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Election set to be delayed due to ballot paper issues
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The forthcoming election is set to be postponed for a fortnight due to insufficient amounts of the correct type of ballot paper, we understand.
It is believed that the specific type of tree used to make the paper - Flora Plio – has been in short supply in recent months.
Paper production expert, Poppy Cox, explained why this specific type of tree was used for the production of ballot papers.
“It has a special waxy quality that prevents the mark you make on your ballot paper being rubbed out,” said Mrs Cox.
“That obviously adds an added level of security to the elections and stops people claiming that their ballot has been changed.”
Alternatives are now being sought and the two week delay in the vote will hopefully allow for the ballot to be printed on a different type of paper.
“It is possible that we could see a special kind of foolscap being used if a secure alternative can’t be found,” Mrs Cox added.
An official statement on the matter is due to be made at midday today (Friday, April 1). | http://limavadynorthernconstitution.virtualcms.it/news/2022/04/01/news/election-set-to-be-delayed-due-to-ballot-paper-issues-23432/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:27Z |
MONTREAL, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Lion Electric Company (NYSE: LEV) (TSX: LEV) ("Lion" or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, today announced that it has received a purchase order for 30 LionC school buses from an undisclosed Canadian customer. This represents the second order of Lion buses from the customer, which will be revealed at a later date.
The order of 30 new zero-emission school buses, to be delivered by March 31st, 2023, will eliminate more than 600 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions while preventing students from exposure to hazardous particulate emissions from diesel engines.
Over the last decade, Lion has established itself as a leader in the zero-emission heavy-duty vehicle industry, having delivered over 550 all-electric heavy-duty vehicles in North America with over 14 million km driven since 2016.
Lion Electric is an innovative manufacturer of zero emission vehicles. We think, design and manufacture all-electric, class 5 to class 8 commercial urban trucks and all-electric buses and minibuses for the school, paratransit and mass transit segments. Lion is a North American leader in electric transportation and designs, builds and assembles many of its vehicles' components, including chassis, battery packs, truck cabins and bus bodies.
Always actively seeking new and reliable technologies, Lion vehicles have unique features that are specifically adapted to its users and their everyday needs. We believe that transitioning to all-electric vehicles will lead to major improvements in our society, environment and overall quality of life. Lion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol LEV.
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Alkaline to lay 'rules' in Jamaica
Thursday, March 31, 2022HIGH off the success of Sunday's stage show in Florida, Alkaline's New Rules is looking forward to host the event locally.
Ricardo “Shuzzr” Smith is Alkaline's spokesperson.
“An announcement should be made later this week as it relates to the staging of New Rules in Jamaica,” Smith told the Jamaica Observer on Wednesday.
On Sunday, patrons crammed into the Miramar Regional Ampitheater in Florida to witness a workmanlike performance from Alkaline and other acts, including Dovey Magnum, newcomer 450, Grammy-nominated singer Wayne Wonder, Billboard-charting artiste Kranium, and a guest appearance by Mavado.
“Alkaline stood in profound strength and humility. He unleashed a slew of hits from his extensive catalogue, while performing in unison with his band to an energetic audience while in high 'Vendetta' energy. His formula remains undisputed, with him still holding the keys to the city,” said Smith.
'Vendetta' refers to Alkaline's fans.
Kereena Beckford, Alkaline's sister who also doubles as his manager, was excited about the staging of New Rules.
“I would like to thank all of our sponsors, the team, and the artistes who performed. There has been a lot of inquiries about New Rules Jamaica, and we would like to let the fans know that we will be announcing the details in the coming days. But it's looking like summer 2022, plus other surprises of course,” said Beckford.
New Rules was first held in Jamaica in 2017. The following year it was held in New York. Sunday's staging was the third in the series.
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Oldest U.S. active park ranger retires at 100
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100. The National Park Service says Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/World War Two Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California. Soskin led tours at the park and related her experience as a Black woman working on the home front during the war. Soskin was a civil rights activist and a businesswoman before she won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84. She became a permanent employee in 2011. | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/03/31/oldest-u-s-active-park-ranger-retires-at-100/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:29Z |
Updated March 31, 2022 at 9:31 PM ET
Oscars' guests and viewers are still reeling over Will Smith's surprising and infamous onstage slap of comedian Chris Rock, who joked about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. Shortly after, Smith went onstage to accept the Best Actor Oscar for his role in King Richard.
Will Packer, producer of the Academy Award, ceremony told the ABC News show Good Morning America that Los Angeles police officers were ready to arrest Will Smith if Rock wanted to press charges.
"They were saying, 'This is battery.' That was the word they used in that moment," Packer told T.J. Holmes, in an exclusive interview that was teased during ABC's World News Tonight. "They said, 'We will go get him. We are prepared. We will go get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him. They were laying out the options. And as they were talking, Chris was, he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, 'No, I'm fine.' He was like, 'no, no, no.' And even to the point where I said, 'Rock, let them finish.'"
In the clip, Packer said after the officers finished laying out what Rock's options were, "they said, 'Would you like us to take any action? And he said no.'"
Packer also said he did not speak to Smith at all on Oscar night. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released a statement saying Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused.
In his acceptance speech, Smith apologized to the Academy and his fellow nominees for the incident, but not Rock. On Instagram the following day, Smith wrote that he was embarrassed by his behavior and told Rock he was sorry. Still, the Academy began disciplinary proceedings against Smith-- which could include "suspension, expulsion, or other sanctions permitted."
SAG-AFTRA is also weighing sanctions against Smith.
On Wednesday night, Rock was onstage in Boston with a new comedy routine. He didn't say much about the slap. "I'm still kind of processing what happened," he said, adding that at some point he will talk about it "and it will be serious and funny."
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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.mrt.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17049937.php | 2022-04-01T01:52:30Z |
Stakeholders have called for the institution of the International Anti-Corruption Court, saying it would facilitate the tracing and recovery of stolen public funds and the arrest and prosecution of fugitives fleeing corruption trials.
They also argued that when established, the IACC would ensure the trial of public treasury looters who could not be prosecuted in their home countries due to a lack of will by the political leadership.
According to the stakeholders which include the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Global Governance Forum, the United States Embassy, HEDA Resource Centre and others, the IAAC would increase cooperation against graft among African countries, improve capacity to trace stolen funds, repatriate and bring to book anyone found guilty, among other benefits.
These were the submissions of participants at a one-day conference on IAAC organised by HEDA Resource Centre in partnership with Integrity Initiatives International, with the theme: ‘Instituting International Anti-Corruption Court: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Engagement.’
The participants said, “An International Anti-Corruption Court would fill the crucial enforcement gap in the international framework for combating grand corruption.
“It would constitute a fair and effective forum for the prosecution and punishment of kleptocrats and their collaborators; deter others tempted to emulate their example; and recover, repatriate, and repurpose ill-gotten gains for the victims of grand corruption.”
Addressing the participants, the HEDA Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, said the IAAC would boost anti-graft campaign, particularly in Africa and help in curbing the looting of public funds.
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He said, “We are the first to set up this conversation here, and we shall continue to escalate it using our collective expertise and resources. We call for everyone’s input across board to see this project to fruition.
“We shall take it further to the next level, but individuals should do their bit in their respective jurisdiction to support this move with enthusiasm and as a matter of top priority.”
The EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, represented by Chinwe Uweize, said corruption is transnational, noting that the international anti-corruption court would compel leaders who may not have the political will to tackle graft to do so.
The chairman of the event and Country Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Dr Oliver Stolpe, observed that the UN Convention on Corruption was silent on the IACC but noted that the international Anti-Corruption Court would ensure impartial adjudication of corruption cases.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Anna Davis was little more than a silhouette from right of the ninth green as darkness fell quickly at the end of a long day at the Augusta National Women's Amateur. The only light came from a video board and headlights from carts making their way in.
Not the least bit rattled, the 16-year-old from San Diego pitched with perfect pace to 2 feet to save par and post a 4-over 76 at Champions Retreat, one of only nine players to finish the second round.
What started as lingering thunderstorms turned into a heavy rain that delayed the start of the second round for for seven-and-a-half hours. That led to what should be a longer day, but far more fun on Friday.
Fifty-one players will finish the second round in the morning — some with only one hole to play, others with nine holes — before heading over to Augusta National for a practice round.
It starts with an elite competition. It ends for so many of them with a dream come true.
Of the nine players who finished, Davis was at 2-over 146 and in a tie for eighth, virtually assured of being among the 30 players from a field of 60 who advance to the final round at the home of the Masters.
No one was under par.
Beatrice Wallin of Sweden was 1 under for the round through 16 holes and even par for the tournament, tied with Amari Avery, who also was 1 under for the day through 16.
Joining them at even par was Hailey Borjas, the Californian who plays at Michigan. Her day ended on a sour note with consecutive bogeys. Even so, she was excited for Friday.
She was at Augusta National earlier in the week, driving down Magnolia Lane and having a group dinner hosted by the club chairman.
“Seeing Augusta for the first time, it was like a dream come true,” Borjas said.
She was more excited about her first chance to play it than her position in the Augusta National Women's Amateur, in its third year but already considered elite among amateur events because of where it's at.
“I don't really like to think about golf when I'm playing golf, if that makes any sense," Borjas said. “I like to talk about other things, like shoes. So to think about Augusta National tomorrow will keep me going.”
U.S. Women's Amateur champion Jensen Castle had the best round going at 2 under through 16 holes, leaving her one shot out of the lead.
The course was just as difficult as the opening round, when strong wind allowed only five players to break par. The wind subsided after the rain, though it left the course soggy and longer, even as the greens were slightly more receptive.
Rose Zhang, the No. 1 amateur in the world, made progress by not really going anywhere. She put together one bogey and 13 pars and improved from a tie for 39th to a tie for 26th.
Rachel Heck of Stanford, the No. 3 player in women's amateur golf who won six times in one semester last year as a freshman, was going the other direction. Heck had a pair of double bogeys in her opening four holes and was 5 over through 10 holes, leaving her outside the projected cut line at 6 over.
The cut is a hard 30. Any ties lead to a sudden-death playoff to see who advances, although everyone gets to play a practice round at Augusta National on Friday.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.registercitizen.com/sports/article/Rain-slows-Augusta-Women-s-Amateur-as-no-one-left-17049897.php | 2022-04-01T01:52:31Z |
Cameron Brink was 8 years old when she whispered in the ear of Stephen Curry, a star college basketball player at the time and a close family friend she considered a “god-brother.”
A decade away from becoming a college basketball star herself at Stanford — which will compete Friday in the NCAA women’s Final Four — Brink was mainly interested back then in drawing pictures and wearing dresses.
Their mothers were best friends since college, and her family was in Detroit to cheer on Curry in his burst-onto-the-national-stage NCAA tournament run as a player for Davidson College.
Before the team left the hotel for its Sweet 16 game, Cameron’s mother witnessed the earnest, intimate moment. She gets choked up remembering it.
“What did she say to you?” Shelly Bain-Brink asked Curry.
“She said, ‘If you believe in yourself, you can be somebody,’ ” he responded.
They laugh about it now. Curry is one of the NBA’s all-time greats who has led the Golden State Warriors to three NBA championships.
But he never won an NCAA title, his family reminds him.
Cameron Brink could win her second this weekend.
“That’s an accolade that Stephen and (his NBA brother) Seth can’t brag about,” their mother, Sonya Curry, said in an interview Thursday.
Cameron didn’t even want to play sports until fifth or sixth grade. And when the Currys would bring it up, “she would say, ‘I’m an artist,’ ” Sonya Curry said. “So to see what she’s doing now is totally incredible.”
Stephen, who is nursing a foot injury, plans to watch the game with his family from home. But Sonya Curry will be in the stands with the Brinks in Minneapolis on Friday when the Cardinal take on the legendary Connecticut women’s basketball team for a chance to move on to Sunday’s national title game. Sonya is godmother to the Brinks’ two children, and Shelly is godmother to the Curry boys.
“We laugh because we put these monikers like godsister, godbrother, which are not real, but to us, it’s our way of explaining how connected we are to them,” Bain-Brink said. The three Curry children — Steph, Seth and sister, Sydel — have “always been like big brothers and sisters.”
The families are so close that for every Stanford home game, the Brinks travel from their home in the Portland area to stay as houseguests of Steph and Ayesha Curry on the Peninsula. (“We call it ‘Spa Curry,’” Brink says.) Cameron and her boyfriend, Stanford rower Ben Felter, are frequent dinner guests there as well.
The bond between the families started at Virginia Tech, where Shelly played basketball and Sonya played volleyball and they became roommates. Their future husbands, Dell Curry and Greg Brink, both basketball players, lived in the men’s wing of their dorm.
Steph’s and Cameron’s close relationship is captured in scores of photos that Bain-Brink keeps on her phone and taped to her refrigerator. There’s 13-year-old Steph holding baby Cameron in her white baptismal gown. There he is again five years later, giving Cameron and her pink purse a piggyback ride across the Davidson campus.
Image after image follows the two families at graduations and bridal showers and basketball games.
Cameron wasn’t available for an interview Thursday. But her mother said there’s the photo she hates, when she was 10 with glasses and braces as Steph taught her how to hold a basketball and the mechanics of a jump shot. And there are the ones she loves, of Steph and her back to back, when she was 12 and just shy of his 6-foot-3 height, and the one two years later, when she eclipsed him at 6-foot-4 — and Steph stood on a chair next to her for laughs.
The Currys started their family a decade before the Brinks, and all three Curry children were in the Brinks’ wedding. They’ve lived in different states and countries over the past 20 years — especially as Dell Curry’s own NBA career took him to five teams and the Brinks pursued their careers with Nike — but they always visited each other. When the photo of the bespectacled Cameron was taken, she was on summer vacation from Amsterdam, where the Brinks were living at the time, and was cajoled into joining Dell Curry’s annual basketball camp in Charlotte, N.C.
“We didn’t really think this was going to be about changing her mind or making her like basketball anymore. It was just something to do,” Sonya Curry said. “So she went the first day and she came back bruised up, hair all over the place and was like, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ ”
But the Currys encouraged her. “Just go back. One more day. Half a day. And then if you don’t like it, we’ll come pick you up and no big deal. And she was like, ‘OK.’ And she never looked back after that.”
The summer after seventh grade, when the Brink family had settled in Beaverton, Ore., and Cameron was nearing Stephen’s height, she was offered a scholarship to Stanford after a summer basketball camp, a shock to the Brinks.
“We thought perhaps she had potential,” said Shelly, who is 6-foot-3 to her husband’s 6-foot-7 and whose son, Cy, is 6-foot-9, “but never at this level, especially that early on.”
When Cameron was in high school, Stephen invited her to his elite summer basketball camp, one of only two girls to play. And last summer, between Cameron’s freshman and sophomore years, Stephen asked her to train with him at the Woodside Priory gym — a privilege that her mother says was both exciting and nerve racking.
“He’s a mega basketball star and he’s incredibly authentic. What you see is what you get off the court with Stephen,” Shelly said. But with her daughter, “there’s still that level of, ‘I’m not worthy.’ She feels that she is in the presence of greatness and she doesn’t want to disappoint him.”
But for the Cardinal, Cameron is more than proving herself. This season, she was named the media’s Pac-12 player of the year and a finalist for the Naismith trophy as the nation’s top defensive player. After a particularly rough game earlier this season, where she struggled with fouls, she sought advice from Stephen.
Shelly was in the kitchen of the Curry’s house “with one ear open,” she said, while Stephen and Cameron sat at the kitchen table.
“He talked to her about how he’s even struggled with that and how to keep your head in the game and stay positive and stay consistent with your work ethic,” Shelly said. “It’s really authentic and subtle, and she soaks it all in.”
But something else special is happening at the Curry house when Cameron visits. She’s bonding with the Currys’ three children the way Steph and his siblings bonded with her and her brother. And like Cameron in her early years, Riley, 9, Ryan, 7 and Canon, 3, seem less interested in the basketball court than the trampoline.
On Friday night in Minneapolis, Sonya and Shelly — the enduring friends who have raised their children together from miles apart — will be there rooting on Cameron and the Cardinal women. They will look for the right moment to flash an “I love you” hand signal down to the court — the same one Cameron has tattooed on her ribcage.
Then they will hope, like they always do, that Cameron will look up and flash one back. | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/03/31/when-she-was-8-she-told-steph-curry-believe-in-yourself-now-shes-starring-for-stanford-in-the-final-four/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:31Z |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis is ready to turn pro after delivering a superb sophomore season.
Davis announced Thursday that he’s entering the NBA draft and hiring an agent. The 6-foot-5 guard is regarded as a likely lottery selection and could be Wisconsin’s first top-10 overall pick since the Charlotte Hornets took Frank Kaminsky ninth overall in 2015.
The only other Badgers to be selected in the top 10 of an NBA draft are Don Rehfeldt (second in 1950) and Devin Harris (fifth in 2004).
“I can’t wait for what happens next,” Davis said while making his announcement on ESPN’s “NBA Today.”
The draft is June 23.
Davis added that “after talking it over with my coaches and my family, they thought (entering the draft) was the best decision for me.”
Davis is an Associated Press All-America first-team selection and the Big Ten player of the year. He is a finalist for the Naismith Trophyand Wooden Award, both given annually to the nation’s top player.
Kansas’ Ochai Agbaji, Iowa’s Keegan Murray and Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe join Davis as Naismith finalists. Those four along with Gonzaga’s Drew Timme join Davis as Wooden finalists.
Davis also was one of the nation’s most improved players.After averaging 7 points, 4.1 rebounds and 24.4 minutes in a bench role as a freshman, he had 19.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per game this season while helping Wisconsin (25-8) win a share of the Big Ten regular-season titleand earn a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Davis scored Wisconsin’s last 14 points and finished with 25 in a 67-60 first-round victory over Colgate before shooting 4 of 16 and recording 17 points in a 54-49 second-round loss to Iowa State.
“My time here at Wisconsin was great,” Davis said. “It was an unforgettable experience. I thank all my coaches and my teammates that I had in my corner.” ___
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Hong Kong‘s government said on Friday it rejected “unfounded and ridiculous” allegations made in policy reports from Britain and the United States of a deteriorating political and legal situation due to the city’s sweeping national security law.
The United States and Britain released strongly-worded reports on Thursday detailing concerns about an erosion of freedoms in the global financial hub and the stifling of dissent in the city’s legislature, civil society and media.
The reports come after two senior British judges resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court on Wednesday because of the national security law which punishes offences such as subversion with up to life imprisonment.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam called the resignations “politically motivated”, while China blamed it on “British pressure”.
“We strongly oppose the unfounded and ridiculous allegations against the Hong Kong special administrative region’s government made by foreign countries through various reports,” Hong Kong’s government said in a statement.
“The government urges foreign countries to stop interfering into the internal affairs of China through Hong Kong affairs.”
The UK report said it was no longer tenable for serving UK judges to sit on Hong Kong’s top court, citing that the city’s political and legal situation “has now deteriorated beyond the point where it is acceptable for serving UK judges to take part”.
British judges have long served among the foreign jurists appointed to the CFA, an arrangement put in place prior to Hong Kong’s handover to China in 1997 to maintain confidence in a separate legal system widely seen as the bedrock of the city’s social and commercial freedoms.
Ten other foreign judges are still serving the Hong Kong court, six of whom are retired British jurists, one Canadian and three Australians.
Business people and diplomats are watching particularly closely, given the importance of legal independence to Hong Kong’s status as a global financial hub.
The differences between Hong Kong and cities in mainland China are “shrinking due to ongoing repression from the People’s Republic of China,” Antony Blinken, U.S. secretary of state, said in the report.
Hong Kong’s government said it was proud of its “unwavering commitment” to the rule of law and an independent judiciary.
It said it was firmly committed to safeguarding press and speech freedoms, with the media able to monitor the government’s work and criticise policies as long as it was not “in violation of the law.”
(Reporting by Farah Master; Editing by Anne Marie Roantree and Michael Perry) | https://globalnews.ca/news/8727017/hong-kong-us-uk-report/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:32Z |
Justice S. D. PAM of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State have convicted and sentenced one Joseph Ajilo to two years jail term in prison on one count charge of impersonation.
The charge reads, “That you Joseph Ajilo Igben on or about the 10th of November, 2021 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court fraudulently impersonated one Amber Mounday with intent to gain advantage for yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22 (2) (b) (i) of the Cybercrimes (Prevention, Prohibition, etc) Act 2015 and punishable under the same Act”.
He pleaded “guilty” to the charge preferred against him by the EFCC.
In view of his plea, prosecution counsel, C. O. Oni, prayed the court to convict and sentence the defendant accordingly.
Justice Pam convicted and sentenced the defendant to two years in prison, with an option of fine of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N250,000.00) payable into the Consolidated Revenue Account of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He also ordered that the convict should forfeit the proceeds of crime and one Tecno Camon 12 phone used in committing the offence to the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The Judge also said that the convict shall restitute the victim Four Thousand Five Hundred United States Dollars ($4,500).
Ajilo’s journey to the Correctional Service started when he was arrested sometimes in November 2021 by officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at Ada George area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State for internet fraud activities
Investigation shows that the convict had been involved in internet fraud with several scam documents on his phone. It was also revealed that the convict owns and operates a fake email address with the name ambermounday96@gmail.com and uses his Hangouts user name Amber Mounday in chatting with his victims, Bruce Williams and Tom .W. Miller.
Further investigation proved that Igben deceived his victims into believing that he could help them turn around their funds through Bitcoin trading.
The victims believed and invested a total of Four Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($4,500) but were left high and dry by the defendant.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
31 March, 2022 | https://flashpointnews.com/2022/03/31/fraudster-bags-two-years-for-internet-fraud-in-port-harcourt/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:32Z |
President M. Russell Ballard, the Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, was my mission president. Much of what I know about leadership, including leading youth, I learned from him as a young missionary. I continue to learn from him today.
When I arrived in the mission, I had more energy than focus. President Ballard could have easily just put up with me or fit me into a predetermined mold, but he wanted the best for me in the mission and beyond. He wanted me to be successful in every area of my life and to be prepared for whatever the Lord might ask me to do — especially to be a loyal husband, a loving father and a true disciple of Jesus Christ.
He exemplified three youth leadership principles: Be with them, connect them to heaven, and help them lead.
Be with them
President Ballard was not a long-distance leader. He was with his missionaries as we served in the Canada Toronto Mission in the mid-1970s. Not only did he spend time with us, but he also knew us. He knew about my family, my interests and my aspirations. Whenever I saw him, he always made me feel valued and loved.
I gained confidence as he complimented me on things I was doing well. His invitations to improve were direct but never harsh. His love for me motivated me to want to be better. Because he spent time with his missionaries, he seemed to be there when we needed him the most.
I remember a time early in my mission when I was feeling homesick and discouraged. President Ballard was attending an activity in the ward where I served. I never said a word, but he sensed what I was feeling. He pulled me aside and simply said, “I will do whatever it takes to help you succeed.”
That moment changed me forever.
Read more: President Ballard shares the important lesson he learned while serving as a mission president
Connect them with heaven
President Ballard taught his missionaries the power that comes from daily study of the Book of Mormon and personal prayer.
He taught that this, combined with striving to keep the commandments, would strengthen our faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement and help us to stay on the covenant path. He helped me have confidence that I could receive and recognize personal revelation.
President Ballard has been holding mission reunions for almost 45 years. I can’t remember a time when he has not encouraged us to continue the habits we gained in the mission.
I have studied the Book of Mormon and prayed for thousands and thousands of days. The practice has connected me to heaven.
Help them lead
President Ballard not only expected his missionaries to lead, but he helped us lead. No matter our assignment in the mission, from junior companion to assistant to the president, he helped us lead.
Sometimes the lessons were direct and sometimes we learned a lot from watching what he did. If I presented a problem to him, he would typically ask me how best I could solve it. As I came up with a plan, he would offer suggestions and express confidence in me. I thought he only did this for me. When I later had the opportunity to serve as his assistant, I realized he did this for all the missionaries.
Read more: President Ballard recalls 46 years of speaking in general conference
On one occasion, he invited me into his office and shared with me a particular challenge another missionary was having. I remember thinking, “Wow! How is President Ballard going to solve this one?” He looked at me and said, “I want you to solve this.” I was stunned. I was sure it was beyond my skill set. He shared a couple ideas. When I still didn’t say anything, he smiled and said something like, “The Lord bless you. You’ll know what to do. Let me know how you solved it.”
When I walked out of his office, I wasn’t sure what to do, but I felt empowered. Because he expressed total confidence, I had confidence.
Although I am not as gifted of a leader as President Ballard, I have tried to follow his example as I have worked with youth over the past four decades. Each of us can help young men and young women learn how to lead by consistently applying these same principles.
Let’s be with them, connect them with heaven, and help them lead.
— Brother Thomas E. Mullen is a member of the Young Men general advisory council. | https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2022-03-31/thomas-mullen-russell-ballard-youth-leadership-missionaries-247815 | 2022-04-01T01:52:32Z |
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Days after a Monday morning headache at Austin-Bergstrom International, the airport is looking ahead to the upcoming warm-weather travel season and future expansion plans.
As KXAN has reported, the airport plans to hire 80 new full-time employees ahead of the summer rush. Thursday, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confirmed it’s currently looking to hire two security officers in Austin.
In the meantime, AUS is working on a new baggage handling system officials believe will reduce the time it takes for luggage to get to aircrafts and reduce the chances of bags getting lost. Officials said the system should be ready by next year.
As for long-term improvements, the airport is currently gathering public input on an environmental assessment on its “re-strategized” expansion and development plan.
Over the next five to seven years, AUS plans to begin construction on three new gates and a new midfield concourse with 10-plus gates. The new concourse would be connected to the current terminal by an underground tunnel.
The environmental assessment, conducted in conjunction with the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), examines how the plans could affect 17,000 acres of land including the airport property and neighboring areas.
The assessment — which you can look at here — examines potential impacts on air and water quality, noise and wildlife.
“It took about six months to complete and all of the fieldwork, the modeling, and the testing,” said Sam Haynes with AUS.
Once the assessment is completed with public input, it will be turned over to the FAA for approval.
“If any of the impacts from these projects go above the FAA threshold, we will implement mitigation measures,” Haynes said.
Public input on the environmental assessment is open through Thursday, April 7. You can review the document and offer feedback on the city’s Speakup Austin! website. | https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-airport-hiring-tsa-officers-gathering-input-on-expansion/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:32Z |
Opinion: During Ramadan, fasting is about much more than skipping meals. Here’s its true meaning.
If done properly, fasting teaches empathy by allowing someone to taste, albeit for a very short time, how a segment of humanity manages with less.
Kutty is an associate professor of legal analysis, writing and skills at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles.
Interval training in the morning. Gym class in the afternoon. Back on the track after school and then shooting hoops to kill time until sundown. Sounds exhausting, right? Try doing that almost daily for a month without any food or water during the day.
That was me for one month almost every year in high school. This week, many of your fellow Americans will be fasting, minus the training. I will be joining them.
No, we are not part of the intermittent fasting fad. Instead, we will be fasting for Ramadan, one of the principal Islamic religious observances. Ramadan is significant for the fast but also because the Qur’an was first revealed this month.
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According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, 80 percent of American Muslims fast during the holy month. According to the same survey, that is almost double the number of those who try to perform the mandatory ritual prayers five times a day throughout the year!
The first day of Ramadan, which is based on the lunar calendar, is set to begin on Saturday for those who rely on scientific calculation, while others who wait for naked eye confirmation of the new moon may start on a different day.
Regardless of how its members may determine the start of the month, the San Diego Muslim community will be fasting from around 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily (from just before dawn to sunset). Thousands will also be returning to in-person congregational daily night prayers after a long COVID-19-related absence.
Many non-Muslims are fixated on the no water part, but we must also abstain from intimate marital relations, idle talk, wasting time, lying, cheating, backbiting and many other “bad” habits and “comforts.”
Believers (except the elderly, the sick, children, and travelers) are instructed to focus on spirituality and physical discipline during this 30-day regimen. Many give up harmful habits. Others lapse right back after the month, hoping to make it to the next Ramadan to try again.
Ramadan is about self-control, reflection, abstinence, empathy and charity. Religious traditions highlight the physical, spiritual and communitarian benefits of fasting. Although given what transpires in far too many Muslim households during Ramadan, outsiders could be forgiven for assuming that it was more about feasting. Not unlike other religious occasions, including Christmas, there has been a shift to the outward and celebratory aspects.
Common sense suggests that people would lose weight and improve their health when fasting. However, the feasting during iftar (fast-breaking) and decreased physical activity sometimes results in the opposite. According to Dr. Al Madani, head of the Emirates Diabetes Society, many Muslims “tend to overeat upon breaking their fast, and usually, the meal involves heavy, fatty foods that are high in calories.”
The prophet Muhammad’s teaching of eating to fill one-third of your stomach, leaving one-third each for air and liquid, is worth heeding.
Not surprisingly, Muslims who continue their regular regimen while fasting are more in tune with the spirit of Ramadan.
Despite some people deviating from prophetic teachings, Ramadan still holds out hope. Muslims can make some changes to make this month spiritually uplifting for themselves while improving the plight of our less-fortunate neighbors.
This time for self-reflection is vital today, as we confront materialism, extremism, populism, environmental devastation and other challenges.
If done properly, fasting teaches empathy by allowing someone to taste, albeit for a very short time, how a segment of humanity manages with less. Therefore, it’s no surprise that charity also increases during Ramadan. Muslim organizations typically institute additional campaigns to help the needy. In fact, food banks across North America report surges during the month. Reducing wastage and extravagance and redirecting this to charitable causes helps fulfill religious obligations to help the poor.
What can non-Muslims do?
You certainly do not need to stop eating for us — unless you wish to experience it for yourself. As much as I may crave that coffee or burger, you are helping me to strengthen my self-control.
You will, however, be ahead of the curve if you can appreciate how physically challenging it is and try to accommodate your friend, employee or co-worker when they fast.
Consider supporting local Muslim charities. Many set up Ramadan initiatives targeting local hunger and homelessness.
Finally, your fellow Americans who are Muslim will be more than appreciative if you could empathize and try not to create additional hardships.
With understanding, respect and accommodation, you can help to transform a challenging religious ritual into a spiritually fulfilling one for the person fasting and a socially and culturally enriching experience for you.
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The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is expected to release guidance on fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccine in early April as public health indicators tick up across Canada.
That’s set to come amid growing concerns about hospital capacity as the country enters what some are characterizing as a sixth wave.
A spokeswoman for the Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday that the agency expects to publish NACI’s advice on fourth doses in the coming days.
“NACI has been asked for advice on the potential use of second booster doses in elderly populations at higher risk of severe disease. PHAC is expected to publish NACI advice on this in early April,” Anna Maddison said in an email.
NACI previously recommended that people who are “moderately to severely immunocompromised” receive a fourth dose of the vaccine six months after getting their third shot. Earlier this week, U.S. regulators approved a fourth dose for Americans 50 and older if it’s been at least four months since their last vaccination.
The question of extra boosters has become more pressing to some due to concerning public health indicators.
Hospitalizations have started rising in some regions and wastewater trends suggest cases are too, after many provinces ditched their vaccine passports and mask mandates this month.
Some – including officials in Quebec – say the nation is on the precipice of a sixth wave of the pandemic that could once again see hospitals stretched thin.
“At some point we’re going to have to stop putting numbers to (the waves),” said Dr. Susy Hota, an infectious disease specialist and hospital epidemiologist at the University Health Network in Toronto.
“A reality that we’re going to have to get used to is that cases will go up and down. The real question is, what are we willing to do to try and keep them from rising at a pace where we can’t keep up?”
Hota said some COVID-19 patients have been unable to leave the hospital system after developing complications, adding strain to the system that’s not captured in the publicly reported numbers.
“And when you combine all of it with the need to catch up on surgeries and delayed and deferred care of a variety of natures, it’s just a lot for the health-care system to be handling,” she said.
Colin Furness, an epidemiologist and professor at the University of Toronto, said burnout in the health-care field and staff absences due to COVID-19 have made the issue even more challenging.
“We’re hearing really quiet but urgent SOSes from the front line saying, ‘We don’t have this capacity that the government has been saying we have,’” he said.
He urged people to continue wearing masks and take other precautions to safeguard not only their personal health, but also the hospital system.
“‘Everyone take off your mask, and we’ll have a hospital bed when you need it’ is a really bad idea,” Furness said. “First of all, because COVID is not a disease you want. But more importantly, I don’t know if that bed is going to be there.”
The Ontario Hospital Association has noted that hospitalizations are trending upward, with the province reporting 807 patients in hospital with COVID-19 on Thursday, compared to 661 a week earlier.
Farther east, Nova Scotia is reporting strain on its health-care system.
As of Thursday, 786 health workers in that province were off the job because they either have tested positive for COVID-19, are awaiting test results or were exposed to a member of their household who tested positive.
Nova Scotia also reported 53 new hospital admissions for COVID-19 in the past week, with 16 patients discharged and 11 patients in intensive care.
Quebec – which started offering fourth doses to seniors over 80, immunocompromised people and residents of long-term care homes this week – saw 1,238 people hospitalized with the virus Thursday.
Health Minister Christian Dubé said outlying regions in Quebec that were spared when the highly contagious Omicron variant tore through the country are now being hit hard by what he characterized as the pandemic’s sixth wave.
Montreal, for instance, has about 208 cases per 100,000 people. In contrast, Côte-Nord has 750 cases per 100,000 people.
Nonetheless, Dubé said the province doesn’t plan to delay lifting its mask mandate – a move currently set for mid-April – or reintroduce other public health measures.
“There is no reason at the moment … to change the strategy we have, because people have to learn to live with the virus, to continue to protect themselves,” he said.
In Ontario, Health Minister Christine Elliott also said there was no current plan to bring back any COVID-19 measures that were lifted earlier this month despite rising virus trends.
“If we need to take any further measure we will, but so far it doesn’t appear that we need to do that,” she said.
Ontario lifted indoor masking rules in most spaces earlier this month, along with a majority of other measures aimed at limiting spread, like proof-of-vaccination rules and crowd capacity limits.
—Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press
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Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
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.
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Made with CBD from organic hemp, this formula can be used to treat a particular complaint or as a daily wellness supplement.
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Coleraine defeated Larne to win the Emile Trophy at the weekend.
COLERAINE FIRST XV secured a second-place finish in the league on Saturday and with it a spot in the promotion play-offs, with two games remaining.
The Montgomery Irwin-sponsored side produced a dominant 61-23 win over Larne in the Kukri Ulster Rugby Championship, Division Two, and now move to the last two fixtures of the season with a 12-point lead over nearest rival Donaghadee.
The remaining games are sure to be stunners with two local derbies - this weekend away to Limavady and the following week’s season finale at Ballymoney.
This year, as a result of COVID-19, the league ends with the top four clubs vying for promotion in a playoff on April 16 and a final on April 23.
Second place in the league means a home fixture for Coleraine against the third placed team on April 16 - another entertaining game to be savoured by the local support.
Saturday's defeat of Larne also secured the Emile Trophy for Coleraine.
The award, first played for between the two clubs in 1936, has been reinstituted in recent years as a trophy for the best team in the two league fixtures. | http://limavadynorthernconstitution.virtualcms.it/rugby/2022/03/31/news/coleraine-firsts-make-play-offs-23443/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:33Z |
On Tuesday morning, the golfing world received news about Tiger Woods that had everyone buzzing. Woods took a trip up from Florida to August, Georgia – home of the Masters – earlier this morning. He, along with his son, Charlie, and longtime friend Justin Thomas stepped on the course for a round of golf.
With the Masters just around the corner, Paige Spiranac has decided to call out Bryson DeChambeau for an old comment he made about Augusta National. “Remember when Bryson called Augusta National a par 67,” Spiranac tweeted on Tuesday. “Good times.”. In 2020, DeChambeau claimed that Augusta National was...
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Tiger Woods hasn’t slammed the door shut on participating in the 2022 Masters. In fact, he actually arrived in Georgia this Tuesday. A final decision hasn’t been made by Woods yet, but there are plenty of fans who have their fingers crossed hoping he’ll give it a go.
We’re one week away from the start of the 2022 Masters, and Rory McIlroy has spent the last couple of days preparing for the challenges of Augusta National. McIlroy has been doing some advanced scouting this week, taking in all the course alterations at the Masters. Two holes–No. 11 (White Dogwood) and No. 15 (Firethorn–have officially been lengthened, while holes 3, 13 and 17 have new greens.
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Tiger Woods might be in attendance at the 2022 Masters and you’d better believe that Rory McIlroy is excited to see him there. Speaking to the media this week, McIlroy said that it would be great for golf to have Tiger there – competing or not. He thinks golf is “heightened” whenever Tiger is at an event and thinks it would be “awesome” to see him.
It’s been reported multiple times this week that Tiger Woods is exhausting every option to see if he can compete at Augusta National. So, when will we find out Woods’ status for the Masters?. Dan Rapoport of Golf Digest believes Woods will announce his decision for the 2022...
One could argue it isn't springtime in Augusta until Alexa Pano comes to town. Coming off the 2022 Junior Invitational at Sage Valley, the 17-year-old is preparing to make her third Augusta National Women's Amateur start. Pano also was part of the inaugural girls' field for the Junior Invitational, and it served as a nice primer before she tees it up at Champions Retreat.
Other than Augusta National offering a player a rare special invite to compete next week, live on Sky Sports, the only remaining way to qualify for The Masters is by winning the PGA Tour event at TPC San Antonio. Five players were added to the field via their world ranking...
The 2022 Masters will mark a return to normal, but several questions remain. Will Tiger Woods make his competitive return at Augusta on Thursday, April 7, or will he join Phil Mickelson on the list of former champions not competing? Can Rory McIlroy add the final piece of a career grand slam? Can a quartet of two-time tour winners this season make a run at the green jacket? Who can you trust in your 2022 Masters fantasy golf rankings?
Want to watch the world’s best women’s amateur golfers and don’t want to wait until this Saturday’s final round? NBC Sports and the Augusta National Women’s Amateur have you covered. Thursday’s second-round coverage will be streamed from Champions Retreat Golf Club for the first time...
Welcome to our new series, Golfer to Golfer, where we listen to one avid player in hopes that the rest of us can take away something that might improve our own games. This week, we’ve got Rory McIlroy, speaking on Augusta at his press conference of this week’s PGA Tour event… | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556261560457/tiger-woods-at-augusta-national-golf-club-ahead-of-2022-masters-tournament | 2022-04-01T01:52:33Z |
Billboard didn’t ditch reggae sales chart
Thursday, March 31, 2022Contrary to reports in some sections of the media, Billboard magazine did not scrap its Reggae Digital Song Sales chart for the newly launched Billboard US Afrobeats Songs chart.
That's the word from a highly placed source at the US-based trade and music publication, who requested anonymity.
“That is totally incorrect. We did not ditch the Reggae Digital Songs chart and replace with an Afrobeats chart. The Reggae Digital Song Sales chart was discontinued by us years ago. Luminate (formerly MRC Data, the company that tracks sales and streaming numbers in the United States) still does have that report on their Music Connect Platform,” the source told Jamaica Observer.
“The new Afrobeats chart includes streaming and digital tracks sales, so it contains two metrics instead of one that the Reggae Digital Song Sales chart had when we carried it,” the source continued.
The source did not state the reason for the discontinuation of the chart on the magazine's website. However, there has been water-cooler discussion among industry insiders that the low numbers associated with the genre could be a reason.
When Billboard carried the chart on its website, it was only available to paid subscribers. Persons interested in accessing the chart can do so by subscribing to Luminate.
Last week, Billboard announced that the US Afrobeats Songs chart would go live on March 29. It is a partnership with music festival and global brand Afro Nation.
“ Billboard is excited to collaborate with Afro Nation on the launch of the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs chart,” said Billboard's SVP of Charts and Development, Silvio Pietroluongo in a release on Billboard.com. “As with much of the world, Afrobeats has grown tremendously as a genre in America and we are proud to showcase the top songs and artists with this new weekly ranking.”
Afrobeats sounds and influences have grown in the US market throughout the 2010s, through artistes such as Beyonc� and Drake, and now, the genre has yielded some of the biggest success stories of the young decade — including songs like Wizkid's Essence featuring Tems, CKay's Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah), and Fireboy DML's Peru.
The first number one on the US Afrobeats Songs chart is Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah) by Nigeria's CKay.
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Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
By ANDREW DALTON
AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer says Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards. In a clip released Thursday of an interview with “Good Morning America,” Packer says police called the incident battery and laid out the options for Rock. But Packer says Rock was dismissive of the idea. Smith walked on the Dolby Theatre stage Sunday and slapped Rock after a joke the comedian made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith apologized to Rock in a statement Monday. The academy met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith. | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/03/31/oscars-producer-says-police-offered-to-arrest-will-smith/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:35Z |
FRESNO, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Well Done Moving, Inc. once again shows its appreciation for its local community by offering a moving discount to first responders.
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DENVER (AP) — A man who shot and wounded two demonstrators while apparently aiming at a Jeep that was headed toward the crowd during a protest in suburban Denver in 2020 was convicted Thursday of several charges.
Samuel Young, 24, was found guilty of two counts of second-degree assault, four counts of attempted manslaughter and a single count of illegally discharging his gun, The Denver Post reported.
Several hundred people who attended the July 2020 protest in Aurora to bring attention to police violence walked onto and blocked all of the lanes of Interstate 225. Shortly after, a Jeep approached from behind and headed toward the crowd, prompting Young to fire five shots.
Two shots hit the back of the Jeep, and two shots hit fellow protesters. One man was shot in the leg, and another man was grazed in the head. A woman also broke her leg when she leaped from the highway.
The driver, who pulled off the highway and contacted police after the shooting, was not criminally charged. During Young’s trial, prosecutors said he didn't intend to hurt any protesters.
The protest was organized in support of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was arrested in August 2019 after someone called 911 to report a suspicious person wearing a ski mask and waving his arms while he walked down the street.
He was arrested by Aurora police and injected with 500 milligrams of ketamine by EMS workers called to the scene. He suffered cardiac arrest, was declared brain dead and taken off life support less than a week later.
McClain’s death became a national rallying cry along with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in protests calling for police reform. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Jury-convicts-man-who-shot-protesters-in-suburban-17049894.php | 2022-04-01T01:52:36Z |
NIGERIA’S external reserves fell by $313m in March, according to figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday.
The CBN’s figures showed that the foreign exchange reserves, which commenced March 1, 2022, at $39.86bn, fell to $39.55bn as of March 30, 2022.
Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, crude oil prices have continued to fluctuate as the global energy sector continues to experience disruptions.
Brent, the crude against which Nigeria’s oil is priced, which had jumped above $100 per barrel in the past few weeks, hit $120 as of Thursday.
The CBN had expressed worries over the effects of massive oil theft on the oil sector and the external reserves.
Also, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited said that the country had lamented that the nation was not meeting its OPEC crude oil production quota lately.
The Governor, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, had at the last Monetary Policy Committee meeting expressed concerns over oil production and external reserves.
He said the MPC noted with concern the decrease in the level of the external reserves.
Emefiele said, “The MPC worries that, whereas global prices have gone up, this has been compounded by the shortage of supply of petroleum products.
“In the short-run, the MPC urges the NNPC to take urgent steps to ensure an adequate supply of petroleum products in Nigeria so as to reduce the rate of arbitrary increase in the price of petroleum products by oil marketers.”
He added, “The committee noted, with grave concern, the unprecedented rate of oil theft recorded in recent time, and its debilitating impact on government revenue and accretion to reserves.
“In the medium-term, the MPC is hopeful that the proposed take-off of the Dangote Refinery in the course of the year would help to improve the supply of petroleum products in Nigeria.”
Emefiele, however, said the CBN in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee was working to boost non-oil exports through the ‘Race to a $200bn.’
“It is our honest view that in the next few years, more jobs will be created, and growth will be much more consolidated above five per cent with the propensity to build an economy that is self-sustaining and capable of withstanding negative external shocks,” he said.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Several business owners think reopening East Sixth Street to traffic is the only way to curb the violence that’s plagued downtown.
“Before anything else is done, the reopening of the streets is the most important,” said Marc Roppolo, who has operated Roppolo’s Pizza on East Sixth Street for more than 30 years.
Councilmember Kathie Tovo said she has received emails from multiple business owners following the downtown shooting that injured four people the last weekend of South by Southwest.
“I certainly respect their concern about the area. They’re front and center — right close to yet another shooting on Sixth. I really appreciate their continued engagement,” she said. “But I’m going to be guided by our city staff, our interdepartmental team that includes the Austin Police Department and Transportation Department, who have said there just are too many pedestrians in that area of Sixth Street right now to reopen the street.”
Roppolo and others cited similar crowds on Rainey and West Sixth Street, asking why those streets can stay open to traffic while East Sixth cannot.
We will update this article later this evening with insight from a third-party nightlife safety group. | https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/business-owners-want-austin-to-reconsider-opening-e-6th-to-traffic/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:38Z |
Several remote and Indigenous communities in northwest B.C. have received a community shuttle grant with an aim to better access affordable transportation services in the area.
As part of this, 18 communities and organizations have received a total of $2.8 million in funding to support their shuttle services.
Distributed through the Northern Development Initiative Trust, the grant is an effort to bridge the transportation gap due to shortage of bus services in many remote communities.
Kermode Friendship Society in Terrace received $126,336 and the Nisga’a Village of Gingolx in the Nass Valley got $200,000.
Friendship House Association of Prince Rupert saw $200,000. In Smithers, Dze L K’ant Friendship Society received $150,000. Similarly the funding stream provided Gitanmaax Band $150,000 and Gitanyow Human Services $128,640.
“Rural and remote communities throughout northern B.C. continue to face challenges related to the loss of Greyhound bus service in the region,” said Stikine MLA Nathan Cullen.
The newly appointed Municipal Affairs minister, Cullen said the funding highlights the government’s ongoing commitment to ensure these communities have access to affordable transportation options.
The northern community shuttle program will replace the existing community transportation grant program effective Friday, April 1, 2022.
“Northern Community Shuttle Program builds upon the success of the previous Highway 16 Transportation Action Plan and connects even more communities and people together,” said Joel McKay, CEO, Northern Development Initiative Trust.
McKay also said the introduction of new, on-demand and scheduled services will benefit numerous communities, will reach Dease Lake and offer multiple stops along Hwy 20 between Williams Lake and Anahim Lake.
READ MORE: Bachrach renews call for public bus service in northwest B.C. | https://www.interior-news.com/news/several-northwest-communities-share-in-2-8-million-community-shuttle-program-funding/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:39Z |
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints counts 26 temples — operating, under construction or announced — in the state of Utah, where more than 2.13 million Church members reside.
Of those 26, seven are under construction, with another two scheduled for groundbreaking in coming months. Also, another three are under renovation, with a fourth announced for a future renovation and a fifth likely down the road.
Following are a brief recap and snapshots of temple construction and renovation in Utah. A photo of each is below and more are in the gallery at the top of the article.
Under construction — or set for it
Six of the seven Utah temples currently under construction were temples announced by President Russell M. Nelson during the past four-plus years as President of the Church — as were the two scheduled for groundbreakings.
Of note: President Nelson has announced new temple locations on nine different occasions — all but one coming during the eight general conferences over the past four years. On each of those nine occasions where new temple locations were announced, at least one was a location in Utah. And in the October 2019 general conference, two temples were announced for Utah — in Orem and Taylorsville.
Of the 10 Utah temples announced by President Nelson:
- Six are under construction — the Layton Utah, Red Cliffs Utah, Deseret Peak Utah, Orem Utah, Taylorsville Utah and Syracuse Utah temples
- Two are scheduled for groundbreaking — the Lindon Utah and Smithfield Utah temples
- The site location and exterior rendering have been released for the Ephraim Utah Temple
- The temple for Utah’s Heber Valley is still in planning and approval stages
Read more: All 83 temple locations announced — so far — by President Nelson, with updates on each’s current status
Saratoga Springs Utah Temple
The Saratoga Springs Utah Temple — announced five years ago by the late President Thomas S. Monson during the April 2017 general conference — is nearing completion. Projected as a three-story, single-spired temple of some 87,000 square feet, the Saratoga temple is 30 months into construction following its Oct. 19, 2019, groundbreaking.
Layton Utah Temple
One of the first temples announced by President Nelson in the April 2018 general conference, the Layton Utah Temple’s May 23, 2020, groundbreaking was the Church’s first after the emergence of 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the forerunner of what would become smaller, invitation-only events. The 87,000-square-foot temple features two spires above its three stories.
Orem Utah Temple
The Orem Utah Temple’s Sept. 5, 2020, groundbreaking came 11 months to the day after being announced as a new temple location during the October 2019 general conference. The temple is approximately 70,000 square feet, with three stories and a central spire.
Taylorsville Utah Temple
Also announced at the October 2019 general conference, the Taylorsville Utah Temple — projected as a three-story temple of 70,460 square feet and an octagonal tower — had its groundbreaking on Oct. 31, 2020.
Red Cliffs Utah Temple
Announced as a temple for Washington County during the October 2018 general conference, the Red Cliffs temple’s southeast St. George location was identified in November 2019, its rendering released in April 2020, and its final name given in June 2020. Plans call for a three-story building of approximately 90,000 square feet, with a groundbreaking held on Nov. 7, 2020.
Deseret Peak Utah Temple
Ground was broken for the 70,000-square-foot temple on May 15, 2021. Originally named the Tooele Valley Utah Temple, it was to be the center focus of a planned 167-acre community development near Erda, Utah. However, the First Presidency withdrew that location in August 2020 following public questions and concerns, with the new Tooele location and current name announced in January 2021.
Syracuse Utah Temple
With ground broken on June 12, 2021, the three-story, 89,000-square-foot temple is now into its 10th month of construction. A temple for Syracuse was announced at the April 2020 general conference.
Scheduled for groundbreaking
The Smithfield Utah and Lindon Utah temples will be under construction soon, with each having its groundbreaking ceremony within the next several months. Ground will be broken for the new temple in Lindon on April 23 and the Smithfield temple on June 18. A temple for Lindon was announced at the October 2020 general conference and for Smithfield during the April 2021 general conference.
Under renovation — now and later
The Church has six temples currently under renovation — not including the two completed and scheduled for rededication. And half of those six are in Utah, which is not surprising given President Nelson’s announcing in October 2018 general conference of plans to renovate pioneer-era temples.
In order, renovations have begun at three of the state’s such temples — the Salt Lake, St. George Utah and Manti Utah temples. The sole one still remaining is the Logan Utah Temple.
Also, President Nelson announced at the most recent general conference of plans to renovate the Provo Utah Temple. While an exterior rendering has been released of a new-look Provo temple, that renovation will not begin until the completion and dedication of of the Orem Utah Temple.
Salt Lake Utah Temple
This is a temple renovation with a whole lot more — besides extensive renovations to the iconic Salt Lake Temple, the downtown Salt Lake City project also gives attention to much of Temple Square, including grounds, visitors centers, the Church Office Building plaza and the Main Street Plaza.
The Church is providing monthly updates on the Temple Square renovation project, and the First Presidency announced the anticipated completion of the multi-year effort has been pushed back to 2025.
Read more: Latest Temple Square renovation update — Main Street Plaza to close in April
St. George Utah Temple
Renovation of the St. George Utah Temple — the Church’s longest-operating temple, having been dedicated in 1877 — has passed the two-year mark.
The project includes reinforcing the temple’s structural integrity and foundation; upgrading all mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems; restoring furnishings and decorating – such as lighting fixtures – to the temple’s historical period; and returning full murals to the instruction rooms. It also includes work on two additions from the 1970s renovation, with the stair tower on the temple’s rear side being rebuilt and better matching the temple, and the north-side annex being replaced with a taller, larger structure, with the sealing rooms previously located in the original annex being moved to inside the temple proper.
Read more: St. George Utah Temple renovation enters 3rd year
Manti Utah Temple
The Manti Utah Temple — originally dedicated 1877 and rededicated in 1985 after its first major renovation — closed Oct. 2, 2021, for its second renovation, which is expected to be completed in 2025. The project includes evaluating mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems and renewing or replacing as needed. Also, audiovisual equipment will be added to provide film presentations in the instruction rooms. | https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2022-03-31/photos-utah-10-temples-under-construction-or-renovation-salt-lake-layton-manti-taylorsville-saratoga-springs-247994 | 2022-04-01T01:52:38Z |
College baseball weekend: Toreros head to USF in WCC play
USD aiming to stay atop conference standings against one of its biggest conference rivals
It doesn’t seem to matter which program is enjoying the better season, whenever USD and USF get together it remains competitive.
Over the past decade and a half in West Coast Conference play, the two schools have split their 14 series. The Toreros won last year’s series at Fowler Park by taking two of three games.
USD (16-7, 5-1 WCC) shares the conference lead with Gonzaga as it travels this weekend to USF (14-14, 3-3), which is intent on not falling too far behind in the standings.
The Dons, averaging .221 batting and scoring fewer than four runs a game, will have to be more productive offensively to have a chance. USD, by contrast, is hitting .293 while averaging 6.4 runs a game.
USD junior catcher Caleb Rickett earned WCC Player of the Week last week and is now batting .315 with three homers while handling the Toreros pitching staff.
Toreros sophomore first baseman Kevin Sim leads the WCC with nine homers and his 27 RBIs is one off the conference lead in the category.
This week: Friday-Sunday at USF 3 p.m./1 p.m./1 p.m.
Tritons update
UC San Diego (8-15, 1-2 Big West) returns to conference play following Tuesday’s 4-0 victory at San Diego State.
UCSD starting pitcher Cole Dale tossed three scoreless innings against the Aztecs and teammates Lonnie Morris, Zach Ernisse and Ryan Rissas each added two apiece. The effort dropped the Tritons’ team ERA to 4.91, the lowest it has been since opening the season with five wins in six games.
A similar trend would be welcome this week at Long Beach State (13-10, 3-3), which is second in the conference in hitting (.275) while averaging 5.3 runs a game.
The Dirtbags are coming off Tuesday’s 5-4 win at Pepperdine. UCSD won two of three meetings between the schools when they met last year at Triton Ballpark.
This week: Friday-Sunday at Long Beach State, 6 p.m./3 p.m./1 p.m.
Aztecs update
SDSU (5-19, 0-9 Mountain West) travels to preseason favorite Nevada (11-12, ) in the midst of the Aztecs’ longest losing streak to open conference play.
Nevada had some struggles of its own the past week in a pair of nonconference series, losing two of three games at Missouri State and two games versus Oregon State.
SDSU’s challenges are primarily due to an anemic offense that ranks last in the conference in batting (.226) while averaging fewer than four runs a game. It’s quite a contrast to a year ago when the Aztecs batted .335 and scored 9.1 runs a game (third in the nation).
Nevada is led by senior third baseman Josh Zamora (.364, 9 HR, 32 RBIs), who is bidding for the Mountain West triple crown. He leads the conference in homers and RBIs and is seventh in batting average.
This week: Friday-Sunday at Nevada, 6 p.m./6 p.m./1 p.m.
Sea Lions update
Point Loma Nazarene (23-3, 9-3 PacWest) matches up with Biola (12-12, 8-4), which slipped to .500 on the season with three losses last week against Azusa Pacific but finds itself just a game behind PLNU in the conference standings.
Biola’s pitching staff is reeling after allowing 56 runs in those three losses. It doesn’t get any easier against a Sea Lions team that leads the PacWest with a .303 batting average while scoring nearly seven runs a game.
PLNU sophomore third baseman Otto Kemp leads the conference in OPS (1.166) and is among the top three in home runs (8), RBIs (26), runs (32) and slugging (.695).
The Sea Lions continue to lead the conference with a 2.07 ERA (Fresno Pacific is second at 3.69), with starters Baxter Halligan (1.10), Dylan Miller (2.25) and Jack Gonzales (2.31) ranked 1-2-3 in the category.
This week: Friday vs. Biola (DH), Noon, Saturday at Biola (DH), 11 a.m.
Cougars update
Cal State San Marcos (10-16, 6-10 CCAA) will be challenged by the California Collegiate Athletic Conference’s top pitching staff from Cal State Monterey Bay (20-9, 15-5), which ranks 20th in the nation with a 3.63 ERA.
The No. 21-ranked Otters are a half-game behind first place Chico State in the CCAA standings following a four-game sweep of Stanislaus State. The Cougars are tied for sixth place.
Cal State San Marcos junior right-hander Garrett Apker (3-1, 2.54 ERA), coming off a complete-game win last week at Chico State, ranks second in the conference in strikeouts (50) and strikeouts/nine innings (11.54). Apker is 25 strikeouts shy of Johnny Holtman’s school record of 168 career Ks.
This week: Friday-Sunday vs. Cal State Monterey Bay, 3 p.m./Noon (DH)/11 a.m.
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DENVER (AP) — A man who shot and wounded two demonstrators while apparently aiming at a Jeep that was headed toward the crowd during a protest in suburban Denver in 2020 was convicted Thursday of several charges.
Samuel Young, 24, was found guilty of two counts of second-degree assault, four counts of attempted manslaughter and a single count of illegally discharging his gun, The Denver Post reported.
Several hundred people who attended the July 2020 protest in Aurora to bring attention to police violence walked onto and blocked all of the lanes of Interstate 225. Shortly after, a Jeep approached from behind and headed toward the crowd, prompting Young to fire five shots.
Two shots hit the back of the Jeep, and two shots hit fellow protesters. One man was shot in the leg, and another man was grazed in the head. A woman also broke her leg when she leaped from the highway.
The driver, who pulled off the highway and contacted police after the shooting, was not criminally charged. During Young’s trial, prosecutors said he didn't intend to hurt any protesters.
The protest was organized in support of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was arrested in August 2019 after someone called 911 to report a suspicious person wearing a ski mask and waving his arms while he walked down the street.
He was arrested by Aurora police and injected with 500 milligrams of ketamine by EMS workers called to the scene. He suffered cardiac arrest, was declared brain dead and taken off life support less than a week later.
McClain’s death became a national rallying cry along with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in protests calling for police reform. | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Jury-convicts-man-who-shot-protesters-in-suburban-17049894.php | 2022-04-01T01:52:39Z |
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Jamie Millar in action for Limavady First XV at Donaghadee on Saturday. Picture: Stephen Haslett
THE top two in the Qualifying League go head to head at the John Hunter Memorial Grounds this Saturday in a mouth-watering encounter.
Limavady, currently top of the league, host second-placed Coleraine in an intriguing looking battle.
Both teams have already qualified for the end of season play-offs but local bragging rights will be up for grabs at the weekend.
The Roesiders ran in six tries on their way to winning 39-10 at Donaghadee in their latest outing - a team which had defeated Coleraine the week before - and will go into Saturday's game full of confidence.
However, anything can happen in a local derby and it would be a brave man to call the result of this one.
“This was an excellent result for the league leaders,” said a Limavady team spokesperson at the final whistle.
“The only downside was that three injuries were picked up and hopefully these will clear up quickly.
“Clive Scott and Jamie Millar both left the pitch as a result of ankle injuries and Michael Shiels suffered a facial injury.
“The pack worked hard today but this result was mainly down to the clinical finishing of a free flowing back line with Jamie Millar putting in a man of the match performance.”
For reports on all the weekend action involving the local clubs, pick up a copy of Tuesday's Chronicle. | http://limavadynorthernconstitution.virtualcms.it/rugby/2022/03/31/news/limavady-prepare-to-host-coleraine-23445/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:40Z |
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Georgia Ports Extends Growth Trend With Busiest February Ever
The Port of Savannah’s container volume grew nearly 18 percent in February, extending year-over-year increases to 19 consecutive months for the Georgia Ports Authority. To better accommodate that growth, the GPA Board has expedited more than $538 million in capacity expansion projects initially anticipated years into the future....
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Two Scott County Men Indicted, Charged with Reckless Homicide
SCOTT COUNTY – An joint investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Scott County Sheriff’s Office has resulted in the indictment of two men in connection with a shooting that occurred in October.
On October 25, 2021, at the request of 8th District Attorney General Jared Effler, TBI agents began working alongside Scott County detectives to investigate the circumstances leading to a shooting that occurred in the 1800 block of Ditney Trail in Pioneer. During the course of the investigation, authorities determined that Crystal Chambers (DOB: 12/21/85) was shot during an exchange of gunfire between Larry Chambers (DOB: 4/24/62), her father, and Harley Holicki (DOB: 8/20/85), her ex-boyfriend. She died as a result of her injuries.
Today, the Scott County Grand Jury returned indictments charging both Larry Chambers and Harley Holicki with one count of Reckless Homicide. This evening, both were arrested and booked into the Scott County Jail on a $25,000 bond. | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/567178638/two-scott-county-men-indicted-charged-with-reckless-homicide | 2022-04-01T01:52:40Z |
Jamaican-Austrian concert gets nod
Thursday, March 31, 2022Winston Ewart, conductor and founding member of The National Chorale of Jamaica, was pleased with the execution of Jamaican-Austrian Felsted Celebration Concert on Tuesday.
“Well, I thought it was a wonderful effort. Kudos to the people in Austria, and indeed Jamaica for making all this possible. It was a very dynamic event,” he told the Jamaica Observer shortly after the event.
The hybrid event — held at the Kingston Parish Church in downtown Kingston and live stream from Mariahilferkirche Graz in Austria — commemorated the 220th anniversary of the passing of Jamaican composer Samuel Felsted. It also signalled 60 years of diplomatic relations between Jamaica and Austria.
The local line-up included: The National Chorale of Jamaica featuring mezzo-soprano Christine MacDonald-Nevers, tenor John McFarlane, and accompanied by organist for Kingston Parish Church, Dwight McBean.
Peter Ashbourne and soprano Oscar Kremer also graced the stage.
Meanwhile, Austrian acts comprised of Franz Zebinger on organist, Kornelia Pilz on recorder, Alvis Reid (bass player), Luke Dixon (pianist) and Rosina Christina Moder on recorder.
Austrian acts performed virtually.
Ewart said guests were treated to what he described as a fresh sound, which enhanced the experience.
“We were experiencing for the first time new music; music that had never really had the public interest before or even not performed in public. So, this was something that was really unique about it. You know, you had music by Samuel Felsted, the organ pieces and the chorus by Jonah. Then, the other pieces were written by our own Peter Ashbourne. I dare say that some of the Ashbourne pieces were not performed nor heard in Jamaica before because we didn't have the musical forces here to deal with it,” he added.
During his tenure as organist at St Andrew Parish Church, Samuel Felsted published his oratorio Jonah in 1775 in London, with illustrations by Benjamin West and Francesco Bartolozzi. His peers held him in high regard, as evidenced when 243 subscribers financed Jonah before its public release. The work was the first complete oratorio written in the Americas, and performed in Jamaica, New York, and Boston, including for George Washington's 1789 inaugural tour in Boston.
For Ewart, the highlight of Tuesday's “historic event” was the organ pieces by Franz Zebinger.
“The organ pieces, for me as a musician, were very interesting. People think that an organ is just an organ, but we must remember that this is a baroque organ, and it does not have as many stops as even say the Kingston Parish Church organ [in Austria] so that is making it unique. You could hear the sound, even though we weren't listening live…the type of sound that you would get on a modern type organ is not available to that organ. At that time, the baroque organ was not even developed as it is now, and I think it is remarkable that you could hear what I call a period instrument,” he explained.
Ewart, who has been the conductor of the National Chorale since 1996, was equally delighted with its performance, particularly Oscar Kremer.
“I thought he is just unique. The purity, the quality of the sound that he produces. For instance, if you heard a soprano singing that — what he did, you would have a lot of vibrato in the voice and so to hear a pure voice, a treble voice, singing that without the vibrato, it says a lot,” he added.
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Becky Lynch Says Fans Are Chanting ‘Colby’ At Seth Rollins, Not ‘Cody’
Becky Lynch has her own explanation for what sounds like WWE fans chanting “Cody” as Seth Rollins leading into WrestleMania. Rollins has been faced with the chants in recent weeks on the back of reports that Rollins’ mystery opponent at WrestleMania 38 will be Code Rhodes. However, Lynch has put forth the notion that the chants directed to her husband are actually for his real name, Colby.
“You’re thinking of his government name,” Becky Lynch told IB Sports (per Fightful). “Seth’s government name is Colby. I think because everybody feels like they know him so well, they’ve been chanting ‘Col-by, Col-by!’ I mean, he’s so good that he could have a match with himself and it would be awesome. So yeah, maybe he’ll be forced to have a match with himself, but hell, if it wasn’t on the same night that my match is, he could steal the show.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of a downtown Los Angeles building where an explosion injured 12 firefighters has been allowed to enter a judicial diversion program that allows him to avoid jail time and potentially have all charges dismissed.
A court commissioner on Wednesday granted the diversion request for Steve Sungho Lee. He and his companies must pay more than $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.mrt.com/news/article/No-jail-for-LA-building-owner-over-explosion-that-17049830.php | 2022-04-01T01:52:42Z |
WWF report says online wildlife trade on rise in Myanmar
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
AP Business Writer
BANGKOK (AP) — A report by the World Wildlife Fund shows illegal trading in wildlife online is growing in Myanmar in a threat both to public health and to endangered species. The report released Friday said enforcement of bans on such transactions has weakened following a 2021 military takeover. It says the number of online wildlife sales rose 74% over a year earlier to 11,046. Nearly all were of live animals. They included civets, which along with pangolins have been identified as potential vectors in the spread of diseases such as SARS and COVID-19. The WWF study focused on online sales of wildlife inside Myanmar. The group said it plans further studies on Myanmar’s role in global online wildlife trading. | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/03/31/wwf-report-says-online-wildlife-trade-on-rise-in-myanmar/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:42Z |
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Massage Envy, the nation's No. 1 provider of massage in the U.S. collectively across its franchise network, today announced the winners of its annual gala awards program.
"Each year our great brand recognizes the incredible achievements of the most outstanding franchisee and franchised location employees," said Beth Stiller, Massage Envy Franchising CEO. "It's very difficult to choose the best of the best from franchised locations because the stories of the impact they have on their members and their communities is all so inspiring. All of the nominees and the winners personify our brand purpose of helping people feel their best, and I am so proud of every one of them."
The following awards were presented for the 2021 calendar year:
- National Franchisee of the Year: Mark Preetorius, Atlanta, Ga. Preetorius, who owns four franchised locations in Georgia, was recognized as an exemplary franchisee who personifies the brand's core values of optimism, gratitude, excellence, consistency, and empathy, and motivates others to adopt those same values. According to an employee who works at one of Preetorius' franchised locations, "Our franchisee's dedication to the ideas of committed teamwork and community outreach have allowed our clinics and the staff to operate with the assurance that they are guided by an individual who sees that the big picture is painted with many different strokes, and no single artist creates a collective masterpiece." With over 7 years as a Massage Envy franchisee, we are thrilled to celebrate Mark's contributions to the brand and his community.
- National Manager of the Year: Dustin Schneider, Charleston, SC. Schneider, who works at the West Ashley franchised location in Charleston, owned by Caitlin Daly, was recognized as the most outstanding franchised location manager because he inspires the best in others and achieves business excellence in the pursuit of helping people feel their best. "Dustin shows up and proves he is a true leader ready to face whatever challenges come his way," Daly said. "He is adaptable, open to change and improvement, continuously optimistic, and consistently leads the team with excellence."
- National Therapist of the Year: Jing Shi, Mountain View, Ca. Shi, who works at the Mountain View franchised location, owned by Linda Wenge, was recognized as the Massage Therapist who best personifies a commitment to helping members and guests through the power of massage and assisted stretch. Wenge had this to say about Shi, " "Jing stands out as the most productive, the most requested, the most pre-booked massage therapist among all the therapists that I have encountered."
- National Esthetician of the Year: Elizabeth Knapik, Henderson, Nev. Knapik, who works at the Lake Meade Crossing franchised location, owned by Marissa and Mario Hawkins, was recognized as the esthetician who best exemplifies the Massage Envy brand's commitment to helping members and guests with their skin care journey. "Excellence is the culmination of a thousand consistent steps. In the past six years with the brand, this outstanding esthetician has made incredible strides," Marissa Hawkins said."
- National Sales Associate of The Year: Shawn Remfry, Kansas City, Mo. Remfry, who works at the Tom Watson Parkway franchised location, owned by Les Snyder, was recognized as the extraordinary Sales Associate who develops connections with clients, guides their membership, and delivers on the brand promise of helping people feel their best. According to Snyder, when asked to describe the winner in one word, customers had this to say, "Awesome," "Sweet," "Caring," "Helpful."
This year's awards gala, held March 23 in Oxon Hill, Md., just across the Potomac River from the nation's capital, was sponsored by Jan Marini Skin Research, and PCA Skin. "We deeply appreciate our sponsors for their support of this wonderful event as well as their dedication to this great brand throughout the year," said Stiller.
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Massage Envy, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a national franchisor and does not independently own or operate any of the Massage Envy franchised locations nationwide. The Massage Envy franchise network, through its franchise locations, is the leading provider of therapeutic massage services. Founded in 2002, Massage Envy has more than 1,100 franchise locations in 49 states that have together delivered more than 190 million massages and facials. For more information, visit www.massageenvy.com, or follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at @MassageEnvy.
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The Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund is going to complete four critical infrastructure projects worth N2.3tn, the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority stated on Thursday.
A presentation by the NSIA at the 7th Edition of Africa Road Builders event in Abuja, indicated that part of the fund was being deployed for the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Road, Second Niger Bridge and Mambilla hydropower project.
This came as the NSIA delivered 16 security vehicles to the Nigeria Police Force to help boost economic activities on the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Road, following the directives of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
“We were directed by the President to support the work of the police by providing the vehicles for the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano road,” the Managing Director, NSIA, Uche Orji, stated in Abuja.
The NSIA’s report at the road builders’ event stated that the expected impact of the ongoing projects under the PIDF includes job creation and the facilitation of poverty alleviation, among others. The NSIA manages the PIDF.
“The PIDF will complete four critical projects costing a total of $5.6bn
(N2.3tn). The financing of these projects has the potential to yield between 274,000 and 616,000 new direct and indirect jobs,” the report read in part.
It added, “It will boost economic activities and spur an increase in investments, agriculture and trade between the commercial cities due to the improved and quicker access to markets.
“The roads will significantly open the economic corridors leading to massive improvement in manufacturing, trading and commercial activities driven by the ease of movement of people, services and raw materials.”
It stated that the PIDF was established in 2018 to accelerate the execution of critical infrastructure projects, which include the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Second Niger Bridge, and Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Road, jointly referred to as the “ongoing projects.”
“It also included East-West Road Project and Mambilla hydropower project. The East-West Road project was removed from the PIDF portfolio based on the request of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs for its excision to enable MNDA undertake the EWR project as a public works contract,” the authority stated.
He added, “This was approved by Mr. President’s in a directive communicated on June 8, 2020. The development of Mambilla is yet to commence. NSIA has undertaken a value engineering exercise to determine design efficiency, cost optimisation and enhance overall project viability.”
For the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the report stated that Julius Berger Nigeria Plc and Reynolds Construction Company were the contractors, putting the project cost at N311.4bn, while stating that N99.6bn had been disbursed.
It put the estimated completion date for the project at July 2022, adding that the percentage completion for sections 1 and 2 were 87 and 73 per cent, respectively. The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is located in Nigeria’s South-West region.
For the Second Niger Bridge, the NSIA named Julius Berger Nigeria Plc as the contractor. It said the initial cost of the project was N206.2bn, while there was an additional cost of N88.1bn.
The project is projected to be completed in 2022, as N165.3bn had been disbursed, with a percentage completion of 84 per cent. The Second Niger Bridge is in the South-East.
The Abuja-Kaduna Kano Expressway is also being handled by Julius Berger. It had an initial project cost of N155.7bn, while the revised project cost was put at N655.2bn.
The initial estimated completion date was 2021, while the revised estimated completion was put at 2025. The NSIA said the amount so far disbursed was N307.1bn. The project is ongoing in the North.
The Mambilla Hydropower project has a cost of N1.765tn. It is a greenfield project located in the North-East region of Nigeria.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — At least one person is dead after a motorcycle crash in south Austin Thursday night. At least one other vehicle was involved.
Austin-Travis County EMS said the collision took place at the intersection of West Slaughter Lane and South Congress Avenue around 7:15 p.m.
CPR was being done at the scene, but the crash turned fatal, according to the agency.
ATCEMS said to expect closures in the area while an investigation is being done.
No other information was released. | https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/deadly-motorcycle-crash-in-south-austin/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:44Z |
AP source: Miami’s Chris Caputo accepts offer to be GW coach
Longtime Miami associate head coach Chris Caputo has accepted a contract offer to become the new coach at George Washington, a person with knowledge of the situation said Thursday night.
The school and Caputo were working out final contract details including length of the deal, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because George Washington had not announced the hiring.
Caputo replaces Jamion Christian, who was 29-50 in three seasons at the school.
Caputo has been an integral part of Miami coach Jim Larranaga’s staff for two decades, including helping George Mason to the Final Four in 2006 and the Hurricanes to the Elite Eight this season. He has been associate head coach at Miami since May 2015, overseeing much of the team’s recruiting efforts and serving as the team’s defensive coordinator.
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BALLYMONEY Rugby Club First XV travel to Lisburn this weekend knowing that a win will move them a step closer to qualifying for the end of season play-offs.
Saturday's 31-13 victory at home over Lurgan saw them move ahead of the county Armagh club with just two games remaining, including a final day derby against Coleraine.
For now, though, all the focus is on the visit to mid-Ulster and a very important game.
“This was a big win for the home men who deserved the win and were clinical in attack and strong in defence with a lot of big performances," admitted Marty Irwin after the game.
“Nygutin and McKeeman were fantastic in the lineout and the scrums were a vast improvement on our last outing.
“It was important to win today to keep our season alive and we now look forward to travelling to Lisburn who will be scrapping hard to get points in their bid to stay up.
“Our destiny is in our own hands and a lot of hard work will go in this week to prepare for this game.
"A big thanks to the support who were out in force to support us yet again,” he added.
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In addition to its many health benefits, Asian Carp is sustainable and conscious-minded choice. This fish is non-native to the United States, and has been recently deemed an invasive species.
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Survey: Georgia Voters Concerned About PRO Act and Its Negative Impacts on Workers, Small Business and Inflation
A new survey released by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce shows that Georgia likely voters are very concerned the Protecting Right to Organize (PRO) Act and the negative and unintended impacts the legislation would have on Georgia workers, small business, and inflation. A significant majority of Georgia likely voters...
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Movie time for QQ, IQ
Thursday, March 31, 2022AFTER releasing their latest coll aboration three weeks ago, dancehall artistes QQ and his younger brother IQ have been reaping success. Titled Movie , the single has made the Apple Music top 200 charts in Jamaica, Guyana and St Kitts and Nevis.
“Every time I release a new song, I always want to see the trajectory of the song. Seeing it chart, or trend or anything of that sort is always a relief for me, because I feel like 'yes! It's starting to do what I need it to do'. I get a little worried about it first, but once I start to see these signs, I become a bit more confident…it allows me to be a bit more comfortable in how I continue the marketing, the promotion and certain things that I probably attempted. So, we just wanna see it charting more places. It's always a good feeling to chart anywhere, especially Jamaica, because it's the base market. Sometimes you feel like you never really get the love from home is what people always say, so when home is grabbing on, it's a big thing,” QQ, whose given name is Kareem Dawkins, told the Jamaica Observer.
The March 9 release was produced by UK-based Nadda.
The former Calabar High School student started in the music business as a pre-teen. With almost 20 years of experience under his belt, the recent Prime Minister Youth Awardee has more works in the pipeline, especially with his brother.
“Fans certainly can expect more collabs. This is just the first joint single that we have. This is in anticipation of the EP's release which is coming really soon,” he said.
QQ further said he provides guidance for his brother, who has also steadily been making a name for himself, particularly with his January release titled Bun Fi Bun with Stefflon Don.
“As far as mentorship, I definitely provide brotherly love. I'm here to support him in every way possible; guide him…I hope to be a source light or guidance for him. But I never try to dictate anything 'cause he's also a grown folk and he's able to manage on his own and make decisions. If ever he comes to me I'll be that guidance and that source of help,” QQ added.
Meanwhile, IQ (given name Cairo Dawkins) says collaborating with his brother, who is six years his senior, is a childhood dream.
“It means everything, because growing up, I always wanted to be like him now I got the chance to do music with him,” he told the Observer from his UK-based home.
As he continues to pursue a full-time music career, IQ says he's happy with the trajectory he's on and foresees a fruitful future.
“I'm very happy on where my career is going I'm very excited. I see myself selling out festivals across the world and getting awards for my music,” he added.
IQ further said he has brought his own unique flair to the genre.
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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.mrt.com/news/article/Oldest-U-S-active-park-ranger-retires-at-100-17049910.php | 2022-04-01T01:52:48Z |
The Rivers State Police Command has said its operatives have arrested four suspected kidnappers who have been terrorising residents of Egwi-Etche and its environs in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The command’s acting spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
Iringe-Koko said their arrest came after they abducted a cleric from a new generation church based in Port Harcourt in February.
The statement read, “Luck ran out of them when they abducted one Pastor Jeremiah Atelibo of Salvation Ministry Church, Port Harcourt on February 28, 2022.
“Operatives, using artificial intelligence, were able to locate and storm their hideout and arrested four suspects namely Barisi Yikes (31), Chinedu Simeon (28), Justice Obodo (32) and Jeffrey (28). Their victim, Pastor Atelibo was rescued unhurt.
“A locally-made pistol with three live cartridges was recovered from them, among other exhibits.
“In a related development following a report of kidnap by one Karibo Awantaye, about a Bolt driver who was kidnapped along Rumubiakani on Eneka Road in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area on March 19, 2022, police swung into action and the kidnappers were traced and given a hot chase.
“On sighting the police, gun duel ensued with the kidnappers. Two of the suspects were fatally wounded and the victim was rescued unhurt along with his Toyota Corolla vehicle marked AKD 914 DL.”
The statement added that ransom money and charms were recovered at the scene.
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Police: Officers shoot, kill man in Scappoose, Oregon
SCAPPOOSE, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a man was shot and killed by two police officers in Scappoose, Oregon. Columbia County officials confirmed the officer-involved shooting Thursday on social media. In a tweet, officials said that “no officers were injured and the incident is currently under investigation.” Detective Shannon Wilde with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, which has taken over the investigation, told reporters police responded to a “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. | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-oregon-northwest/2022/03/31/police-officers-shoot-kill-man-in-scappoose-oregon/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:48Z |
CALGARY, AB, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - mCloud Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: MCLD) (TSXV: MCLD), ("mCloud" or the "Company") a leading provider of AI-powered asset management and Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") solutions, today announced it will host a conference call to discuss the financial results for the year-end and fourth quarter of 2021 and its outlook on 2022 at 10:00am EDT on April 4, 2022.
The conference call will include prepared remarks from Russ McMeekin, Chief Executive Officer, and Chantal Schutz, Chief Financial Officer. After the prepared remarks, the Company will accept questions.
This date and time follows from the Company's release on March 30 it would add a discussion of its recent partnership with Carbon Royalty Corp and Middle East strategic financing alternatives to prepared remarks.
To access the conference call by telephone, dial 416-764-8659 or 1-888-664-6392 with the confirmation number 74107253. Please connect approximately 10 minutes prior to the beginning of the call to ensure participation. The conference call will be archived for replay by telephone until April 11, 2022 at midnight (ET). To access the archived conference call, dial 1-888-390-0541 and enter the reservation number 107253.
A live audio webcast of the conference call will be available at https://bit.ly/3NvJvZs. Please connect at least 15 minutes prior to the conference call to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be required to join the webcast. The webcast will be archived at the above website for one year.
About mCloud Technologies Corp.
mCloud is unlocking the untapped potential of energy intensive assets with AI and analytics, curbing energy waste, maximizing energy production, and getting the most out of critical energy infrastructure. Through mCloud's AI-powered AssetCare™ platform, mCloud offers complete asset management solutions for commercial buildings, renewable energy, healthcare, heavy industry, and connected workers. IoT sensors bring data from connected assets into the cloud, where AI and analytics are applied to maximize their performance.
With a worldwide presence and offices in San Francisco, Vancouver, Calgary, London, Perth, Singapore, and Beijing, the mCloud family includes an ecosystem of operating subsidiaries that deliver high-performance IoT, AI, 3D, and mobile capabilities to customers, all integrated into AssetCare. With over 100 blue-chip customers and more than 63,000 assets connected in thousands of locations worldwide, mCloud is changing the way energy assets are managed.
mCloud's common shares trade in the United States on the Nasdaq and in Canada on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol MCLD. mCloud's convertible debentures trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol MCLD.DB. For more information, visit www.mcloudcorp.com.
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HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A man was found guilty on multiple charges, including murder, for hitting and killing two teens then running away from the scene of the crash in April 2019.
According to Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau, a jury returned their verdict Thursday afternoon and convicted Macario Hernandez of the following:
- Two counts of murder
- Two counts of intoxication manslaughter
- Three counts of intoxication assault
- Two counts of accident involving death
- Three counts of accident involving serious bodily injury
The April 2019 crash took place in the city of Kyle at the intersection of I-35 and Windy Hill Road. Officials at the time said Hernandez drove his Dodge pickup truck and hit a Honda sedan with a family of five inside.
Sisters Hayden Weissman, 18, and Peyton Weissman, 16, died at the scene. Another sister, their dad and his girlfriend were also in the car. They were taken to the hospital afterward. The family was from Frisco in north Texas.
Hernandez was found and arrested after he ran away from the scene of the crash, officials said.
Sentencing will most likely take place within 30 to 45 days before Judge Bruce Boyer of the 22nd District Court in Hays County, Mau said. | https://www.kxan.com/news/local/hays/man-found-guilty-in-2019-hit-and-run-crash-that-killed-2-teens-in-kyle/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:50Z |
Bey’s late scoring surge helps Pistons top 76ers 102-94
Saddiq Bey scored 10 of his 20 points in the final 4:23 as the Detroit Pistons pulled away down the stretch and beat the Philadelphia 76ers 102-94 on Thursday night.
Cade Cunningham scored 27 points for Detroit, which snapped a three-game losing streak and had a 39-8 edge in scoring off the bench.
Joel Embiid had 37 points and 15 rebounds and James Harden finished with 18 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for the 76ers.
Detroit didn’t lead until the fourth quarter, and Isaiah Livers’ 3-pointer with 5:05 left gave the Pistons a 90-87 advantage. After Harden missed, Bey made it 93-87 with another 3-pointer, forcing Sixers coach Doc Rivers to call a timeout.
Embiid answered with a dunk, but Bey scored seven points in a 9-0 run that gave the Pistons a 102-89 lead with 1:54 to play.
Embiid had 18 points and nine rebounds in the first half, going 10 for 11 from the line. Philadelphia attempted 20 free throws in the half compared to four for Detroit. But the Pistons’ 21-0 advantage in bench points kept them within 54-50.
Detroit stayed close through most of the third, but Embiid dunked over Cunningham and Isaiah Stewart to give the Sixers a 79-73 lead going into the fourth. He had 15 points and six rebounds in the quarter, giving him 33 points and 15 rebounds.
Marvin Bagley III left the game in the third quarter with a hip injury after landing awkwardly while being fouled by Embiid.
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Sixers: Shake Milton’s 3-pointer with 4:03 left in the third quarter was the first basket from Philadelphia’s reserves after the starters had scored the first 69 points.
Pistons: Cunningham could become part of a very rare double. No city has swept the NHL and NBA Rookie of the Year awards since Ray Bourque and Larry Bird did it in Boston in 1980, but Cunningham could join defenseman Moritz Seider or forward Lucas Raymond of the Red Wings, two of the leading candidates for the Calder Trophy.
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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.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Police-Officers-shoot-kill-man-in-Scappoose-17049819.php | 2022-04-01T01:52:52Z |
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — About $7 million worth of surplus personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies purchased by a Northern California county was left outside during a rainstorm because no one anticipated wet weather to start so early in the season, according to an investigation released Thursday.
After a KGO-TV news report showed hundreds of drenched cardboard boxes, San Mateo County officials acknowledged the supplies were moved outside an event center last September to make room for a conference.
There was no definitive timeline for how the supplies would be distributed “even though the Fall rainy season was not far off,” the probe by James Lianides said. County officials said they hired the retired school superintendent to conduct the inquiry because of his experience dealing with large organizations and purchasing practices.
Lianides said the boxes of non-medical-grade gowns, face shields and goggles as well as cleaning supplies were also moved out of the event center to avoid the $100,000-per-month storage fee.
“It does not appear that there were any discussions or actions taken in the process of (moving) to protect the equipment in the event of inclement weather, such as wrapping or covering each pallet,” he wrote.
The county's executive officer, Mike Callagy, has said the county purchased the items early in the pandemic when PPE was becoming scarce nationwide so that local first responders and medical providers would have what they needed. The demand for the equipment decreased as the pandemic continued.
The county’s supply of gloves and masks — including N95 and KN95 respirators — are stored indoors.
“What’s clear is that that this shouldn’t have happened. What is equally clear is we are taking the steps necessary to make sure that we put the checks and balances in place so this never happens again,” Callagy said in a statement Thursday.
An inspection of the damaged boxes determined that most of the safety equipment remains usable because they were packed in sealed plastic wrapping, the probe found. Equipment that could not be salvaged were worth about $128,000, according to Lianides. | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Report-Rain-not-anticipated-when-7M-in-PPE-17049873.php | 2022-04-01T01:52:53Z |
Tears for Tabby
Thursday, March 31, 2022IT was customary during a Mighty Diamonds show for Tabby Diamond to ask, 'Who sey Rasta cyaan sing love song?', before belting out the group's version of The Manhattans' There's no me Without You.
One of reggae's great soul singers, Tabby Diamond, was killed during a drive-by shooting at McKinley Crescent in the Olympic Way community of St Andrew. He was 66 years old.
At news time, no arrests were made for the incident in which another man was killed and two others shot and injured.
The voice that drove roots-reggae standards like Right Time, I Need A Roof, Africa, Heads of Government, and Pass The Kouchie was one of the music's most distinctive.
Originally from Trench Town, Donald Shaw (his given name) was a founding member of the 'Diamonds' which formed in that community 53 years ago. His longtime colleagues are Fitzroy “Bunny Diamond” Simpson and Lloyd “Judge Diamond” Ferguson.
Until illness stopped Simpson from recording and touring in 2015, the trio were inseparable.
Drummer Sly Dunbar played on some of the Diamonds' biggest hit songs including Right Time and I Need A Roof during their breakthrough years at Channel One studio in Kingston. He remembers Tabby Diamond as a “great singer with a great sound” who “could sing anything”.
Dunbar rates Tabby's performance on Africa among his finest.
“Jus' di way he caressed di lyrics was amazing,” he said.
Gussie Clarke produced Pass The Kouchie, commercially The Mighty Diamonds' biggest song. He told the Jamaica Observer that he and The Mighty Diamonds had recently discussed recording a new album.
Clarke said Tabby Diamond, “Was a simple man who didn't deserve that death. He was smooth, cool an' jus' loved his work.”
Last year, Donald “Tabby Diamond” Shaw and his colleagues in The Mighty Diamonds were conferred with the Order of Distinction by the Jamaican Government.
Efforts by the Observer to contact Judge Diamond or members of Tabby Diamond's family were unsuccessful.
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Georgia Cities Rank in America's 25 Fastest-Growing Cities for Small Businesses
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The Gombe State Government has commenced moves to improve transportation in the state with the introduction of 1,000 TVS tricycles.
According to a statement on Thursday, the state government selected a firm, Simba TVS, to supply 1,000 units of the TVS King deluxe tricycles.
The statement quoted the firm’s Business Head, Mr Mahendra Pratap, who was at the handover ceremony at the Pantami Stadium in Gombe, as commending the state Governor, Alhaji Mohammed Yahaya, for his commitment to resolving the challenges of transportation.
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Washington governor signs $64.1 billion supplemental budget
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed $64.1 billion supplemental state budget that spends on statewide programs ranging from homelessness and behavioral health to the ongoing COVID-19 response in the public health system. The supplemental plan builds off of the $59 billion, two-year spending plan adopted by the Legislature last year, and benefited from the significant influx of revenues the state has seen over the past year, plus more than $1 billion in remaining pandemic-related federal relief funds that were used in the budget. Inslee on Thursday also signed a $1.5 billion state construction budget that spends on areas ranging from housing, homelessness, behavioral health facilities, and seismic upgrades at public schools. | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-oregon-northwest/2022/03/31/washington-governor-signs-64-1-billion-supplemental-budget/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:55Z |
TORONTO, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - MediPharm Labs Corp. (TSX: LABS) (OTCQX: MEDIF) (FSE: MLZ) ("MediPharm", "MediPharm Labs" or the "Company") a pharmaceutical company specialized in precision-based cannabinoids, today announced its financial results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021.
- International sales more than doubled in 2021, to $9.5 million (44% of Revenue), driven by shipments to seven customers in Germany, including the completion of first shipments to STADA Arzneimittel AG, a leading European Consumer Healthcare and Generics company with a product presence in 120 countries.
- Germany will continue to be a priority market for MediPharm. It is already the largest medical market in the world, and is expected to reach a market value of €7.7 billion by 2028i.
- The Company significantly expanded its sales force, which led to new listings in all provinces including the Ontario Cannabis Store, AGLC, BCLG and entry into Québec and New Brunswick.
- The Company's provincial sales grew 18% during 2021, to $7.4 million, primarily driven by sales of new and innovative products. Q4 provincial sales grew to $2.8 million in Q4 from $1.2 million in Q3.
- In Canada, the Company launched new products including CBD 100 Ultra Formula Oil, THC30 Plus Formula Oil, CBN1:2 Nighttime Formula, 1:2 Relax Formula Oil, and a Northbound High CBN and High CBD vape cartridge.
- In Q4, MediPharm's cannabigerol ("CBG"), product was accepted for sale by provincial distributors, with initial deliveries planned for Q1 2022.
- Subsequent to the end of the year, the Company announced the acquisition of Shelter Cannabis, adding highly reputable, specialty dried flower and pre-roll products to its portfolio. This transaction fills a gap in the MediPharm Canadian product offering while leveraging existing infrastructure and overhead, and opens the opportunity to expand its current international flower business.
- MediPharm began to sell EU GMP certified dried flower in the international market during 2021, and it accounted for $3.5 million in revenue.
- Received a Cannabis Drug Licence and a Good Manufacturing Practices ("GMP") Drug Establishment Licence from Health Canada.
- Entered into a research partnership master agreement with McMaster University to develop drugs containing cannabis candidates, and began to provide clinical trial material.
- Began to ship Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients ("APIs"), to two well-known pharmaceutical companies during the year, generating early revenue in a business that is expected to grow significantly over the next several years.
- Subsequent to the end of the fiscal year, the Company entered the U.S. pharmaceutical market with the submission of an FDA Drug Master File ("DMF") for pure natural CBD APIs.
- Completed the payment of all outstanding convertible debt. The Company is materially debt free and has outright ownership of its assets, including two GMP facilities; one in Ontario, Canada and the other in Victoria, Australia.
Bryan Howcroft, CEO, MediPharm Labs commented, "MediPharm achieved several key strategic objectives during 2021. Our team opened key new markets both domestically and internationally, while increasing sales and marketing efforts to execute on these opportunities. Innovation is part of the Company's DNA, and the launch of new products through the year resulted in both growth in domestic sales into year-end, as well as a win for the Company's CBD dominant oil line at the 2021 Kind Awards, where it was named CBD Brand of the Year. When I joined MediPharm at the end of 2021, I saw a company with a solid foundation, positioned to be one of very few winners in the international cannabinoid pharma space. The team's progress against this objective during the year, culminating in the recent filing of a DMF with the U.S. FDA, reinforces that this company has the sophistication it needs to become an important supplier as this opportunity continues to develop."
Greg Hunter, CFO, MediPharm Labs added, "MediPharm is on solid financial footing, having exited the year with $34 million in cash, no debt and outright ownership of its key facilities. In Q4 we generated sequential growth in key focus areas such as domestic white label sales, and sales into the German market. We expect to continue building on this progress through 2022, leveraging recent investments in sales and marketing resources in the Canadian market, and the growth of the German and EU markets, overall. Over the next 12 months, we will continue to advance the Company's core focus on building a leading global precision-based cannabinoid business, while balancing that longer term focus with a commitment to innovation, revenue growth and progressing toward profitability."
Warren Everitt and MediPharm Labs have mutually agreed to end the role of CEO Asia Pacific, a position held by Warren. MediPharm Labs would like to thank Warren for his significant contribution to the business over the past 5 years and wishes him all the best in his future endeavours.
MediPharm will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the Company's financial results and outlook.
Date: April 1, 2022 | Time: 8:30 a.m. ET
Conference ID: 4921762
Participant Dial-in: +1 (888) 330-2454 / International number: +1 (236) 789-2714
(Participants are asked to dial in approximately 15 minutes before the start of the call)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don’t have an answer for how that’s going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that’s a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs.” Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?” Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden’s social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden’s agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven’t abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden’s economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they’d help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That’s done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she’s looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control. It’s an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don’t reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can’t afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a “total disaster” for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
“This will make private insurance for people with diabetes a much more attractive proposition,” said Glied. | https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/house-passes-35-a-month-insulin-cap/ | 2022-04-01T01:52:57Z |
Bruins honor retired goalie Rask after injury ended career
After a 15-year career in which he etched his name on the Stanley Cup and the Vezina Trophy, Tuukka Rask is focusing now on avoiding the rink.
“Don’t even go there. Not yet,” the retired Bruins goalie said Thursday night when asked if his daughters had taken up hockey. “They’re into dance and whatnot. If I have to go and spend my days at hockey rinks, so be it. But not really at the top of my list.”
A two-time All-Star, and the winner of the 2014 Vezina as the NHL’s top goalie, Rask announced his retirement last month after a setback in his attempt to come back from a torn labrum in his hip. The Bruins invited him back to drop the ceremonial first puck before Thursday night’s game against the New Jersey Devils, and again – perhaps for the last time – the chants of “Tuuuuk!” echoed through the TD Garden.
Rask took the ice with his wife, and their three daughters dressed for a ballet class. He bumped fists with the players on the Bruins bench while both teams tapped their sticks on the ice to salute him.
“I don’t know what the future holds,” Rask told reporters beforehand, saying that he would be showing up at games and golf outings as a team ambassador. “Maybe I’ll get into coaching. Maybe not, but for now, I’ll be hanging out with sponsors.”
The franchise’s all-time leader in wins, Rask helped the Bruins allow the fewest goals in the NHL in the pandemic-interrupted 2019-20 season, when Boston finished with the most points in the league. He injured his hip during the 2021 playoffs and worked his way back to the team midway through this season.
But after just four starts, he aggravated his injury on Jan. 24 against the Anaheim Ducks. Two weeks later, he announced he was through.
“It was kind of time to be honest with yourself,” he said. “I just figured it was better for everybody to call it. I had a great career. No regrets.”
While his hip still has some good days, Rask said no one could talk him out of retirement. His immediate future will involve as much golf as he can squeeze in between shuttling his daughters to dance class and school.
He may need a hip replacement at some point.
“It was at a point where it affected my everyday life,” Rask said. “I’m a guy who makes pretty quick decisions, anyway. So I wasn’t dwelling on it too long.”
Rask was 308-165-66 with a 2.28 goals-against average and .921 save percentage in a franchise-leading 564 games. He was the backup goalie for the Bruins team that won it all in 2011, and he led the team to Stanley Cup Final appearances in 2013 and ’19.
Although coaching is not in his plans, Rask said he would be available if Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman wants him.
“I told him right after I retired: Tell me if you need anything,” Rask said. “Just make sure you don’t get too high or too low.”
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'A madness gwaan!'
Relatives, friends left puzzled, angry by murder of Reggae legend 'Tabby Diamond'
Thursday, March 31, 2022POLICE investigators along with relatives and close friends of murdered Mighty Diamonds lead singer, Donald Shaw, popularly known as “Tabby Diamond”, have the unwanted task of piecing together a puzzle to the mystery behind the shooting death of a reggae legend.
Shaw, who was in his 60s, and another man were shot dead Tuesday night on McKinley Crescent in St Andrew as they stood among a group of people across the street from his house. Three other people were shot and injured during the incident.
One man, who declined to share his name due to fear for his life, in case he offends the perpetrators with his comments, told the Jamaica Observer that those responsible should be hunted and put in prison where they should die, for the murder of one of reggae music's and Jamaica's legends.
“We have some gunman weh di Government need fi build a place far away and put them 'til dem dead. How can you kill a legend? What can a legend do for you to kill him? The answer is, nothing. A madness gwaan!
“Di man seh 'I need a roof over my head' and a him seh 'pass the kuchie pon di left hand side'. Dat show seh a peace di man a deal wid. Weh dem kill di legend fa? Tabby Diamond not even a kill mosquito. He is a peaceful and humble man. Dem man deh tell poor people seh dem fi have roof over dem head. So how poor people fi gun dung another poor man like themselves?”
One of Shaw's daughters told the Observer her father was killed before getting to uncover and enjoy his dinner on Tuesday.
“His dinner is there on the stove same way. I don't sleep from Tuesday. Let me ask you something. Me fi come out a my gate every morning and know seh a right deh so dem kill mi father? You mean seh mi nah go get no more chance fi tek picture wid mi father? My father walk and tell everybody seh me a him mad daughter. Mi a go get something fi drink and go bathe and lay down,” she said, while making it known that she is going through a very stressful time.
A friend of Shaw, who gave his name as Idrine, said the murder brought about a similar feeling as when Bob Marley died of cancer in 1981. The man added that Shaw was never someone to treat people in a threatening manner or one who would preach violence.
“You know how di nation did feel when Bob did gone? This is similar. It is soul deep. Words cannot explain. This come een like a wound weh can't heal. He was a figure in the community who never even point a finger threateningly to a youth. He was busy doing his work to get his life together. Instead, some man waan tell you who to talk to. A man will nuh like a next man and him a seh you nuh fi stop and talk to another man. Likkle more you hear seh dem lick dung a man because him stop a talk to somebody. Di whole community a go mash up,” the man said, highlighting that Shaw was a “column stone”, whose music will forever be played across the world.
“His status is great within music. Him come from the place where Bob Marley grow up. A straight hits him deal wid. All a him song dem can't stop play.”
A woman, who told the Observer that she is a girlfriend of one of Tabby Diamond's sons, decried the killing and said her spouse, who is a big fan of his father, would probably have been killed in the attack if he had been able to have his usual rendezvous with his father.
“A 15 years mi know Tabby and him never inna no problem with nobody. All mi know is him always a give to people. Mi never hear him and nobody inna problem. Di only place mi know him go is studio.
“My boyfriend was to do a coronavirus test so he could get to do an eye surgery. He took today off to do the surgery but his father was murdered in the night and my boyfriend missed it by the skin of his teeth. Him and him father close. When him come from work him always ask if him father pass through. If mi seh no, him come up here come look fi him. Tuesday night him come up here because him father did supposed to give him a money to go doctor.
“He visited him last night but him nuh see him because him did gone a studio. Him come dung back and seh him never see him and he will check him tomorrow. About 9:30 pm or 10:00 pm him get the call seh this happen. If him father did deh here, him woulda siddung wid him same place and him woulda get shot too,” she said.
Superintendent Kirk Ricketts, who heads the St Andrew South Police Division in which McKinley Crescent lies, told the Observer on Wednesday that the shooting may have been a result of gang conflict in the area running from 2012.
“There are a number of things we know. We know that this particular area has been plagued by gang conflict for some time now. It pre-dates me as commander. In the McKinley Crescent and Wint Road area there are a number of factions warring with each other for some time now. The preliminary assessment points to a continuation of this gang conflict,” he said.
“We have been speaking to sources, community members and there is a lot of finger-pointing. Of course, persons on the different warring sides, their names are being called and we are leaving no stones unturned. Mr Shaw's son, who we have in custody on a murder charge, is known to be a violence producer in this particular space and we are trying to assess to see if any of the son's activities in the past could have led to the father being targeted. At the same time, we are not saying that he was the target,” Ricketts said.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A $64.1 billion supplemental state budget that spends on statewide programs ranging from homelessness and behavioral health to the ongoing COVID-19 response was signed Thursday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
The supplemental plan builds off of the $59 billion, two-year spending plan adopted by the Legislature last year, and benefited from the significant influx of revenues the state has seen over the past year. Additionally, lawmakers used more than $1 billion in remaining pandemic-related federal relief funds in the budget.
More than $800 million is allocated for homelessness and housing, including $50 million to transition unhoused people from unsanctioned camps to housing.
Inslee specifically called out the efforts on addressing homelessness, saying that lawmakers “gave us relief that is big, that is bold, and that is fast.”
While there are no general tax increases in the plan, there are also no across-the-board tax cuts, something Republicans had argued for throughout the legislative session that ended March 10.
“It’s been easy to explain to my constituents why Republicans opposed this budget – all I have to do is point to how the costs of living have continued to rise in the weeks since it was adopted, and the huge revenue surplus the Democrats had available,“ Republican Sen. Lynda Wilson said in a statement.
A small business tax credit was included that would affect about 125,000 small businesses in the state, and was among the bills signed by Inslee Thursday.
Starting in January, businesses making less than $125,000 a year would pay no state business taxes, and those making up to $250,000 a year, business taxes will be cut in half.
The supplemental operating budget also spends state or federal money on things like adding more social supports like nurses and counselors for students, increasing rates to vendors providing services to people with developmental disabilities or long-term care needs and shoring up the state’s paid family leave program, which officials warned was nearing a deficit.
It also allots funding for raises for state workers. According to the Office of Financial Management, about 63,800 general government employees will get a 3.25% general wage increase, about 6,700 state corrections workers will get a 4% general wage increase and about 1,200 state patrol officers will get a 10% general wage increase. The last general wage increase for represented employees was July 1, 2020.
The operating budget also transfers more than $2 billion to the nearly $17 billion, 16-year transportation revenue package that Inslee signed last week. The plan leaves about $3 billion in total reserves.
Inslee had several full or partial vetoes of bills, including a section of a bill that would have expanded the state’s existing warehouse sales and use tax to include smaller warehouses of at least 100,000 square feet. In his veto notice, Inslee said that while he understood the importance of manufacturing and warehousing to rural economies, he said the tax incentives in the bill were overly broad.
Inslee on Thursday also signed a $1.5 billion state construction budget that spends on areas ranging from housing, homelessness, behavioral health facilities, and seismic upgrades at public schools. | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Washington-governor-signs-64-1-billion-17049827.php | 2022-04-01T01:52:59Z |
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A combined team of soldiers, operatives of the Department of State Services and the police have been deployed in Kaduna to locate and possibly rescue passengers abducted by terrorists, who attacked the Kaduna-Abuja train on Monday.
It was learnt that the Federal Government had given the Nigerian Air Force express approval to deploy the Super Tucano aircraft in the North-West albeit with conditions that collateral damage be minimised.
It was gathered that the special team was given express orders to locate the abductors’ camp and do “everything operationally possible” to rescue the hostages with minimal losses.
About eight persons were killed during Monday’s attack, while an unknown number of victims were abducted by the attackers, who caused the train to derail after blowing off the rail tracks.
Over 390 persons were onboard the train, which was Kaduna bound.
The PUNCH gathered that the Super Tucano aircraft, which was being used against Boko Haram and Islamic State’s West Africa Province fighters in the North-East, would soon be deployed against the terrorists in Kaduna and surrounding states.
A security source said the military had decided to use the Tucano fighter jets against the terrorists hibernating in Kaduna forests.
“The decision to redeploy the Super Tucano jets to Kaduna has been taken, but the decision may not be implemented immediately because of the individuals abducted from the Kaduna-Abuja train on Monday evening. Using the aircraft against the terrorists in Kaduna might endanger the kidnapped victims and the military will always want to minimise the collateral damage as much as possible,” a source explained.
But the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria flayed the military over its failure to deploy the 12 Super Tucano fighter jets against terrorists turning the North-West zone into another killing field.
HURIWA also reminded the Federal Government that the daredevil terrorists were fast approaching the Federal Capital Territory and had struck many times very close to the nation’s capital.
It was also learnt that the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, had deployed some riot policemen to protect engineers repairing the destroyed rail tracks.
The acting Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed this to one of our correspondents on Thursday, also said the police had commenced an investigation into Monday’s incident.
“We are working with all relevant ministries, departments and agencies, as well as security agencies to investigate and forestall any further attack. The IG has ordered the deployment of half a unit of PMF men, one Armoured Personnel Carrier, one lorry and so on, to provide adequate security for the engineers, who are carrying out repairs on the rail line,” Adejobi stated.
‘My husband’s abductors haven’t contacted me’
A Kubwa resident, Mrs Margaret Osaluwe, whose husband, Kelvin, was on the train, said she had not been contacted by anyone since the incident.
Margaret told The PUNCH over the telephone on Thursday that the gunmen had not called her about the abduction of her husband.
“The government should help in rescuing my husband and others who were abducted by the bandits,” she pleaded.
Seven soldiers killed, Air Force bombs terrorists
Meanwhile, The PUNCH confirmed that seven soldiers were ambushed and killed by terrorists on the dreaded Abuja-Kaduna Expressway.
It was learnt that the attack happened close to the Zuma barracks along the road in the Suleja area of Niger State in the early hours of Wednesday.
A military source said the commanding officer had received a distress call and sent his men to the scene.
The source said contrary to the speculation that the barracks was overrun and some soldiers killed, it was an ambush close to the facility.
The source said, “The commanding officer received a distress call on the activities of bandits around the Diko area, which is not far from the Zuma barracks. He deployed men but unfortunately, they were ambushed and seven soldiers died in that ambush. There was, however, no attack on the barracks as speculated. The incident happened between 4am and 5am on Wednesday.”
Efforts to get the reaction of the Director, Media Operations, Nigerian Army, Major General Bernard Onyeuko, were not successful. Calls to his line were not answered and he had yet to respond to a message sent to him on the matter as of the time of filing this report.
In a related development, the Air Component of the Operation Thunder Strike bombed some terrorist hideouts around 2pm on Wednesday. The number of terrorists killed in the operation could, however, not be ascertained.
A situation report obtained by The PUNCH read, “Upon receiving credible information that at about 2pm on March 30, 2022, about 70 terrorists on 40 motorcycles and some on foot were sighted moving towards the Akilibu-Sarkin Pawa Road, near Mangoro village, the air component of Operation Thunder Strike swiftly scrambled an aircraft to intercept and neutralise the terrorists.
“The terrorists were subsequently engaged in different waves with rockets, while those fleeing were mopped up with canons decisively.”
It is unclear if the terrorists were part of those who attacked and killed eight passengers on board the Kaduna-bound train on Monday.
Reps threaten shutdown of N’Assembly
Meanwhile, some members of the House of Representatives have proposed that the National Assembly be shut down to force the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to wake up to his responsibility of ensuring the protection of life and property.
This is just as a lawmaker called for the resignation or sacking of the National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd.), saying he should have been sacked along with the last set of service chiefs.
The House cut short its plenary on Thursday following an extended debate on the growing insecurity in the country, during which emotions ran high in the chamber.
Items on the Order Paper for the day, which contains the agenda for each plenary, were stepped down after the lawmakers, mostly members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, spent over one hour to criticise the Buhari regime and the security agencies.
A member of the House, Shehu Balarabe, had moved a motion of urgent public importance on the killings in Kaduna.
The Majority Leader, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, noted that he would use his “emotion-laden voice” to speak in his capacity as leader of the House and the “ambassador of the government on this floor.”
Ado-Doguwa said, “You can see how this chamber is thrown into disquiet and in an emotionally-disturbed manner. When you have a government in place, the major responsibility of that government, especially a democratic one, which was elected by the people, is to ensure safety of lives and properties of innocent citizens.
“When things like this continue on a daily basis, those of us who are representatives of the government will become speechless. I have to repeat: we become speechless in the discharge of our duties here to defend actions of the government.
“This is an elected government under a popular democracy but we continue, day in day out…killings, massacre, banditry and armed robbery left, right and centre. This is just a report of one local government area out of the 774 in the federation.”
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The Majority Leader asked why several parts of Kaduna State had been under attack despite the existence of several military and paramilitary institutions and bases in the state, “the highest number you can count in the northern part of the country.”
Ado-Doguwa pointed out that the National Assembly had always appropriated more funds for the security agencies, while relevant committees had been following up on the use of the funds in the implementation of the budget.
He recommended that Nigerians be allowed to arm themselves since the security agencies had failed.
“Let Nigerians organise themselves in the name of civil defence. Let them organise and arrange the defence of their own innocent souls. If the responsibility of the government and the security agencies cannot be carried out democratically, everyone has cause to defend themselves,” he added.
Also, Chike Okafor said the country had not fared better under Buhari since he took over power in 2015.
Okafor stated, “I want to align with the last speaker that we have to go beyond just speaking from this place and do something drastic; something more revolutionary. I think that if we wake up one day and say we are not opening the doors of this chamber until something drastic is done, Nigerians will not take us seriously.”
In his contribution, Nasir Ahmed noted that Buhari had replaced several service chiefs since 2015 and “only one person has not been changed and that is the National Security Adviser.What is the job of the National Security Adviser? Do we have a National Security Adviser?
“Are we saying that the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Navy, the Nigerian Air Force, the Nigeria Police and the DSS, with all the trainings that they have had; with all the international trainings that they have gone for and peacekeeping missions, that a ragtag army of 16, 17, 18-year-old boys ise more powerful than them?
“This madness has to stop. You travel by road, you are kidnapped. You go by train, you are kidnapped. Last week, an airport was attacked by bandits. You sit at home, you are kidnapped. You send your children to school, they are kidnapped. A few weeks ago, somebody was kidnapped in a hospital. You can be kidnapped right in this chamber.”
While the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase, who presided over the session, called for calm, the lawmaker noted that Monguno had been the NSA for seven years and wondered why he remained in office despite the removal of the last set of service chiefs.
“The only thing that I will say is that if service chiefs could be changed at will, I see no reason why the person that they report to and that is supposed to oversee them…I see no reason why he cannot be replaced. Nobody is indispensable,” Ahmed stated.
A member from Borno State, Haruna Mshelia, disclosed that Boko Haram was still unleashing terror on the state and called for drastic action by the government.
“In fact, there is a local government (area) called Guzamala in Borno State; up till now, there is not a single soul living there. And in my constituency, which is in the southern part, recently, three communities were attacked. This problem is all over Nigeria but let us not forget the initial epicentre of insurgency, which is the North-East,” Mshelia said.
Another member from Borno, Ahmed Jaha, decried that he had been a lone voice on the security crisis in the North-East and recalled that the Nigerian Army got N420bn in the 2020 budget, with only N16bn for capital expenditure, and another N100bn allocated to it for Operation Lafiya Dole.
The lawmaker said in 2021, N460bn was budgeted for the Army, with only N29bn going to capital projects. He added that the Army had a budget of N571bn for 2022, while capital expenditure was N37bn.
The lawmaker also stated that the office of the NSA should not be occupied by someone with a rank lower than a General, noting that a Major General would find it hard to issue orders to a Lieutenant General.
Soldiers working with bandits, lawmaker alleges
Speaking separately on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, which was monitored by The PUNCH, a federal lawmaker, Yakubu Barde, who represents the Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, said the military was working with the terrorists.
Barde, whose constituency has been the epicentre of the attacks in recent days, said, “There are incidences where particular intelligent reports are given to the military and the next moment, the bandits get the information.
“So, the confidence in the military by the locals will be eroded. Most times, anyone in the village that takes a report to the military, the next moment, the bandits or the terrorists will hear about it and they will know who made the report and the family is dealt with or wiped out. We have incidents like that. Until we remove the moles among the military, the confidence of the locals in the military will continue to be eroded.”
El-Rufai to meet Buhari
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, on Thursday, reiterated his earlier call for the massive bombardment of terrorists’ hideouts in forests in the state even as he revealed his plan to meet with the President.
El-Rufai noted that terrorists deserved not to live, saying it was time for the Nigerian Air Force to bomb terrorists out of existence.
According to the governor, that’s the only way to end the current disturbing insecurity across the North-West and the entire country.
He stated this at a stakeholders’ meeting at the Giwa Local Government Area of the state, where terrorists killed over 50 in nine villages last Friday.
The governor said, “We have been pressing for the past two years for the military from the air and the ground to bomb these forests, while soldiers on the ground kill all those that escape the bombs. I do not believe that there is any innocent person in the forest.
“It is my intention to see Mr President to reiterate this and to also ask that a military theatre command headquarters be established for the North-West geo-political zone.”
“With the declaration by the Federal High Court that these bandits are terrorists, there is a need for security agencies to take extreme actions to terminate these bandits.”
El-Rufai, Amaechi exposing APC – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday, said a “public confession” by El-Rufai authenticated its position that the All Progressives Congress government knew the whereabouts and plans of the terrorists, but failed to act.
The main opposition party also alleged that Amaechi said his request to install security surveillance equipment to avert terrorist attacks on the Kaduna-Abuja rail was not honoured by the Federal Government.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP quoted the Kaduna State governor as saying, “We know where their camps are; we know where they are; the SSS has their phone numbers; they listen to them and they give me reports…”
In the statement titled, ‘Terrorism: El-Rufai, Amaechi’s confessions confirm complicity by APC govt’, the PDP accused the Buhari regime of “refusing to act despite having full intelligence on the whereabouts, as well as the plans of the terrorists, confirms grave complicity and conspiracy.”
“It is clear that the APC is complicit in the many acts of terrorism in our country. Nigerians should therefore be united in ensuring that the APC is voted out of power in 2023 so that our nation can breathe a new lease of life,” it added.
However, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, lambasted the PDP for politicising the security situation.
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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.”
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Ukrainian women escaped to give birth in a country free of war. They want their children to know why Putin forced them to flee
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By Kyung Lah and Sarah Boxer, CNN
Khrystyna Pavluchenko strokes the tiny hand of her newborn, Adelina. She had anticipated the profound joy of becoming a mother for the first time — but not the guilt.
“(That’s) because I left,” Pavluchenko says, choking on tears, as her hours-old child sleeps in the crib next to her hospital bed in the Polish capital, Warsaw.
“I didn’t want to leave. I had to.”
On February 24, when the Russian invasion began, Pavluchenko, then eight months pregnant, was jostled awake at 6 a.m. Air raid sirens blared through her hometown of Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in western Ukraine. The first Russian missiles were on the way.
Pavluchenko recounts the manic push to escape over the next 72 hours. Her husband, medically ineligible to serve in the Ukrainian military, was already in Poland.
She was desperate to stay behind with her parents, grandparents and extended family.
But they all insisted, “Go to Poland.”
So, reluctantly, she began to plan her dangerous escape from Ukraine.
“Missiles are flying. Where they might hit next, no one knows,” she recalls.
Pavluchenko raced to pack with that in mind. Anything she could imagine she needed for her unborn child had to fit in a bag that she could wheel across the border on foot, once her bus reached the border.
“I was afraid of delivering prematurely,” she says, as she remembers entering Poland.
That was the same fear Polish customs officers had when they saw her. They quickly called an ambulance.
She was whisked to a nearby hospital and eventually to Inflancka Specialist Hospital in Warsaw, where psychiatrist Magda Dutsch is treating Ukrainian women.
“It’s unimaginable,” says Dutsch. “They’re often evacuating. They’re talking about shelling and about bombardment, about hours, sometimes days, that they spend in a bunker. They’re talking about the escape and how difficult it was to get to the border and out of the warzone. For someone who hasn’t seen the war, I don’t think it’s possible to imagine such pain and such stress.”
At least 197 Ukrainian children have been born in Polish hospitals since the war began, according to Poland’s Ministry of Health. When she fled, Pavluchenko had no idea that so many other Ukrainian women were in a similar situation.
To her, she felt utterly alone.
A ‘second war’
In another section of the hospital sits Tatiana Mikhailuk, 58, is who is also one of Dutsch’s patients.
From her hospital bed, Mikhailuk tells the harrowing story of her escape from a town outside the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. As a missile flew overhead, Mikhailuk fled her home with her granddaughter in her arms.
Explosions had already blown out all the windows of her apartment building. As she and her husband drove with their grandchildren out of Bucha, an hour north of Kyiv, something exploded on the left side of the road.
“We were crying and praying the whole time,” says Mikhailuk.
They made it out just in time.
Two days later, Russian missiles would destroy the bridges into their suburb.
Mikhailuk had survived the attack at home. But once she crossed the Polish border, she began hemorrhaging blood.
Doctors at Inflancka Specialist Hospital diagnosed her with cervical cancer and performed emergency surgery.
“This is like a second war for me,” says Mikhailuk. “They (the hospital) did everything they could to save me. I’m very grateful to them, to all of Poland. I will never forget their kindness and what they’re doing for Ukrainians.”
She adds, “I’m grateful to Dr. Khrystyna,” another Ukrainian refugee, who is sitting in the corner of the room while we speak with her.
Khrystyna isn’t sure how to describe what title we should use to refer to her.
At home in Lviv, Ukraine, she is a licensed gynecologist. But in Poland, her official title is “secretary.”
“I’m helping,” Khrystyna, who asked CNN to not reveal her last name. explains.
On February 24, Khrystyna’s husband sent her a text message saying, “Pack your stuff and leave. The war began.”
Like so many other Ukrainian women at the hospital, she ran, taking her young son with her.
When she arrived in Warsaw, a Polish woman took them in, becoming their host in a foreign city. Her host drove her son to a new kindergarten where he began his adjustment to living in Poland.
Khrystyna says she collapsed, consumed with grief and panic.
She realized sitting in an unfamiliar home would be bad for her mental health, so she considered volunteering at the train station, where she could cook for incoming refugees.
“When I pulled myself together, I remembered I’m a doctor. So, I came here (to the hospital) to use this opportunity to help women who fled,” she said.
“Women are lost. Women are stressed. They’re crying,” says Khrystyna, explaining how many Ukrainian women arrive.
“When I approach them and start talking in Ukrainian, that calms them down. I tell them there’s help here. And they calm down a little bit. They can turn to me if they don’t understand anything.”
Mixed emotions
Inflancka Hospital, which specializes in obstetrics and gynecology, has opened its doors to all Ukrainian women. Eighty patients have been treated since the war began and 11 Ukrainian babies have been born there.
The hospital says the refugees do not pay for any medical services. After leaving, post-partem care is also free, covered by clinics in Poland. The hospital tells CNN all patients maintain contact after leaving the hospital and if the women struggle with housing, the Warsaw Family Support Center, a local welfare organization, provides housing.
Khrystyna is grateful for Warsaw’s generosity, but filled with rage at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attacks on the women and children of her country.
“He consciously and purposely bombards children who are not guilty of anything. Children are innocent. But he’s doing it anyway and doing it consciously.”
What helps Khrystyna, and all the doctors at Inflancka Hospital, is the arrival of the littlest survivors of war like Adelina.
These new lives offer a glimmer of hope for the future, they say.
But it’s more complicated for Pavluchenko, who is struggling with all the emotions of new motherhood and the realities of life as a refugee.
It is hard to be happy, she says, delivering a child in a foreign place.
She hopes to one day show her daughter the beautiful and peaceful Ukraine as she remembers.
But she’s uncertain where Adelina will grow up, if she will know her extended family, or even what primary language she will speak.
One thing is for certain: Adelina will know the full journey of how — and where — she came into the world.
“We will tell her everything as it was. She should know the truth.”
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Fourth round of Evaluations focus on top ransomware and wiper malware groups, including Russian cyber military unit
WALTHAM, Mass., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Uptycs, provider of the first cloud-native security analytics platform enabling cloud and endpoint security from a common solution, today announced the results of its completed MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluation, Round 4. This round of independent ATT&CK Evaluations for enterprise cybersecurity solutions emulated the Wizard Spider and Sandworm threat groups. Wizard Spider is responsible for the infamous Ryuk ransomware family, and Sandworm is a Russian cyber military unit behind the 2017 NotPetya attacks.
"Ransomware is a growing scourge for all types of organizations and the focus of these MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations could not come at a more appropriate time," said Ganesh Pai, Co-founder and CEO at Uptycs. "Security teams can use these evaluation results to identify gaps in their detection coverage. Our strong performance in both the Windows and Linux portions of the evaluation demonstrate how Uptycs helps these Security teams to detect even advanced ransomware actors, in addition to the hardening needed to minimize the risk of ransomware in the first place."
The MITRE Engenuity evaluations team chose to emulate two threat groups that abuse the Data Encrypted For Impact (T1486) technique. In Wizard Spider's case, they have leveraged data encryption for ransomware, including the widely known Ryuk malware (S0446). Sandworm, on the other hand, leveraged encryption for the destruction of data, perhaps most notably with their NotPetya malware (S0368) that disguised itself as ransomware. While the common thread to this year's evaluations is "Data Encrypted for Impact," both groups have substantial reporting on a broad range of post-exploitation tradecraft.
New advanced detection capabilities helped Uptycs perform strongly in the Wizard Spider and Sandworm evaluation, including:
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
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This Day in History — March 31
Thursday, March 31, 2022Today is the 90th day of 2021. There are 275 days left in the year.
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT
1995: Tejano singing star Selena, 23, is shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by founder of her fan club. Yolanda Saldivar is later convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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OTHER EVENTS
1492: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issue an edict expelling Jews unwilling to convert to Christianity.
1496: Pope Alexander VI forms Holy League with Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Venice and Milan, ostensibly to fight Turks, but aimed at expelling Charles VIII of France from Italy.
1854: US Commodore Perry signs the treaty of Kanagawa with Japan, opening two Japanese ports to trade with outside world.
1889: French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurls the French tricolour from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.
1917: United States takes possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1923: First US dance marathon, held in New York City, ends with Alma Cummings setting a world record of 27 hours on her feet.
1936: Britain and France pledge to support Poland if it is invaded.
1943: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma opens on Broadway in New York City.
1966: Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's Nationalist Party wins election in South Africa.
1968: US President Lyndon Johnson stuns Americans by announcing he would not seek re-election.
1976: New Jersey Supreme Court rules that coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan could be disconnected from her respirator. Quinlan remained comatose and died in 1985.
1990: Thousands riot against new “poll tax” in central London, leaving 75 civilians and 58 police injured.
1991: Communists win in Albania's first multi-party elections, but the democratic Opposition scores victories in all major cities.
1992: UN Security Council votes to ban flights and arms sales to Libya, branding it a terrorist state for shielding six men accused of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and a French airliner over Niger.
1993: UN Security Council increases international pressure on Bosnian Serbs by authorising North Atlantic Treaty Organization warplanes to shoot down aircraft that violate a ban on flights over Bosnia.
1994: South African President F W de Klerk declares a state of emergency and orders army into the Zulu stronghold of Natal.
1995: A Romanian passenger jet crashes near Bucharest shortly after departing for Brussels, killing all 58 people on board
1997: Zairian rebels order 20,000 Rwandan refugees camped on the outskirts of Kisangani to move south, and relief workers begin the arduous transfer.
1998: UN Security Council imposes an arms embargo on Yugoslavia to press the Government to grant concessions to ethnic Albanians in troubled Kosovo province.
2000: Japan's Mount Usu volcano erupts forcing 16,000 people to evacuate the country's northernmost island.
2001: Four gay couples exchange rings and vows, the first of hundreds planning to wed under a new Dutch law allowing same-sex marriages.
2007: A US military tribunal sentences Australian David Hicks to nine months in prison after he pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism — in the first conviction at a US war-crimes trial since World War II.
2008: Chinese President Hu Jintao presides over the re-lighting of the Olympic torch in the host city, Beijing, signalling the start of an around-the-world torch relay that already has become a magnet for protesters.
2009: Benjamin Netanyahu, taking office as Israel's new leader, promises to seek “full peace” with the Arab and Muslim world, but refuses to utter the words the world was waiting to hear — “Palestinian state”.
2011: Italy ships more than 2,000 migrants to detention camps on its mainland, relieving pressure on a tiny island off Sicily which has been overwhelmed by a relentless stream of boats full of illegal arrivals from North African shores.
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TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
Rene Descartes, French philosopher (1596-1650); Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (1732-1809); Nicolai Gogol, Russian author (1809-1852); R W von Bunsen, German chemist (1811-1899); Shirley Jones, US actress (1934- ); Christopher Walken, US actor (1943- ); Ewan McGregor, British actor (1971- )
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English sits out Masters while recovering from hip surgery
Harris English has decided not to play in the Masters next week as he recovers from surgery to repair a torn labrum.
English was a two-time winner on the PGA Tour last year and finished third in the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. He has not played since the Sony Open in Honolulu the second week of the year.
“I’m progressing very well from recent hip surgery, but have to exercise caution as I return to play,” English said on Twitter.
There are no alternates at the Masters, an invitation tournament. That puts the field at 90 players, with one spot available if the Texas Open winner this week is not eligible.
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A leaked memo obtained by The PUNCH on Thursday revealed why a proposal for security equipment along the Abuja-Kaduna rail track, which was presented to the Federal Executive Council by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, was rejected.
Recall that Amaechi had while fielding questions from journalists after the train bombing that left at least eight persons dead, said he had predicted the attack and presented a memo to FEC for the procurement of security equipment, but it was rejected.
According to the minutes of the FEC meeting of September 24, 2021, marked EC (2021)236, which was presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, while the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was attending the United Nations General Assembly, Amaechi recommended that a firm, Mogjan Nigeria Limited, be given the contract worth N3.7bn.
The firm, which was incorporated on August 6, 2019, by Prince Godwin Momoh, Chioma Momoh and George Momoh, had a turnover of N84.9m.
“We had doubts about the capability of a company, which was formed less than two years prior and had no track record of handling a contract of N3.7bn or a contract on surveillance systems. The company was also to be paid upfront. Our investigation pointed to a conflict of interest,” said a top Presidency official.
According to the memo sighted by The PUNCH, Amaechi in his presentation stated that the Bureau of Public Procurement had reviewed the process of procurement and had given a certificate of no objection for the contract, adding that the project would be funded from the N71.4bn budget of the ministry.
The minister subsequently asked the council to “approve the award of contract for the procurement and installation of electronic surveillance system and interrogation unit on the Abuja (Idu)-Kaduna (Rigasa) 200km railway monitoring rail intrusion detection system and emergency response system in favour of Messrs Mogjan Nigeria Limited/Cagewox Dot Net Limited in the sum of N3,780,827,410.66 inclusive of 7.5 per cent VAT with a completion period of four months.”
However, ministers in the council questioned the capacity of the firm to deliver as well as the failure of Amaechi to provide proper detail on the capabilities of the equipment.
There was also a scanty record of the company’s past projects, which could prove that it was capable of executing such a project as a report by the Federal Ministry of Transportation sighted by The PUNCH showed that the firm had no evidence of carrying out such a project in the past.
The minutes of the meeting read in part, “Some members expressed concern about the quality of the memorandum as there was no description of the surveillance system concept note, brand name, country of manufacture or review by the previous user to enable them to make informed decisions.
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“They stated that as sophisticated as the surveillance system was touted to be, there were no indications that it had been demonstrated and tested by the security technology agencies. They equally observed that all the projects were lumped together under one budget line, which they noted was not good enough as each rail line project was supposed to be captured in its individual budget line.”
According to the minutes of the FEC meeting, the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, asked if the equipment would be installed across all rail lines in the country and if there would be a provision for training to enable staff members to acquire knowledge and build capacity on the use of the surveillance system.
Osinbajo pointed out that the solution system was “described in a generic term and whether it had a brand name, adding that the system, being a rail equipment monitoring solution, ought to have a brand name and a comprehensive description of its functions.”
The Vice-President also needed a description of how the system would work.
Amaechi responded by saying that it was just a pilot programme and if it worked, it would be replicated across the country. He said the system would work in such a way that if the rail was tampered with, it would send signals to an observation platform.
“In his remarks, the Vice-President directed that in view of the observation raised by members, there was a need for the ministry to provide further description of the equipment, its brand name, manufacturer and how it worked,” the memo read.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — About $7 million worth of surplus personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies purchased by a Northern California county was left outside during a rainstorm because no one anticipated wet weather to start so early in the season, according to an investigation released Thursday.
After a KGO-TV news report showed hundreds of drenched cardboard boxes, San Mateo County officials acknowledged the supplies were moved outside an event center last September to make room for a conference.
There was no definitive timeline for how the supplies would be distributed “even though the Fall rainy season was not far off,” the probe by James Lianides said. County officials said they hired the retired school superintendent to conduct the inquiry because of his experience dealing with large organizations and purchasing practices.
Lianides said the boxes of non-medical-grade gowns, face shields and goggles as well as cleaning supplies were also moved out of the event center to avoid the $100,000-per-month storage fee.
“It does not appear that there were any discussions or actions taken in the process of (moving) to protect the equipment in the event of inclement weather, such as wrapping or covering each pallet,” he wrote.
The county's executive officer, Mike Callagy, has said the county purchased the items early in the pandemic when PPE was becoming scarce nationwide so that local first responders and medical providers would have what they needed. The demand for the equipment decreased as the pandemic continued.
The county’s supply of gloves and masks — including N95 and KN95 respirators — are stored indoors.
“What’s clear is that that this shouldn’t have happened. What is equally clear is we are taking the steps necessary to make sure that we put the checks and balances in place so this never happens again,” Callagy said in a statement Thursday.
An inspection of the damaged boxes determined that most of the safety equipment remains usable because they were packed in sealed plastic wrapping, the probe found. Equipment that could not be salvaged were worth about $128,000, according to Lianides. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Report-Rain-not-anticipated-when-7M-in-PPE-17049873.php | 2022-04-01T01:53:07Z |
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Suggested Use :
You know your dog best! Observe before and after administration to determine optimal dose. Recommended starting dose is 1-3mg per every 10lbs of body weight.
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Supportive Formula:
Separation anxiety
Aggressive behavior
Epilepsy
Inflammation
Arthritis
Pain/Aging
Skin and GI tract issues
The Dope Dropper is formulated with Multi Chain Triglyceride (MCT) oil from organic coconuts. Dope Dog uses organic, industrial hemp grown in Colorado. Extracted by hydrocarbon method and purified by chromatography, making it top food grade. Guaranteed to be free of heavy metals, pesticides and herbicides. Every batch is 3rd-party lab tested to guarantee purity and safety.
Benefits of the Dope Dog Dropper:
Quick release
Easy to administer
100% dosage control
Made with digestive-friendly MCT coconut oil
Non-psychoactive and safe for pets
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Suggested Use :
You know your dog best! Observe before and after administration to determine optimal dose. Recommended starting dose is 1-3mg per every 10lbs of body weight.
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Runners, walkers make strides for Menendez Scholarship Fund
After a one-year hiatus, the Bobby Menendez Miler 5K Run/Walk returned for the 17th year on Saturday, March 26.
Nearly 70 runners and walkers turned out for the 3.1-mile run/walk that started and finished at Higgs Beach.
Coming in first overall was Anthony Pallaria from Islamorada, who finished with a time of 18:05. Key West High School multisport athlete Colbin Hill clocked a 18:27 for second overall and Nicholas Amato, from Suttons Bay, Michigan, finished third with a 18:29.
Top female runners were Kristin Protheroe from Boulder, Colorado who clocked a 21:48; No. 2 female runner was Kara Rasch of Marathon with a time of 23:23 and third female runner went to Key Wester Anastasia Vavra with a 26:24.
Edward Clark of Key West was the No. 1 male master’s runner and the top female master’s runner was Jennifer Menendez of Parkland, Florida at 27:44.
In the walking division, Sandy Dillner of Mars, Pennsylvania was first at 40:09 and Adam Ross from East Falmouth, Massachusettd clocked a 40:32.
Proceeds from the race go to the Bobby Menendez Scholarship Fund.
The annual event was managed by the Sunset Rotary Club, and course and timing was set up by Southernmost Runners Club.
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The woke Left is waging war on cheap energy: CA gubernatorial candidate
He says we need leadership to solve the energy crisis
The Left's restrictions on oil and gas production in the United States damage the country from an economic, environmental and national security standpoint, California gubernatorial candidate and environmental expert Michael Shellenberger told Fox News on Thursday.
"The fact of the matter is, abundant energy makes us wealthy, it makes us free," the best-selling author of "Apocalypse Never," who is running as an Independent, said on "Jesse Watters Primetime."
"It makes us prosperous, and it's also good for the natural environment. We need leadership to expand oil and gas production in the United States not just for economic reasons at home, but also for environmental, and now we can see for national security reasons because Europe became so dependent on Russian oil and gas."
THE LEFT'S POLICIES DESTROYED ENERGY INDEPENDENCE ACHIEVED UNDER TRUMP
Because of the Left's resistance to energy independence, "ordinary people are suffering both in terms of gasoline, natural gas … to heat and for cooking in their homes, and also for electricity," Shellenberger said.
The Left's environmental policies are misguided, he said, noting that the United States has been able to reduce carbon emissions by 22 percent since 2005 by switching from coal to natural gas.
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"They are just proposing to increase taxes and then give us and buy us off with some coupons, some rebates, opening up the strategic petroleum reserve," he added. "The problem is that the radical woke Left has been waging war on cheap and abundant energy. We need those pipelines. We need those liquefied natural gas terminals that we can send our abundant natural gas to Asia and Europe." | https://www.foxnews.com/media/left-war-cheap-energy-shellenberger | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
April Fools' Day 2022: Jokes, quotes, wishes, WhatsApp Messages and Facebook posts
On April Fools' Day, people send one other hilarious jokes and greetings and harmless pranks. If you want to wish your loved ones, here are some wishes, messages and more for you to use.
As much as people are delighted to celebrate each event, April 1 gives everyone a lot of happiness and excitement since it is a day to share laughter and joy. April 1 is observed as April Fools' Day, and it has become an annual tradition to perpetrate pranks, jokes, and hoaxes on friends, coworkers, and loved ones.
While there is no specific tale behind the genesis of this day, it is supposed to date back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. It is also a two-day festival in other regions. Although there is no public holiday on April 1st, people celebrate it with zeal.
On April Fools' Day, people send one other hilarious jokes and greetings and harmless pranks. If you want to wish your loved ones, here are some wishes, messages and more for you to use.
April Fool’s Day quotes
Don’t be afraid to be fooled today – it’s not a fool’s day yet, it’s only March 32!~Unknown
Yet still when the famed first of April returns… I dread the approach.~Matthew Gregory Lewis
“I'm not a fan of April Fools' Day. I can take a joke; I just don't want to BE the joke.”― Stewart Stafford
“April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously.”― Criss Jami, Healology
“Reader, if you wrest my words beyond their fair construction, it is you, and not I, that are the April Fool.”― Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
April Fool
The compliments of the season to my worthy masters, and a merry first of April to us all.~Charles Lamb
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.~Charles Lamb
Today is April Fool’s Day. Believe nothing and trust no one… just like any other day.~Unknown
April Fools Day Prank 2022
Dearest dad, you may not know but you are truly lucky to have me and I am not saying this because it is April Fool’s Day today.”
On the occasion of April Fool’s Day, I wish that you never run out of jokes and you always enjoy laughter and smiles. Wishing a very Happy April Fool’s Day to you.”
There is only one reason why you are not able to finish your work and that’s because you never do it. Happy April Fool’s Day to my coworkers.”
“Having online studies is the most amazing way of studying as you never know how much have really studied. Happy April Fool’s Day.”
“When you study online then you are actually witnessing the combination of your worst and best hobbies. Wishing a very Happy April Fool’s Day 2022 to you.”
Messages, WhatsApp wishes, and Facebook Status
Somethings made for each other like bread and butter, fork and knife, paper and pen and you and stupidity….. Happy Fool’s Day to the best foolish friend!!!”
“Scientists have finally been able to spot the difference between a man and a monkey….. Man sends messages and monkey reads messages….. Have a wonderfool Fool’s Day.”
Just wanted to remind you that today is your day and you are making it a perfect one just by being you. Happy April Fool’s Day 2022.”
“If anyone thinks that you are smart then just smile at him and wish him a Happy April Fool’s Day and he would know it all.”
“The best trick for a person like you is to stay mum and let others think if you are a fool than to break the silence and making it evident. Happy April Fool’s Day.”
“Wishing a very Happy April Fool’s Day to you my dear. There is no way we can change the fact, you are a fool and you will remain one.”
“A fool is always a fool and therefore, the date doesn’t matter….. But still I want to wish you on April 1st a very Happy Fool’s Day!!!”
“If people call you crazy then don’t believe them….. If people call you stupid then believe them because they are saying it all right….. A Happy Fool’s Day to you.”
There is a virus that just entered your brains but he died because he failed to find any brains inside your head…. Happy April Fool’s Day dear.”
Keep pranking, keep laughing, happy April Fool’s day! | https://newsable.asianetnews.com/gallery/lifestyle/april-fools-day-2022-jokes-quotes-wishes-whatsapp-messages-and-facebook-posts-rba-r9lxil | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
A. Makovsky Testifies Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee
WRITTEN TESTIMONY BY ALAN O. MAKOVSKY
SENIOR FELLOW, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON EUROPE, ENERGY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND CYBER AND SUBCOMMITTEE MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA AND GLOBAL COUNTERTERRORISM
HEARING ON “OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: EXAMINING U.S. INTERESTS AND REGIONAL COOPERATION”
MARCH 31, 2022
Chairman Keating, Chairman Deutch, Ranking Member Fitzpatrick, Ranking Member Wilson, and Honorable Members of the Subcommittees. Thank you for inviting me to testify at this important hearing.
The Eastern Mediterranean is a term that has emerged in common usage only in the last decade or so. It became an important concept as issues in Europe and the Middle East began to merge. Three developments were primary in this regard: 1) major natural gas finds off-shore in Israel, Egypt, and Cyprus in the years 2009, 2011, and 2015, respectively; 2) Russia’s 2015 intervention in Syria, which marked the first post-Soviet return of Russia to the Middle East and gave it a base for injecting proxies into Libya and sub-Saharan Africa; and 3) Turkey’s emergence as an aggressive, interventionist power in the Arab Middle East, as well as the Aegean and Mediterranean, with expansive claims to a coastal shelf extending far to its south and west while refusing to accord any meaningful EEZ to Cyprus and none whatsoever to the Greek islands. Particularly in recent years, these developments have been playing out against the backdrop of a real and regionally perceived drawdown of US forces in the region.
These developments have led to intensified conflict in the region but also some instances of unprecedented cross-regional cooperation and the prospect of opportunities to advance US interests. For example, Hellenic states Greece and Cyprus have taken the initiative to form separate trilateral groupings with Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and India. These “trilaterals” form the potential core of far wider trans-regional, cooperative ventures. Another significant cross-regional grouping is the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF), chaired and initiated by Egypt, whose Zohr gas field is the Eastern Med’s largest. Mostly a talk-shop so far, the EMGF is envisioned to enhance regional cooperation in energy development. Perhaps its most interesting aspect is its membership: 3 EU states (Greece, Cyprus, Italy), 2 Arab states (Egypt and Jordan), Israel, and the Palestinian Authority. France and the US are observers.
Of the Hellenic-initiated trilateral groups, the one that has received the most attention is the one that includes Israel. It is also the most institutionalized of the groups, with frequent ministerials, a host of common economic projects, and a secretariat in Nicosia. Begun in 2016 and supplemented by the US when Secretary of State Pompeo joined its ministerial in 2019, it became known as the “3+1.” It was enshrined in The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which appropriated funds to the Economic Support Fund for “for joint dialogues in support of the Eastern Mediterranean Partnership,” defined by House Report 116-444 as “an annual joint dialogue in the United States with Israel, Greece, and Cyprus.” It was further formalized three months ago in the NDAA for FY22, calling for a “3+1 parliamentary group,” specifying that six parliamentarians from each of the four nations meet annually – a relatively rare type of gathering. I do note that the legislation says the US Congress will be represented by six “Senators.” I do hope the legislation will be amended at some point to allow for the participation of House Members as well.
The Biden Administration has endorsed the “3+1” concept, but has yet to hold a joint ministerial with the three. Based on conversations with their representatives, I believe “the three” are eager for that meeting to take place.
What makes the 3+1 particularly noteworthy and deserving of strong US support is that it groups the three most democratic states in the East Med. Moreover, this partnership has been endorsed by multiple ruling parties in each state, so it can truly be said to express a broad spectrum of the popular will and reflects a truly regional initiative. The Hellenic trilateral with Egypt, which began in 2014, largely mirrors that with Israel, if somewhat less developed.
Since 2014, Greece, Cyprus, and Israel have frequently participated in search-and-rescue exercises with the United States and others, albeit not under the umbrella of the trilateral or 3+1. Israel has also engaged in separate, bilateral exercises with Greece and Cyprus. For example, Greece is currently hosting the Iniochos 2022 aerial combat exercise with Austria, Canada, France, Italy, Slovenia, and the US, as well as Israel and Cyprus. Among the observers are four Middle Eastern states: Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia.
Greece has also reached out beyond the East Med to the Gulf, last year hosting a Saudi air force exercise on Crete as well as a diplomatic gathering it dubbed the Philia Forum, encompassing Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, as well as Egypt and Cyprus.
On the operation side, Athens also last year loaned Saudi Arabia a Patriot battery, along with a deployment of about 130 troops to operate it, incurring Iran’s ire. In 2020, Athens and Abu Dhabi signed a military cooperation agreement with “Article 5”-type overtones. In August of that year, during a period Greek-Turkish tensions, the UAE deployed four F-16s to Crete.
On the southern side of the East Med, everyone is familiar with Israel’s growing relations with Gulf states Bahrain and UAE. This was dramatized the other day when Egyptian President Sisi, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, and Israeli Prime Minister Bennett met in Sharm al-Shaykh.
There are other examples of this cross-regional cooperation, and virtually all of it done at regional initiative, without US importuning. (The Abraham Accords may be a partial exception in that regard, although the parties did have longstanding unofficial ties before the US offered the final sweeteners.) In many cases, these initiatives were sparked by concern that the US was departing the region.
The key message in all of this is that the old regional borders are less rigid. The map is changing, and the US, without excessive investment, can shape it.
Russia’s war: Implications
There is no doubt that the Russian war on Ukraine potentially scrambles the situation in the East Med. First, getting East Med gas to Europe is now more relevant than ever. Increased gas prices may also make its extraction more feasible, provided potential investors are convinced high prices will last for a while.
The war also sharpens the rivalry between Russia and the West in a manner still to play out. Russia could emerge a more difficult neighbor for the US, Turkey, and/or Israel in the Syrian arena, for example. A weakened Russia, however, may draw down its involvement in Syria as well as in Libya.
The war between two Black Sea states is certainly a reminder of Turkey’s importance, but, at least heretofore, it doesn’t alter the dynamics of Turkey’s balancing act between NATO and the West, on one hand, and Russia, on the other. In fact, it may reinforce Turkey’s ambivalence. Broadly, Turkey has applied the same template to this crisis that it applied to Russian regional aggressions in 2008 and 2014 – siding with the West rhetorically while refusing to apply sanctions on Russia. In this case, there are some additional wrinkles to its approach: selling armed drones to Ukraine, keeping its airspace open to Russian aircraft, and de facto closing the Straits to both “riparian” (i.e., Russian) and “non-riparian” (i.e., NATO) military vessels, all the while putting itself forward as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine. Taken together, Turkey appears still to be trying to balance its relations between Russia, with which it now has considerable equities at stake, and the West. For the US, it’s worth exploring whether developments in the war will lead Turkey at least to tilt decisively toward the West, but so far there is no definitive sign of it.
Recommendations
- Intensify US diplomatic involvement across the board with friendly states and friendly clusters of states – and try to merge these clusters to the extent possible. This includes the various Hellenic trilaterals, the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum, and the various partnerships between Eastern Med and Gulf states. What many of these states yearn for is a stepped-up US military presence in the East Med, but they also crave diplomatic leadership. Direct involvement with these clusters will reinforce the US’ ability to shape the strategic outlook and key strategic decisions taken by members of the clusters. Decisions such as those that led to Chinese involvement with Piraeus and Haifa ports would be far less likely were the US intimately involved with these cross-regional sub-groups. In short, create “plus-one’s” wherever possible.
As noted, some of these clusters emerged based on a common perception that the US is downsizing in the region. In that sense, they are organic, which is positive. That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t welcome US guidance and leadership, however.
Another advantage is that overlap among these clusters create possibilities for merging activities. It’s no secret that the cold but crucial peace between Israel and Egypt has warmed just a bit in recent years, thanks to energy deals, the Abraham Accords, and other factors. US involvement as a “plus-one” in the trilaterals that Greece and Cyprus have formed separately with Israel and Egypt enhance the possibility of greater Israeli-Egyptian normalization. We saw an indication of this the other day, when the Egyptian foreign minister joined the Abraham Accords foreign ministers in Sde Boker, Israel. Without the presence of Secretary of State Blinken, I believe this would not have been possible. More open Israeli-Egyptian cooperation is an important US interest, because it reinforces the 43-year-old Israeli-Egyptian peace, which is the foundation stone of what stability exists in the Eastern Mediterranean. Moreover, it increases the prospect of overt security-related activities involving Egypt and Israel.
Given the cross-regional nature of many of these clusters, the US should consider appointing a Special Representative for the Eastern Mediterranean, or at least consider how to fill in the seam between the Near Eastern Affairs and the European Affairs Bureaus, where many of these issues reside.
- It is highly desirable for Turkey to be firmly in the Western camp, and the US should continue to give thought as to how to effect that. However, given Turkish equivocation in recent years, the US should continue to hedge its bets in that regard by building and expanding military facilities in Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece. I visited Greece in November as part of the Middle East Task Force of the Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs, or JINSA. A number of retired senior US military leaders, including former SACEUR Philip Breedlove, were on that trip, and I think all of us were impressed with the eagerness of Greek military and elected officials for expanded military cooperation with the US. That’s a dramatic turnaround from Greek attitudes of less than twenty years ago. With the signing of Military Defense Cooperation Agreements in 2019 and 2021, both left-wing and center-right governments have affirmed this attitude. As the report of the JINSA Task Force points out, the eastern Mediterranean is a crossroads of three continents, and Greece is at the center of that crossroads. As such, it can be a power-projection platform for much of the region, a role that Turkey has become increasingly reluctant to play in this century. Also, thanks to new US-access facilities at Alexandroupoli port, and an anticipated expansion of the rail system, NATO would be able to bypass logjams – or, in the current case, closures – in the Straits and transport men and materiel overland to Bulgaria, Romania, and even Ukraine, faster than is possible through the Straits.
- The US should consider how it can support expansion of the LNG facilities at Damietta and Idku in Egypt and development of the planned re-gasification unit in Alexandroupoli, Greece. Natural gas discoveries in Israel, Cyprus, and Egypt brought to life the concept of the Eastern Med, and, from the beginning, there was hope that East Med gas could contribute to the weaning of Europe off Russian gas. There should be no illusions as to what the potential 10 bcm or so from the East Med can do to replace the more than 150 bcm that Europe annually imports from Russia, but every little bit helps. Politically, the LNG route – Egypt-to-Greece – seems to be the most immediately practical route and the one that can be activated most rapidly.
The proposed East Med Gas Pipeline (Israel-Cyprus-Greece-Italy) probably isn’t feasible due to expense and difficulty of engineering. The proposed Turkish-Israeli pipeline isn’t politically feasible, barring a solution to the Cyprus problem. That pipeline would traverse Cyprus’ EEZ. Israel has said it would do nothing in its resuscitated relations with Turkey that would undermine its ties with Greece or Cyprus; attempting to build a pipeline to Turkey across Cyprus’ EEZ certainly would have that effect.
- Re-double efforts to solve the Cyprus problem, including with the appointment of a Special Cyprus Coordinator, a post that existed as a distinct position from the late 1970s through the failure of the Annan Plan in 2004. There are more than a half-dozen hot conflicts and acute crises in the Eastern Med, not to mention transnational problems such as terrorism and migration. But the unsolved, trans-regional diplomatic problem that probably blocks the most avenues of East Med cooperation is Cyprus. Were the Cyprus problem solved, there might already have been a pipeline carrying Israeli and Cypriot gas to Turkey for onward piping to Europe. There would be no aggressive Turkish actions to block Cypriot exploration activities in its Economic Exclusion Zone. And a unified Cyprus might well be a member of NATO rather than a potential source of conflict between NATO members Greece and Turkey. It is obviously a difficult and complicated problem – made no easier by Turkey’s and the Turkish Cypriots’ current insistence on a “two-state” solution as well as the opening of Varosha – but it is important that the US continue to push for a solution. The problem has been frozen for decades, but the stakes are too high simply to allow the problem to fester. At some point, for its own sake, Turkey is going to have to accept the existence of the Republic of Cyprus, which is not only a member of the EU but which also has a growing network of regional and international ties.
- It’s time to return to Presidential-level dialogue with Turkey, at least regarding the Russian war on Ukraine. President Biden deserves significant credit for his handling of relations with Erdogan, which has contributed to a calming of Turkish behavior since he took office. An important element of this has been his relative “cold shoulder” to Turkey’s President, who became overly used to easy telephone access to the President of the United States during the past two administrations and, based on his bilateral conduct, inferred an inflated view of his, and Turkey’s, importance to the U.S. as a result. This message was certainly driven home – if it hadn’t been already – by Biden’s decision to spurn Erdogan’s widely reported interest in meeting with him on the margins of the NATO summit last week. However, given Turkey’s important relations with both Russia and Ukraine and its role as the leading facilitator of Russian-Ukraine talks – as well as Erdogan’s dominance of Turkish foreign policy and his penchant for taking things personally – occasional Presidential-level diplomacy would likely be useful. The war may present an opportunity to move Turkey to the NATO side of the fence. Elsewhere in this testimony, I expressed skepticism regarding this possibility, but wars sometimes change things, and this war isn’t over yet. It’s worth exploring at the Presidential level. | https://jinsa.org/makovsky-testifies-before-house-foreign-affairs-committee/ | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
People who suffered from even mild cases of COVID-19 face an increased risk of being diagnosed with diabetes within a year of recovering from the illness, a new study reports.
Researchers found that people who had COVID-19 were about 40% more likely to develop diabetes within a year after recovering, compared to participants in a control group. The likelihood of developing diabetes grew if the patient suffered from a serious infection that led to hospitalization or a stay in intensive care.
"What's surprising is that it is happening in people with no prior risk factors for diabetes" before becoming infected with COVID-19, said Ziyad Al-Aly, the lead author of the study.
These latest findings add to a growing list of studies showing that people who suffered from COVID-19 are at risk of facing other long-term health problems. Those include heart and kidney ailments and chronic fatigue.
Al-Aly also helped lead the study that showed the prevalence of cardiac issues in people who survived COVID-19 infections.
This newest study, published Monday in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, analyzed data from more than 180,000 patients from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The study's authors compared patients who tested positive for COVID-19 and survived the illness for more than a month with more than 4 million other people who didn't contract COVID in the same period. This data was also compared with another 4.28 million patients who were treated at the VA in 2018 and 2019.
The paper states that around 1% to 2% of people who have been infected with COVID will develop diabetes as a result. That may seem like a small number, but nearly 80 million people in the U.S. have had COVID, Al-Aly told NPR — meaning 800,000 to 1.6 million people developing diabetes who might not have otherwise.
"That translates to a really significant number of people with new onset diabetes in the U.S. and many, many more around the world," Al-Aly said.
Nationwide, approximately 34 million people had diabetes pre-COVID, according to Jorge Moreno, an internal medicine physician at Yale University who didn't work on Al-Aly's study. Doctors expect roughly 1.5 million new people to be newly diagnosed with diabetes each year during normal times, he told NPR.
What to look out for
This study shows that as a nation, more attention needs to be paid to the long-term effects of COVID-19, Al-Aly said. More vigilance can start at the doctor's office.
"We need to start treating COVID as a risk factor for diabetes," Al-Aly said, adding that each person who has come down with the virus needs to be screened.
Moreno told NPR he believes this study will create more awareness among general practitioners and endocrinologists, like himself, to screen patients who have had COVID for diabetes and other complications.
Those who've had COVID should also be closely monitoring their health and changes in their body, Moreno said, and should seek help at the first sign of an issue. Major symptoms for diabetes include increased thirst, frequent urination (which is not influenced by how much liquid consumed) and blurry vision. Major weight fluctuations are also a sign.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kalw.org/covid-updates/2022-03-31/covid-19-infection-increases-your-risk-for-diabetes-a-new-study-says | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
Chicago school district investigating after teacher hung stuffed Black doll on a string from a projector screen
By Caroll Alvarado and Rebekah Riess, CNN
An investigation is underway at Chicago Public Schools after a teacher hung a small stuffed Black football player doll on a string from a projector screen in their classroom, according to a letter sent to parents by the school’s principal and obtained by CNN.
The March 29 letter from Joyce D. Kenner, principal of Whitney Young Magnet High School, says the teacher “indicated” he had come across the doll in his room and “wanted the students to see if someone would claim it.” The letter went on to say that “a colleague approached the teacher about the doll and the conversation between the two became contentious.
“Our administrative team investigated the incident and spoke with the teachers,” Kenner’s letter said. “An official incident report has been created and filed with CPS.”
“Chicago Public Schools (CPS) strives to foster safe and secure learning environments for our students, families, and colleagues. Our schools and the District investigate and address all complaints and allegations of wrongdoing in accordance with District policies and procedures,” CPS said in a statement to CNN.
The district said the teacher who hung the doll is suspended while the investigation is ongoing. CPS has not identified the teacher.
According to Kenner’s letter, school administrators also met with a group of students Tuesday morning to discuss the incident.
“We gave students an opportunity to voice any concerns and recommendations they had. We plan to follow the disciplinary protocol established by Chicago Public Schools,” the letter said.
Kimberley Henderson, whose daughter is a sophomore and one of three Black students in the teacher’s US history class at Whitney Young, spoke to CNN.
“When I saw the picture, that’s when I went over the edge. That was unbelievable to me,” Henderson said, referencing an image of the stuffed doll circulating on the internet. “I don’t believe that he should be in front of any children, but I want to make sure that he’s not in front of mine.”
The Chicago Teachers Union said in a statement about the incident that “practices that mitigate the harm of racial biases must be ongoing, and consistent” in the city’s schools.
“Mayor (Lori) Lightfoot has a responsibility to provide a safe space for every member of our school communities, which is especially important in a district that serves a student population that is 90 percent Black and Brown children,” the statement read. “Any definition of ‘safety’ must include creating and reinforcing an environment of equity and inclusion for all students, staff and faculty of color.”
CNN reached out to the mayor’s office Thursday for response to the union statement.
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CNN’s Andy Rose and Chris Boyette contributed to this report. | https://ktvz.com/news/national-world/cnn-national/2022/03/31/chicago-school-district-investigating-after-teacher-hung-stuffed-black-doll-on-a-string-from-a-projector-screen/ | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
Aliyah Boston, Kim Mulkey Win Associated Press Women's Player, Coach of the Year
South Carolina star Aliyah Boston and LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey are adding more hardware to their collections as the two were named the 2022 Associated Press women’s Player of the Year and Coach of the Year respectively.
Boston, who was named the Naismith Player of the Year and Naismith Defensive Player of the Year on Wednesday, became the second player from the Gamecocks program to receive the AP award, joining former South Carolina star and 2020 WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson.
The forward was also named the recipient of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association 2022 Wade Trophy (the best upperclass women's basketball player in the country) on Thursday. She broke the SEC record for most consecutive double doubles with 27 in a row this season.
Boston averaged 16.8 points per game, the best of her three-year career so far. Previously, she averaged 12.5 points per game as a freshman and 13.7 points per game as a sophomore.
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Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley took home the WBCA's Pat Summit National Coach of the Year award.
Mulkey, the longtime coach at Baylor, completed her first season at LSU, rebuilding the Tigers’ program and leading it to 26 wins in the 2021 to ’22 season. Thursday marked the third time Mulkey has won the award, joining UConn’s Geno Auriemma and former Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw as the only other coaches to receive the award on at least three different occasions.
At one point, the Tigers rose to No. 6 in the AP poll and made an appearance in the second round of the NCAA tournament before losing to Ohio State. Mulkey leading the Tigers to 25-or-more wins was the first time the program eclipsed that feat since the 2007 to ’08 season.
As for Boston, the junior forward will look to lift the No. 1 Gamecocks (33–2) to a victory against No. 1 Louisville on Friday in the Final Four to move one step closer to earning the program’s second national title.
More CBB Coverage: | https://www.si.com/college/2022/04/01/aliyah-boston-kim-mulkey-win-associated-press-womens-player-coach-of-the-year | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
Life after Albion
There was a fair bit of clamour a few years ago when Kane Wilson surfaced in the West Brom starting XI. It was under the tenure of Tony Pulis when full-back Wilson, then just 16 years old and about to complete his GCSEs, featured quite regularly in pre-season.
Playing friendly matches prior to the real stuff is one thing, but Wilson - even at that especially tender age - retained his place in the squad as Albion’s Premier League season began. He proved he could play at right-back, where he was most comfortable, but also at left-back if required.
It might’ve only been an EFL Cup second round game at Northampton Town back in August 2016, indeed forgettable in the way that the tie embarrassingly panned out for Albion, but for Wilson it would’ve been one of the most significant evenings of his career.
What awaits in the summer
From Albion to the Albion.
Matt Clarke and Jayson Molumby both trod the same path last summer from Brighton to West Brom, two of many loan ranger Seagulls who flew their nest on the south coast ahead of the 2021-22 season in the hunt for regular first-team football. Both had experience of Championship loan spells previously; in the case of Clarke, it was two years with Derby. Molumby had been to both Preston North and End and Millwall during his previous second tier stints.
Clarke hit the ground running, as Albion as a whole did, under Valerien Ismael. He looked the part on the left hand side of the back three, the left foot to bring ample balance to the back-line and who displayed composure in abundance with the ball and calmness in the face of an attacking threat.
Slaven eyes a return
Slaven Bilic has indicated that his next job in football management could be back in England as he awaits his next challenge. The former West Brom manager left Beijing Guoan in January after just a year in the Chinese Super League and he is on the look-out for his next stint in the game.
Bilic took over at Albion in the summer of 2019 and he guided the club back to the Premier League from the Championship in a year that was impacted by the global Covid outbreak, but he was relieved of his duties before Christmas 2020 with Albion having managed just one victory in the first half of the season.
Since, Bilic has been out in the Chinese capital. While he signed a two-year contract with Guoan - where he managed free-scoring ex-Baggie Zhang Yuning - Bilic remained for just a single season after not being able to move his family over to join him because of Covid restrictions.
No retirement yet
Hal Robson-Kanu has refused to rule out a return to football almost a year after he took his leave from West Bromwich Albion. Welsh international forward Robson-Kanu brought a five-year stay at The Hawthorns to an end following the club’s immediate return to the Championship last spring, signing off with goals in the defeats to Liverpool and Leeds United towards the end of the campaign.
HRK, who turns 33 in May, saw his contract with Albion expire and he is still without a club to date nearly a full season after departing the Black Country. It remains unclear as to whether he’ll ever get himself back into football, and anybody who has followed his progress and is aware of his other interests away from football will know that he has his hands full with other business commitments.
Robson-Kanu’s Turmeric Co, of which a number of professional sports clubs are customers, looks to be thriving. He has been promoting the company during his time out of the game, a company which sells shots of turmeric mixed with roots like ginger and beetroot.
Big spenders
West Brom spent more than £4m on agent fees between February 2021 and January 2022 - that was the second largest amount spent on intermediaries in the entire Championship, behind only runaway leaders Fulham.
Albion last season operated within a tight budget and presided over a summer transfer window of business that consisted largely of free signings and loan deals, though of course with signing on fees, bonuses, wages and the agent fees themselves, there isn’t quite a transfer that is ever "free". Agent fees, for their part in negotiations, are part and parcel of any prospective transfer and though the Baggies didn’t spend too much in plain sight on transfer fees, they did dish out £4,148,886 on agents in that time period to complete various deals.
Albion brought in Quevin Castro, Alex Mowatt and Adam Reach in the summer before adding Kean Bryan after the closure of the window. They also added Jayson Molumby, Matt Clarke and Jordan Hugill on loan deals, before securing the signing of Daryl Dike in the winter.
A deal for Duke
Former West Brom striker Nathan Ellington has revealed just how uncertain the summer of 2005 was for him as he sought security for his footballing career. Ex-Albion forward Ellington joined the club from Wigan Athletic on the back of a promotion winning campaign in which he and former Baggies striker Jason Roberts scored 45 Championship goals between them.
He didn’t necessarily wish to leave the Latics, who were preparing for top flight life under Paul Jewell, but he was denied a new contract time and again despite bouncing back successfully from injury problems. Eventually, he was left in a situation where he moved into the final 12 months of his deal and Wigan were proving difficult to negotiate with, the ex-striker claims.
A fan of Bryan Robson from his Manchester United days, Ellington took up the offer to join Albion who had just completed the Great Escape. Within a couple of years, Ellington - having not found a regular starting spot under Tony Mowbray - was looking for a move again. He signed for Watford as the Hornets broke their transfer record.
Zero tolerance
West Bromwich Albion have confirmed in a club statement that they have issued a lifetime ban on a supporter who was found guilty of a racially aggravated offence. Neil Grainger, 36, was convicted at Dudley Magistrates Court on Wednesday and was fined almost £1,500 and handed a three-year stadium ban.
Albion, though, have announced that he won’t ever be returning to The Hawthorns for any matches at any point in the future and that they ‘will not tolerate any form of discrimination’. Grainger, who was sitting in the home end when Albion welcomed Birmingham City to B71 in October, was guilty of making racist hand movements towards a fan in the away end.
It was a gesture which was noticed by a fellow supporter, and they reported the action to a nearby officer. Now, ahead of the reverse fixture at St Andrew’s this Sunday, West Midlands Police and Albion have confirmed the conviction and the respective punishments. | https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/west-brom-face-imminent-transfer-23561603 | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
URBANA — A Rantoul man has asked for drug treatment in prison following his conviction for being an armed habitual criminal.
Jeremiah F. Martin, 45, who listed an address in the Fountain Valley Trailer Park, pleaded guilty to that charge Thursday before Judge Randy Rosenbaum, admitting that he had a shotgun on Nov. 19.
As a result of a negotiated plea, he was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison to be served at 85 percent time.
Assistant State’s Attorney Justin Umlah said Martin and co-defendant Hurchel McClain, 42, of Champaign came to the attention of police when a 16-year-old Champaign boy called police about two men who had come to his home in the Shadowwood Trailer Park in Champaign that night uninvited and entered without permission.
The teen said when Martin and McClain refused to leave, he eventually grabbed a knife to persuade them. As they left, the men made a comment about returning with guns.
Police later stopped the vehicle they were in about a block from the youth’s home and found Martin and McClain inside with a shotgun and an AK-47 assault rifle.
Martin also had ammunition for the shotgun in his pocket, Umlah said.
In exchange for Martin’s plea, Umlah dismissed other charges of attempted aggravated battery with a gun and criminal trespass.
He said Martin had previous convictions for burglary, battery, obstructing justice and possession of a firearm by a felon.
He was given credit for 132 days served and asked Rosenbaum to recommend him for drug treatment while in prison.
Charges against McClain in connection with what happened that night are unresolved. Court records show he also has previous felony convictions that preclude him from possessing a weapon. | https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/courts-police-fire/rantoul-man-barred-from-having-gun-gets-6-5-years-after-shotgun-found-in-vehicle/article_81600022-4e53-51e4-9d9b-4d0445b6c4df.html | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
(Red Oak) -- Three suspects are in custody in Montgomery County in connection with a burglary investigation.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office reports 38-year-old Garret Allen Horgdal and 38-year-old Jannell Marie Davis both of Henderson, and 39-year-old Jacob Kimball of Carson have been arrested in connection with an investigation into a burglary occurring at 1377 130th Street and an attempted burglary at 1172 D Avenue. The investigation began on February 21st, and roughly $117,000 worth of tools had been stolen from the 130th Street location while 1172 D Avenue sustained damage to a door.
Horgdal was arrested following a traffic stop on March 8th and was charged with Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Deliver and, following a search warrant of his vehicle, was also charged with three counts of Felon in Possession of a Firearm--a class D felony each. The search warrant also revealed several of the suspected stolen tools from 130th Street.
Two days later, a search warrant of Horgdal's residence at 501 Maple Street in Henderson discovered more of the suspected stolen tools, and Horgdal was charged with Theft 1st Degree--a Class C Felony. Also taken into custody was Davis, and she was also charged with Theft 1st Degree.
Davis was arrested again on March 22nd and charged with Transfer of a Fireman to a Felon--a Class D Felony.
On Wednesday, the Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant at 412 North Commercial Street in Carson, where more suspected stolen tools were seized and Kimball was taken into custody and charged with Theft 1st Degree and held on bond at the Montgomery County Jail.
Tools seized from all three warrants have been identified as those of the 130th Street burglary, and the incident continues to be under investigation. | https://www.kmaland.com/news/3-montgomery-county-suspects-in-custody-after-theft-of-100-000-worth-of-tools/article_4798b70a-b155-11ec-9ef3-bba4c558aebe.html | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
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.wnem.com/2022/04/01/5-fetuses-found-inside-dc-home-anti-abortion-activist/ | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
ENDWELL, N.Y. (WIVT) – Maine-Endwell baseball standout Michael Mancini has signed to play baseball at James Madison University next year.
Mancini signs with JMU after having one of the most successful baseball careers that the area has seen. In 2016, Mancini was an instrumental part of the Little League World Series Championship team. The championship team became the first champion from the United States since 2011 and most notably the first winners from New York since 1964.
In high school, Mancini continued to shine, helping the Spartans to multiple Section IV titles in 2019 and 2021 and a 2019 Regional title. Through all of the success Mancini has had so far, he emphasized that the family, teammates, and coaches he has had along the way are a big part of his success.
“It’s all of the behind the scenes, the parents, coaches, and teammates, said Mancini. “I am forever grateful for them and I want to continue to make them proud.”
For the third ranked prospect by PBR, finding the right place to play at the next level was crucial and a lengthy process. In the college search, Mancini found that James Madison made him feel the most at home.
“After looking around town and talking to the coaches, Mancini said. “It just felt like home, it felt like Maine-Endwell.”
This season the James Madison Dukes are currently 14-10 on the season and have a tough three-game set against Elon ahead, but for Mancini his time with the Spartans is not over and his goal is a state championship. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/local-sports-2/m-es-mancini-signs-with-james-madison-university-baseball/ | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
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.wcax.com/2022/04/01/5-fetuses-found-inside-dc-home-anti-abortion-activist/ | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
Alabama offer a 'jaw-dropping' moment for Texas lineman
Ian Reed, three-star offensive tackle from Vandegrift High School in Austin, Texas, received offer No. 22 on Thursday. The latest one coming from the University of Alabama. Reed just started receiving interest from the Crimson Tide a few days ago. He received the great news from a couple of new coaches of the Alabama coaching staff.
"I talked to Coach Wolford and Coach Hutzler," Reed told BamaInsider on Thursday evening. "The first time I spoke with them was a few days ago. I didn't get a chance to talk to Coach Saban, but he gave them the go-ahead for the offer.
"They (Wolford, Hutzler) were just saying they really like me as a football player and as a person. They love my athletic ability, my ability to bend, run and how I am dominant. They think I fit in well with their system and believe I have a great future ahead."
Reed has never been to Alabama, but plans to attend one of the Tide's football camps in June to work-out and meet all of the coaches including Coach Saban. He has visited N.C State, Texas and Texas A&M this spring. He has upcoming visits to Clemson and Ohio State.
The 6-foot-6, 308-pound lineman will likely announce a top 10 sometime after the spring and wants to wait until after his senior season before making a decision. Alabama will evaluate him in-person this summer and become a top contender in his recruitment.
"All kids work for that offer," Reed said. "It's the pinnacle of college football. My jaw dropped to the floor when they offered me. It's just one of the pinnacles of football in general.
"Coach Saban is a master-mind of the game. What he has done for the (Alabama) program is amazing. They have the pedigree to compete for a championship every year. It's really cool. All the fans there are amazing. The school is also pretty cool.” | https://alabama.rivals.com/news/alabama-offer-a-jaw-dropping-moment-for-texas-lineman | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
GOvert Project: The Beginning-UPDATED FRI 3-28-08
It dawned on me that I have never posted this stuff here on Stangnet. I had posted on another Auto Forum and it has since shut down entirely.
The beginning:
I purchased a wrecked '93 Mustang that has a top notch used 2300 and a rebuilt A4LD in it. The 3:73 differential is in good shape too. (3.73 diffy x .7 OD gear=2.611 final drive ratio. Third gear (D) 3:73 when going up hills and 2.611 4th (OD) on a good flat piece of HWY or Interstate.
Eventually I am going to install this complete driveline into my old '65 6 cyl convertible , GOvert: Grabber Orange convertible
The Mustang was hit so hard in the side that the computer would not come out the normal way. I had to use a sidecutter/cut off tool to get to the computer
Finally able to slide the ECM out the front
Main ECM connector for those who havn't seen one
I unplugged the computer and pulled the wiring harness out through the firewall then hooked it back up (It still works)
I am starting to undo the wrap on the harness to start the rearrangement of it
I have since pulled all of the wiring out from under the hood into the interior of the Mustang. I removed the DIS module from the intake and the relay box from under the hood. The will both be mounted the the Electronics board that will be in the glovebox area
otherside of board
Here is a picture of the electronics board mounted to the lower attachment point for the glove box. The view is from the back (this is a dash cut out of a parts car)
ADDED FRI 3-28-08:
I moved the DIS module to the interior of the car. I wondered why FOMOCO installed such a delicate piece of electronics in such a harsh environment. One of their "Better ideas" ? However, before I am dead set on the location for the module I am going to do an RF interference test to make sure that it doesn't cause any "fuzz" on the stereo system.
I really want to use the AC system manufactured by the Texas based company called Vintage Air. I hope that the electronics board and the air box don't interfere with each other. This could hold up the completion of the wiring.
I am deleting the EGR valve and some other "stuff". I took the upper plenum to an "Ace" aluminum welder. Previously I had sawed away where the valve mounted. He did an excellent job welding up the holes. I've filed on it some but it still needs alot of work.
More text and pics as soon as I get more batteries
It dawned on me that I have never posted this stuff here on Stangnet. I had posted on another Auto Forum and it has since shut down entirely.
The beginning:
I purchased a wrecked '93 Mustang that has a top notch used 2300 and a rebuilt A4LD in it. The 3:73 differential is in good shape too. (3.73 diffy x .7 OD gear=2.611 final drive ratio. Third gear (D) 3:73 when going up hills and 2.611 4th (OD) on a good flat piece of HWY or Interstate.
Eventually I am going to install this complete driveline into my old '65 6 cyl convertible , GOvert: Grabber Orange convertible
The Mustang was hit so hard in the side that the computer would not come out the normal way. I had to use a sidecutter/cut off tool to get to the computer
Finally able to slide the ECM out the front
Main ECM connector for those who havn't seen one
I unplugged the computer and pulled the wiring harness out through the firewall then hooked it back up (It still works)
I am starting to undo the wrap on the harness to start the rearrangement of it
I have since pulled all of the wiring out from under the hood into the interior of the Mustang. I removed the DIS module from the intake and the relay box from under the hood. The will both be mounted the the Electronics board that will be in the glovebox area
otherside of board
Here is a picture of the electronics board mounted to the lower attachment point for the glove box. The view is from the back (this is a dash cut out of a parts car)
ADDED FRI 3-28-08:
I moved the DIS module to the interior of the car. I wondered why FOMOCO installed such a delicate piece of electronics in such a harsh environment. One of their "Better ideas" ? However, before I am dead set on the location for the module I am going to do an RF interference test to make sure that it doesn't cause any "fuzz" on the stereo system.
I really want to use the AC system manufactured by the Texas based company called Vintage Air. I hope that the electronics board and the air box don't interfere with each other. This could hold up the completion of the wiring.
I am deleting the EGR valve and some other "stuff". I took the upper plenum to an "Ace" aluminum welder. Previously I had sawed away where the valve mounted. He did an excellent job welding up the holes. I've filed on it some but it still needs alot of work.
More text and pics as soon as I get more batteries | https://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/threads/govert-project-the-beginning.743784/ | 2022-04-01T01:53:08Z |
Fried chicken meets fine dining: putting haute KFC to the taste test
For some it’s a guilty pleasure, a road trip tradition, a reward for the kids or a Friday night blowout. But now KFC - somehow the most sinful of all the fast foods - has become something else entirely: haute cuisine.
As far as marketing stunts go, it’s a winner. More than 20,000 Sydneysiders supposedly signed up for a seat at the KFC Degustation Restaurant, an 11-course romp through popcorn chicken, Twisters and Zinger burgers - deconstructed, reimagined and dolled up by executive chef Nelly Robinson.
Only 180 diners over three nights will be admitted to the top secret set-up down an Alexandria laneway. In a city that fawns over trendy restaurants, this is bizarrely one of the hardest tables in town to nab (at $75-a-head, for charity, it is also one of Sydney’s most affordable degustations).
But how does this Frankenstein feast stack up on the culinary front? Can those 11 secret herbs and spices survive the transition from greasy cardboard box to the fine dining table? Is any of this stuff actually edible while sober?
We won’t get an answer on that front because, unlike most KFC restaurants, there’s champagne on arrival - a stellar innovation in this correspondent’s book. A host shows us to our seats, and we are offered sparking or still water while PR agents buzz about the room fawning and spruiking.
The meal begins with a soft tomato-ey marshmallow dusted in those stubbornly secret spices, and is quickly followed by something they’re calling a Zinger katsu - a piece of fried chicken stacked on a potato block, drizzled with curry mayo and dill.
Then comes the allegedly “supercharged” wings, which resemble your normal KFC chicken wings, except (as per fine dining custom) smaller. They are cooked on a bed of charcoal and set alight at the table, which makes a nice change from the deep fryer.
By this time we have noticed the candle on our table has melted curiously quickly. Greater alarm sets in when the waiter starts pouring something on the melted wax. Of course, it transpires the candle was made of gravy and this is Robinson’s take on KFC’s venerated potato and gravy tubs.
Paired wines arrive, and what vineyard wouldn’t be thrilled to learn it has been judged the best accompaniment to fried chicken? Or, indeed, Zinger kingfish. Robinson told us this controversial creation was the subject of much disagreement with the powers-that-be, who were not convinced fish belonged on a KFC menu.
“This went on and on and on until I won,” Robinson said.
A Twister follows in two parts; first, Colonel Sanders’ face is drawn on a plate with tomato, lettuce, pepper mayo and KFC flavouring. It can only be consumed by licking - perhaps another fine dining first - and precedes a mini Twister embellished with pearl barley risotto, sundried tomato and Manchego cheese in a spinach tortilla, adorned with an edible flower “just to make it posh”.
We move on to this correspondent’s pick of the bunch - a reinvention of the humble delicacy of popcorn chicken. Here the chicken bites are dunked in a roast garlic mushroom soup which also hosts little pillows of mushroom gnocchi, topped with parsley chips.
By this point, one’s enthusiasm for fried chicken may begin to wane, gunned down by attrition, but the main event is still to come; an Original Recipe drumstick rolled in deep-fried “gold quinoa”. No contemporary degustation would be complete without quinoa, but this rocky accoutrement isn’t to everyone’s taste.
A dessert of wattle seed ice cream is popular at our table, and we imagine ourselves shamelessly demanding it from a hapless teenage cashier at George Street KFC at 3.30am after a night out.
The British-born Robinson loves a gimmick; he previously created a Disney-inspired degustation menu and an Aussie feast featuring dishes like ‘vegemite focaccia’ and ‘bunnings sausage sizzle’.
It’s obviously not vegetarian friendly, and it’s not likely to earn many Michelin stars, but there’s no doubt this KFC caper is a bit of fun. It’s fast food for the Instagram generation and, surprisingly, it works - even the fussy foodies on our table were suitably impressed.
You’ll avoid the grease trap, too; there’s surprisingly little need for the refresher toilette when you’re eating fried chicken with a knife and fork.
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