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(Pocket-lint) - An Xbox Game Pass family plan could arrive this year.
According to Windows Central, Microsoft has been mulling a family plan for Xbox Game Pass for a while. Now, the Redmond-based company is expected to announce the option in the "near future". Microsoft plans to integrate its Family Account system, too, which is what it uses for Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions.
The new family plan is thought to provide access to Xbox Game Pass for up to five players. It will, in the end, be cheaper than paying for five separate accounts. But exact pricing is not yet known. Microsoft has reportedly had to iron out royalty and compensation details with third-party publishers that license their content through Xbox Game Pass plans.
It's also unknown if there will be separate family subscriptions for Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, and the Ultimate version of Microsoft’s game subscription service. Microsoft offers Xbox Game Pass or PC Game Pass for $9.99 a month. These don't have online multiplayer,but Xbox Game Pass Ultimate does include Game Pass for Console, PC, EA Play access, and online multiplayer for $14.99.
Keep in mind Sony recently announced new PlayStation Plus subscriptions, which include multiple tiers and start at $9.99 monthly. | https://www.pocket-lint.com/games/news/xbox/160627-microsoft-could-launch-an-xbox-game-pass-family-plan-for-up-to-five-players | 2022-04-01T01:56:11Z |
A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Thursday honoring the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the latest honor for the band inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 and the recipient of six Grammys.
All four members of the band -- lead vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith and guitarist John Frusciante -- spoke at the 11:30 a.m. ceremony in front of Amoeba Music where they will give the first music performance at its new Hollywood location next Thursday.
Emmy-winning actor Woody Harrelson, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame funk singer George Clinton and singer turned chemical dependency counselor Bob Forrest are also set to speak. The ceremony will be streamed on the Walk of Fame's website, www.walkoffame.com.
The star is the 2,717th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the first 1,558 stars.
Red Hot Chili Peppers were selected for a star in 2008 but just scheduled the ceremony "a few months ago,'' Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, told City News Service.
The ceremony comes one day before the release of the band's first studio album since 2016, "Unlimited Love,'' its first recording with Frusciante since 2006.
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Formed in 1983 by Kiedis, Flea (who was born Michael Peter Balzary), guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons, classmates at Fairfax High School, Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold 80 million albums, generated 5 billion YouTube views, and gathered 22 billion Spotify streams, averaging 21 million monthly listeners on the platform.
Smith has been with the band since 1988. Frusciante also joined in 1988, left in 1992, rejoined in 1998, left in 2009 and rejoined again in 2019.
Red Hot Chili Peppers have received 16 Grammy nominations, the first in 1990 for best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal for the single "Higher Ground.'' They won their first Grammy in 1993 for best hard rock performance with vocal for "Give It Away.''
Their other Grammys came in 2000 for best rock song for "Scar Tissue'' and in 2007 for best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal and best rock song, both for "Dani California,'' and best rock album and best boxed or special limited edition package, both for "Stadium Arcadium.'' | https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/red-hot-chili-peppers-honored-with-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star/2796656/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:10Z |
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Bruce Willis' friends fear aphasia is linked to injuries actor suffered when he was 'hit in the head by pyrotechnic device' on 2002 set but F/X worker for film says star was struck by just one 'hot shell casing' and was not hurt
- Bruce Willis, 67, sued the studio for the film Tears of the Sun in 2004 claiming he'd suffered 'substantial mental and physical injuries'
- The 'Die Hard' actor claimed that a small special effects explosive hit him in the head
- The lawsuit said he needed 'physicians and medical personnel' for his injuries
- The suit was settled in 2005, but it's unclear if money was exchange
- Revolution Studio, which made the film, did not respond for comment
- Joe Pancake, the special effects specialist on the movie, said Willis was hit by a 'hot shell casing'
- Willis was not seriously injured at all, the F/X specialist said
- He said that medical records show doctors prescribed Tylenol for Willis' pain
Friends and family of Bruce Willis believe that a head injury he suffered on the set of the 2002 action movie Tears of the Sun could be the cause of the debilitating brain disease that has ended his career, but a special effects worker on the movie denied the claim.
Family - including ex-wife Demi Moore, current wife Emma Heming and daughter Rumer Willis - announced on Wednesday that the 'Die Hard' actor was diagnosed with aphasia, a neuro-cognitive disorder that effects the sufferers ability to speak and understand language. As a result, Willis was 'stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him.'
An unnamed friend told The Sun that his family believes that the disability could be linked to a hit he took to the head on the action-rescue film.
Willis sued the production company, Revolution Studio, and the action movie's special effects professional Joe Pancake in 2004, claiming he had suffered 'substantial mental and physical injuries' after he had been hit by a 'squib' - a special effects explosive meant to look like the impact of gunfire, during the October 2002 production.
Pancake called Willis's injuries 'bullsh--' in an interview with DailyMail.com on Thursday.
'The judge laughed him out of court,' Pancake said.
According to the special effects guy, Willis and three other actors were firing off hundreds of rounds of blanks from their automatic rifles and a 'hot shell casing' hit the actor in the forehead.
Bruce Willis, 67, sued the production company for a 'mental' injury he claimed he suffered on the movie set of 'Tears of the Sun.' He's shown here playing the part of a battle-harden American soldier
Willis, shown here with co-star Monica Bellucci, claimed that a special effects explosive hit him in the head during filming of the movie
Willis's injury from an explosive hitting him in the head required medical attention, he claimed in a lawsuit
In the film, Willis played the role of Lt. A.K. Waters, a battle-hardened combat soldier leading his troop on a mission to save a humanitarian doctor pinned down by rebels in the jungle of Nigeria.
The suit claims that the actor endured 'extreme mental, physical and emotional pain and suffering' from his injuries.
Lawyers for the Die Hard actor said in court papers that Willis 'was required to and did employ physicians and other medical personnel.'
The suit was settled in August 2005, but it's unclear if any money exchanged hands.
No one at Revolution Studio, which also made 'Hellboy' and 'Black Hawk Down,' was available comment.
Pancake on Thursday denied that Willis was hit with a squib.
'In my 38 years of experience I know that they don't fly up and hit you in the head,' he said. 'He tried to blame my department. He dragged my name through the mud for two years. It was 'bullsh--.'
After all his allegations they made him show his medical records and you know what the doctor prescribed him? Tylenol.'
Special effects professional Joe Pancake denied that Willis was injured on the set, saying that the actor was merely struck in the head by a hot shell casing
Pancake, pictured here, said that Willis's doctors prescribed Tylenol for his injures. He said the judge 'laughed it out of court'
His family shared a statement on their social media pages announcing his diagnosis on Wednesday and saying he will be be 'stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him'
Pancake said he enjoyed working with Willis.
'He was great to work with,' Pancake said. 'Me and him got along great until he named me in the suit. I wasn't even the special effect coordinator, but he remembered my name.'
Though admittedly he has no medical background, Pancake said that a 20-year-old injury would not manifest itself now.
'I'm not a doctor and I know that' he said.
Sources say acclaimed actor Bruce Willis, 67, has been having trouble on the sets of his recent movies, and was even pictured wearing an earpiece to feed him lines on the set of American Siege in 2020
Willis is perhaps best known for his role in the Die Hard series as John McClane
Bruce Willis was a hit in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction
Willis became a major action star with his 1988 breakthrough film Die Hard
Pancake said he thought Willis sued because his acting career was flagging at that time.
'It was a publicity stunt because he was washed up,' he said. 'He went from a $20-million-a-movie actor to nothing.'
Willis's cognitive problems became an open secret in Hollywood, according to reports.
'It was becoming super obvious he was having trouble,' an unnamed source told PageSix. 'He could not act anymore.'
As the Daily Mail exclusively reported, he was photographed in a scene in his new movie American Siege, which was filmed in 2020, wearing an earpiece.
He also relied on an earpiece to be fed his lines in 2015 Broadway production of 'Misery,' OK Magazine reported.
He was also reportedly struggling during the filming of M. Night Shyamalan's 2019 film Glass.
His most recent films, like Cosmic Sun, have been panned by critics, and the actor has now won the award for 'worst films of 2021' at the Razzies
'While filming Glass, staffers worked around him by cutting and editing and having him overdub lines because he struggled to remember and/or deliver them,' they told the publication, according to the New Zealand Herald.
'In most scenes on Glass he's hooded, and they used stand-in and body doubles to replace him. On set, he wouldn't smile and was always chaperoned by an assistant to guide him while walking.'
The source also said at the time that Willis had sold his New York property to spend more time with his wife and children in Los Angeles, and said that his wife, as well as ex-wife Demi Moore, were working together to take care of the famed actor.
'His wife Emma has helped Demi Moore and the children Bruce shares with his ex-wife to make truces because they know he's fading,' the unnamed source told the magazine in January 2021.
'Between Demi and Emma, the family has always ensured Bruce has the support and care he might need at any given time,' the insider said.
They added, 'The good news is that although there is the real concern of dementia fears, it largely has not impacted his ability to work in Hollywood – and in true super hero form – he won't slow down because new technology like earpieces allows actors of his caliber not to skip a beat.'
But in recent years, the New Zealand Herald reports, die hard fans of the actor have noticed he was taking more roles in straight-to-video releases.
This year, Page Six reports, Willis was given his own category at the Razzies - a parody award show honoring the worst of cinematic under-achievements - for the 'worst movies of 2021' after he starred in eight critically-panned films.
One of his films, Out of Death, earned a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The parody awards show apologized to the actor following the announcement of his diagnosis on Wednesday, tweeting: 'The Razzies are truly sorry for #BruceWillis' diagnosed condition.
'Perhaps this explains why he wanted to go out with a bang in 2021. Our best wishes to Bruce and family.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10674551/Bruce-Willis-friends-fear-aphasia-linked-injuries-hit-head-set-2002.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-01T01:56:10Z |
NZNO Welcomes Living Wage Increase
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation, Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) welcomes today’s announced Living Wage increase to $23.65. It says all health employers, from DHBs through to primary care and Māori and iwi providers, must step up and set the Living Wage as the minimum for themselves and their contractors.
NZNO Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku said the health sector, like any other, cannot prosper on the back of poor pay rates that often perpetuate poverty.
"Governments have ignored the wage crisis for far too long and driven many whānau into hardship.
"A lot of nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora, some currently earning below the Living Wage, are taking second jobs or leaving their profession because the pressures of working within the health system are not worth the mental and physical distress. This is only exacerbated when it’s hard to put food on the table."
Ms Nuku said that to survive on low wages both parents or caregivers often need to work yet still barely keep their head above water.
"The slightest change to income or expenses takes months to recover from and the mental impact on everyone in the family is significant. It’s so much harder for children to have a decent start in life with both parents having to work for the minimum wage.
"There is no wellbeing in these types of wages and that is why an accurate Living Wage that reflects the minimum required to meet basic wellbeing needs is so important.
"If smaller health providers say they cannot afford to pay what is needed to live with dignity, then funding models must be urgently reassessed."
NZNO has long been a Living Wage employer and extends that requirement to its contractors. | https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2204/S00008/nzno-welcomes-living-wage-increase.htm | 2022-04-01T01:56:12Z |
President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol spoke on the phone with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday and proposed expanding bilateral cooperation in the semiconductor sector.
According to Yoon's spokesperson Kim Eun-hye, the two sides spoke on the phone for 25 minutes from 5:30 p.m.
During the call, Yoon said the two nations have continued to expand friendly relations as comprehensive future-oriented partners.
The president-elect proposed that the two nations expand cooperation in the semiconductor industry. The Dutch prime minister agreed that the two countries' cooperation will lead to a great synergy as they are leading nations in the sector.
Yoon and Rutte also shared serious concerns over North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test last week and agreed to strengthen solidarity on the international stage to push for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in East Asia.
The Dutch prime minister invited Yoon to make a state visit to his country at an early date after Yoon's inauguration, and the president-elect promised to begin discussions to realize the visit. | http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=168646 | 2022-04-01T01:56:13Z |
The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders say their partnership with CMT has come to an end after 16 seasons.
‘Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team’ first debuted on CMT back in 2005.
“We could never have anticipated the outpouring of admiration and support from our fans and friends over the 16 Seasons on CMT’s Making the Team,” said Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Director Kelli Finglass. “The global impact on our brand and the beautiful journeys of amazing performers and teammates have been amazing. The women who competed and shared their personal journeys should be applauded, those who earn the right to wear the legendary uniform have influence and inspiration that deserves to be shared worldwide."
A press release from the Dallas Cowboys said "The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders look forward to continuing the exclusive journey with ‘America’s Sweethearts’ on a new platform."
“My hope is to continue their stories with our fans more globally, as we are in the process of negotiating a new partnership and we look forward to continuing to feature the DCC on a new platform,” said Finglass. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/blue-star/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-end-16-season-run-with-cmt/2929453/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:15Z |
The Hill’s Morning Report – How far will Russia go?
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Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday, 935,335; Tuesday, 935,991; Wednesday, 939,201; Thursday, 941,908; Friday, 944,831.
Overnight, Russian forces used cruise and ballistic missiles in attacks on Kyiv, according to the Ukraine interior ministry. The Ukraine army said it is fighting Russian forces within a few miles of the capital as of this writing (AFP and The New York Times). Other reports describe gunfire inside the city as air raid sirens blare (ABC News).
Reports Friday from the ground and from intelligence suggest the initial Russian targets may be airports, part of a plan to fly more troops and light armored equipment into the capital to try to seize control along with the nation’s government.
Other key Ukrainian cities were under attack on Friday, according to media reports.
“They say that civilian objects are not a target for them,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday of the Russian assault. “It is a lie, they do not distinguish in which areas to operate” (The New York Times).
Military analysts suggest Russia may try to use cyberattacks and attacks on Ukraine’s electrical grid, which Russia has done before, as part of a plan to gain control of Kyiv and sow panic among its 2.8 million residents.
President Biden expanded U.S. sanctions against Russia on Thursday, targeting major Russian banks and imposing export controls to hurt Moscow’s defense and tech industries amid a coordinated effort with allies to penalize the Kremlin for missile attacks across Ukraine and its invasion of troops (The Hill).
Axios: Images describing how Russia’s attack is unfolding in Ukraine.
As Ukrainians fled the capital and cities elsewhere, others with nowhere to go huddled underground (pictured below) as missiles exploded across a country of 44 million people and Russia sought to immobilize Ukraine’s defenses and communications capabilities. NATO and the U.S. today plan an emergency summit among the 30-nation security alliance, saying the alliance will beef up defenses near Ukraine and Russia (ABC News). As of Thursday, at least 137 people had been killed in Ukraine and at least 316 injured, according to the Ukraine government (NBC News).
Biden on Thursday said international sanctions against Russia were never anticipated to “prevent” this week’s attack ordered by President Vladimir Putin, a comment that sparked confusion because he, Vice President Harris and global officials had repeatedly described the threat of sanctions as a potential “deterrent.” Biden said the sanctions he announced on Thursday, and those still on the table for the future, will take time — likely “months” — to weaken Russia and force Putin to pay a price for unprovoked aggression that Biden said is ultimately aimed at seizing Eastern European territory beyond Ukraine.
“This is a dangerous moment for all of Europe,” Biden said.
Today, Russia announced its first response to Western sanctions: British planes will be banned from flying to Russia or crossing its airspace, which could affect flights from London to Asia. Britain this week banned the Russian national airline Aeroflot, The New York Times reported from Moscow.
CNN: Russian forces seized control of the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
NPR: The Ukraine crisis was paved by the failure of diplomacy.
Gerald F. Seib, The Wall Street Journal: Russia’s strike changes not just Ukraine but the world.
Niall Stanage: The Memo: Biden locks into battle with enigmatic Putin.
CNN: Here’s what the U.S. sanctions announced by Biden would do.
The U.S. did not expel Russia from the SWIFT international banking system or sanction Putin personally, despite pleas from Ukraine and some members of Congress to pull the plug on SWIFT and make the Russian president pay for his aggression. Biden said SWIFT expulsion remains an “option,” but lacked unanimity among European partners. He argued that the collection of banks sanctioned by the U.S. imposed a substantial cutoff to Russia’s access to international financing.
The Hill: Biden vows to alienate Russia as “pariah”; faces challenges.
Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker: In Washington, a Ukraine tragedy foretold.
Although Biden said he had “no plans” to speak with Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron called the Russian president on Thursday to demand an end to the attack on Ukraine, which is not a NATO member, and he explained the French sanctions in coordination with the NATO alliance (The Wall Street Journal). Biden spoke with Zelensky on Wednesday night and Macron spoke with him on Thursday. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with the Ukraine president Friday.
Zelensky vowed on Thursday to stay put with his family. Russia, he said, seeks to destroy the Ukrainian government and he noted information that Russian sabotage groups had entered the capital. “The enemy marked me as target No. 1 and my family as target No. 2. I am staying in Kyiv,” he declared.
CNN: Zelensky by declaration bars Ukrainian males ages between 18 and 60 from leaving the country.
The Hill: Putin claims he was “forced” to invade Ukraine.
Biden said another 7,000 U.S. troops are heading to Germany but U.S. forces would not fight in Ukraine. Should Russia’s attacks — including cyberattacks — strike NATO nations, the United States could be drawn militarily into the crisis because of its commitment to back NATO members, Biden conceded.
The president briefed the top four leaders in Congress on Thursday (Politico).
The Wall Street Journal: The White House said it sees no increased threat of a nuclear attack amid the Ukraine crisis.
The Hill: Five things to know as Russia presses into Ukraine.
The president, who said any country that does business with Russia now is “stained by association,” ducked a question on Thursday about whether he urged China to help isolate its ally, Russia. Beijing has rejected calling Moscow’s attack on Ukraine an invasion (Reuters and CNN). China is using charter flights to evacuate its citizens from Ukraine, while Australia publicly criticized China’s “lack of a strong response” against Russia’s aggression (CNN).
Bloomberg News: On Thursday, oil prices soared past $100 per barrel as Russia targeted Ukraine for attacks.
Reuters: Biden said on Thursday the United States is working with other countries on a combined release of additional oil from global strategic crude reserves, and a source with knowledge of the talks said the plan was in the “early stages.”
CNBC: Stock market futures fall after a stunning comeback on Thursday as investors assess geopolitical tensions.
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LEADING THE DAY
POLITICS: Washington, D.C., is on SCOTUS watch as Biden is on track to reveal his nominee for the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer by Monday in advance of the State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
The latest speculation surrounds Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a member of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court on Thursday released an opinion, a move that drew attention from politicos as it usually drops opinions on Tuesdays and Fridays.
As CNN notes, a similar situation took place four years ago when then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court. The D.C. Circuit at the time published a rare opinion on Monday, a move that preceded Kavanaugh’s nomination to replace outgoing Justice Anthony Kennedy only hours later.
Biden has reportedly made his decision on who to nominate to replace Breyer, and that announcement could come as early as today (CNN).
> Senate surprise: Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), 87, first elected in 1994, is expected to announce his resignation from the upper chamber on Monday, setting off a scramble among Oklahoma Republicans to fill a rare Senatorial opening in a deep red state.
Multiple outlets reported that Inhofe is expected to remain in office through the end of the year. The five-term senator won reelection in 2020 by a 59-point margin. According to Politico, Inhofe has missed an abnormal amount of votes this year, having told reporters in December that his wife has been sick.
His resignation will likely trigger a special contest in conjunction with the November midterm elections, according to The New York Times and the Cook Political Report.
Politico: Hard pivot toward Trump proves costly for Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
> CPAC: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday used his perch at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to pan national Democrats, COVID-19 restrictions and other perceived attacks on “freedom” in a speech that will undoubtedly fuel talk about a potential 2024 presidential bid.
As The Hill’s Max Greenwood reports from Orlando, the roughly 20-minute speech served as a checklist of grievances and political victories that have helped make DeSantis a conservative superstar, both in the Sunshine State and with national Republicans. DeSantis garnered multiple standing ovations, having talked during the address about the state’s rejection of the “biomedical security state” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, having prohibited the use of public health measures like vaccine mandates.
Notably, one topic DeSantis did not mention was the elephant in the room: former President Trump (Insider). Trump will address the conference on Saturday.
NBC News: Florida House passes “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
The New York Times: North Carolina court imposes new district map, eliminating GOP edge.
The Hill: Sen. Rick Scott’s (R-Fla.) agenda spurs backlash from Democrats, GOP alike.
Insider: Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. will not sit for depositions in a civil investigation as they seek to appeal subpoenas, lawyer says.
IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES
CORONAVIRUS: As anticipated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today will ease its guidelines on masking after a number of states this month announced their own plans to lift indoor mask mandates. The agency today will discuss how it will be incorporating more factors into the metrics it uses to determine whether to recommend high-quality face coverings during the pandemic. Instead of focusing only on COVID-19 case numbers, the agency will also factor in local hospital capacity and hospitalizations. A majority of Americans will no longer be recommended to wear masks inside in public spaces under the new guidance (The Associated Press).
In California, Los Angeles County says it will lift its indoor mask requirements beginning today at establishments, venues and businesses that verify COVID-19 vaccination status (ABC 7).
> The CDC guidance change comes as the “stealth omicron” cousin known at BA.2 continues its rapid spread globally. Early research finds the variant spreads much faster than the original omicron and in rare cases can sicken people even if they’ve already had an omicron infection. There’s mixed research on whether it causes more severe disease, but vaccines appear just as effective against it (The Associated Press). … The Netherlands says it will drop most COVID-19 measures beginning today, despite its experience with high BA.2 infections (Netherlands resident pictured below). The Dutch say the high BA.2 infection rates there have not translated into peak hospitalizations (Reuters).
The Wall Street Journal: New COVID-19 variant: What we know about the BA.2 omicron strain.
The Associated Press: Hong Kong’s new virus cases top 10,000 in spiraling outbreak.
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OPINION
Where Putin goes from here, by Peggy Noonan, columnist, The Wall Street Journal. https://on.wsj.com/36IVHFz
How Putin has fortified Russia against the West’s sanctions, by Sebastian Mallaby, contributing columnist, The Washington Post. https://wapo.st/3t8YOOm
WHERE AND WHEN
The House meets at 12:30 p.m. for a pro forma session. The House returns to work next week.
The Senate convenes at 2 p.m. for a pro forma session.
The president meets with fellow NATO leaders in a virtual summit to discuss the situation in Ukraine at 9 a.m. Biden will receive the President’s Daily Brief at 11:30 a.m.
The vice president will participate virtually in an 8 a.m. meeting with leaders of the Bucharest Nine (B9) group of eastern-flank NATO Allies to discuss Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Participants include leaders from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and the European Union.
Economic indicator: The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report at 8:30 a.m. on personal income and consumer spending in January.
The White House daily briefing is scheduled at 2 p.m.
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ELSEWHERE
➜ CIVIL RIGHTS: A jury in Minnesota on Thursday ended two days of deliberations and convicted three fired Minneapolis police officers, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, of violating the civil rights of George Floyd, who was murdered by former officer Derek Chauvin in 2020 (The Associated Press). Thao and Lane were also charged with failing to intervene to stop Chauvin.
➜ DEMONSTRATIONS: A convoy of about two dozen protesting truckers headed from California across the country had a tough first day on Wednesday (BuzzFeed News). … What do the truckers want as the nation’s capital activates the National Guard, puts state police on high alert, positions snow trucks to thwart any invasion and fills the streets of Capitol Hill with unmarked cars to keep a lookout? (The Washington Post).
➜ HEALTH: Women will no longer have to visit a doctor’s office or clinic in order to obtain an abortion pill, and will be able to do so through telemedicine and receive it via the mail, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. The Food and Drug Administration announced the change in a letter to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a group that has sued over the Trump-era restriction (The Associated Press) … According to a study released on Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, more than half of all U.S. abortions are now done with pills, not surgery, In 2020, pills accounted for 54 percent of all U.S. abortions, up from roughly 44 percent in 2019 (The Associated Press).
➜ CYBERATTACKS: Wired has some timely reporting about Russia’s Sandworm Hackers. Great Britain’s National Cybersecurity Center and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday released advisories warning that they, along with the FBI and the National Security Agency, detected a new form of network device malware being used by Sandworm, a group tied to some of the most destructive cyberattacks in history and believed to be a part of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency. The new malware, which the agencies call Cyclops Blink, has been found in firewall devices sold by networking hardware company Watchguard since at least June 2019. See the advisories HERE (U.S.) and HERE (U.K.). The Associated Press reported on Russia and cyberattacks during the assault on Ukraine.
THE CLOSER
And finally … It’s that time of the week! An extended slow clap for all of this week’s Morning Report Quiz winners who were exceptionally savvy about bits of February news trivia.
Here are the puzzle wizards who scored 4/4: Lou Tisler, Kathleen A. Kovalik, Harry Strulovici, Pam Manges, Mary Anne McEnery, Candi Cee, Patrick Kavanagh, Richard Baznik, Ki Harvey, Jonathan Scheff, Lori Benso, Eric Sugar, Steve James, Jaina Mehta and John Donato.
They knew that Denzel Washington, who is up for his second best actor Academy Award nomination, scored his first best actor Oscar accolade for his performance in “Training Day.”
Germany was the only country at this month’s Winter Olympics to sweep a podium at a single event, having won gold, silver and bronze in the two-man bobsleigh competition.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) was the subject of widespread ridicule for saying that he held his breath when posing for a photograph maskless at a Los Angeles Rams playoff game.
Finally, in the most important news this week, Hank the Tank, a 500-pound black bear who seized internet attention in recent days, has ravaged homes in the Lake Tahoe area seeking out food and other goodies.
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Oklahoma receives an ‘A-‘ from Athlon Sports for the hiring of Brent Venables
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It goes without saying that the Oklahoma Sooners hit a home run when athletic director Joe Castiglione brought in the big guns to replace Lincoln Riley. He brought Brent Venables home.
With help from Bob Stoops, Venables stabilized a program left in turmoil by its former head coach’s sudden departure, and the Oklahoma culture change happened almost overnight.
Sooner Nation was beside itself with joy when the hire was announced. Steve Lassan over at Athlon Sports gave the hire an “A-“ for the Sooners.
Brent Venables, Oklahoma
Previous Job: Defensive Coordinator, Clemson
Venables was regarded as the top defensive coordinator in college football at Clemson and was in no in rush to take a head-coaching job. However, the opportunity to return to Norman where he worked under Bob Stoops from 1999-2011 was simply too enticing. Under Venables’ watch, Clemson ranked inside of the top 10 nationally in scoring defense in six out of the last eight years. Also, the Tigers thrived at creating havoc around the line of scrimmage – an area the Sooners have to focus on improving with the pending move to the SEC. -Steven Lassen, Athlon Sports
Here’s a reminder of how Oklahoma fans felt about the hire of Brent Venables upon his return to Norman.
Just as “Crazy Train” starts, the plane carrying Brent Venables touches down #Sooners pic.twitter.com/rsmshHOFK9
— Ryan Aber (@ryaber) December 6, 2021
This offseason saw a ton of movement on the coaching front with several high profile coaches switching Power Five schools.
Venables’ ranking obviously isn’t a slap in the face, but Athlon Sports has Venables below Mario Cristobal, Billy Napier, Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley. They put Venables on the same tier as Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman and New Mexico State’s Jerry Kill.
Mario Cristobal to Miami was a great hire as well. If he doesn’t bring back The U, no one will.
Brian Kelly’s weird videos on Twitter and fake accent have me very concerned about the future of the LSU Tigers.
Lincoln Riley, well, we’ve said more than enough about Lincoln Riley to USC.
Marcus Freeman made me like Notre Dame simply with this video:
Watching this video I’m starting to think Notre Dame actually won this entire exchange now that Marcus Freeman is their new Head Coach pic.twitter.com/h6YMa9Dtlt
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) December 3, 2021
From what I’ve heard around campus, Venables’ takeover of the program has gone off without a hitch. He’s instilling a new toughness into the team and the players would go to war for him.
Big things are on the way in Norman, Oklahoma, but we already knew that.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. - The first two battery electric buses have arrived, a step toward clean energy for the Med City and Rochester Public Transit.
Last week two 60-foot electric buses were delivered to Rochester Public Transit. The buses will be more efficient, with zero emissions running on battery power.
They will operate on RPT busiest routes, the park and ride routes.
Communications Coordinator for the City of Rochester, Nick Lemmer says these buses represent an opportunity to understand what role electric buses will play in RPT’s service moving forward.
“These vehicles will really be an entirely new step forward in terms of passenger experience and overall opportunity in terms of bottom line and impact on our environment," says Lemmer.
The buses were secured through the Low Emission No Emission federal grant at a cost of about $1.4 million each.
These first 2 battery electric buses in the fleet are also RPT’s largest buses.
Lemmer says with a capacity of 120 passengers - it's almost double what the 40-foot busses can hold.
“The higher capacity means that we will have to make fewer trips - and that also reduces impact both on the environment and the cost to our bottom line,” he adds.
The buses are under inspection and testing and are expected to be in service this summer. | https://www.kimt.com/news/olmsted-county/rochester-public-transit-electric-busses-hit-the-streets-this-summer/article_f9896bde-b142-11ec-80e3-0ba389f8f9ba.html | 2022-04-01T01:56:15Z |
WOOD RIVER - Waggoner Equipment Rental, LLC has been chosen as the March 2022 Riverbend Growth Association Small Business of the Month award recipient.
Located at 6 Helmkamp Drive in Wood River, the family-owned and operated company has been in business for 35 years. Waggoner is a large equipment rental company, with a core fleet of deck cranes that range from 2.5 tons to 25 tons. Additionally, they have a solo 33-ton boom truck as well as rough terrain cranes with a range of 35 to 160 tons. They can also provide their customers with forklifts/telehandlers and skid steer equipment as needed, as well as crane mats and rigging.
Waggoner provides free onsite job evaluations and consultations and offers 24-hour service as needed. All their operators are NCCCO certified and members of International Union of Operating Engineers and they have a fully staffed shop to service the equipment. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556266157328/terri-denison-of-the-small-business-administration-discusses-their-core-services | 2022-04-01T01:56:15Z |
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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Japan freezes assets of 4 more Russian organisations, others for involvement in N.Korea's weapons projects
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By Adam Cooper
Former Australian Test cricket captain Tim Paine says the woman he sexted also sent him explicit text messages, according to court documents in which he and three other men deny they sexually harassed her.
Cricket Tasmania has rejected allegations made by former staffer Renee Ferguson about the organisation and her past colleagues. Federal Court documents said the former receptionist sent explicit messages to Mr Paine and his brother-in-law, made sexualised comments at work and spoke of a drug problem.
The case could go to trial as recent mediation between the parties failed to settle the dispute.
Ms Ferguson has alleged Mr Paine sent her sexually explicit and unsolicited messages, including a photograph of his penis, on November 23, 2017. Mr Paine was to play in an Ashes Test that day but wasn’t captain at the time.
Ms Ferguson also alleges she was sexually harassed by Shannon Tubb – Mr Paine’s brother-in-law – in 2016 and 2017 while he was Cricket Tasmania’s high-performance manager, and that she was subjected to sexualised comments by two other managers at the organisation.
She is seeking about $900,000 from Cricket Tasmania to cover medical costs, pain and suffering and lost wages. She claims she lodged complaints of sexual harassment with five managers, but nothing was done.
In a written response filed with the court, Cricket Tasmania denies Ms Ferguson was sexually harassed at the organisation, and that four then-managers denied she made complaints to them.
It said a fifth manager offered to “escalate” Ms Ferguson’s report that she was sent an inappropriate picture in a text message, but that she declined the offer.
Cricket Tasmania’s response says Mr Paine denies the full exchange of messages between him and Ms Ferguson is detailed in her court papers, and that her version of the exchange is “incomplete and inaccurate”.
“Mr Paine said there were approximately 20 to 30 texts exchanged between him and the applicant. The applicant’s text messages to Mr Paine escalated such that they contained highly sexualised and explicit sexual content,” Cricket Tasmania’s documents say.
Mr Paine doesn’t deny he sent lewd messages. He resigned in tears as captain of the Test team last year when he learned details of the text messages were to become public. It later emerged he was cleared of misconduct in 2018 after a Cricket Australia investigation.
The Cricket Tasmania documents say Cricket Australia concluded Mr Paine had not engaged in any conduct that was non-consensual, unwelcome or unsolicited.
Mr Tubb denies he sexually harassed Ms Ferguson. He admits sending messages but said the exchanges were mutual and consensual.
“He estimates that he and the applicant would have exchanged around 1500 messages each. The applicant often initiated their exchanges and engaged in their ‘banter’,” the documents say.
“Mr Tubb said it had started as office banter which escalated to more sexual messages and extended into non-work hours.”
According to Cricket Tasmania, Mr Tubb said Ms Ferguson sent him explicit photographs, exposed her bra and the top of her breasts to him at the reception area, and made sexualised comments at work. The documents say Mr Tubb said Ms Ferguson had a drug problem and that they discussed it.
Two other men who were managers at Cricket Tasmania deny making inappropriate remarks at work. One said it was Ms Ferguson who initiated sexual innuendo.
Cricket Tasmania denies Ms Ferguson suffered financial loss, and that after she left she worked at a hotel in country Victoria.
Ms Ferguson worked at Cricket Tasmania from 2015 to 2017 and in her documents, said she left in December 2017 when suspended as the organisation investigated money that went missing.
She has since been charged with stealing and has pleaded not guilty in Hobart Magistrates Court. That case is to return to court next week.
The Federal Court case is due to return to court in May.
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The following is taken from the Kings County Sheriff’s office media report. Those appearing as “arrested” have only been arrested on suspicion of the crime indicated and are presumed innocent.
Mark Anthony Peralta, 40. Suspicion of: inflict corporal injury on spouse/cohabitant/dating relationship related charges
Rodger Wayne Langley, 43. Suspicion of: possess controlled substance, manufacture/sale/possess/ETC metal knuckles, inflict corporal injury on spouse/cohabitant/dating relationship, felony bench warrant related charges
Conner Christina Stroh, 21. Suspicion of: inflict corporal injury on spouse/cohabitant/dating relationship related charges
Alexis Marie Dunn, 27. Suspicion of: inflict corporal injury on spouse/cohabitant/dating relationship related charges
Dana Elizabeth Maciel, 29. Suspicion of: stalking, ADW: not firearm related charges
Angel Gabriel Meza Michel, 29. Suspicion of: gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, child abuse w/possible GBI/death, DUI alcohol: causing bodily injury related charges
Isaiah McGee, 25. Suspicion of: assault w/force GBI related charges
Jeremy Logan Popp, 20. Suspicion of: child abuse w/possible GBI/death, battery: spouse/ex spouse/date/ETC related charges
Denzel Aaron Williams, 27. Suspicion of: inflict corporal injury on spouse/cohabitant/dating relationship related charges | https://hanfordsentinel.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/kings-county-bookings/article_e9143942-5deb-521b-8cec-236b17f3c562.html | 2022-04-01T01:56:15Z |
The United States Department of Agriculture released an update to its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and found that nearly everything one might ingest – whether it comes from the grocery store or restaurant – is going up in price.
And yes, that's on top of the price increases consumers have already been forced to endure in the last year.
"All food prices are now predicted to increase between 4.5 and 5.5%," the USDA's Economic Research Service explained in the March report.
While the overall increase is alarming, a closer look at various food categories show just how expensive shoppers can expect items to get, according to the USDA:
As for take-out or dine-in menus, the USDA said those prices are predicted to go up between 5.5 and 6.5% for the remainder of this year.
Additionally, food prices climbed 7.9% for the year ending in February 2022.
This was "the largest 12-month advance since July 1981," according to the department.
The report also noted current global events that will only add to the uncertainty of food affordability, saying, "The impacts of the conflict in Ukraine and the recent increases in interest rates by the Federal Reserve are expected to put upward and downward pressures on food prices, respectively. The situations will be closely monitored to assess the net impacts of these concurrent events on food prices as they unfold."
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Rum, Rhum, Ron — Miami Rum Congress 2022
Thursday, March 31, 2022Jamaica presents a magnificent palette of experiences, a kaleidoscope of colours and sounds that make the island the most precious jewel in the Caribbean. It is a land of unique culture, engaging activities, breath-taking landscapes, and a warm, welcoming people. The beat of reggae. The searing smell of jerk over the fire. The swizzle of rum in your glass. — Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), 2021.
It is no doubt that the Jamaican Rum brands shone brightly at the recently held Miami Rum Congress — a two-day affair held on March 11 and 12 at the Hilton Cabana, Miami Beach Florida.
The first day of the congress was packed with seminars facilitated by the Rum Lab. The seminars comprised discussions around (1) a timeline on rum's rise; (2) building and maintaining a global rum brand; (3) the rum supply chain; (4) thoughts and predictions on rum's evolution; (5) sustainability trends; and (6) cane juice the future of rum. The 45 minute-seminars certainly provided food for thought in terms of continued premiumisation of the category and generally bringing awareness to the spirit in all its forms. What was striking though, was the constant echoing of the need for sustainability — giving back to the Earth, the terroir of the lands where sugarcane is planted, and the people in the process. These points, the panellists believe, are even more significant than the marketing of individual rums and expressed that the global rum community should all rally around being socially responsible investors. Another major point was the future of rum through cane juice. Rum is the fermented spirit of the by-products of sugarcane. Jamaica uses molasses in its fermentation. Given the limitation of quality molasses available, and in an effort to build a business which has longevity, expect to see and hear about more experimentation on the use of cane juice in producing rum or derivatives of rum.
On Day 2, it was all about exhibitions and opportunities to taste. For the first part of the afternoon's activities, the brands were displayed under a tent by the third-floor pool. It would appear that there was a tussle above by the angels to get sips of some of the finest spirits in the world, as a wind storm engulfed the venue for a good 20 minutes. The displays were then relocated to the first floor ballroom where the activities continued — the rum lovers were in heaven!
— Dr Debbian Spence-Minott
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(ABC4) – If you’re tired of looking at old furniture that you bought last year from IKEA, the retailer has announced that it will now pay customers to bring back old furniture.
The IKEA buyback and resell option has now been made available for 37 of its U.S. stores, including the location in West Sacramento. As a way to help pave a path toward sustainable living, the company has brought back the initiative that was launched late last year.
How does it work?
You start by filling out a form on IKEA’s website in order to receive an emailed quote of the buyback value for your furniture. Customers are asked to bring a copy of their quote, buyback number, and fully assembled furniture to your participating IKEA store where an employee will assess the furniture’s buyback value.
When you buyback, you will get store credit and your furniture gets a second life in the As-Is department.
What are the buyback requirements?
According to IKEA, the following categories of products are not currently eligible for the furniture buy-back service:
- Non-IKEA products
- Home furnishing accessories including lighting and textiles
- Add-on units and componentry
- Products that have been used outside including outdoor furniture
- Mattresses and bad textiles (such as blankets and mattress toppers)
- Kitchens including bench tops, cabinets, and fronts
- Modular wardrobes and accessories
- Electrical appliances and products
- Chests of drawers
- “Hacked,” modified or painted products
- Non-assembled products
- Market Hall products (including small kitchen goods, art, rugs, and picture frames)
- Upholstered or leather products
- Sofas or armchairs
- Plants
- Items containing glass (including mirrors)
- Children’s and baby products (such as cribs, mattresses, and change tables)
- Beds and bed frames
The retailer said on its website that large quantities and commercially used items are exempt. | https://fox40.com/news/california-connection/ikea-will-pay-you-to-return-old-furniture-at-select-stores/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:16Z |
Girls Softball
Mountlake Terrace defeated Marysville Getchell 9-5
Mountlake Terrace highlights:
Cameron Dunn: 2 for 4, HR, 2 R, 3 RBI
Kaylee Mitchell: 2 for 3, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI
Delia Glover: 3 for 4, 2B, 3 R
Ellie Gilbert: 2 for 3, R, RBI, SF
Kyleigh Smith: 2 for 4, RBI
Mya Sheffield: 1 for 4, 2B, RBI
Mountlake Terrace pitching:
Ellie Gilbert: 4 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 7 BB, 3 K
Kyleigh Smith: 3 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
Marysville Getchell highlights:
Teagan Carroll: 2 for 4, 2 2B, 3 RBI
Morgan Epperson: 2 for 3, BB, 2 R, RBI
Lily Balgos: 2 for 4, 2 R, 2 SB
Records (conference and overall): Mountlake Terrace 2-2, 3-3; Marysville Getchell 1-2, 1-4
Mountlake Terrace next game: at Kamiak; Friday April 1, 4 p.m.
Mariner defeated Meadowdale 5-4
No details reported
Records: Mariner 5-1; Meadowdale 2-3
Meadowdale next game: vs Everett; Friday April 1; 7 p.m. at Lincoln Field in Everett
Marysville Pilchuck defeated Lynnwood 8-6
Records (conference and overall): Marysville Pilchuck 3-0, 3-2; Lynnwood 2-1, 3-1
Lynnwood next game: at Glacier Peak; Thursday March 31, 4 p.m.
Jackson defeated Edmonds-Woodway 27-1 (5 innings)
Jackson highlights:
Macie Dean: 4 for 4, 3 3B, 5 R, 4 RBI
Allie Thomsen: 3 H, 5 RBI
Leneyah Mitchell: 3 RBI
Avery Olson: 3 RBI
Avery Hare: HR
Edmonds-Woodway highlights:
Maggie Duffy: 3B, RBI
Records: Jackson 8-0; Edmonds-Woodway 1-6
Edmonds-Woodway next game: vs Cascade; Friday April 1, 4:30 p.m. at Edmonds-Woodway High School
Girls Golf
Meadowdale 205, Edmonds-Woodway 232, Shorewood 238
At Lynnwood Golf Course
Top finishers:
1. Sarah Reitz (M) 43
2. Kate Sabarillo (M) 52
3. Kari Petterson (M) 53
4. Miranda Song (EW) 54
T5. Anna Ertsgaard (SW) 57
T5. Trinity Romero (M) 57
T5. Courtney Sadoski (EW) 57
Meadowdale next match: vs Shorecrest; Monday April 11; 3 p.m. at Jackson Park Golf Course
Edmonds-Woodway next match: vs Archbishop Murphy; Wednesday April 13; 3 p.m. at Nile Golf Course
— Compiled by Steve Willits | https://lynnwoodtoday.com/high-school-sports-roundup-for-march-30-2022/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:16Z |
On Friday, April 1 we'll find out which teams will join host nation Qatar in Group A of the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be held from Nov. 21 through Dec. 18 later this year.
As with every other World Cup group, Group A will consist of four teams drawn from each of four different pots. Host nation Qatar is pre-selected from Pot 1 to play in Group A as is customary per World Cup tradition.
That leaves three more teams to come from Pots 2-4. All four pots are grouped according to the FIFA World Rankings published on March 31:
- Pot 1: seven highest-ranked teams + host Qatar
- Pot 2: next eight ranked teams according to Rankings
- Pot 3: next eight ranked teams according to Rankings
- Pot 4: five lowest-ranked teams + three unclaimed berths
The draw will start with Pot 1 and end with Pot 4. Teams drawn from each pot are slotted into a group beginning with Group A and moving on through Group H.
Geographic restrictions: Teams from the same region cannot be drawn in the same group with the exception of Europe. Since there are 13 European teams in the draw and only eight groups (A-H), a maximum two European nations are permitted in a single group. If there's a geographic clash, the team drawn is simply moved to the next group in sequence.
World Cup Group A table & fixtures
Group A match schedule
The four teams selected into the group will play a round-robin format with each nation facing the other three. Group standings are based on points from those three group-stage matches — three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a loss.
The top two teams from each group based on total points advance to the single-game knockouts. If teams are tied on points, goal difference is the first tiebreaker followed by goals scored. If teams are also tied in those categories another set of tiebreakers is applied.
The kickoff times and stadium assignments for every group game will be determined by FIFA after the draw to optimize for broadcast time slots in participating countries and for fan travel within Qatar.
MORE: Are World Cup stadiums in Qatar air-conditioned?
World Cup Group A draw
According to the official 2022 FIFA World Cup Draw procedure, here's how the draw happens:
- Step 1 — Team: A team name will first be randomly drawn from each pot, starting with Pot 1 and ending with Pot 4. Each pot is emptied before moving on to the next one.
- Step 2 — Group: Each team will automatically enter the next group in order from Group A-H. So the first team drawn from each pot goes into Group A, the second team drawn into Group B, and so on all the way through Group H. If there's a geographic restriction (see above) that prevents a team from being included in a group, then that team is simply inserted into the next group. The group that is skipped over will be filled by the next team drawn.
- Step 3 — Group Slot: All Pot 1 teams will automatically occupy the first slot in a group (Ex. A1, B1, C1, etc.). For the other pots, a ball will be randomly drawn to determine a nation's group slot (Ex. A2, A3 or A4). Why does a group slot matter? It determines the sequence of matches, making it important that it's randomly selected.
In the case of Group A, we already know the name of one of the teams in the group before the draw even takes place: It is World Cup tournament tradition to automatically place the tournament host into the A1 slot in Group A. That honor in 2022 belongs to Qatar.
Qatar
As the 2022 World Cup host, Qatar is determined to put on a show for football fans around the globe, and that includes on the field.
The small Gulf nation with a population under three million has invested significantly in its national team program over the last decade since it won the right to host the tournament back in Dec. 2010. Since then, the cash outlay on player development, coaching and infrastructure has paid off with a No. 51 FIFA World Ranking, up from 112th. It also resulted in a first Asian Cup in 2019.
With ex-Barcelona youth coach Felix Sanchez leading the way since 2017, Qatar has developed an attack-minded, entertaining playing style which is sure to win over fans no matter how far they advance in its first World Cup appearance.
- Current FIFA world ranking: No. 51 (March 2022)
- Regional ranking: 5th (Asia)
- World Cup titles: —
- World Cup appearances (last): —
- How qualified: Tournament host
- Overall record (all competitions & friendlies):
- 2022: 1W-0L-1D (Goals: 2 scored / 1 conceded)
- 2021: 12W-7L-5D (Goals: 35 scored / 32 conceded)
- Manager: Felix Sanchez (Spain) since July 2017
- Star players: Akram Afif (Al-Sadd SC / Qatar), Almoez Ali (Al-Duhail SC / Qatar), Hassan Al-Haydos (Al-Sadd SC / Qatar)
Teams to advance from World Cup Group A
Shortly after the World Cup Draw, sportsbooks are expected to hang group odds for each team to advance from the group stage.
The first-place and second-place finishers in Group A will move on to the Round of 16 and will face off against the two teams to advance from Group B on Saturday, Dec. 3 and Sunday, Dec. 4.
The official FIFA 2022 World Cup match schedule outlines the following knockout pairings for the Round of 16 through to the final: | https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/world-cup-2022-group-a-draw-teams-schedule-times-fixtures/kdcdgm8bnx1fpexqb1wtjane | 2022-04-01T01:56:16Z |
WASHINGTON — Got a dime you can spare? Coins are in short supply — again.
Retailers, laundromats and other businesses that rely on coins want Americans to empty their piggy banks and look under couch cushions for extra change and "get coin moving."
A group of trade associations that represent individual businesses including banks, retail outlets, truck stops, grocery stores and more is asking the Treasury Department for more help convincing Americans to get coins back in circulation.
The consequences of the circulation slowdown hit people who don't have an ability to pay for items electronically, they say.
"If retailers are not able to offer change for cash purchases consumers who rely on cash will be vulnerable," the associations said in a letter to Treasury.
For example, people who do their laundry at coin laundry mats could have a harder time finding change to wash their clothes. And on a larger scale, people who don't have cash access aren't able to patronize certain card-only businesses.
It's not a coin shortage America faces, but a lack of circulation.
"We can't print our way out of this problem," said Austen Jensen, a senior vice president for government affairs at the Retail Industry Leaders Association.
Jensen's group, along with the American Bankers Association, National Association of Convenience Stores, and National Grocers Association, is trying to meet consumer demand and wants a new public campaign to increase coin circulation.
Jensen said his group is also encouraging member retailers to find creative ways to deal with the shortage of coins, including rounding-up purchases for charity promotions. And he says businesses with multiple locations could send coins from one store to another.
This is not the first time during the pandemic that the issue of low coin circulation has arisen.
The coronavirus disrupted consumers' buying habits and shifted purchases largely to plastic cards to such an extent that in July 2020, the Federal Reserve restricted coin orders by financial institutions.
The Fed also convened a U.S. Coin Task Force, made up of representatives from various federal agencies, which led to a campaign encouraging the public to get coins into circulation.
This February, the task force issued a State of Coin report, which said pandemic lockdowns slowed small transactions that generated change and there was a temporary aversion to cash for perceived hygienic reasons. The report also said the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Mint contracted with a third party consultant to review the coin supply chain.
Coin deposit volumes began to increase gradually starting in the summer of 2020, but businesses say the problem has come up again as people have stopped using coins and have stuck to plastic cards.
The issue has had the biggest impact on people who don't have bank accounts. An estimated 22 percent of U.S. Americans were "unbanked" or "underbanked" in 2019, according to the Federal Reserve.
The Treasury Department has yet to respond to the letter. The government encourages people to help get coin moving by spending it with retailers, taking it to their banks and credit unions, or using a coin recycling kiosk like the ones found at grocery stores. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/got-a-dime-businesses-seek-help-with-coin-shortage/article_b70eb2c6-5619-5723-a31f-db34ff238f1a.html | 2022-04-01T01:56:16Z |
It was draft night in Murrieta. But the picks weren’t athletes.
Instead, 412 Church Temecula Valley on March 2 hosted an “endorsement draft” of conservative Christians who plan to run against school board members in Lake Elsinore, Menifee, Murrieta and Temecula this November.
The kickoff rally, which featured a hype video set to the “NFL on Fox” theme music, was the opening salvo of a new offensive in southwest Riverside County’s culture wars, where past battles include the removal of a nude woman’s portrait from the city-run Old Town Temecula theater and protests against a proposal to build a mosque in Temecula.
It’s part of a national trend that’s turned public schools into political battlefields over COVID-19 mandates, LGBTQ acceptance and what children should learn about race.
Front and center in the campaign to shake up local school boards is 412 Pastor Tim Thompson and the recently formed Inland Empire Family PAC.
“Systemically, they have been removing us out of our children’s lives, taking over control and trying to replace parents with the state,” Thompson, whose church has about 1,000 adult members, said at the rally.
Critics argue that what Thompson and his allies really want is a theocracy that marginalizes non-Christians and the LGBTQ community and ignores racism’s role in U.S. history. Targeted school board members said they must represent a diverse community and follow the law.
“It’s extremely offensive because public schools are for every child,” said Julie Geary, a member of the progressive group Temecula Unity and a Val Verde Unified School District teacher.
At the rally, Thompson, who at times spoke from a cross-adorned podium, said: “I’ve been saying that the government-ran school system is Satan’s playground. We need to change what’s happening there.”
“When this nation was founded, the church was the public square. All roads led to the church,” he said. “Everyone got together at church to discuss the things that were happening in their community and to find out what their pastor had to say about those issues. We’re taking back that public square.”
The push to put conservatives on school boards crests a wave of anger over policies enacted to stop COVID-19’s spread, especially California’s now-rescinded student mask requirement.
Locally and nationwide, the mandate backlash fueled heated confrontations at public meetings between COVID-skeptical parents and school board members. School boards were often the only outlet for people to publicly vent their frustration, said John Rogers, a UCLA education professor.
School boards have long been a target of the Christian right.
“I would rather have a thousand school board members than one president and no school board members,” conservative Christian leader Ralph Reed said in 1996.
Conservative pressure on school boards has ebbed and flowed for decades, Rogers said. In Orange County, conservatives in the 1960s fought against sex education, and in recent years, they pressured school boards not to adopt academic standards known as Common Core, he said.
Following George Floyd’s murder and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, a broader effort has emerged, fueled in part by national conservative groups, to challenge local school boards that try to address racial diversity, equity and inclusion, Rogers said.
“School districts, more than any time in recent history, became lightning rods for political activism,” he said.
In November, Republican Glenn Youngkin scored an upset win in Virginia’s governor race on a platform of supporting parents’ rights and opposing school mask mandates and critical race theory. Thompson draws inspiration from Youngkin’s win in a blue state, saying “parental rights is the issue that’s gonna win elections.”
Southwest Riverside County could be fertile ground for a conservative school board takeover. While California and Riverside County as a whole have more Democratic than GOP voters, Republicans hold a voter registration edge in Murrieta, Temecula and Menifee.
The county in September was California’s largest to support the failed recall of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. And the GOP is expected to capitalize on President Joe Biden’s unpopularity this election cycle.
That said, conservative candidate slates don’t always succeed. In 2018, three conservative Christian pastors who ran as a team for the Corona City Council came up short.
Conservative Christians once controlled a majority of seats on the Chino Valley Unified School District board and waded into fights over transgender students using bathrooms and students participating in sports based on their gender identity rather than the sex they were assigned at birth.
When the board went beyond starting meetings with an invocation prayer to mid-meeting prayers, Bible discussions of up to 12 minutes and urging meeting attendees to “find Jesus,” it was sued by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
The board’s balance of power shifted in the 2018 election, with church members now in the minority. They’re still there and in November proposed restricting transgender students’ access to bathrooms and locker rooms based on gender listed in their student records, in violation of state law.
Thompson, who said his group is focusing first on its own backyard, is active on social media, including YouTube.
His “Our Watch” online videos have featured interviews with Riverside County leaders such as Sheriff Chad Bianco, District Attorney Mike Hestrin and Supervisor Jeff Hewitt. Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene of Georgia spoke at 412 Church after her visit to Riverside last summer with fellow conservative firebrand and Florida GOP Congress Member Matt Gaetz.
Thompson said he tried working with school board members and flew to Sacramento to speak with lawmakers about his concerns. But he said he only found finger pointing.
“It became abundantly clear we had to replace the school boards,” he said.
Thompson denied wanting to install a theocracy. School boards, he said, are supposed to reflect the community’s values and represent the people to government, not the other way around.
“We want what’s best for our community and we believe there’s more of us than there are of the other side,” said Thompson, who grew up in Murrieta.
Caitlin Jones, who plans to run for a Temecula Valley Unified School District board seat, was among the endorsed candidates interviewed at the rally.
“I stand on the word of God,” said Jones, who added that she will run “to keep education what it should be — education, not indoctrination.”
Thompson also interviewed Joseph Komrosky, who plans to seek a Temecula Valley school board seat to “fight for the parents and the kids.”
Komrosky later added: “When teachers at Temecula can tell kids if you’re a boy and you feel like dressing like a girl, if you’re a girl, you can dress like a boy — I saw an instance of that with my own eyes in our community and I don’t want my son to be affected by it.”
Courtney Cooper, a nurse who plans to run for the Murrieta Valley Unified School District board, said her middle school-age children have been subjected to critical race theory and “LGBTQ influence and I’m tired of it.”
“ … I’m not against anyone in their sexual preference,” Cooper said. “This is America. You’re free to do what you want. However, it goes against my values and beliefs as a Christian.”
On its website, the Inland Empire Family PAC lists “Transgenderism Encouraged” and “Forced LGBTQ+ Acceptance” under the category “The Problem in Schools.”
Conservatives, as “part of a broader narrative filled with hate,” are spreading misinformation about LGBTQ people to turn out their base, said Tony Hoang, executive director of the LGBTQ civil rights group Equality California.
“They’re using the so-called parents rights movement to demagogue the most vulnerable in our community,” Hoang said.
Thompson and PAC-backed candidates also blasted critical race theory, a term for a graduate-level course of study that’s used by conservatives to attack a range of K-12 instruction about race. The doctrine teaches White children to feel ashamed and that people should be judged by their color, they said.
“We need to teach history as it is,” Thompson said. “Slavery does not exist anymore in our state. It is against the law. Talking to the kids, we need to talk in terms of that. It’s historical. It’s not current. This is to make certain groups of people feel like they’re oppressed. It’s just not true in 2022.”
Thompson and his allies want to silence any talk in schools about racism, said Corey Jackson, Riverside NAACP political action chair and a Riverside County Board of Education trustee.
“Sometimes the truth hurts and the truth is that racism is the foundation of this country and it continues to operate in our community and in our various systems of government,” added Jackson, a Black Democratic candidate for an Inland Assembly seat.
Teaching about racism’s role in U.S. history isn’t intended to shame White children, he said, adding that “it’s meant to make sure they’re aware of how the world operates and affects others.”
Established in September, the Inland Empire Family PAC raised almost $11,000 last year and had about $3,300 in the bank as of Dec. 31, records show.
PAC chairperson John Andrews told rally-goers the PAC strictly vetted endorsed candidates.
None of the eight endorsed candidates attend 412 Church, Thompson said. Screenings continue and the plan is to have a candidate for every open school seat on those four boards in November.
Endorsed candidates will get access to a political consultant, marketing and website help and volunteers to knock on doors, staff phone banks and work at fundraisers, Andrews said.
“We’re trying to give our people everything they need to beat every weak school board member in the Temecula Valley,” he said.
A planned April PAC fundraiser is being headlined by Bianco and Katie Hopkins, a British media personality denounced for past comments about immigrants and Islam.
Alleged weakness and cowardice is a theme in the group’s attacks against targeted school board members.
“We have very, very weak people leading our kids and I’m completely fed up with it,” said Cooper, the Murrieta Valley board candidate.
Temecula Valley school board President Adam Skumawitz said in an email that it’s “disheartening to hear about this tactic utilizing divisive language in an attempt to intimidate other candidates and dismantle a public school system that has proudly and consistently ranked near the top of California schools.”
“I think the vast majority of our TVUSD families would agree that this sort of rhetoric and name calling is not welcome on our campuses, much less from our schools’ leadership,” he wrote.
Barbara Brosch, another Temecula Valley board member, said via email that the district doesn’t teach critical race theory and parents have long had the option of taking their children out of sex education classes.
“(I’m a) coward, spineless (and) weak because I follow the law?” she said. “This continues to be disheartening, and I would be lying if I did not say this has personally affected me, especially coming from a pastor.”
Many of the PAC’s grievances are rooted in state law that local school boards can’t change, Lake Elsinore Unified School District Trustee Chris McDonald said.
“Any curriculum that we adopt is required to go for public review and comment before it’s put in place,” he said. “I don’t believe we are teaching a lot of things they are commenting on.”
Murrieta Valley school board President Kris Thomasian said in an email that she “proudly” represents all in the district.”
“ … Contrary to blatant disinformation, our schools are working hard and doing wonderful work on behalf of students,” she said.
Geary, of Temecula Unity, said she’ll work to keep the PAC’s candidates off school boards.
“Churches should be about love, kindness, helping the poor, helping the sick, feeding the homeless (and) helping their community, not driving a wedge through it,” she said.
ENDORSED CANDIDATES
Here are those endorsed by the Inland Empire Family PAC for southwest Riverside County school boards:
Caitlin Jones, Temecula Valley Unified School District board, Trustee Area 1
Danny Gonzalez, Temecula Valley school board, Trustee Area 2
Jen Wiersma, Temecula Valley school board, Trustee Area 3
Joseph Komrosky, Temecula Valley school board, Trustee Area 4
Todd Donohue, Lake Elsinore Unified School District board, Trustee Area 1
Michelle Smith, Lake Elsinore school board, Trustee Area 5
Nick Pardue, Murrieta Valley Unified School District Trustee Area 1
Courtney Cooper, Murrieta Valley school board, Trustee Area 2
Staff Writer Beau Yarbrough contributed to this report.
Editor’s note: A photo caption with this story has been updated to correct an error. Matthew Dobler is a political consultant. | https://www.presstelegram.com/2022/03/27/why-conservative-christians-want-to-take-over-southwest-riverside-county-school-boards/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:16Z |
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VANCOUVER, BC, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Wheaton Precious Metals™ Corp. ("Wheaton" or the "Company") announces that its Form 40-F report has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is available on EDGAR. The Company's 2021 audited financial statements, along with its Form 40-F, are also available on the Company's website at www.wheatonpm.com.
Shareholders may also receive a copy of Wheaton's audited financial statements, without charge, upon request to Wheaton's Investor Relations Department, Suite 3500, 1021 West Hastings St., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6E 0C3 or to info@wheatonpm.com.
Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders
Wheaton is scheduled to hold its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") at the offices of Cassels, Brock & Blackwell LLP, Suite 2200 HSBC Building, 885 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday, May 13, 2022, at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time.
The Board recognizes the importance of in-person engagement with its shareholders, while also being mindful of the health and safety of Wheaton's shareholders, employees and community. As a result, for this year's Meeting, Wheaton will once again provide an online virtual Meeting platform and encourages shareholders to participate in the Meeting using this online platform.
All shareholders participating in our online virtual Meeting platform will be able to listen to the Meeting live, ask questions online, and for registered shareholders or proxyholders (including non-registered shareholders who have appointed themselves as proxyholder), submit votes in real time.
Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders who wish to participate in the online virtual Meeting may do so:
- from their computer, by entering the following URL in their browser: https://web.lumiagm.com/285841977;
- from their mobile device by either:
- entering the following URL in their browser: https://web.lumiagm.com/285841977; or
- or by using the Lumi AGM app, which is available by downloading the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
- entering the following URL in their browser: https://web.lumiagm.com/285841977; or
If you choose to participate in the online virtual Meeting as a registered shareholder, you can log in to into the Meeting by:
- Entering the meeting ID for the Meeting, which is: 285841977
- Selecting "I am a shareholder/proxy"
- Clicking "I have a control number" and entering your valid control number
- Entering the password for the Meeting, which is: wheaton2022 (case sensitive)
Guests, including Beneficial Shareholders who have not duly appointed themselves as a proxyholder, can log in to into the Meeting by clicking "I am a guest" and completing the online form. Guests will be able to listen to the Meeting, but will not be able to ask questions or vote.
Important technical reminders for joining the meeting and voting instructions will be made available on the Company's website at www.wheatonpm.com, in the 'investors' section under the 'annual general meeting' tab.
While Wheaton is encouraging our shareholders to participate in our online virtual meeting platform, anyone who nevertheless wishes to attend the Meeting in person must pre-register via email to WheatonAGM2022@wheatonpm.com by 10:30am May 11, 2022 (PST) so that the Company can facilitate physical distancing and other precautions to ensure the health and safety of all attendees.
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Carper, Merkley, Colleagues Call on USPS to Explain New Delivery Fleet Plan, Push for More Electric Vehicles
DELAWARE, March 31 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee and senior member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), today led their colleagues in a letter to United States Post Office (USPS) Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, pressing USPS to explain its financial analysis behind its plan to acquire a new delivery fleet comprised of predominantly gas-powered vehicles.
“USPS accounts for roughly one-third of the federal fleet and the actions that USPS takes will have a significant impact on whether the United States does its share to combat climate chaos,” wrote the lawmakers. “While investing in a minimum of 20 percent electric postal vehicles is an improvement, the USPS must do more. Not only does USPS’s current plan to invest in predominantly fossil fuel-powered vehicles endanger public health and the environment, the decision is also being made at a time when companies like Federal Express (FedEx) and United Parcel Service (UPS) are increasingly moving towards electric vehicles for economic reasons. We therefore ask that you further explain to us USPS’s decision.
“The USPS has repeatedly stated that its decision to replace the majority of its fleet with internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) is based on an analysis of USPS’s existing financial condition and its determination that procuring ICEVs is more cost-effective than procuring EVs,” they continued. “Your statements about the costs of procuring ICEVs over EVs contradict recent reports on the cost-effectiveness of purchasing EVs, including one report that found USPS could save taxpayers $4.3 billion over the fleet’s lifetime by using 97 percent electric.”
Senator Carper has been a longtime champion of the Postal Service, and has continually pushed the USPS to electrify its new delivery fleet. Last year, Carper applauded USPS’s announcement to replace its outdated, dirty vehicle fleet. Several months later, Carper called on the Postal Service to invest in more electric vehicles than it had pledged. And just last month, Carper appealed directly to Postmaster General DeJoy in a letter urging the agency to reverse course and adopt a cleaner, more sustainable fleet for its next generation of delivery vehicles.
In their letter, the lawmakers request a response from USPS on the following items:
- The cost analysis that USPS used to determine the cost effectiveness of electric vehicles, including any assumptions made about the price of batteries, electricity, electric vehicle chargers, and gasoline;
- The current cost analysis that USPS will use to place purchase orders for vehicles under the Oshkosh contract and how that analysis differs from the cost analysis USPS used to award the contract;
- The cost schedule for the order from Oshkosh Defense to purchase 50,000 vehicles with a makeup of 80 percent ICEVs and 20 percent EVs;
- The estimated cost schedule for the order from Oshkosh Defense to purchase 50,000 vehicles if the makeup were a minimum of 70 percent EVs;
- An overview of how USPS utilized the expertise of the General Services Administration, Department of Energy, and/or the Environmental Protection Agency in the process of developing the Request For Proposal for the USPS Next Generation Delivery Vehicle with a focus on electrifying the fleet and engaged these agencies when developing the cost analysis, and cost schedule for the procurement of USPS ICEVs and EVs;
- Any barriers to transitioning to an EV fleet that exist for USPS that do not exist, or do not exist to the same degree, for USPS competitors who are currently purchasing EVs, including all cost factors and assumptions behind USPS’s claim that the amount of acceleration and deceleration for USPS trucks makes replacement and maintenance costs for ICEVs cheaper than EVs as well as whether USPS projects any benefits from regenerative breaking for USPS EVs; and
- USPS’s analysis of the risk of losing business from companies who are making greenhouse gas pledges if USPS’s greenhouse gas profile is higher than competitors and how that would impact USPS’s financial security.
In addition to Carper and Merkley, 17 other Democratic Senators signed onto the letter, including Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Ben Cardin (D-Md.).
The full text of the letter can be found here.
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On Monday, the Central government introduced a bill that will significantly expand the scope of the information the government can collect from convicts, arrested persons and other persons such as habitual offenders.
Called the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022, it replaces the 102-year old Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920.
The government has claimed that this is an update to an outdated law and would make criminal investigations “more efficient” and also “help in increasing the conviction rate”. However, many lawyers and activists have voiced concerns around the legislation, saying that it could infringe fundamental rights such as privacy and the right against self-incrimination.
What is the bill about?
The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 authorises law enforcement agencies to collect a host of biometric data as well as biological samples from convicts and other persons to help identify criminals and investigate crimes. The bill also specifies how data will be recorded and preserved.
Presently, under the 1920 law, the police can only record fingerprint and footprint impressions for a limited number of convicted and non-convicted people. However, what the police can collect now has been massively expanded. Along with fingerprints and footprints, the police can keep records of a person’s iris and retina scan as well as biological samples and their analyses along with behavioural attributes such as signatures and handwriting.
It also includes other measurements defined under sections 53 and 53(A) of the Code of Criminal Procedure which has blood, semen, saliva and sweat, hair samples, fingernail clippings, DNA profiling and other such tests which a registered medical practitioner thinks are necessary to collect evidence in regard to a crime.
Who is covered under the bill?
The bill expands the scope of people from whom the police can collect information. It applies to anyone who has been convicted under any law or is arrested for any offence or is detained under any preventive detention law.
In contrast, under the present law, information can be collected from people who are either convicted or arrested for an offence carrying more than one year’s imprisonment.
The bill also says that if a person resists giving information, the police can take it forcibly in a manner that may be prescribed by the executive later. The legislation awards very limited power to refuse the collection of information. It says that a person arrested for a crime that has a sentence of less than seven years and is not a crime against a woman or a child can refuse to give “biological samples”, a term that has not been defined. Therefore, in other scenarios, the police can take information without a person’s consent.
Further, a magistrate has the power to authorise the police to collect anyone’s measurement if required for “any investigation or proceedings”. Apart from that, certain persons who have been ordered to give security or a bond for their good behaviour can have their information recorded. These provisions exist in the current law as well.
How long is the information stored and who stores it?
The information collected will be retained for 75 years from the date of collection.
The National Crime Records Bureau, which falls under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, will collect, store, process, share and destroy the data.
State governments and union territories have the option to notify an appropriate agency to collect, preserve and share information in their jurisdictions since the police are under their respective state’s control.
Further, the bill says that information about first-time offenders who are released or acquitted will be deleted after all legal remedies have been exhausted. However, a court or a magistrate can order against this deletion.
What are the concerns with the bill?
The bill has met with resistance, both from Opposition leaders as well as civil rights lawyers and activists.
In the Lok Sabha, parties such as the Congress and the Trinamool Congress said that this bill attacks the fundamental rights of individuals.
Manish Tewari, a member of Parliament, flagged that “biological samples and their analysis” could extend to narco analysis and brain mapping and if forced, would affect the fundamental rights of the accused.
The Supreme Court, in Selvi v State of Karnataka had held that these investigative techniques when taken against a person’s consent would infringe the fundamental right against self-incrimination guaranteed by Article 20(3) of the Constitution and the right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.
Apart from that, the bill could also violate a person’s right to privacy. Currently, India does not have a data protection law. In such a scenario, the collection of such extensive data by the police also raises questions on how this data might be used.
Civil rights body Internet Freedom Foundation said that the purpose of the new bill is not to just identify prisoners but also to “establish the crime of the accused”. This could potentially be prone to misuse as there are not enough safeguards in the bill currently.
It further argued it is unclear whether the police can collect and use a person’s DNA, since DNA’s use in criminal investigation is under debate in a separate bill.
Digital rights researcher, Srinivas Kodali pointed out that this bill is another step in the National Crime Record Bureau creating a “360-degree profile of people of interest” since it is also building other databases such as the National Automated Facial Recognition System and National Automated Fingerprint Recognition System.
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NIWA-Nippon Foundation Tonga Eruption Seabed Mapping Project A "rare Opportunity" To Study Effects Of Tonga Eruption
NIWA and The Nippon Foundation are undertaking a mission to discover the undersea impacts of the recent Tongan volcanic eruption.
In a rare opportunity to improve understanding of the nature and impact of a major volcanic eruption, NIWA scientists are sailing to Tonga to survey the ocean around the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai (HT-HH) volcano and surrounding regions. They will be surveying thousands of square kilometres of the seafloor and collecting video images of the eruption’s impact from NIWA’s research vessel, RV Tangaroa, and using SEA-KIT International’s Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) Maxlimer to conduct further mapping.
The NIWA-Nippon Foundation Tonga Eruption Seabed Mapping Project (TESMaP) is being funded by The Nippon Foundation - the largest non-profit organisation based in Japan which, amongst other philanthropic activities, has been facilitating projects in the ocean field since 1962. The research is also supported by The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project which aims to map the world’s ocean floor by 2030.
Project leader and NIWA Chief Scientist Oceans Mike Williams predicts that there will be extensive changes to the underwater landscape around Tonga.
"Before the eruption, much of the volcano was above water but now none of it is and the neighbouring islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai were reduced in size. We expect similarly dramatic changes to have occurred in the underwater topography.
"Submarine cable breakages show impacts up to 50 kilometres from the volcano caldera, implying changes to the seabed over an area of at least 8,000 square kilometres. This survey will investigate the impacts of the eruption in the water column and on the seabed around HT-HH."
The eruption was unprecedented and unexpected; volcanos of this type were not previously anticipated to erupt so violently or trigger such large explosions.
Dr Williams says that with similar volcanos around the globe, particularly along the Pacific Ring of Fire, the eruption of HT-HH highlights a risk to society from our lack of knowledge about them.
The Nippon Foundation Chairman Dr Yohei Sasakawa says that this research is vital to help protect people from similar natural disasters in the future.
"By working together, we have the power to help solve some of the biggest problems facing society, including the fall-out from natural disasters.
"We hope that this work will help researchers and governments understand and mitigate the risk of future eruptions, which will be of particular benefit to countries that lie within proximity of these threatening natural wonders, like Japan and New Zealand."
Tonga’s Deputy Secretary for Lands and Natural Resources Taaniela Kula says that the eruption of the HT-HH volcano on January 15, 2022, had catastrophic consequences.
"It covered our main island of Tongatapu in carpets of toxic ash, generated a sonic boom that travelled around the globe and caused a tsunami that resulted in deaths and damage as far away as South America.
"It also severed both submarine fibre optic cables connecting Tonga with the world, leaving our country in a prolonged "blackout". The direct economic impact of the eruption is estimated by the World Bank to be over $US90m. As a country we’re building back slowly. We hope this research will help in the efforts to protect our nation and others like us in the future."
The TESMaP project will take place in two parts - NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa, will set sail next week [9 April] to do the first part of the surveying. Following that, SEA-KIT International’s 12-metre-long USV Maxlimer, in coordination with Seabed 2030, will remain at sea for an additional month of mapping and environmental data collection.
Scientists will gather acoustic data using echosounders to determine the shape and structure of the underwater landscape, including the thickness of ash deposits and the formation of any new bedforms. This data will then be compared with previous maps to identify areas for sampling, so that further changes to the area, such as impacts to marine life and the seafloor’s chemical composition, can be assessed.
Kevin Mackay is head of the South and West Pacific Regional Center of Seabed 2030 and the voyage leader. He says that the collective knowledge, experience and resources of the organisations involved will help build a detailed and invaluable picture of the eruption’s aftermath.
"By working alongside and pooling resources with such a multinational team, we’ll be able to gather an incredible amount of information of what happens during eruptions like these, what the impacts are, and how we can be better prepared next time a similar event occurs.
"There is much we still don’t know about the natural world, especially what occurs under our oceans, so we’re delighted to take this opportunity to build our knowledge and help Tonga’s people and environment."
Ben Simpson, CEO, SEA-KIT International, says it is an exciting opportunity to demonstrate data collection using less than 2% of the fuel of a typical survey vessel.
"USV Maxlimer will be controlled from the other side of the world, at our base in the UK, as she safely gathers a range of data types from inside the caldera for a full month to develop and support understanding of the eruption’s undersea impact."
Notes:
Crown Research Institute NIWA is New Zealand's leading environmental science and applied research service provider, specialising in atmospheric, freshwater and marine research. We work at the forefront of some of the most critical environmental issues facing the planet, and our staff are recognised as international experts in their fields.
The Nippon Foundation is the largest private, non-profit foundation in Japan, established in 1962 for the purpose of carrying out philanthropic activities. The Foundation’s overall objectives include social innovation, assistance for humanitarian activities and global ocean management.
Tonga Geological Services is a Division of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources in the Kingdom of Tonga. It is responsible for the management of non-living resources including sand, coral limestone aggregates, water, seabed minerals, petroleum explorations and provide advice in reduction of risk from geological hazards, such as tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, storm surges, drought and pluvial floods. Given the above, the TGS partners with relevant agencies to undertake marine scientific research in Tonga waters.
The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project is a collaboration between The Nippon Foundation, Japan’s largest private philanthropic organisation, and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO), which has more than a century of experience in ocean-floor mapping. Its mission is to create a comprehensive, publicly available map of the entire ocean floor by 2030, which will empower the world to make informed policy decisions, use the ocean sustainably and undertake scientific research based on detailed bathymetric information.
SEA-KIT International is a British SME providing hi-tech, Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) solutions to the maritime and research industries for deployment in harsh offshore environments. Through ongoing collaboration with industry partners, SEA-KIT is sharply focused on driving down the cost of geo-data collection and reducing carbon emissions. | https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2204/S00001/niwa-nippon-foundation-tonga-eruption-seabed-mapping-project-a-rare-opportunity-to-study-effects-of-tonga-eruption.htm | 2022-04-01T01:56:18Z |
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No, no, no, no, no': Chris Rock shuts down fan who shouts ‘F**k Will Smith!’ during comedian's latest soldout performance in Boston
- Chris Rock stopped his fans from cursing out Will Smith during his comedy show in Boston Thursday night
- 'F**k Will Smith!' a fan shouted, to which Rock replied: 'No, no, no, no, no...'
- The night before, during his first public appearance since the Oscars slap, Rock was also met with 'Will Smith' chants from the audience, but didn't engage
- The comedian did briefly addressed the slap during Wednesday's show, noting that he still needs time to 'process' the assault
- He also told the crowd: 'I haven't talked to anyone, despite what you heard,' referencing rumors that Rock and Smith had made amends
Chris Rock stopped his fans from cursing out Will Smith during his comedy show in Boston Thursday night.
'F**k Will Smith!' a fan shouted, likely in attempt to issue support for Rock after Smith slapped him onstage during the Academy Awards.
'No, no, no, no, no...' the comedian replied, according to People, putting an end to the verbal attacks.
The night before, during his first public appearance since the Oscars slap, Rock was also met with 'Will Smith' chants from the audience, however he did not engage with them.
The comedian did briefly addressed the slap during the show, noting that he still needs time to 'process' the assault.
He also told the crowd: 'I haven't talked to anyone, despite what you heard,' referencing rumors that Rock and Smith had made amends.
Chris Rock stopped his fans from cursing out Will Smith during his comedy show in Boston Thursday night
'F**k Will Smith!' a fan shouted, to which Rock replied: 'No, no, no, no, no...' (Pictured: Rock's Wednesday night show at Wilbur Theatre)
The comic, 57, took to the stage at the Wilbur Theatre on Wednesday and asked: 'How was your weekend?'
The rhetorical question got a big laugh from the crowd, which occasionally heckled the Emmy-winning comedian about Will Smith's on-screen strike. But Rock warned those at the sold-out venue that the show would go on as planned.
'I don't have like a bunch of s*** to say about what happened, so if you came to hear that, I had like a whole show I wrote before... this weekend...' he said to more laughs. 'And I'm still kind of processing what happened.
'So at some time I'll talk about that s***... and it'll be serious. It'll be funny,' he said before an audience member shouted, 'F*** Will!'
'I'm gonna tell some jokes,' Rock concluded, later revealing that he hasn't spoken to 'anyone' since the incident, alluding to reports that he and Smith have reconciled.
But some of the 3,000 fans in the audience - who paid up to $1,000 per ticket - are disappointed that the stand-up comedian avoided the topic on everyone's mind.
'We want our money back, I didn't pay $400 to see nothing,' one person told Fox News. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10674719/Chris-Rock-shuts-fan-shouts-F-k-Smith-comedians-latest-show.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-01T01:56:18Z |
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol interviewed its first Trump family member and the highest-ranking official from the previous administration by meeting with Jared Kushner on Thursday for more than six hours, a source inside the room told NBC News.
The panel met virtually with Kushner — Donald Trump's son-in-law and a former top White House adviser — after he voluntarily agreed to speak with the committee Trump has accused of conducting a "witch hunt."
The source described Kushner as being cooperative and friendly.
For more on this story, go to NBC News. | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/jared-kushner-interviewed-by-jan-6-committee-for-over-6-hours/2796634/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:18Z |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — An agreement between teachers, staff and the Sacramento City Unified School District has yet to be reached.
The bargaining teams entered the district’s office Wednesday night to hold a sit-in and demand their contracts be finalized. Some parents followed their lead and even stayed the night in the building.
“It’s definitely been a long night,” said parent April Ybarra.
The teams made their way inside the SERNA Center again on Thursday after declining the recent proposal of a 3% raise and an additional one-time stipend.
“They really did feel like continued stalled tactics and a lack of effort to bring a resolution,” said Dan Schallock, VP of SEIU 1021.
Ybarra said parents are sick and tired of having their kids out of the classroom. She and two others stayed at the building all night.
“We are mothers here demanding that our children get equitable education, that they keep speaking about, that our superintendent keeps bringing up,” Ybarra said.
The district again refused to go on camera with FOX40 on Thursday, but Superintendent Jorge Aguilar released a video message on Wednesday addressing his concerns regarding the district’s budget.
“The bottom line is this: Our yearly expenses are more than the amount of money that we get from the state to serve our students,” Aguilar said in the video.
But for some in the district, his response isn’t adequate.
“Every proposal that the labor partners have made in terms of ongoing money, is something that the district can afford without touching any one-time money,” Schallock said.
FOX40 was told negotiations were ongoing between the unions and the district Thursday afternoon. Parents said they still plan on staying another night unless there is an agreement. | https://fox40.com/news/local-news/sacramento-city-unifieds-latest-proposal-fails-to-end-strike/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:20Z |
Industrial output dropped for the second straight month in February, owing to a spike in COVID-19 infections amid the spread of the omicron variant and the base effect.
According to Statistics Korea on Thursday, the nation's overall industrial production decreased zero-point-two percent on-month in February.
The country's overall output declined for the second straight month, the first back-to-back slide since it posted drops for five consecutive months from January to May in 2020.
Production in the mining and manufacturing industries increased zero-point-six percent from a month earlier, while service sector output dropped zero-point-three percent on-month.
Retail sales, a key indicator of consumption levels, gained zero-point-one percent from a month earlier.
Capital investment dropped five-point-seven percent on-month in February, the largest drop in two years. | http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=168647 | 2022-04-01T01:56:19Z |
Sno-Isle Genealogy Society invites you to an evening Zoom presentation Wednesday, April 6 to discover how you can turn your family history into a tale worthy of being read. Learn from professional genealogist Pam Vestal the four approaches to help understand family history in the context of the time and place your ancestors lived, and look for unexpected clues in the information you already know.
The free presentation will run from 7-8 p.m. on April 6. Register in advance at https://bit.ly/SIGSApril22. The society’s general meeting and social time starts at 6:30 p.m. | https://lynnwoodtoday.com/learn-how-to-bring-your-ancestors-stories-to-life-during-april-6-sno-isle-genealogy-society-meeting/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:20Z |
NEW YORK — A judge has ordered New York's Democrat-controlled Legislature to quickly redraw the state's congressional and legislative districts after finding they were unconstitutional.
Judge Patrick McAllister said in a Thursday ruling that maps redrawing the state's congressional districts were gerrymandered to benefit Democrats. McAllister said those districts must be redrawn, along with the legislative districts, in a way that attracted at least some bipartisan support.
McAllister, a state trial court judge, gave lawmakers until April 11 to try again. If their new maps fail to pass muster in the courts again, the judge said he would order the state to pay for a court-approved expert to redraw the maps.
Legislative leaders said they would appeal the ruling.
"This is one step in the process. We always knew this case would be decided by the appellate courts. We are appealing this decision and expect this decision will be stayed as the appeal process proceeds," said Mike Murphy, spokesman for the Senate majority.
A message seeking comment from the governor's office was not immediately returned.
The state's primary elections are scheduled June 28 and candidates have already begun campaigning in the new districts.
The judge said that if the Legislature fails again and an outside expert is hired to draw the maps, the process would be expensive and lengthy and may leave the state without maps before Aug. 23, the last possible date that the state could push back its primary election.
Republicans had argued in a lawsuit that the maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to benefit Democrats and marginalize GOP voters.
Former GOP U.S. Rep. John Faso, a spokesperson for the Republicans who filed the lawsuit challenging the maps, said Democrats willingly violated a prohibition on partisan gerrymandering.
"This is a victory for the people of the state and it's a victory for competitive and fair elections in New York State," Faso said.
Legislative and congressional boundaries are being redrawn as part of the once-per-decade redistricting process kicked off by the 2020 Census.
The maps, drafted by lawmakers and approved by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, ensured that Democrats made up a strong majority of registered voters in 22 of the 26 congressional districts the state will have for a decade.
Republicans currently hold eight of New York's 27 seats in Congress.
In early March, McAllister said at a hearing that he didn't think there was enough time to redraw the maps before the June primary. But the judge said he would issue a decision by April 4 about whether to uphold or strike down the maps.
The legal challenge in New York is among a series of disputes over redistricting playing out in states around the country. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/judge-rejects-ny-redistricting-plan-orders-new-maps/article_cae9df7d-a0aa-5342-b8ae-23ba9733c7d4.html | 2022-04-01T01:56:20Z |
STOCKTON, Calif. (KTXL) — A Stockton man was robbed and shot Wednesday night while meeting with a stranger to make a purchase, police said.
“Sometimes, exchanges like that or meetups like that can become very dangerous,” said Rosie Calderon, with Stockton police.
The shooting happened near the intersection of Mighty Oak Drive and Oak Forest Avenue. Stockton police said the victim drove themselves to the hospital after fleeing the scene.
Authorities now want to remind people who are selling or exchanging goods to be cautious when meeting strangers.
“If you’re meeting up with a stranger, definitely, it’s always a good idea to do it in a public place like the police department,” Calderon said.
The Stockton Police Department partnered with OfferUp in 2018 to designate two parking spaces as a safe exchange zone. They are encouraging people to use those zones.
“The area is under video surveillance 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and it’s a safe exchange zone where you can come make a purchase, an exchange, a pickup,” Calderon said.
If people do not want to use those zones, police at least recommend meeting in public areas with people around.
So far, no arrest has been made in connection with the shooting. | https://fox40.com/news/local-news/stockton-man-robbed-shot-during-sale-meetup/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:21Z |
Happy April, everybody! It’s no joke that the year has gone by very fast so far—and we’re getting closer and closer to summertime. We’re at the weird point of the year where it could be sunny and 60 degrees one day and the next it could be pouring and barely making it out of the 40s. In honor of April Fools Day, here’s a funny description of our seasons in Washington, which may be a little more accurate than we’d like to admit.
Everyone knows the phrase “April showers brings May flowers,” and just in time for the new month, here come the showers!
After a showery couple days thanks to a Puget Sound Convergence Zone (PSCZ), a weak upper-level ridge will be in place from Thursday afternoon into Friday. A model depiction of this is shown below. As a result, Friday is expected to be mostly dry through the afternoon, when a weak system is scheduled to arrive.
This system is not expected to drop much rain, but there is the possibility of another PSCZ forming with onshore flow after the front, which could lead to some higher rainfall amounts wherever it set up shop. To read more about convergence zones, check out my blog post about the topic here.
We could see a few residual showers on Saturday, but at this point, it’s looking like a pleasant early spring day. Models are suggesting that we’ll have partly sunny skies with highs in the mid-50s.
The drier weather is expected to last into Sunday morning. The first of two stronger systems will likely roll in throughout the day on Sunday, bringing with it wet and breezy conditions. With not much of a break, the second storm impacts us Monday into Tuesday. While we are expecting our typical lowland rain and breezy weather with these storms, the mountains could see several inches of fresh snow. Keep this in mind over the next several days if you have pass travel in mind.
By midweek, an upper-level ridge takes shape, helping us to dry out after a soggy start to the week. After several weeks of drier than average conditions, it seems like April is wanting to change things up a bit.
Have a great weekend!
— By Kelsie Nelson
Kelsie Nelson is a meteorologist and recent University of Washington graduate who grew up in Lynnwood and now lives in Kenmore. After writing weather blogs as a KOMO News intern, she discovered a passion for writing about weather. You can learn more in her blog www.wxnoggin.com and you can also follow her on Twitter at @kels_wx3. Questions can be directed to Kelsie at kelsie@myedmondsnews.com. | https://lynnwoodtoday.com/under-the-weather-showery-weekend-on-tap-before-soggy-start-to-next-week/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:21Z |
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. (KTXL) — Two minors were arrested Wednesday in connection to a deadly shooting in December.
The Rancho Cordova Police Department said a 16-year-old and 17-year-old were arrested on the suspicion of shooting and killing 28-year-old Akieam Harris on Dec. 13, 2021.
Each suspect is facing a murder charge and is being held at the Sacramento County Youth Detention Facility.
In December, police received a call at around 7:10 p.m. about hearing several gunshots in the area near West Loma Drive in Rancho Cordova. Another caller also informed the dispatch center that they also heard gunshots in the area.
Officers found a man with multiple gunshot wounds on Folsom Boulevard. Despite life-saving measures by officers, police said the victim was declared dead once fire personnel arrived. | https://fox40.com/news/local-news/teens-arrested-on-suspicion-of-killing-man-in-rancho-cordova/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:21Z |
LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — Mayor says 1 officer killed, 2 wounded in shooting in Lebanon.
LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — Mayor says 1 officer killed, 2 wounded in shooting in Lebanon. More NewsChabad of Greenwich files lawsuit to force school property saleGreenwich still seeking a location for a temporary ice rink | https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Alert-Mayor-says-1-officer-killed-2-wounded-in-17049857.php | 2022-04-01T01:56:21Z |
LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — Mayor says 1 officer killed, 2 wounded in shooting in Lebanon.
LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — Mayor says 1 officer killed, 2 wounded in shooting in Lebanon. More NewsBridgeport Police: Man shot in leg on Louisiana AvenueGanim formally files for 2023 reelection | https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Alert-Mayor-says-1-officer-killed-2-wounded-in-17049857.php | 2022-04-01T01:56:21Z |
ROCHESTER, Minn. - U.S. Sen. Tina Smith is coming to Rochester on Friday and will make four stops while in town.
She'll start her day off at the Highway 14 and 44 interchange, then visit a waste-to-energy plant before heading to the Southeast Regional Crisis Center.
Senator Smith will cap off her visit with a roundtable discussion on workforce development for women of color in Rochester.
KIMT spoke to Mayor Kim Norton about her involvement in creating the Equity and Economic Development Initiative for Workforce Development.
She says while there are many workforce needs, there are not enough women of color in the construction industry.
“We know with DMC with all the growth in the community, we absolutely have to have that population in the construction field employed, and helping them move forward.”
Senator Smith helped secure $750,000 in federal funding for this project, which was included in the federal spending bill that was recently passed earlier this month.
Mayor Norton adds, “We all do better when we all do better - so if we can help all of those who are struggling most, it'll help all of us recover from this pandemic.”
The money will go toward training and education for women entering the workforce. | https://www.kimt.com/news/olmsted-county/u-s-sen-tina-smith-to-visit-rochester-friday-joining-mayor-norton-in-discussion-on/article_c17cacc4-b142-11ec-838f-ebfbc8edf576.html | 2022-04-01T01:56:21Z |
UNC football announces home game designations for 2022 season
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The UNC football Spring game is still a week away but Mack Brown and his staff are hoping that this 2022 season goes better than last year did.
After entering the year as the No. 10-ranked team in the preseason polls, UNC finished the year below .500 and suffered an embarrassing loss in the their bowl game. But before we get to this upcoming season, the program has released some game designations for the Fall.
Via the program, here are the special game designations for this year:
2022 Home Game Designations
Oct. 1 vs. Virginia Tech: Family Football Experience; Cancer Awareness; Health Care Worker Appreciation
Oct. 29 vs. Pittsburgh: Homecoming; Monogram Day
Nov. 19 vs. Georgia Tech: Military Appreciation Day
Nov. 25 vs. NC State: Senior Day / Rams Club Day
The Tar Heels’ home opener will take place on Saturday, August 27th when they host Florida A&M in Week 0. UNC will play the next two games on the road before hosting Notre Dame on September 24th.
Game times and TV info will be available at a later date.
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Let us know your thoughts, comment on this story below. Join the conversation today. | https://sports.yahoo.com/unc-football-announces-home-game-233007609.html?src=rss | 2022-04-01T01:56:21Z |
Japan has little to cheer on weak yen, says former currency diplomat Furusawa
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TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - Japan has little to cheer about a weak yen, which reflects its deteriorating economic fundamentals and trade deficit, the country's former top currency diplomat Mitsuhiro Furusawa said.
But monetary policy is not the right tool to curb yen falls, Furusawa said, brushing aside speculation that recent yen declines might prompt the central bank to raise interest rates.
"It's not good if the value of a country's currency keeps sliding," Furusawa told Reuters on Thursday, describing the weak-yen trend as reflecting Japan's waning competitiveness.
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"Responding to a weak yen with monetary policy isn't right," he said, adding that the Bank of Japan will keep interest rates ultra-low to ensure inflation sustainably hits its 2% target.
Furusawa oversaw Japan's currency policy in 2013-2014, when BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's "bazooka" stimulus pushed down the yen and bolstered shares. His remarks point to changes in how Tokyo policymakers see a weak yen - once welcomed as giving Japan's export-reliant economy a boost.
The yen's real, effective exchange rate - an indicator that captures the international competitiveness of a currency - has slid to less than half the peak level of 150 hit in 1995.
The Japanese currency has lost around 8% against the dollar in March, dropping to a six-year low below 125 on Monday.
Some market players see 125 yen to the dollar as a level that raises alarm among Japanese authorities, as a previous drop to that level triggered verbal warnings by BOJ's Kuroda.
But Furusawa said the speed of yen moves, rather than the currency's level, were more important for policymakers in deciding whether to intervene in the market.
The dollar's spike to 125 yen on Monday was "quite big," which is why incumbent currency diplomat Masato Kanda toned up his warning the following day, Furusawa said. read more
"It's meaningless to set a certain line-in-the-sand for currency levels," said Furusawa, who retains close contact with overseas and incumbent Japanese policymakers.
After his stint at Japan's finance minister, Furusawa served as deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund until 2021. He is currently president of the Institute for Global Financial Affairs at Japan's megabank SMBC.
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Toxic masculinity or protective and caring? Can violence ever be justified?
Kate Halfpenny
Regular columnistLadies out there, honesty time. What did you really think when you saw Will Smith slug Chris Rock at the Oscars over his Jada Pinkett Smith haircut jibe? Was there a frisson of “I wish someone did that for me” or were you repulsed?
The slap has been endlessly dissected as everything from toxic masculinity and intergenerational trauma to an adult lost child wrestling with his past who “snapped”. It’s way too analytical. A man whacking another to save face or salve feelings was overbearing, terrible behaviour that shouldn’t be dressed up as anything else or excused away with deep dives into – save us – triggers.
It was a bloke hijacking a situation involving the little woman and turning it into a crusade to make him look bigger. Stand back love, think of shopping and SNS nails, I’ll take it from here.
That’s just me, though. How did you see it, sexy or stupid?
Do you love it when partners turn into slappy swear bears to defend you or do you see it as retrograde assholery that removes your power (which includes being able to run countries and make people)? No right or wrong answer, I’m genuinely curious.
Smith tried to cover his tracks by tearfully claiming he’s a protector of women: “Love will make you do crazy things.”
That self-serving dross makes me feel like smacking myself in the face. Tell family violence victim Hannah Clarke’s grieving family that love makes you crazy. What her murderous husband did isn’t love, and neither was what Will Smith did.
Different ends of the spectrum, obviously, but same root cause. Possessiveness should be at the top of every woman’s Run Away Now list of relationship red flags.
When I first married at 24, my beautifully cautious, wise friend Lynne asked why I was so sure of my choice: “If I was hanging off a cliff by my fingernails, and he said he would save me, he would.”
Minus cliffs, that was borne out – he was like MacGyver in terms of ingenuity and keeping his word. Yet pledging my heart second time around at 48, my husbandly wish list was different. Brains, black humour, pink heart, footy knowledge.
The last thing I wanted was to be rescued by anyone.
Still, my husband had a few good cracks at it. Saddling up for a Berlin bike tour in 2016, a trainee rider crashed and knocked me over. All he gave was a rueful look before wobbling off, my incensed, roaring husband in pursuit: “You, come back! Apologise!”
On the same holiday, Chris fronted an unlikely nemesis, the octoganerian hiring out banana lounges on Italy’s Cinque Terre. A day earlier, he’d thrown me off a chair when I lost my ticket. Suddenly, amid an end-of-days downpour, the only people at the fast-flooding train station were us and the beach ticket man.
He was frantically searching his pockets for something. Chris pounced: “Oi! Where’s your f---ing ticket?”
I’ll admit both times I felt not just queasiness at someone fighting my corner when it wasn’t asked for but quietly thrilled he was prepared to do it. There was also something comedic going on. I would have hated it though had he started throwing haymakers – that’s the line between being protective and possessive which Smith spectacularly crossed.
My friend Nicola has been married to Tom for 34 years. They met at Rocktober in ’79. She says what makes a good husband isn’t getting punchy: “Compassion, encouragement and intelligence. Also, that look he gives me – happy to see me naked even though I’ve gained some kilos.”
Will Smith must wish he could turn back time and react differently. Laugh at the joke (as he actually did), then when he clocked his wife’s stink eye, yell “man, that’s lame – Jada, you’re so beautiful” and give her a smooch.
But he can’t and will remain a living cautionary tale for what not to do if you want to look like a fabulous partner or, even more radical, be one. | https://www.theage.com.au/national/toxic-masculinity-or-protective-and-caring-can-violence-ever-be-justified-20220331-p5a9tx.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national | 2022-04-01T01:56:21Z |
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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Three Easy Veggie Recipes to Take You Through Lent (and Beyond)
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Thursday, March 31, 2022You may have decided to give up meat for Lent. Or, if you can't do the entire 40 days, you can abstain on Fridays. Whatever the decision, you'll need a few recipes to add to your arsenal to complement the fish and seafood ones that are already your go-to.
Thursday Food scoured Jamaican cookbooks, cooking blogs and popular culinary websites featuring Jamaican writers and chefs for recipes that use local produce in exciting ways. We share this week the final three recipes that will meet your needs in the absence of meat. Enjoy!
Pumpkin Fritters
Though from the kitchen of South African blogger and cookbook author Zorah Booley, this recipe for pumpkin fritters, by look and ingredients, will immediately resonate with Jamaicans.
Ingredients:
1 � cups of mashed pumpkin
1 egg
1 cup sieved self-raising flour
1/3 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2-3 tablespoons coconut oil
Granulated sugar and cinnamon powder for garnish
Method:
Step 1
Boil three-quarters of a pound of pumpkin until soft. Then strain it, removing all water. Remove the skin and mash. This is where you should measure the one and a half cups to make sure it is accurate.
Step 2
Put the pumpkin in a blender/mixer with the egg. Allow to mix well.
Step 3
Add the rest of the dry ingredients, and use a whisk to combine everything.
Step 4
Let the batter stand for about 10 minutes.
Step 5
Fry the fritters off in coconut oil.
Step 6
Garnish with sugar and powdered cinnamon.
Saut�ed Okra and Tomatoes
Popular in Trinidad and Guyana, this quick and easy recipe is great as a side dish. Or, if you love okra, portion a bowl of it for a meal.
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil
� onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2 cups tomatoes, diced
2 cups fresh okra cleaned and cut into one-inch slices
Salt
Fresh ground black pepper
Method:
Step 1
Add olive oil to a saut� pan over medium-low heat. Add in onions and saut� until tender. Add garlic.
Step 2
Add diced tomatoes and toss in okra. Stir to combine.
Step 3
Allow to simmer over medium-low heat for about 20 minutes until the okra has become tender.
Step 4
Toss in salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.
Yellow Yam Croquettes with Honey Escoveitch Sauce
These tasty croquettes from Jamaican blogger, recipe developer and food stylist Chantay Campbell Neil are a favourite with the readers of her blog Greedy Girl Cooks. You'll love them, as well.
Ingredients:
For the boil:
1 lb yellow yam
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
For the mix:
1 egg
1 small onion shredded
� teaspoon allspice
3 tablespoon butter
� cup sour cream
1 teaspoon sugar
� teaspoon salt (to taste)
� teaspoon black pepper
� cup bread crumbs
For the fry:
Flour for dredging:
1 egg
2 cups milk
Panko breadcrumbs for dredging
For the sauce:
� cup honey
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 teaspoon olive oil
� teaspoon chopped Scotch bonnet pepper
� cup chopped scallion
� teaspoon salt
Method:
Step 1
First make the sauce. Whisk together all the ingredients for the sauce and set aside for the flavours to develop.
Step 2
Cook the yam. Peel and slice the yam and add to a pot of boiling water with the salt and sugar. Cook until the yam is tender and almost falling apart.
Step 3
Strain the yam from the cooking liquid. In a bowl combine yam, egg, shredded onion, allspice, butter, sour cream, salt, black pepper, sugar, and breadcrumbs. Mash together until smooth (the consistency of mashed potatoes). Using a spoon or ice-cream scoop form into balls, make sure to wet your hands so the mixture does not stick to your hands. Place on a prepared baking sheet and place in the freezer to set for 15 to 20 minutes.
Step 4
Heat the oil to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Beat together the eggs and milk. Place the balls in the flour and completely coat. Remove from flour, shake off the excess and dip in the egg milk mixture. Roll in the panko bread crumbs after the egg mixture and coat completely. Fry in the hot oil until golden brown and crispy.
Step 5
Serve with the dipping sauce.
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Report: Manu Ginobili, four others to be inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The Basketball Hall of Fame is getting at least five new members.
Manu Ginobili, Tim Hardaway, Swin Cash, George Karl and Bob Huggins will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2022, according to The Athletic's Shams Charania.
It's unclear if those are the only 2022 finalists who have been voted in. Lindsay Whalen, Michael Cooper, Marques Johnson, Leta Andrews, Marianne Stanley and Hugh Evans were the other finalists this year.
The Class of 2022 will be formally announced at the Final Four of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in New Orleans on Saturday.
Ginobili is the lone first-ball inductee in the Class of 2022. A second-round pick of the Spurs in 1999, Ginobili was a key member of four championship teams in San Antonio. He logged 1,057 career games in the NBA -- all in a Spurs uniform -- but only started in only 349 of them as he established himself as one of the greatest sixth men of all time.
Ginobili was a two-time All-Star, made two All-NBA teams and claimed the 2007-08 Sixth Man of the Year award. He also led Argentina to a gold medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics and a bronze in the 2008 Beijing Games.
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Hardaway made five All-Star teams and five All-NBA teams throughout his 13-year career. The 1989 first-round pick spent most of his time with the Golden State Warriors, as part of the famous Run-TMC teams, and Miami Heat. Hardaway had five seasons where he averaged at least 20 points and eight seasons where he put up at least eight assists per game. He has an Olympic gold medal as well, winning it with Team USA in the 2000 Sydney Games.
Cash was a champion at the college, professional and international levels. She won two national championships at UConn, three WNBA championships (two with the Detroit Shock and one with the Seattle Storm) and two gold medals with Team USA. The No. 2 overall pick of Detroit in 2002, Cash played 15 seasons in the WNBA and was named to four All-Star Games. She won MVP in two of her All-Star appearances.
Karl sits sixth on the NBA's all-time wins list and is one of just 10 head coaches with at least 1,000 career victories. He amassed a 1,175-824 record (.588 winning percentage) over his 27 years as a head coach while working for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Warriors, Seattle SuperSonics, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets and Sacramento Kings. Karl's teams made the playoffs in 22 of his 27 seasons, with the 1995-96 SuperSonics reaching the NBA Finals. He also won Coach of the Year with the Nuggets in 2012-13.
Huggins, who just wrapped up his 37th season as a college head coach at the Division I level, is eighth all time in wins among D-I coaches with 844. He's piled up 21 combined conference championships and 25 NCAA Tournament appearances, reaching the Final Four twice. He's spent the last 15 seasons at West Virginia, with Kansas State, Cincinnati and Akron being his previous stops.
The induction ceremony for the Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022 will take place on Sept. 10 in Springfield, Mass. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/report-manu-ginobili-four-others-to-be-inducted-into-basketball-hall-of-fame/2929429/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:21Z |
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://fox40.com/news/national-and-world-news/oldest-u-s-active-park-ranger-retires-at-100/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:22Z |
New York City schools drop outdoor mask mandate, keep indoor mandate
New York City public schools will no longer require students and staff to wear masks outdoors on school property, though indoor mask mandates will remain in place.
Local news outlet NY1 reported that the new policy will go into effect on Monday and will allow students and staff to remove their masks during outdoor activities such as gym class or recess.
“Throughout the pandemic, our schools have remained some of the safest spaces for our students and staff, thanks to our gold standard health and safety protocol,” New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks said in a statement, according to NY1. “I am so pleased that we are able to make this exciting announcement and safely allow students and staff to remove their masks when outdoors at NYC public schools.”
NY1 reported that New York schools had previously required all staff and students to keep their masks on at all times on school grounds, even if they were outdoors. In recent months, parents have questioned the requirement, noting that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance has said that people do not generally need to wear masks in outdoor settings.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) told the news outlet that his administration is aligned with the science when it comes to deciding on easing mandates.
“You saw the schools chancellor stated that no more masks outdoors and we are going to eventually, in the next few weeks, look at releasing some of the other mandates that are in place,” Adams said on NY1’s “Mornings on 1.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said that she will look at the data from student COVID-19 tests after they return from February break in order to decide if she will lift the state’s school mask mandate, according to NY1.
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SÃO PAULO, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZENVIA Inc. ("ZENVIA" or "Company") (NASDAQ: ZENV), a customer experience communications platform that empowers businesses to create unique journeys for their end-customers along their life cycle, announced today that it filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The annual report, the first one issued by Zenvia since the IPO in July 2021, can be accessed on the Company's investor relations website at http://investors.zenvia.com or at http://www.sec.gov.
The Company will provide shareholders a hard copy of its annual report containing the audited consolidated financial statements, free of charge, upon request. Requests should be directed to the Investor Relations Department through the email ir@zenvia.com.
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ZENVIA is driven by the purpose of empowering companies to create unique experiences for customer communications through its unified end-to-end platform. ZENVIA empowers companies to transform their existing customer communications from non-scalable, physical, and impersonal interactions into highly scalable, digital first and hyper contextualized experiences across the customer journey. ZENVIA's unified end-to-end CX communications platform provides a combination of (i) SaaS focused on campaigns, sales teams, customer service and engagement, (ii) tools, such as software application programming interfaces, or APIs, chatbots, single customer view, journey designer, documents composer and authentication and (iii) channels, such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Instagram and Webchat. Its comprehensive platform assists customers across multiple use cases, including marketing campaigns, customer acquisition, customer onboarding, warnings, customer services, fraud control, cross-selling and customer retention, among others. ZENVIA's shares are traded on Nasdaq, under the ticker ZENV.
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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.”
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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.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/oldest-u-s-active-park-ranger-retires-at-100/2796662/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:25Z |
Shopper creates 'magical' Easter table setting using budget products from Kmart and Target - and it looks like it's straight out of a magazine
- Melbourne home decor influencer, Lauren, created a beautiful Easter tablescape
- She used products from Target and Kmart including napkins, plates, glasses
- She included candles from independent shops Black Blaze and Make Scents of It
- Many were amazed by her stunningly balanced setting and sense of colour
A home decor influencer has left style-conscious homemakers in awe after creating a magazine-worthy Easter table setting on a budget.
Lauren Valenti, from Melbourne, shared photos of her beautiful holiday display on Facebook inspiring hundreds of mums with her thrifty 'Kmart and Target' heavy styling.
'I'm sharing some snaps from my Easter tablescape and others from around my home,' she wrote.
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A Melbourne home decor influencer, Lauren , has wowed the internet by creating a beautiful Easter table setting using budget products from discount retailers Kmart and Target
Lauren shared photos of her creation on popular Facebook group Kmart Inspired Homes where over 460,000 members regularly post photos of their homes and ask for advice
Hundreds flocked to the comments to commend her beautiful set up and ask her for details about the products she used.
'Please, I absolutely NEED to know where you got the candles from. All of it looks amazing,' said one commenter.
'So gorgeous and right in time for my Easter inspiration .. where did you get the little bunny glasses? They're absolutely adorable,' asked another.
'The napkins, napkin rings, and large dinner plates are from Target,' Lauren said. 'But the bunny plates and glasses are from Kmart!'
She added for more curious commenters: 'The flowers are real. The candle holders are from Black Blaze and the white candles are from Make Scents of It.'
'Just stunning and so pretty, all your pieces are so beautiful balanced,' wrote one woman.
Hundreds flocked to the comments to commend her beautiful set up and ask her for details about the products she used
The bunny glasses from Kmart were especially popular in Lauren's comments with everyone wanting to know how they can get their hands on them
But many were happy to just admire the table settings from afar.
'I love all the cute Easter details and those bunny napkin rings,' wrote one woman. 'I don't think my husband or I have time to decorate this year - will have to settle for looking at beautiful pictures online.'
'Between three kids and one more on the way ... I am content just looking at the pretty decorations on Instagram,' said another. 'My children break everything!'
'I'm so obsessed with this,' added a third. 'I can't stop looking at the napkin rings.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10674215/Shopper-creates-magical-Easter-table-setting-using-budget-products-Kmart-Target.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-01T01:56:25Z |
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ROCHESTER, Minn.-The City of Rochester is holding a public forum on April 6, at 6:30 p.m., at the Northwest Precinct building to discuss its upcoming plans for Silver Lake Park.
Rochester's Mayor Kim Norton tells KIMT she is hoping the forum will help clear up misinformation and alleviate fears over the eventual removal and replacement of the Silver Lake Dam.
Norton said the nearly $10 million dollar bonding project will carry out legally required upgrades, such as the dredging of the lake, as well as improvements to the park's surrounding trail system, followed by the removal of the Silver Lake Dam.
The city's plans have left some residents surrounding Silver Lake Park worried about decreased water levels if the dam is removed.
Founder of 'Save the Dam at Silver Lake' Greg Munson tells KIMT he believes a new step down dam will reduce the lake's water levels.
However, Norton said the project will actually increase the depth of the lake.
"There will be some reduction but the water depth will actually deeper because of the dredging and the work that will be done the water will be cleaner and we hope to have lots of renovations done around the Silver Lake for the public to enjoy it even more than they do now," Norton said.
Norton and Munson are encouraging the public to attend the forum, which the former said will include remarks from city engineers and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. | https://www.kimt.com/news/the-city-of-rochester-to-meet-with-save-the-dam-at-silver-lake-on-april/article_9e0c7384-b14f-11ec-ab9a-efdd8ef13d8a.html | 2022-04-01T01:56:27Z |
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TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - Japan will act appropriately on oil reserves release while closely watching global developments, the industry minister said on Friday, ahead of a meeting by International Energy Agency (IEA) member countries later in the day.
U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Thursday the largest release ever from the U.S. emergency oil reserve and challenged oil companies to drill more in an attempt to bring down gasoline prices that have soared during Russia's war with Ukraine. read more
"It is not clear whether the release will be done by the U.S. alone or the United States will make a proposal at the IEA meeting," Japanese industry minister Koichi Hagiuda told a news conference.
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Rep. Norma Torres (D-California) and Secretary Cardona first visited Ontario's De Anza Middle school. They were there to highlight the school's use of pandemic relief funds and visit several classrooms, including an Arabic language class and a robotics and coding class.
"The visit to the middle school was important because it really tied in what is happening here," Rep. Norma Torres said. She and the secretary also visited the Chaffey College InTech Center, which offers training and apprenticeship programs for skills like welding and industrial electrical work.
Torres says the InTech Center is critical because it's helping local manufacturers find the employees they need. "We have jobs available, but we need people with soft skills. They can't come into this job not knowing anything about the job, and that is what the InTech center is providing," Torres said. "It's filling that gap between zero skills to some technical skills in order to get into a job."
Secretary Cardona says the InTech Center and De Anza Middle School should be an example of how schools should look across the country. "I saw the next level of where we should be going in terms of preparing not only our youth for the jobs of today and tomorrow, but our underemployed adults in our communities that need another chance as well," Cardona said.
He also spoke of President Biden's $5.8 trillion budget proposal for the 2023 fiscal year. "I'm proud that the President's budget proposal yesterday provides $200 million for programs just like this one so that we could see more Americans fulfilling their dreams and getting out there, getting skills, and providing for their family," Cardona said.
Other stops on the secretary's visit included stopping at a San Diego education summit and visiting Los Angeles Unified School District schools on Wednesday. | https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2022-03-31/u-s-secretary-of-education-tours-two-inland-empire-schools | 2022-04-01T01:56:28Z |
SINGAPORE - Minutes before the land borders were set to reopen at 11.59pm on Thursday (March 31), the waiting crowd began to move. At midnight, they streamed by foot, car and motorbike across the checkpoints in Woodlands and Tuas, many heading towards home or meeting family members who were waiting on the other side to pick them up.
Cars tooted their horns as they drove into the complex, while people on foot clapped and cheered before the jubilant mood quickly settled into one of business as usual of clearing immigration checks.
The border had been closed since March 17, 2020. By 10.50pm, more than 200 people, mainly Malaysian, were waiting patiently at Woodlands. At Tuas, some 500 motorbike riders waited eagerly as time went by, some revving their machines in anticipation.
Speaking to reporters at about 12:30am, Senior Assistant Commissioner Chua Tuan Meng, ICA land domain commander, said: “The reopening of our land borders mark another significant milestone in our transition towards living with Covid-19. ICA and other agencies have been working closely with our Malaysian counterparts to reopen our borders in a safe and calibrated manner over the past few months. It has been more than two years since all the restrictions are in place at the land checkpoints.
"Fully vaccinated travellers for both countries are now able to cross land borders by all modes of transport, reunite with their loved ones, and (travel) for leisure since midnight.”
Among those who waited for hours at Woodlands were Ms Anita Vijayan and Mr Kathiravan David Pushpanathan, who have been separated from their baby for five months.
The couple, who are both 26 and working as chip manufacturing operators in Singapore, were waiting to go back to Johor Baru to see their eight-month-old baby.
Ms Anita said: "I'm speechless with excitement. We last went back via the vaccinated travel lane but it was hard to get tickets and very troublesome with all the testing and documents."
Their plan was to walk across the border when it opened and get a Grab ride or a lift from Ms Anita's father to get to their home, which is about 10km from the checkpoint.
As the couple did not apply for leave, they will be returning to Singapore on Friday before their work shift starts.
Singaporean couple Calvin Tan, 25, and Iris Toh, 24, were the first in the queue. They had arrived at 7.30pm as they did not want to be caught in human traffic, and will be returning to Singapore on Sunday.
“We wanted to ensure we had enough time to do what we want to do in Malaysia,” said Ms Toh.
“I want to spend time with my mother who is in Malaysia, and also introduce my relatives to my boyfriend. He also wants to make sure he has the time to visit his grandfather’s grave ahead of the Qing Ming Festival.”
Mr Choy Yook Fong, 50, who works in IT, said he was extremely happy to return home to his wife of 20 years and their two sons.
She was waiting at the Malaysian immigration building to pick him up after he made that midnight trek across the Causeway.
While Mr Choy got to visit his family twice this year under the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) scheme, he said he was looking forward to moving back home. He plans to commute daily from Johor once his company restores a daily cross-border transport service for Malaysian workers.
"The last two years have been very painful. I video call my wife seven to eight times daily because we miss each other a lot, and I am very excited to return home to see her."
Meanwhile, his colleague Azrief Azhar, 25, an associate engineer, was excited to be seeing his brother and parents for the first time in two years.
He had bought VTL bus tickets to return to Malaysia on April 26, but decided to go back earlier when he saw that border restrictions were being eased.
"I am nervous now too, because we are the first batch of people to be returning to Malaysia freely and I keep feeling like I am missing some documents," he said.
From Friday, travellers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to travel between Singapore and Malaysia without having to take any Covid-19 test or serve quarantine. They will no longer be required to take designated VTL buses.
There is also no longer any cap on the number of daily overland travellers which had been 6,800 daily via the VTL.
Electronic technician Norle Khamis, 40, who has been working in Singapore for the past eight years, will see her husband and four children for the first time in nine months.
Madam Norle, who used to travel back to Johor Baru by motorcycle every weekend, said it had been difficult to get VTL tickets. Her husband was to be picking her up when she crossed the border on foot with her friends at midnight.
The first person to emerge from the Woodlands Checkpoint building, at about 12.40am, was Mr Arun Kumar, who had walked from the Malaysian side.
The 37-year-old Malaysian, who works at Certis Cisco, had been home in Johor Baru for two weeks using the vaccinated travel lane. He said the journey was smooth and took him about 20 minutes, and there were 50-100 people walking with him.
The highly anticipated reopening of land borders is set to kick-start short trips between the neighbouring countries.
A Land Transport Authority (LTA) spokesman said it had received around 20,000 Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP) applications as at 6pm on Thursday.
"This shows good demand for cross border travel. Congestion during peak times is anticipated and travellers are advised to check traffic alerts before proceeding to checkpoints," added the spokesman.
The reopening could also provide a shot in the arm to both countries' tourism sectors.
Before the pandemic, Malaysian tourists were the seventh-biggest spenders in Singapore, just behind the United States and Japan, and ahead of South Korea.
Among tourists in Malaysia, Singaporeans spent the most there - about $6.59 billion in 2019.
Associate Professor Walter Theseira, an economist from the Singapore University of Social Sciences, said the most important outcome of the border reopening is in the relieving of manpower constraints.
Malaysian workers who had commuted daily to Singapore before the pandemic had either quit their jobs to stay with their families back home, or had to be paid more by their employers to be convinced to stay here, noted Prof Theseira.
"With the opening of the border for daily travel, it's likely that many such workers will resume daily commuting, and it will be easier for Singapore employers to hire Malaysians," he said.
"This will be quite significant for the service sector in Singapore which relies heavily on Malaysians."
Meanwhile, Malaysia will benefit from the direct economic impact of tourism, he said. It will also benefit from the indirect impact of Malaysian workers in Singapore spending more time and money back in their home country, Prof Theseira added.
He said Singaporeans are unlikely to embark on leisure trips to Malaysia at scale until more travellers gained experience of how border protocols work.
Prof Theseira, who also cited the time needed to restore land transport links and for employers to work out commuting arrangements with Malaysian workers, said: "I expect that the full benefit will take some weeks or months to work out."
Assistant engineer Alex Chia, 23, went to check out the crowd at the ICA building with his mother even though he plans to return to Malaysia only later on Friday.
They were both excited about being able to easily visit Mr Chia's father and brother again after not seeing them since December 2019.
"My dad and my brother miss my mother's good cooking," said Mr Chia. "I will make the trip tomorrow, and I think the queue will be crazy long, with everyone excited to return home. I think it will stretch to Ang Mo Kio."
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48 years of service: Say goodbye to Hollowood
Paul Hollowood always expected to spend his professional life racing to emergencies with lights and sirens clearing the path before him.
His plan was to follow his father’s footsteps into the Fire Brigade. “As a kid I spent half my life at the Carlton fire station. When we played footy and cricket out the back, the firefighters would join in.”
The fire service had a father-son rule, which meant Paul was to be fast-tracked into the service. The trouble was you had to be 21 to join and at 16 he was done with school.
His father suggested he join the police as a cadet, learn that trade and then slip over to the fire brigade when the time was right.
“The trouble was that as soon as I joined I found I really loved policing,” he says. And so he stayed - for 48 years, retiring on Friday, April 1, as a superintendent.
While Paul’s career was long and varied, his most important investigation was fire-related, into the 2009 Black Saturday disaster that cost 173 lives.
As an experienced homicide investigator, Hollowood was used to a crime scene that might be the size of a room or a backyard.
The Black Saturday scene was 350,000 hectares - 86 separate sites of blackened, smouldering devastation.
The first challenge was to find and identify victims lost in the furnace. The Victorian Institute of Forensic Services identified every one - a modern scientific miracle.
There were 521 serious injuries, 3394 buildings destroyed and 726 vehicles melted. One way of dealing with the aftermath would have been to decide it was just too big, accept the death toll and complete a general inquiry with broad conclusions.
Instead, it was decided each individual victim and every grieving family was entitled to the truth, resulting in Australia’s biggest police investigation.
Hollowood was then in charge of several investigative units, including the Arson Squad.
“Because of the extreme weather, for about a week before Black Saturday we were aware of the growing risk, but no one was prepared for what happened,” he recalls.
“I was duty Crime Department Superintendent on the day, and it was as bad as it could be. Units were reporting from around the state saying it was utter chaos.”
Police set up the Phoenix Taskforce and initially 400 Crime Department detectives were sent into the field. It would take two years, more than 100,000 investigative hours and result in taking more than 5000 statements.
If each case went before the Coroner in the usual way, the process would have taken years and traumatised thousands of witnesses and family members.
“It soon became apparent that we just couldn’t do this the traditional way,” Hollowood says.
Police experimented with “electronic briefs” that were more than online versions of the vast paper files that would make up one case. The final interactive product was both brilliant and awful.
The before-and-after satellite photos show the lottery that is life and death. There are well-prepared properties, seemingly bushfire-proof, that are obliterated, while others dropped into the scrub, often built without planning permits, are spared.
Click on the mouse and you see a man standing proudly by his house. Click again and a graphic program shows the man trying to save the property, his wife urging him to go, his car idling in the garage if he needs to escape.
Then the call to 000 when he yells above the roar of a wall of fire that he is trapped. Then he is gone.
Instead of having to sit in a sterile courtroom and hear strangers describe their loved ones’ last moments, Hollowood says, “we were able to sit with relatives and explain exactly what happened”.
As a young cop, Hollowood was part of a group that benefited from a change of policy that fast- tracked talented young police into criminal investigations, becoming a detective in Brunswick. Soon he was assigned to homicide and by the age of 32 was running a team as a Detective Senior Sergeant.
In June 1991, six-year-old Sheree Beasley was abducted from outside a Rosebud milk bar, with witnesses saying they saw a distressed girl driven away by a middle-aged man.
Her body was found stuffed in a Red Hill stormwater drain three months later.
Initially the case was treated as an abduction and a taskforce formed to try and find her. After her body was found it became a homicide investigation, with Hollowood in charge.
It would take 18 months to lay charges and Hollowood had to enlist the help of a police killer to resolve the case.
One of the first routine suspects was church elder and convicted sex offender Robert Arthur Selby Lowe. He was telephoned and asked about his movements after his work car, along with 775 others, were flagged as similar to the vehicle in the abduction.
He was called in for a further interview in August but gave an alibi for the day of the crime.
After the body was discovered, Hollowood ordered a review of known suspects: “We kept coming back to Lowe.”
It wasn’t only the police who had their doubts. Lowe occasionally consulted psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs, who became increasingly concerned at the sinister nature of her patient and tipped off police.
Hollowood decided to use a court-approved bug in her office. Lowe, he recalls, used Hobbs as a sounding board, never telling the truth but rehearsing versions of events he could later use if confronted again by police.
After Lowe was charged, Hollowood found another ally. Armed robber Peter Reid, convicted of the 1982 murder of Senior Constable Stephen Henry, gave evidence that Lowe had confessed to him inside jail.
“Lowe was using Reid as a jailhouse lawyer and Reid had no time for a child killer. Reid had done a drafting course in prison and was able to map out the abduction better than some professionals,” says Hollowood.
If you work homicide, you deal with offenders who kill for a variety of reasons. Then there are the stone killers, those who turn murder into business and see life as a tradeable commodity.
None was worse than Alistair Farquhar “Sandy” MacRae, implicated in 20 suspicious deaths.
“I would have to say that he would be Australia’s worst known multiple murderer, and we will never know how many people he has killed. He had no regard for life at all,” says Hollowood.
After quitting as a standover man for Melbourne’s biggest vice ring, MacRae moved to a 10-hectare property at Merbein, near Mildura. This was no retirement move, as he began to lure people to his property on the promise of buying marijuana in order to kill them.
In 1987 police found the body of Domenico Marafiote buried under MacRae’s chicken coop.
Two years earlier MacRae had shot and killed his victim (he had already dug the grave) before driving to Adelaide to kill Marafiote’s parents Carmelo, 69, and Rosa, 70. He was desperate to find the money that Marafiote was to use for the marijuana deal but didn’t find the cash, which was sewn into Rosa’s clothing.
Hollowood says it was over a space of a few years that law enforcement went from a craft for the crafty to a profession. He began in an era when short-tempered detectives in short-sleeved shirts had a tendency to punch suspects with a short right to gather information, and worked through to a time when tertiary-educated investigators drinking short blacks punch a keyboard to gather intelligence.
“The big change was from the early 1980s to the late 1980s. We started taking statements on typewriters and ended with video-recorded interviews. We could only collect blood group samples and there was no DNA. We were only allowed to present black-and-white crime photos because colour ones were considered likely to inflame a jury.
“We moved from caveman days to professional in a few years.”
He learnt it was the cop who went one step further that made the difference, such as the search-and-rescue sergeant called in to look for a body who spotted a tiny piece of rug - “no bigger than a thumb” - stuck on top of a barbed wire fence in arid Mallee country.
Concentrating on the area from the police helicopter he spotted a darker area of disturbed sand. “The victim was buried there, wrapped in the rug. It had caught when the offenders carried him over the fence. I was amazed he could spot the piece on the wire.”
Professional criminals have also changed, Hollowood says. “They robbed banks or were safe-breakers or committed fraud. Now they are opportunistic. They may commit robberies, aggravated burglaries and then frauds.”
Paul Hollowood has a loyal group of police admirers who respect his coolness under pressure, his guidance and his legendary work ethic. He has his detractors as well, those who have been bruised as he has always been more concerned about results than popularity.
One admirer is Assistant Commissioner Bob Hill, who as a young homicide detective learned that with Hollowood the job always came first: “Paul was the consummate professional but a hard taskmaster, who demanded the very best from his staff. If I needed advice, he has always been the first person I turned to.” | https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/48-years-of-service-say-goodbye-to-hollowood-20220330-p5a9cc.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national | 2022-04-01T01:56:28Z |
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Elm trees start blooming in February and release pollen into late March.
Grass pollen season begins in early March and doesn’t end until grasses stop releasing pollen in mid-October. As grass releases pollen into the air, the wind can carry it for miles on dry, sunny days.
Mulberry reaches its peak allergy season from Mid-February to Mid-April. It's a short season but these trees produce a lot of pollen.
Oak trees release their pollen in late winter and spring. This is the pollen covering our homes, vehicles, patios, pets, and everything else in their path with a coating of yellow, dust-like particles. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/weather-connection/pollen-levels-stay-high-through-the-weekend-heres-whats-in-the-air/2928850/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:28Z |
Photos of the Week: Ukraine, Ketanji Brown Jackson and stallions
Harrison Burton, right, flips as he wrecks on the backstretch during the NASCAR Daytona 500 on Feb. 20, while Christopher Bell, left, and Ross Chastain try but are unable to avoid the crash at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. Associated Press/Chuck McQuinn
A volunteer looks at a column of fire in Santo Tomé in the province of Corrientes, Argentina, on Feb. 20. The fire that continues to ravage Corrientes has burned nearly 2,000 square miles. Associated Press/Rodrigo Abd
Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a document in Moscow on Feb. 21 recognizing the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, a preemptive move before Russia invaded the country. Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
Icelandic stallions run together at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb. 21. Associated Press/Michael Probst
Volcanic ash ascends from the southeastern crater of the volcano Mt. Etna as seen from Pedara in Sicily, Italy, on Feb. 21. The second-strongest paroxysm of 2022 produced volcanic smoke and ashes that rose for 6.2 miles, forcing the temporary closure of the nearby Vincenzo Bellini International Airport in Catania. Associated Press/Salvatore Allegra
Members of the Missouri Society of the Sons of the American Revolution stand after posting colors near the state of President George Washington in Lafayette Park on Presidents Day in St. Louis on Feb. 21. Bill Greenblatt/UPI Photo
Indian election officials look at a duty chart that shows their allotted polling stations on the eve of the fourth phase of polling for Uttar Pradesh state elections in Lucknow on Feb. 22. Associated Press/Rajesh Kumar Singh
Displaced people watch a United Nations helicopter carrying Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix land in Bunia, Congo, on Feb. 22. Lacroix replaced U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who had to cancel the three-day visit to the region and return to New York in light of the situation in Ukraine. Associated Press/Moses Sawasawa
Supporters cheer on the beginning of a trucker caravan to Washington, D.C., called The People’s Convoy, on Feb. 23 in Adelanto, Calif. A small convoy of truckers demanding an end to coronavirus mandates began a cross-country drive from California to the Washington, D.C., area on Wednesday. Associated Press/Nathan Howard
U.K. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Barbara Woodward, Ukraine Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield sit together after a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Russia-Ukraine conflict at United Nations Headquarters in New York City on Feb. 23. John Angelillo/UPI Photo
Traffic jams are seen as people leave the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a military operation in Ukraine and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences you have never seen.” Associated Press/Emilio Morenatti
Smoke rises from an air defense base in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Feb. 24. Big explosions were heard before dawn in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odessa as world leaders decried the start of a Russian invasion that could cause massive casualties and topple Ukraine’s democratically elected government. Associated Press/Evgeniy Maloletka
A woman holds her baby inside a bus as they leave Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24. Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Associated Press/Emilio Morenatti
A model wears a creation as part of the Prada Fall/Winter 2022-2023 fashion collection, unveiled during Fashion Week in Milan on Feb. 24. Associated Press/Luca Bruno
A police officer detains a demonstrator in Moscow with a poster reading “No war” during a Feb. 24 protest against Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Hundreds of people gathered in the center of Moscow and St. Petersburg on Thursday, protesting against Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Many of the demonstrators were detained. Similar protests took place in other Russian cities where activists were also arrested. Associated Press/Denis Kaminev
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) waves following his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 24. Joe Marino/UPI Photo
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 24 as President Biden addresses the nation on developments after Russia launched its attack on Ukraine. Stocks fell off by more than 700 points at the beginning of the session one day after the invasion. John Angelillo/UPI Photo
A U.S. Secret Service police officer walks past the word “Murder” painted in red on the ground outside of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24. People gathered at the embassy to protest the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine. Jemal Countess/UPI Photo
Protesters show support for Ukraine as they hold a rally outside of the Russian General Consulate in New York on Feb. 24. Russia began a military operation with troops and missiles launched at Ukraine on Thursday. John Angelillo/UPI Photo
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House after President Biden announced her as his nominee to the Supreme Court on Feb. 25. Associated Press/Carolyn Kaster
Photos curated by Greg Nash and Madeline Monroe.
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SHANGHAI, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 51job, Inc. (Nasdaq: JOBS) ("51job" or the "Company"), a leading provider of integrated human resource services in China, announced today its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2021 ended December 31, 2021.
Fourth Quarter 2021 Financial Highlights:
- Net revenues increased 15.7% over Q4 2020 to RMB1,345.2 million (US$211.1 million)
- Online recruitment services revenues increased 12.0%
- Other human resource related revenues increased 19.0%
- Income from operations was RMB304.6 million (US$47.8 million)
- Fully diluted earnings per share was RMB5.23 (US$0.82)
- Non-GAAP adjusted fully diluted earnings per share[1] was RMB5.99 (US$0.94)
Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Highlights:
- Net revenues increased 19.8% from 2020 to RMB4,420.4 million (US$693.7 million)
- Online recruitment services revenues increased 11.6%
- Other human resource related revenues increased 31.3%
- Income from operations was RMB551.3 million (US$86.5 million)
- Fully diluted earnings per share was RMB9.40 (US$1.47)
- Non-GAAP adjusted fully diluted earnings per share was RMB13.12 (US$2.06)
Fourth Quarter 2021 Unaudited Financial Results
Net revenues for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021 were RMB1,345.2 million (US$211.1 million), an increase of 15.7% from RMB1,163.1 million for the same quarter in 2020.
Online recruitment services revenues for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 12.0% to RMB617.7 million (US$96.9 million) compared with RMB551.6 million for the same quarter in 2020, primarily due to an improvement in hiring sentiment, demand and activity from employers in 2021.
Other human resource related revenues for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 19.0% to RMB727.5 million (US$114.2 million) from RMB611.5 million for the same quarter in 2020. The growth was primarily driven by robust employer demand for seasonal campus recruitment, business process outsourcing and training services in 2021.
Cost of services for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 29.1% to RMB535.2 million (US$84.0 million) from RMB414.5 million for the same quarter in 2020, primarily due to higher employee compensation expenses, headcount additions and greater direct costs, such as venue rental, media production and technology support, incurred in providing campus recruitment services to employers. Gross profit for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 8.2% to RMB810.0 million (US$127.1 million) from RMB748.6 million for the same quarter in 2020. Gross margin, which is gross profit as a percentage of net revenues, was 60.2% in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with 64.4% for the same quarter in 2020.
Operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 28.9% to RMB505.4 million (US$79.3 million) from RMB392.0 million for the same quarter in 2020. Sales and marketing expenses for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 34.3% to RMB403.6 million (US$63.3 million) from RMB300.6 million for the same quarter in 2020, primarily due to higher employee compensation expenses, staff additions and greater spending on advertising and brand awareness campaigns. Advertising and promotion expenses increased 27.7% to RMB90.0 million (US$14.1 million) for the fourth quarter of 2021 from RMB70.5 million for the same quarter in 2020.
General and administrative expenses for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 11.3% to RMB101.8 million (US$16.0 million) from RMB91.4 million for the same quarter in 2020, primarily due to higher employee compensation expenses
Income from operations for the fourth quarter of 2021 was RMB304.6 million (US$47.8 million) compared with RMB356.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2020. Operating margin, which is income from operations as a percentage of net revenues, was 22.6% for the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with 30.7% for the same quarter in 2020. Excluding share-based compensation expense, operating margin would have been 24.9% for the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with 33.7% for the same quarter in 2020.
The Company recognized a loss from foreign currency translation of RMB10.9 million (US$1.7 million) in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with RMB33.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, primarily due to the impact of the change in exchange rate between the Renminbi and the U.S. dollar on the Company's U.S. dollar cash deposits.
The Company recognized a mark-to-market, non-cash loss of RMB10.7 million (US$1.7 million) in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with RMB9.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 associated with a change in fair value of listed equity securities investment in Huali University Group Limited, which is traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The Company also recognized RMB3.4 million (US$0.5 million) in professional services fees and administrative expenses related to the proposed going-private transaction in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Other income in the fourth quarter of 2021 included local government financial subsidies of RMB98.6 million (US$15.5 million) compared with RMB14.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Net income attributable to 51job for the fourth quarter of 2021 was RMB355.2 million (US$55.7 million) compared with RMB342.0 million for the same quarter in 2020. Fully diluted earnings per share for the fourth quarter of 2021 was RMB5.23 (US$0.82) compared with RMB5.01 for the same quarter in 2020.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, total share-based compensation expense was RMB29.9 million (US$4.7 million) compared with RMB35.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Excluding share-based compensation expense, loss from foreign currency translation and change in fair value of listed equity securities investment, as well as the related tax effect of these items, non-GAAP adjusted net income attributable to 51job for the fourth quarter of 2021 was RMB406.7 million (US$63.8 million) compared with RMB420.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2020. Non-GAAP adjusted fully diluted earnings per share was RMB5.99 (US$0.94) in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with RMB6.16 in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Fiscal Year 2021 Unaudited Financial Results
Net revenues in 2021 were RMB4,420.4 million (US$693.7 million), an increase of 19.8% from RMB3,689.0 million in 2020
Online recruitment services revenues in 2021 increased 11.6% to RMB2,396.2 million (US$376.0 million) from RMB2,147.3 million in 2020. The increase was primarily due to the improvement in business activity and more recruitment needs of employers in China in 2021.
Other human resource related revenues in 2021 increased 31.3% to RMB2,024.2 million (US$317.6 million) from RMB1,541.6 million in 2020, primarily due to resilient customer demand and usage of the Company's training, campus recruitment, placement and business process outsourcing services.
Cost of services in 2021 increased 32.9% to RMB1,676.7 million (US$263.1 million) from RMB1,261.7 million in 2020, primarily due to higher employee compensation expenses and headcount additions. Gross profit in 2021 increased 13.0% to RMB2,743.7 million (US$430.5 million) from RMB2,427.2 million in 2020. Gross margin was 62.1% in 2021 compared with 65.8% in 2020.
Income from operations in 2021 decreased 36.4% to RMB551.3 million (US$86.5 million) from RMB867.1 million in 2020, primarily due to the significant increase in sales and marketing expenses in 2021. Operating margin was 12.5% in 2021 compared with 23.5% in 2020. Excluding share-based compensation expense, operating margin would have been 15.9% in 2021 compared with 27.4% in 2020.
Net income attributable to 51job in 2021 was RMB640.7 million (US$100.5 million) compared with RMB1,097.3 million in 2020. Fully diluted earnings per share in 2021 was RMB9.40 (US$1.47) compared with RMB16.12 in 2020.
Excluding share-based compensation expense, loss from foreign currency translation, and changes in fair value of listed equity securities investment and long-term investment, as well as the related tax effect of these items, non-GAAP adjusted net income attributable to 51job in 2021 was RMB894.4 million (US$140.4 million) compared with RMB1,243.9 million in 2020. Non-GAAP adjusted fully diluted earnings per share was RMB13.12 (US$2.06) in 2021 compared with RMB18.28 in 2020.
As of December 31, 2021, cash and short-term investments totaled RMB10,587.0 million (US$1,661.3 million) compared with RMB10,761.9 million as of December 31, 2020.
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For the convenience of readers, certain Renminbi amounts have been translated into U.S. dollar amounts at the rate of RMB6.3726 to US$1.00, the noon buying rate on December 30, 2021 in New York for cable transfers of Renminbi as set forth in the H.10 weekly statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board.
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To supplement the consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"), 51job uses non-GAAP financial measures of income before income tax expense, income tax expense, adjusted net income, adjusted net income attributable to 51job and adjusted earnings per share, which are adjusted from results based on GAAP to exclude share-based compensation expense, loss from foreign currency translation and changes in fair value of listed equity securities investment and long-term investment, as well as the related tax effect of these items. The Company believes excluding share-based compensation expense and its related tax effect from its non-GAAP financial measures is useful for its management and investors to assess and analyze the Company's core operating results as such expense is not directly attributable to the underlying performance of the Company's business operations and do not impact its cash earnings. The Company believes excluding loss from foreign currency translation and changes in fair value of listed equity securities investment and long-term investment, as well as the related tax effect, from its non-GAAP financial measures is useful for its management and investors as such translation, mark-to-market gain or loss is not indicative of the Company's core business operations and will not result in cash settlement nor impact the Company's cash earnings. 51job also believes these non-GAAP financial measures excluding share-based compensation expense, loss from foreign currency translation and changes in fair value of listed equity securities investment and long-term investment, as well as the related tax effect of these items, are important in helping investors to understand the Company's current financial performance and future prospects and to compare business trends among different reporting periods on a consistent basis. The presentation of these additional measures should not be considered a substitute for or superior to GAAP results or as being comparable to results reported or forecasted by other companies. The non-GAAP measures have been reconciled to GAAP measures in the attached financial statements.
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Founded in 1998, 51job is a leading provider of integrated human resource services in China. With a comprehensive suite of HR solutions, 51job meets the needs of enterprises and job seekers through the entire talent management cycle, from initial recruitment to employee retention and career development. The Company's main online recruitment platforms (http://www.51job.com, http://www.yingjiesheng.com, http://www.51jingying.com, http://www.lagou.com, and http://www.51mdd.com), as well as mobile applications, connect millions of people with employment opportunities every day. 51job also provides a number of other value-added HR services, including business process outsourcing, training, professional assessment, campus recruitment, executive search and compensation analysis. 51job has a call center in Wuhan and a nationwide network of sales and service locations spanning more than 30 cities across China.
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LAPD was 'prepared' to arrest Will Smith for slapping Chris Rock, says Oscars producer Will Packer
Will Packer, who produced this year's Oscars, is opening up about the now-infamous moment in which Will Smith slapped Chris Rock onstage during Sunday's awards show.
In a preview clip from an interview with Good Morning America airing in full on Friday, Packer said that Los Angeles police were on hand and "prepared" to arrest Smith, but Rock was "very dismissive" about pressing charges against him.
"They were saying, 'This is battery' — the word they used in that moment. They said, 'We will go get him. We are prepared to get him right now, you can press charges. We can arrest him.' They were laying out the options," Packer says in the clip.
"And as they were talking, Chris was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, 'No, I'm fine.' ... Even to the point where I said, 'Rock, let them finish.' The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were, and they said, 'Would you like us to take any action?' And he said, 'No.'"
Packer also told GMA that he did not speak to Smith directly at all on Oscars Sunday. Packer's comments come after the Academy said Wednesday that it began disciplinary proceedings against the Best Actor winner. The awards body also claimed that Smith was asked to leave the ceremony after the assault, and that he refused, but other reports have refuted the claim that he was asked at all.
Smith released a formal apology on Monday, publicly addressing Rock, which he did not previously do in his Oscars acceptance speech. "I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris," he wrote. "I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness."
For his part, Rock had not commented on the incident — which occurred after the comedian had made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, while presenting the award for Best Documentary — until Wednesday night. He addressed the matter briefly at his first comedy show since the Oscars. "I don't have a bunch of s--- about what happened, so if you came to hear that, I have a whole show I wrote before this weekend," Rock could be heard saying in leaked audio obtained by Variety. "I'm still kind of processing what happened. So, at some point, I'll talk about that s---. And it will be serious and funny."
The full interview with Packer airs Friday morning on ABC's Good Morning America at 7 a.m. ET.
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The Chicago Bears signed safety Dane Cruikshank to a one-year contract Thursday.
The 26-year-old Cruikshank spent the past four seasons with the Tennessee Titans. He appeared in 44 games (four starts), recording 65 tackles, two passes defended and one interception.
Cruikshank provides the Bears with depth in the secondary as well as special-teams experience. He had 18 special-teams tackles from 2018-19, which ranked second on the Titans during that time.
Tennessee drafted Cruikshank in the fifth round (No. 152 overall) out of Arizona in 2018.
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Teen Mom fans slam Kailyn Lowry’s ‘disastrous’ garage of ‘junk’ only 3 weeks after $850K Delaware mansion move-in
Fans slammed Kailyn Lowry's "disastrous" garage piled up with "junk" requiring a cleaning service to come to the rescue.
The Teen Mom star moved into her $850K Delaware dream mansion just three weeks ago.
Kailyn, 30, has officially moved into her dream abode but things weren't exactly ship-shape in new Instagram posts on Thursday.
In photos and videos reshared to her Instagram Stories, the MTV star was assisted by a "luxury home organizing" company for her garage in disarray.
"Bringing some order to the garage," they captioned their first March 31 video, showing PILES of boxes, lamps and kayaks filling the space.
As the service, Philadelphia Neat, panned through the clutter - a figure presumably Kailyn in a hat, could be seen in the doorway before disappearing.
"Setting up some the final systems in the office," the luxury cleaning company added in a second story.
As they panned across the office, more boxes and loose scissors were all across the room as they seemingly were adding shelving.
"Things are starting to come together" they concluded in a third Instagram Story as shelves had been additionally installed in the garage for the star and the spaces tidied up.
Kailyn, for her part, showed off her chic stone dining table in a separate video, but even then there were loose items - and scraps on the console table in the playroom.
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Fans swept over to Reddit to share their thoughts.
"She’s bored, rich, and impulsive. That’s all," one bashed.
"I'm starting to wonder if her $800k house is actually a $400k house filled with another $400k of crap," wrote another.
"I’m no kail fan but I feel like ppl hate on her just to hate," defended a third while a fourth took a shine to the overall style:
"I actually love this not for me but for someone else it’s fun and modern."
KAILYN'S CASTLE
A few weeks back, Kail showcased the inside of the house including the living room, stairwell, and kid's playroom.
Kailyn told her followers that she "absolutely loves" the stairwell which has a geometric-patterned rug running along the center of it.
The office has large chairs with a conference table, also seen in new stories Thursday.
Kailyn hasn't always loved the building process, however.
She previously admitted on an episode of her podcast Baby Mamas No Drama that she couldn't wait for it to be over after multiple delays.
She revealed: "I thought I was really gonna love like the house stuff, so I was kind of living like vicariously through you guys like doing real estate and like flipping and stuff. I hate it.
"I love HGTV and I love watching people do it online and stuff so I thought because of that interest that I was gonna like doing it myself but I hate it."
Kailyn shares sons Lux, 4, and Creed, 1 with ex Chris Lopez.
She is also the mother of 12-year-old son Issac with Jo Rivera and eight-year-old son Lincoln, who she shares with Javi Marroquin.
NEW HOUSE OLD SHOW?
Fans fell in love with Kailyn on Teen Mom 2, although the star recently revealed that she may not be returning.
According to The Ashley Reality Roundup, a major change is coming to the MTV franchise with the network has reportedly decided to combine Teen Mom OG and Teen Mom 2 into one show.
The casts combining, though, would likely mean some stars would be cut, as suggested by the gossip site.
This comes as Kailyn hasn't filmed with the franchise in six months and recently mass unfollowed a ton of co-stars including former close friend Leah Messer.
The Sun also earlier exclusively reported that Briana DeJesus said the crew "HATES" filming with Kailyn
Kailyn sued Briana for defamation in June.
Kailyn seemingly confirmed her fate on the series after responding to fans' comments about the merge.
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Beware the mailbox that dares anger a bull on the loose, for as the saying goes: you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Body camera video from a police officer shows the moment a 9-month-old bull named "Butch" on the loose laid waste to such a mailbox in Stafford Township after escaping from a local farm Wednesday.
“Officer Pascale was not amooooosed when he got dispatched to this call on Hilliard Ave today,” the Stafford Township Police Department posted on its Facebook page.
After a quick lick – perhaps to try and sense its fear through taste – the video shows the bull hooking the mailbox from underneath with its horn and yanking it up off the ground, along with the post it was attached to.
It turns out mailboxes are not cut out to be matadors. Who knew?
The officer, parked next to the bovine, can be heard chuckling as he calls someone. “She’s busy assaulting a mailbox right now,” the officer says.
Stafford Township police Capt. Jim Vaughn called it a “great escape” and said the roughly year-old bull got loose – along with several pigs and a goat – through a gate that was not properly secured.
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After a while, animal control arrived and managed to secure the bull by enticing it with food, Vaughn said.
Despite the video also showing the bull darting through the front yard of a house, the only property damage done was to the mailbox, Vaughn added.
On Thursday the bull was taken to Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue in Sussex County, New Jersey, where he'll have much more room to roam.
"He'll be fantastic," Mike Stura of Skylands told NBC10. "He's nice as it is. You know. He was playing with that mailbox. That was just playing. He wasn't mad."
The bull's owner, Veronica Tkaczuk, told NBC10 she rescued Butch when he was just weeks old so he wouldn't be raised for slaughter.
"It's a little sad but I know that he's getting to like, he's so strong," she said. "He's so big and so strong and I would hate for something bad to happen." | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/watch-bull-on-the-loose-in-nj-town-lays-waste-to-mailbox/2796647/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:32Z |
Do you REALLY need a top sheet? Experts weigh in on fiery debate after millennials decide to toss the extra layer aside
- Six experts have revealed exactly why you should be using a top sheet
- Top sheets protect your doona cover which means you can wash it less
- They also add a layer of warmth and set a comfortable mood in the bedroom
Registered nurse and naturopath Madeline Calfas believes a top sheet is a necessity for good hygiene
Millennials have all but ditched the idea of making their bed using a top sheet insisting the extra layer of linen is unnecessary and annoying.
But six experts including a nurse and interior designers have revealed the benefits outweigh the risk of being 'wrapped up' in a loose fitting top sheet.
Speaking with the team at Bed Threads each of the experts revealed they prefer to use a top sheet when making a bed insisting it improves hygiene, aesthetics and comfort.
Interior designer Simone Haag likes to use a top sheet to add another splash of colour or appealing texture when styling a room.
To her layering colours and textures in a room helps improve its overall aesthetic and make it more comfortable and pleasing to the eye.
While registered nurse and naturopath Madeline Calfas believes the top sheet's importance lies in hygiene rather than being a stylistic choice.
And unless you wash your doona cover weekly or fortnightly along with the rest of your bedding then a top sheet is a necessity, she explained.
Experts have weighed in on the top sheet debate with all six agreeing it is worth adding the extra layer when you make the bed
'Are you able to remember the last time you actually washed your doona cover? The fact of the matter is that while we may wash our sheets on a weekly basis, we don’t tend to wash our doonas anywhere near as frequently, which makes them a veritable treasure trove for bedbugs,' she said.
'On top of that, think of how much you might sweat, especially in the summer months. Not having a top sheet means your doona cover is going to absorb that sweat, rather than the top sheet.'
Ashleigh Hogan, a Bed Threads customer service member, says she always uses a top sheet.
In summer she uses it in place of a heavier covering and in winter she enjoys the extra layer of warmth it offers.
Professional organisers Emma Rosham and Michelle Rubi from Tidee both use a top sheet because they believe it adds an element of luxury and comfort to their bedrooms.
But if you are trying to de-clutter and find yourself tangled in the sheets at night they say it isn't the end of the world to get rid of the extra layer.
They are supportive of both options as long as their clients are choosing the options which offers them the best night sleep.
Interior designer Emily MacAlpine says she understands why people prefer to sleep without a top sheet - but she never would.
Simone Haag says she likes a top sheet because she finds layering colours and textures to be aesthetically pleasing
She can't bear the thought of washing her doona cover every week and enjoys having the covers 'up around her face' when she sleeps.
So the top sheet acts as a guard for her doona, which would otherwise be covered in dead skin cells, oil and bacteria and would need to be washed each week.
'On the flip side, I think not having a top sheet means your bed is effortlessly made in seconds and doesn’t start to look seriously messy because you don’t have a sheet to tuck in,' she said.
The top-sheet debate appears to be the most fierce topic on conversation when it comes to bedroom styling, overtaking the age old question of when one should wash their bedding.
Australians have revealed how often they wash their bed sheets in an eye-opening survey, with answers ranging from every two days to once a year.
Consumer advocacy group CHOICE posed the question of how often was normal for each household to strip the beds on Facebook, asking its followers to 'be honest'.
The results differed dramatically, with one woman saying she washes her sheets once a week but her mother insists that every second day is more appropriate.
'I do mine fortnightly. With a large family I'd be forever washing sheets otherwise (and there's already enough clothes keeping me busy),' said a mother.
'Twice a week! Anything less to me is gross with the amount of dead skin cells we shed,' said another.
Consumer advocacy group CHOICE posed the question of how often was normal for each household to strip the beds on Facebook
'I have a king size bed and sleep on my own so I sleep on one side of the bed for a week then the other side for the second week before washing,' said one man.
Others were less regimented with their washing schedule and made infrequent trips to the laundry room
'They were clean when I bought them. That's all they need,' said one man.
According to CHOICE Australians should be washing their sheets once a week, including the pillowcases
'Once a year whether they need it or not,' said another.
According to CHOICE Australians should be washing their sheets once a week, including the pillowcases.
This prevents a build up of dust mites, which feed off dead skin cells, sweat and seminal fluid.
A person sheds on average 1.5 grams of skin each day - and if that's not 'disgusting' enough, that amount of dead skin can feed one million dust mites, Good Housekeeping reported.
Each month the team recommend rotating or flipping your mattress to avoid 'grooves' from forming where you sleep each night
'Use a mattress protector or mattress topper to protect your mattress from sweat stains,' CHOICE suggested.
'This can pay dividends if you need to make a warranty claim, as excessive staining could see claims refused. Likewise pillow protectors can help keep your pillows at their best.'
Each month the team recommend rotating or flipping your mattress to avoid 'grooves' from forming where you sleep each night.
During this time it's also important to vacuum the mattress to get rid of dust mites that may live there.
Each year should see you assess the mattress for comfortability, and if it's not providing the support you need, getting a new one. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10674273/Experts-reveal-use-sheet.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-01T01:56:32Z |
HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii judge has granted a couple’s request for a temporary restraining order against Ezra Miller, an actor known for playing “The Flash” in “Justice League” films.
The couple filed a petition for a temporary restraining order Tuesday, alleging that Miller burst into their bedroom and threatened them in Hilo, a small town on the Big Island. The petition also accused Miller of stealing some of their belongings, including a passport and wallet.
The judge’s order, filed in court Wednesday, said it was necessary to grant the couple’s petition to prevent harassment.
Days earlier, Miller allegedly harassed patrons at a karaoke bar. Late Sunday, police were called to Margarita Village in Hilo, where they said Miller yelled obscenities, grabbed a mic from a singing woman and lunged at a man playing darts.
“The bar owner asked Miller to calm down several times to no avail,” police said in a news release.
Miller was arrested at the bar shortly after midnight Monday and charged with disorderly conduct and harassment. Miller was released on $500 bail.
Neither Miller nor the actor’s representatives could immediately be reached for comment Thursday.
Miller is ordered to appear at a court hearing for the temporary restraining order against harassment in Hilo on April 13. | https://www.ketk.com/news/entertainment-news/actor-ezra-miller-ordered-to-stay-away-from-hawaii-couple/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:32Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
“The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. “Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical.”
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
“But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards,” said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He said the compound is in “the top tier of problematic chemicals in our water.”
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing facilities in Henderson, Nevada, were the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites in the state between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in data provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites, where severe perchlorate contamination is generated from the burning of hazardous byproducts from weapons manufacturing and munitions. One such site is in Colfax, Louisiana, where environmentalists have long advocated for reform.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what's needed.
“Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water," said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
___
AP reporter Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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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.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said. | https://who13.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/bill-seeks-to-put-cap-on-overdraft-fees/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:32Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
“The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. “Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical.”
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
“But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards,” said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He said the compound is in “the top tier of problematic chemicals in our water.”
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing facilities in Henderson, Nevada, were the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites in the state between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in data provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites, where severe perchlorate contamination is generated from the burning of hazardous byproducts from weapons manufacturing and munitions. One such site is in Colfax, Louisiana, where environmentalists have long advocated for reform.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what's needed.
“Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water," said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
___
AP reporter Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
___
The Associated Press receives support from the Walton Family Foundation for coverage of water and environmental policy. The AP is solely responsible for all content. For all of AP’s environmental coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/environment | https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/EPA-upholds-Trump-era-decision-not-to-regulate-17049862.php | 2022-04-01T01:56:33Z |
Rochester, MN (KIMT) - Earlier this week, the sun emitted a strong solar flare which has been traveling through space towards the earth. Charged particles from the solar flare will interact with the Earths' magnetosphere which will lead to widespread visuals of the aurora borealis (Northern Lights). The aurora was very active across much of the northern US Wednesday night, but clouds and snow prevented us from seeing them in Minnesota and Iowa. Clearer skies are expected for Thursday night, which will give us a good visual if they are active again.
The best way to spot the Northern Lights will be to get away from city lights and look to the north. You may have to wait some time for a good showing, as they will not constantly be visible.
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Don't throw Russia out of G20, aid group says, with eye on food crisis
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WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - Excluding Russia from the Group of 20 major economies and other international institutions could slow efforts to address a worsening global food crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, the head of German aid group Welthungerhilfe (WHH) told Reuters.
Mathias Mogge, chief executive of the group, which serves 14.3 million people with projects in 35 countries, said it was critical to maintain communication with Russia, one of the world's largest producers of wheat, in tackling the crisis.
"Of course, Russia is the aggressor here, and there needs to be sanctions and everything. But in a humanitarian situation as we have it today, there must be open lines of communication." Mogge said in an interview this week.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February is driving food prices sharply higher across the world and triggering shortages of staple crops in parts of central Asia, the Middle East and north Africa, according to United Nations officials.
The war, which Russia calls a "special military operation," has slashed shipments from the two countries, which together account for 25% of world wheat exports and 16% of corn exports, driving prices sharply higher on international markets.
Mogge said he expected Group of Seven leaders to address the issue during their upcoming meetings.
Russia was still part of what was then the Group of Eight during the last food crisis of 2007 and 2008, and played a constructive role in reducing hunger worldwide, Mogge said.
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‘You want sex? I’ll kill you’: the capers that bonded these 90-year-old twins
By Susan Horsburgh
Together, 90-year-old Melbourne twins Liliana del Porto and Lydia Marcuzzi have survived wartime bombing, a taste of Italian Hollywood and a total of five husbands. They’re happiest at home watching TV detective shows.
LILIANA: We don’t know who was born first; our mother wanted only [our brother] Giorgio, then she got two more who were nine kilos! She got thrombophlebitis, so for 40 days she had her legs up, and we had wet nurses. We were born in Skopje, Macedonia, because our Italian father was a diplomat. Lydia was a terrible, rebellious child. After church, she’d go off with the orphans to queue for a piece of bread with jam. If I had new shoes, she’d want to ruin them, so she’d wipe her feet on them.
After our father died in 1939, we went back to Zara [now Zadar in Croatia], where our parents had been born. The bombing started in 1943. One day, a bomb exploded as we were coming home from church. I was the only one left standing. My mother was covered with big stones; her leg was hurt. She was saying, “My Lydia! My Lydia!” We couldn’t find Lydia for two hours. It was terrible. She was buried under two ladies. Now I am claustrophobic and Lydia is afraid of thunder.
For the next seven years, we were moved around refugee camps. When we were 18, we went to Roma, where they were making movies; Mussolini had built Cinecittà [a large film studio], like Hollywood. We were extras in three movies, including Quo Vadis with Peter Ustinov; he wrote a love letter to Lydia. They wanted to put Lydia in other movies, but my mother said, “Forget it!” She was terrified of us [being with men]. When Lydia first got married [in 1952 in Melbourne], she didn’t consummate the marriage for three days because she was so scared.
We arrived in Australia in 1951 and, after two weeks at Bonegilla migrant camp [east of Wodonga in north-east Victoria], they put Lydia and me in two beautiful villas in Toorak to learn English and nursing. We used to take a suitcase to Prahran Market and fill it with [animal] heads, tongues, tails, eyes … we ate everything. It was free because nobody bought it; the butchers thought we were crazy.
“We couldn’t find Lydia for two hours. It was terrible. She was buried under two ladies.”
I’d met Ugo in Naples and he came to Melbourne to marry me in March 1952 at St Patrick’s Cathedral. We lived in Broadmeadows in a little house that rained inside and, every Wednesday, Lydia came with a lobster. We found a magpie in the kitchen one day, so we got a blanket and caught it. We took off the feathers and boiled it, but the meat was terrible.
I had one husband and four sons and Lydia had one son and four husbands! When she married the fourth one, Lydia was crying at the altar. I said, “Lydia, were you moved?” and she said, “No, I already regret marrying this one.”
We are not similar at all. She likes a bit of a drink: scotch and champagne. I drink maybe a spoonful of Baileys in the evenings. I like blues and jazz; she likes classical. Lydia doesn’t ring anybody and nobody rings her. She’s not crazy for the clubs like me; I like bingo. To everything, at first she says, “No.” I always say, “Yes.”
Lydia lives around the corner. She comes every day at about 8am – “Do you need something, Liliana?” – then drives to Malvern Central to go shopping. At 2-2.30pm, I go to see her, then at 5.30pm she comes back with dinner for me: salmon with an egg on top. We both love Foyle’s War. I tape it and we watch it together. I love her generosity. And the closeness.
LYDIA: My mother said, “I wanted you both dead because I didn’t have any milk and the wet nurses all had syphilis”, so they imported two from overseas: I had one type of milk and Liliana another. Maybe because of this we are a bit different. I was a very naughty child – I used to run away – but Liliana was very good.
In Roma, they put ads in the paper: “Extras wanted.” It was like living in Hollywood. And we were beautiful. They used to say, “Liliana’s got a bum like a guitar and Lydia’s is like a mandolin.” The Italian men used to follow us. Our mother said, “You want sex? I’ll kill you, then I’ll kill myself!” We were terrified. She threw a knife at me once because I was talking to a Hungarian. We were virgins when we got married.
“To me, marriage wasn’t very important; it was easy come, easy go. Liliana was serious about marriage. I got tired of them.”
Sometimes, we didn’t feel very welcome in Australia; if we spoke Italian, they didn’t like us. But being nurses’ aides [the twins worked in a number of hospitals, including Caulfield Hospital] was all right; we were happy to help people. Liliana and I worked together. At Caulfield, there were 20 or 30 people on each ward and the nurse told me to wash their teeth. I got a bucket and went, “Give me your teeth, give me your teeth …” I collected all the dentures, washed them in Dettol and took them back. They said, “Those aren’t my teeth!” I didn’t know [dentures] were all different!
It was sad when Liliana went back to Italy with Ugo [for 14 years], but you get used to it. And I was busy getting married. Four times is a lot! They all died, but I divorced them, then they died. I didn’t kill them. To me, marriage wasn’t very important; it was easy come, easy go. Liliana was serious about marriage. I got tired of them. And childbirth was so terrible, I screamed and screamed; they put on a mask to shut me up. But Liliana didn’t complain. She’s stoic.
Liliana is more elegant, I’m more casual. I love animal print. I like the colour. My hair? I went to the chemist and bought a bottle of pink dye for $5. I just did it for fun. We are happiest together when we watch Foyle’s War. She tapes Judge Judy and Dr Phil, but I don’t like them. I like Diagnosis: Murder with Dick Van Dyke. And Jake and the Fatman. I like the policemen.
Liliana is beautiful, gentle and talkative; she talks, talks, talks. She asks questions all the time. I really don’t care about people. Liliana cares. All my friends have died and I haven’t made other friends. Sometimes I see a person and cross the road not to meet them; I don’t like to talk. With Liliana, I can be a silent witness. We never fight. It’s like having a good friend who never goes away. I moved here from Wollongong because I wanted to be near Liliana. She loves me, I love her. We know what we mean to each other without talking smooshy.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO) ("Broadcom") announced today that it has priced its previously announced offering (the "Offering") of $750,000,000 of 4.00% Senior Notes due 2029 and $1,200,000,000 of 4.15% Senior Notes due 2032 (together, the "New Notes"). The New Notes will be unsecured obligations of the Company and will rank pari passu with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company. The Offering is expected to settle on April 14, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
Broadcom intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the New Notes to redeem in full its 4.700% Senior Notes due 2025 and 4.250% Senior Notes due 2026 (collectively, the "Redemption Notes"), including accrued and unpaid interest thereon, and to pay fees and expenses in connection therewith.
The New Notes are being sold in a private placement to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and to non-U.S. persons outside the United States under Regulation S under the Securities Act. The New Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other applicable securities laws.
This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the New Notes, nor shall there be any sale of the New Notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. This notice is being issued pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 135c under the Securities Act.
Nothing in this press release should be construed as an offer to purchase, notice of redemption or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any of the Redemption Notes. The redemption of the Redemption Notes is conditioned on the completion by the Company of one or more debt financing transactions and the receipt of the net proceeds therefrom in an amount, together with cash on hand, sufficient to pay the redemption price for the Redemption Notes.
About Broadcom Inc.
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial. Our solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise, mainframe and cyber security software focused on automation, monitoring and security, smartphone components, telecoms and factory automation.
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This announcement contains forward-looking statements (including within the meaning of Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended) concerning Broadcom. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements that address our expected future business and financial performance, the offering and use of proceeds, and other statements identified by words such as "will," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "should," "intend," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "aim," and similar words, phrases or expressions. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and beliefs of the management of Broadcom, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, such management, current market trends and market conditions and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the Company's and management's control, and which may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on such statements.
Particular uncertainties that could materially affect future results include risks associated with: the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disrupted, and will likely continue to disrupt, normal business activity, and which may have an adverse effect on our results of operations; any loss of our significant customers and fluctuations in the timing and volume of significant customer demand; our dependence on contract manufacturing and outsourced supply chain; our dependency on a limited number of suppliers; government regulations and administrative proceedings, trade restrictions and trade tensions; global economic conditions and concerns; cyclicality in the semiconductor industry or in our target markets; global political and economic conditions; our significant indebtedness and the need to generate sufficient cash flows to service and repay such debt; the amount and frequency of our share repurchase program; dependence on and risks associated with distributors and resellers of our products; dependence on senior management and our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; any acquisitions we may make, such as delays, challenges and expenses associated with receiving governmental and regulatory approvals and satisfying other closing conditions, and with integrating acquired businesses with our existing businesses and our ability to achieve the benefits, growth prospects and synergies expected by such acquisitions; involvement in legal proceedings; quarterly and annual fluctuations in operating results; our ability to accurately estimate customers' demand and adjust our manufacturing and supply chain accordingly; our competitive performance and ability to continue achieving design wins with our customers, as well as the timing of any design wins; prolonged disruptions of our or our contract manufacturers' manufacturing facilities, warehouses or other significant operations; our ability to improve our manufacturing efficiency and quality; our dependence on outsourced service providers for certain key business services and their ability to execute to our requirements; our ability to maintain or improve gross margin; our ability to protect our intellectual property and the unpredictability of any associated litigation expenses; compatibility of our software products with operating environments, platforms or third-party products; our ability to enter into satisfactory software license agreements; availability of third party software used in our products; use of open source code sources in our products; any expenses or reputational damage associated with resolving customer product warranty and indemnification claims; market acceptance of the end products into which our products are designed; our ability to sell to new types of customers and to keep pace with technological advances; our compliance with privacy and data security laws; our ability to protect against a breach of security systems; fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; our provision for income taxes and overall cash tax costs, legislation that may impact our overall cash tax costs and our ability to maintain tax concessions in certain jurisdictions; and other events and trends on a national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business, competitive and regulatory nature. Many of the foregoing risks and uncertainties are, and will be, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and any worsening of the global business and economic environment as a result.
Our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which you may obtain for free at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov, discuss some of the important risk factors that may affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Actual results may vary from the estimates provided. We undertake no intent or obligation to publicly update or revise any of the estimates and other forward-looking statements made in this announcement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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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.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said. | https://fox40.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/bill-seeks-to-put-cap-on-overdraft-fees/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:36Z |
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Overnight Defense & National Security — Ukraine hangs in the balance
It’s Friday, welcome to Overnight Defense & National Security, your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. Subscribe here: thehill.com/newsletter-signup.
Russia’s deadly incursion into Ukraine rages on into the weekend as Western officials scramble to impose harsh economic penalties on Russia and its leaders, deliver more aid to Ukraine and stand up a NATO force meant to deter further Kremlin aggression into Europe.
We’ll break down what’s happened today in Ukraine and the response from the world.
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Let’s get to it.
Historical first: NATO activates response force
NATO, for the first time in its history, is activating its NATO Response Force (NRF) in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We have activated NATO’s defense plans to prepare ourselves to respond to a range of contingencies and secure Alliance territory, including by drawing on our response forces,” NATO heads of state and government said in a joint statement released Friday after the alliance held a virtual summit.
“We are now making significant additional defensive deployments of forces to the eastern part of the Alliance. We will make all deployments necessary to ensure strong and credible deterrence and defense across the Alliance, now and in the future.”
What is the NRF?: The extraordinary move marks the first time NATO has activated the NRF, a multinational force comprised of around 40,000 land, air, maritime and special operations personnel the alliance can deploy on short notice as needed. All 30 members of NATO must agree to activate the force, which they did on Thursday.
The Pentagon in January put 8,500 U.S. troops on heightened alert for such a mission, and with the NRF now activated, those troops could soon be ordered to Europe to help bolster NATO countries near Ukraine. President Biden has stressed, however, that they will not go to Ukraine as it is not a member of the alliance.
Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Gen. Tod Wolters, the head of the NRF, called the force’s activation a “historic moment” according to a statement.
The force is still on standby and has not yet been deployed.
Additional help: In addition, NATO has “deployed defensive land and air forces in the eastern part of the Alliance, and maritime assets across the NATO area,” according to its statement.
The alliance also reaffirmed its “unwavering support for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Ukraine, and pledged continued “political and practice support” to its government.
Speaking to reporters after the summit, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the U.S., Canada and European allies have deployed “thousands of more troops to the eastern part of the alliance,” with more than 100 jets and 120 ships operating on high alert in more than 30 locations.
Russia facing ‘more resistance’ than expected
Russian forces moving toward Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv are “meeting more resistance than they expected,” a senior defense official said Friday.
“I can’t give you an exact geographic location of where they are, but they are not moving on Kyiv as fast as what we believe they anticipated they would be able to do,” the official told reporters.
“In general, the Russians have lost a little bit of their momentum,” the official later added.
Advancing further: Russia is continuing to advance into three major areas of Ukraine since beginning an assault on the country early Thursday morning local time. Russian troops are advancing toward Kyiv from Belarus; into the area around Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city; and from Crimea in the south toward Kherson, which sits on a major river, the official said.
Russian forces moving toward Kherson have also appeared to split off to head to the northeast “in the direction of Mariupol and the Donbas region,” the official added.
The official also confirmed that there is a Russian “amphibious assault” underway to the west of Mariupol along the Ukrainian coast. The assault is coming from the Sea of Azov, with indications that the Russians “are putting potentially thousands of naval infantry ashore there.”
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PENTAGON MULLING WAYS TO GET MORE LETHAL AID TO UKRAINE
The U.S. military will provide additional lethal aid for Ukraine but is working through the logistics of delivery given the contested airspace over Ukraine, the Pentagon’s top spokesman said Friday.
“We’re continuing to look for ways to support Ukraine to defend themselves,” press secretary John Kirby told reporters. “And we’re very actively engaged in those efforts to help them better defend themselves through both lethal and non-lethal assistance.”
Drastic changes: Kirby later added that as the situation in Ukraine has drastically changed since Thursday, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered into Ukraine some of the more than 150,000 troops amassed near the border.
“We’re going to have to look for other ways to do this,” the Pentagon spokesman said.
“The airspace over Ukraine is contested, the Russians don’t have superiority of it, it’s contested,” Kirby said. “We are going to provide additional security assistance for Ukraine, we will. How that is going to be done is still being worked out.”
Limited details: He added that he won’t detail what the U.S. would send into Ukraine given the security situation.
“I have not been detailing for any of you each and every package, each and every shipment, because I think you can understand, and it’s particularly relevant now, that Ukraine is involved in a no-kidding invasion of their country,” Kirby said. “We wouldn’t want to put it out there in the public space everything that they’re getting from the United States.”
The U.S. government has provided about $650 million in security assistance to Ukraine in the past year, and the Biden administration is reportedly expected to ask Congress for billions more.
WH seeks $6.4B in Ukraine-related aid
The White House is asking Congress to approve $6.4 billion in additional funding to help respond to the ongoing Russian invasion in Ukraine, two sources confirmed to The Hill.
The request includes $2.9 billion for State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for humanitarian assistance as well as security assistance to Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic states and allies on NATO’s eastern flank, according to a Biden administration official.
The Biden administration is also asking Congress for $3.5 billion in additional funding for the Pentagon, according to the official.
More details: White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday told reporters officials with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) were in touch with Congress about additional assistance as it relates to Ukraine.
An OMB official told The Hill the administration made the request during a recent conversation with lawmakers.
“As the President and bipartisan members of Congress have made clear, the United States is committed to supporting the Ukrainian people as they defend their country and democracy,” the OMB official said.
US employs unusual strategy to counter Putin
The White House has aggressively worked to rebut false narratives emanating from Russia about the crisis in Ukraine by proactively releasing intelligence information, a highly unusual strategy that experts and former officials say has knocked Russian President Vladimir Putin off his game.
The tactic didn’t prevent Russia from invading Ukraine, but experts credit it with scrambling and defanging some of the Russian plots to create a false justification for an invasion, as well as preparing the world to react quickly.
“It didn’t deter them, but it disrupted what they were doing and I think short circuited some of their plans,” said Clinton Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Removing the element of surprise: President Biden credited this strategy in a speech from the White House on Thursday, making clear on the world stage that “Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war.”
“We have been transparent with the world — we shared declassified intelligence about Russia’s plans and cyber attacks and false pretexts — so that there can be no confusion or cover up,” he said.
Vladimír Bilčík, head of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Interference, told The Hill that the blunt and dire warnings from the U.S. took away Putin’s ability to benefit from the element of surprise.
“This transparency, this quick exposure and this intelligence sharing has been extremely useful because I think it has pointed to a number of weak points in Russia’s strategy. There has been little element of surprise in terms of what’s to come,” he said.
WHAT WE’RE READING
- White House to sanction Putin for invasion of Ukraine
- Russia threatens ‘military and political consequences’ if Finland, Sweden try joining NATO
- Austin says US may train Ukrainian soldiers remotely: report
- Zelensky warns Russia will ‘assault’ Kyiv tonight
- Russian space chief threatens International Space Station over sanctions
- EU to freeze assets of Putin, Russian foreign minister
- Council of Europe suspends Russia over actions in Ukraine
- Ukraine minister decries Russian ‘war crimes’ on schools, orphanages
- US officials concerned Kyiv could fall to Russia within days: reports
ON TAP FOR MONDAY
- The German Marshall Fund of the United States will host a discussion on “U.S.-Europe Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific,” at 9:30 a.m.
- The Jewish Institute for National Security of America will hold a talk on “Iran-Backed Attacks on the United Arab Emirates and Prospects for Regional Air Defense,” at 11 a.m.
- The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft will discuss “As America’s Rivalry With Russia Intensifies, How Can U.S. Nuclear Policy Make Us Safer?” at 11 a.m.
- Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will discuss “War in Ukraine: Rapid Response Briefing” at the American Security Project at 1 p.m.
- Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) will speak at a Washington Post Live event on Ukraine at 2 p.m.
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Michael Bay is being way too harsh on Transformers 5
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If you're going to watch just one Transformers movie, it should be the 1986 animated film, a merciless power-pop PG kidtoon that incongruously kills multiple lovable characters and features an Orson Welles-voiced planet-munching ultramonster. If you're going to watch two Transformers movies, though, I vaguely recommend 2017's Transformers: The Last Knight, the fifth and final film in director Michael Bay's Hasbro decade. Bay himself now says he "should have stopped" making Transformers films earlier. Steven Spielberg told him to only make three. Steven Spielberg also directed Ready Player One, so even he can be so very very wrong sometimes. The Last Knight fizzled at the box office, but I admire its chaotic energy. It's my favorite of Bay's pentalogy and not something anyone should regret.
The film opens with King Arthur battling the Saxon hordes. The time is England, the place is the Dark Ages, or something. Merlin (Stanley Tucci) races to a crashed alien ship, where he begs a space robot for help. The magician is drunk. Also, he's not a real magician. Turns out Merlin's magic was Transformers all along. His explanation of the whole Saxon situation is uncomplicated: "Big personalities just sort of clashing and reeeeaaaahhha and bloody!"
Right about now, anyone who has seen another Transformers film — or seen any film, ever— is probably asking: "Dawhat?" King Arthur? Magic? This prologue features two armies, one robo-dragon, and multiple flaming catapults. It seems to be striving awkwardly to extend the franchise's canon back throughout famous moments in human history. I prefer to ignore those cinematic universe flailings and imagine that this was Michael Bay's attempt to out-Gladiator Braveheart in under seven minutes.
The whole battle sequence looks gorgeous, whatever the plot ridiculousness involved. And then Last Knight cuts to deep space, where Optimus Prime is a floating cosmic iceberg. And then it cuts to the ruins of Chicago, where some kids fight military security robots near the ruined L train. Someone blows Bumblebee to pieces, and then the pieces fight back. Did I mention every country hates the Transformers except Cuba? Did I mention the Transformers fight the Nazis in World War II? Did I mention Mark Wahlberg has long hair now? Words fail me. Big personalities. Just sort of clashing. Reeeeaaaahhha.
All Bay's Transformers films are all over the place. Three are offensive. Age of Extinction is unwatchable. Last Knight benefits by shedding the obvious problems: No Beijing appeasement, no explicit minstrelsy. This is a movie where Mark Wahlberg says, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," and it is a movie where Mark Wahlberg asks an annoying kid, "You wanna get punched in the face, like, really hard?" There is an intense polo match. Anthony Hopkins does not phone in his performance as Sir Edmund Burton, more or less the Dumbledore of Transformers. Jim Carter ultimatizes his Downton Abbey butler to voice a robot attendant named Cogman.
The Last Knight is two and a half hours long, which — wait, wait, come back! No question, like all the live-action Transformers films, there is way too much exposition and mythology. I can understand why some people gravitate more to Bumblebee, the modest throwback spinoff which embeds a few disguised robots in an '80s teen adventure. Bumblebee is the ideal Transformers for people who think half an okay John Hughes movie counts as a whole good John Hughes movie.
I demand no such delusion! When I buy a ticket to a tasteless CGI robot barrage, I expect that barrage to leave me reeling. Last Knight's plot is incoherent. The aspect ratio changes frequently. The middle hour should probably be a middle minute. But the visuals can stun. In the final act, Earth becomes a microwave that turns people into popcorn. At least that's what Tony Hale's scientist says. All I know is that ships fall down, Earth falls up, and everyone's long hair blows every which way. (New Yorker critic Richard Brody pegged this movie as the moment Bay officially became an experimental filmmaker, a compliment which is only 38 percent backhanded.)
When Anthony Hopkins' character dies, his robo-butler offers a sincere battlefield eulogy to his fallen lord: "Of all the earls I have had the pleasure to serve, you were by far the coolest." Couldn't have said it better.
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Kyle Palmieri, Mathew Barzal and Ryan Pulock scored in the third period Thursday night for the host New York Islanders, who completed a home-and-home sweep of the Columbus Blue Jackets with a 5-2 win in Elmont, N.Y.
Sebastian Aho and Oliver Wahlstrom scored 11 seconds apart in the first for the Islanders, who beat the Blue Jackets 4-3 in Ohio on Tuesday night. Goalie Semyon Varlamov earned the win Thursday by making 30 saves.
The Islanders have won 10 of 15 (10-4-1) to move ahead of Columbus into ninth place in the Eastern Conference. Both teams have 69 points, but New York has two games in hand.
Emil Bemstrom and Justin Danforth scored fewer than two minutes apart in the second for the Blue Jackets, who have lost five straight (0-3-2). Goalie Elvis Merzlikins recorded 31 saves.
The Islanders had the game's first eight shots before Aho and Wahlstrom scored on consecutive chances.
Aho, stationed at the Blue Jackets' blue line, picked off a clearing pass by Dean Kukan and exchanged the puck with Brock Nelson before firing a shot that clipped off Merzlikins' glove at the 8:39 mark.
Zach Parise won the subsequent faceoff with Cole Sillinger and Barzal sent a backhanded chip to Parise to begin a 2-on-1 opportunity. With Blue Jackets defenseman Gabriel Carlsson trailing a step behind, Parise dished backwards to Wahlstrom, whose shot sailed past the sprawling Merzlikins.
The Blue Jackets tied the score with their own flurry around the midway point of the second. Varlamov turned back a shot by Brendan Gaunce and Jake Bean's shot sailed wide of the net before Eric Robinson collected the rebound and backhanded a pass into the crease to Bemstrom. He scored over Varlamov's stick shoulder 8:47 into the period.
The Blue Jackets tied the score 99 seconds later when Danforth, battling for position in the crease with Noah Dobson, backhanded home a rebound of a shot by Vladislav Gavrikov.
Palmieri broke the tie 3:16 into the third when he fired a shot over Merzlikins' glove shoulder and into the top of the net. Barzal added an unassisted insurance goal with 10:08 left, when he outraced Gavrikov and Andrew Peeke to a loose puck in the neutral zone and beat Merzlikins on the breakaway.
Pulock scored a length-of-the-ice empty-netter with 56.7 seconds remaining.
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BRUCE Willis secretly struggled with brain issues for nearly 20 years before his family revealed he has been diagnosed with aphasia, sources exclusively told The Sun.
The beloved 67-year-old’s relatives announced on Wednesday that he is retiring from acting because of the aggressive, cognitive disease.
Insiders revealed the “inevitable” moment of saying farewell to his glittering career has been a long time coming.
It meant Bruce’s daughters Rumer and Scout, ex-wife Demi Moore and wife Emma Heming were given plenty of time to steal themselves.
A source said: "People who have been close to the family over these last twenty years or so knew this day was coming and see now that the inevitable has finally happened, Bruce is stepping away from acting and publicly acknowledging what's going on with him.
“But for Demi and the kids, this has been an almost eighteen-year journey from first noticing that something was wrong to Bruce
finally accepting that he has to transition into retirement.
“Bruce's grown daughters have known about this situation since 2005 or 2006 and they have been utterly sympathetic every step of the way.
“Bruce has worked with his slowly worsening condition for years, but it stopped being something anybody wanted to hide anymore.
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“Bruce has the full support of Demi Moore, their daughters, and his wife Emma as he makes this next step, and nobody in the family has been caught off guard by it.
“If anything, they're all happy Bruce was able to work and make a living as long as he could, and nobody's ruling out that he could come back for special appearances or events if he's up to it.
“But they're officially in a new phase now where keeping Bruce as comfortable and out of pain as possible is the new priority, instead of keeping his acting jobs going.
“They’ve had years to brace themselves for his retirement, and everybody says they are so proud of Bruce that he was able to work this long after first becoming ill and addressing his symptoms."
This has been an almost eighteen-year journey from first noticing that something was wrong to Bruce finally accepting that he has to transition.
Source
Bruce’s family put out a joint statement on their individual Instagram accounts on Wednesday alongside a picture of the star.
It said that Bruce had recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which means he has to step away from “the career that has meant so much to him.”
The announcement added: “We are moving through this as a strong family unit, and wanted to bring his fans in because we know how much he means to you, as you do to him.
"As Bruce always says, 'Live it up' and together we plan to do just that.”
Aphasia is a language disorder that affects a patient’s ability to express and understand written and spoken language.
It can happen suddenly after a stroke or head injury or develop slowly from a brain tumor or disease.
Bruce’s ex Demi Moore, 59, has been supportive of him and his current wife Emma, 43, while they adapt to living with the condition, The Sun understands.
CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY
Despite separating in 2000 the pair have remained extremely close.
Our source said: “Demi Moore and her small group of friends in Los Angeles have been completely helpful to Bruce and Emma as they make this transition, and it's been very heartwarming to see.
“Demi is, in many ways, still Bruce's closest and maybe only friend, especially since a lot of the men he came up with within the business have moved onto their own retirements.
“But because of the bond they have through their daughters, Demi has been with Bruce on every step of this journey, starting with his first serious symptoms which only showed up years after he and Demi divorced.
“People like to paint Demi as this selfish, type-A personality like one of her old nineties movie characters but what she has done to keep Bruce protected, safe, and able to work during these years should qualify her for sainthood.
“She's an amazing woman and created a support system so that Bruce could keep acting and Emma could keep him comfortable and happy. Emma couldn't have done this without Demi."
What [Demi] has done to keep Bruce protected, safe, and able to work during these years should qualify her for sainthood.
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The source added that Bruce’s strong relationship with daughters Rumer, 33, and Scout, 30, has been a source of pride in difficult times.
The insider said: “Even after Bruce and Demi’s divorce they are a loving and special family.
"Even after he knew he was sick, Bruce was spending every weekend he could with his daughters, taking them on shopping trips and going on group vacations during the years Ashton [Kutcher] and Demi were a couple.
“He would just get more generous with his daughters, year after year.
“Even as his condition advanced, he's proud he's still been able to be 'World's Greatest Dad' and his daughters savored all the time they had with him.
“They’ve had years to brace themselves for his retirement, and everybody says they are so proud of Bruce that he was able to work this long after first becoming ill and addressing his symptoms."
A rep for Bruce said: “We have no further statement other than the family statement which was issued yesterday.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former minor league pitcher ran a major league illegal sports betting operation in California that used other former pro athletes to take bets and took wagers from players still in the game, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Wayne Nix, who threw for Oakland Athletics farm teams, used his connections to recruit three former Major League Baseball players and a former pro football player as fellow bookies, prosecutors said.
The MLB began looking into the matter when it learned of it Thursday, but was unaware any of those involved other than Nix, a spokesman said.
Court records offered no names of the players who worked for Nix or those who placed bets with his business, but they provide a glimpse of the kind of money being wagered, earned and lost.
A professional football player paid Nix $245,000 for gambling losses in 2016. An MLB coach paid $4,000 in losses that same year. It was not disclosed if either bet on their own games or their own sports.
MLB prohibits players from betting on baseball or gambling illegally on sports. They can bet on other sports if it’s legal. The National Football League policy bars all personnel from betting on football games.
A Los Angeles check cashing business that has agreed to plead guilty to failing to prevent money laundering in the scheme cashed over $18 million in checks from two single bettors, prosecutors said.
One client wagered $5 million on the Super Bowl but it was not revealed if that gambit paid off.
Sports betting is legal in 30 states, but not in California. However, voters will have a chance to legalize it at the polls in November.
Nix, 45, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to run an illegal gambling operation and faces up to eight years in prison. He also admitted he failed to report $1.4 million in income in 2017 and 2018. He has agreed to pay back taxes and interest of $1.25 million and forfeit $1.3 million seized from bank accounts.
Nix began the sports bookmaking business about 20 years ago after his six-year minor league career — with stops in Arizona, Texas and California — ended, prosecutors said.
His client list was created from contacts he had made in the sports world and included current and former pro athletes. The agents he hired helped expand that clientele.
The operation eventually began using a Costa Rican business, Sand Island Sports, to create accounts where bets could be placed and tracked and credit limits set, prosecutors said. Bets were placed online or through a call center, though Nix paid winners and kept most of the money from losing bets.
Those who exceeded credit limits were shut off, though exceptions were made, according to court documents.
A sports broadcaster's account was reactivated in February 2019 after he told Nix he was refinancing his home mortgage to pay off his gambling debts.
In September 2019, Nix increased the credit limit to a baseball player with debts so he could make additional bets.
In November, 2019, Nix's partner, Edon Kagasoff, told a business manager for a professional basketball player that he would increase the maximum wager he could place to $25,000 per NBA game.
Kagasoff, 44, faces the same conspiracy charge as Nix. He also agreed to plead guilty and forfeit over $3 million in funds seized from his home and bank accounts. | https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Ex-minor-leaguer-ran-major-league-sports-betting-17049855.php | 2022-04-01T01:56:39Z |
Woolworths shoppers lose it after store 'discontinues' popular mud cakes - but is everything as it seems?
- A Woolworths employee claims stores will be 'updating' its popular mud cakes
- Liam Kirley, from Sydney, shared a video on the official Woolworths TikTok page
- He claims the beloved $4.80 dessert will now include a mashed potato topping
- But hundreds of shoppers believe the claim is an April Fool's joke
Hundreds of Woolworths shoppers are in disbelief after an employee announced stores will be 'discontinuing' their popular mud cakes.
Liam Kirley, from Sydney who also handles the official TikTok account, shared a video stating the existing recipe will be scrapped with the retailer looking to add healthier options to their dessert range.
A spud cake with mashed potato topping was announced as the replacement - but many believe the claim is an April Fool's Day joke.
'We're saying goodbye to mud cakes,' he wrote in the clip.
The $4.80 cakes are an iconic supermarket dessert beloved by millions of Aussies nationwide and three flavours are readily available.
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Sydney Woolworths employee Liam Kirley (left) claims the iconic supermarket mud cakes are being 'updated' - but many believe the claim is an April Fool's Day joke
In a TikTok video he claims the recipe is being tweaked to include a mashed potato topping. Confused TikTokers flooded the comments of the video saying there's 'no way' the video was truthful
'I'm here at Woolworths to introduce the replacement of our beloved mud cake,' Luke said in the video.
'Mud cakes are a quintessential Woolworths product taking pride in our stores for the past 20 years.
'We're excited to announce the iconic mud cakes will be getting an update.'
He went on to explain the mud cakes will not be rebranded and called 'spud cakes'.
'In our efforts to create a more health-conscious lens to our own branded products, the spud cake - made of potatoes - will still be covered in our signature chocolate ganache but piped with potato for the signature top.'
Confused TikTokers flooded the comments of the video saying there's 'no way' the statements in the video are truthful.
'What????' one person asked eagerly, another said: 'This better be a joke.'
Others weren't as misguided and said: 'I almost forgot it's April Fool's.'
Another went as too far to say they'd enjoy trying the unique cake.
'I know you're messing with me because it's April Fool's, but I still want this cake. even if it's just once,' the customer wrote.
In 2020 a separate video by the user Food Factory Aus went viral exposing how the must-have mud cakes are made.
The short 20-second video exposed the industrial machinery clasping and flipping the cakes upside down before dipping the top in the melted chocolate glaze.
The factory machines demonstrate one of the final steps involved in making the mudcakes.
After the glaze is added, the cakes are slid onto a conveyor belt before being moved to another section of the factory.
'We know that many of our customers really love our chocolate mud cakes which are in high demand throughout the year,' a Woolworths spokesman told Daily Mail Australia.
'The majority of our Woolworths chocolate mud cake bases are created off-site by a leading Australian bakery supplier and then delivered to our store for our teams to complete the final touches.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10674439/Woolworths-shoppers-lose-store-discontinues-mud-cakes-seems.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-01T01:56:39Z |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former minor league pitcher ran a major league illegal sports betting operation in California that used other former pro athletes to take bets and took wagers from players still in the game, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Wayne Nix, who threw for Oakland Athletics farm teams, used his connections to recruit three former Major League Baseball players and a former pro football player as fellow bookies, prosecutors said.
The MLB began looking into the matter when it learned of it Thursday, but was unaware any of those involved other than Nix, a spokesman said.
Court records offered no names of the players who worked for Nix or those who placed bets with his business, but they provide a glimpse of the kind of money being wagered, earned and lost.
A professional football player paid Nix $245,000 for gambling losses in 2016. An MLB coach paid $4,000 in losses that same year. It was not disclosed if either bet on their own games or their own sports.
MLB prohibits players from betting on baseball or gambling illegally on sports. They can bet on other sports if it’s legal. The National Football League policy bars all personnel from betting on football games.
A Los Angeles check cashing business that has agreed to plead guilty to failing to prevent money laundering in the scheme cashed over $18 million in checks from two single bettors, prosecutors said.
One client wagered $5 million on the Super Bowl but it was not revealed if that gambit paid off.
Sports betting is legal in 30 states, but not in California. However, voters will have a chance to legalize it at the polls in November.
Nix, 45, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to run an illegal gambling operation and faces up to eight years in prison. He also admitted he failed to report $1.4 million in income in 2017 and 2018. He has agreed to pay back taxes and interest of $1.25 million and forfeit $1.3 million seized from bank accounts.
Nix began the sports bookmaking business about 20 years ago after his six-year minor league career — with stops in Arizona, Texas and California — ended, prosecutors said.
His client list was created from contacts he had made in the sports world and included current and former pro athletes. The agents he hired helped expand that clientele.
The operation eventually began using a Costa Rican business, Sand Island Sports, to create accounts where bets could be placed and tracked and credit limits set, prosecutors said. Bets were placed online or through a call center, though Nix paid winners and kept most of the money from losing bets.
Those who exceeded credit limits were shut off, though exceptions were made, according to court documents.
A sports broadcaster's account was reactivated in February 2019 after he told Nix he was refinancing his home mortgage to pay off his gambling debts.
In September 2019, Nix increased the credit limit to a baseball player with debts so he could make additional bets.
In November, 2019, Nix's partner, Edon Kagasoff, told a business manager for a professional basketball player that he would increase the maximum wager he could place to $25,000 per NBA game.
Kagasoff, 44, faces the same conspiracy charge as Nix. He also agreed to plead guilty and forfeit over $3 million in funds seized from his home and bank accounts. | https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Ex-minor-leaguer-ran-major-league-sports-betting-17049855.php | 2022-04-01T01:56:39Z |
Daily COVID-19 cases fell to the 300-thousand range but the number of critical cases rose to a new high.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said on Thursday that 320-thousand-743 infections were reported throughout the previous day, including 24 case from overseas. The total caseload came to 13-million-95-thousand-631.
The daily figure dropped by nearly 104-thousand from a day ago to fall below 400-thousand.
The figure decreased by about 75-thousand from a week ago and over 300-thousand from two weeks ago, indicating the omicron wave is beginning to decline.
Despite the drops in infections, the number of patients in critical care rose to a new high of one-thousand-315, remaining above one-thousand for the 24th consecutive day.
There were 375 deaths from the virus, down 57 from the previous day. The death toll rose to 16-thousand-230, with the fatality rate standing at zero-point-12 percent.
The occupancy rate of ICU beds for critically ill patients nationwide dropped by two-point-two percentage points to 64-point-two percent as of 12 a.m. Thursday.
The number of home-treatment patients rose by about 20-thousand to one-point-73 million. | http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=168650 | 2022-04-01T01:56:39Z |
India c.bank focussed on growth, seen lagging on inflation fight
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MUMBAI, April 1 (Reuters) - Inflation is picking up in India, but the country's central bank is likely to maintain its loose policy even as its global peers raise rates, potentially forcing it to play catch-up aggressively later, economists and analysts say.
This view represents a shift in expectations, as market participants say the Reserve Bank of India is concerned that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is damaging the global economy and India's recovery prospects, not just boosting prices.
A Reuters poll in early February found just over half of forecasters expecting the RBI to raise rates at its April meeting, but the war launched three weeks later has upended those predictions. read more
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RBI watchers now expect the bank to stand pat on April 8, even though inflation has broken above the 6% upper end of the bank's target band for two months.
Saugata Bhattacharya, chief economist at Axis Bank, who had earlier expected the RBI to raise its reverse-repurchase rate next week, now says global uncertainties mean that "it makes sense to remain at a status quo."
Supporting such expectations, RBI Governor Shakikanta Das recently warned against a "premature demand compression through monetary policy". read more
Deputy Governor Michael Patra said India's growth was as weak as in 2013, when a U.S. policy shift sent capital gushing out of emerging markets. "The recent reverberations of war have in fact, tilted the balance of risks downwards" for the economy, he said. read more
But economists warn inflation could spin out of control, hurting investors and savers alike - and most market participants say the RBI is already behind the curve on tackling inflation.
STOKING RISK OF OVERHEATING
Economists expect the RBI to raise its retail-inflation projection for the fiscal year starting on Friday by 50 to 80 basis points from the current 4.5%.
Upward price pressure is expected to continue as the war and resulting economic sanctions on Moscow send prices soaring for the grain, energy and other exports that Russia and Ukraine provide.
"In the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine war, the probability that higher-than-expected inflation will persist has increased. The longer we wait to address that, the faster that we may have to play catch-up with it eventually," said Churchil Bhatt, executive vice president of debt investments at Kotak Life Insurance.
Rising asset prices could feed through to demand-side inflation, while savers are being hurt as their returns lag behind inflation, said Rupa Rege Nitsure, chief economist at L&T Financial Services.
"By keeping interest rates artificially low, the chances of more aggressive tightening at a later stage have gone up significantly," she said.
Abhay Gupta, emerging Asia fixed income and forex strategist at BofA Securities, said the RBI must "be vigilant for broader inflationary pressures."
"Higher uncertainty would reduce room for error and markets would have to price in higher chances of a policy mistake," he said. Risks of eventual economic overheating suggest market interest rates must rise while the rupee should weaken, he said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bobby Moynihan, the former “Saturday Night Live” star, is now a member of another inner circle of comedy: those writing children’s books.
Moynihan’s picture story “Not All Sheep Are Boring!” will be published Sept. 20 by Putnam Books for Young Readers. Julie Rowan-Zoch is providing illustrations for a book featuring adventure-seeking, jetpack-wearing sheep.
“I am pleased as punch to help this little Toad tell his story, Not All Sheep are Boring! Also, just a reminder to keep an eye on Pierre the Sheep. He’s shifty,” Moynihan, who currently appears in the sitcom “Mr. Mayor,” said in a statement Thursday.
Other comedians with picture books include Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel. Moynihan and his wife, actor Brynn O’Malley, have a 4-year-old daughter. | https://www.ketk.com/news/entertainment-news/comedian-bobby-moynihan-has-a-picture-book-coming-out/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:39Z |
Former Blackhawks congratulate Toews on milestone originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews hit the ice Thursday at BB&T Center in Florida to play in his 1,000th career NHL game.
Toews was selected by the Blackhawks third overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft and began his 14-year career with the team in 2007 at age 19.
He was an integral part in helping win three Stanley Cups for Chicago and now becomes the eighth player in team history to play in 1,000 games for the franchise. Toews joins Stan Mikita (1,396), Duncan Keith (1,192), Brent Seabrook (1,114), Patrick Kane (1,092), Bobby Hull (1,036), Eric Nesterenko (1,013), and Bob Murray (1,008).
Before Thursday's game against the Florida Panthers, some of Toews' teammates shared congratulatory video messages for the captain's big night.
"Tazer, 1,000 games, bud," said Seabrook, who is ranked third on the franchise list for 1,000 games. "Congrats. I just wanted to send you a quick note here. I'll never forget that year we spent together living together in Chicago your first year. Mr. Serious turned into Captain Serious. You've had a hell of a career, bud. Lots more to come. Just wanted to send you a quick note. Love you, man. Miss you and keep it rolling, baby."
Patrick Sharp, who was on the the 2010, 2013 and 2015 Stanley Cup championship teams with Toews, told the captain to keep adding to his incredible resumé.
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"Hey Johnny. Congratulations. 1,000 games played," said Sharp. "Chalk it up. Put it on the resumé. Another amazing accomplishment in your Hall of Fame career. Since the day you've joined the Blackhawks, you've been our captain, you've been our leader and it's been an honor to be alongside you in the battle all these years. Go J.T. Go Hawks. Enjoy the night."
Future Hall-of-Famer Duncan Keith has played in the second-most games with the Hawks and also won three Stanley Cups with Toews.
"Tazer, congrats on 1,000 games,' Keith said. "It's an amazing accomplishment. A testament to your durability and your commitment to the game. I always admired that about you. It was a pleasure to be your teammate for so many years and go to battle with you. But keep 'er going, man. You've had a great career. It's been a pleasure to play with you and watch you. So, all the best going forward and congrats again on 1,000 games."
Longtime teammate and friend Corey Crawford has played with the Hawks since 2005 and was the starting goaltender for the 2013 and 2015 Stanley Cup teams. He told Toews that he still has a lot left in the tank.
"Congrats on 1,000 games, Johnny," Crawford said. "I don't think anyone doubted you'd be able to accomplish this. It's been an amazing career so far, but you've still got a ton of hockey to go. I had a lot of fun playing beside you all those years. You're a great teammate but even better friend. Enjoy this one, buddy. All the best."
Marian Hossa praised Toews on his leadership over the years.
"Congratulations, my friend on 1,000 NHL hockey games," he said. "What an honor. What a great accomplishment and I'm happy for you. Well deserved. I was lucky to play with a special player, a special leader like you are and definitely we had lots of fun on the ice."
Denis Savard, Toews' first NHL head coach in 2007, was proud of Toews' huge milestone and questioned where all that time went.
"Tazer, where'd the time go? 1,000th game already. I know you've played a bunch of meaningful games in your career. Obviously, the clinching Stanley Cup games, the three of them that you've won are probably important to you and for sure this 1,000th game is gonna mean just as much. It's a great accomplishment. It's very hard to accomplish as you know, so congratulations. You deserve it. Enjoy your night."
Former teammates Andrew Ladd and Dave Bolland also appeared in the video. Toews' family shared their congratulatory messages during the game that aired on NBC Sports Chicago.
During the first period, the Panthers in-house team recognized Toews and he was met with a standing ovation.
Toews' additional accomplishments include winning the 2010 Conn Smythe Trophy, winning the Selke Trophy for the 2012-13 season and earning the Mark Messier Leadership Award for the 2014-15 season. Toews has 355 goals, 489 assists and 844 points throughout his career during the regular season and 45 goals and 74 assists in 137 playoff games. | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/chicago-hockey/former-blackhawks-congratulate-jonathan-toews-on-1000-career-games/2796630/ | 2022-04-01T01:56:39Z |
Henry County Development Authority Launches Search For Manager, Established Industry
The Henry County Development Authority, based in McDonough, Georgia (south metro Atlanta), has retained The Chason Group to lead a talent search for a manager, established...
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