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Final Four coaches feel transfer portal is “out of control”
By The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jeff Walz has had a lot of success getting players to transfer to Louisville over the last few years, including three starters on his Final Four team this season. He’s not the only coach in the Final Four who has bolstered the roster by using the transfer portal as both South Carolina and UConn have found supplemental players from it. Still Walz, Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma think the amount of players looking to change schools is getting out of control. | https://keyt.com/sports/national-sports/ap-national-sports/2022/03/31/final-four-coaches-feel-transfer-portal-is-out-of-control-2/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:18Z |
‘Unbox Me’ campaign gives visibility to lives of transgender children
The Unbox Me campaign was launched by UNAIDS ahead of the International Transgender Day of Visibility, observed this Thursday, 31 March.
The goal is to raise awareness among parents, teachers, and the wider community about gender identity during childhood.
Expressing identity freely
“Many of us take our gender identity for granted, but for many children it is not so easy. It’s a matter of daily survival, a daily struggle,” said Mahesh Mahalingam, UNAIDS Director of Communications and Global Advocacy.
“Children all around the world must be supported in expressing their identity freely,” he added.
Unbox Me is centred around a common experience for children, many of whom have boxes or hiding places where they store prized possessions and trinkets.
Box of dreams
These hidden objects can reveal a lot about the child, such as who they really are, their likes, and their dreams for the future.
For some transgender children, hiding treasures in a box can become a way of hiding their identity from disapproving eyes, UNAIDS said. Unbox Me helps to give them visibility.
Stigma, discrimination and criminalization tend to make transgender and gender-diverse people invisible, the agency added, with extreme forms of discrimination leading to even the denial of the existence of gender-diverse people.
Acceptance and inclusion
The Unbox Me campaign originated in India, where more than 90 per cent of transgender people leave their homes, or are thrown out, by the age of 15. Many end up living on the street with no money or education, or relying on sex work.
The campaign is now going global as its theme of acceptance and inclusion is universal.
Around the world, transgender people are often marginalized and suffer discrimination and violence. As a result, they are nearly 35 times more at risk of acquiring HIV than other adults, according to the UN agency, which is working to stamp out the virus, and end AIDS, by the decade’s end.
Criminalized
Currently, some 24 countries criminalize and prosecute transgender people. During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, some governments even instituted gender-specific mobility days during lockdowns, which resulted in some transgender people being arrested for going out on the “wrong” day.
UNAIDS works closely with the transgender community, civil society organizations and governments to decriminalize transgender people, secure their rights and ensure that they have access to health, education and social protection, as well as protection from abuse and exploitation.
Collaboration and support
The Unbox Me campaign is part of an ongoing collaboration between UNAIDS and the advertising agency FCB India.
Last year, they partnered on a successful short film called ‘The Mirror’, about a young boy looking in the mirror and dressing up as a woman.
The film was part of the #SeeMeAsIAm campaign and served to raise awareness among parents, teachers and the community, about gender identity in childhood, which the current campaign builds on.
“In India, children usually have a box which they use to store their most precious possessions, but in the case of transgender children they need to hide their box of treasures, since some of their most precious possessions don’t fit the gender norm that society expects them to conform to,” said Swati Bhattacharya, FCB India’s Creative Chairperson, who conceptualized Unbox Me.
So far, the campaign has garnered support among the education community in India, UNAIDS has reported.
Teachers in many schools across the country are using the boxes featured in the campaign as a conversation starter to raise awareness about gender identity.
Many prominent Indian personalities and community leaders have also participated in the campaign, including film director Zoya Akhtar and television anchor Barkha Dutt. | https://www.africaglobalvillage.com/unbox-me-campaign-gives-visibility-to-lives-of-transgender-children/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:17Z |
Bridgeport High, Middle Schools Hosting Region 10 Band Festival Wednesday and Thursday
The Bridgeport High School and Bridgeport Middle School concert bands kicked off the Region 10 Spring Festival for Performance Evaluation and Assessment at BHS Wednesday morning at their respective schools. Commonly known as the Region 10 Band Festival, the event is one of 10 Regional Band Festivals throughout the...
connect-bridgeport.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556720020048/bridgeport-high-middle-schools-hosting-region-10-band-festival-wednesday-and-thursday | 2022-04-01T01:46:19Z |
A previously undisclosed short virtual meeting between Will Smith and Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences President David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson on March 29 could be causing a new crisis to hit the Oscar organization.
The six-minute zoom call initiated by the King Richard star to Rubin and Hudson mainly saw Smith apologize, yet again, for slapping Chris Rock during Sunday’s telecast on live TV.
The new shockwave is hitting hard because those in the Academy’s Board of Governors meeting yesterday beginning disciplinary procedures against Smith weren’t in the know.
“Why would they keep this from us?” exclaimed one insider who participated in Wednesday’s board meeting. “It only contributes to an atmosphere of suspicion and lack of leadership.”
With seemingly contradictory information now swirling about how Smith was allegedly asked and refused to exit the Dolby Theatre after striking Rock, the efforts by the nearly 50-member Board of Governors to find an appropriate solution to the situation by its next April 18 scheduled meeting could be fracturing based on news of Rubin and Hudson’s March 29 virtual meeting with Smith. The King Richard Best Actor Oscar winner has at least 15 days notice as of yesterday before the vote regarding his violations and sanctions, to be heard beforehand by means of a written response.
“What else don’t we know about what’s happening or what happened on Sunday?” stated another well positioned Academy member of the interaction between Smith, Rubin and Hudson.
“This lack of transparency undermines our ability to come to a suitable resolution to the whole thing,” the AMPAS member added.
Rubin and Hudson heard Smith’s apology out over how he lost it over Rock’s “G.I. Jane 2” joke over Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head. Rubin and Hudson informed Smith that a meeting with the Governors was taking place to determine what punitive action should be taken against the Oscar winning King Richard Best Actor.
Yesterday, the Board of Governors convened and agreed in majority to investigate the Smith altercation. Their next board meeting on April 18 will decide what disciplinary action could occur for the Oscar winner. This may include suspension, expulsion, or other sanctions permitted by the Bylaws and Standards of Conduct. While Smith could potentially be expelled from AMPAS, many sources don’t believe he’ll lose his Oscar.
AMPAS also issued a statement Wednesday saying, “While we would like to clarify that Mr. Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused, we also recognize we could have handled the situation differently.”
However, those close to Smith on Sunday night say that he was never directly asked by anyone associated with AMPAS to leave the Dolby Theatre; rather the idea was floated to the actor by Oscar brass via Smith’s publicist.
Oscars producer Will Packer is the first among the award show’s higher-ups to speak publicly about what went down on Good Morning America tomorrow morning.
That interview was teased on World News Tonight, with Packer revealing details about the LAPD’s conversation with Rock on Sunday night.
“They were saying, ‘This is battery.’ That was the word they used in that moment,” Packer told GMA‘s T.J. Holmes. “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. The LAPD officers finish laying out what his options were. And they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action? And he said no.”
On Wednesday night, Rock kicked off his Ego Death World Tour at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre, saying “I haven’t talked to anyone despite what you may have heard,” and added that he is “still kinda processing what happened” and that “at some point” he will talk about “that sh*t,” and “it will be serious, and it will be funny.”
Representatives for Smith and the Academy did not return request for comment.
Variety was the first to report on the Tuesday call between Smith and the Oscar bosses. | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/will-smith-call-with-oscar-bosses-outrages-board-more-the-hamden-journal/130465/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:19Z |
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0000950103-22-005656 | https://www.benzinga.com/secfilings/22/03/26391395/citigroup-inc-formfwp-0000950103-22-005656 | 2022-04-01T01:46:20Z |
As gas prices blow past $4 a gallon nationally, and $6 a gallon in California, you might think automotive performance has peaked. If that’s your perspective stop reading right now, because Toyota just unveiled its most powerful and advanced compact car yet, with performance specs that will blow you (and likely much of the competition) away.
The 2023 Toyota GR Corolla offers a spec sheet that reads like an old-school performance enthusiast’s wish list. 300 horsepower? Check. Manual transmission? Check. Rear-biased all-wheel drive, with torque vectoring and limited-slip differentials? Check. A sub-3,300 pound curb weight, and a roughly 1:10 power-to-weight ratio? Check.
What’s more compelling about the 2023 GR Corolla is how it achieves these old-school performance figures with the latest advanced technology. Its 300-horsepower comes from a tiny 1.6-liter, 3-cylinder engine using a single turbocharger and direct injection. Despite its diminutive size the engine offers 273 pound-feet of torque and offers maximum torque between 3,000 and 5,000 rpm, with peak horsepower hitting at an easily-accessible 6,500 rpm.
This power is delivered through a rev-matching 6-speed manual transmission, with no automatic transmission offered. From there the power travels to all four wheels, with front-to-rear torque distribution defaulting to 60:40, but is easily switched to 50:50, or even a 30:70 rear bias setting, through a dash-mounted dial. Available front and rear Torsen limited-slip differentials increase cornering grip.
Structural enhancements include body stiffening through the use of added weld points and structural adhesives, plus a performance-tuned MacPherson strut front suspension and double wishbone, multilink rear suspension. Standard 18-inch wheels with Michelin Pilot Sport 4 tires, sized 235/40, and fixed-caliper disc brakes squeezing ventilated rotors, complete the chassis upgrades.
Additional performance and appearance upgrades, like a carbon roof (it’s forged rather than a woven carbon fiber design, but just as light), aluminum hood and doors, vented upper and lower body panels, and a roof-mounted rear spoiler separate the GR from standard Corollas. The interior features aggressively-bolstered leather front seats, a short-throw shifter, contrast stitching, an upgraded gauge cluster, and a 12.3-inch central display screen.
Not all of these features are included in both versions of the 2023 GR Corolla. The base, or “Core Grade” trim, doesn’t include the forged carbon roof panel, locking differentials, red brake calipers, heated leather front seats with contrast stitching or heated steering wheel. Those all come standard on the “Circuit Edition” version of the GR Corolla, along with an upgraded JBL audio system.
Toyota also includes its Safety Sense 3.0 system and dynamic radar cruise control as standard on all GR models. This means every GR Corolla has lane departure warning, lane keep assist, blind spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, automatic high beams, road sign assist, rear seat reminder, and hill start assist.
A one-year subscription to Toyota Safety Connect, with roadside assistance, stolen vehicle locator and automatic collision notification, is included in the GR Corolla’s price — which hasn’t been release yet, but will be later this when Toyota’s hot hatch goes on sale.
For Toyota to release a car like the GR Corolla, especially right now, says a lot about the brand’s continued commitment to performance and driving enjoyment. Credit company leader Akio Toyoda, who stated a desire to add passion and emotion to Toyota’s line up years ago, and has followed through with everything from the GR Yaris to the Lexus LC 500 in recent years.
The GR Corolla’s specs suggest it will be a serious rival to established players like the Honda Civic Type R, Subaru WRX, and Volkswagen GTI. We look forward to confirming this prediction as soon as possible. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/kbrauer/2022/03/31/2023-gr-corolla-toyota-launches-a-300-horsepower-awd-rally-rocket/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:20Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — Whoa! It's a Double Aho!
Both NHL players named Sebastian Aho — one a defenseman for the New York Islanders, the other a forward for the Carolina Hurricanes — scored goals for their teams Thursday night.
And at nearly the exact same time.
According to Sportsnet Stats, the Islanders' Aho scored his first goal of the season at 7:14 p.m. EDT in New York against Columbus.
Just 34 seconds later — and more than 500 miles away — the Hurricanes' Aho scored his 31st goal in Carolina against Montreal. Both gave their teams 1-0 leads in the first period.
It's not the first time the two have combined on a statistical oddity. In 2018, New York's Aho committed a hooking penalty on Carolina's Aho, causing MSG Networks Islanders play-by-play broadcaster Brendan Burke to exclaim: "A little Sebastian Aho-on-Sebastian Aho crime.”
The two Ahos are not related, by the way. The Islanders' Aho, Sebastian Johannes Aho, is 26 and from Sweden. He has three career NHL goals in limited action.
The Hurricanes' Aho, Sebastian Antero Aho, is 24 and from Finland. He's a two-time NHL All-Star and has 176 career goals.
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More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Isles-Aho-Hurricanes-Aho-score-goals-at-almost-17049866.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:20Z |
EVANS, Ga. — As if the Augusta National Women’s Amateur wasn’t challenging enough as is, inclement weather has made the third playing of one of the biggest events in women’s golf even more difficult.
Before players could begin their second round at 7:30 a.m. ET Thursday morning at Champions Retreat Golf Club, the weather forced a seven-and-a-half hour delay, creating questions about Friday’s practice round down the road at Augusta National Golf Club. But the sun came out in the afternoon, and play resumed at 3 p.m. ET, setting up a race against the sunset.
Nine players were able to finish their second rounds when play was suspended at 7:52 p.m. ET. The last groups will need to finish nine holes when play resumes Friday morning at Champions Retreat at 7:30 a.m. ET.
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Five players were under par following the first round, but none were in the red when the horn sounded Thursday night. ANWA three-timer Beatrice Wallin – who has her brother on the bag – USC freshman phenom Amari Avery and Michigan’s Hailey Borja are all tied atop the leaderboard at even par. Borja was the lone player under par before making bogey on No. 11, her final hole of the day.
“My alarm this morning went off at 5:10 and I got the message at 5:30 that there was a delay. I got to sleep in a little bit, which was very nice,” Wallin said. “Then I got here with the first shuttle, played some cards with my friend and my brother and just enjoyed some time and chilled.”
“Honestly, I was just chilling, listening to some music and hanging out with friends,” Avery said. “Luckily the rain cleared up and we went on the range to hit a little bit when they said three o’clock was going to be the first tee time.”
“I was originally supposed to go off at 9:06 and ended up going off at 4:36, so it was definitely a long day, but a day to be patient,” Borja said. “I think today was all about being patient. I really thought about the positives of today. Like, yeah it’s bad weather, but everyone here is trying to do the best they can and have the best conditions that we can play on. I just really started to think positive about it.”
The top-30 players will advance to Saturday’s final round at Augusta National, and a playoff will take place if necessary following the second round. Those 30 players will then make their way to Augusta National for an afternoon practice round, with the time yet to be determined.
As it stands, 11 players are battling for five spots in the top 30, with 20 players just four shots outside the current projected cut of 5 over.
Will Cheney of the August Chronicle contributed to this article. | https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/03/31/anwa-weather-delay-thursday-augusta-national-womens-amateur-friday-schedule/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:21Z |
BRIDGEPORT, Ct. (WANE) – In their next-to-last game of the regular season the Mad Ants had eight players in double figures, but fell to the Westchester Knicks by a score of 131-110 on Thursday night.
Darius Adams led a balanced Fort Wayne attack with 19 points while Andrew Rowsey added 17. Kavell Bigby-Williams recorded a double-double with 12 points and 13 rebounds as the Ants fell to 16-17 on the season.
The Ants wrap up the regular season with another road game at Westchester on Saturday. | https://www.wane.com/sports/mad-ants/ants-fall-to-knicks-despite-eight-in-double-figures/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:21Z |
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Some folks took up baking or knitting to occupy themselves during the long days and nights of early COVID lockdown. Judd Apatow grabbed a wad of Netflix cash and threw together The Bubble, a slapdash comedy with an embarrassment of misused talent. The writer-director tries to dodge criticism of his painfully unfunny parody of a pandemic film shoot by pointing out at both the beginning and the end that it’s a heroic bid for distraction in difficult times. But this sloppy attempt to harness the anarchic improvisational energy of a Christopher Guest movie ends up more of an irritant, especially after the gentle charms of The King of Staten Island.
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Yes, there’s some amusement in watching David Duchovny snort coke off Keegan-Michael Key’s bald dome. But at one point Duchovny’s character, an overconfident actor with more loyalty to the sci-fi franchise he stars in than to his adopted son, says: “I’m gonna make that scene work. Because that’s what I do. I turn shit into gold.” Sadly, no one on hand possesses the alchemical power to pull off that transformation with Apatow and Pam Brady’s strained script.
The Bubble
Release date: Friday, April 1
Cast: Karen Gillan, Iris Apatow, Fred Armisen, Maria Bakalova, Vir Das, David Duchovny, Samson Kayo, Keegan-Michael Key, Guz Khan, Leslie Mann, Kate McKinnon, Pedro Pascal, Peter Serafinowicz, Harry Trevaldwyn
Director: Judd Apatow
Screenwriters: Judd Apatow, Pam Brady
Is there anyone out there who still gets a laugh out of cringe comedy built around face masks and shields, nasal swabs, social distancing, quarantine fatigue and glitchy Zoom calls? Watching The Bubble hammers home the realization that nothing ages faster than COVID humor. Seriously, we’re all so over it that the silliness just grates. Whereas a show like White Lotus took advantage of pandemic restrictions to create something unique and original in a confined setting, Apatow’s film feels like a very tired Tropic Thunder wannabe.
The closest thing to actual laughs comes in the opening setup for Cliff Beasts, the 23rd-biggest action franchise of all time. As posters flash on the screen for this Jurassic Park knockoff about flying dinosaurs and the ragtag band of heroes doing battle with them, we see the evolution from the original, through Cliff Beasts II: Re-Extinction to Cliff Beasts 5: Space Fury, with the tagline “It’s Their Moon Now.”
Those graphics also introduce the franchise stars, Carol Cobb (Karen Gillan), Sean Knox (Key), Lauren Van Chance (Leslie Mann), Dustin Mulray (Duchovny) and Howie Frangopolous (Guz Khan).
When producer Gavin (Peter Serafinowicz) hastily prepares a sixth entry in a desperate attempt to make some money for a studio buckling under pandemic financial pressure, Carol is reluctant to accept. She sat out the previous installment in order to play the half-Jewish/half-Palestinian lead (she’s neither) in an alien-invasion career killer called Jerusalem Rising (I did smirk at that clip) and is concerned about bad blood with her Cliff Beasts co-stars. That turns out to be the least of her worries.
The bubble of the title is the luxury country-estate hotel and nearby studio in England where cast and crew will be isolated for the duration of the scheduled three-month shoot. That group includes clueless director Darren Eigen (Fred Armisen), a Sundance award winner for Tiles of Love, which he shot on an iPhone 6 while working at Home Depot; Serious Actor Dieter Bravo (Pedro Pascal), slumming it for some quick cash; and Krystal Kris (Iris Apatow), a TikTok sensation whose 120 million followers the studio hopes will expand its audience.
While Iris Apatow is among the more appealing members of the overstuffed ensemble, partly because she’s one of the few not constantly trying too hard, Krystal’s main function is to allow for TikTok dance routines to be dropped in when the comedy is floundering.
The same goes for Beck, who pops up on one of several Zoom calls with studio head Paula (Kate McKinnon). While Paula mostly lobs passive-aggressive threats at Gavin from various vacation retreats around the globe, she recruits Beck to boost flagging morale as the shoot drags on; the singer’s cover of Kool & The Gang’s “Ladies Night” provides another dance break for the cast. Other star cameos are scattered throughout, yielding little beyond the recognition factor.
The assumption appears to have been made early in the development of The Bubble that just lumping a whole bunch of skilled comedy performers together and having them go stir-crazy as their confinement stretches on and on would be both hysterical and relatable to the rest of us numbed by pandemic tedium. It’s not. The jokes are feeble, the improv is uninspired, the digs at high-maintenance actors are old, and the scenes of actual Cliff Beasts production don’t come close to the endearing quality of the best (or worst) Syfy schlock. There’s none of the wit, warmth or affectionate skewering of genre tropes that makes a film like Galaxy Quest such a standout among sci-fi meta spoofs.
Greenscreen has never been the natural domain of Apatow’s comedy, and this isn’t going to change that, despite a marathon end-credits list that would suggest far more impressive visual effects than anything on display. Even a robust John Williams-style score by Michael Andrews and Andrew Bird can’t breathe life into the plodding sci-fi scenes on a scorched Everest.
There’s also a depressing lack of cohesion among the cast, whose distinctive comic talents are seldom integrated effectively. So while Maria Bakalova has sweet moments as a hotel desk clerk propositioned by Dieter, and Harry Trevaldwyn is an agreeably impish presence as the underqualified COVID protocol officer, they all seem to be in different movies. In another universe, you can imagine this film as the kind of sharply satirical microcosm comedy that was a Robert Altman specialty. But that would be a galaxy far, far away. One with actual plotlines.
Apatow and Brady’s script heightens the anxiety by having Gavin bring in an overzealous security officer (Ross Lee) to stop the mutinying actors from escaping. But this is no less a comedy dead end than Sean’s lifestyle brand, “Harmony Ignite,” or recently divorced couple Dustin and Lauren’s rekindled romance and co-parenting issues. The nominal central thread involves Carol’s attempts to rebel against studio tyranny and the consequent humiliating downsizing of her part, as the younger, more bankable Krystal’s is beefed up.
The big twist involves the mistreated EPK guy, Scott (Nick Kocher), who’s forgotten for such long stretches of the movie that his triumphant redemption becomes just another desperate attempt to squish the whole mess into a story. None of it amounts to more than half-baked sketch ideas in a film that’s staggeringly inept considering the resources involved. The Bubble was meant to be a pandemic lark, a fun antidote to the virus. But it’s a cure for nothing.
Full credits
Distribution: Netflix
Production company: Apatow Productions
Cast: Karen Gillan, Iris Apatow, Fred Armisen, Maria Bakalova, Vir Das, David Duchovny, Samson Kayo, Keegan-Michael Key, Guz Khan, Leslie Mann, Kate McKinnon, Pedro Pascal, Peter Serafinowicz, Harry Trevaldwyn, Danielle Vitalis, Rob Delaney, Raphael Acloque, Chris Witaske, Galen Hopper, Ross Lee, Nick Kocher, Celeste Dring, Ben Ashenden, Alexander Owen
Director: Judd Apatow
Screenwriters: Judd Apatow, Pam Brady
Producer: Judd Apatow
Executive producers: Pam Brady, Barry Mendel, Donald Sabourin
Director of photography: Ben Smithard
Production designer: Mark Tildesley
Costume designer: Lynsey Moore
Music: Michael Andrews, Andrew Bird
Editors: James Thomas, Dan Schalk
Visual effects supervisors: Roger Guyett, Russell Earl
Choreographer: Ryan Heffington
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Guns found at checkpoints in all 5 major Tennessee airports
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says security screeners found guns in carry-on baggage at all five of Tennessee’s major airports last week.
The TSA says guns were discovered at security checkpoints during the week of March 20 through March 27 at Nashville International Airport, Memphis International Airport, Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport, McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville and Tri-Cities Airport in Blountville.
Travelers face criminal and civil penalties for bringing prohibited firearms to a security checkpoint.
The TSA says guns can be transported on a commercial aircraft only if they are unloaded, packed in a locked, hard-sided case and placed in checked baggage.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers moved to the brink Thursday of shaking hands on a scaled-back bipartisan compromise providing a fresh $10 billion to combat COVID-19, a deal that could set up final congressional approval next week.
The price tag was down from an earlier $15.6 billion agreement between the two parties that collapsed weeks ago after House Democrats rejected cutting unused pandemic aid to states to help pay for it. President Joe Biden requested $22.5 billion in early March. With leaders hoping to move the package through Congress quickly, the lowered cost seemed to reflect both parties’ calculations that agreeing soon to additional savings would be too hard.
The effort, which would finance steps like vaccines, treatments and tests, comes as Bidenand other Democrats have warned the government is running out of moneyto counter the pandemic. At the same time, the more transmissible omicron variant BA.2 has been spreading quickly in the U.S. and abroad.
“We’ve reached an agreement in principle on all the spending and all of the offsets,” Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the lead Republican bargainer, told reporters, using Washington-speak for savings. “It’s entirely balanced by offsets.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and others were more circumspect.
“We are getting close to a final agreement that would garner bipartisan support,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. He said lawmakers were still finalizing the bill’s components and language, and awaiting a cost estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair of the Senate health committee and another bargainer, said, “I’m hoping,” when asked about Romney’s assessment.
Once clinched, an agreement would represent a semblance of bipartisan cooperation in battling the pandemic that dissolved a year ago, when a far larger, $1.9 trillion measure proposed by the new president cleared Congress with only Democratic votes. That bill was laden with spending to help struggling families, businesses and communities, while this one would be aimed exclusively at public health.
Many Republicans have been willing to go along with the new expenditures but have insisted on paying for them with unspent funds from previous bills Congress has enacted to address the pandemic.
Half the new measure’s $10 billion would be used for treatments, said Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., who has helped negotiate the agreement. He said top federal health officials would be given wide discretion on spending the rest of it but it would include research and other steps for battling the disease, which has killed around 975,000 Americans and millions across the world.
Romney and others said savings the two parties had agreed to for the new bill would not include the cuts in state assistance that House Democrats opposed. He said some unused funds would be culled from another pandemic program that gives state and local governments funds for grants to local businesses.
Blunt said both sides had also agreed to savings that include pulling back an unspent $2.2 billion for aiding entertainment venues closed during the pandemic and more than $2 billion still available for assisting aviation manufacturing.
Romney said the $10 billion might include $1 billion for vaccines, treatments and other support for countries overseas. Blunt said that figure seemed unresolved. One third of the earlier, $15.6 billion measure had been slated to go abroad.
The lowered figure for assisting other countries encountered opposition in the House, where some Democrats wanted to boost the figure. Epidemiologists have cited the need to vaccinate more people around the world and reduce the virus’ opportunities for spinning off new variants.
“It’s a problem,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters. “It’s a shame.”
Kate Bedingfield, White House communications director, said officials were “very hopeful” an agreement would be reached and prodded lawmakers to include funds to help other countries cope with the disease.
“We’re not going to be able to put this pandemic behind us until we stop the spread and proliferation of new variants globally,” Bedingfield said.
Leaders hope Congress can approve the legislation before lawmakers leave for a spring recess after next week.
Republicans have leverage in the Democratic-controlled, 50-50 Senate because 60 votes are needed to pass most major bills. Romney and Blunt both said they believed a finalized package they described would attract significantly more than the 10 GOP votes needed.
Since the pandemic began, Congress has approved more than $5 trillion to address the economic and health crises it produced. Only a small fraction of that has been for public health programs like vaccines.
In an interview earlier Thursday with Punchbowl News, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the measure’s price tag seemed to have fallen to $10 billion because Democrats weren’t agreeing to additional savings.
Minutes later, Schumer took to the Senate floor and mentioned no figures but suggested its size could fall.
“I’m pleading with my Republican colleagues, join us,” Schumer said. “We want more than you do, but we have to get something done. We have to get something done.”
Asked if he thought an agreement could be reached before lawmakers’ recess, McConnell said, “We’ll see. Hope so.”
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to this report. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/mcconnell-says-covid-spending-package-could-shrink-to-10b/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:21Z |
Four out of five Americans support a ban on surveillance advertising. This type of advertising — also known as targeted advertising — uses the personal data of consumers, including things like age, gender, interests and behavioral trends to feed them targeted ads. This strategy has been a major profit-generator for giants like Google and Meta, but targeted advertising might not be around for much longer.
In January, US Senator Cory Booker announced the introduction of the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act; a bill that would do just that. If passed, this legislation would “prohibit advertising networks and facilitators from using personal data to target advertisements, with the exception of broad location targeting to a recognized place, such as a municipality.” The bill would also stop advertisers from “targeting ads based on protected class information, such as race, gender, religion and personal data purchased from data brokers.”
Practices That Abuse Consumer Privacy
Documentaries like The Social Dilemma and social media whistleblowers have dominated headlines and opened the public’s eyes to how their data is being used and people aren’t happy. The larger implications of surveillance advertising are much more serious than simply influencing purchases. As Senator Booker explained, “the hoarding of people’s personal data not only abuses privacy, but also drives the spread of misinformation, domestic extremism, racial division and violence.”
Even if the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act doesn’t pass, it certainly won’t be the last bill of its kind. The days of targeted advertising are numbered as consumers become increasingly discerning about how their information is being used. As analyst Yoram Wurmser said, this bill is, “a signal of the dissatisfaction out there, and the danger of relying fully on an ad model that could disappear.”
It’s time for companies to start thinking beyond targeted advertising. But what does that mean for the future of customer experience?
Related Article: How to Turn Data Privacy and Compliance Regulations Into a Buyer Advantage
No Replacement for Getting to Know Customers
Companies who have a solid strategy around customer listening and empathy shouldn’t be threatened by legislation that limits targeted advertising — they know their customers well enough to know what will resonate broadly. When it comes down to it, deeply understanding your customers will drive your advertising strategy more than engagement statistics from a targeted ad will.
Just because someone sees an ad that was designed for them based on their gender, age or other personal information, doesn’t mean that it will resonate with them. This is especially true if the ad is designed by someone who isn’t from that same demographic, as is often the case. Targeted advertising is a highly effective revenue-generator — no doubt — but companies would be smart not to put all of their eggs in one basket and lose sight of what really matters — understanding customers enough to know what will make them click.
Related Article: On Data Privacy Day, 5 Organizations Share How They Protect Consumer Data
The Option for Consumers to Opt-In Is Critical
Maintaining customer trust is integral to every company’s success. One report found that “70% of consumers say trusting a brand is more important today than in the past, and more people are choosing to spend money with brands they trust.” Giving customers the choice to “opt-in” and consent to their data being collected is an essential part of building that trust.
Last year, Apple gave customers the option to opt-in to receiving targeted ads from the apps on their phones. The majority of iPhone users (62%) opted out — another testament to consumers’ desire for privacy — but it sparked a larger conversation around the importance of transparency and opting-in. As long as targeted advertising still exists, consumers should be given the choice to knowingly opt-in.
And if the majority of consumers “opt out” of being tracked, the only option for companies to get a comprehensive understanding of the market is to offer ways for those consumers to “opt in” to feedback (if they so desire). If companies capture consumers who want to provide feedback, the option should be rich and authentic — think customer interviews, shop-alongs and surveys.
Explore Ad Strategies That Don’t Rely on Personal Data
Should the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act pass, it would still permit advertising based on location in addition to contextual advertising. These types of advertising are likely here to stay, and companies would be wise to get curious about how to maximize the effectiveness of these two avenues.
This will require gaining insight into what’s most important to users within certain contexts, and the best way to do that is to understand, observe and empathize with customers. By regularly talking with customers and exploring what lands best with them in certain contexts, companies can deliver ads that have an impact.
If surveillance advertising is banned at some point in the future (and it seems likely that it will at least be limited), it will have a significant impact on many companies’ bottom lines.
Consider this a wake-up call: it’s time to plan for what the future of advertising and customer experience look like without access to consumers’ personal information. This is an opportunity for companies to reconsider their advertising efforts and ensure they have a customer listening model that is ethical and focused on truly understanding customers as human beings — not just ad impressions or conversion data. | https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/when-it-comes-to-customer-experience-the-days-of-targeted-advertising-are-numbered/?utm_source=cmswire.com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=all-articles-rss | 2022-04-01T01:46:21Z |
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.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Bill-banning-hairstyle-bias-approved-by-17049811.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:22Z |
Being the first often means you have to be the best — and the bravest. 📸 @sbmaneyphoto for @nytimes pic.twitter.com/DSZiawlnDd
— Sarahbeth Maney (@sbmaneyphoto) March 24, 2022
On March 21, 2022, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson made her opening statement—and history. Jackson is the first Black woman to be nominated to serve as a Supreme Court justice, making her opening statement to the Senate, and the subsequent four days of hearings, historic events. The hearings themselves are essentially an interview, designed to be a time where senators ask incisive questions to gauge the nominee's fitness for the life-tenured position of Supreme Court justice. Afterwards, they vote to confirm the nominee. A confirmation would make Jackson the first Black woman to be appointed a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Much of her family, whom she acknowledged and lovingly thanked in her statement, was in the audience. Their emotion was heartwarmingly evident, but it's the look her 17-year-old daughter, Leila, gave her that truly caught everyone's attention. In an inspiring image taken by photographer Sarahbeth Maney, Leila is seen in focus in the background, smiling as she watches her mother in the foreground address the Senate. The teen's face is beaming with a look of pure pride and admiration. Upon capturing the immediately iconic image, Maney says, “Having the honor to document this historic moment, as the first Black photography fellow for the @nytimes DC bureau reminds me that each step we take as the ‘first’ will only help move us further away from being the last.”
Today Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in during the first day of confirmation hearings @nytimes pic.twitter.com/hbRJqawN1k
— Sarahbeth Maney (@sbmaneyphoto) March 21, 2022
In her statement, Jackson addressed her two daughters—Talia and Leila—directly, saying, “Girls, I know it has not been easy as I've tried to navigate the challenges of juggling my career and motherhood. And I fully admit that I did not always get the balance right. But I hope you've seen that with hard work, determination, and love, it can be done. I am so looking forward to seeing what each of you chooses to do with your amazing lives in this incredible country. I love you so much.”
Jackson also thanked her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson, for his love, support, and friendship. The two met in college over 30 years ago, and have been married for 25 of those years. Dr. Jackson wiped tears from his eyes as his wife said, “I have no doubt that without him by my side from the very beginning of this incredible professional journey, none of this would have been possible. He's been the best husband, father, and friend I could ever imagine.”
Watch Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's opening statement at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings:
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Teresa Giudice let out a guttural scream, then hurled Andy Cohen across the room.
The scream, which came barreling out from some dark place like a bowling ball from a pinsetter, seemed to move through her entire body in stages of red-hot rage before she released it, only further inflaming her already agitated state of mind.
Giudice, a famously mercurial member of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast, is of course famous for overturning other things — like tables — but when she flicked Cohen away as he tried to intervene, it became one of the most hallowed moments in “Real Housewives” history.
That was 2010.
But Thursday, more than 11 years after that moment during the second season reunion of the show — which was fueled by Giudice’s beef with former castmate Danielle Staub — Giudice got a little warning from Cohen.
“No screaming.”
He delivered the cautionary measure at the taping of the 12th season reunion because Giudice, 49, was recently in the hospital for an emergency appendectomy.
“Teresa, you can’t yell today,” Cohen told Giudice. “Doctor’s orders. I’m worried about this. You’re someone who gets typically very fired up.”
Cohen, 53, who is both the reunion host and a producer of “RHONJ,” shared video of the conversation on his Instagram stories.
Giudice could be heard acknowledging his advice, but Cohen did not show her in the video to keep her reunion ensemble under wraps. Whatever it is, it involves some shine or sequins, because their reflection lit up his face like he was looking into a disco ball.
“No screaming,” she said, repeating his words like a kid repeating their parents’ advance before they ignore it.
“You’re going to grab me if you need to scream,” Cohen told Giudice, who smeared lipstick on him when she planted a kiss on his cheek.
Giudice, who grew up in Paterson, recently sold her Montville home. She is planning a summer wedding to fiance Louie Ruelas after her 2020 divorce from Joe Giudice (no, Melissa is not a bridesmaid, gosh!).
Giudice is the sole remaining member of the original “RHONJ” cast. The reality show debuted in 2009 and is currently airing its 12th season on Bravo.
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Fla. High Court Upholds Airbnb Arbitration Agreement
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SINOPEC SHANGHAI PETROCHEMICAL CO LTD General Corporate Statement By Foreign Issuer (Form6)
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man accused of evading police Wednesday by crashing a stolen truck into the Tualatin River and allegedly leaving a six-month pregnant woman to fend for herself, has now been arrested.
Officers with the Hillsboro Police Department found 32-year-old Jonathan Michael Laura and arrested him for “unrelated crimes” Thursday, according to authorities.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office had been actively searching for Laura following Wednesday’s incident, during which police said he refused to pull over the stolen 1992 Nissan pickup before he drove the vehicle into the water and swam to shore.
Deputies quickly rescued the pregnant woman who was the passenger, as she had reportedly told them she could not swim.
After being arrested for unrelated crimes, Laura was then sent to the Washington County Jail where deputies also charged him with eight charges in connection to the incident yesterday.
In addition to his other crimes, Laura now faces the following charges:
- Unlawful use of a motor vehicle
- Possession of a stolen vehicle
- Attempt to elude – felony
- Attempt to elude – misdemeanor
- Reckless driving
- Driving while revoked – misdemeanor
- Reckless endangering
- Criminal mischief in the first degree
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Crypto Bosses Deny Charges Of $40M Fraud And Obstruction
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Akerna Corp (KERN, Financial)(30-Year Financial) files //www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1755953/000121390022016675/0001213900-22-016675-index.htm'' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>its latest 10-K with SEC for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2021.
For the last quarter Akerna Corp reported a revenue of $6.63 million, compared with the revenue of $4.11 million during the same period a year ago. For the latest fiscal year the company reported a revenue of $20.7 million, an increase of 64.5% from last year. For the complete 30-year financial data, please go here..
The reported loss per diluted share was $1.31 for the year, compared with the loss per share of $0 in the previous year. The Akerna Corp had an operating margin of -91.72%, compared with the operating margin of -137.37% a year before. The 10-year historical median operating margin of Akerna Corp is -115.61%. The profitability rank of the company is 1 (out of 10).
At the end of the fiscal year, Akerna Corp has the cash and cash equivalents of $13.9 million, compared with $24.2 million in the previous year. The long term debt was $4.11 million, compared with $10.2 million in the previous year. Akerna Corp has a financial strength rank of 4 (out of 10).
For the complete 20-year historical financial data of KERN, click here. | https://www.gurufocus.com/news/1676090/akerna-corp-kern-files-10k-for-the-fiscal-year-ended-on-december-31-2021 | 2022-04-01T01:46:22Z |
April 1 is celebrated as April Fools’ Day across the world. The day is celebrated by people playing pranks and practical jokes with their friends. At the end of the joke, people yell April Fools’ Day. These pranks and hoaxes can vary in degree and nature, but the intent is to keep it light and funny and make the other person play a fool. The day was first celebrated in France and other European Countries, but slowly other countries also started celebrating and observing this day.
On the occasion of April Fools’ Day, here are some of the lesser-known facts about the day:
History and Significance
While there are many stories that suggest how the day came into existence, there is one that is commonly believed according to historians. Some historians have suggested that the day was first observed in 1582 after France switched to the Gregorian Calendar from Julian Calendar. According to the Julian Calendar, the New Year began on the 1st of April just like the Hindu calendar, that is during the spring equinox.
The Julian Calendar also did not reflect the correct and actual time the Earth used to take to complete one revolution around the sun, hence the shift to Gregorian Calendar. However, according to the Gregorian Calendar, the New Year was celebrated on 1st January.
While France became the first country to implement this change and accept the Gregorian Calendar, many other countries started accepting it slowly and therefore were subjected to being called April Fools, since they were still following the Julian Calendar instead of Gregorian Calendar. According to some reports, it took almost 300 years for all the countries to accept and implement the Gregorian Calendar.
Eventually, the day gained prominence in Britain in the 18th century and was also celebrated in different parts of Europe.
On this day, people can get over almost anything without guilt and often play out pranks that are harmless.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Paige Bueckers stood before the large audience in Las Vegas last July, apologizing for her unsteadiness as she was just getting over ankle surgery, and delivered a two-minute speech that left no doubt who she was and where she was coming from.
“I’m just a small-town kid with really big dreams,” she said, holding the ESPY award for top college athlete in the country.
Some of those dreams could be symbolized by the sprawling Gatorade ad, a mural at the nearby Mall of America. The small-town kid that came home with her UConn women’s basketball teammates to play for the national championship has become larger than life. “Interest in this event increased by about 300 times when we found out she was coming,” a long-time Twin Cities scribe told me.
But Bueckers’ dreams are larger still and concern far more than herself. The opportunities that come with being one of the most recognized athletes in America mean far more than monetizing her name, image and likeness.
“The life I have now as a white woman in a Black-led sport, I want to show a light on Black women,” she said during her ESPYs speech. “They don’t get the coverage they deserve.”
As Bueckers shouted out to the Black women in her life from the ESPYs stage, Tara Starks, back in Buecker’s hometown of Hopkins, Minnesota, felt the power of those words well up in her eyes. Bueckers was in fifth grade when Starks spotted her and invited her to play with older kids on her AAU team.
“I know that I’m a Black woman who has been a huge part of her life, so when she did that speech, it really touched me because she speaks up for things that no one else will speak up for,” Starks said. “And part of it is because of experience and the things that she’s been around and the things she has seen. It brought me to tears to see her say, ‘Hey, Black women do not get the attention they deserve.’ I felt a small part of that was including me.”
Starks is also the coach at Hopkins High, where Bueckers played. Her daughter, T’Aire Starks, is launching a coaching career as a graduate assistant at UConn.
“She’s like a mother figure in my life,” Bueckers said. “She has been my coach since fourth or fifth grade. We’ve been through a lot together. She was the one who got on me first. She’s been my coach for forever, but we’re more like family now. She’s super hard on me because she loves me, and we love each other and we have mutual trust, a really good bond.
“She deserves a lot of attention and credit for what she’s doing and what she’s done her whole coaching career. She doesn’t get the attention and credit she deserves. All the powerful and wonderful Black women in my life deserve that attention. She’s definitely a reason for that speech. There are a lot of people and reasons I decided to make that speech, but her and the other women in my life were a huge reason behind it.”
Bueckers’ words resonated far beyond Minnesota and the people who have coached her.
“I’m going to say this,” South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley said. “She’s not a child, but children and old people, they speak truth to power, and if Paige recognizes it, she’s got a powerful voice in our game. If they haven’t listened to some of the older coaches, the fore-mothers of our game, the legendary people, if people haven’t listened to them, let’s hope they listen to Paige and adhere to her words because they hold true. When it happens, when opportunities happen, I get to sit here and talk to you and represent women’s basketball on the biggest stage, and I am a Black woman.”
Upon Bueckers’ return to the Minneapolis area, she immediately jumped into local causes. Win or lose in the national semifinals against Stanford on Friday night, Bueckers plans to host a free pop-up supermarket that will distribute 6,000 free meals to students with food-security issues, partnering with Chegg, an educational platform, and Goodr, a firm that provides hunger relief.
“Paige cares a lot about a lot of things, not just basketball,” UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma said. “She cares about her teammates. A lot of the things she gets, she makes sure that they get. That speech, I think it reflects her background, how she grew up, her family dynamics. And in today’s world, I think it’s pretty remarkable that young people have a perspective that goes beyond themselves and their sport, they’re very conscious of what’s going on around the world and what impact they can have on it. And she has the platform to act on it.”
Bueckers, still seven months away from turning 21, has a grasp of the power of her words and gestures. It’s why, even as a high school player, she never let a youngster seeking an autograph walk away without one.
“She’s a normal kid, she’s a cool kid,” Starks said. “The little kids look at her as some kind of superhero. The other people, her peers, they look at her, ‘that’s my homegirl. That’s my friend.’ The first thing she wants to do when she gets here is hang out with her buddies, hang out with the people that she’s played with. She has time for everyone.”
Bueckers doesn’t forget the people who helped her get here, and they don’t forget her. As she returned from her knee surgery and struggled for weeks to find her game, Tara Starks was watching.
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“My daughter called me [before the Indiana game last week] and said, ‘Can you talk to Paige? She’s not shooting the ball. Coach is telling her to shoot it and she’s not shooting it,’” Starks said. “I texted her, and I said, ‘Hey, I know your legs are not under you and you’re not as strong as you usually would be and you’re not 100 percent, but the one thing I know you’re capable of is you can knock down open shots. Shoot the ball, don’t stop shooting, shoot till you get hot.’”
With the Bridgeport Regional final in overtime on Monday and the chance to play in a Final Four eight miles from the house she grew up in jeopardy, Bueckers got hot and led the Huskies here.
“I was sitting on the edge of the couch and I’m hollering at the TV,” Starks said. “‘Come on, kid, take over.’ I knew then she wanted to get back home.”
Dom Amore can be reached at damore@courant.com | https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-amore-column-uconn-women-paige-bueckers-202200331-20220401-tsztn63tancqhbz6yyjvnok6zu-story.html | 2022-04-01T01:46:22Z |
Former President Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner provided "helpful" information to the Democratic-led House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a member of the panel said.
Kushner, married to Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, who was also a senior adviser, is the most high profile member of Trump's inner circle known to have appeared before the committee.
He voluntarily appeared for a remote interview that started at 10 a.m. and lasted at least into the early afternoon hours, several sources familiar with the committee's work said.
Kushner's meeting came two months after the panel asked Ivanka Trump to voluntarily appear before the committee. Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Ivanka Trump and the committee are engaged in conversations, but no final plan has been reached on her appearance.
"The expectation is that it will take place, as to when I can't tell you right now, I know we are engaging her as a committee," Thompson said on Wednesday.
Virginia Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria told NPR the conversation with Kushner was "helpful." She told MSNBC that Kushner was able to substantiate information and provide his own take on different reports on the Jan. 6 attack.
Luria said it's valuable to hear firsthand accounts from witnesses such as Kushner directly.
"I think that the committee really appreciates hearing information directly from people who have relevant facts about January 6, and the fact that Jared Kushner came as a witness is helpful to building the story of our investigation," Luria said.
One source familiar with the committee's discussions but unable to speak on the record said there were details that Kushner couldn't remember but the source noted that like other witnesses, it has been more than a year since the attack on the Capitol and it is not uncommon for some to not recall some specifics.
Kushner was traveling back from Saudi Arabia on Jan. 6, 2021, but Thompson said he believes that he could help the committee understand more about the events that led up to that day.
"We think because he was an integral part of the administration, it's, I think, important for us to find out if he knew anything about the planning before January 6 and to get it from him," Thompson said.
Thompson, who was not at House votes on Thursday and voted by proxy, had said a day earlier if Kushner's interview went well, the panel would ask for additional communication details, such as call and text message records.
Thompson had previously waved off interest in Kushner but said the committee's staff has continued to reach out to potential witnesses.
"We have an excellent staff, and staff has been actively engaging a number of witnesses, including individuals or their attorneys and Kushner's attorney will be the same," Thompson told NPR on Wednesday.
The White House on Wednesday said it had waived executive privilege claims for Kushner and Ivanka Trump, allowing them to share certain details with the panel.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.whqr.org/national/2022-03-31/jared-kushner-provided-helpful-details-to-the-jan-6-committee-a-panel-member-says | 2022-04-01T01:46:22Z |
LOS ANGELES – Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment," Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to “Good Morning America.” “They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options.”
But Packer said Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,” Packer said. "And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no.”
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night's ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer's interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television."
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.”
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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.sfgate.com/news/article/Ex-minor-leaguer-ran-major-league-sports-betting-17049855.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:23Z |
Nick Mulvey has shared his new single ‘A Prayer Of My Own’ – watch the lyric video below and buy tickets for his upcoming North American dates here.
The track is the second single to be released from his third album ‘New Mythology’, which is due on June 10 via Fiction Records.
Mulvey released his Mercury Prize-nominated debut album ‘First Mind’ in 2014, following it up three years later with a second full-length called ‘Wake Up Now’.
‘Star Nation’, ‘New Mythology’’s first single, was released in February along with a video directed by Kate Bellm.
New single ‘A Prayer Of My Own’ was written during the first wave of the pandemic and recorded in Paris with producer Renaud Letang. The track explores the process of grief and redemption, with Mulvey asking listeners to think more about the future of our planet and society.
“I do it for my own, my little boy, my little girl. And we do it for our home, if we do it for the world,” he sings as the track builds around a soaring backdrop.
“I want to provide refuge for listeners,” Mulvey said about ‘New Mythology’, “refuge in these times. The songs are not more distraction and are not spreading more fear or panic – they are about being deeply in this time.
“I hope the album supports people and I hope it inspires and stimulates new ideas, insights and ambitions. I hope it also generates a sense of the sacred within its audience.”
Mulvey has also announced three live shows in North America this July (New York, Toronto and Los Angeles) – find tickets here.
In late 2020, Mulvey shared his cinematic new short film Begin Again. The film expands on the themes set out in the singer’s 2020 EP of the same name, which came out in July that year.
“I see chaos but I also see the opportunity for a new world, and a more beautiful one,” Mulvey says of the short film, which tackles the idea of a fresh start following the coronavirus, as well as topics such as nature, sustainability and family.
“We are living through an incredible shift. The old ways are dying, right before our very eyes.”
The EP’s title track ‘Begin Again’ was loosely inspired by Mulvey’s grandmother, whose teachings he studied while writing the new EP, while climate change and nature also impacted the EP and film. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/nick-mulvey-shares-tender-new-single-a-prayer-of-my-own-3195444 | 2022-04-01T01:46:23Z |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of a downtown Los Angeles building where an explosion injured 12 firefighters has been allowed to enter a judicial diversion program that allows him to avoid jail time and potentially have all charges dismissed.
A court commissioner on Wednesday granted the diversion request for Steve Sungho Lee. He and his companies must pay more than $15,000 in investigative fees, make sure the property meets fire and building codes and arranging for Fire Department training.
Lee owned a commercial building on East Boyd Street in the city's Toy District that caught fire on May 16, 2020. Firefighters had to run for their lives when a ball of flames shot out the building and scorched a fire truck across the street.
Firefighters inside the building had to run through a wall of flames he estimated as 30 feet (9 meters) high and wide, and those on the roof scrambled down a ladder that was engulfed in fire.
Fire officials said the building was a warehouse for Smoke Tokes, a wholesale distributor of supplies for smoking and vaping products including butane hash oil, a concentrated cannabis extract that can be eaten, smoked or vaped. Highly flammable butane is used in the manufacturing process.
Most of the injured firefighters still haven't returned to work and one, Capt. Victor Aguirre, was hospitalized for more than two months and all of his fingers had to be partially amputated, according to a lawsuit he filed against the building and business owners.
Aguirre alleged that the area contained “hundreds of illegally and improperly stored butane canisters and thousands of illegally and improperly stored nitrous oxide cylinders.”
A fire department report concluded that the blaze, which spread to a nearby building, was fueled by an “excessive quantity” of the containers.
Investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded that the fire started under a storage rack in the building and that a worker with a lit cigarette was seen in the area. The cause of the fire was ruled accidental.
However, city prosecutors filed more than 300 misdemeanor charges of violating fire and safety codes against Lee, his companies and owners of businesses in the building and nearby properties. That included more than 160 counts against Lee and his companies.
If Lee meets all conditions of his judicial diversion program for two years, the charges will be dismissed.
“Mr. Lee will be deemed by law to have never been charged," said his attorney, Blair Berk. “The exhaustive federal investigation of the tragic fire objectively concluded that the cause was accidental, and there was no finding of any wrongdoing by Mr. Lee or his companies.”
City Attorney Mike Feuer opposed diversion for Lee, noting the severity of the fire, the injuries suffered by the firefighters and Lee's alleged failure “to take steps which could have mitigated the extent of the blaze."
The owners of Smoke Tokes and another business, Green Buddha, agreed in November 2020 to pay $139,000 each to cover investigative costs and to move out of the building. Charges against them were later dismissed.
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This story has been updated to correct that Lee and his companies must pay more than $15,000, not $125,000. | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/No-jail-for-LA-building-owner-over-explosion-that-17049830.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:22Z |
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Defense rests in trial of men accused of plotting to kidnap Whitmer
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Defense attorneys quickly rested their case Thursday after one of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer repeatedly said “absolutely not” when asked if he had agreed to abduct her before the 2020 election.
Daniel Harris was the only defendant to speak to jurors on the 14th day of trial. It was a risky, dramatic shift following days of testimony from undercover FBI agents, a gutsy informant and two men who have pleaded guilty and pointed fingers at the rest.
Closing arguments were planned for Friday.
Harris, Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., and Brandon Caserta are accused of conspiring to kidnap Whitmer from her vacation home in northern Michigan because of their disgust with government and her tough COVID-19 restrictions.
Only Harris’ lawyer offered a few witnesses Wednesday after prosecutors finished presenting their evidence that same day.
Harris, 24, a former Marine, said he wanted to maintain his infantry skills when he joined a militia, the Wolverine Watchmen, not snatch Whitmer or blow up a nearby bridge.
But after friendly questions from a defense lawyer, the atmosphere in court turned tense as a prosecutor confronted Harris with his chat messages about posing as a pizza deliveryman and killing Whitmer at the door. He also reminded Harris that he worked with explosives while training with the group.
Harris and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Roth sometimes talked over each other. At one point, Harris snapped, “Next question.”
“Everyone can take it down a notch,” U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker said later.
Soon after swearing to tell the truth, Harris repeatedly rejected claims that he was involved in crimes. He said “America was on fire” in 2020 over the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, protests over police treatment of Black people and a pandemic that shut down parts of the economy.
A key part of the government’s case is a firearms training weekend at Luther, Michigan, in September 2020 with a “shoot house” that was intended to replicate Whitmer’s second home. Harris admitted that he brought materials but said he didn’t build it with her house in mind.
“Did you agree to kidnap the governor of Michigan?” defense attorney Julia Kelly asked many times.
“Absolutely not,” Harris replied.
He didn’t participate in an evening ride to Elk Rapids, Michigan, to scout Whitmer’s second home and a bridge during that same training weekend. Harris said he had purchased $200 of cheap beer and cigarettes so he could return to the camp and “get wasted” with others.
“I had assumed they went to a strip club or a bar,” Harris said of Fox and Croft.
The men were arrested in October 2020 amid talk of raising $4,000 for an explosive that could blow up a bridge and hold back police from responding to a kidnapping, according to trial testimony.
Defense attorneys claim the men simply were engaged in a lot of wild talk fueled by agents and informants but no conspiracy.
The prosecutor covered much ground during Harris’ cross-examination, often referring to recordings or text messages to challenge testimony. Roth noted that Harris had said the Founding Fathers would have approved of killing certain officials.
“Tyrants,” Harris told Roth.
“Was Gov. Whitmer a tyrant?” the prosecutor asked.
“Not really. She was just a governor to me,” Harris said, adding that she performed “poorly.”
Prosecutors played a conversation of Croft talking about militias overthrowing governments in various states and “breaking a few eggs.”
“When this man talks to you at a diner about killing people, you don’t stand up and walk out, do you sir?” Roth asked. “You don’t say, ‘This group is not for me,’ do you sir?”
“No,” Harris answered.
Two more men, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, pleaded guilty and cooperated with investigators. Garbin last week said the group acted willingly and hoped to strike before the election, cause national chaos and prevent Joe Biden from winning the presidency.
Michael Rataj, a Detroit-area defense lawyer not involved in the case, said sometimes bringing in a pack of witnesses for the defense doesn’t always fit. He said attorneys for the four men will peck away at the government’s evidence during closing arguments — “the textbook way to do it.”
As for Harris testifying, Rataj said it can be dicey.
“The FBI has recorded them, and for him to say anything different than what’s recorded makes it look like he’s lying,” Rataj said. “It’s foolishness.”
Whitmer, a Democrat, rarely talks publicly about the kidnapping plot, though she referred to “surprises” during her term that seemed like “something out of fiction” when she filed for reelection on March 17.
She has blamed former President Donald Trump for fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn right-wing extremists like those charged in the case. Whitmer has said Trump was complicit in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the Whitmer kidnap plot trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial
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White reported from Detroit. AP reporter Michael Tarm contributed from Chicago.
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Isles’ Aho, Hurricanes’ Aho score goals at almost same time
NEW YORK (AP) — Both NHL players named Sebastian Aho scored goals for their teams. And at nearly the exact same time Thursday night. Both also gave their teams 1-0 leads in the first period. Sportsnet Stats said Islanders defenseman Sebastian Aho scored his first goal of the season at 7:14 p.m. EDT in New York against Columbus. Just 34 seconds later and more than 500 miles away, Hurricanes forward Sebastian Aho scored his 31st in Carolina against Montreal. | https://keyt.com/sports/national-sports/ap-national-sports/2022/03/31/isles-aho-hurricanes-aho-score-goals-at-almost-same-time/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:24Z |
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John Travolta has paid tribute to his Pulp Fiction co-star Bruce Willis as a “generous soul” following the announcement the 67-year-old will step back from his acting career.
The actor shared memories of his “good friend” alongside other Hollywood identities from Matthew Perry to Haley Joel Osment.
Willis has starred in hit films including the Die Hard series, Armageddon, Moonrise Kingdom, 12 Monkeys and Looper.
“Bruce and I became good friends when we shared 2 of our biggest hits together, Pulp Fiction and Look Who’s Talking,” Travolta posted online, sharing photos of the pair.
“Years later he said to me, ‘John, I just want you to know that when something good happens to you, I feel like it’s happening to me.’
“That’s how generous a soul he is. I love you Bruce.”
Friends actor Perry said Willis will “remain in my prayers for a long time” following the announcement.
Dear Bruce Willis, I'm so sorry to hear what you are going through, but you're still the coolest man I've met in my entire life. You will remain in my prayers for a long long time. Maybe we should get together and watch the whole 10 yards and get a couple of hours of sleep.
— matthew perry (@MatthewPerry) March 31, 2022
Willis starred alongside Perry in The Whole Nine Yards as well as making appearances in three episodes of the hit US sitcom.
His cameos included The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth’s Dad, in which he played overprotective father Paul Stevens, whose daughter is going out with David Schwimmer’s hapless Ross Geller.
Willis’s character eventually ends up in a relationship with Rachel, played by Jennifer Aniston.
Writing on Twitter, Perry said Willis was “still the coolest man I’ve met in my entire life”.
“Dear Bruce Willis, I’m so sorry to hear what you are going through, but you’re still the coolest man I’ve met in my entire life.
“You will remain in my prayers for a long long time. Maybe we should get together and watch the whole 10 yards and get a couple of hours of sleep,” Perry said, in reference to the pair’s critically panned 2004 sequel to The Whole Nine Yards.
Osment, who appeared in psychological thriller The Sixth Sense alongside Willis, said the actor’s career had “enriched all of our lives” for decades.
“He’s a true legend who has enriched all of our lives with a singular career that spans nearly half a century.
“I am so grateful for what I got to witness firsthand, and for the enormous body of work he built for us to enjoy for years and years to come.
“I just wanted to express the respect and deep admiration I have for Bruce and his family as they move forward with the courage and high spirits that have always defined them.”
Many of Hollywood’s biggest stars also sent messages of support for the “awesome badass” after the news was shared on Wednesday.
Director M Night Shyamalan, Breaking Bad star Dean Norris, Seth Green and Jamie Lee Curtis were among the famous faces rallying around the Willis family.
Shyamalan, who directed the actor in the 2019 superhero thriller Glass, paid tribute to Willis as the “hero on that poster on my wall as a kid”.
“All my love and respect to my big brother Bruce Willis,” he said.
“I know his wonderful family is surrounding him with support and strength.
“He will always be that hero on that poster on my wall as a kid.”
Actor James Woods praised the Willis family for handling the difficult news with “dignity and grace.”
“If you love movies, you love #BruceWillis. He has embodied everything good about the word ‘entertainment’ for decades,” he wrote.
“Kudos to his loving family for handling difficult news with dignity and grace. I speak for the world when I say, ‘We love you, Bruce’.”
If you love movies, you love #BruceWillis. He has embodied everything good about the word “entertainment” for decades. Kudos to his loving family for handling difficult news with dignity and grace.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 30, 2022
I speak for the world when I say, “We love you, Bruce.” https://t.co/pzVFdFENW2
Disclosing the news on social media, Willis’s family said it had been a “really challenging time” for them and thanked fans for their “continued love, compassion and support”.
Willis married actress Demi Moore in 1987 and had his three eldest children, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah.
The pair separated in 2000 but remained on amicable terms and Willis married actress Emma Heming in 2009.
Willis and Heming also share two daughters, Mabel and Evelyn. | https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/john-travolta-praises-pulp-ficton-co-star-bruce-willis-as-a-generous-soul-41509380.html | 2022-04-01T01:46:25Z |
New Trier High School’s boys varsity lacrosse team has been placed on probation following a hazing incident earlier this month, the school announced late Thursday.
A letter sent to families signed by Superintendent Paul Sally, Winnetka Campus Principal Denise Dubravec and Athletic Director Augie Fontanetta, said there is an ongoing investigation of a “serious and disturbing” hazing incident that occurred at an off-campus party attended by members of the varsity lacrosse team.
School officials said they could not discuss discipline against specific students, but stated the team is now on probation for the entire 2022 and 2023 season. Moreover, the team is currently banned from out-of-state competitions and forfeited participation in out-of-state games over spring break and off-campus team social gatherings are now prohibited.
“We are continuing our investigation and will end the team’s season if other serious behaviors occur or are uncovered,” the letter added. “The team will also participate in education on anti-hazing and positive team culture as well as work with administration to determine how to help repair the harm done by this incident. The behavior that took place does not represent the values and heart of our school and our community, and the consequences reflect the serious nature of the incident.”
Winnetka Deputy Police Chief Brian O’ Connell previously said someone reported a battery/hazing incident that occurred during the evening of March 5th. O’ Connell said the parents did not wish to pursue charges. Earlier Thursday, the Winnetka Police Department denied a Pioneer Press Freedom of Information Act request for additional information on the report citing in part, two state laws regarding children.
“We began our comprehensive investigation as soon as we learned about the hazing incident, and the investigation has continued through spring break,” the New Trier letter read. “We have issued significant consequences to the students involved that are consistent with our school policies and recognize the gravity of this event.”
The letter labeled the behavior as “appalling.”
School officials including Board President Cathleen Albrecht did not immediately respond to questions. When asked whether any school employees have been disciplined, New Trier Spokeswoman Niki Dizon said they do not comment on personnel matters.
An attorney claiming to represent a victim in the case had no comment Thursday night regarding the school’s action.
The team was set to play three games Ohio this week while the school was on spring break, according to the schedule posted online. Following that, their next match is next Thursday at York High School in Elmhurst. | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/winnetka/ct-wtk-new-trier-hazing-lacrosse-tl-0407-20220401-zgtps6xx7vhrvgmdr2jrxqqu5e-story.html | 2022-04-01T01:46:25Z |
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Coverage of the war in Ukraine has demonstrated once again how corporate and social media have turned us all into passive spectators to a world on fire.
Fans wearing 3-D glasses watch German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk perform live on stage during the first night of their Catalogue 12345678 retrospective at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall on February 6, 2013, in London, England. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Redferns via Getty Images.
From the moment Russian troops invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, people in the West have been glued to their TV, computer, and phone screens, furiously consuming news about the war and posting their reactions online. As the war in Ukraine enters its second month, it’s become clearer than ever that our corporate and social media ecosystem has not given us the tools to critically navigate the incessant militaristic propaganda, nor has it provided many pathways for people to do anything besides watch and post. In this special panel, which was recorded in the TRNN studio on Wednesday, March 16, we have an open discussion about how Western media has failed to prepare us to respond productively to war, how independent media can and must be used to better inform and activate audiences, and how we at The Real News are succeeding or failing to fulfill that mission in our coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Panelists include: TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez; Marc Steiner, host of The Marc Steiner Show; TRNN Managing Editor Jocelyn Dombroski; and Bill Fletcher Jr., renowned author, activist, and cohost of “The Rise of the Right,” a special investigative series of The Marc Steiner Show premiering now at The Real News.
The transcript of this video will be made available as soon as possible.
Maximillian Alvarez
Editor-in-Chief
Ten years ago, I was working 12-hour days as a warehouse temp in Southern California while my family, like millions of others, struggled to stay afloat in the wake of the Great Recession. Eventually, we lost everything, including the house I grew up in. It was in the years that followed, when hope seemed irrevocably lost and help from above seemed impossibly absent, that I realized the life-saving importance of everyday workers coming together, sharing our stories, showing our scars, and reminding one another that we are not alone. Since then, from starting the podcast Working People—where I interview workers about their lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles—to working as Associate Editor at the Chronicle Review and now as Editor-in-Chief at The Real News Network, I have dedicated my life to lifting up the voices and honoring the humanity of our fellow workers.
Marc Steiner is the host of "The Marc Steiner Show" on TRNN. He is a Peabody Award-winning journalist who has spent his life working on social justice issues. He walked his first picket line at age 13, and at age 16 became the youngest person in Maryland arrested at a civil rights protest during the Freedom Rides through Cambridge. As part of the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968, Marc helped organize poor white communities with the Young Patriots, the white Appalachian counterpart to the Black Panthers. Early in his career he counseled at-risk youth in therapeutic settings and founded a theater program in the Maryland State prison system. He also taught theater for 10 years at the Baltimore School for the Arts. From 1993-2018 Marc's signature “Marc Steiner Show” aired on Baltimore’s public radio airwaves, both WYPR—which Marc co-founded—and Morgan State University’s WEAA.
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Rosenthal & Rosenthal Inc. has promoted Cassie Rosenthal to chief marketing officer, becoming the first woman in the company’s 84-year history to join the C-suite.
Rosenthal, while adding the cmo title, continues as executive vice president managing business development strategy and marketing efforts. Since joining her family’s business in 2012, she has led the efforts to elevate the firm’s branding by transforming its website, content and messaging, advertising, social media, and public relations. She has also worked to diversify the firm’s target client-base, and most recently was instrumental in developing and launching Pipeline, the... | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556720044059/yazoo-mills-announces-key-leadership-appointments | 2022-04-01T01:46:25Z |
5 fetuses found inside DC home of anti-abortion activist
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police found five fetuses in the home of a self-proclaimed “anti-abortion activist” who was indicted this week on federal charges alleging that she was part of a group of people who blocked access to a Washington, D.C. reproductive health center.
The Metropolitan Police Department says officers were responding to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a home in Southeast Washington on Wednesday when they located the five fetuses inside.
A local television station, WUSA9, captured video of police searching the home and reported that the home belonged to Lauren Handy. The 28-year-old was one of nine people charged in an indictment that was made public on Wednesday that accused the group of traveling to Washington, blocking access to the reproductive health center and streaming it on Facebook.
The station, which first reported the discovery, said Handy told a reporter that “people will freak out when they hear” what detectives found inside her house. Handy did not respond to a message sent to her Facebook profile seeking comment.
Police said the five fetuses were collected by Washington’s medical examiner and the investigation is ongoing.
In the indictment, prosecutors said Handy had called the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient and scheduling an appointment. Once there, on Oct. 22, 2020, eight of the suspects pushed their way inside and began blocking the doors, according to the indictment. Five of them chained themselves together on chairs to block the treatment area as others blocked the employee entrance to stop other patients from coming inside, the indictment alleges. Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge.
Handy and the eight others were charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The federal law, more commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wsmv.com/2022/04/01/5-fetuses-found-inside-dc-home-anti-abortion-activist/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:25Z |
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Former San Antonio Spurs and Argentine National Team star Manu Ginobili will headline the 2022 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class, The Athletic reported Thursday, joining former NBA star Tim Hardaway, former WNBA star Swin Cash, former NBA coach George Karl, and NCAA coach Bob Huggins.
Key Facts
Ginobili, a four-time NBA champion and two-time All-Star with the San Antonio Spurs, took home the gold medal as the star of the 2004 Argentine men’s Olympic basketball team—the only year in which the U.S. men’s team did not take home gold in the Olympics since the U.S. began sending professional players in 1992.
Hardaway, a five-time NBA All-Star with the Golden State Warriors and Miami Heat, won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. Men’s Olympic team in 2000.
Cash, already a member of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, is a three-time WNBA champion and two-time gold medalist as a member of the U.S. women’s Olympic team.
Karl, a former head coach for six different NBA teams over the course of a 38-year career, holds the sixth-most wins in NBA coaching history.
Huggins, currently the head coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers, holds the sixth-most wins of any coach in NCAA men’s basketball history, having also coached for Walsh, Akron, Cincinnati and Kansas State.
What To Watch For
The Hall of Fame is set to make formal announcements of the inductions Saturday, according to The Athletic. The enshrinement ceremony will be held at the Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, on September 10.
Key Background
Players become eligible for the Hall of Fame after being fully retired for at least four seasons. Retired coaches must also wait four years, but active coaches with at least 25 years of experience are also eligible. More than 400 people have been enshrined into the Hall since its establishment in 1959.
What We Don’t Know
It is unclear who will present the members of this class at the induction ceremony. Inductees are presented by current Hall members. Hall of Famer Tim Duncan, a five-time NBA champion, two-time league MVP and Ginobili’s teammate with the Spurs for 14 years, seems to be the most likely candidate to induct the Argentine legend. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/03/31/manu-ginobili-reportedly-headlines-2022-basketball-hall-of-fame-class/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:26Z |
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Russell Knox recorded four straight birdies on the back nine and fired a 7-under 65 on Thursday for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Valero Texas Open.
Knox closed out his round with a seven-foot putt to save par at the par-5 18th at TPC San Antonio, and was one shot ahead of Rasmus Hojgaard.
Hojgaard fired a 66 despite a double bogey on his final hole. Matt Kuchar is another stroke back after an opening 5-under 67 and is among a group that includes Denny McCarthy, Aaron Rei and J.J. Spaun.
Defending champ Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy finished at even-par 72. They were outside the top 60 after one round and could flirt with the cut line on Friday.
Bryson DeChambeau had a 1-over 73. After holing a bunker shot for eagle on his 11th hole and following with a birdie on the next, he made bogey on four of his last six holes.
Knox, a 32-year-old Scotsman with two career PGA Tour wins, started his birdie streak at No. 12. All of his birdie putts were inside 10 feet. At the 15th, he was about 20 feet away from a back pin position following his approach and chipped in from the fringe. It was his second chip-in in the round.
“That was one of those kind of bonus birdies that you need when you’re going to have a good day,” Knox said. “Obviously thrilled with the round. It’s been more of the way I want to play.”
Hogjaard, a 21-year-old from Denmark and two-rime winner on the European Tour, had his sights on the first-round lead heading to his closing hole. But, his drive sailed well left of the fairway. It took him four shots to reach the green on the par-4 ninth.
“I had to chip sideways back into the fairway,” he said. “Just was a little too aggressive after that. Yeah, short-sided myself and I didn’t get up and down and suddenly you walk away with double-bogey. Yeah, that was a bit annoying, but it happens.”
Kuchar was 5 under after 11 holes. Thirty feet away from the pin on the next hole, he failed to get up and down and missed a seven-foot putt for par. He got a shot back with a birdie on his 14th hole, and parred out, falling short in a bid to match his season-best round of 64 at the Sony Open, where he finished in the top 10.
“A lot of good and bad that can happen here on this course,” Kuchar said. “I was kind of managing early on in the round and then found a little something on about the fifth or sixth hole. I started having some birdie chances and converted on a few late in my first nine.”
Kuchar has won nine times on the PGA Tour. McCarthy, Rai and Spaun are looking for their first.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Knox-uses-4-birdie-run-for-a-one-stroke-lead-at-17049836.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:26Z |
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Jennifer Kupcho is having a great 2022, and her opening round of 6-under 66 at the Chevron Championship on Thursday isn’t the reason.
Kupcho got married on February 19 in Arizona, and the sampling of wedding day photos she posted on Instagram includes a picturesque sunset shot of her taking a swing at a driving range with her wedding dress on.
She opted for the more traditional golf attire of green shorts and a black shirt on Thursday as she tore through the Dinah Shore Tournament Course. After four straight birdies on the back nine, she reached 8 under through 14 holes, which put her in striking distance of the record round of 10 under (shared by Lorena Ochoa and Lydia Ko). But back-to-back bogeys on 15 and 16 had her settling for a fine round of 66.
Kupcho singled out one club, the biggest one in her bag, for the reason she started so fast.
“I haven’t been hitting my driver particularly well recently, and that’s usually my strongest suit, so to come out and you really need to hit fairways on a major golf course and that was my big thing today,” the 24-year-old from Colorado said. “I hit a bunch of fairways, and that really set me up for my birdies.”
Kupcho said she grinded on the driving range Wednesday night with her driver after hitting it all over the place during Wednesday’s pro-am. That extra work paid off. She hit 11 of 14 fairways with an average drive of 271 yards. That helps you get nine birdies in 18 holes.
Kupcho may not be a household name yet, but she’s getting close. She was a top amateur player out of Wake Forest, and famously won the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur in 2019. She turned pro and finished tied for second in a major event later that year at the Evian Championship. Since then, she has risen high enough in the world of American LPGA players that she was on the 2021 Solheim Cup team.
She acquitted herself well at the Solheim Cup, teaming with Lizette Salas to pick up two wins and a halve in the 15-13 American loss.
Speaking of Salas, Kupcho was partnered with Salas on Thursday and will be again Friday. The two developed such a bond at the Solheim Cup that Salas attended Kupcho’s wedding.
Kupcho kept repeating the same word about her round Thursday, “comfortable.”
“Honestly, it’s just being comfortable on this golf course. I get here and I feel comfortable and I love this place and then getting to play with Lizette who is my good friend. It was just all comfortable and really fun,” she said. “This is similar to Colorado golf, so similar to Arizona golf, which is where I live now. The same type of grass. I felt good out there.”
While the driver is traditionally her strong suit, her putter has been considered a weakness, and that was the club she focused on during the offseason.
And her putting coach during that time was none other than her now-husband Jay Monahan (that’s Jay Monahan the LPGA caddie, not Jay Monahan the commissioner of the PGA Tour). Her husband, in fact, is caddying this week for another player in the field, American Sarah Schmelzel.
Kupcho was on fire with the short blade on Thursday, needing just 24 putts to get around the course. She made a 25-footer for birdie on 14, which elicited a fist-pump.
“I’ve been working on my putting a lot. I really just worked with actually my husband who is a great putter, and he really knows my game well so I worked on it a lot with him over the offseason and worked on my stroke and my stroke has been really good recently,” she said.
She’s had success at a major before, been on the Solheim Cup, won at the amateur level, so is she at the point now where she feels comfortable at an event like the Chevron Championship, or are there still nerves?
“Everyone gets nervous, but I think it’s more of just getting used to the nerves and figuring out how to deal with it and learning different tactics, and that’s what I’ve definitely tried to do in the big events that I’ve played in,” she said.
Shad Powers is a columnist for The Desert Sun. Reach him at shad.powers@desertsun.com. | https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/03/31/chevron-championship-jennifer-kupcho-comfortable-on-golf-course-first-round-66/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:27Z |
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Former Disney CEO and chairman Bob Iger addressed Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Thursday when he joined anchor Chris Wallace on his new CNN+ interview series.
Noting that a lot of these issues, such as the bill, are “not necessarily political,” Iger emphasized: “It’s about right and wrong.”
He continued, “So I happen to feel and I tweeted an opinion about this ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill in Florida. To me, it wasn’t politics, it was what is right and what is wrong, and that just seemed wrong. It seemed potentially harmful to kids. And it seemed as though it would do exactly what it shouldn’t do. And that is to foster compassion, and understanding and acceptance, and enable young kids who might be gay to feel more confident, more comfortable, more part of society, if it could be discussed freely, as opposed to kept in the closet.”
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The Florida House of Representatives passed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Feb. 25, the same day that Iger tweeted his support of President Joe Biden’s statement labeling it a “hateful bill.” The legislation would, as Wallace described in the discussion, ban teachers from including topics such as sexual orientation and gender identity in curriculums until the third grade.
“I want every member of the LGBTQI+ community — especially the kids who will be impacted by this hateful bill — to know that you are loved and accepted just as you are,” Biden had tweeted in opposition. “I’m with the President on this!” wrote Iger at the time. “If passed, this bill will put vulnerable, young LGBTQ people in jeopardy.”
Wallace commented that there was a “big question” as to whether or not Disney was going to come out against the bill or not. He noted that, eventually, Iger’s successor Bob Chapek did.
Chapek released a memo on March 7 telling staff that Disney hadn’t released a statement sooner because “they are often weaponized by one side or the other to further divide and inflame.” He later apologized for the company’s handling of the bill, saying Disney would pause all political donations in the state and increase support for advocacy groups working to combat similar legislation in other states. Disney employees staged a series of walkouts earlier in the month, while the company and Chapek received much criticism for their overall handling of the response.
Iger explained to Wallace that he had to “contend with this a lot” — the decision of whether Disney should weigh in on matters of public interest. “And the filter that I used to determine whether we should or should not weigh in, considered a few factors: What would its impact have on our employees, on our shareholders and our customers,” he said.
While speaking with Wallace, Iger also commented that when dealing with right and wrong, or with something “that does have a profound impact on your business,” he thinks one has to do “what is right and not worry about the potential backlash to it.”
Iger added: “I think CEOs, you know — one of the things that CEOs accept as a responsibility is that they’re going to have to weigh in on issues, even if voicing an opinion on those issues potentially puts some of your business in danger.”
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Medina family recounts storm experience
MEDINA, Tenn. — All across West Tennessee families are picking up after Wednesday’s storm, including Medina.
“Even though we were underground, it was the scariest moment of my life,” said Ryne Fisher.
“You just didn’t know what was going on and didn’t have any control. It was so loud,” said Casyn Fisher.
Ryne and Casyn Fisher took shelter during the storm that ripped through parts of West Tennessee Wednesday night.
“What I was hearing wasn’t a train. It was a lot louder. I ran back in and said we got to go now. I could see it lowering. When it came down, I deadbolted the door and told her to get ready because it is coming,” Ryne Fisher said.
Ryne Fisher says they got in their underground storm shelter to ride out the storm. And he says those moments were unnerving.
“Right when we were in the middle of it, the pressure just dropped and your ears popped. You could hear the change of direction in the wind. You could feel the suction up through the pipes. I just remember thinking, ‘Are we even going to make it in here?’ It was that scary,” Ryne Fisher said.
Ryne Fisher says when he came out of the shelter, he noticed their shop had been demolished.
“I just took a step back down and shut the door to take a minute before I looked at the house. Then I saw what it looked like, and I knew it was bad,” Ryne Fisher said.
He says the storm was so powerful that the top story of their house hit their neighbor’s house.
Despite the devastation, their family and friends were all ready to pitch in and help clean up.
“They beat us here this morning. We can’t thank them enough. They brought all of their equipment, trailers, and their workers,” Ryne Fisher said.
“We have a really good support system. Thankfully because we couldn’t do it without them,” Casyn Fisher said.
The Fisher family says they were grateful to everyone willing to help them.
You can read about damage in Jackson here.
Find more local news here. | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/03/31/medina-family-recounts-storm-experience/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:27Z |
Podcast listeners have jumped 29.5% from 2018 to 2021, according to Buzzsprout. That should be no surprise to marketers and brands.
But as is the case with video in our growing spoken and visual world, the crowded podcast space where brands compete for listeners means marketers need to have a strong podcast optimization program beyond the air-it-and-forget-it approach.
Here are some considerations:
Partner With Other Podcasts
Tom Wentworth, chief marketing officer at Recorded Future, said his teams in its Click Here podcast look for partners in the podcast promotion department.
"One great way to get your podcast out there in front of a different audience is to partner with another podcast and cross-promote each other,” Wentworth said. “We're doing this at Recorded Future and have found it to be a simple way to reach a new audience without having to pay for advertising."
Other podcasters' audiences are likely to be similar to yours. Contact those creators and request a cross-promotion, said Lyle Florez, founder of Easy People Search.
“It's as simple as that: you mention them, and they remember you,” Florez added. “Begin by contacting shows with similar-sized audiences to yours. They are the ones who are most likely to respond.”
Related Article: CX Decoded Podcast: Amex CX Teams Take Customer Listening to the Next Level
Develop an SEO Strategy
With a podcast that’s simply posted to your classic platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, etc., without any other avenue into the podcast, listeners won’t have a great way to discover, connect and listen.
“Create a written format for your podcast. It will not only help in SEO but also will allow you to reach diverse audiences,” said Glen Carroll, managing director at ClicksMarketing.
Create a landing page with a transcript of your podcast. It will not only increase SEO on your podcast but also supports accessibility for those hard of hearing who want to read through your recordings. Transcripts are a start, but ensure good SEO strategies like subheads, keywords, relevant links, etc.
Further, apply SEO techniques such as keywords and metadata while writing the actual description of the podcast that lands on podcast platforms, said Ronald Williams, founder of Best People Finder. “Use keywords that are relevant to your podcast's agenda,” he said. “You can find these words with online tools like Google Keyword Planner.”
Related Article: The Business Case for B2B Podcasts
Convert Your Podcast Into a YouTube Video
Great podcast marketing means making the show available in more places than just the classic podcast platforms, Florez said. “Get double the exposure from one episode by repurposing its content for YouTube."
“The easiest way to upload a podcast to YouTube is to convert the MP3 audio file into an MP4 format," he explained. "Add a branded image to appear for the duration of the video and upload. Include show notes and links to your website, subscribe links to other listening platforms and social channels in the description.”
Uploading to YouTube will increase SEO because you can include keywords in video titles and descriptions, helping search engines and listeners find the podcast online, according to Mike Perez, head of growth marketing at Spacelift.
Try not to just sync the audio over an image or background on YouTube, but try to create a video that adds more to the audio, added Brandon Hopkins, founder of DiamondLinks.
Solicit Feedback, Reviews on Your Podcast
At the beginning and end of each episode, encourage your audience to subscribe, share and leave reviews, Florez said. “The best way to position these calls to action is to be genuine rather than pushy,” he added. “Be truthful and explain that as your podcast grows, you will produce better content for your listeners to enjoy.”
Providing reasons for the audience to leave reviews, subscribe or share is part of a compelling call to action (CTA), according to Mari Hutton, marketing manager at Bobcat Rental. “Listeners’ CTAs will help the podcast reach a wider audience and create meaningful content in the future,” she added.
Related Article: Podcast Ad Personalization: Is It Going Too Far?
Repurpose Podcast Content
Don’t let your podcast content go static. Repurposing your content on social media and in other circles allows you to promote your episodes, according to Hilda Wong, founder of Content Dog.
There are several ways to repurpose your content besides audiograms:
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Include a blog post with your podcast episodes
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Create graphics with quotes from your episodes
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Prepare an infographic for your episode
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Create YouTube videos from your podcasts
“Repurpose your audio content to market it on social media,” said Adam Crossling, marketing consultant at Zenzero. “Add small audio clips of your podcast with a video to attract the audience. Before releasing the podcast, share interesting quotes from the episode on social media. Make infographics to highlight the best parts of the podcast and publish short blog posts about the episode.”
Consider Pinterest as a Podcast Landing Page
Laura Rike, who provides Pinterest consulting services, said many people misjudge Pinterest as a simple bulletin board online for recipes and inspiration, but it is so much more than that. She calls it a powerful search engine with robust ad capability.
“An example of a way to be an early adopter of new features to get more traction in the algorithm,” Rike added, “could be to create idea pins (TikTok Style video pins) of parts of your podcast as teasers to drive people to your episodes.”
The Future of the Podcast
It doesn't look like podcast growth is slowing down any time soon. Forecasts from Statista suggest that the number of podcast listeners will grow by around 20 million this year alone, with the total number of listeners surpassing 160 million by 2023.
As popularity around this medium swells, it's essential for marketers to begin optimizing their podcast strategies. By implementing the ideas above, brands can ultimately bring in a wider audience and drive engagement. | https://www.cmswire.com/digital-marketing/6-podcast-marketing-tips-for-better-listener-adoption/?utm_source=cmswire.com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=all-articles-rss | 2022-04-01T01:46:27Z |
Photography gives creatives the opportunity to craft their own worlds. Whether those places are fantastical or grounded in reality, the power of the camera is vast. Photographer Meg Loeks highlights how portraiture, particularly that of her kids, can chronicle their growth while communicating the magic that is childhood. It's all centered around the core of her world—the family home.
Based in a rural part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Loeks snaps gorgeous photos of her five children. Her portfolio is a balance of shots that are meticulously styled with pieces that feel more candid but are still polished. Both approaches are shot in the same warm, comforting color palette and tie together the idea that enchantment can be found in the everyday. Sometimes, this involves feeding the chickens or taking a walk through the sunflower fields. Other times, it’s being surrounded by an inconceivable amount of pancakes or boxes of chocolates. Both make a person feel whole, no matter how old they are.
The complete adoration that Loeks has for her family is evident throughout each photo. “My work centers around nostalgia and the home,” she tells My Modern Met. “I'm drawn to the in-between moments and everyday mundane. My children are my greatest inspirations, and I love being able to transform simple happenings with them into artistic portraits through use of color, storytelling, and more.”
A celebrated photographer with a massive Instagram following, Loeks has multiple workshops, both online and in-person, where you can learn to shoot like her.
Photographer Meg Loeks highlights the magic of childhood in her family photos.
She chronicles the everyday enchantment that her five children experience.
Some shots are meticulously styled while others are more candid.
Every shot is captured in a warm, comforting color palette.
“My work centers around nostalgia and the home,” she tells My Modern Met.
“My children are my greatest inspirations, and I love being able to transform simple happenings with them into artistic portraits through use of color, storytelling, and more.”
Meg Loeks: Website | Instagram | Facebook
My Modern Met granted permission to feature photos by Meg Loeks.
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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.theheraldreview.com/news/article/California-prison-inmate-death-investigated-as-a-17049814.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:28Z |
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Dozens of dogs requiring special or unique homes have been waiting at the Oregon Humane Society for up to a year, and the shelter hopes hosting public walk-throughs will create some love-at-first-sight moments for their future owners.
Oregon Humane Society is currently open for the public to walk through Monday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. People can also view pets and schedule an appointment online.
Adoptions are still by appointment only, but Oregon Humane Society’s Customer Care Manager Eleena Fikhman said they can typically schedule a same-day meeting if a client comes in.
Oregon Humane Society has more than 50 dogs available for adoption. Of those, dozens have been waiting up to a year to find a home. There is never a time limit for how long a pet can stay at Oregon Humane Society. However, the shelter says the interest in dogs requiring special or unique homes has diminished and not kept pace with the growing need from the community and shelter partners.
“We know Portland loves dogs and we are hoping that members of our community will step up to open their heart and homes to some of these special pets,” Fikhman said.
One of the dogs available for adoption is Lola, who was rescued as a stray after Hurricane Ida in September 2021.
Another is Luca, who’s been at OHS since March 2021 and is part of the Behavior Modification Program. He’s been working with trainers to learn new skills to be successful in a home.
Peanut is originally from Afghanistan and was brought to the U.S. in 2021. She’s looking for a special home that will provide patience and lots of activity.
For anyone who’s unable to adopt a dog at this time, OHS asks people to consider sponsoring a pet, making a tribute gift, or purchasing an item from the OHS Wish List. | https://www.koin.com/news/animals/dozens-of-dogs-have-been-at-oregon-humane-society-for-up-to-a-year/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:28Z |
You open the season against your archrival, a top 10 team just like yourself, and determine at some point in this see-saw skirmish that 48 minutes isn’t quite enough time to settle all grievances.
Either is 52 minutes, or 56.
Nope, you take this into the 60th minute before senior middie Colin Beatty unleashes his career-high fifth goal of the game from 17 yards away with 55 seconds left in the third overtime to give No. 4 Summit an 11-10 victory over No. 8 Westfield in a season-opening NJILL Fitch-Pitt Division clash that is going to be extremely difficult to match for the drama, excitement and sheer length of it all at any other time this season.
So, now what are you supposed to do?
“Nice to win that game. But we’ve got a lot more work to do,” Beatty said.
No hysterics. No chest pounding. Just the level-headed realization that, no matter how thrilling a contest this was, it was still only a single game, the first of many, with no trophies awarded at its conclusion.
Maybe that’s why fellow senior John Murray made the short pass to Beatty for his game-winning blast. Not only was Beatty the hottest hand on the team, but Murray must have figured his teammate would approach that shot with the same clear-eyed composure with which he conducted his interview.
Or, was it simply the best available shot at the moment, regardless of who was standing high in the box with a big, broad look at the cage?
“We were on defense a lot. We just tried to get a good possession. I just had the shot and I took it,” Beatty said.
“We were just trying to get a good possession there, just trying to get a little pop-off, see if we could get something open; nothing fancy,” Summit head coach Jim Davidson said.
“We just felt if we could spin the ball and keep working until we got a shot we liked, we might be able to get our hands free and put it in,” he said.
Summit had taken possession of that ball with 3:33 left in the third OT following a Westfield turnover, and attempted only one shot prior to Beatty’s game-winner.
The Hilltoppers were being extremely choosy with their shots and with good reason. Junior goalie Quinn Wojcik had turned away three tough ones over the first two overtimes and had 14 saves on the day. A careless attempt by Summit would almost surely have resulted in a Westfield possession.
Westfield had its shot-making troubles, too, in those first two overtimes. Senior goalie Will O’Connell made three of his six saves in the first extra-session, all within a 39-second span, and he stopped another shot in the second OT.
The last bit of success Westfield had realized against O’Connell came with only six seconds to go in regulation on an outstanding dodge by junior attackman Ryan Waldman. He wrapped from X and connected with a sidearm sling from five yards out to knot the game at 10-10. That was his third goal of the game.
Summit had grabbed a one-goal lead with 1:30 to play on a lefthanded rip by Beatty along the right alley off a pass from junior Lucas Stocks. That was the Hilltoppers first goal since Beatty opened a 9-6 lead with 4:12 to go in the third quarter.
Because after that, it was almost all Westfield, behind the revived faceoff work of junior Danny Hazard; just as it had been all Summit through the second and third quarters on the strength of senior Jake Rainero’s faceoffs. The swings were exaggerated ones, but in the end the competition was remarkably close, as Summit produced a 13-12 advantage at the X.
“I think the faceoffs got them back, but we were able to win some big ground balls and fight back. I think our tenacity won it for us,” Beatty said.
Westfield showed its share of teanacity, as well, as it turned that three-goal deficit after three quarters into a tie game, 9-9, with successive goals by Waldron, John McDonald and James Haley in the first 3:23 of the fourth quarter. Haley finished with two goals for Westfield, which got three goals from sophomore Cody Lam along with Waldman.
Two of Lam’s had come in the first 5:31 of the game to help the Blue Devils build a surprising 4-0 lead. So surprising that Davidson used his two timeouts of that half in the first 6:25.
“It’s just been hard trying to get everything in,” he said. “I just felt like let’s go with it and if we need to, we’ll make some changes, which we did.”
Summit narrowed its deficit to 5-3 by the end of the first quarter behind a pair of goals from Beatty and one by senior attackman Dylan Sebastian. Sebastian and Daniel Flaim each connected in the second quarter to tie the game at 5-5, and Summit seized its first lead, 6-5, on a man-up goal by Stocks 27 seconds into the third quarter.
Sebastian finished with two goals and one assist and Stocks had one goal, two assists.
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NEW YORK, March 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Rivian Automotive, Inc. ( RIVN) pursuant to or traceable to Rivian’s Initial Public Offering (“IPO”) on November 10, 2021 of the important May 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Rivian securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Rivian class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3880 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] or [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs’ Bar. Many of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis endorsed a state legislator Thursday over U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn in their upcoming Republican primary, saying the first-term congressman has “fallen well short” of expectations.
Tillis’ backing of state Sen. Chuck Edwards adds another consequential voice in North Carolina’s GOP willing to oppose Cawthorn, who has received criticisms from a larger swath of Republicans for recent comments, including one in which he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug.”
The top Republican leaders in the state legislature — House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger — also were featured guests at a lunch fundraiser Thursday for Edwards, one of seven Republicans challenging Cawthorn for the nomination in the May 17 primary.
“The 11th Congressional District deserves a congressman who is fully dedicated to serving their constituents,” Tillis said in a news release. “Unfortunately, Madison Cawthorn has fallen well short of the most basic standards western North Carolina expects from their representatives, and voters now have several well-qualified candidates to choose from who would be a significant improvement. I believe Chuck Edwards is the best choice.”
Cawthorn, who was elected in 2020 at age 25, is a strong supporter of Donald Trump. Cawthorn spoke at a rally in Washington on Jan 6, 2021, that questioned the outcome of the White House election won by Democrat Joe Biden. The riot at the U.S. Capitol took place after that rally.
A Cawthorn campaign commercial posted Thursday on Twitter includes what appears to be text from a quote from Trump stating Cawthorn has “my complete and total endorsement.”
Recently, Cawthorn has received negative publicity for being cited three times in five months for traffic violations — speeding and driving with a revoked license among them — and for the video about Zelenskyy. In the same short video, Cawthorn said the Ukrainian government “is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”
Cawthorn and a spokesperson later attempted to clarify those remarks, with the congressman calling actions by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his country’s invasion of Ukraine “disgusting.” After recent comments Cawthorn made on a podcast that angered fellow Republicans in Congress, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., met with Cawthorn this week and reprimanded him publicly.
Moore said Thursday that someone like Cawthorn doesn’t deserve to be in Congress.
“If you have clowns in office who aren’t serious about what they’re doing, you can’t get somewhere,” Moore told WNCN-TVwhile attending a fundraiser for Edwards. “I’m just kind of without the words to describe what Congressman Cawthorn is doing and saying. I mean, some of these ridiculous recent comments that continue to build on one another.”
A Cawthorn spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment about the Republican opposition.
Cawthorn announced in November that he planned to run in a proposed congressional district closer to Charlotte, rather than to keep representing the far western mountains. Moore had also considered a run in that new district but decided against it. That district ultimately was thrown out by judges, and Cawthorn returned to a run in the reconfigured 11th District, which leans Republican.
Cawthorn’s campaign raised $2.8 million in 2021 but had only $282,000 in cash entering this year, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Other primary opponents includes former political ally Michele Woodhouse and Wendy Marie-Limbaugh Nevarez, who is being supported by a super political action committee linked to Moe Davis, the 11th District Democratic nominee in 2020.
The top vote-getter in the upcoming primary would have to receive more than 30% of the vote to avoid a July 26 runoff with the second-place finisher. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/nc-sen-tillis-adds-to-republicans-supporting-cawthorn-rival/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:27Z |
Washington Gov. signs state-wide Uber, Lyft driver pay guarantee into law
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March 31 (Reuters) - Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into a law a minimum pay standard for Uber UBER.N and Lyft LYFT.O drivers across the Northwestern state, the first time a U.S. state is implementing industry-wide ride-hail earnings standards.
Drivers across Washington, with the exception of Seattle, will earn a minimum of $1.17 per mile and $0.34 per minute with a minimum pay of $3 per trip.
Under the new law, drivers will also have access to paid sick time, family medical leave and long-term care programs, and be eligible for workers' compensation, a U.S. government-mandated program that provides benefits to workers who become injured or ill on the job. Drivers will also be able to appeal should they be removed from the apps.
In Seattle, which passed its own ride-hail pay standard in Sept. 2020, drivers will continue to earn their minimum rates of $1.38 per mile and $0.59 per minute at a minimum of $5.17 per trip.
The law, which has been supported by Uber and Lyft, also takes away local regulatory power, banning cities and counties from implementing additional requirements for companies.
It further states that ride-hail drivers are not employees, a contentious issue between some labor groups and gig economy companies including Uber and Lyft.
The gig companies, whose workers operate as independent contractors, oppose any reclassification while some labor groups argue drivers should be employees with access to greater benefits.
"This new law decisively gives drivers what they want - to stay independent while gaining historic new benefits and protections," Uber head of public policy in the Western U.S., Ramona Prieto, said in a statement. She said Uber hoped the law could be replicated in other cities, states and countries.
The new Washington law has been supported by the Teamsters union Local 117, which was also behind the push for the Seattle pay standard.
So far in the United States, only Seattle and New York City have implemented minimum pay standards for ride-hail drivers.
(Reporting by Tina Bellon; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)
((Tina.Bellon@thomsonreuters.com; +1 646 573 5029; Reuters Messaging: tina.bellon.thomsonreuters@reuters.net; Twitter @TinaBellon))
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/washington-gov.-signs-state-wide-uber-lyft-driver-pay-guarantee-into-law | 2022-04-01T01:46:29Z |
April Fools’ Day 2022: April 1 is celebrated as April Fools’ Day across the world. On the occasion of April Fools’ Day, people tread with caution throughout the day as they are unaware of what kind of pranks or hoaxes their friends and family might be planning for them. On this day, people pull each other’s legs through pranks or send them foolish errands just to find an excuse to make someone play the fool. On April Fools’ Day, one can get over almost anything including the harmless pranks they pulled out on their near and dear ones.
On the occasion of April Fools’ Day, here are some special wishes, funny messages that you can share with your friends and family:
1. Hey buddy! Your day is finally here. Happy April Fools’ Day!
2. Happy April Fools’ day buddy. Do not make the mistake of opening your mouth and letting the world know!
3. Happy birthday, dear friend! This day was meant for you.
4. Dear best friend, you will remain a fool throughout your life, but here’s to celebrating a day that is dedicated just to people like you. Happy April Fools’ Day.
5. You always surprise me with your talent and skills and I just surprised you with my lies. Happy Fools’ Day.
6. Today is the best day to propose to your crush. If they reject you, yell out April Fools’ Day at the end.
7. Dear friend! Happy April Fools’ Day. Thanks for making me look smarter when you are around.
8. Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.-Benjamin Franklin day, when you make a fool of yourself every day. Enjoy your day.
10. Happy Fool’s Day to the king/queen of Fools. There is no one who can come at par with you and your foolishness.
Read all the Latest News , Breaking News and IPL 2022 Live Updates here. | https://www.news18.com/amp/news/lifestyle/april-fools-day-2022-funny-messages-wishes-to-share-with-friends-and-family-4920341.html | 2022-04-01T01:46:29Z |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Florida Highway Patrol was called in to investigate a crash involving a patrol cruiser Thursday evening on I-95 northbound near the exit for Edgewood Avenue.
Details surrounding the crash were not immediately clear. Units with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office could be spotted assisting at the scene.
The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department said one person was transported from the scene. That person was expected to be OK.
Two left lanes were blocked for the investigation. | https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/03/31/patrol-cruiser-involved-in-crash-on-i-95-at-edgewood-avenue/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:29Z |
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Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17049892.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:29Z |
Paul McCartney has urged Starbucks to stop charging extra for plant-based milk.
The former Beatles musician has been vegetarian since 1975 and founded the Meat Free Mondays campaign in 2009 alongside his daughters, Mary and Stella. He’s also worked with PETA on various projects throughout his career.
As Billboard reports, McCartney has now written a letter to Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson ahead of his upcoming show in Seattle, Washington – where the global coffee company is based.
The singer-songwriter is calling on Johnson to end the surcharge on Starbucks’ plant-based milk options before he retires from the company on Monday (April 4).
“It recently came to my attention that Starbucks in the USA has an extra charge for plant based milks as opposed to cow’s milk,” McCartney began.
“I must say this surprised me as I understand that in other countries like UK and India, there is the same charge for both types of milk and I would like to politely request that you consider this policy also in Starbucks USA.”
He continued: “My friends at PETA are campaigning for this. I sincerely hope that for the future of the planet and animal welfare you are able to implement this policy.”
According to PETA, the production of cow’s milk generates approximately three times more greenhouse-gas emissions and uses nine times more land than vegan alternatives do.
“It takes 628 litres of water to make 1 litre of cow’s milk—oat or soy milk requires 90% less water,” the organisation wrote in an article earlier this month.
PETA has also accused Starbucks of being “all talk and no action” after Johnson previously claimed that the company wanted to “give more than we take from the planet”. Johnson made the comments in a 2020 message that outlined Starbucks’ “new sustainability commitment”.
Back in November 2021, McCartney called on leaders at COP26 to acknowledge the impact of animal agriculture on climate change, and to adopt the Plant Based Treaty as a companion to the Paris Agreement.
Paul McCartney is due to begin the North American leg of his ‘Got Back’ tour on April 28. You can find any remaining tickets here.
The star will return to the UK to headline Glastonbury 2022 in June alongside Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar.
During a recent interview, McCartney teased that he and his band are “definitely planning on having a few tricks up our sleeve[s]” for the forthcoming Worthy Farm show. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/paul-mccartney-urges-starbucks-to-stop-charging-more-for-plant-based-milk-3195358 | 2022-04-01T01:46:29Z |
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.
Soskin “spent her last day providing an interpretive program to the public and visiting with coworkers," a Park Service statement said.
She led tours at the park and museum honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit after learning that “she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white," according to a Park Service biography.
“Being a primary source in the sharing of that history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”
Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.
“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”
Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921 but recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 while living with her Creole family in New Orleans, according to the Park Service biography.
Her family then moved to Oakland, California, and Soskin remained in the San Francisco Bay Area, where in 1945 she and her first husband founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the area, the biography said.
She also was a civil rights activist and took part in meetings to develop a general management plan for the Home Front park. She has received several honors.
She was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.
In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas tree at the White House.
In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.
Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. Glamour Magazine named her woman of the year in 2018. | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Oldest-U-S-active-park-ranger-retires-at-100-17049910.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:29Z |
Friends actor Matthew Perry says Bruce Willis will “remain in my prayers for a long time” following the announcement the 67-year-old will step back from his acting career.
The actor, who has recently been diagnosed with the cognitive condition aphasia, made cameo appearances in three episodes of the hit US sitcom.
Willis has starred in hit films including the Die Hard series, Pulp Fiction, Armageddon, Moonrise Kingdom, 12 Monkeys and Looper.
According to the NHS, aphasia is more common in people over the age of 65.
Writing on Twitter, Perry said Willis was “still the coolest man I’ve met in my entire life”.
“Dear Bruce Willis, I’m so sorry to hear what you are going through, but you’re still the coolest man I’ve met in my entire life.
“You will remain in my prayers for a long long time. Maybe we should get together and watch the whole 10 yards and get a couple of hours of sleep,” Perry said, in reference to the pair’s critically panned 2004 comedy film.
Dear Bruce Willis, I'm so sorry to hear what you are going through, but you're still the coolest man I've met in my entire life. You will remain in my prayers for a long long time. Maybe we should get together and watch the whole 10 yards and get a couple of hours of sleep.
— matthew perry (@MatthewPerry) March 31, 2022
Willis’s Friends cameos included The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth’s Dad, in which he played overprotective father Paul Stevens, whose daughter is going out with David Schwimmer’s hapless Ross Geller.
Willis’s character eventually ends up in a relationship with Rachel, played by Jennifer Aniston.
Many of Hollywood’s biggest stars also sent messages of support for the “awesome badass” actor following the announcement.
Director M Night Shyamalan, Breaking Bad star Dean Norris, Seth Green and Jamie Lee Curtis were among the famous faces rallying around the Willis family.
Shyamalan, who directed the actor in the 2019 superhero thriller Glass, paid tribute to Willis as the “hero on that poster on my wall as a kid”.
“All my love and respect to my big brother Bruce Willis,” he said.
“I know his wonderful family is surrounding him with support and strength.
“He will always be that hero on that poster on my wall as a kid.”
Disclosing the news on social media on Wednesday, Willis’s family said it had been a “really challenging time” for them and thanked fans for their “continued love, compassion and support”.
Willis married actress Demi Moore in 1987 and had his three eldest children, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah.
I’m very proud to have worked opposite the great Bruce Willis in one of his last movies. This is very sad.
— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) March 30, 2022
Legend. https://t.co/ucxWKyQljW
The pair separated in 2000 but remained on amicable terms and Willis married actress Emma Heming in 2009.
Willis and Heming also share two daughters, Mabel and Evelyn. | https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/matthew-perry-says-bruce-willis-will-remain-in-my-prayers-for-a-long-time-41509359.html | 2022-04-01T01:46:29Z |
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When I graduated from college, I knew my purpose was to serve this country’s most vulnerable. For the last eight years, I have served as an educator and high school principal in Los Angeles, California, and in 2021 I founded ReTHINK It, a nonprofit that addresses the material needs of marginalized communities. I have dedicated myself to empowering and educating young people and advocating for folks victimized by systemic and systematic oppression.
But I drastically underestimated the cost of this work—both personal and financial.
At present, I owe $230,000 dollars in student loan debt. Like countless borrowers, I owe more than I did when I first graduated college. I am but one example of the stark racial disparity governing the student debt-loan crisis: After 12 years of payments, the typical white male in the US has paid off 44% of his student loan balance, while the typical balance for Black women borrowers grows by 13%.
On April 4, debtors and our allies from around the country will head to the doorsteps of the Department of Education in Washington, DC, to demonstrate our collective strength and send a clear message that Joe Biden must do more than simply extend the payment moratorium. He has the power to cancel all student loan debt with a stroke of his pen, a move that will ensure Black women have, for perhaps the first time, a real shot at prosperity.
For years, I believed my student loan debt was the result of my personal failings—a lie that countless borrowers, particularly those who are Black or from poor and working-class families, come to internalize. Then, in September of 2020, I joined the Debt Collective, an organization fighting for the abolition of all forms of debt through the creation of a debtor’s union. Soon, I became one of the Biden Jubilee 100; we declared ourselves on strike from ever repaying our student loan balance, and demanded the full cancellation of student loan debt within President Biden’s first 100 days in office.
Joining the Debt Collective allowed me to finally politicize my experience. More importantly, it showed me that I was not alone: All student loan debt is the result of the systemic failures in this country. And the policy decisions and economic arrangements that created this system, which has buried generations under mountains of un-repayable student loan debt, comprise a catastrophic societal failure that can and must be rectified.
Growing up, I was told that achieving the American Dream would require going to college so I could secure a career. Home ownership, one of the most important ways that families build intergenerational wealth, is comically beyond reach. In my hometown of Carson, California, the median home price has increased over the past year by 19.7% to over $700,000.
Racist banking practices have also made the prospect of home ownership increasingly infeasible for Black borrowers. Wells Fargo has faced renewed public scrutiny in recent weeks, following a bombshell Bloomberg report that found the bank had denied home loans to 53% of its Black applicants in 2020, at the height of the pandemic-induced crisis and the ensuing economic hardship. The highest-earning Black families, or those earning over $168,000 a year, were approved for home loans at a rate nearly identical to the lowest-earning white families, or those earning less than $63,000 a year. The blatant discrimation was infuriating, yet hardly surprising.
For my generation, the American Dream feels like just that, a dream—it is never going to become reality. With my student loan debt, owning a house of my own is a hopeless fantasy.
The same goes for most millennials. According to one recent survey, student loan debt has kept some 35% of millennial borrowers from buying a home—nearly double the amount of baby boomers. It is especially hopeless for those of us from poor and working-class communities. Student loan debt decimates our credit-worthiness, barring many from ever owning a home.
For millions of us, wage discrimination makes the dream even more illusory. Although Black women make up a substantial share of the workforce, they earn just 63% of what white men are paid. Overall, women across nearly all races and ethnicities experience higher rates of poverty than men, a disparity due largely to single motherhood and the gender pay gap. But Black women are disproportionately represented among all women living in poverty: In the US, they constitute 22.3% of women living in poverty, but only 12.8% of the population.
As women aim to “pull themselves” and their families out of poverty, low and stagnant wages fail to allow them to make a living. Debt piles up. Women graduate college owing, on average, about $22,000—for men, it’s $18,880. Black women graduate college owing nearly twice the debt of men, an average of $37,558. Thanks to astounding interest rates, these balances grow over time.
Without assertive action from the Biden administration, many families will be unable to free themselves from the shackles of debt. Between 1989 and 2019, the national household net worth for white families grew from $462,000 to a whopping $953,000; meanwhile, the national household net worth for Black families only moved slightly, from $82,000 to $141,000.
Evidence shows that the racial wealth gap is growing wider, decade after decade. Student loan debt will exacerbate this as the indebtedness of Black families continues to grow. While white families can and tend to pass on their wealth and net worth to succeeding generations, Black families pass on debt and use their resources to support family members who also lack wealth and net worth. On average and in the aggregate, wealth compounds with each generation for white families, while indebtedness compounds with each generation for Black families. We are fighting now for the survival of our children and their children.
As I came to be more involved with the Debt Collective, I watched Black women suffer under their growing loan balances, even as they continued to show up for their families, communities, and this nation. But I also realized that, together, we had power beyond anything I could have imagined.
Black women have been outspoken about the perverse systems barring us from any form of upward mobility. We are doing everything “right” to ensure our future generations aren’t forced into the same dire situations: going to college, graduating, pursuing well-paying careers, attempting to purchase homes and build savings and resources so we can pass them on to future generations. But we cannot dismantle entire systems without the help of those who most benefit from our marginalization.
Specifically, this means white men, the most privileged demographic in this country—they must use their power, wealth, and social capital, to repair the harm endured by people who are categorically oppressed by the very system that empowers them. The longer Joe Biden fails to act, the longer he perpetuates the violence of a white supremacist system that further traps us in debt.
By canceling student loan debt, Joe Biden could create jobs, stimulate the economy, and narrow the racial wealth gap. Doing so would keep trillions of dollars in the hands of people and communities. Families would have less debt and more money to spend, providing immediate and direct economic stimulus to those impacted most by the pandemic: Black families and other families of color. Debt cancellation would provide Black families, especially millennial-parent households, a chance at home ownership, immediately increasing the possibility of building up one’s net worth and having intergenerational wealth to pass on. It’s that simple.
As countless pundits have noted, Black women voters saved the country from a second Trump term, all without adequate recognition or compensation. Empty praise and calls to “thank Black women” are not enough. We need material redistribution and economic transformation. We are owed nothing less.
We have paid enough—and I say no more. I am not asking for “debt forgiveness.” I am demanding justice. | https://therealnews.com/opinion-i-am-not-asking-for-debt-forgiveness-i-am-demanding-justice | 2022-04-01T01:46:30Z |
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Satirical awards show The Golden Raspberry Awards says it has rescinded the “honour” given to Bruce Willis this year, following the announcement of the actor’s health issues.
Organisers of the annual ceremony – known as the Razzies – said it was “not appropriate” to award gongs to those whose medical conditions may have affected their performances.
The Razzies, which “honours” the worst in movies, hands out gongs for what are deemed to be lowlights of the Hollywood year.
Winners of the 42nd annual award ceremony were handed out on March 26, days before Willis’ family announced he would be stepping back from his career.
The actor, 67, has been diagnosed with aphasia, a condition that impacts a person’s cognitive abilities.
“After much thought and consideration, the Razzies have made the decision to rescind the Razzie Award given to Bruce Willis, due to his recently disclosed diagnosis,” organisers said in a statement.
“If someone’s medical condition is a factor in their decision making and/or their performance, we acknowledge that it is not appropriate to give them a Razzie.”
The Razzies are truly sorry for #BruceWillis diagnosed condition. Perhaps this explains why he wanted to go out with a bang in 2021. Our best wishes to Bruce and family.
— The Razzie® Awards (@RazzieAwards) March 30, 2022
This year’s Razzies featured a special new category, titled Worst Performance By Bruce Willis In A 2021 Movie.
The actor went up against himself eight times within the category for films including American Siege, Apex, Deadlock and Out Of Death and “won” for his performance in Cosmic Sin.
Writing on Twitter, the Razzies said it was “truly sorry” to hear the news of Willis’ diagnosis.
“Perhaps this explains why he wanted to go out with a bang in 2021,” the account said.
“Our best wishes to Bruce and family.”
Organisers also said they were rescinding their nomination of Shelley Duvall who was nominated at the first Razzies for her performance in The Shining.
“We have since discovered that Duvall’s performance was impacted by Stanley Kubrick’s treatment of her throughout the production,” they said.
“We would like to take this opportunity to rescind that nomination as well.” | https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/the-razzies-take-back-bruce-willis-honour-after-health-issues-announcement-41509370.html | 2022-04-01T01:46:30Z |
Mulch fire leads to Smyrna hotel evacuated Wednesday evening
SMYRNA, TN (WSMV) – Fire crews responded to a fire at a hotel Wednesday evening in Smyrna.
Smyrna Fire Department said personnel was dispatched to a mulch fire at TownPlace Suites located at 990 Colonnade Drive sometime around 8 p.m.
Crews said they saw visible flames in the mulch area just outside the hotel’s foyer. They then attached and extinguished the fire, containing the damage to the mulch and a wall in the entrance and lobby.
Guests were evacuated and were later allowed to return to their rooms after crews extinguished the fire.
“Firefighters did an excellent job of preventing the spread of this fire,” noted SFD Chief Bill Culbertson.
“We are grateful all hotel guests and staff were evacuated safely and experienced minimal disruption to their stay.”
Preliminary investigations indicated that the fire began with a discarded cigarette fueled by high winds. However, SFD added that the fire’s cause and origin are still under investigation.
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Two years after they were applauded as heroes, health staff yesterday had to take to Zoom to try and be heard – and spell out the nightmare conditions they are enduring.
t’s the only way they feel they can get someone to listen, as they described how the current overcrowding crisis is the worst yet.
Their plea was to politicians for action. But it was also to members of the public; indebted to them as Covid-19 patients were rescued from death in intensive care, but many of whom are now ignoring the advice to wear a mask.
Back in the dark days of the pandemic, hospitals were battling a deadly virus without the shield of immunity from vaccines.
But hospitals did not have to cope with the influx of very sick and many elderly patients who are now coming through emergency departments in record numbers.
The BA.2 variant may be less severe and there is a big bank of immunity among most of the population. But even with the cancellation of waiting list patients, hospitals are buckling under the strain, compounded by a lack of beds, old, not-fit-for-purpose buildings, and nearly 7,000 staff absent due to Covid-19.
Dr Fergal Hickey, president of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, described the situation as a lethal cocktail of a very infectious virus in already overcrowded hospitals.
Their plea was for a return of the mandate to wear face masks and advice to work from home.
It’s difficult to quantify what impact both would have, but the measures, if implemented, could play a role in speeding up what may be the first signs the wave is coming under control.
However, the Government is adamant the advice is that nothing short of a full lockdown would be enough to stop the highly contagious BA.2 in its tracks.
It’s going to be a tough April on the wards again because there is always a lag between a fall in high levels of virus and a benefit for hospitals.
The emergency consultants and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) are concerned the country’s “Living with Covid” strategy is basically ignoring it, while leaving burnt-out staff and the sickest of patients to fight the war in the hospital front line.
Even if this wave eases soon, the lessons from our hospitals are ominous.
While so much patient care was put on hold during 2020 in particular, it was always going to be impossible to keep a lid on it.
A pent-up demand from very ill people, who have deteriorated during the pandemic, and a backlog of delayed treatment has been unleashed on hospitals in recent months. They are seeing record attendances at emergency departments.
The dam has burst and patients can no longer stay at home.
The pandemic increase in ward and intensive care beds is not enough to allow hospitals to function even at the levels seen in some of the worst pre-pandemic years.
Patients are deteriorating while they languish sitting on a plastic chair for hours outside an emergency department.
Lying on a trolley and prolonged waits for a bed can lead to higher mortality risks.
Karen McGowan, president of the INMO and an emergency department nurse, said elderly patients are becoming “delirious” on trolleys.
“We feel totally abandoned by those who are making decisions,” she said.
Dr Hickey described how the Covid and non-Covid streams in emergency departments are failing to pick up people who have the virus in time and may already have passed it on to another patient.
All the while, thousands of people are at home who should be in hospital having waited months or years for a procedure, or others who have symptoms and need a diagnostic scan are having to play Russian roulette with their health through no fault of their own.
Behind the hospital chaos which this and future Covid-19 waves bring is a dangerous toll on the health of tens of thousands of people, and a threat to their care which could be very serious.
Wishful thinking will not see the country through what will potentially be treacherous times ahead with this virus.
Charting the way forward will be the job of the successor to Nphet and there should be no delay in launching an action plan. | https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chaos-behind-the-cry-for-help-as-hospital-workers-spell-out-nightmare-conditions-41508948.html | 2022-04-01T01:46:31Z |
Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment,” Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to “Good Morning America.” “They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options.”
But Packer said Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,” Packer said. “And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no.”
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night’s ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer’s interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.”
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.”
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White House hosts transgender ‘Jeopardy!’ star Amy Schneider
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday by denouncing “hateful bills” being passed at the state level as the White House played host to “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, the first openly transgender winner on the popular quiz show.
Schneider met with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who joined Rachel Levine, the assistant health secretary and the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, for a conversation with transgender kids and their parents.
Schneider used the moment in the Washington spotlight to speak out against bills affecting transgender people.
“They’re really scary and some of them in particular that are denying medical services to trans youth, those are, those are lifesaving medical treatments,” Schneider told reporters. “These bills will cause the deaths of children and that’s really sad to me and it’s really frightening.”
Biden, in a brief video message, said that “the onslaught of anti-transgender state laws attacking you and your families is simply wrong.” The president said his administration “is standing up for you against all these hateful bills. And we’re committed to advancing transgender equality in the classroom, on the playing field, at work, in our military and our housing and health care systems.”
The administration announced several actions to make the federal government more inclusive for transgender people and said the Health and Human Services Department will be the first agency to fly a trans pride flag.. The steps come as Republican leaders have advanced state measures targeting transgender people as part of a broader push to stoke culture wars heading into a critical election season.
The administration said the federal government will become more inclusive for transgender people, including through the use of a new “X” gender marker on U.S. passport applications, beginning on April 11, and new Transportation Security Administration scanners that are gender-neutral.
It is working to expand the availability of the “X” gender marker to airlines and federal travel programs and will make it easier for transgender people to change their gender information in Social Security Administration records.
Visitors to the White House complex soon will also be able to choose an “X” gender marker option in the White House Worker and Visitor Entry System, which is used to conduct screening background checks.
At airports, changes will be made to screening scanners along with the introduction of the use of an “X” for travelers going through Precheck who do not identify as male or female. Transportation Security Administration agents will receive new instructions on how to make screening procedures less invasive and will work with airlines to promote acceptance of the “X” gender marker.
“Jeopardy!” star Schneider spoke of “being a trans person out there that isn’t monstrous and isn’t threatening and is just a normal person, like we all are,” and said “the more that people like me can be seen, the harder it is to sustain the myths that are ... kind of driving a lot of this hate and fear.”
In his video, Biden said there is work still to be done to end “the epidemic of violence against transgender women of color and girls of color” and to ensure that transgender seniors “can age with dignity.” He called anew on Congress to pass the Equality Act to help transgender people around the world “live free from discrimination and violence.”
Biden tried to reassure any transgender person who is struggling, telling them to remember that “you’re not alone.”
“You’re so brave. You belong. And we have your back,” Biden said.
The administration’s actions follow recent steps at the state level to limit activity by transgender people. At least 10 states have banned transgender athletes from participating in sports at all levels in a way that is consistent with their gender identity.
In Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking reelection, has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to probe reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is running for reelection and considering a 2024 presidential bid, on Monday signed into law a measure that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. The law has drawn intense national scrutiny from critics who argue it marginalizes LGBTQ people. Republicans and advocates of the law argue that discussion of these topics should be between parents and their children.
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Associated Press writers Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, and Colleen Long and Ben Fox contributed to this report.
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Knox uses 4-birdie run for a one-stroke lead at Texas Open
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Russell Knox recorded four straight birdies on the back nine and fired a 7-under 65 for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Valero Texas Open. Knox closed out his round with a seven-foot putt to save par at the par-5 18th at TPC San Antonio, and was one shot ahead of Rasmus Hojgaard (66). Matt Kuchar is another stroke back after an opening 5-under 67 and is among a group that includes Denny McCarthy, Aaron Rei and J.J. Spaun. Defending champ Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy finished at even-par 72. | https://keyt.com/sports/national-sports/ap-national-sports/2022/03/31/knox-uses-4-birdie-run-for-a-one-stroke-lead-at-texas-open/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:31Z |
Then-billionaire Beijing retail entrepreneur Wong Kwong Yu was riding high 15 years ago. Wong topped the Forbes China Rich List in 2006 with a fortune worth $2.3 billion on the strength of Hong Kong-listed flagship retail chain he founded, Gome Electrical Appliances Holding, now called Gome Retail Holdings.
In 2010, however, Wong was sentenced to prison for 14 years for insider trading and other offenses. That setback happened at around the same time e-commerce businesses like JD.com and Alibaba were accelerating the digitalization of the country’s retail landscape. The fusion of social media and e-commerce at business such Xiaohongshu has only deepened pressure on the old guard and retailers in general.
Though Wong was out on parole in 2020, pressure on the company hasn’t eased. Gome on Wednesday reported a loss of 4.4 billion yuan, $687 million, in 2021, following another big loss of 6.99 billion yuan in 2020. Sales last year edged up to 46.4 billion yuan from 44.1 billion yuan a year earlier.
The results have been tough on Gome’s shares, which have lost 67% in the past year. Older rival Suning.com’s shares have fallen by half during the period.
Wong, who is no longer a billionaire on the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list, is also known as Huang Guangyu.
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In April of 2020, United Way of McPherson County created the Community Response and Recovery Fund to assist county residents who were economically affected by the pandemic. This included people who lost jobs or work hours due to the impact of COVID-19. The fund helped individuals and families pay immediate bills such as rent/mortgage, utilities and prescriptions while providing referrals for other needs such as food, support pertaining to eviction, childcare, and other needs. This fund was financed through individual donors, corporate sponsors and employees, the City of McPherson and a grant obtained through the Kansas Health Foundation. In addition, federal and state funding came through McPherson County administered by the McPherson County Community Foundation. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556721636986/united-way-has-600-000-in-grants-available-for-community-essentials | 2022-04-01T01:46:33Z |
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Lexi Thompson was a combined 43 under at the Chevron Championship the past five years heading into this week. Lydia Ko stood closest to her in that stretch at 37 under.
Mission Hills is Thompson’s favorite stop on tour. The 27-year-old won here in 2014 and then put herself in the conversation at the season’s first major nearly every year after that. Of course, what happened in 2017 on the back nine of the Dinah Shore Tournament Course became a legendary nightmare: a four-stroke penalty that rocked the golf world and a comeback that sent chills down the spines of all who gathered around Poppie’s Pond to watch the finish.
But, of course, Thompson came up short to So Yeon Ryu that week. The rules of golf have since changed and many feel Thompson is owed one here. Had she won that week, what kind of trajectory would that momentum have taken her?
We’ll never know, but a Thompson victory on the last lap around Dinah’s Place would be the popular choice of many if such a thing could be scripted.
Thompson opened with a 3-under 69 on a day of tremendous ball-striking and seemed relaxed after what could’ve been a silly low round. When asked if she felt like there might be some kind of destiny in the cards for her this week, she shrugged it off.
“Destiny, I don’t know,” said Thompson. “I’m enjoying every last step I have at Mission Hills because it’s one of my favorite venues.”
Jennifer Kuphcho and Minjee Lee hold the early lead at 6 under. Thompson played alongside World No. 1 Jin Young Ko in the morning’s marquee pairing. Ko, who boldly said her best golf would have her winning by five this week, broke a streak of 34 consecutive rounds under par on Thursday after she struggled to a 74.
“I was hitting lots of great shots, said Ko, “but my putting wasn’t good on the green. I couldn’t see the break as much or speed, everything was wrong.
“I don’t know what happened.”
Coming into this week, Ko was a combined 50 under par in the major championships since 2019, the best of any player in that span. She amassed eight top-20 finishes in 10 starts in the majors during that stretch.
How shocking is Ko’s 74? Her scoring average over the past 11 events is 67.54.
Expectations are enormously high for a reason.
Thompson’s love affair with Mission Hills can be seen in her performance numbers. Since winning here in 2014, she leads the tour at the Chevron in scoring average (69.75), rounds in the 60s (14), top-5 finishes (5), top-10 finishes (6), and cumulative score in relation to par (72 under). She also leads in proximity to the hole from 100-125 yards at 22 feet, 11 inches.
Thompson, who works with instructor Martin Hall, said she’s grinding harder than ever on her game, particularly putting.
“I don’t know how my back is still intact with how many putts I hit every day,” she said, “the hours that I’ve put in, but that’s what it takes.”
Thompson and her family rent a house every year in Rancho Mirage and she enjoys mom’s cooking each night. It’s been five years since that shocking Sunday in the desert knocked the wind out of her chest.
Despite it all, she can’t get enough of the place.
“There’s nothing like this event,” said Thompson.
Which is why the old Dinah deserves an epic conclusion, exactly the kind a people’s champion like Thompson could deliver. | https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/03/31/dinah-deserves-epic-finish-popular-choice-lexi-thompson-chevron-championship/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:33Z |
Russians leaving Chernobyl as fighting rages elsewhere
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear power company says Russian forces have begun leaving the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The operator says the exit comes after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site.
The move came as fighting continued near Kyiv and other zones.
There are indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says defense forces are preparing for a stepped-up Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine.
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Thirty years after Neal Stephenson conjured a fictional virtual reality application of the internet that was immersive and shareable, where people could work, play, learn and socialize, people are ready to make his "Snow Crash"metaversea reality.
We are on the threshold of creating a world where the real and the virtual connect seamlessly, giving us new ways to experience life. From Amazon to Samsung, Google, Microsoft and Facebook, every major technology company is investing in the metaverse. They are turning a once fictional idea into commerce.
The Metaverse Market Heats Up
The idea of the metaverse is attractive because it presents an opportunity for businesses to think differently and extend human perception. It is one step closer to delivering services in a new, more immersive digital environment for consumers. Scores of companies are working to build software, hardware(processors, headsets, haptic equipment, 3-D displays), assets(holograms, AR content), products(datasets, tools for digital identities),avatars (virtual representations), marketplaces(digital goods, NFTs), and financial services(blockchain, DeFi)to support the metaverse.
Gartner predicts that 25% of people will spend at least an hour every day in the metaverse by 2026, so we can expect to see a quick evolution and far-reaching developments around the metaverse. It may be a little early to predict how it will take shape, or its potential. But this needs to be emphasized: The metaverse is not limited to increasing the use of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR). It is not just about developing flashy holographic representations. It is not just about putting brands and processes, employees and customers, into a virtual gaming environment or into the neighborhood of Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix."
The metaverse can be thought of as a combination of technologies that creates a persistent blend of the real and the virtual world, giving us the freedom to move seamlessly from one to the other. This is the ultimate experience that technology will aim to deliver.The display systems, the compute capabilities, the quality of the human-machine interface, and the richness of content and services will determine who leads and who lags. But we can be sure that without humanizing the experience, the metaverse will remain a mesh of cold technologies, creating a playground for a small tribe of nerds.
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What Will Set the Metaverse Apart?
At an experience level, the metaverse will be marked by six characteristics. Businesses must carefully examine each characteristic and assess the value they create:
- Boundless: The metaverse is limitless. There are no barriers between the real and the digital.
- Persistent: The metaverse can’t be unplugged or reset. It is always active, always on, always dynamic.
- Immersive: The metaverse extends reality (XR). It builds a new type of world, rather than simply creating a representation of reality as we know it.
- Decentralized: All users have individual agency. No single entity will control the metaverse.
- Economic System: Virtual economies will flourish. Digital currency will gain traction.
- Social Experience: The metaverse fuels sharing. It does this by allowing linkages to be created between users and AI-driven/virtual entities and events.
It is reasonably evident that the metaverse is not just the intersection of technologies. It will use AI, ML, AR, VR,MR,XR, IoT, 5G, blockchain, BCI (brain-computer interfaces) to create a more human experience. But success would revolve around bringing attention to a short list of human qualities that include:
'Humotions' — Emoting Normally
At the moment when we want to emote in the digital world, we turn to an emoji. Today, we have 3,633 emojis in the Unicode Standard alone. The world uses 5 billion emojis every day. And, no surprise, we use billions of emoticons every day besides the emojis. Over the years, users have created ingenious ways to battle the reductionist effects of technology. Technologists have recently tried to infuse computational systems with cognition, intuition, emotion and perception. Fuzzy logic was amongst the initial methodologies used to approximate human thinking. Now we need to supplement “human thinking” with “human emotion.”Several encouraging developments can aid in interpreting human emotion and responding to it. One of them is using visual analytics to interpret micro-facial expressions. Metaverse environments that can emote normally will stand head and shoulders above others.
'ConneXperiences' — Connecting and Creating
Until now, technology has successfully created networks using demographic, professional, and behavioral data. These networks, dominated by name tags and business cards (or the digital equivalent of platforms, handles and profiles), have been driving relationships. In real life, relationships are built on how we feel about people through the emotional connection we make with them — which depends on shared experiences. Technology must go a step beyond supporting networking to creating and strengthening relationship sand building rapport (between societies, communities, buyer and seller, businesses and stakeholders, governments and citizens).We know that relationships fail to rise above the network if we do not prioritize face time. The metaverse should enable, with its immersive environment, the opportunity for users to build and strengthen relationships.
'Communiverse' — Binding Communities
Great brands provoke emotion by creating interactions that gratify user needs, help meet the user ambitions, resonate with the user’s mental state, and develop a sense of belonging.They bring us together as a community with a common interest.An immersive environment can provide subtle and subconscious ways to improve emotional attachment and drive decisions. Research shows that 95% of purchase decisions are made subconsciously. In addition, data shows we process visual information 60,000 times faster than text (pdf). With its ability to personalize interactions, drive subconscious messaging, and provide visual environments, the metaverse holds the key to creating deep attachment and inducing long-term loyalty.
'Spongification' — Engaging and Learning
The metaverse presents a new way of delivering ideas, instructions and education. Imagine collaborative and immersive 3-D environments, global connectedness, real-time interactions, and access to practically any information and data. This would fire users into exploring, challenging and debating ideas independently or with any community they wish.At its deepest level, the metaverse is the ideal playground to quench human curiosity in a “near-natural” setting, away from the dangers, harms and barriers that the real world places before us. | https://www.cmswire.com/information-management/virtual-is-real-or-real-is-virtual-the-metaverse-game-begins/?utm_source=cmswire.com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=all-articles-rss | 2022-04-01T01:46:34Z |
We've all come across an optical illusion that has tricked our eyes, but how often has it been on someone's face? Vancouver-based makeup artist Mimi Choi uses her skills to transform her own visage into mind-boggling images that look like Surrealist paintings. Even if you look closely at the photos, it is hard to tell how she manages these visual tricks.
Sometimes humorous, other times whimsical, and occasionally a little scary, Choi's imagination seems to have no limits when it comes to creating new looks. In each one, however, she takes the time to carefully paint over her face in ways that mimic reality and uses the background to help enhance the effect of her illusions. For instance, on Pi Day, Choi posted an image of herself removing the last slice of her brain. The rest of her head is painted to blend into the blue sky wallpaper behind her, which helps the viewer focus on the remaining piece of “pie.”
Many of these makeup looks are based on her experiences living with sleep paralysis: a condition in which the person's mind is conscious, but their body is temporarily unresponsive while waking. “During these bouts, [Choi] experiences vivid and often frightening visions which have inspired many of her more morbid and distorted face looks,” it says on the artist's website. Striking patterns, photoshopped art, and other artists like Salvador Dalí and M.C. Escher are other muses of Choi whose influence can be seen in the dreamy aspects of her work.
Scroll down to see more incredible illusions, and follow the artist on Instagram for even more insight into her process.
Vancouver-based artist Mimi Choi transforms her face into amazing Surrealist paintings with makeup.
As a result, her face becomes an optical illusion.
Mimi Choi: Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
My Modern Met granted permission to feature photos by Mimi Choi.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
“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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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland Police Bureau (PPB) is searching for a man that allegedly assaulted another man after attempting to steal car parts on Thursday morning.
PPB says that the suspect is facing felony charges.
Just before 6:30 a.m., officers responded to a report of a disturbance outside a house in the 8900 block of North Kimbrell Ave., located in the Portsmouth Neighborhood. Upon arrival, they found a 64-year-old man injured, and multiple neighbors holding down a female suspect, later identified as 26-year-old Kaylynn M. Spencer, who was arrested on-scene.
According to police, when the victim saw someone trying to steal car parts from his vehicle, he went outside to confront the man, which led to an altercation. Spencer, who is believed to be an accomplice of the suspect, allegedly got involved and struck the victim with a metal file. Police say that Spencer was held down by a group of people in the neighborhood, including the victim’s wife, until officers arrived.
The victim suffered injuries to his head in the altercation according to police, but declined to go the hospital.
Spencer was booked into Multnomah County Jail on charges of second degree assault, second degree robbery and unlawful use of a weapon. Police are still attempting to locate the male suspect.
If anyone has information about this case or the identity of the suspect, please e-mail crimetips@portlandoregon.gov and reference case number 22-85658. | https://www.koin.com/news/crime/ppb-searching-for-suspect-involved-in-car-part-theft-assault-in-portland/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:34Z |
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Juniors Tyler Holland and Stefan Swedlund each marked four goals to help pace Randolph to a 14-5 win over Montclair Kimberley in Randolph.
Holland also tallied four assists while Swedlund had three for Randolph (1-0). Senior Sean Lawler finished with two goals and four assists while sophomore Eddie Wysmerski, juniors Adri Koliqi and Patrick Osborn and senior Andrew Novak each had a goal.
Senior Brodie Snyder led Montclair Kimberley (0-1) with a hat trick and freshman Henry McCann chipped in with two goals.
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CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a leader in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, today announced its results from the fourth round of the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations. CrowdStrike achieved 100% prevention with comprehensive visibility and actionable alerts – demonstrating the power of the Falcon+platform to stop today’s most sophisticated threats.
This round of independent ATT%26amp%3BCK+Evaluations for enterprise cybersecurity solutions emulated the WIZARD+SPIDER and VOODOO+BEAR (Sandworm Team) threat groups, which were chosen because of their sophistication and broad range of post-exploitation tradecraft. The Falcon platform was evaluated among products from 30 vendors.
Falcon Platform Delivers 100% Prevention
The Falcon platform delivered 100% prevention in the ATT&CK Evaluations, consisting of nine test scenarios (including 19 steps and 109 substeps) on Windows and Linux operating systems. According to the 2022+CrowdStrike+Global+Threat+Report, the average breakout time for adversaries -- the time an adversary takes to move laterally from an initially compromised host to another host within the victim environment -- is 98 minutes. Organizations need to be able to stop attackers immediately, before they can move about the network and cause damage. CrowdStrike shuts down attacks before they start.
CrowdStrike Delivers a Unified Platform Approach
CrowdStrike was the only vendor to demonstrate native and unified Zero Trust and identity protection capabilities in its platform. Adversaries are increasingly using legitimate and stolen credentials to try and evade detection. The Falcon platform shuts down identity-based attacks before they can start by delivering powerful capabilities like identity-based security, comprehensive Indicators of Attack (IOAs), machine learning, automated orchestration and threat intelligence through a unified, cloud-native approach. In the ATT&CK Evaluations, the Falcon platform proved these capabilities stop attackers quickly with more than 93% of attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) stopped before they could execute.
Falcon Platform Delivers Comprehensive Visibility and Actionable Alerts
The Falcon platform provides comprehensive capabilities and tools for security teams to see, stop and understand an attack – scoring visibility on 96% of substeps in the ATT&CK Evaluations while presenting evidence for 99% of substeps. Visibility is a critical requirement of effective security, as security teams require context, historical visibility and response capabilities. CrowdStrike visually highlights detected attacks with rich context to streamline the triage process and helps security teams focus on the most critical threats first. In the ATT&CK Evaluations, the tested activities are presented in just six incidents, minimizing alert fatigue and giving security teams needed context to understand an attack.
“Achieving 100% prevention in the fourth round of the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation shows the power of the Falcon platform, which was designed to enable organizations to take a unified approach in detecting and preventing attacks across the endpoint, cloud, identity and data. CrowdStrike is setting the industry standard with a cloud-native security platform that is designed to deliver the most robust protections and stop the most sophisticated threats,” said Michael Sentonas, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike.
For more information on CrowdStrike’s test results, please visit the blog.
For full results and more information about the evaluations, please visit the MITRE+Engenuity+website.
About MITRE Engenuity
MITRE Engenuity, a subsidiary of MITRE, is a tech foundation for the public good. MITRE’s mission-driven teams are dedicated to solving problems for a safer world. Through our public-private partnerships and federally funded R&D centers, we work across government and in partnership with industry to tackle challenges to the safety, stability, and well-being of our nation.
MITRE Engenuity brings MITRE’s deep technical know-how and systems thinking to the private sector to solve complex challenges that government alone cannot solve. MITRE Engenuity catalyzes the collective R&D strength of the broader U.S. federal government, academia, and private sector to tackle national and global challenges, such as protecting critical infrastructure, creating a resilient semiconductor ecosystem, building a genomics center for public good, accelerating use case innovation in 5G, and democratizing threat-informed cyber defense.
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with one of the world’s most advanced cloud-native platforms for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have revoked the license of a Nevada-based gun manufacturer that was accused of illegally selling guns and went bankrupt but then rebranded itself.
The revocation comes after a lawsuit that alleged the Justice Department didn’t conduct proper oversight before issuing the license.
The decision to revoke the license of JA Industries was spelled out in a court filing late Wednesday as part of the lawsuit brought by Illinois; Kansas City, Missouri; and gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
The lawsuit alleged that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a law enforcement agency in the Justice Department, awarded the license to JA Industries, renamed from Jimenez Arms, after it violated federal firearms law. The suit also alleged that the company’s guns were contributing to rising violent crime rates in Chicago and Kansas City.
Kansas City and Everytown had sued Jimenez Arms and several gun dealers previously, alleging they contributed to surging gun violence in the Kansas City region by ignoring evidence that guns were being sold illegally in the area. Jimenez Arms filed for bankruptcy about a month after the suit was filed.
That suit contended that Jimenez Arms every year made tens of thousands of cheap handguns that turned up at crime scenes in Kansas City and Chicago “at a rate disproportionate to the company’s market share.”
The plaintiffs alleged in their suit against the ATF that the company’s owner, Paul Jimenez, applied for a new license under the name JA Industries and that it took the ATF less than a month to award the license. The suit alleged that company officials had made false statements to the ATF and had unlawfully shipped guns to a firearms trafficker, which should’ve made the company and its officials ineligible for holding a federal firearms license.
A message seeking comment from JA Industries on Thursday was not immediately returned.
Everytown for Gun Safety heralded the decision to revoke the company’s license.
“We can only hope this decision marks the beginning of a new era at ATF, one that is consistent with President Biden’s commitment to holding rogue and reckless members of the gun industry accountable for breaking the law and putting lives in danger,” said John Feinblatt, Everytown’s president.
In a statement, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said it was a “bold action to stop the flow of illegal firearms into Kansas City.”
An ATF spokesperson, Erik Longnecker, declined to comment specifically, citing the ongoing case. But he said the agency “revokes Federal firearms licensees who are found to have committed willful violations of the Gun Control Act and have an adverse impact on public safety.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/nevada-gun-manufacturers-license-is-revoked-after-lawsuit/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:35Z |
Citadel Investment Advisory Inc. decreased its holdings in shares of The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG – Get Rating) by 5.2% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 4,733 shares of the company’s stock after selling 259 shares during the quarter. Citadel Investment Advisory Inc.’s holdings in Procter & Gamble were worth $774,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. Capital Directions Investment Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Procter & Gamble in the third quarter valued at $27,000. University of Texas Texas AM Investment Managment Co. acquired a new position in Procter & Gamble in the third quarter valued at $29,000. Level Financial Advisors Inc. acquired a new position in Procter & Gamble in the fourth quarter valued at $51,000. LFA Lugano Financial Advisors SA acquired a new position in Procter & Gamble in the fourth quarter valued at $53,000. Finally, Strategic Asset Management LLC acquired a new position in Procter & Gamble in the third quarter valued at $62,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 63.05% of the company’s stock.
In other news, insider Deborah P. Majoras sold 1,927 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $153.51, for a total transaction of $295,813.77. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, Chairman David S. Taylor sold 50,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, January 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $164.07, for a total value of $8,203,500.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 566,796 shares of company stock valued at $91,098,906. 0.51% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
NYSE:PG traded down $1.59 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $152.80. The stock had a trading volume of 7,517,840 shares, compared to its average volume of 8,407,113. The company has a market capitalization of $369.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.28, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.84 and a beta of 0.47. The Procter & Gamble Company has a 1-year low of $130.29 and a 1-year high of $165.35. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $155.28 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $151.61. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.51, a current ratio of 0.67 and a quick ratio of 0.50.
Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January 19th. The company reported $1.66 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $1.65 by $0.01. Procter & Gamble had a return on equity of 31.99% and a net margin of 18.52%. The business had revenue of $20.95 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $20.34 billion. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.64 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 6.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts anticipate that The Procter & Gamble Company will post 5.91 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, February 15th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 21st were paid a $0.8698 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, January 20th. This represents a $3.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.28%. Procter & Gamble’s payout ratio is currently 61.48%.
Procter & Gamble Profile (Get Rating)
Procter & Gamble Co engages in the provision of branded consumer packaged goods. It operates through the following segments: Beauty, Grooming, Health Care, Fabric & Home Care, and Baby, Feminine & Family Care. The Beauty segment offers hair, skin, and personal care. The Grooming segment consists of shave care like female and male blades and razors, pre and post shave products, and appliances.
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Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Winnipeg 8 Moose Jaw 1
Wednesday's results
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert 2 Brandon 1
Swift Current 6 Lethbridge 4
Regina 3 Saskatoon 2
Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 2
Kamloops 8 Prince George 2
Friday's games
Calgary at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
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.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17049937.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:35Z |
Every state of India has its own history. Likewise, Odisha is not an exception. Formerly known as Orissa, the land of splendid monuments, temples, architecture and history make this place an ever-vibrant state of India. Situated in the eastern part of India, the capital of Odisha, Bhubaneswar, is home to rich tribal cultures along with hundreds of ancient Hindu temples like Mukteshvara, Lingaraj, Jagannath temple, and Sun temple of Konark among many more.
Moreover, Odisha is also the Jagannath Dham (the land of Lord Jagannath), a religious and spiritual place for pilgrimage. Completed in 1161, this temple is also known for the famous Rath Yatra. This traditional 12th century-old Jagannath temple, located at Puri attracts thousands of devotees and tourists.
Origin of Odisha Day
In the year 1936, on this day, Odisha was made a separate province and determined as a new state along with some parts of the Madras Presidency. Also, the name of the state originated from the Odra or Udra tribes, residing in the central region of Odisha. Thus, we celebrate Utkal Divas or Odisha Day on April 1 each year to recall the formation of the state to be recognised as a state.
History of Odisha
The term Odisha is derived from the Sanskrit word “Odra Desa" and historically, this state has been known by various names such as Utkala, Kalinga, Udra, Toshali, and Kosala. The wonderful ancient history of this state has been mentioned frequently in well-known texts like ‘Mahabharata’, ‘Vayu Purana’. 5000-year-old history of Odisha comprises so many powerful battles through different periods.
Odisha became famous during the rule of Kalinga between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE. After that, the Maurya King Ashoka invaded it and conquered almost the whole of India and its surroundings. But it flourished during the 11th century under the Ganga Dynasty and has always stayed the fortress of the great Hindu architecture and culture till now.
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Remy Ma has shared that she doesn’t consider Doja Cat to be a rapper.
She also said that she doesn’t agree with the genre-bending artist – who has been nominated for eight Grammys at this year’s ceremony – receiving nods in the rap category.
“I don’t think she’s a rapper. Let’s be clear with that,” Remy Ma told N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on the Drink Champs podcast. “They put her in the rapper category, I don’t think she’s a rapper. But she makes dope records, and I think she’s dope.”
.@RealRemyMa shares her thoughts on @DojaCat during a discussion on the Drink Champs podcast.
— The Female Rap Room (@girlsinrap) March 26, 2022
Meanwhile, Doja Cat, whose real name is Amala Dlamini, has recently reiterated her plans to quit music. This comes after she originally told fans she was done with her career, before retracting those statements.
The rapper and pop star is currently on tour in South America, and was scheduled to play at the Asunciónico festival in Paraguay last Tuesday (March 22).
After the festival’s opening day, which was set to feature Doja Cat, was cancelled due to high winds and weather warnings, fans online expressed their disappointment at the star not meeting them outside her hotel.
In response to that, the musician tweeted: “it’s gone and i don’t give a fuck anymore,” she replied. “i fuckin quit i can’t wait to fucking disappear and i don’t need you to believe in me anymore. Everything is dead to me, music is dead, and i’m a fucking fool for ever thinking i was made for this this is a fucking nightmare unfollow me.”
Then on March 28, the rapper responded to Florida radio station MIX 105.1, who wrote “Ok so maybe @DojaCat isn’t retiring,” alongside an article about her apology.
In response to the tweet, Doja replied: “Yes the fuck I am.”
yes the fuck i am
— sausage toes (@DojaCat) March 29, 2022
Elsewhere, Doja Cat brought her set at Lollapalooza Argentina to a standstill last weekend (March 19), after being alerted to an audience member requiring medical attention.
The American singer and rapper was performing her song ‘Options’ when she called for the track to be cut midway through, Billboard reports. Addressing the crowd, she asked if “somebody needs help out there”, to which a section of the crowd waved and pointed.
“We can’t have that,” the singer said, before communicating with security and stage management to take care of the fan. “I can’t keep going if things aren’t good.” | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/remy-ma-on-doja-cats-music-i-dont-think-shes-a-rapper-3195460 | 2022-04-01T01:46:35Z |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A portion of Interstate 95 southbound near the exit for State Road 9B was closed Thursday evening due to police activity, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Several police cars were spotted in the area, and it appeared there was police tape around a retention pond. A fire engine was also seen with its ladder over the pond.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office could only confirm they were in the area for a traffic stop, but additional details were expected to be forthcoming.
A News4JAX employee was traveling southbound on I-95 when their dash camera captured a vehicle traveling on the shoulder at a high rate of speed. Several police cruisers appeared to be pursuing the SUV.
The scene was near the Old St. Augustine Road exit — just a few miles away from the scene.
News4JAX has a crew working to gather more information. | https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/04/01/heavy-police-activity-on-i-95-south-at-state-road-9b/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:35Z |
SCAPPOOSE, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a man was shot and killed Thursday by two police officers in Scappoose, Oregon.
Columbia County officials confirmed the officer-involved shooting on social media. In a tweet, officials said that “no officers were injured and the incident is currently under investigation.”
A witness told KOIN-TV that he was dropping his wife off at work when he saw a man show up to the towing facility next door. The witness, Erik Tyler, said the man appeared angry and a fight escalated between the man and employees until the workers told him they would call the police.
Police arrived and Tyler said he heard them yell at the man to drop his weapon and the man didn’t comply.
Detective Shannon Wilde with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, which has taken over the investigation, told reporters police responded to the “disturbance” at Grumpy’s Towing just before 10 a.m. During the incident, Wilde said both a sheriff's deputy and an Oregon State Police trooper fired their weapons, killing the man.
Wilde did not identify the deceased man or specify whether he was armed at the time but said he was wanted for an unrelated “violent felony.”
Wilde also declined to comment on the circumstances that led up to the shooting. | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Police-Officers-shoot-kill-man-in-Scappoose-17049819.php | 2022-04-01T01:46:35Z |
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Mairead McGuinness frankly says she got what amounts to the biggest Irish political job off the island of Ireland in “unusual circumstances”, as Phil Hogan lost out to Golfgate and the big fall-out from that.
ince her move to the hugely powerful European Commission in October 2020, she has, like many of the rest of us, slogged her way through the never-ending pandemic, suddenly followed by the first major war on mainland Europe since 1945, eclipsing even the horrors of the Balkans in the mid-1990s.
Ms McGuinness went in to replace Commissioner Mr Hogan and got a heavy-hitting job in charge of financial services, which was not as politically prestigious as that of the former Irish environment minister. She has since worked hard on several levels – but many of her endeavours are of interest to the financial pages and far less mainstream.
But 18 years working in the strange three-headed political beast that is the “Brussels machine”, as an MEP who rose to be the number two in the European Parliament, means that she knows how to achieve results.
“My job title is financial services – but the reality is that it is about far more than that because it is essentially about money. That means it is about absolutely everything,” she tells the Irish Independent.
Ms McGuinness was thrown into the EU Commission cauldron as the cries from all across the EU were for concerted action to tackle the coronavirus, which eventually became known as Covid-19. There was instant agreement across the 27 member states to use EU heft to bulk-buy vaccines which were being validated as swiftly as possible.
The process was slow and riddled with anomalies. She credits her boss, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, with standing her ground, recalling how she correctly said the early difficulties would be overcome.
“That entire process taught us three things: firstly, how badly organised we were for a developed society. Secondly, panic ensues if you cannot organise things. But, finally, that when the crisis hits, the EU can do the right thing.”
Covid-19 is not over – though everyone hopes it is on its way out.
But, before anyone got to draw breath, Russia invaded Ukraine. Here, she insists the EU had made preparations for a worst-case scenario as the extent of sanctions were worked out late last year allowing five waves of penalties to be imposed upon Russia in as many weeks.
But her key point is that the Ukraine war has brought profound changes to Ireland and all the other EU member states. We know that the big one for all of the EU is energy supply, with Putin’s evil Russian regime having a considerable advantage. Ms McGuinness says Ireland, just like the rest of Europe, has to promote the use of renewable energy, especially wind, as swiftly as possible.
But all of that is going to take some time – even if we streamline investment, harden political will, and speed up planning processes.
In the meantime, fossil fuels – and, dare we say it, nuclear power – are going to have to fill some considerable gaps in supply. All of that brings us to a big task given to her as EU Commissioner, which was to codify whether natural gas and nuclear power might be in some way “green”. Her big picture answer was “yes – they’re green”, though she bridles at this generalisation, insisting both energy types have positives, with strict terms and conditions attached, to tide everyone over until real green energy is more abundantly available.
“I never, ever, said natural gas or nuclear power was ‘green’.
“But we have to get real and ensure economies don’t collapse until real renewables come on stream in considerable quantity,” she insisted.
The Fine Gael former MEP insists she profoundly dislikes “colour coding policies” because it only leads to divisions. “So you’re either pro-green or you’re anti-green. We need to stop that and take a more unified approach to things,” she argues.
“War in Ukraine has changed life for all of us. We were planning to make all kinds changes on energy supply, and how we can use energy better, and how we approach the many challenges facing farming.
“We have to do all those things – but they must happen much faster.” | https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/eu-had-planned-energy-changes-war-means-they-must-happen-faster-41509046.html | 2022-04-01T01:46:37Z |
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USDA forecasting higher food, grocery costs in 2022
(Gray News) - It looks like elevated food prices are going to continue this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The USDA released its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and predicted the cost of groceries would continue to increase to as much as 4%.
According to the Consumer Price Index, grocery and supermarket food prices were already 8.6% higher in February than last year and up nearly 1.5% from January to February in 2022.
As reported by the Associated Press, prices for U.S. consumers have continued to jump recently, leaving families facing the highest inflation rate since 1990.
“We’re getting into this situation where we have spiraling inflation,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors. “Inflation in one area drives inflation in another.”
Currently, the CPI reports all food categories are increasing in price other than fresh vegetables. Last year, the beef and veal categories had the most significant price increase of 9.3%, and the fresh vegetable category had the smallest at 1.1%. However, no food categories decreased in price in 2021.
Poultry prices are also expected to increase up to 7%, with egg prices predicted to increase up to 3.5% in 2022.
Overall, grocery store and supermarket food purchases are expected to increase up to 4%, with restaurant purchases or food away from home forecasted to increase up to 6.5%, according to the USDA.
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NCAA president decries pace of basketball investigations
By BRETT MARTEL
AP Sports Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert says investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men’s college basketball programs have taken “way too long.” The implicated programs include current men’s Final Four participant Kansas. Emmert did not specify what solutions to speed the process are on the table. But there’s increasing acknowledgement that the process is broken. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey says the Division I Transformation Committee he co-chairs is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies. Emmert also is urging Congress to draft national name, image and likeness policies governing permissible athlete endorsement deals. He says transfer rules also remain under constant scrutiny. | https://keyt.com/sports/national-sports/ap-national-sports/2022/03/31/ncaa-president-decries-pace-of-basketball-investigations/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:37Z |
When Tramell Tillman’s management team presented him with an opportunity for a new show back in 2019, he was intrigued—but also confused. “It sounded very interesting, but the details were also very vague,” he says. “I had no idea what it was about.”
Funny, that’s how viewers of that Apple TV+ show, the trippy workplace thriller Severance, are feeling as the program barrels toward its first-season finale. It follows a group of employees who have undergone a procedure to severe their work and home lives. The split is so effective, they could bump into a co-worker on the street and not even recognize them, despite sharing a cubicle at the office eight hours a day.
Adam Scott (Mark) begins to question the motives and necessity of the procedure when he becomes involved in a mystery.
Tillman, who plays middle manager Milchick, and other stars of the program, including Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, will hold a live Twitter Q&A Friday to discuss the show, which has more twists and turns than a corn maze. Director Ben Stiller will also be on hand to preview the season finale, which drops next week.
“I love the fact that we haven’t seen something like this before,” Tillman says of the show. His fan-favorite character is equally enigmatic. “I wanted to learn how this character fits into this world,” he says. “He is a representative of this off-kilter corporation, so he has to be just as mysterious. His vernacular and his language are very specific. We crafted someone who’s a little off-center. You never know where you stand with him.”
Again, the audience could say the same about the show. Through seven episodes, it has answered few questions while raising many more, building anticipation for the season finale. Of course, since Severance hasn’t yet been renewed for a second season, it the season ender could also serve as a series finale. Tillman isn’t saying whether the audience will get closure if that happens.
He does tease that his friends who watch the show have tried to share their theories with him. “They’ll say, ‘I think this is happening,’ and I just nod my head, like, ‘OK, that’s an interesting theory.’ I’m looking forward to that great reveal,” he says.
He reveals that he didn’t even know where the show was going. The writers only shared scripts as the episode was shot, so he was just as uncertain about the finale leading up to the shoot as viewers are now. He said it’s rare to be in the position as an actor when you know less than your character.
“You just have to go with it. This is where the need of trust and faith in the process is paramount. It pays off in the end,” Tillman says. “Even knowing those reveals are coming, the show is still engaging. So buckle up.” | https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2022/03/31/apple-tvs-severance-finale-its-going-to-blow-your-mind/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:38Z |
Canine, Roberta Ruth
March 29, 2022, age 100
Published: Mar. 31, 2022 at 4:52 PM MDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
GOODING—Roberta Ruth Canine, 100, a resident of Gooding, passed away on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at her home in Gooding.
Funeral arrangments are under the care and direction of Demaray Funeral Service - Gooding Chapel.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Cali. – It’s a special fortnight for Australian siblings Minjee Lee and Min Woo Lee. Minjee Lee, last year’s Amundi Evian champion, holds a share of the early lead with Jennifer Kupcho at the Chevron Championship, where the women are taking their final major championship laps around the Dinah Shore Tournament Course. Minjee, 25, opened with a 6-under 66 on a picture-perfect day in the desert.
Next week, Min Woo, 23, will make his debut in the Masters. On Wednesday, Minjee plans to caddie for her younger brother in the Par 3 Contest.
Minjee won’t be the first major champion to caddie in the Masters Par 3. In 2018, former No. 1 Ariya Jutanguarn looped for good friend Kiradech Aphibarnrat. In 2016, Lydia Ko caddied for Kevin Na and even hit a tee shot.
“He kind of asked me very casually,” said Minjee, who will also make her first trip to Augusta.
Min Woo qualified for the Masters by finishing in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking at year’s end (49th). He has twice won on the DP World Tour, most recently last summer at the Scottish Open.
The Lees became the first siblings to win USGA titles. Minjee won the 2012 U.S. Girls’ Junior while Min Woo won the 2016 U.S. Junior.
Minjee, currently ranked No. 4 in the world, has won six times on the LPGA, including last year’s Evian in a playoff. Her previous best finish at the ANA is a share of third in 2017.
“I know I have one under my belt,” said Minjee of winning majors, “but I do want a little bit more.” | https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/03/31/minjee-lee-co-leads-chevron-championship-caddie-min-woo-lee-masters-par-3-contest/ | 2022-04-01T01:46:39Z |
SEMO Extends Scholarship Deadline
(Cape Girardeau, MO) Officials with Southeast Missouri State University are announcing their scholarship deadline is being extended from it's original date of March 1st to June...
www.kfmo.com(Cape Girardeau, MO) Officials with Southeast Missouri State University are announcing their scholarship deadline is being extended from it's original date of March 1st to June...
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