Roman Robroek's exploration of the declining Italian church.
For the series, he photographed 100 abandoned churches in Italy.
These churches are often abandoned as small towns lose their populations to urban centers.
Or as natural disasters cause damage that communities cannot afford to repair.
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Dramatic Photos of Modernist Church Interiors Capture the Beauty of “Sacred Spaces” | https://mymodernmet.com/abadoned-italian-churches-roman-robroek/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:51Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
“The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. “Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical.”
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
“But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards,” said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He said the compound is in “the top tier of problematic chemicals in our water.”
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing facilities in Henderson, Nevada, were the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites in the state between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in data provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites, where severe perchlorate contamination is generated from the burning of hazardous byproducts from weapons manufacturing and munitions. One such site is in Colfax, Louisiana, where environmentalists have long advocated for reform.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what's needed.
“Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water," said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
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AP reporter Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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Scientists complete sequencing of human genome
Gaps filled for remaining eight percent of genome not deciphered by Human Genome Project, completed in 2003
Scientists on Thursday published the first complete human genome, filling in gaps remaining after previous efforts while offering new promise in the search for clues regarding disease-causing mutations and genetic variation among the world's 7.9 billion people.
Researchers in 2003 unveiled what was then billed as the complete sequence of the human genome. But about eight percent of it had not been fully deciphered, mainly because it consisted of highly repetitive chunks of DNA that were difficult to mesh with the rest.
A consortium of scientists resolved that in research published in the journal Science. The work was initially made public last year before its formal peer review process.
"Generating a truly complete human genome sequence represents an incredible scientific achievement, providing the first comprehensive view of our DNA blueprint," Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the US National Institutes of Health, said in a statement.
"This foundational information will strengthen the many ongoing efforts to understand all the functional nuances of the human genome, which in turn will empower genetic studies of human disease," Green added.
The consortium's full version is composed of 3.055 billion base pairs, the units from which chromosomes and our genes are built, and 19,969 genes that encode proteins. Of these genes, the researchers identified about 2,000 new ones.
Most of those are disabled, but 115 may still be active. The scientists also spotted about 2 million additional genetic variants, 622 of which were present in medically relevant genes.
The consortium was dubbed Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T), named after the structures found at the ends of all chromosomes, the threadlike structure in the nucleus of most living cells that carries genetic information in the form of genes.
"In the future, when someone has their genome sequenced, we will be able to identify all of the variants in their DNA and use that information to better guide their healthcare," Adam Phillippy, one of the leaders of T2T and a senior investigator at NHGRI, said in a statement.
"Truly finishing the human genome sequence was like putting on a new pair of glasses. Now that we can clearly see everything, we are one step closer to understanding what it all means," Phillippy added.
Among other things, the new DNA sequences provided fresh detail about the region around what is called the centromere, where chromosomes are grabbed and pulled apart when cells divide to ensure that each "daughter" cell inherits the proper number of chromosomes.
"Uncovering the complete sequence of these formerly missing regions of the genome told us so much about how they're organized, which was totally unknown for many chromosomes," Nicolas Altemose, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. | https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/technology-science/1648775432-scientists-complete-sequencing-of-human-genome | 2022-04-01T01:45:52Z |
The counting is over in the second union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. But it's too close to call.
There were 993 "no" votes and 875 "yes" votes, but more than 400 contested ballots remain. According to the National Labor Relations Board, there will be a hearing within a few weeks to decide if any of the challenged ballots will be opened and counted.
More than 6,100 workers were eligible to vote in the do-over election, which was ordered after the NLRB found that Amazon had improperly interfered in last year's tally.
Turnout in this year's vote was down from last year when over half of eligible voters cast ballots. But among those who actually voted this time around, there was greater support for the union. Last year, workers voted more than 2-to-1 against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a well-established national union.
"This time around we were able to educate more about unions," said Jennifer Bates, a warehouse employee, noting that organizers were able to get closer to workers now that the pandemic has eased.
The RWDSU called for every vote to be counted.
"The tenacity and courage of these workers never wavered in this unnecessarily long process," said RWDSU president Stuart Appelbaum in a statement. "Workers will have to wait just a little bit longer to ensure their voices are heard."
Meanwhile in a separate Amazon union election on Staten Island in New York, the vote count will continue Friday morning. Roughly 8,000 workers were eligible to vote on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union, an upstart organization led by former and current Amazon warehouse employees. With ballots still to count, the union is in the lead, with 1,518 voting yes so far, and 1,154 voting no.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.whqr.org/2022-03-31/do-over-union-election-at-amazons-bessemer-warehouse-is-too-close-to-call | 2022-04-01T01:45:51Z |
Labor promises to have nurses in aged care homes at all times within year of winning election
Federal Labor has set a one-year deadline to have a registered nurse in every aged care facility at all times, if it wins the looming federal election.
Key points:
- Labor has pledged $2.5 billion for improving conditions for workers and residents in the aged care sector
- The opposition insists paying staff more will help attract new workers to the sector
- The Coalition has accused Labor of offering no plan to pay for it
The commitment was outlined by Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese in his budget reply speech last night.
The $2.5-billion pledge also includes better food and safer condition for residents.
Labor aged care spokeswoman Clare O'Neil said paying nurses more would help attract staff.
"Our rule would take effect from 2023-24, so basically if Labor is elected in May we will have just over a year to find the additional nurses that we will need for this commitment," she said.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is expected to call a May federal election in the coming days.
He said aged care was a "very complex and challenging area of policy" and a sector the Coalition had spent billions trying to fix.
"If he thinks what he's talking about only costs $2 billion, that only underscores that he doesn't understand the detail and complexity of these issues," Mr Morrison said.
"We are trying to achieve the same things but the difference is we've got a plan to pay for it, an economic plan he didn't deliver last night."
Labor vowing to pay nurses more
Labor has been unable to rule out needing overseas workers to fill staff shortfalls.
But the opposition has repeatedly ruled out using a levy on taxpayers to fund its aged care pledge.
"It will be funded through the budget and we are not planning to make cuts to anything that is important to Australians," Ms O'Neil said.
"What we are seeing with this government is complete profligacy with money.
"They spent $29 billion on JobKeeper supplements — taxpayer money that you paid for to companies that increased their profits or levelling their profits during the pandemic."
But Mr Morrison hit back and said if Labor could not explain how it would pay for its commitment, it would likely mean higher taxes for Australians.
"There are no increases in taxes or new taxes in the budget we handed down this week," Mr Morrison said.
"And there will not be any under the government that I have led and will continue to lead.
"It's a very easy question to answer, Anthony, and if you can't answer on the first day we got out of parliament that you won't increase taxes, people are starting to get a good look at you and that's what the election campaign is all about." | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-01/labor-promises-to-have-nurses-in-aged-care-homes-within-year/100957930 | 2022-04-01T01:45:52Z |
Bowie track competes at City View
The Bowie track teams traveled to City View on Thursday to compete. The Lady Rabbits finished fifth overall while the Jackrabbits finished seventh. Bowie’s Samantha Clarke won the 3200 meter race with a time 13:20. She was the only Jackrabbit to win their event...
bowienewsonline.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556718677290/bowie-track-competes-at-city-view | 2022-04-01T01:45:52Z |
In a week of long-overdue mainstream media focus on the reality of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the potential damage it presents to the United States as a whole, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) presented to the Senate on Monday a $100,000 direct payment from a Chinese energy company to Hunter Biden in 2004. At the time, his father, Joe Biden, was the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman. In a series of speeches this week focused on the “Biden Family’s financial deals,” the senators stuck to two critical themes. First, refuting and dismantling the liberal media and Democrat talking points that their two-year investigation into Biden Family corruption “advanced and spread Russian disinformation.” Second, producing new records to show additional connections between the Biden Family and the communist Chinese regime.
If u weren’t paying attention for the past few yrs to the Grassley Johnson investigation into Hunter Biden & James Biden doing business w the communist Chinese govt ITS TIME TO GET A GRIP
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 30, 2022
With Hunter Biden’s laptop finally legitimized last week by the New York Times and this week by the likes of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ The Washington Post and the embattled ratings-deprived CNN, Sen. Grassley pointed out the seven previous times he came to the Senate floor to refute the false charges against him—repeatedly pushed by the mainstream news media—that his investigation was spreading Russian disinformation. Speaking of the smear campaign levied by the legacy media and his Democratic cohorts against anyone who dared speak up about the laptop and the corruption it contains, an undeterred Grassley declared:
“The liberal media and my Democratic colleagues ought to be ashamed of themselves for the outright lies they peddled about our investigative work.
As a result, Senator Johnson and I did what any good investigator would do: We gathered even more records to prove them all wrong.”
Anyone surprised that a day after FBI looks like they’re covering for the Biden Crime Family….
we get the false flag DOJ authorized leaks to CNN that things are really “heating up” in the hunter case?
We live in a world where tracking the patterns of their lies reveals truth. pic.twitter.com/mVFbG3Ck9f
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) March 30, 2022
As Grassley spoke on the floor about the Biden Family’s connection to the communist Chinese Government, he immediately referenced Hunter Biden’s relationship with the CEFC, a company that “is effectively an arm of the Chinese Government.” Entered into the Congressional Record, Grassley explained the backstory surrounding the exchange in great detail. Referencing the payment directly to Hunter Biden, he noted that CEFC paid Wells Fargo Clearing Services $100,000 and designated “further credit to Owasco,” Hunter Biden’s firm. Grassley added:
“There’s no middle man in this transaction. This is $100,000 from what is effectively an arm of the communist Chinese government direct to Hunter Biden. To the liberal media and my Democratic colleagues: Is this official bank document Russian disinformation?”
Accusing Hunter and James Biden, Joe Biden’s brother, of conceiving a scheme to profit from Joe Biden’s role in the U.S. government, Grassley suggested the transactions may indicate “the extent to which President Biden might be—and almost certainly is—compromised” by Hunter Biden’s deep ties to a communist China entity. In agreement with his colleague, Johnson added during his testimony, “Bank records like this piece of evidence are pretty hard to deny and sweep under the rug. Our reports were chocked full of irrefutable evidence like this. And yet, the media buried those details in an attempt to keep it hidden from the American people.”
Grassley and Johnson dubbed the new receipt the cherry on top of the Biden Family’s suspected corruption—and a hint of evidence yet to come. The senators had previously confirmed that Hunter was financially involved with CCP oligarchs such as Gongwen Dong and Mervyn Yan using information obtained by the Obama administration, interviews with government officials, and bank documents signed by all of the suspected parties. Hunter had also reportedly acknowledged representing CCP “spy chief” Patrick Ho, who, he explained, “started the company that my partner, who is worth $323 billion, founded and is now missing.”
NEW: Rep. Gaetz sends Rep. Nadler a hard drive copy containing the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop: https://t.co/8nu0yZay5i
— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) March 30, 2022
The senators reminded their colleagues that in March 2019, Patrick Ho, former head of an organization backed by CEFC China, was sentenced to three years in prison by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) for international bribery and money laundering offenses. Sen. Johnson pointed out that Ho’s arrest in Nov. 2017 for the crimes he was later convicted of “occurred in the same month that Patrick Ho’s company, CEFC, wired $1 million to Hunter Biden’s company, Hudson West III.” Johnson detailed the suspicious Biden Family association further, explaining:
“So the company that Patrick Ho was making bribes for sends $1 million to a company Hunter Biden manages and is invested in. That company, in turn, transfers a million dollars to another Hunter Biden company for the purposes of representing Patrick Ho, who is eventually convicted of international bribery and money laundering.
Guess what Patrick Ho did around the same time he was arrested by the FBI for corruption and bribery? He contacted James Biden, President Biden’s brother. Patrick Ho’s decision to call the Biden family around the same time he got arrested is revealing, particularly in light of the fact that the same month, a million dollars just happened to be transferred to Hunter Biden’s company.
Now, Hunter Biden isn’t a criminal defense attorney. Patrick Ho was charged and convicted for bribery and related Federal offenses and crimes. So what kind of representation was Patrick Ho’s company paying Hunter Biden’s firm to provide? Were they paying for his firm’s legal expertise or for Hunter’s political connections?”
As Johnson continued to speak on the Senate floor, he described how in Oct. 2020, he and Sen. Grassley requested to interview Hunter and James Biden regarding their financial dealings. Undoubtedly, that did not happen, but yet, Johnson noted that if the Biden Family had nothing to hide and there was “an innocent explanation for these foreign financial transactions,” the interview would allow them to clarify the nature of the questionable dealings. Johnson referenced their refusal to meet, asserting, “their silence speaks volumes.”
Johnson pledged that he and Sen. Grassley are committed to uncovering the facts and would continue to investigate the Biden Family’s foreign financial entanglements “and provide the American people with the truth.” Their challenge, according to Johnson, is that the deep state does not give up its secrets easily.
Nonetheless, the senators point out that new evidence of “Biden family influence peddling” is surfacing regularly. Frequently, Johnson claimed the revelations “come straight from records from Hunter Biden’s laptop—the same laptop that the media and deep state foreign intelligence agency officials inferred—strongly inferred—was, you guessed it, Russian disinformation. And their guile worked.”
As Johnson wrapped up his speech on Wednesday, he remarked that he and Grassley would soon return to the Senate floor for the third in their series of speeches on the Biden family’s foreign entanglements, reiterating:
“Prior to the election, people bought the fact that that laptop was probably Russian disinformation. It wasn’t. As the New York Times just admitted about a year too late—more than a year too late—that laptop is authentic, and the evidence it is producing is real. But, of course, that laptop wasn’t Russian disinformation, nor is any of the information we presented in our reports and here on the floor of the Senate.
We may never know all the details of the Biden family foreign entanglements or the full extent to which those entanglements compromise our current President, but I am pretty confident I know who does know—intelligence operatives in Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. Elements within our U.S. intelligence agencies probably also know; they are just not going to tell us or you, the American people.”
EVEN CNN is saying Hunter Biden may get dragged behind BARS for Federal Crimes EXPOSED by laptop pic.twitter.com/lCmU4jSUVJ
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 30, 2022
Meanwhile, on Thursday, other lawmakers joined the quest for answers on Hunter Biden’s dealings. The New York Post reported that Republican members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent letters on Thursday to the White House and the National Archives demanding records of any communication between Hunter Biden and the White House during the two terms of the Obama administration when his father, Joe Biden, was vice president. According to the Post, Rep. James Comer, the ranking member on the committee, said in a statement:
“The days of Hunter Biden using his father to line his own pockets are numbered. For years, concerns over Hunter’s shady foreign business dealings and the possibility he’s selling access to the President of the United States have been inexcusably ignored by Congressional Democrats.” | https://uncoverdc.com/2022/03/31/sen-johnson-on-hunter-biden-deep-state-does-not-give-up-secrets-easily/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:51Z |
Bruins honor retired goalie Rask after injury ended career
By TALIA GOODMAN
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins honored Tuukka Rask before their game against the New Jersey Devils. The longtime Bruins goaltender announced his retirement midseason after a setback in his comeback from a hip injury. Rask was accompanied by his wife and three daughters when he dropped the ceremonial first puck before the game. The Boston fans shouted “Tuuuk!” as they did during his 15 year career all in Boston. Rask is the franchise’s all-time leader in wins for goalies. He won the 2014 Vezina Trophy and led the team to the Stanley Cup Final twice. He was also the backup on the team that won it all in 2011. | https://keyt.com/sports/national-sports/ap-national-sports/2022/03/31/bruins-honor-retired-goalie-rask-after-injury-ended-career/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:52Z |
Glass Animals have shared their cover of Lorde‘s single ‘Solar Power’ – you can listen to the band’s rendition of the 2021 track below.
The cover is the latest to be recorded for an ongoing special edition of the Spotify Singles series, which is celebrating the Best New Artist category at this Sunday’s Grammys (April 3).
Following on from recent covers in the series by Arlo Parks and Finneas, Glass Animals have now shared their take on Lorde’s ‘Solar Power’, which was the title track from the New Zealand artist’s third studio album.
“I chose ‘Solar Power’ because in a time when we were all stuck indoors a bit, this song made me feel like I was on a beach…. we all needed a bit of that!” Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley said in a statement about their choice of track.
“It’s a stunning song, and then I just had a version of it in my head where it was faster with a gospel choir behind it…. so…. we made it!”
You can listen to Glass Animals’ take on Lorde’s ‘Solar Power’, as well as a new version of their recent single ‘I Don’t Want to Talk (I Just Want to Dance)’, above.
Glass Animals previously performed a cover of ‘Solar Power’ during an appearance in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge last December.
Earlier this week, Glass Animals matched the Spice Girls’ best performance on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in the US after their single ‘Heat Waves’ topped the chart for a fourth week. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/glass-animals-cover-lorde-solar-power-spotify-singles-grammys-3195394 | 2022-04-01T01:45:53Z |
GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A South Carolina middle school student said he was walking down the hall with a friend when the friend pulled out a gun and shot another student Thursday afternoon.
The victim of the shooting at Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville County was pronounced dead at an area hospital, according to Nexstar’s WSPA. Community activist Bruce Wilson, a family friend, identified the student as 12-year-old Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson.
“We were friends, and we were just walking down the hallway. He was walking really fast, and he looked really nervous. … And all of a sudden, he just reaches in his backpack, just pulls out a gun, fires one shot,” a seventh grader identified only as Michael said. “I didn’t think twice. I just ran.”
Michael said he had never seen his friend walk like that or act that nervous, but he didn’t realize a shooting was about to happen.
When he saw his friend pull a gun out of his backpack, he remembered thinking, “Oh my God. He’s about to shoot the school.”
Michael said students started screaming, running to classrooms and locking the doors.
He said the shooter “just ran.”
Michael said it will be difficult to move past the deadly incident, stating, “It is going to be hard to sleep because I just know I could have lost my life that day too.”
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office took the shooter into custody in close proximity to the school.
“We are all devastated by today’s tragedy,” Jackson’s family said in a statement. “We love Jamari dearly and we would ask that our privacy be respected as we grieve during this very difficult time.”
“My heart breaks for this young boy’s family and my prayers are with them tonight,” said Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis in a statement. “Additionally, I will be praying for the other young boy who pulled the trigger and his family. I cannot fathom what would cause someone to do this to another human being and especially at that age, but I know it’s a situation where we all need to turn to God.”
Greenville County Schools Superintendent Dr. Burke Royster released this statement Thursday evening:
We are deeply saddened to hear that the student victim in the shooting at Tanglewood Middle School passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his fellow students, the staff members at the school and everyone who knew this child. This is an absolute tragedy, and we will continue to do whatever we can to support his family and the Tanglewood community as they mourn the young life that was lost today.
Dr. Burke Royster
We want to recognize the tremendous response from Principal Walles and the staff at Tanglewood, the school resource officer, Sheriff Hobart Lewis, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, EMS, and the multiple local, state and federal law enforcement agencies who all responded rapidly in accord with our emergency response plan.”
The principal of Tanglewood Middle School, Dr. Graysen Walles, also released this statement:
My heart goes out to the family of our student who passed away, and my prayers are with them. Our entire Tanglewood family is hurting with this news and from the events that took place today. Our school is mourning and will work together to heal and process this tragedy.”
Dr. Graysen Walles
Greenville County Schools announced that attendance on Friday will be optional in order to provide “counseling support for both students and staff.” | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/its-going-to-be-hard-to-sleep-south-carolina-student-says-he-was-walking-with-shooter/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:53Z |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday he won’t vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, expressing concerns about her record despite supporting her confirmation as an appeals court judge last year.
The South Carolina senator’s announcement had been expected after he criticized Jackson during her four days of hearings last week. But it gives Democrats one less Republican vote as they seek bipartisan backing for President Joe Biden’s pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Graham, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were the only three Republicans to vote to confirm Jackson on the appeals court in 2021. Collins announced Wednesday that she’ll vote for Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination, as well, giving Democrats at least one GOP vote. Murkowski has said she’s still undecided.
A final confirmation vote is expected next week. Jackson would be the first Black woman on the high court in its more than 200-year history, and the sixth woman.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Graham said his decision is based partly on what he sees as a “flawed sentencing methodology regarding child pornography cases,” echoing a line of questioning by some Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Several senators, some eyeing a run for president, repeatedly asked her about her sentencing decisions in her nine years as a federal judge in an effort to paint her as too lenient on sex criminals.
Jackson told the committee that “nothing could be further from the truth” and explained her sentencing decisions in detail. She said some of the cases have given her nightmares and were “among the worst that I have seen.”
Democrats pointed to testimony last week by the chair of the American Bar Association committee that makes recommendations on federal judges. Ann Claire Williams, the head of that ABA panel, said the idea that Jackson is out of the mainstream on sentencing “never came up” in a review of more than 250 judges and lawyers. The review found Jackson and her record to be “outstanding, excellent, superior, superb,” Williams said.
Graham also mentioned Jackson’s her legal advocacy on behalf of terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay more than a decade ago and her support from liberal groups. “After a thorough review of Judge Jackson’s record and information gained at the hearing from an evasive witness, I now know why Judge Jackson was the favorite of the radical left,” Graham said.
At the hearing, Graham also aired past grievances, asking Jackson about her religion and how often she goes to church — heated comments that he said were fair game after some Democratic questions about Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Catholicism ahead of her confirmation hearings in 2020.
Graham’s “no” vote will be the first time he has voted against a Supreme Court nominee. He voted for President Barack Obama’s two picks, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, and has often said that he believes a president’s nominees should win confirmation no matter the party. But he has become increasingly angry about the process in recent years, especially as Democrats enthusiastically opposed then-President Donald Trump’s three nominees. Graham has also expressed frustration that Biden didn’t pick the South Carolina judge he was pushing for the job.
“To my Democratic colleagues, I’ll work with you when I can, but this is a bridge too far,” Graham said.
Collins said Wednesday that she believes Jackson “possesses the experience, qualifications and integrity to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.” She was the most likely Republican to support Jackson, and she also a history of voting for Supreme Court nominees picked by presidents of both parties.
It is unclear if any other GOP senators will vote for Jackson. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell set the tone last week when he said he “cannot and will not” support her, citing the GOP concerns raised in the hearing about her sentencing record and her support from liberal advocacy groups.
Jackson is still making the rounds in the Senate ahead of next week’s votes, doing customary meetings with Democratic and Republican senators. On Tuesday she met with Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, who said afterward that he was undecided about supporting her.
Romney said he had an “excellent meeting” and found Jackson to be intelligent, capable and charming. He said he probably won’t decide whether to vote for her until the day of the vote.
It is expected that all 50 Democrats will support her, though one notable moderate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, hasn’t yet said how she will vote. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/graham-says-hell-vote-no-on-jackson-for-supreme-court/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:55Z |
Immersion Co. (NASDAQ:IMMR – Get Rating) was the target of a large decline in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 857,200 shares, a decline of 28.0% from the February 28th total of 1,190,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 546,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.6 days.
In related news, CFO Aaron Akerman sold 12,693 shares of Immersion stock in a transaction on Friday, January 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $5.15, for a total transaction of $65,368.95. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 21,223 shares of company stock valued at $110,119. Corporate insiders own 7.70% of the company’s stock.
A number of hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the business. Retirement Planning Co of New England Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Immersion during the 4th quarter worth about $31,000. Kings Point Capital Management acquired a new stake in shares of Immersion during the 3rd quarter worth about $40,000. UBS Group AG raised its position in shares of Immersion by 23.2% during the 3rd quarter. UBS Group AG now owns 8,392 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $57,000 after acquiring an additional 1,579 shares in the last quarter. Sigma Planning Corp purchased a new position in shares of Immersion during the fourth quarter worth about $58,000. Finally, Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Immersion during the fourth quarter worth about $64,000. 45.68% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Immersion (NASDAQ:IMMR – Get Rating) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, February 24th. The software maker reported $0.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Immersion had a net margin of 35.58% and a return on equity of 14.92%. The business had revenue of $9.75 million for the quarter. As a group, analysts predict that Immersion will post 0.61 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
A number of brokerages recently commented on IMMR. Zacks Investment Research downgraded shares of Immersion from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Monday, February 28th. StockNews.com began coverage on Immersion in a research report on Thursday. They issued a “hold” rating on the stock.
Immersion Company Profile (Get Rating)
Immersion Corp. engages in the creation, design, development and licensing of patented haptic innovations and software. The firm offers touch sense platform and design services. It focuses on the following target application areas: mobile devices, wearable, consumer, mobile entertainment and other content, console gaming, automotive, medical, and commercial.
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John Karalis: According to Woj on his new podcast, the 4-6 week timetable for Robert Williams’ return may be on the conservative side, and returning sooner than that is a possibility
Source: Twitter @John_Karalis
What’s the buzz on Twitter?
John Karalis @John_Karalis
According to Woj on his new podcast, the 4-6 week timetable for Robert Williams’ return may be on the conservative side, and returning sooner than that is a possibility – 6:03 PM
Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA
Robert Williams is the only player on the Celtics injury report for tomorrow vs the Pacers. He, of course, remains out for now. – 4:35 PM
Mike Prada @MikePradaNBA
Without Robert Williams, Heat-Celtics feels a lot like 2020 Heat-Celtics where both teams are downsized, but Miami has the bigger, meaner, downsized big in Bam. – 1:43 PM
Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA
Ime Udoka on Rob Williams: “He’s in the meetings, in the gym, and in good spirits. It’s about getting him around the guys and just getting that flexibility back. And then we can kind of build up pretty quickly from there.” – 1:40 PM
Jay King @ByJayKing
Ime Udoka said he wants to take a look at how Daniel Theis and Al Horford play together down the stretch of the regular season. Horford and Robert Williams have been a great combo for the Celtics, but obviously Theis brings a different dynamic there. – 12:57 PM
Jeff Stotts @InStreetClothes
ICYMI: The In Street Clothes Podcast went up early this week as we did a deep dive into the Robert Williams meniscus injury and tons of other sports injuries open.spotify.com/episode/1LyQCU… – 8:46 AM
Jared Weiss @JaredWeissNBA
Main trends in the second half have been Celtics struggling to get half court downhill penetration that creates good looks and trouble with the roll man on middle pick-and-roll. Two places where they miss Rob Williams a ton – 9:59 PM
Adam Himmelsbach @AdamHimmelsbach
Daniel Theis, in Boston’s first game without Robert Williams, is now 6 for 6 from the field with 15 points. – 9:41 PM
John Karalis @John_Karalis
I don’t think Jimmy Butler even thinks about that shot if Robert Williams was standing in front of him – 8:21 PM
Jared Weiss @JaredWeissNBA
One of the unique skillsets Marcus Smart and Rob Williams have is their blend of hand-eye coordination & one-touch control of the ball. They’ll get an amazing quickfire deflection & then grab it and fire off a pass without having to get a grip on the ball. They’re wild with it. – 8:13 PM
Mark Murphy @Murf56
Robert Williams receives the second annual Tommy Award on Tommy Heinsohn night. Marcus Smart, in augural winner, accepts on the healing Timelord’s behalf. – 7:45 PM
Micah Adams @MicahAdams13
If a Celtic should win Defensive Player of the Year, it should be Robert Williams.
Marcus Smart is great.
His individual impact is nowhere remotely near Timelord. pic.twitter.com/Msrplh0Sdz – 7:44 PM
Jared Weiss @JaredWeissNBA
Pretty on brand that Marcus Smart is out there to accept Rob Williams’ Tommy Award for the season while Rob is recovering from knee surgery, since Rob already said he wants Smart to win DPOY. – 7:44 PM
Sean Grande @SeanGrandePBP
Heat at Celtics – TD Garden – March 30, 2022 – Starting Lineups
Boston – Smart, Brown, Tatum, G. Williams, Horford
Miami – Kyle Lowry, Max Strus, Jimmy Butler, PJ Tucker, Bam Adebayo
OUT: Boston: ROB Williams Miami: Caleb Martin pic.twitter.com/DSVWQdJvhb – 7:15 PM
More on this storyline
Chris Forsberg: Sounds like Robert Williams already back at facility today. Ime: “He’s in the meetings, in the gym, in good spirits. And so getting him around and just getting that flexibility back in, off top. And then we can kind of build up pretty quickly from there.” -via Twitter @ChrisForsberg_ / March 31, 2022
Keith Smith: Ime Udoka on Robert Williams and optimism he can be back in 4-6 weeks: “There’s optimism because the surgery went as well as possible. He’ll hit the ground running with two-a-day work tomorrow. It’s the best-case scenario, given the injury.” -via Twitter @KeithSmithNBA / March 30, 2022
John Karalis: Celtics officially announce the partial left knee meniscectomy for Robert Williams, and that he is expected to be able to return to play in approximately 4-6 weeks. -via Twitter @John_Karalis / March 30, 2022 | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/robert-williams-returning-sooner-than-expected/130481/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:55Z |
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That didn’t take long: The March 31 statement announcing the consideration of disciplinary actions to be lodged against Will Smith by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Will Smith is heavy in opprobrium. Citing its “Standards of Conduct,” the Academy goes to lengths to add heft to the mushrooming cloud of fallout that Mr. Smith faces for his extreme lapse of reason on air, before an audience of some 15 million, during the Academy awards broadcast on March 27.
Here’s the meat of the statement:
Board of Governors today initiated disciplinary proceedings against Mr. Smith for violations of the Academy's Standards of Conduct, including inappropriate physical contact, abusive or threatening behavior, and compromising the integrity of the Academy.
Consistent with the Academy's Standards of Conduct, as well as California law, Mr. Smith is being provided at least 15 days' notice of a vote regarding his violations and sanctions, and the opportunity to be heard beforehand by means of a written response.
The statement also confirms the reported narrative of the incident’s immediate aftermath that Smith was asked to leave the auditorium but refused. TMZ initially reported that the Academy’s president, David Rubin, and CEO, Dawn Hudson, had asked Smith to leave. The Academy’s March 31 statement is in effect its indictment of Smith. Due process has been engaged. The Board of Governors will begin to hold court, so to speak, on April 18. Between now and then, we can count on Mr. Smith and his lawyers to be crafting a response to the charges, but to begin with, since the deed itself, Mr. Smith’s Oscars broadcast attack, is itself unprecedented, the April 18 meeting may suffice, or may not suffice, to get the process moving down the road toward a judgement. The Academy strongly implies that it will adjudicate on that date.
Of the sanctions that could be meted out, the stripping of membership in the Academy is the most severe. In history, five people are known to have been expelled from the Academy, although, unofficially, there are rumored to be more. Chief among the five known are Roman Polanski, Bill Cosby, and Harvey Weinstein, all of whom were voted out as their highly publicized criminal cases took on gravitas. Smith’s case is much lighter than those, not least because, to date, it does not include criminal behavior, mainly because Chris Rock has not filed a police complaint for assault. Nevertheless, the Academy has stated that it is taking “California law” into consideration in mediating the Smith case.
Smith’s case in re the Academy also stands alone in that it involves a severe disruption of the cherished, public Academy awards ceremony itself. Put differently, Polanski’s, Cosby’s and Weinstein’s criminal actions were adjudicated in the proper judicial fora of their day and that external jurisprudence triggered their expulsion from the Academy. Smith’s actions on the evening under review, including his refusal to leave the auditorium when asked and his subsequent, strangely celebratory attendance at the Vanity Fair party, hit the Academy’s governors where they live. The application of the Academy’s standards of conduct is being focused on the Academy’s annual big evening out — its own process and image, if you will — that was, also, made a victim with Smith’s blow to Mr. Rock’s face.
No less a member of the Academy’s Board of Governors than the formidable Whoopi Goldberg used her pulpit on “The View” to state that “There are consequences. There are big consequences because nobody is OK with what happened. Nobody, nobody, nobody.”
This is Whoopi, one of America’s most stalwart comedians and actresses, Whoopi, the mother figure nonpareil, and Whoopi, a forgiving, if outspoken, realist both on screen and off.
Certainly, in Hollywood and elsewhere, whether the Academy will on April 18 strip Smith of his Best Actor award will be (read: is already) hotly handicapped and speculated. The question there is a delicate one: Do the Academy’s standards of conduct, under which these sanctions of Smith are being adjudicated and meted out, also carry sufficient mandate to revoke a vote by the Academy for one of its awards? This is uncharted territory for pretty much everybody, including, presumably, the Board of Governors. On a separate front for Mr. Smith, whether he’ll face any civil legal action from any corner is up for grabs, although it’s a fair bet now that Los Angeles’ very sharpest civil liability attorneys will be expecting requests to explore the matter.
Unknown, also, is the effect that this will have on the April deliberations: The Academy is fighting the arguably unintentional but nevertheless unmistakable impression left by the on-air sequence of events on March 27 that it somehow instantly forgave Smith for his attack on Rock by “allowing” him to stay in the auditorium to receive the Best Actor award. In other words: The Academy didn’t forcefully eject Smith after his refusal to leave. Unusually, the Academy went out of its way in its March 31 statement to apologize to Chris Rock, thanking him for dealing professionally with the attack.
Bottom line, the reckoning is shaping up to have a larger professional impact on Mr. Smith than he arguably imagined when he strode up to Mr. Rock on the Oscars stage. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/guymartin/2022/03/31/the-oscars-blowback-what-the-academys-april-18-meeting-to-discipline-will-smith-can-do/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:56Z |
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Despite winning the season series, the San Jose Sharks dropped the final of three games against the Arizona Coyotes, losing 5-2.
Coming off a short break following a 4-1 win at home against the Anaheim Ducks, the Sharks were surely looking to start another win streak against the Coyotes. However, despite getting on the board with a power play goal from Scott Reedy and tying the game after two unanswered goals with a slap shot from Brent Burns, a combination of shots rung off the post mixed with missed opportunities led to the Coyotes victory in the Sharks’ final visit to Gila River Arena.
Following the loss, head coach Bob Boughner, captain Logan Couture, and forward Scott Reedy took to the mic to address the loss, Coyotes winger Clayton Keller’s scary collision and missed scoring opportunities.
Here’s what they had to say:
Bob Boughner
On Keller’s injury: I know he and [Meloche] made some contact probably five seconds before that happened, and it looked like he just lost an edge or lost his balance going in. It was pretty scary. I’m not sure what the injury is. It’s good to see that he was responsive and up and all that stuff, but it looked like something with the lower body. He went in pretty nasty, not good to see.
On how the stoppage influenced the flow of the game: If anything, I think that would have been a point where our team could rest our big guys and we needed them for the last five minutes. We jumped out there and had some instant chances right away. The building’s quiet, and I think when their best player goes down, it’s tough to recover from if they’re the team that it happens to. It was an eerie few minutes watching them bring the stretcher out. You never want to see that.
On the game itself: Really weird. I thought Vejmelka was obviously their best player. We had multiple chances, but the difference of the game was really that they pounced on our mistakes and could capitalize on them, and we couldn’t on theirs. Especially in parts of the game where we had some breakaways and some barrages where we’re teeing them up from the slot. We had plenty of chances, we had three or four posts tonight. We have to give them credit, their goalie played well and that’s what you get when you don’t capitalize earlier in the game.
On Arizona’s goals: The face-off was a misassignment, the guy was standing all alone in front, so the defenseman had to cover up for the forward who abandoned the slot, so he had two guys to contend with. Obviously, the turnover on their fourth goal was too easy. I thought that our big mistakes ended up in the back of our net. Again, we were in all alone three times on breakaways. They made plenty of mistakes themselves, we just couldn’t capitalize.
On Merkley: I thought he regrouped well. It was unfortunate because at that point in the game, we were playing pretty well. You lose an edge, you go in, and again, there’s another goal that was basically given to them. Those ones are tough to come back from, but I thought Ryan himself responded with a pretty solid game.
On the younger players: Sasha had a good game. Reeds got rewarded for standing in front on the goal, which was good to see. I think [John Leonard] got the original tip on that. They all played fine. We’ll maybe have some healthy guys to throw in tomorrow, so there are no easy decisions, but we’ll see what’s in store when we wake up and check on the health of the time. I thought they all played fine.
On Burns: His energy was good tonight. He was leading the rush, he was bringing a lot of pucks up the ice. keeping pucks alive on pinches, shooting the puck. He had a strong game. That’s what we need from him on a nightly basis. He was really solid, and I just wish that — earlier on in the game — that some of the chances we had were capitalized upon. That was the big difference for me tonight. The more shots you get, the more chances you get, the more frustrated you get. The longer the game goes, the other team is still in it, and things like that can happen like what we saw tonight. We have to regroup, we have another game tomorrow, and hopefully we’ll play well in front of Colorado.
Logan Couture
On Keller’s collision: Hard collision with the boards. He was in pain right away, so I was yelling at the ref to blow it. I just hope he’s okay. We were just kind of watching him, all your thoughts are on him at that moment. You want to give him his space and respect that. Once that ends, you have to regroup and we didn’t, we gave up that fourth goal and didn’t have a chance to come back.
You don’t think about it while you’re on the ice, because if you think about getting hurt, you normally do. Once the game ends, you think about it. Our guys in our room are talking about it, and are obviously thinking about him. We’ll reach out to guys on their team and find out how he’s doing later tonight. Hopefully they have answers right now, maybe they don’t. We just hope he’s alright.
On scoring chances: We had chances, but we had three posts: I had one, Tommy hit two, maybe there were more. Two big saves by their goaltender, but we have to score. We have to find a way to score more goals. I believe we’re the bottom-five in the league at goal-scoring, so we have to find a way to put it in the back of the net.
On giving up goals: The breakdowns, the breakdowns cost us. You can’t give up grade-A chances in the slot. If you’re doing that, you have to score more than two, and we didn’t. Reims made some big saves, but you can’t make all of them.
On losing a player: It could be something to rally around. I didn’t think [Arizona] did anything special, to be honest. I thought we turned the puck over and they pounced on it. That just happens. We’re trying to make offensive plays and we’re trying to score a goal.
Scott Reedy
On his goal: I thought it was a good play by Merkley up top. He realized how much time he had up there. He hit a couple of pucks towards the net and then the second one was a nice shot, I think it went off Lenny in the slot there and I just tried to keep an eye on it and stay in front of it.
On Keller’s collision: You never want to see a player go down like that. It’s pretty scary, it can happen to anyone out there. You just hope and pray for the best for him. We had to find it in us to finish the game there afterward.
He’s a year older than me, but I’ve always looked up to him throughout the ranks and keep in touch with him here and there. It’s definitely tough to see him go down like that, and I’ll reach out to him and see how he’s doing.
On having a bad luck game: I think we had plenty of chances offensively. Their goalie came up big for them a couple of times. We have to dial it in a bit defensively, and take advantage of our chances when we have them offensively.
*Lightly edited for clarity. | https://www.fearthefin.com/2022/3/31/23004323/san-jose-sharks-media-transcript-arizona-coyotes-postgame-bob-boughner-logan-couture-scott-reedy | 2022-04-01T01:45:57Z |
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Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy spent a month chasing the Moon in order to create a gif that shows the beauty of its movement. Using over 2 million individual photos, he put together a spectacular look at how it “dances in the sky.” This dance is called libration and it's the result of the Moon's slightly tilted axis and elliptical orbit around Earth.
Inspired by the fact that he'd never seen a high-resolution gif of the lunar libration and rotation at zenith, McCarthy set out to create his own. This required him to photograph the Moon as it transited zenith every 25 hours for 26 days. Based on the weather forecast, he found himself traveling around Arizona to get the best view of the Moon. But, as we know, weather can be unpredictable. “One night had clear skies forecasted, and I ended up getting rained on. Another I was shooting through a dust storm,” he tells My Modern Met.
And the challenges didn't stop there. “Postprocessing was a challenge because conditions varied from day to day,” McCarthy admits, “so I had to match sharpness, contrast, and noise levels from day to day, despite each image having vastly different quality.” Still, McCarthy persevered and put together this unique look at the Moon. It's his biggest project of the year thus far, and one that he hopes will instill in others the passion for the Moon that he himself has.
“I thought the motion would tell a really nice story of the Moon's dynamic presence around Earth. I'm very passionate about spreading my love for the Moon, as I believe humanity establishing a man's presence there would get more public support if everyone loved it as much as I do.”
In addition to the gif, McCarthy has also let us in on the process of creating the imagery through a behind-the-scenes video published on his Instagram and TikTok. He also took advantage of the vast quantity of photographic material he shot and is selling a limited edition print showing every frame of the lunation.
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy gives us a look at how he created a gif of the Moon's libration.
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He also produced an incredible image with every frame captured during his month following the Moon.
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The United States Department of Agriculture released an update to its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and found that nearly everything one might ingest – whether it comes from the grocery store or restaurant – is going up in price.
And yes, that's on top of the price increases consumers have already been forced to endure in the last year.
"All food prices are now predicted to increase between 4.5 and 5.5%," the USDA's Economic Research Service explained in the March report.
While the overall increase is alarming, a closer look at various food categories show just how expensive shoppers can expect items to get, according to the USDA:
As for take-out or dine-in menus, the USDA said those prices are predicted to go up between 5.5 and 6.5% for the remainder of this year.
Additionally, food prices climbed 7.9% for the year ending in February 2022.
This was "the largest 12-month advance since July 1981," according to the department.
The report also noted current global events that will only add to the uncertainty of food affordability, saying, "The impacts of the conflict in Ukraine and the recent increases in interest rates by the Federal Reserve are expected to put upward and downward pressures on food prices, respectively. The situations will be closely monitored to assess the net impacts of these concurrent events on food prices as they unfold."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.whqr.org/2022-03-31/food-prices-are-going-up-and-at-levels-americans-havent-seen-in-decades | 2022-04-01T01:45:58Z |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former minor league pitcher ran a major league illegal sports betting operation in California that used other former pro athletes to take bets and took wagers from players still in the game, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Wayne Nix, who threw for Oakland Athletics farm teams, used his connections to recruit three former Major League Baseball players and a former pro football player as fellow bookies, prosecutors said.
The MLB began looking into the matter when it learned of it Thursday, but was unaware any of those involved other than Nix, a spokesman said.
Court records offered no names of the players who worked for Nix or those who placed bets with his business, but they provide a glimpse of the kind of money being wagered, earned and lost.
A professional football player paid Nix $245,000 for gambling losses in 2016. An MLB coach paid $4,000 in losses that same year. It was not disclosed if either bet on their own games or their own sports.
MLB prohibits players from betting on baseball or gambling illegally on sports. They can bet on other sports if it’s legal. The National Football League policy bars all personnel from betting on football games.
A Los Angeles check cashing business that has agreed to plead guilty to failing to prevent money laundering in the scheme cashed over $18 million in checks from two single bettors, prosecutors said.
One client wagered $5 million on the Super Bowl but it was not revealed if that gambit paid off.
Sports betting is legal in 30 states, but not in California. However, voters will have a chance to legalize it at the polls in November.
Nix, 45, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to run an illegal gambling operation and faces up to eight years in prison. He also admitted he failed to report $1.4 million in income in 2017 and 2018. He has agreed to pay back taxes and interest of $1.25 million and forfeit $1.3 million seized from bank accounts.
Nix began the sports bookmaking business about 20 years ago after his six-year minor league career — with stops in Arizona, Texas and California — ended, prosecutors said.
His client list was created from contacts he had made in the sports world and included current and former pro athletes. The agents he hired helped expand that clientele.
The operation eventually began using a Costa Rican business, Sand Island Sports, to create accounts where bets could be placed and tracked and credit limits set, prosecutors said. Bets were placed online or through a call center, though Nix paid winners and kept most of the money from losing bets.
Those who exceeded credit limits were shut off, though exceptions were made, according to court documents.
A sports broadcaster's account was reactivated in February 2019 after he told Nix he was refinancing his home mortgage to pay off his gambling debts.
In September 2019, Nix increased the credit limit to a baseball player with debts so he could make additional bets.
In November, 2019, Nix's partner, Edon Kagasoff, told a business manager for a professional basketball player that he would increase the maximum wager he could place to $25,000 per NBA game.
Kagasoff, 44, faces the same conspiracy charge as Nix. He also agreed to plead guilty and forfeit over $3 million in funds seized from his home and bank accounts. | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Ex-minor-leaguer-ran-major-league-sports-betting-17049855.php | 2022-04-01T01:45:58Z |
BOSTON (AP) — A bill aimed at banning discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles in workplaces, school districts, and school-related organizations was unanimously approved Thursday by the Massachusetts Senate.
The vote comes two weeks after the Massachusetts House approved a similar bill.
Supporters say Black women in particular have faced pressure in school and the workplace to alter their hair to conform to policies biased against natural hairstyles.
The Senate added a provision to the House version of the bill that would include the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association to the list of school entities banned from adopting and implementing restrictions on natural hairstyles.
Advocates say the change will ensure those participating in sports and extracurricular activities will not be asked to change their natural or protective hairstyles in order to participate.
The bill has its roots in the case of a Massachusetts charter school that came under fire in 2017 for a policy of banning hair braid extensions. After intense criticism, the school abandoned the policy.
The U.S. House also approved a bill earlier this month that would bar discrimination against Black people who wear hairstyles like Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists in society, school and the workplace. The federal bill would explicitly say that such discrimination is a violation of federal civil rights law.
President Joe Biden has said he would sign the bill into law. It now heads to the U.S. Senate.
Lawmakers in the Massachusetts House and Senate now have to come up with a single version of the bill before taking a final vote and shipping it to Republican Gov. Charlie Baker for his signature.
If signed into law, Massachusetts would become the fifteenth state to adopt the measure, known as the CROWN Act. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Bill-banning-hairstyle-bias-approved-by-17049811.php | 2022-04-01T01:45:58Z |
TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - Shares of Toshiba Corp 6502.T jumped 4% in early Tokyo trade on Friday on speculation that private equity firms could be lining up to take the embattled conglomerate private.
Singapore-based Effissimo Capital Management said in a filing on Thursday that it had agreed to sell its entire stake to Bain Capital if the U.S. private equity firm launched a tender offer.
(Reporting by Makiko Yamazaki; Editing by David Dolan)
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Bowie baseball wins big at City View while softball struggles
The Bowie Jackrabbits walloped City View on the road Friday night after almost a week of not playing. The Jackrabbits won 18-0 coming off the bye-game, winning in five innings due to run-rule. Bowie last played the previous weekend at a tournament in Graham to try and stay sharp...
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John Lydon has spoken out against the newly announced Sex Pistols compilation, ‘The Original Recordings’.
Universal Music are set to release the record, which contains 20 of the pioneering band’s recordings from 1976-1978, on May 27.
Following yesterday’s announcement (March 30) of the compilation, a statement was published on Lydon’s Facebook page denouncing the record.
“Universal Music Group have announced the release of a new Sex Pistols compilation entitled ‘The Original Recordings’,” the statement from the former Pistols singer reads.
“For the avoidance of any doubt, John Lydon has not approved this compilation and does not endorse or support it. He has not approved the artwork or tracklisting.
“He and his team were not involved in producing this compilation and consider it substandard compared to previous Universal releases since 2012.”
Universal Music Group have announced the release of a new Sex Pistols compilation entitled ‘The Original Recordings’….
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The compilation will arrive just ahead of the premiere of the new Disney+ Sex Pistols biopic Pistol, which is set to air on May 31.
“The furious, raging storm at the centre of this revolution are the Sex Pistols – and at the centre of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones,” a synopsis for the series reads.
“Jones’ hilarious, emotional and at times heart-breaking journey guides us through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic and mucus-spattered years in the history of music.
“Based on Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, this is the story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with ‘no future’, who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.”
Lydon similarly refused to endorse Pistol, and was taken to court by his former bandmates Steve Jones and Paul Cook last summer after the singer refused to license the Sex Pistols’ music for inclusion in the show.
“John Lydon did not ask for the recent proceedings,” a statement posted on Lydon’s website read after he lost the legal battle against Jones and Cook. “He was asked to allow the Sex Pistols works to be used without any prior consultation or involvement in the project. He took a stand on principle for what he sees as the integrity of the Sex Pistols legacy and fought for what he believed and continues to believe was right.” | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/john-lydon-distances-himself-from-new-sex-pistols-compilation-the-original-recordings-3195330 | 2022-04-01T01:45:59Z |
David Price waiting to see how Dodgers will deploy his arm
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Dodgers’ left-handed pitcher David Price isn’t quite sure what role he’ll play this season. The 36-year-old is a five-time All-Star. He reached 93 miles per hour in a one-inning appearance on Wednesday. Manager Dave Roberts believes Price could have an immediate role by pitching relief innings. But Roberts said Price is unlikely to start because he’s not “built up.” The Dodgers got Price in 2020 along with Mookie Betts from the Red Sox. | https://keyt.com/sports/national-sports/ap-national-sports/2022/03/31/david-price-waiting-to-see-how-dodgers-will-deploy-his-arm-2/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:59Z |
EDINBURGH, Ind. (WXIN) – Scientists believe the loud boom that was heard across several counties in South Central Indiana recently was caused by a meteor explosion.
Scientists at Purdue watched surveillance videos that captured the noise and believe the boom can be attributed to an “air burst.”
“Essentially when a meteor is entering the atmosphere it will essentially explode in the atmosphere and they can make a loud boom,” Purdue planetary scientist Brandon Johnson said.
Johnson said it’s likely similar to the “air burst” that happened in the skies over Chelyabinsk in Russia back in 2013. That incident lit up the sky and caused major damage on the ground.
“If it was big enough to make that loud an explosion it should’ve been seen but it was a pretty cloudy day,” Johnson said. “If there was enough cloud cover it’s possible that no one saw it but it still did occur above the clouds.”
The boom was large enough to show up on seismic scales at Indiana University.
“There was a significant pulse of seismic energy recorded on our instruments at 12:44 p.m. yesterday,” geophysics professor Michael Hamburger said. “If this coincides with the timing of the reports, it is likely the result of the sonic disturbance experienced by local residents.”
The American Meteor Society said it took two reports of meteor sightings yesterday afternoon. One of those reports came in from Columbus, the other from Bloomington.
Based on those reports the society was able to triangulate the impacted location and said it was likely a “fireball meteor.”
Johnson said it’s a good reminder that a lot happens out in space.
“It’s a reminder that we need to stay vigilant and know how to protect ourselves and detect these before they happen,” Johnson said.
Johnson said that if it was a meteor then it’s likely that parts of it made it to the ground.
He said they’ll likely be small rocks with a black coating on them.
The American Meteor Society is encouraging anyone who saw anything to report it to them. You can report those at amsmeteors.org. | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/loud-boom-caught-on-camera-in-indiana-believed-to-be-meteor-explosion/ | 2022-04-01T01:45:59Z |
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Despite protest and outrage, a previously removed statue commemorating World War II’s comfort women will be back up in April at a gallery in Tokyo.
An exhibition titled “After ‘Freedom of Expression?’,” which seeks to address Japan’s history of censorship, will restage the same comfort woman statue originally featured at the 2019 Aichi Tirennale festival.
The statue features a young girl sitting in her hanbok, the traditional Korean dress, looking ahead with a calm and quiet gaze, not smiling. She is barefoot, with her hands neatly folded onto her lap, and it is clear that she has the look of someone who has shouldered a great deal in silence.
Statues depicting these comfort women have been a heated point of controversy between Japan and South Korea.
In 2015, then Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida announced that approximately $8.3 million would be donated to a fund for survivors. In return, South Korea was asked to accept Japan’s acknowledgement of the crimes and refrain from further blame.
When South Korea erected a comfort women statue outside the Japanese consulate in Busan in 2017, Japan recalled two of its ambassadors to South Korea in protest after declaring the act was an infringement upon their 2015 agreement.
The controversy continued in 2019 when a Japanese exhibition displayed a sculpture by Korean artists Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung, titled “Statue of a Girl of Peace,” memorializing comfort women. The Aichi Triennale, one of the largest international art festivals in Japan and held every three years, was forced to shut down after receiving a threat that the exhibition would be set on fire if the statue “remained on view.”
After the festival’s suspension, 72 of the more than 90 artists who participated in the exhibition posted a letter to Facebook to call the closure an act of censorship. The letter in turn inspired the theme of this upcoming exhibition showing in Tokyo from April 2 through 5.
Dozens of comfort women statues have been placed throughout the world, including in the U.S., Canada and Australia. All commemorate the hundreds of thousands of women – majority Korean – who were used as sex slaves by the Japanese government during World War II.
Forced to have sex with as many as 70 men per day, many comfort women were subject to daily acts of violence, including beatings and threats of being killed for disobedience. When Japan was defeated in World War II, many comfort women were shot and killed by retreating Japanese soldiers.
Only 12 comfort women survivors are still living today — an even fewer number continue to speak out. Lee Yong-soo, 93, submitted a petition last week to the United Nations’ International Court of Justice to continue advocating for further reparations.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don’t have an answer for how that’s going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that’s a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs.” Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?” Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden’s social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden’s agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven’t abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden’s economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they’d help people cope with costs. On Thursday,the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That’s done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she’s looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control.It’s an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don’t reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can’t afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a “total disaster” for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
“This will make private insurance for people with diabetes a much more attractive proposition,” said Glied. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/house-passes-35-a-month-insulin-cap-as-dems-seek-wider-bill/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:01Z |
Car dealerships are buying each other up at a record pace.
That’s a sure sign, dealers are confident in the long-term health of the auto retail industry, despite some potential risks, including the switch to electric vehicles.
“The next two to three years should be golden years for car dealers,” said Alan Haig, president of Haig Partners, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a firm that brokers dealership mergers and acquisitions, in a phone interview.
Haig said in a report on dealership M&As published March 31 that 640 dealerships changed hands in 2021, more than double the pre-pandemic level of 299, in 2019, and up 86% vs. 2021.
In the short term, dealership profits — and consumer prices for new cars and trucks — are through the roof, because of a persistent shortage of new vehicles, combined with high consumer demand.
In turn, the COVID-19 pandemic, plus a shortage of computer chips used in vehicle manufacturing, plus other supply-chain problems are responsible for the new-vehicle shortage. Taken together, those factors are a “perfect storm” in favor of dealership profits, Haig said.
Not only that, high prices and high profitability are likely to persist, even after auto production starts to recover, because there’s so much pent-up demand, he said.
Citing industry estimates, Haig said that by the end of 2022, production shutdowns could amount to nearly 7 million cars and trucks that didn’t get built, in 2020, 2021 and 2022 combined, even though there was plenty of demand.
“And the shelves are empty,” at new-car dealerships today, he said. Haig estimated by the pent-up demand is met, it could take around three-and-a-half years for auto production to get back into balance with demand. “That’s an incredibly long time for these profits to remain elevated,” he said.
Still, there are potential threats on the horizon. The No. 1 risk is the switch to electric vehicles, and with that, an increase in the number of automakers that want to sell EVs direct to the public, without a franchised middleman, the way Tesla does.
There are even some indications that established, legacy brands are flirting with direct sales, too. In the long run, Haig said dealers could survive direct sales by cutting expenses, including dealership head count, and the need to build and maintain large, fancy dealerships, if the customer is mainly at the dealership just to take delivery.
Dealers have an ace card in favor of dealerships, because franchised, new-car dealerships also serve as a nationwide service and parts network for their brand’s electric vehicles — something those new companies lack, Haig said. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhenry/2022/03/31/high-demand-low-supply-high-prices-make-it-a-bull-market-for-car-dealerships/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:02Z |
Kenya top court blocks president’s push for constitution change
Kenya’s top court ruled Thursday that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s bid to change the constitution was illegal, dealing a blow to him and his allies ahead of key elections in August.
“The president cannot initiate constitutional amendments or changes through popular initiative under article 257 of the constitution,” six of the seven judges overseeing the case at the Supreme Court said, ruling against Kenyatta’s proposal to expand the executive.
But the court left open the possibility for the reforms — popularly known as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) — to be instituted by parliament or through other means, so long as the president did not have a hand in the changes.
The reforms would have been the biggest change to Kenya’s political system since the introduction of a new constitution in 2010.
The initiative has left the East African nation’s political elite divided.
Kenyatta had argued that the change would make politics more inclusive and help end repeated cycles of election violence.
Thursday’s decision came after the High Court and Court of Appeal ruled against the proposed amendments last year.
The appeals court even said Kenyatta could be sued in a civil court for launching the process.
But the Supreme Court ruled against this idea.
“Civil proceedings cannot be instituted in any court against the president or the person performing the functions of the office of the president during their tenure of office in respect of anything done or not done under the constitution,” it declared.
BBI’s detractors — including Kenyatta’s estranged deputy William Ruto, who is running for the top job in August — say the plan is a little more than a naked grab for power by a two-term president who cannot run a third time.
The timing of the reforms spurred speculation in recent years that Kenyatta is seeking to remain in power by establishing the post of prime minister as part of the BBI. | https://www.africaglobalvillage.com/kenya-top-court-blocks-presidents-push-for-constitution-change/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:01Z |
LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and two others injured Thursday during a shooting that occurred while responding to a domestic disturbance call, Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said.
Police officers went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. for the disturbance call. Nearly an hour later gunfire broke out and officers radioed in they were hit, Capello said at a brief news conference.
All three officers were taken to hospitals. One of them has been pronounced dead. A second was in critical condition, but stable, and a third was in stable condition, Capello said.
“This is an extremely difficult moment for everyone,” Capello said.
The suspect, a 34-year-old man from Lebanon, was killed in the shooting, Lebanon Police Chief Todd Breiner said.
“As one can imagine, it's clearly a traumatic event,” Breiner said. “Our guys are strong, but we're human and we have families.”
The slain officer's name is being withheld pending notification of extended family members.
Police did not release further details. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/1-officer-killed-2-others-shot-in-Pennsylvania-17049870.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:03Z |
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For years, Banksy has used his anonymity to create public art that comments on important social issues. In 2003, he made an anti-war mural entitled CND Soldiers across the street from the Houses of Parliament in London—protesting the UK's involvement in the Iraq war. Two years later, Banksy collaborated with publisher Pictures on Walls in a limited series of 700 silkscreen prints of this piece, half of which are signed by the artist. Recently, one of these rare editions was placed on auction via MyArtBroker by a seller with the intention of raising money for Ukraine, and it raised a total of $106,500.
The acronym CND stands for Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament—a British organization that was initiated in 1957 to advocate for nuclear disarmament. British designer Gerald Holtom designed the “peace symbol” as the logo for the CND in 1958, although it is now seen as a universal symbol for peace. Banksy's CND Soldiers depicts two male figures crouched before a red peace sign they painted onto the wall, implying that UK soldiers should not be fighting in the war.
A print of this kind was estimated to sell between $20,000–$30,000, however, the bidders were clearly inspired by the importance of the cause and invested more into the silent auction. The winning bidder—who also prefers to remain anonymous—donated his final sum of over $100,000 to the largest hospital in Ukraine called the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, which has remained active throughout the Russian invasion. Although Banksy took no part in this auction, he would undoubtedly be pleased that his anti-war work of art is helping Ukrainians in need.
Banksy's anti-war print CND Soldiers from 2005 was placed on auction via MyArtBroker.
Banksy’s CND Soldiers raises £81,000
Thank you to everyone who bid in our silent auction of Banksy’s CND Soldiers. We are thrilled to announce that we raised £81,000/ $106,505 for Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv.#ABanksy4Ukraine pic.twitter.com/KLxWDicFHW
— MyArtBroker (@myartbroker) March 28, 2022
An anonymous buyer paid $106,500, all of which will be donated to the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital, the largest children's hospital in Ukraine.
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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.whqr.org/2022-03-31/jared-leto-is-marvels-bat-man-in-the-vampiric-morbius | 2022-04-01T01:46:04Z |
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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.
Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
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.ctinsider.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17049892.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:04Z |
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DELANO, Calif. (AP) — The death of an inmate at a central California prison is being investigated as a homicide, officials said Thursday.
Juan E. Mendoza, 26, was found unresponsive in his cell at Kern Valley State Prison shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
He had visible injuries and died a short time later despite life-saving efforts.
Mendoza shared his cell with another man, Jorge L. Mendoza, who was removed from the cell and placed in segregation while the death is investigated, authorities said.
Juan E. Mendoza went to prison in 2020 after receiving a six-year sentence in San Bernardino County for second-degree attempted murder and personal use of a dangerous weapon, officials said.
Jorge L. Mendoza was admitted from Monterey County in 2018 and was serving a sentence of life with the chance of parole for second-degree murder with the use of a firearm by a second-striker.
Kern Valley State Prison is located in Delano, northwest of Bakersfield. It has more than 3,200 inmates. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-prison-inmate-death-investigated-as-a-17049814.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:04Z |
Showcase (SHO) traded down 0% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 20:00 PM E.T. on March 31st. One Showcase coin can now be bought for $0.0023 or 0.00000005 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Over the last seven days, Showcase has traded 4.1% lower against the U.S. dollar. Showcase has a market capitalization of $59,218.20 and $13,402.00 worth of Showcase was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
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Kano has been tapped up to star in Daniel Kaluuya’s new dystopian film, The Kitchen.
The East London rapper, who can be seen in the latest season of Top Boy, will appear in the Netflix project alongside Jedaiah Bannerman, marking Kaluuya’s feature writing debut.
Co-written by Kaluuya and Joe Murtagh, The Kitchen, which follows Izi (played by Kano) and 12-year old Benji (Jedaiah Bannerman) as they “battle to survive in a system that is stacked against them”, also marks the directorial debut of Kibwe Tavares.
The synopsis for the film reads: “The Kitchen is set in London, 2044, a future where the gap between rich and poor has been stretched to its limits. All forms of social housing have been eradicated and London’s working classes have been forced to live in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city.
“The Kitchen is the first and the largest of its kind – it’s London’s last village harbouring residents that refuse to move on and move out of the place they call home. It’s here we meet Izi, a resident of the kitchen, who is desperately trying to find a way out and 12-year-old, Benji, who has lost his mother and is searching for a family.”
The Kitchen is currently in production and will air on Netflix in 2023.
Earlier this month, Daniel Kaluuya paid tribute to Jamal Edwards while presenting at the BAFTAs following the SB.TV founder’s death last month.
The entrepreneur passed away on February 20 aged 31, with mother Brenda confirming he had died following a “sudden illness”. Tributes subsequently poured in from the world of culture and beyond.
Meanwhile, Kano has shared a new short film celebrating his Jamaican heritage, A Blessed Place.
The 11-minute film was directed by Aneil Karia and shot in Kingston and Browns Town. It arrives to mark the release of Duppy White, a new white rum from Kano in collaboration with Duppy Share Caribbean Rums. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/kano-tapped-up-to-star-in-daniel-kaluuyas-new-film-the-kitchen-3195448 | 2022-04-01T01:46:05Z |
LUBBOCK, Texas — A Lubbock County Grand Jury chose not to indict William “Kyle” Carruth in the shooting death of Chad Read, according to the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
Video showed Carruth shooting and killing Read around 4:20 p.m. on November 5, 2021 during a verbal altercation over child custody.
While the shooter was not identified at the time by police or prosecutors, multiple court documents named Carruth as the shooter.
Multiple civil lawsuits were filed against Carruth after Read’s death. Additionally, the Lubbock County District Attorney’s Office recused itself from the case due to Carruth’s connection to a local elected official.
Instead, the case was investigated by the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
Two videos of the altercation were released by attorneys on November 24. The first was released by an attorney representing Read’s widow, Jennifer Read, while the second was released by an attorney representing Carruth.
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The videos show separate points of view of the heated argument that led to the shooting.
In an affidavit filed by Jennifer Read, she said Carruth and Christina Read, Chad Read’s ex-wife, “engaged in a conspiracy to assault and/or murder Chad that day.”
Carruth’s attorney, however, argued Read was shot in self-defense.
“Raising his left leg, he was continuing his advance on Kyle, threatening him and posing an immediate threat. Kyle responded,” Carruth’s attorney, David M. Guinn, said. “This is a justifiable homicide.”
Read the full statement by the AG’s Office below:
The Office of the Attorney General, acting as Attorney Pro Tem, presented to a Special Grand Jury of Lubbock County, the investigation into the shooting of Chad Read by Kyle Carruth that occurred in Lubbock, Texas on November 5th, 2021. The presentation of the case included several eyewitnesses, family of Chad Read, and additional evidence that was not previously released to the public. After several days of thorough inspection of the evidence, the Special Grand Jury concluded their investigation into the matter and deliberated on whether the evidence supported the filing of criminal charges against Kyle Carruth. The Special Grand Jury voted today to not indict for any criminal charges against Kyle Carruth. | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/the-death-of-chad-read/kyle-carruth-not-indicted-in-death-of-chad-read/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:05Z |
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Harris English has decided not to play in the Masters next week. He’s still recovering from surgery to repair a torn labrum. English won twice on the PGA Tour last year and finished third in the U.S. Open. He has not played since the Sony Open in Honolulu the second week of the year. English says he is progressing well from his hip surgery. He just wants to be cautious as he returns to competition. There are no alternates at the Masters. That puts the field at 90 players with one spot available for the Texas Open winner. | https://keyt.com/sports/national-sports/ap-national-sports/2022/03/31/english-sits-out-masters-while-recovering-from-hip-surgery/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:05Z |
Cannabis stocks climbed, then drifted in the days leading up to a House of Representative vote due this week on a bill to remove marijuana from the list of so-called controlled substances, effectively decriminalizing it.
But policy experts, cannabis investors and at least one member of Congress agree: Don’t hold your breath on federal legalization happening this year. One glimmer of hope for the industry could be a change to banking rules for marijuana businesses.
“I am bullish on cannabis banking getting done this year,” said Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at BTIG, in an interview with Yahoo Finance Live. “You have a few vehicles it can be attached to, the defense bill or the China competitiveness bill. We know that lobbying is cumulative, and they were very close last year. And I think you can wrap cannabis banking along with some of these restorative justice and research bills to make it more palatable to progressives.”
The House is likely this week to pass the MORE Act, which “eliminates criminal penalties for an individual who manufactures, distributes, or possesses marijuana.” But it previously passed the bill in 2020, only for the legislation to stall in the Senate — a process that will probably repeat.
That process has also been repeated — six times — for the SAFE Banking Act of 2021. If passed, the bill would bar federal banking regulators from punishing financial institutions for providing services to a “legitimate” cannabis-related business. Democratic critics of the law argued in the past that it should be broader by legalizing marijuana at the federal level or including criminal justice provisions.
Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC), a longtime advocate for cannabis legalization, told Yahoo Finance that she’s somewhat optimistic for some kind of legislation to get done this year: “I’m looking at trying to do some amendments on MORE to see if we can find some blend, some sort of consensus in a bipartisan way to meet that need across the country.” She has introduced her own version of the bill, called the States Reform Act, but it hasn’t gained traction.
While falling short of national legalization, the SAFE Act would be a game-changer for many cannabis businesses already operating across multiple states. Kim Rivers is the CEO of Trulieve (TCNNF), which owns marijuana dispensaries in eight states, the majority of them in Florida. Right now, she explained to Yahoo Finance, it’s largely a cash business. Besides creating a safety risk for shop workers, it limits payment options for consumers. Cannabis banking legislation would change that.
“It would also lower our cost of capital,” she said. “We have been subject to higher rates due to the fact that we’re limited in terms of banking partners. So having a more diverse network of banking options would certainly improve our cost of capital.”
Trulieve’s shares have struggled over the past year, falling nearly 50% since March 2021. It’s not alone. Green Thumb Industries’ U.S. shares (GTBIF) have fallen by about the same amount since last February. Curaleaf (CURLF) has fallen by 58% in that period.
Tilray (TLRY) ran up to a record high of $214.06 in September 2018, after a law to legalize cannabis sales was passed that June in Canada, and before it took effect that October. Today, the stock closed at $8.14.
All of the cannabis companies are domiciled in Canada because of the U.S. federal interdiction. Many of their stocks are also available to trade in the U.S., and many, like Trulieve and Curaleaf, have shops in the U.S.
Rivers is among those who think criminal justice reform needs to be a part of the conversation.
“I believe it’s incredibly important for us to not only focus on SAFE Banking but … some kind of criminal justice relief, with letting out and expunging records,” Rivers said. “There should not be anyone behind bars for cannabis distribution or sales given the fact I’m sitting with you on Yahoo Finance and in this seat selling cannabis in legal markets in the state structure today.”
Julie Hyman is the co-anchor of Yahoo Finance Live, weekdays 9am-11am ET. Follow her on Twitter @juleshyman, and read her other stories.
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Unlike his father and his sister, Donald Trump, Jr. is very active on the new social media app called Truth Social.
He posts quite often, usually in the same staccato style he once used on Twitter. This is what he thinks about a political issue. Here’s an opinion about a specific candidate. A post about Hunter Biden has around 6,000 “retruths” (which is exactly the same as a retweet) and 11,000 likes. Of the 900-some replies on that post, many of them use the “amen” emoji.
The Truth Social interface has a clean, simplified look without too many extras. You can pull down from the top of the app to see more “truths” and there’s a very basic search function. You’ll see alerts when people follow you. Direct messages are like mini emails, which probably sounds familiar to Twitter users. I was impressed that the app had a way to configure two-factor authentication for added security.
Other than the surprising revelation that Donald Trump himself doesn’t even use the app yet, and the fact that it’s essentially Twitter for conservatives, my one big surprise is that it appears to be an app designed to promote a future Trump campaign.
In my feed, even after trying to find more people to follow other than fake accounts and nutty conspiracy theorists, I kept seeing the two Trump brothers posting most often, along with frequent posts by a Christian satirical site called The Babylon Bee. (It’s funny to think every few posts on an app called Truth Social are from a site that is making jokes.)
Mostly, the app felt like a ghost town.
I even asked my Twitter followers to help me test the app by following me on Truth Social, and a small handful obliged. Very small. After a day or two, I realized my feed was going to be dominated almost entirely by Donald Trump, Jr. and a few other political operatives. It all felt very one-sided.
I imagine those who are against Truth Social are not bothering to join, especially since it means handing over some personal information.
Many of the accounts look like bots. There’s one about Dr. Fauci, another called Banned TV Ads. The Freedom Convoy has an account. There’s no way to tell which accounts are legitimate other than a tiny red checkmark. For some reason, while Fox Sports seems to be a real account and posts often about recent sports news, the account doesn’t have a red check.
I have a lot of questions about why the app exists, though.
For starters, there are not enough users. One report suggested there had been about 870,000 downloads in the first week after launch, but is now running about 60,000 installs per week. As of this writing, the app is ranked #26 on the Apple app store for social networking. With about 46,000 ratings, most of which are positive, there seems to be a consensus that the app does what it is supposed to do (e.g., provide an alternative to Twitter). The launch proved troublesome at best, with quite a few problems related to registering and having to be on a wait list.
I didn’t really see a good reason to keep using it, though. It doesn’t seem helpful to share your opinions with people who agree with everything you say.
I wonder how long it will last. I wrote recently about how free speech is a thorny issue, and I’ll be curious if the possibility of posting whatever you want leads to some serious problems. Lawsuits? Misinformation that leads to poor decisions? Banning people who do not practice the “right” kind of free speech?
It’s too early to tell, but so far it looks like Donald Trump, Jr. has a lot to say. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbbrandon/2022/03/31/i-finally-tested-donald-trumps--truth-social-and-heres-what-i-discovered/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:08Z |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge struck down portions of a Florida election law passed last year, saying in a ruling Thursday that the Republican-led government was using subtle tactics to suppress Black voters.
The law tightened rules on mailed ballots, drop boxes and other popular election methods — changes that made it more difficult for Black voters who, overall, have more socioeconomic disadvantages than white voters, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote in his ruling.
“For the past 20 years, the majority in the Florida Legislature has attacked the voting rights of its Black constituents,” Walker wrote. Given that history, he said, some future election law changes should be subject to court approval.
Florida’s Republican-led legislature joined several others around the country in passing election reforms after Republican former President Donald Trump made unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Democrats have called such reforms a partisan attempt to keep some voters from the ballot box.
“It was only designed to fuel the narrative around the big lie and that the election was stolen from Trump,” Democratic state Rep. Fentrice Driskell, who is Black, said in a phone interview after the ruling was issued. “What we absolutely can’t have is a system that, I almost feel like, is separate and unequal. Making it harder for Black people to vote is unconstitutional.”
Democratic state Rep. Ramon Alexander said he and others argued before the bill passed that it would disproportionally affect voters of color, and he is glad Walker agreed.
“Florida has a long history of discrimination at the ballot box, and (the bill) was just another roadblock put in front of Black people trying to cast a legal vote,” said Alexander, who is Black.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who made the election bill a priority, said the state will appeal Walker’s decision and win.
“In front of certain district judges, we know we will lose no matter what because they are not going to follow the law,” DeSantis said at a news conference in West Palm Beach. He did not say specifically why he believes the ruling is incorrect.
Upon appeal, the case would go to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, which is seen as being more conservative.
Republican Sen. Dennis Baxley, who sponsored the bill, didn’t immediately return a voicemail message seeking comment.
Much of the debate focused on vote-by-mail ballots and how they are collected and returned. Walker overturned a provision of the law limiting when people could use a drop box to submit their ballot, along with a section prohibiting anyone from engaging with people waiting to vote. Walker said the latter provision “discourages groups who give food, water, and other forms of encouragement to voters waiting in long lines from continuing to do so.”
“One way, then, to measure whether this provision will have a disparate impact on Black or Latino voters is to determine whether Black and Latino voters are disproportionately likely to wait in line to vote,” said Walker, citing testimony that showed that to indeed be the case.
Walker, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, also overturned a provision in the law putting new restrictions on groups that register voters, including requiring that people working to register voters submit their names and permanent addresses to the state.
Walker ordered that for the next 10 years, any attempt by the Legislature to write new laws on the issues he overturned will need court approval.
“Floridians have been forced to live under a law that violates their rights on multiple fronts for over a year,” he wrote. “Without preclearance, Florida could continue to enact such laws, replacing them every legislative session if courts view them with skepticism. Such a scheme makes a mockery of the rule of law.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/judge-strikes-down-parts-of-florida-election-law-cites-race/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:08Z |
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Updated March 31, 2022 at 9:31 PM ET
Oscars' guests and viewers are still reeling over Will Smith's surprising and infamous onstage slap of comedian Chris Rock, who joked about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. Shortly after, Smith went onstage to accept the Best Actor Oscar for his role in King Richard.
Will Packer, producer of the Academy Award, ceremony told the ABC News show Good Morning America that Los Angeles police officers were ready to arrest Will Smith if Rock wanted to press charges.
"They were saying, 'This is battery.' That was the word they used in that moment," Packer told T.J. Holmes, in an exclusive interview that was teased during ABC's World News Tonight. "They said, 'We will go get him. We are prepared. We will go get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him. They were laying out the options. And as they were talking, Chris was, he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, 'No, I'm fine.' He was like, 'no, no, no.' And even to the point where I said, 'Rock, let them finish.'"
In the clip, Packer said after the officers finished laying out what Rock's options were, "they said, 'Would you like us to take any action? And he said no.'"
Packer also said he did not speak to Smith at all on Oscar night. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released a statement saying Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused.
In his acceptance speech, Smith apologized to the Academy and his fellow nominees for the incident, but not Rock. On Instagram the following day, Smith wrote that he was embarrassed by his behavior and told Rock he was sorry. Still, the Academy began disciplinary proceedings against Smith-- which could include "suspension, expulsion, or other sanctions permitted."
SAG-AFTRA is also weighing sanctions against Smith.
On Wednesday night, Rock was onstage in Boston with a new comedy routine. He didn't say much about the slap. "I'm still kind of processing what happened," he said, adding that at some point he will talk about it "and it will be serious and funny."
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The world is waiting for you, Osinbajo tells young Nigerian graduates
Young Nigerians must resist the cynicism or suggestion that the system is rigged against them due to their background, gender, tribe or religion, but rather focus on how they can make a positive difference in society by applying their knowledge, talents, skills and intellect to solving the national and global challenges.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, stated this on Thursday in Keffi, at the 6th combined Convocation ceremony of the Nasarawa State University, where he was the Special Guest of Honour. His speech also dwelt on the Buhari Administration’s commitment to supporting Nigeria’s youth and development initiatives.
“Education gives you a platform from which to make something out of yourself. And this is true today as it was two decades ago when this university was founded. What will set you apart as you journey forward, however, is how far you are willing to dream and how much work you are willing to put in,” he said to the young graduands.
The Vice President further urged Nigeria’s youth to promote unity, imbibe the values of integrity, discipline and empathy, hard work, justice and love of country.
“Nothing you achieve can be sustained without them. Never forget, character trumps all else,” the VP said.
Prof. Osinbajo noted that “young people have always been the difference between the relative stability of the old and the possibilities of the new, the bridge between the past and the future.”
According to him, “the innovations that have positively disrupted the world as we know it today have largely been pioneered by the probing minds and boundless courage of young people like you; fresh out of school, eager to apply themselves, to experiment, to try out new things, to make mistakes and to learn from them,” he added.
Buttressing further on the immense potential of young people, the VP described them as ‘digital natives’ belonging to the most advanced generation in human history.
“A generation not bound by some of the rigid conventions of the past. A generation unafraid to ask the hard questions. One that has inherited centuries of human innovation and advancement, and so you know, much more than your predecessors; that there is nothing impossible to accomplish in the face of persistent, innovative, and collaborative effort,” he said.
Pointing out innovations in artificial intelligence, robotics, 3-D printing, nanotechnology and quantum computing, the Vice President noted that young people know first hand, “the wide-ranging opportunities of digital and mobile technology, the disruptions in logistics and global supply chains that have allowed for cheaper and more effective trade, while opening up new markets and spurring economic growth around the world.”
He explained that the “signs are clear that you are a generation on a path and with the heart to fulfill its mission. And we see it in the everyday stories of young people like you out there changing the Nigerian and African narrative one idea, and one bold move at a time.”
Beyond the technology space, where Nigeria accounted for 35 per cent of over $4 billion in funding raised by African tech startups in 2021, the VP stated that in the last 10 years, young Nigerians have also expanded the country’s creative and cultural capital globally, through music, movies, fashion and literature.
“These creative young people have borrowed from the past and the future to invent a present sound, style and aesthetic that is wholly Nigerian and completely inventive, filling up auditoriums from Lagos to Europe, to the US, and reaping every global award available for the taking. Part of this movement is Chuks D. General, a fast-rising comedian and graduate of Statistics from the Nasarawa State University.”
He commended the Nasarawa State University for its efforts in human capital development noting that the institution boasts of alumni, who “have excelled in almost every field of endeavour and have continued to do the university proud.”
Some of the names the VP mentioned included the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Mohammed Akaro Mainoma, who’s also the current president of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria, and Hajiya Ramatu Tijani Aliyu, the current Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, who also received her Master’s in Public Administration from this university.
“It is clear that Nasarawa State University has come a long way since it was established over twenty years ago, a result of the bold vision of His Excellency, the former governor of Nasarawa State and now Chairman of our great party, the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Abdullahi Adamu,” he said.
Prof. Osinbajo summarized three things he said will serve the young graduates well through life’s journey – persistence, ambition and innovation, and collaboration.
“The world has always been pushed forward by people who refused to take no for an answer,” he said on perseverance.
The VP went further to say “the complex challenges facing our country, and continent at large, requires ambitious thinking and courageous undertakings. There is no telling how far you can go if you dream large enough and find the courage to go after what you believe in.”
Prof. Osinbajo, while noting the University’s Research and Innovation Directorate, admonished the graduands to “honour the investment made in it and in you by finding creative ways to apply the knowledge you have gained.”
“Collaboration is the key to building the game changing technologies and businesses of this century. It is no longer smart or profitable to go it alone.”
Restating the Buhari administration’s commitment to youth development, the Vice President recalled the establishment of the N75 billion National Youth Investment Fund which provides financial support for small businesses in any field; the Investing in Digital and Creative Enterprises (iDICE) with over $600million to support young tech and creative sector entrepreneurs and other entrepreneurs through the provision of finance, skills development, and infrastructure.
He explained that with the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Internship Programme, in partnership with the UNDP and the private sector, 20,000 young graduates, after youth service, will be given internship opportunities in private sector companies and public agencies. The first set would be deployed in May.
“These opportunities exist to support your dreams and you can readily access them irrespective of where you come from or who you know. So step out and take your place in the world,” he noted.
Restating his call for a new Nigerian Tribe, Prof. Osinbajo said “our Nation is a nation of diverse, tribes and faiths. But this is how most great nations are formed. The challenge is how to wield the tribes into one tribe, a Nigerian tribe.
“A tribe of Nigerian men and women of all faiths, tribes and ethnicities. Committed to a country run on high values of integrity, hardwork, justice and love of country. A tribe of men and women who are prepared to make the sacrifices that are crucial to building a strong society.
“Who are prepared to stick together, fight corruption side by side, and insist on justice even where our friends are at the receiving end. A tribe consisting professionals, businessmen, politicians, religious leaders, Students, and all others who believe that this new Nigeria is possible. I challenge you to play your part in bringing forth this new tribe and a nation reborn.
In his remarks, the Visitor of the University and Nasarawa State Governor, Engr Abdullahi Sule, praised the Vice President for the support and commitment he has always shown to every good cause about Nasarawa State. He also assured the University of improved support to enable it actualize set objectives.
At the Convocation ceremony, some Nigerians were conferred with honorary doctorate degrees. They included Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; former Governor of Nasarawa, Sen. Umaru Almakura; GMD of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari; Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote; eminent philantropists and businessmen, Peter Okocha, and Alhaji Abdulrazaq Balarabe. | https://www.africaglobalvillage.com/the-world-is-waiting-for-you-osinbajo-tells-young-nigerian-graduates/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:09Z |
Lizzo has announced the launch of a new venture: she’s releasing her very own Shapewear brand.
The ‘Truth Hurts’ singer took to Instagram yesterday (March 30) to share that her shapewear company, Yitty, will be arriving sometime soon.
“This is a dream 5 years in the making,” Lizzo wrote, captioning a picture of her lower body wearing mesh, white underwear with the word “Yitty” painted on her butt cheek.
She continued: “Introducing @YITTY: Shapewear you can wear Underwear, Overwear, Anywhere. For Every Damn Body. 6X to Xs. Are you ready for the YITTY LIBERATION?”
No launch date has yet been revealed for the brand or its products.
Lizzo’s Yitty announcement comes following the release of her new Amazon Prime Video show, Watch Out For The Big Grrrls, which follows the Grammy winner as she searches for backup dancers to join her upcoming tour.
Speaking in a recent interview, Lizzo said she “wasn’t supposed to be a sex symbol” while talking about trying to create new beauty standards.
Speaking to People, the singer explained how her parents “taught me at a very young age how America treats Black people. How it treats Black women”. She added: “I saw very quickly how we treat fat people.”
“I wasn’t supposed to make it this far. I wasn’t supposed to be a millionaire. I wasn’t supposed to be a sex symbol, but I am,” Lizzo said.
“The funny, fat friend. I played that trope in high school,” she continued. “Or the friend who is gonna beat your ass ’cause she’s big. Or it’s the big girl who’s insecure ’cause she’s big… I don’t think I’m the only kind of fat girl there is. I want us to be freed from that box we’ve been put in.”
Earlier this month, Lizzo appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden and shared a snippet of a new single called ‘About Damn Time’.
The singer has been teasing the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Cuz I Love You’ for months, and shared its first teaser last summer with Cardi B collaboration ‘Rumors’.
Corden then played the crowd a snippet of the danceable ‘About Damn Time’, which Lizzo lip-synced along to.
She then revealed a release date of April 14, though it’s not entirely clear whether she was referring to the single or album as a whole. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/lizzo-launches-her-own-yitty-shapewear-brand-3195430 | 2022-04-01T01:46:11Z |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said. | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/washington-dc/bill-seeks-to-put-cap-on-overdraft-fees/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:11Z |
Ex-minor leaguer ran major league sports betting operation
By BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former minor league pitcher was the ringleader of an illegal sports betting operation in California that used former pro athletes as bookies and active players as clients. Prosecutors said Thursday that Wayne Nix has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to run an illegal gambling operation. They say he used his sports connections to recruit three former Major League Baseball players and a former pro football player as bookies. Clients included an MLB coach who lost $4,000 at one point and a professional football player who lost $245,000. One client wagered $5 million on the Super Bowl. | https://keyt.com/sports/national-sports/ap-national-sports/2022/03/31/ex-minor-leaguer-ran-major-league-sports-betting-operation/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:12Z |
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White House communications director Kate Bedingfield on Thursday insisted that President Biden didn’t lie at a 2020 presidential debate when he claimed that his son Hunter Biden didn’t make money in China or engage in unethical overseas business deals.
Bedingfield stood by the claims even after they were demonstrated to be untrue as major US newspapers increasingly focus on the first son’s dealings amid reports he may soon face criminal charges — with the Washington Post and New York Times belatedly confirming the authenticity of Hunter Biden emails first reported by The Post in October 2020 ahead of the final presidential debate.
NBC News journalist Kristen Welker, who moderated the final debate, pressed Bedingfield Thursday about the accuracy of Biden’s claims that “nothing was unethical” about his son’s business dealings in China and Ukraine and that he “has not made money” in China.
“During the last presidential debate, [Joe] Biden was asked if there’s anything inappropriate or unethical about his son’s relationships, business dealings in China and/or Ukraine. The president said ‘nothing was unethical.’ He went on to say, ‘My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, talking about China.’ Does the White House stand by that comment?” Welker asked Bedingfield at the daily White House briefing.
“We absolutely stand by the president’s comment,” Bedingfield said. “And I would point you to the reporting on this, which referenced statements that we made at the time, that we gave to the Washington Post, who worked on this story. But as you know, I don’t speak for Hunter Biden so there’s not more I can say on that.”
White House spokespeople did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on the particular 2020 statement referenced by Bedingfield, but she may have been referring to an article this week in which the Washington Post reported that the first son and his uncle Jim Biden received $4.8 million from CEFC China Energy Co, debunking the president’s debate-stage claims.
That article reported: “The White House declined to respond on the record but pointed to previous statements that Joe Biden ‘has never even considered being involved in business with his family, nor in any overseas business whatsoever.’”
One of the emails reported by The Post ahead of the final 2020 debate showed that Hunter Biden and Jim Biden were brokering a deal with CEFC and appeared to cut in Joe Biden.
The email described “10 [percent] held by H for the big guy.” Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski accused Joe Biden of being the “big guy” at a press conference ahead of the last presidential debate.
Bedingfield also fended off questions Thursday from Steven Portnoy of CBS News Radio and Ed O’Keefe of CBS News about the scandal-plagued first son.
Portnoy, who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, asked if Joe Biden was preparing to pardon family members. Bedingfield said “that’s not a hypothetical I’m going to entertain.” She declined to answer O’Keefe’s query about whether Biden is reading recent reports on his son’s possible indictment for tax fraud, money laundering and foreign lobbying crimes.
A number of Hunter Biden business deals involve countries where his father held sway as vice president.
In another Chinese entanglement, Hunter Biden held until at least November a stake in the investment firm BHR Partners, which was registered 12 days after Hunter joined then-Vice President Biden aboard Air Force Two for a 2013 trip to Beijing. The firm is controlled by Chinese state-owned entities and facilitated the 2016 sale of a Congolese cobalt mine from a US company to China Molybdenum for $3.8 billion. Cobalt is a component in electric car batteries.
Hunter Biden’s attorney Chris Clark said in November — less than a week after President Biden’s 3 1/2 hour virtual summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping — that his client had finally divested his 10 percent stake in BHR Partners, but offered no further details.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to say at a briefing this month if Hunter Biden actually divested his stake in that firm — after previously declining to commit to basic transparency about the supposed buyer’s identity, the amount of money involved and the timing of the transaction.
Joe Biden said in 2020 that members of his family would not hold any business role that conflicts with “or appears to be in conflict” with his job as president.
The president’s apparent conflicts of interest involving his son also span Ukraine and Russia, where Hunter Biden reaped a financial windfall while his then-vice president father led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy after Russia seized Crimea in 2014.
Hunter Biden was paid a reported $1 million per year to serve on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, founded by corrupt pro-Russia oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky.
Joe Biden claimed in 2019 that he’d “never spoken” with his son about “his overseas business dealings,’ but that statement was contradicted when The Post reported in October 2020 that Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi emailed Hunter in 2015 to thank him for the opportunity to meet his father.
The Biden campaign at the time vaguely denied that the meeting occurred, saying, “[W]e have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.” Twitter banned sharing of The Post’s reporting and locked The Post out of its accounts, and Facebook squelched circulation of the story, amid false claims that it could be based on Russian disinformation.
Photos and emails subsequently reported by The Post indicate Joe Biden attended a 2015 DC dinner at the ritzy Cafe Milano with a group of his son’s associates — including Pozharskyi, a trio of Kazakhs and Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina and her husband, ex-Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov.
Psaki told The Post this month that she had “no confirmation” that a firm linked to first son got $3.5 million from Baturina, as alleged in a 2020 Senate report. She refused to say how Biden is navigating conflicts of interest in imposing sanctions on Russian oligarchs. Baturina is the richest woman in Russia, but unlike many other Russian billionaires, she has not faced US sanctions as NATO seeks to penalize Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/wh-insists-biden-didnt-lie-about-hunters-business-deals-in-china-at-2020-debate/130505/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:13Z |
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Minneapolis is jumping this weekend. Fans of women’s sports (and sports fans in general) are heading to see three of the most anticipated match ups of the season: South Carolina vs Louisville and Stanford vs UConn in the semi finals, and the winners play Sunday evening. If the viewership numbers are anything like the Elite 8 matchup between North Carolina State and Connecticut, Friday night could see over 2 million viewers.
It’s a homecoming of epic proportions for Connecticut star Paige Bueckers. The Edina native graduated from Hopkins High School. Her senior year, the team went 12-0 in their conference, and 30-0 over the season. They finished ranked #1 in the state and #6 nationally. Gatorade, her NIL partner, placed a colorful mural inside the Mall of America welcoming her home. Conceivably, she could win a national championship less than 20 miles from her house.
Today, Chegg
Growing events coincide with Final Four
The NCAA has added a growing number of events for fans to attend over the weekend, including:
- Official Fan Festival
- Free Youth Event
- Night of Music
- Free Open Team Practices
- Beyond the Baseline: Professional Development Panels
- Party on the Plaza
- Third Grade Statewide Reading Program
A check of the ticket resale market shows courtside seats going for over $750 each for Friday night’s doubleheader.
One more tidbit: If Stanford repeats as National Champion, they will only be the fourth NCAA school to do that in women’s basketball history (UConn, Tennessee and USC are the others).
Federal Focus on Gender Equity
Off the court this week, two activities involving members of Congress also hit the news. Senators Chris Murphy (CT), Cory Booker (NJ), Richard Blumenthal (CT) and Representative Lori Trahan (MA) held a live conversation covering all aspects of the challenges facing college sports. One panel focused on gender equity, mentioning that while women athletes have benefitted substantially from the ability to monetize their name, image and likeness (see: Gatorade and Paige Bueckers), there are hundreds of other examples of where higher education and college athletics departments have fallen far short of creating “equitable experiences” for all athletes.
Thursday, Representatives Carolyn Maloney (NY), Mikie Sherrill (NJ) and Jackie Spier (CA) introduced legislation in the House that supports accountability in women’s sports. Maloney called out those who have been so vocal recently about the rights for women to have equal opportunities to play sports, by tweeting “Lots of people have newly started talking about equality in women's sports. Would love to see any of those people support @RepSpeier, @RepSherrill, and my bill to actually promote equality in college sports... unless it was never about women's sports and just anti-trans rhetoric.”
“The Gender Equity in College Sports Commission Act” calls for the establishment of a “16-member congressional commission to investigate gender equity within the NCAA’s operation of tournaments, championships and other programs that have both men’s and women’s divisions”.
It directs the commission to provide policy recommendations to the NCAA that will encourage them to move quickly towards full compliance with Title IX. If passed, the bill requires a full report 12-18 months after assembling their members.
In a statement, co-sponsor Sherrill said, “The NCAA has shown a repeated lack of commitment to gender equity. Being a college athlete is the culmination of years of training, and hard work for the members of these teams. These athletes demonstrate unmatched levels of commitment to their sport and their universities. Yet, the players on the women’s and men’s teams have not been treated equally by the NCAA. Despite clear guidance from the firm the NCAA itself commissioned, they continue to fail to take basic steps toward equity. That’s why I’m proud to introduce this bill and join the fight that leaders from Billie Jean King to Megan Rapinoe have championed.”
Why Congress Needs to be Involved
Title IX, as written in 1972, was originally intended to address the blatant inequities in the educational opportunities for women, including denials of college admission simply based on an applicant’s gender. Most thought the law only applied to the academic side of campus; they were quickly disabused of that notion by the courts. The law applies to both academic and athletic offerings on campus, and includes high schools.
The authors of that legislation, Senator Birch Bayh, Representatives Edith Green and Patsy Mink, intended for the legislation to cover all programs that received any federal funding, even one dollar. While all kinds of legal challenges have been thrown at the law over the last 50 years trying to find ways to exclude college sports (or even just football) from the parameters, nothing has worked. Notably, it has failed to win any victories at the Supreme Court, despite being challenged nine times.
Yet, the inequities persist. As Oregon player Sedona Prince told USA Today, “I think it’s sad, because we’ve kind of gotten used to being screwed over.”
As you watch this weekend, remember how far the women have yet to go in order to achieve ‘full equity’-and then, imagine how good those games will be when they get there. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/karenweaver/2022/03/31/a-minneapolis-homecoming-is-set-for-paige-bueckers-at-the-final-four/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:14Z |
Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (NYSE:SPLP – Get Rating) was the target of a significant drop in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 10,300 shares, a drop of 32.7% from the February 28th total of 15,300 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 16,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.6 days. Currently, 1.2% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
SPLP has been the topic of several research reports. StockNews.com initiated coverage on shares of Steel Partners in a research note on Thursday. They set a “hold” rating on the stock. TheStreet raised shares of Steel Partners from a “c” rating to a “b-” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 2nd.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of SPLP. Moors & Cabot Inc. raised its position in Steel Partners by 275.0% in the 3rd quarter. Moors & Cabot Inc. now owns 75,000 shares of the conglomerate’s stock worth $83,000 after buying an additional 55,000 shares during the last quarter. Teton Advisors Inc. raised its position in Steel Partners by 9.4% in the 3rd quarter. Teton Advisors Inc. now owns 92,971 shares of the conglomerate’s stock worth $2,642,000 after buying an additional 7,971 shares during the last quarter. HighTower Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of Steel Partners by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. HighTower Advisors LLC now owns 18,474 shares of the conglomerate’s stock valued at $776,000 after purchasing an additional 641 shares during the last quarter. Steel Partners Holdings L.P. increased its position in shares of Steel Partners by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. Steel Partners Holdings L.P. now owns 6,136,845 shares of the conglomerate’s stock valued at $257,747,000 after purchasing an additional 212,375 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Smith Moore & CO. increased its position in shares of Steel Partners by 77.2% during the 4th quarter. Smith Moore & CO. now owns 18,611 shares of the conglomerate’s stock valued at $782,000 after purchasing an additional 8,111 shares during the last quarter. 81.02% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Steel Partners (NYSE:SPLP – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, March 10th. The conglomerate reported $1.25 EPS for the quarter. The firm had revenue of $431.86 million for the quarter. Steel Partners had a net margin of 8.62% and a return on equity of 21.35%.
Steel Partners Company Profile (Get Rating)
Steel Partners Holdings LP operates as a holding company, which engages in owning and operating businesses and has significant interests in various industries, including diversified industrial products, energy, defense, supply chain management and logistics, banking, and youth sports. It operates through the following segments: Diversified Industrial, Energy, Financial Services, and Corporate and Other.
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The PGA Tour is in San Antonio, Texas, for the Valero Texas Open this week. Defending champion Jordan Spieth is in the field but is once again trying to find his game.
Joining the Texan is Rory McIlroy, who is making his first start at TPC San Antonio since 2013 —he finished runner-up that year.
TPC San Antonio will play as a par 72, measuring in at 7,438 yards.
Russell Knox, playing this week for a spot in the Masters, got off to a hot start, firing a 7-under 65. Knox hasn’t had much success at this event in his career but came into the week with great form, recently grabbing a top 10 at the Players.
From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the second round of the 2022 Valero Texas Open. All times Eastern.
TEXAS OPEN: PGA Tour Live on ESPN+
Tee times
1st tee
10th tee
How to watch/listen
You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. ESPN+ is the exclusive home for PGA Tour Live streaming. All times Eastern.
Friday, April 1
TV
Golf Channel: 4-7 p.m.
Radio
SiriusXM: 1-7 p.m.
STREAM
ESPN+: 8:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 2
TV
Golf Channel: 1-3:30 p.m.
NBC: 3:30-6 p.m.
Radio
SiriusXM: 3-6 p.m.
STREAM
ESPN+: 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday, April 3
TV
Golf Channel: 1-2 p.m.
NBC: 2-6 p.m.
Radio
SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.
STREAM
ESPN+: 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
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After being postponed due to the omicron variant, the 64th Grammy Awards will take place Sunday. Trevor Noah for the second consecutive year will host music’s biggest night, which will be broadcast on CBS from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Up for a golden gramophone for best new artist are Arooj Aftab, Jimmie Allen, Baby Keem, Finneas, Glass Animals, Japanese Breakfast, The Kid Laroi, Arlo Parks, Olivia Rodrigo and Saweetie; and best new album nods go to Jon Batiste’s “We Are,” Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s “Love for Sale,” Justin Bieber’s “Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe),” Doja Cat’s “Planet Her (Deluxe),” Lil Nas X’s “Montero,” Olivia Rodrigo’s “Sour,” Taylor Swift’s “Evermore” and Kanye West’s “Donda.”
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The Recording Academy announced a slew of changes to the nomination process and categories for this year’s ceremony. New recognitions include best global performance and best música urbana album, bringing the total of awards to 86; and six craft categories will be consolidated into presentation or production fields nominations.
General and genre nominations will “now be determined by a majority, peer-to-peer vote of Recording Academy voting members,” and the Academy is reducing the number of genre field categories from 15 to 10 to “[ensure] music creators are voting in the categories in which they are most knowledgeable and qualified,” per the organization.
This year’s festivities are being produced with an inclusion rider — part of the organization’s #ChangeMusic initiative — to “ensure equity and inclusion at every level of the event’s production.”
Ahead, find out how to watch the 64th Grammys online and see who’s nominated in the top categories.
Grammys 2022: Red Carpet, Pre-Show and Ceremony Date and Time
The 2022 Grammys will air live on CBS and on demand on Paramount+ on Sunday, April 3, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. PT/8 to 11:30 p.m. ET. The premiere ceremony — where over 70 awards across classical, jazz, R&B, global music and other genres will be given — will be livestreamed on Grammy.com and the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel.
Who Is Performing at the 2022 Grammys?
Nominated artists Brothers Osborne, BTS, Brandi Carlile, Billie Eilish, and Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow and Olivia Rodrigo will perform at the 2022 Grammy Awards.
How to Watch the 2022 Grammys on TV and Online
If you have cable, you can watch the 2022 Grammys on your local CBS channel or livestream the ceremony online by logging into your TV provider account at CBS.com.
Those without cable can watch the Grammys with a subscription to ViacomCBS-owned Paramount+ or other online TV streaming services that offer access to CBS. You’ll need a smart TV or another device that supports apps, or you can plug a streaming stick or device (such as Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV Stick or Roku) into your television.
Read on below to see which live TV streaming services offer CBS.
FuboTV Stream live and on-demand from over 100 cable channels (including CBS) with a FuboTV subscription. Plans start at $70 per month for the Pro package and $80 monthly for the Elite option. A free seven-day trial is available to new subscribers.
Hulu with Live TV The streaming on-demand video platform’s live TV option includes CBS and starts at $70 per month for the ad-supported option or $76 monthly for the ad-free plan. The subscription includes Disney+ and ESPN+ as well as access to Hulu original content such as The Kardashians, The Handmaid’s Tale, Pam & Tommy and more.
Paramount+ Subscribers of the streamer can watch the music ceremony live on CBS. Packages are $5 per month for the Essential plan that includes ads or $10 monthly for the Premium option that has limited ads on select content and live TV shows. New customers who sign up for the seven-day trial can watch the Grammys for free during that period.
YouTube TV The popular video platform’s live TV service offers access to over 85 networks, including your local ABC channel. Monthly subscriptions start at $65, but new subscribers can get a deal right now for $55 per month for the first three months.
Who Are the 2022 Grammy Nominees?
Ahead, see who’s nominated for the major categories as well as in pop, rap, R&B, blues, country, reggae, jazz and global music, and check out the full list of Grammy nominations here.
Best New Artist
Arooj Aftab
Jimmie Allen
Baby Keem
FINNEAS
Glass Animals
Japanese Breakfast
The Kid Laroi
Arlo Parks
Olivia Rodrigo
Saweetie
Record of the Year
“I Still Have Faith In You,” ABBA
“Freedom,” Jon Batiste
“I Get A Kick Out Of You,” Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
“Peaches,” Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon
“Right On Time,” Brandi Carlile
“Kiss Me More,” Doja Cat Featuring SZA
“Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish
“Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” Lil Nas X
“drivers license,” Olivia Rodrigo
“Leave The Door Open,” Silk Sonic
Album of the Year
We Are, Jon Batiste
Love For Sale, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe), Justin Bieber
Planet Her (Deluxe), Doja Cat
Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish
Back Of My Mind, H.E.R.
Montero, Lil Nas X
Sour, Olivia Rodrigo
Evermore, Taylor Swift
Donda, Kanye West
Song of the Year
“Bad Habits,” Ed Sheeran
“A Beautiful Noise,” Alicia Keys Featuring Brandi Carlile
“drivers license,” Olivia Rodrigo
“Fight For You,” H.E.R.
“Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish
“Kiss Me More,” Doja Cat Featuring SZA
“Leave The Door Open,” Silk Sonic
“Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” Lil Nas X
“Peaches,” Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon
“Right On Time,” Brandi Carlile
Best Music Video
“Shot In The Dark,” AC/DC
“Freedom,” Jon Batiste
“I Get A Kick Out Of You,” Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
“Peaches,” Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon
“Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish
“Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” Lil Nas X
“Good 4 U,” Olivia Rodrigo
Best Music Film
Inside, Bo Burnham
David Byrne’s American Utopia, David Byrne
Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter To Los Angeles, Billie Eilish
Music, Money, Madness…Jimi Hendrix In Maui, Jimi Hendrix
Summer Of Soul, Various Artists
Best Pop Vocal Album
Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe), Justin Bieber
Planet Her (Deluxe), Doja Cat
Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish
Positions, Ariana Grande
Sour, Olivia Rodrigo
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
“Hero,” Afrojack & David Guetta
“Loom,” Ólafur Arnalds Featuring Bonobo
“Before,” James Blake
“Heartbreak,” Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
“You Can Do It,” Caribou
“Alive,” Rüfüs Du Sol
“The Business,” Tiësto
Best Dance/Electronic Music Album
Subconsciously, Black Coffee
Fallen Embers, Illenium
Music Is the Weapon, Major Lazer
Shockwave, Marshmello
Free Love, Sylvan Esso
Judgement, Ten City
Best R&B Performance
“Lost You,” Snoh Aalegra
“Peaches,” Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon
“Damage,” H.E.R.
“Leave The Door Open,” Silk Sonic
“Pick Up Your Feelings,” Jazmine Sullivan
Best R&B Song
“Damage,” H.E.R.
“Good Days,” SZA
“Heartbreak Anniversary,” Giveon
“Leave The Door Open,” Silk Sonic
“Pick Up Your Feelings,” Jazmine Sullivan
Best Progressive R&B Album
New Light, Eric Bellinger
Something To Say, Cory Henry
Mood Valiant, Hiatus Kaiyote
Table For Two, Lucky Daye
Dinner Party: Dessert, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder & Kamasi Washington
Studying Abroad: Extended Stay, Masego
Best Rap Performance
“Family Ties,” Baby Keem Featuring Kendrick Lamar
“Up,” Cardi B
“M Y . L I F E,” J. Cole Featuring 21 Savage & Morray
“Way 2 Sexy,” Drake Featuring Future & Young Thug
“Thot Shit,” Megan Thee Stallion
Best Melodic Rap Performance
“p r i d e . i s . t h e . devil,” J. Cole Featuring Lil Baby
“Need to Know,” Doja Cat
“Industry Baby,” Lil Nas X Featuring Jack Harlow
“Wusyaname,” Tyler, The Creator Featuring Youngboy Never Broke Again & Ty Dolla $ign
“Hurricane,” Kanye West Featuring The Weeknd & Lil Baby
Best Rap Song
“Bath Salts,” DMX Featuring Jay-Z & Nas
“Best Friend,” Saweetie Featuring Doja Cat
“Family Ties,” Baby Keem Featuring Kendrick Lamar
“Jail,” Kanye West Featuring Jay-Z
“m y . l i f e,” J. Cole Featuring 21 Savage & Morray
Best Rap Album
The Off Season, J. Cole
Certified Lover Boy, Drake
King’s Disease II, Nas
Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler, The Creator
Donda, Kanye West
Best Country Solo Performance
“Forever After All,” Luke Combs
“Remember Her Name,” Mickey Guyton
“All I Do Is Drive,” Jason Isbell
“camera roll,” Kacey Musgraves
“You Should Probably Leave,” Chris Stapleton
Best Country Duo or Group Performance
“If I Didn’t Love You,” Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood
“Younger Me,” Brothers Osborne
“Glad You Exist,” Dan + Shay
“Chasing After You,” Ryan Hurd & Maren Morris
“Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home),” Elle King & Miranda Lambert
Best Country Song
“Better Than We Found It,” Maren Morris
“camera roll,” Kacey Musgraves
“Cold,” Chris Stapleton
“Country Again,” Thomas Rhett
“Fancy Like,” Walker Hayes
“Remember Her Name,” Mickey Guyton
Best Country Album
Skeletons, Brothers Osborne
Remember Her Name, Mickey Guyton
The Marfa Tapes, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall & Jack Ingram
The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita, Sturgill Simpson
Starting Over, Chris Stapleton
Best Latin Pop Album
Vértigo, Pablo Alborán
Mis Amores, Paula Arenas
Hecho A La Antigua, Ricardo Arjona
Mis Manos, Camilo
Mendó, Alex Cuba
Revelación, Selena Gomez
Best Música Urbana Album
Afrodisíaco, Rauw Alejandro
El Último Tour Del Mundo, Bad Bunny
Jose, J Balvin
KG0516, KAROL G
Sin Miedo (Del Amor Y Otros Demonios) 8, Kali Uchis
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
Deja, Bomba Estéreo
Mira Lo Que Me Hiciste Hacer (Deluxe Edition), Diamante Eléctrico
Origen, Juanes
Calambre, Nathy Peluso
El Madrileño, C. Tangana
Sonidos De Karmática Resonancia, Zoé
Best Regional Mexican Music Album (including Tejano)
Antología De La Musica Ranchera, Vol. 2, Aida Cuevas
A Mis 80’s, Vicente Fernández
Seis, Mon Laferte
Un Canto Por México, Vol. LI, Natalia Lafourcade
Ayayay! (Súper Deluxe), Christian Nodal
Best Americana Album
Downhill From Everywhere, Jackson Browne
Leftover Feelings, John Hiatt With The Jerry Douglas Band
Native Sons, Los Lobos
Outside Child, Allison Russell
Stand for Myself, Yola
Best Bluegrass Album
Renewal, Billy Strings
My Bluegrass Heart, Béla Fleck
A Tribute to Bill Monroe, The Infamous Stringdusters
Cuttin’ Grass – Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions), Sturgill Simpson
Music Is What I See, Rhonda Vincent
Best Traditional Blues Album
100 Years Of Blues, Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite
Traveler’s Blues, Blues Traveler
I Be Trying, Cedric Burnside
Be Ready When I Call You, Guy Davis
Take Me Back, Kim Wilson
Best Contemporary Blues Album
Delta Kream, The Black Keys Featuring Eric Deaton & Kenny Brown
Royal Tea, Joe Bonamassa
Uncivil War, Shemekia Copeland
Fire It Up, Steve Cropper
662, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Best Folk Album
One Night Lonely [Live], Mary Chapin Carpenter
Long Violent History, Tyler Childers
Wednesday (Extended Edition), Madison Cunningham
They’re Calling Me Home, Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi
Blue Heron Suite, Sarah Jarosz
Best Reggae Album
Pamoja, Etana
Positive Vibration, Gramps Morgan
Live N Livin, Sean Paul
Royal, Jesse Royal
Beauty In The Silence, Soja
10, Spice
Best Global Music Performance
“Mohabbat,” Arooj Aftab
“Do Yourself,” Angelique Kidjo & Burna Boy
“Pà Pá Pà,” Femi Kuti
“Blewu,” Yo-Yo Ma & Angelique Kidjo
“Essence,” WizKid Featuring Tems
Best Global Music Album
Voice of Bunbon, Vol. 1, Rocky Dawuni
East West Players Presents: Daniel Ho & Friends Live in Concert, Daniel Ho & Friends
Mother Nature, Angelique Kidjo
Legacy +, Femi Kuti And Made Kuti
Made In Lagos: Deluxe Edition, Wizkid
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MONROE, Ind. (WANE) – Adams Central High School’s Alivia Dalrymple will continue her basketball career at Bethel University as the senior signed with the Pilots on Thursday evening.
A five-foot-nine guard, Dalrymple averaged 8.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 1.5 assists a game as a senior for the Jets. Adams Central finished 9-13 overall this past season. | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/adams-centrals-dalrymple-signs-with-bethel/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:15Z |
The Grammy Awards, the biggest night for the music industry is almost here. After being postponed for several months due to coronavirus restrictions because of a surge in Omricon Covid-19 cases, the 64th annual award ceremony is set to take place on Sunday. It will be a historical moment, and music lovers will get to witness it live online for free.
The award show will be held at a place anywhere other than New York or Los Angeles this year. The event will unfold at a new location with a live audience and star-studded performers, including Carrie Underwood, BTS, and Billie Eilish. The ceremony will take place at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on April 3.
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah will return as a host for the second time in a row. The nominees for this year include Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, BTS, Coldplay, Lil Nas X, Jon Batiste, Doja Cat, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Silk Sonic, Lady Gaga, Brothers Osborne, Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves, Baby Keem, Megan Thee Stallion, Jazmine Sullivan, and Kendrick Lamar.
The performers are Cynthia Erivo, Jon Batiste, Leslie Odom Jr. Billie Eilish, Brothers Osborne, Carrie Underwood, Jack Harlow, J Balvin, Nas, Silk Sonic, Chris Stapleton, John Legend, Olivia Rodrigo, BTS, Lil Nas X Brandi Carlile, and H.E.R.
How to Watch Grammys 2022 Live Online for Free?
The award show will begin with a premiere ceremony, and it can be streamed online on Grammys.com. The event will also be available t stream on the official YouTube channel of the Recording Academy. It will take place at 12.30 pm PST or 3.30 pm EST, and the host is LeVar Burton. Allison Russell, Jimmie Allen, Mon Laferte, and Ledisi have confirmed to perform at the ceremony.
The premiere ceremony will be followed by red carpet arrivals. It is set to take place at 3.30 pm PST or 6.30 pm EST. Music fans and fashion followers can watch the event live online for free on Grammys.com.
The main award ceremony will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday at 5 pm PST or 8 pm EST. It will air exclusively on CBS and Paramount +. The 64th annual award ceremony can also be live-streamed on CBS.com and the official CBS app for free (only for subscribers).
Other platforms that will stream the annual award ceremony live online are Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV, and FuboTV. | https://www.ibtimes.sg/grammy-awards-2022-when-where-watch-show-live-online-free-63687 | 2022-04-01T01:46:15Z |
3 tornadoes confirmed by NWS in West Tennessee
JACKSON, Tenn. — The National Weather Service has confirmed that three tornadoes touched down in West Tennessee on Wednesday.
The NWS says one was in Denmark, another near Medina, and a third in Huntingdon. All were EF-1 tornadoes.
The NWS reports that the Denmark tornado formed around 6:20 p.m. south of Womack Lane, damaging roofs, trees, and the Pacific Manufacturing Plant.
The report says more damage was seen northeast into Jackson, but that is believed to have been straight-line winds.
The NWS says around 10 minutes later, a tornado touched down near Old Medina Road and Barnes Road, causing damage to two homes.
Around 6:50 p.m., a tornado touched down south of Voss Lane to the west of Highway 70.
The NWS says it moved northeast, crossed Highway 70 north of Tate Loop causing damage on the south end of Skyline Lane in Huntingdon, then went over Veterans Drive and ended near Lexington Street.
The NWS reports several houses had damages.
Find more local news here. | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/03/31/3-tornadoes-confirmed-by-nws-in-west-tennessee/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:15Z |
Pegasystems announced the launch of version 8.7 of its Pega Infinity software package, which features updates in low-code, automation, artificial intelligence and cloud architecture.
“New intelligent, low-code upgrades to Pega’s core software suite help brands innovate faster and improve experiences for employees and customers,” Don Schuerman, chief technology officer at Pega, told CMSWire.
AI Capabilities Enhance Automation, Development
This 8.7 version allows enterprises to develop more quickly and at a larger scale, according to Schuerman. New artificial intelligence capabilities assist firms in identifying inefficiencies in their work processes and learning from previous data in order to automate labor. The update caters to professional developers and citizen developers.
“Service agents benefit from improved job experiences to provide optimal customer service," Schuerman said. "Overall, all employees are able to do their jobs better and more effectively, and customers in turn get the best, most innovative brand experiences, getting what they need, where and when they need it."
The updated software suite is available now.
Related Article: How Will Conversational AI Transform Customer Experience?
New Versions of Pega Suite Apps
Pega is updating within its suite Pega Platform, Pega Customer Decision Hub and Pega Customer Service apps. They include new design systems and technology for rendering user experiences, as well as new artificial intelligence technologies for process optimization, customer decisioning and voice analytics.
"Pega Infinity’s biggest differentiator is that it provides a complete platform that is designed to operate across an entire organization to drive optimal results," Schuerman said. "With Pega Infinity 8.7, Pega provides the richest suite of applied AI capabilities across any unified engagement, service, and workflow platform. Organizations can personalize engagement with omnichannel, real-time next-best-actions, simplify and automate service with conversational AI capabilities, and optimize efficiency and effectiveness of workflow automations with Pega Process AI."
What’s Next for Pega?
According to Schuerman, Pega will continue to work on making AI-powered decisions and automate workflows. In the future, they will use AI more to improve processes. They will also make sure AI is used in a way that can be explained and controlled.
Pega plans to build out its cloud technology infrastructure and provide best practices and training that businesses need to be able to use low code at a large scale.
Pega is coming off updates to Pega Voice and Messaging AI last month that include Conversational AI capabilities that help listen to live phone and chat conversations, analyzing intent and recommending next steps. | https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/pegasystems-announces-low-code-capabilities-in-launch-of-pega-infinity-update/?utm_source=cmswire.com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=all-articles-rss | 2022-04-01T01:46:15Z |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gay rights advocates sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday to block a new law that forbids classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
The law has catapulted Florida and DeSantis, a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, to the forefront of the country’s culture wars. Critics call it the “ Don’t Say Gay ” law and argue that its true intent is to marginalize LGBTQ people and their families.
The challenge filed in federal court in Tallahassee on behalf of Equality Florida and Family Equality alleges that the lawviolates the constitutionally protected rights of free speech, equal protection and due process of students and families.
“This effort to control young minds through state censorship — and to demean LGBTQ lives by denying their reality — is a grave abuse of power,” the lawsuit says.
“The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that LGBTQ people and their families are at home in our constitutional order. The State of Florida has no right to declare them outcasts, or to treat their allies as outlaws, by punishing schools where someone dares to affirm their identity and dignity,” the lawsuit says.
The law deliberately employs broad terms and invites arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement, empowering parents to be roving censors who can sue school boards for damages based on any perceived violation, the lawsuit adds.
The law states: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” Parents would be able to sue districts over violations.
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona met with LGBTQ students and their family members at a school in Orlando on Thursday, discussing privately how the legislation is affecting their lives. Cardona’s visit was one of several Biden administration events Thursday showing support for the queer community, including a presidential proclamation recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility.
“We know while many transgender students experience valuable support at school, many others face significant challenges because of hostility directed at them by others,” Cardona said. “This includes a growing number of state laws that bully and intimidate LGBTQI+ students and their families.”
DeSantis and other Republicans have repeatedly described the rules as reasonable, saying children should learn about sexual orientation and gender identity from their parents, not in schools.
“We will make sure that parents can send their kids to school to get an education, not an indoctrination,” the governor said when he signed it into law this week.
Many critics have said the law’s language, particularly the phrases “classroom instruction” and “age appropriate,” could be interpreted so broadly that discussion in any grade could trigger lawsuits, creating a classroom atmosphere where teachers would avoid the subjects entirely.
Intense public backlash followed the bill’s introduction in Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature this year, with the White House, Hollywood celebrities, students, Democrats and LGBTQ advocates condemning the policy. Legal challenges have been expected.
The filing by Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP and the National Center for Lesbian Rights seeks to block the law from taking effect and also names Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran and other education officials as defendants.
“Already, our children have told us that they are afraid that they will not be able to talk about their family at school,” Dan and Brent VanTice, parents of two first-grade students, said in the statement announcing the suit. “We are heartbroken that our children are already feeling isolated and stigmatized by this law.”
Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association union, said the law is politically motivated because elementary schools, especially in kindergarten through third grade, do not teach about these subjects and have state curriculum standards guiding classroom lessons.
The law adds fuel to a persistent feud between DeSantis and Democratic President Joe Biden, who tweeted after DeSantis signed the bill this week that “My Administration will continue to fight for dignity and opportunity for every student and family — in Florida and around the country.” Cardona has said his agency will be monitoring for any federal civil rights violations that result. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/lgbtq-group-sues-florida-over-so-called-dont-say-gay-law/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:15Z |
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.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Arizona-governor-won-t-say-transgender-people-17049806.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:15Z |
Welcome to NJ Cannabis Insider
Hello, everyone!
The market gets closer to opening as it begins to take shape.
For some it’s so close, yet so far. For others, there’s still a long way to go as conditional-license award winners proceed to navigate the dizzying array of local requirements that will fall on the messy spectrum of municipal politics.
Scott Rudder, founder of NJ CannaBusiness Association and keynote speaker at our career fair next week, told us to keep some perspective: “When you look at other states, it took every other state a long time to implement their their new program, right? It takes a while to develop the rules and regulations to get applications in.”
Meanwhile, speaking at a conference at FDU in Madison today, Cannabis Regulatory Commission Vice Chair Sam Delgado spoke in optimistic terms about the jobs being created here as the ATCs and new operators get ready to open for consumers.
On that note, this week we welcome the newest member of our reporting team, Gabby Warren, who wrote a story about the booming cannabis jobs market ahead of our April 5 Cannabis Career Fair & Business Expo at Stockton University. Our resident weed professor, Rob Mejia, dropped a Q&A about legal services being provided to attendees in conjunction with career fair.
Elsewhere, take a look at my interview with Suzan Nickelson, a Jamaican-born entrepreneur who is among the first Black female cannabis dispensary awardees we know of. She says her experience, so far, is “living the best American dream.”
How social equity applicants can live their American dream is at the heart of Suzette Parmley’s deep dive into New York’s proposed $200 million program, with reaction by Jeff Brown, ED of the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. In case you missed it, she wrote a story earlier this week about whether there’s enough weed to serve patients and regular consumers. (Brown is not convinced there is.)
Jonathan Salant reached out to U.S. Sen. Cory Booker about legislation he wants to drop on 4/20. We also have an earlier story by Jonathan you may have missed about the Senate voting to expand cannabis research .
Speaking of research, Sue Livio spoke to the Rutgers professors who presented at last week’s CRC meeting about the growing number of research available.
Finally, next week we’ll announce the finalists for our inaugural Cannabis Business Awards (You have until a minute to midnight tonight to enter your vote).
Enjoy the issue and until next time...
— Jelani Gibson
The Lead
Funding social equity: N.Y. has a ‘bold initiative.’ Can N.J. do the same or better?
As New York races to open its adult cannabis market, its governor has proposed what social equity advocates are calling a bold and innovative in getting a truly diverse pool of applicants in the industry.
In January Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed a $200 million social equity fund in the state’s new $216.3 billion fiscal year budget, that must be in place on Friday, April 1.
The $200 million fund to be backed by state and private dollars is intended to help entrepreneurs of color and other under- represented groups get into the business.
While the idea is short on details, it spawned from the notion that these groups need the financial assistance more during the application process and not after it.
Hochul and supporters say the fund is to get capital into those who need it most and where costs of applying is a real barrier to entry.
Some here – including a handful of lawyers whose clients include non-multistate operators (MSOs) and wealthy investors - are asking: Why not a social equity fund in New Jersey?
The Cannabis Regulatory Commission began accepting the first batch of applications in December from alternative treatment centers, cultivators, manufacturers and labs.
On March 15, round two started for retail outlets seeking to sell cannabis.
New Jersey’s launch into adult cannabis market has been mired by delays, but many are expecting some resolution to the pending ATCs at a special meeting scheduled for April 11.
The CRC’s Executive Director Jeff Brown said he found New York’s idea “interesting,” but when asked if there was a similar proposal to ensure diversity and inclusivity in the nascent industry in New Jersey, Brown did not/could not point to one.
“The CRC threaded equity and inclusivity through every part of the rules we wrote for the recreational cannabis market and we know that financing is an additional piece of ensuring the market is accessible,” Brown said in an email to NJ Cannabis Insider. “We have been working with other state agencies to identify access to capital, workforce development assistance, and business development resources for aspiring entrepreneurs and expect to have new initiatives in the future.”
Among the state agencies that Brown alluded to at last week’s hearing is the New Jersey Economic Development Authority to help ensure a diverse pool of applicants.
“Additionally, we hope that municipal leaders, property owners, and others who stand to benefit from a thriving cannabis market will choose to invest in new businesses by not setting up financial obstacles for entrepreneurs,” said Brown.
The Governor’s Office also acknowledged there was no social equity set-aside in the new fiscal year $48.9 billion budget, which kicks in on July 1, like New York is envisioning.
“Our administration has always strived to eliminate barriers to entry for the adult-use recreational cannabis marketplace, through low fees, priority application review for licenses for microbusinesses, impact zone businesses, and social equity businesses, and the option to apply for a conditional license,” said Murphy spokesman Michael Zhadanovsky to NJ Cannabis Insider.
“The governor and the CRC are committed to working with advocates and stakeholders to ensure a marketplace that works for everyone. The administration is always open to hearing new ideas for equity in the marketplace,” added Zhadandovsky.
Murphy campaigned on the legalization of adult use cannabis in 2017 in his first bid for the state’s top office.
Murphy said then and now that minor marijuana convictions had done irreparable harm to Black and brown communities, whose members were sent to jail by the nation’s failed War on Drugs. The governor said the primary goal of the legalization of cannabis and its sale in a legit market is to fund restorative justice programs.
After signing the cannabis bill on Feb. 22, 2021, Murphy touted that New Jersey’s cannabis market would be one of the most inclusive in the country, welcoming everyone from mom-and-pop operations to MSOs, and to giving preference to minority- and women-owned businesses.
New York’s social equity fund received a mixed response from those closely watching New Jersey’s yet-to-open adult market.
“We’re not an apples to apples comparison in the regards of financing mechanisms,” said attorney Beau Huch, a former top aide to state Sen. Declan O’Scanlon, R-Monmouth, who worked on both the medical and recreational cannabis bills. “Is the $200 million that New York has set aside out of their general fund? Is it a loan? I genuinely don’t know the answer to that question, but I do know New Jersey is broke.”
“We have no money to just give away and that’d be a heavy lift here even if we did,” added Huch, now with Morristown-based Porzio, Blomberg & Newman. “Our state constitution forbids us from giving loans; hence Murphy has never been able to get his State Bank idea off the ground. The CRC alluded to working with the NJEDA in creative ways to help develop financing mechanisms. If the EDA did start issuing loans, I’d expect someone political to sue.”
Edmund DeVeaux, president of the trade group New Jersey CannaBusiness Association, said it can’t be just about money to ensure the success of minority and women-owned cannabis enterprises.
“In our evolving regulatory and legislative arenas, the state has provided not only prioritization for communities most impacted by unequitable treatment under the law, but those with previous cannabis convictions and small startup businesses also have access to various forms of assistance through state sources like the Economic Development Authority, Business Action Center, and New Jersey Re-entry Corporation,” DeVeaux said in an email to NJ Cannabis Insider. “There has to be a recognition that future and current participants in the cannabis industry may have to hone certain skills to be successful in the long-term.
“The reality is that money alone is not the answer, which is why we were pleased to see the state hold multiple hearings across New Jersey and take public input regarding how best to utilize tax dollars derived from cannabis sales,” added DeVeaux.
“All of New Jersey’s progress in social justice and economic parity is ongoing without signs of stopping, even though the state has yet to generate any tax revenue from recreational cannabis sales.”
But some in the Garden State say that perspective misses the point – that applicants need the financial assistance more at the front end of the application process, not after it.
New York expects to start issuing licenses to sell adult-use recreational cannabis sometime next year. Hochul’s $200 million social equity fund would be backed by state and private dollars to provide capital and startup support for disadvantaged applicants.
Huchul envisions allocating $50 million — money that New York would advance before collecting it from cannabis license fees and taxes — and look to private investors for the rest.
A private partner would manage the fund that could give both grants and loans to eligible businesses, which would include those owned by women or minorities, st disabled veterans and people from communities that endured heavy weed law enforcement. Specifics are still in the works.
And if that money is approved, New York may use some of it to help open cannabis businesses, including toward securing retail leases and furnishing stores.
Nadir Pearson of Clifton, N.J., loves the idea. The 25-year old Black entrepreneur said he could use the financial assistance as he applies for a conditional manufacturing license. So far Pearson said he’s spent $13,000 on lawyers to review his conditional application. He expects another $35,000 in fees to convert to an annual license.
That doesn’t include the real estate.
Pearson is spending tens of thousands of dollars on a down payment on an 16,000-square-foot warehouse in South Jersey. He secured the site in February, but with the ongoing delays in launching New Jersey’s adult recreational market, Pearson said he’s paying $10,000 a month in rent for a property not yet generating any revenue.
“You sure as hell don’t want to let go of the property because there’s not many in New Jersey because Amazon is buying up everything,” Pearson told NJ Cannabis Insider. “Legislators should be a little bit more cognizant of the economic impact that they’re going to be having when they put in these statutes.
“There’s a strong disconnect between understanding the actual business of cannabis and the intent of these laws,” added Pearson.”
Pearson said he originally wanted to set up shop in North Jersey, near his Clifton community, but was priced out due to the higher per square footage costs compared to South Jersey.
Like many entrepreneurs, Pearson has tapped personal funds, relatives and friends — to get his foot in the door. His mother, Onika Perez, and another business partner, Hope Wiseman – a cannabis operator in Maryland – are listed as majority owners on the application to snag one of the women-owned business licenses. He has a minority stake.
“Figuring out ways to alleviate some of these financial burdens needs to be a priority – whether it’s on the real estate side – wherever the state feels that it can be most strongly suited to provide financial assistance – it should,” said Pearson.
“If true equity was the standing point on which we wanted to create this industry, then they need to take a long hard look at that.”
— Suzette Parmley | NJ.com
Q&A with...
Suzan Nickelson
Suzan Nickelson was awarded a state license to open a medical cannabis dispensary in South Jersey.
Nickelson made history recently for being among the first Black female cannabis entrepreneurs to win a permit to sell cannabis to patients. For this interview, she invited NJ Cannabis Insider to Wilson’s, a jazz restaurant in Hi-Nella. She chose this location for its historic significance.
Jazz, the music genre that was heavily associated with cannabis and derided by the government for it, is just one of many examples of how the plant has always had historic footholds in the most influential aspects of American pop culture.
Nestled in Camden County, Nickelson, plans to open a retail store with an eye toward the legal market that is rooted from the cultural underground that has built it.
Amid colorful portraits, instruments and an entire band set, she talks about her background, transitioning from the underground market, also known in industry circles as the legacy market, and why the time is now for ethical business to culturally lead the way in laying down a healthy and — holistic — cannabis culture. This interview was edited for clarity.
Q: What’s your background and how does it inform what you bring to market?
A: I’m Jamaican-born. My people come from West Africa. From there, we’ve been doing farming and cultivation forever. Through spirituality and eventually the slave trade, our people ended up in Jamaica.
Our family comes from bloodlines of escaped slaves who, when they landed on the beautiful shores of Jamaica, fled into the hills.
From that, it’s been an informal tradition that many of the women in our culture have upheld and been called herbalists. Everything that I’ve learned about cannabis has been passed down through women’s traditions and my mother’s.
Q: When we talk about passing down tradition, a lot of cultures from the African continent do the passing down of knowledge through oral traditions. Is that how you gained your knowledge?
A: Absolutely. My mother was a great storyteller. In the herbalist, the spirituality, the origin of African roots still held true. In oral stories, [there are] our cultures, food, language, and identification of certain roots in the hill that were medicinal.
My mother didn’t believe in traditional medicine. She rarely went to the doctor. Most of her remedies were home remedies. She was an avid learner and we were avid listeners.
Q: When I think about that word, “traditional medicine,” what you just described was your family’s tradition, right?
A: It was. Not only medicine but spiritual. Cannabis has been a plant of reverence and spirituality that has been given to people to heal. Intentional stigmatization led to what we currently went through in the War on Drugs that hurt Black and brown people.
Now, globally, countries have come on and nationalized legalization. I hope that America can lead the way, especially since cannabis [arrests] impacts Black and brown communities at a higher rate of incarceration even though we all use the plant the same way.
Q: What’s the story you want to bring to your brand?
A: I think Holistic Solutions is an opportunity of seeing cannabis from a Black curated female voice. We are the keepers of our community. If there’s impact and disruption to the family, that disruption is normally held by the woman.
In that, there’s a lot of stigma in cannabis use. I’m hoping to reduce the stigmas because a lot of people use cannabis for a variety of reasons, whether it is to medicinally deal with any physical, mental health or other related ailments or spiritual and recreational use, I believe that providing a female voice in a space that has been male-dominated always gives a different light and opportunity.
I’m a mom.
Making sure a product is safe and responsible is forefront. We want to make sure that the cannabis we bring to the market is diverse. Many cannabis entrepreneurs aren’t recognized because they aren’t able to get the market to scale. They don’t have an opportunity for exposure. That’s one of the things Holistic Solutions will offer — diverse scale and shelf space.
I think having a woman — and Black women understand both sides. Whether it’s business or the infrastructure of what’s needed, I often realized there weren’t a lot of products geared towards me.
We love a good bag. I have women that look at curated cannabis with the same level of sophistication, but it’s not being catered to us.
Those likes are cross-sectional and diverse, not one ethnicity. We all love fashion, we all love art. We’re sitting in a beautiful jazz restaurant where people are connoisseurs and jazz comes from different walks of life.
In providing that one life of commonality and respect for the plant and working with operators in the market that have the sophistication to give Holistic Solutions the exposure it needs, I think it’s going to be a fantastic opportunity.
Q: What about municipal opt-outs that don’t want to be a part of the industry?
A: I think those are continued discussions. It goes back to education. Understanding what some of the fears are and providing that exposure.
Form a committee, put down what your concerns are. Have the committee systematically provide education and exposure. Travel. I think sometimes when people are fearful of something it’s because they’re not familiar with it.
You’re doing something that’s an impediment by denying your residents that opportunity. They now have to go to other towns, municipalities and regions to partake in the cannabis business.
Just because people have opted out, doesn’t make it a forever opt-out. There’s still an opportunity to educate.
Q: How would you describe your journey thus far?
A: I always felt that if we had the opportunity — as the little engine that could — We’ve been thrown off the tracks, we’ve not been recognized, but we don’t do it for the recognition.
We do it for honoring the plant to provide patience. A different approach to medicine to provide communities, with a great place to come and interact. We want to remove the transactional engagement. Making relationships are important and I think in building those relationships there’s going to be a great opportunity for setting a different brand.
Q: A lot of legacy operators still have skepticism about legal cannabis being inclusive of them, what do you think about that?
A: It’s about leading by example. It’s about having a conversation where you meet people where they are. Having conversations about the value of why people may be in the legacy market for economic sustainability. If incarceration happens, the product is disrupted, when you’re locked up you’re not providing for yourself and your families.
You have an opportunity in the legal market.
You are building a business you can pass legally. One of the things people of color don’t own is generational wealth. This is an opportunity to create generational wealth that we can leave to our children. You cannot leave something illegal to your children.
Q: How does it feel within an American context to sit in a jazz club talking about selling cannabis legally?
A: It’s crazy. I think it’s the American dream. Living the best American dream. I always say that our ancestors are cheering, my mother, my parents are in Zion smiling. To sit here, now as a cannabis operator in my state is fantastic.
— Jelani Gibson
Research
Rutgers experts: More studies show how cannabis is becoming more viable as a medicine
There are 3.6 million people in America who are registered to use medicinal marijuana, and a growing body of research is demonstrating that cannabis can be a less harmful alternative to some FDA-approved prescriptions for pain, anxiety, nausea and other conditions.
But medical providers of all stripes — physicians, nurses and pharmacists, included — need more education and encouragement to embrace these options, two prominent health care professionals told the Cannabis Regulatory Commission at its meeting last week.
The CRC invited Anesthesiologist Alex Bekker and Pharmacist Mary Bridgeman, who are members of the state’s Medical Marijuana Advisory Panel, to discuss the need to protect patient access to cannabis as the recreational market prepares to open.
There are 128,110 patients and 1,435 medical providers registered with New Jersey’s medicinal marijuana program, according to CRC data.
But medical programs often decline after the legal market takes hold. Having a robust network of medical providers referring patients and monitoring their progress is essential.
The first assessment of health professionals’ beliefs about cannabis use as a form of medicine was only published three years ago, Bridgeman said.
“While healthcare providers may be generally supportive of cannabis use in clinical practice, there is a near-unanimous lack of self-perceived knowledge regarding the clinical effects and concerns about the direct harm to patients,” said Bridgeman, Clinical Professor at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University.
There is limited formal training on the emerging discipline, she said.
“When a new medication becomes available, clinicians receive education and guidance,” Bridgeman said.
She recommends the development of “evidence-based education standards for dispensary staff and medical professionals” as well as standardized consent forms so they “are conveying the same message of the known risks and limitations of our current evidence.”
More than 20,000 scientific articles have been published in the last decade on cannabis, Bekker said, professor and chairman for the Department of Anesthesiology at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. More recent studies are examining how cannabis can not just alleviate symptoms but also mitigate diseases, such as slowing growth of cancer cells and progression of neurodegenerative diseases, according to his presentation.
A review of the research literature shows there is promise in mental health treatment using cannabis, which is already known for its anti-psychotic, antidepressant and anti-inflammatory properties, Bekker said. Personalized medicine — tailoring cannabis treatment to patients based on their genes and metabolism — is also under research, he said.
Surveys show 40% of physicians say they won’t recommend cannabis to alleviate suffering, citing the lingering stigma, the “sparsity of high-quality studies,” the lack of insurance coverage and the fact that it remains a schedule 1 drug.
“But doctors have no trouble prescribing drugs that kill 200,000 patients a year,” Bekker said citing FDA data.
The medicinal marijuana advisory panel still exists, although most of its functions were usurped by the Department of Health when Gov. Phil Murphy took office in 2018. But the plan is to repurpose and reconstitute it, CRC spokeswoman Toni-Anne Blake told NJCI.
“The advisory panel was transferred to NJ-CRC by statute and we are seeking to reestablish it to continue the work of providing feedback to the CRC about qualifying medical conditions,” she said.
— Susan K. Livio | NJ.com
The D.C. Reporter
Booker aims for 4/20 to drop a new legal weed bill
It was 4/20 – the unofficial marijuana holiday – in 2018 when the Senate’s most powerful Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, became the highest ranking federal lawmaker to call for changing federal laws on cannabis.
And on that same date last year, Schumer, now Senate majority leader, delivered a floor speech where he called for ending the federal cannabis ban.
This 4/20, he, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, and Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., either will release their proposed cannabis legislation or be very close to doing so. The three senators are drafting legislation to both end the federal weed ban and help communities and individuals hardest hit by the War on Drugs.
After announcing their plan in February to introduce legislation in the current Congress, they outlined their Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act in July, proposing to decriminalize marijuana and allow states to decide whether to make it legal, expunge nonviolent cannabis crimes would be expunged, and tax weed to help communities hardest hit by the war on drugs.
Now their bill is almost written, with an eye toward introducing sometime toward the end of next month.
“I don’t mean this to be fully in jest but there’s been a lot of conversation about doing it on 4/20,” Booker told NJ Cannabis Insider and other news outlets this week at the U.S. Capitol.
Other matters, such as confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, take priority over cannabis legislation, Booker said.
“Aspirationally, I would love to see it done on 4/20 but I can’t speak to that, given all the things that are sort of backing up in the Senate, Booker said.
In outlining their bill, the senators set a deadline of Sept. 1 for suggestions on what to include, and exclude, from the final measure.
What the months of listening has shown, Booker said, was there was strong support to go beyond just allowing states to legalize weed and to include help for those hurt by the war on drugs, mostly minority residents and their communities.
“This cannot just be about simple legalization,” he said. “It has to be about restorative justice. We had a really awful run of prohibition. This war on drugs has been not a war on marijuana. It’s been a war on people.”
“This idea that you can just suddenly legalize or decriminalize and have so many Americans still suffering the consequences for having a criminal conviction where they can’t get a job, a loan from a bank, that’s just patently unfair. So this is a bill built around those ideas of restorative justice.”
— Jonathan D. Salant | NJ.com
Jobs market
Advice from insiders on landing a great job in the industry
The buzz about cannabis is swelling slowly to a whistle. A recent report about growth in the job sector from industry giant Leafly has business owners and hopeful applicants all wondering how hiring will factor into the coming recreational market in New Jersey and surrounding markets.
With 321,000 full-time cannabis jobs supporting the sale of $18.3 billion of cannabis products nation-wide in 2021, there are more workers in cannabis than there are paramedics, electrical engineers or dentists.
So what does it take to snag a job in this blooming industry? We asked insiders involved in education, business development, events and recruitment.
“I would say that it really depends on the person’s background and interest,” said Rob Mejia, an adjunct professor of cannabis studies at Stockton University. “There are so many different ways to engage in the cannabis world.”
Experience, knowledge and how you leverage each of them are major factors when seeking to grow in the cannabis space. He said that while Stockton is the only state university that offers a minor in cannabis studies, there are around 100 colleges and community colleges that offer options for formal education.
“Those are offered usually online and self-paced. Stockton offers six of them and they lead to a cannabis certificate,” he said. Individual courses and continuing education studies are either online or in-person.
Mejia said that his students come into his program with a general concept of cultivation and retail dispensaries in mind, but how cannabis intersects with all the supporting businesses and industries is not as obvious. They want positions at retail locations, and most use those jobs to figure out where else they can fit.
“Students are trying to figure out if they want to stay on the customer service side, or if they want to go into marketing, or perhaps web design, community outreach, management, accounting. I mean, there’s so many different jobs,” he said.
Mejia encourages local education through events like the upcoming Cannabis Career Fair & Business Expo at Stockton University in Galloway on April 5.
“It’s important that people go to events, that they listen to panels, that they embrace online material, and that they network. Also, of course, you can read books and watch documentaries,” he said.
One of his former students, Jenna Misciascio, said that most students find themselves in entry level positions once completing these programs, where they are competing with applicants who have no formal education, but do have commensurate experience.
While cultivation is high on the list, she said executive level and salaried jobs are the most coveted.
Misciascio was able to choose her own path by freelancing and creating positions for herself that connect cannabis to another area of expertise. She books wine and weed tours of Sonoma County and other local events.
She said people are seeking advice on cannabis in every area of every industry. “Arts, law, banking, finance — there’s a lot of stuff that isn’t plant-touching that you can still be directly involved in.”
“I didn’t even have to leave my home state to find a job with cannabis hospitality,” she said. “Every time I see students, I explain to them there’s a connection to cannabis with every single one of their majors.”
She recommends bringing a resume reflecting relevant experience, interests and education, or making a LinkedIn profile with all of this information for easy networking. She said to make sure to ask questions about company plans on growth and expansion.
When asked about resources for hopeful applicants to research businesses for partnership opportunities, both Misciascio and Mejia cited LinkedIn, public records of existing cannabis businesses, and volunteer work or attendance at industry events as great starting points for networking.
Insiders agree that the recreational market will be composed of a mix of entrepreneurs, trained cannabis workers and ancillary businesses of many industries.
Some of the most needed services are business development, consulting and recruitment. These companies can help facilitate planning meetings between municipalities, licensees and experts in the cannabis space.
“We are a combination business development agency and media production agency. We formulated a niche, and we work in different sectors, cannabis being a major sector,” said Hassan Austin from MTN Biz Development.
He said a company like his can be a crucial resource for entrepreneurs looking for information and connections, as their network makes them privy to information beyond public records. Also, there are supporting services needed from all other industries like marketing, finance, and logistics through all levels of planning.
Even if you’re not looking to be your own boss there are services dedicated to matching your transferable skills and knowledge with a cannabis business’ hiring needs.
Sloane Barbour, a partner at FlowerHire, explained their recruitment software that features an educational platform and a job board with listings from all over the country.
“You can build a resume on your mobile phone through our platform in seven or eight minutes that allows you to apply to cannabis jobs,” he said.
“A lot of folks don’t have resumes, especially if they’ve been in the retail or hospitality world, and they’ve been out of work. It’s very difficult to get back into the workforce, and this industry is going to need those people,” said Barbour.
He described the seed-to-sale process, outlining various positions at every step. Genetics, cultivation, harvest, processing, packaging, manufacturing, storage, delivery and logistics are just a few of the areas of employment in a plant-touching company.
“A Leafly job report cited 428,000 jobs coming into this year growing to over 500,000 jobs by the end of the year — a very, very significant amount of jobs,” he said.
Barbour said this is not even counting contracted services like photographers and package design.
“Every million dollars in legalized cannabis sold in a state creates between 14 and 18 jobs. And in New Jersey that means you’re going to have 30,000 to 40,000 jobs created based on those numbers, and 60 to 80,000 in New York,” he said about expected growth in our surrounding markets.
All the insiders pointed out that the jobs can’t grow any faster than the new market is able to expand.
“There’s only 3,000 jobs now, so it’s going to be 10 times the growth. The sooner that you get revenue going through adult use dispensaries, the more people are going to hire and the more impact you’re going to have,” said Barbour.
— Gabrielle Warren
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U.S. Senate votes to expand cannabis research
A unanimous U.S. Senate has voted to expand research into cannabis to see if there are any medical benefits to the drug and its compounds, including cannabidiol.
The Cannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion Act also would require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health to report to Congress on the potential benefits or harms associated with using cannabis.
The legislation, sponsored by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., passed last week by voice vote.
“Current rules and regulations make it hard for researchers to study how marijuana and marijuana-derived medications can best be used to treat various conditions,” Feinstein said.
It now goes to the House, which in December 2020 voted to expand research into the medicinal properties of cannabis by allowing researchers to obtain samples from states that have legalized weed, rather have the University of Mississippi as the only federally approved source of the drug.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, reintroduced the House bill last October.
Science magazine reported in August 2020 that the federal government spent more than $1 billion on research from 2000 to 2018, but most of the funding went for studies on the misuse and negative effects of cannabis rather than research into its medical properties.
“The medical community agrees that we need more research to learn about marijuana’s potential health benefits, but our federal laws today are standing in the way of us finding those answers,” said one of the Senate bill’s co-sponsors, Hawaii Democrat Brian Schatz.
“We are now one step closer to removing excessive barriers that make it difficult for researchers to study the effectiveness and safety of marijuana, and hopefully, give patients more treatment options.”
This first appeared on on NJ.com
— Jonathan D. Salant | NJ.com
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#NJCIBizAwards: Voting ends tonight!
Public voting ends tonight for candidates in eight of the awards categories for the NJ Cannabis Insider 2022 Business Awards.
As of this writing, there have been more than 6,000 votes submitted. Individuals can vote once a day in each category until today, March 31, at 11:59 p.m. Follow #NJCIBizAwards on LinkedIn.
After votes are tallied, three finalists in each category will be announced in NJ Cannabis Insider and NJ.com. The winners will be recognized during a June 9 gala, which will include a green carpet, entertainment and a rooftop afterparty at the Carteret Performing Arts Center.
Finalists and nominees will be able to memorialize their recognition in a glossy publication produced by NJ Cannabis Insider in coordination with NJ Advance Media.
- Excellence in Cannabis Law — Law firms that provide legal and policy services to every area of the cannabis industry.
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- Excellence in Innovation — Innovative programs, products, or services
- Excellence in Social Equity — Companies that support social and economic equality in the cannabis community through grants, education and business development programs.
- Business of the Year — A minority business is identified as being at least 51% owned by people of color.
- Woman-owned Business of the Year — A woman-owned business is a business in which at least 51% is owned by a woman.
- Excellence in Healthcare and Life Sciences — Activities ranging from patient well-being, treatment, testing, manufacturing, and research and development.
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NJ Cannabis Insider Events
Career Fair & Business Expo April 5 at Stockton U.
To connect the industry with the future workforce, NJ Cannabis Insider, New Jersey CannaBusiness Association and Stockton University are hosting a full-day Cannabis Career Fair & Business Expo on April 5. The event at Stockton University in Galloway will feature keynotes from business leaders, professionals in the space and a vendor floor for networking.
Our keynote speaker is Scott Rudder, a former mayor and state assemblyman, founded the New Jersey CannaBusiness Association, the state’s largest industry trade group.
“What I really like where we are right now as opposed to previous years, for example, is the process the CRC (Cannabis Regulatory Commission) is implementing today. It really makes it as easy as possible — even though this is hard — to actually get a license,” Rudder told NJ Cannabis Insider (Read the full interview here). “Applicants under these new rules and regs, in which applicants who have a deficiency in their application don’t get rejected forever. They’re actually given the opportunity to fix it. So if your standard operating procedure for security, for example, is deficient, they send it back. So you’re able to fix it.”
Also confirmed this week is Brett Goldman, of Ocan Group, who’ll give a talk about the jobs market, and his experience as an employer of some 400 employees.
The event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Student free; industry professionals pay $99. NJ Cannabis Insider subscribers should use discount code SUB20 at checkout for $20 off.
A professional headshot photo station will be available throughout the day, courtesy of Columbia Care.
Attorneys Chirali Patel of Blaze Responsibly and Michael Hoffman Esq. and will be on site processing expungements and giving free legal advice. (See story below)
Melissa Ambrose of NJ Advance Media will be on hand to sign up employers for the recently launched cannabisinsiderjobs.com portal. (Read more below.)
In addition to Rudder, the event program includes the following speakers:
It All Starts with the Plant
- Brett Goldman, partner at Ocan Group
Cannabis Opportunities: From the Classroom to the Workplace Panel
- Volley Hayhurst, VP Operations at Columbia Care
- Alexia Grillos, student at Stockton University
- Michael Scaffidi, Community Outreach coordinator for Curaleaf
The Green Rush: Opportunities for Ancillary Businesses Panel
- Hector Corchado, former Deputy Mayor and Councilman in Newark, retired law enforcement professional
- Jason Thomas, founder & CEO of Precision Quality & Compliance (PQC)
CannaTalk sessions
Fail Fest - Learning from mistakes — Faye Coleman, CEO of Pure Genesis
Resources for Getting into the Business — Ekaterina Sedia, coordinator for Stockton’s interdisciplinary Minor in Cannabis
Hemp + CBD opportunities — Jill Cohen, CEO of The CannaBoss Lady
What’s Next: Hospitality + Consumption Lounges — Kash McKinley, director of Constituent Services at City of Atlantic City
All Things Edibles — Tara “Misu” Sargente, CEO of Blazin’ Bakery
Employers and vendors will also be on hand for speed interviews and networking, including, the New Jersey Cannabis Trade Association (the spotlight sponsor); Columbia Care (headshot sponsor); Longview Strategic; The Botanist; HBK CPA; ATH NJ; Earth & Ivy; TerrAscend; Puffin; Reliance Compliance LLC; NJ Cannabis Certified and New Jersey CannaBusiness Association.
Legal services
Cannabis career fair will feature free legal services, including expungement
A recent cannabis job report from Leafly noted that at the end of 2021, there were over 420,000 full time cannabis jobs in the United States. For comparison’s sake, that number is twice the number of employed dentists or electrical engineers. Cannabis is also the fastest growing industry in much of the country.
Against this backdrop, Stockton University — in collaboration with the New Jersey CannaBusiness Association and NJ Cannabis Insider — is hosting a Career Fair & Business Expo on April at Stockton on April 5. Attendees will also be able to take advantage of legal services, including expungements, application advice and more.
Thankfully, we are connected to two talented lawyers, namely Michael Hoffman and Chirali Patel, who have made giving back to the community one of their trademarks.
I had the opportunity to ask them a few questions ahead of the career fair.
Q: Why are legal services important in the cannabis industry?
Patel: With all the time, resources and energy put into applying for a cannabis license or operating in the federally illegal industry, even the smallest mistake can jeopardize your chances to succeed. With so much at stake, hiring a vetted attorney that is competent to serve your needs is not only important but it’s a relationship that should be built to last throughout your cannabis journey.
Hoffman: This industry involves so many different unique aspects of law, policy and regulatory interpretation that having a lawyer offers an important guide through a myriad of confusing questions that haven’t even been considered.”
Q: Who do you hope to help at the program?
Patel: I hope to help anyone willing to listen to the realities of this industry and is ready to face the challenges head on with pure intentions and dedication. I’m especially keen on helping anyone who has borne the brunt of the war on drugs, women and people of color in addition to individuals with disabilities that get overlooked.
Hoffman: I believe that I would like to help anyone who may need it. This industry is born out of nearly a century of prohibition. That prohibition included the use of criminal and economic limitations, particularly upon people of color and people in poverty. Expungements offer a step toward clearing up that prohibitionist past toward a beneficial future.
Q: What does it mean to have your record expunged?
Patel: It potentially means a fresh start, a chance at getting that job you never could attain due to your record, or the ability to afford a home with a loan you were previously ineligible for. It means you no longer have to check the “yes” box on applications that ask if you’ve ever been arrested or convicted of a crime in the past. In many ways, it frees you from being punished for your past mistakes.
Hoffman: That would depend on the person. To some, it may mean nothing, as their prior convictions can’t be used against them because of state law changes and eliminations of stigma. To others, it may mean everything. To be able to, as a final expungement order provides, consider the arrest or conviction to not have occurred and answer questions accordingly, could mean the world to someone who has been trying to advance in federal employment, obtain federal housing, get a federal loan, or even rent an Airbnb. It could change their lives.
Q: Why are you offering your services at the event?
Patel: I’m committed to giving back to my community through education and empowerment and services such as free expungements. If you’re going to get into the cannabis industry, then you owe it to those whose backs this industry was built on to work on reform and pay it forward. We all need to play a role in curtailing the damage done by racial bias in the criminal justice system and participating in events like this is part of the why.
Hoffman: Because people who are in the job market have been affected by the war on drugs and the stains from it in the past and will be affected into the future. As a part of the criminal justice system, it is not only my job, but it is my duty to help clean up after the war and do my part to help heal the wounds still raw and debilitating. The war is over, and we need to clean up, and heal, as a society. That is why I provide services like this.
— Rob Mejia | For NJ Cannabis Insider
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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.
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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.
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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.ctinsider.com/news/article/Jury-convicts-man-who-shot-protesters-in-suburban-17049894.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:16Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
“The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. “Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical.”
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
“But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards,” said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He said the compound is in “the top tier of problematic chemicals in our water.”
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing facilities in Henderson, Nevada, were the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites in the state between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in data provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites, where severe perchlorate contamination is generated from the burning of hazardous byproducts from weapons manufacturing and munitions. One such site is in Colfax, Louisiana, where environmentalists have long advocated for reform.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what's needed.
“Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water," said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
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AP reporter Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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Machine Gun Kelly has shared his memories of the late Taylor Hawkins and said that he wants to tell the drummer’s children that “your father is a great, great man”.
The Foo Fighters drummer passed away last Friday (March 25) at the age of 50 in Bogotá, Colombia while the band were on their South American tour.
Speaking on The Howard Stern Show this week, Kelly recalled meeting Hawkins in Paraguay, where they due to play at the same festival together before bad weather conditions forced the cancellation of the event, two days before the drummer’s death.
“It sucked because that day was the day the Foo Fighters were playing with us on the same stage,” Kelly said. “I had texted Dave [Grohl] and he was like, ’Yes, I’m gonna come watch the show’. They had never seen the show and that was the day where it was like, ‘Oh my God the Foo Fighters are gonna come watch our show!’
“We were so excited, man. [But] the rain came and I saw lightning start to happen,” Kelly added, which forced the cancellation of his show. “So I’m texting Dave and we’re super-bummed, and he’s like, ‘Come over to the hotel, we’re going to shut the rooftop down and we’ll have some drinks.'”
Kelly continued: “We got out of the elevator, all 20 of [his entourage], and Taylor, Dave, the whole Foo Fighters team… but specifically Taylor, he went up to every single one of us and gave us each our moment. Like, every single one of us, man, down to my assistant – they’re relating over, ‘Oh you’re from Topanga? I’m from Topanga!’ It was like, dude, he’s such a beautiful soul, man.”
Kelly said that, during the night, Hawkins “stopped at every single person and gave his heart”, and that when they left the hotel “the kids in us came out: ‘This is the greatest night of our life! These legends…'”
“And the last thing [Hawkins] said to [Kelly’s drummer] was: ‘I’m just so bummed I didn’t get to see you guys play’.”
Kelly then shared a message to Hawkins’ children. “I really want to thank him and let his kids know that he made us feel — in a time where the outside world, outside of the fans, was really coming in hard on us — he made us feel so confident in ourselves and loved.
“Your father is a great, great man and we were all lucky to know him, and we all appreciate that night more than anyone will know. That was a dream for us.”
The likes of Paul McCartney, Elton John, Joan Jett, Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, Liam Gallagher, Slash and Stevie Nicks have all paid tribute to Hawkins’ life and career since the news of his death was confirmed.
The Grammys will also pay tribute to the Hawkins during their 2022 ceremony on Sunday (April 3). | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/machine-gun-kelly-shares-message-to-taylor-hawkins-children-your-father-is-a-great-great-man-3195351 | 2022-04-01T01:46:17Z |
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