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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian president said his country’s defense against the Russian invasion is at a “turning point” and again pressed the United States for more help, hours after the Kremlin’s forces reneged on a pledge to scale back some of their operations.
Russian bombardment of areas around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv and intensified attacks elsewhere in the country further undermined hopes for progress toward ending the brutal war. Talks between Ukraine and Russia were set to resume Friday by video, according to the head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia.
A delegation of Ukrainian lawmakers visited Washington on Wednesday to push for more U.S. assistance, saying their nation needs more military equipment, more financial help and tougher sanctions against Russia.
“We need to kick Russian soldiers off our land, and for that we need all, all possible weapons,” Ukrainian parliament member Anastasia Radina said at a news conference at the Ukrainian Embassy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made the case directly to U.S. President Joe Biden.
“If we really are fighting for freedom and in defense of democracy together, then we have a right to demand help in this difficult turning point. Tanks, aircraft, artillery systems. Freedom should be armed no worse than tyranny,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address to the nation, which he delivered standing in the dark outside the dimly lit presidential offices in Kyiv. He thanked the U.S. for an additional $500 million in aid that was announced Wednesday.
There seemed little faith that Russia and Ukraine will resolve the conflict soon, particularly after the Russian military’s about-face and its most recent attacks.
Russia said Tuesday that it would de-escalate operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” Zelenskyy and the West were skeptical. Soon after, Ukrainian officials reported that Russian shelling was hitting homes, stores, libraries and other civilian sites in or near those areas.
Russian troops also stepped up their attacks on the Donbas region in the east and around the city of Izyum, which lies on a key route to the Donbas, after redeploying units from other areas, the Ukrainian side said.
Olexander Lomako, secretary of the Chernihiv city council, said the Russian announcement turned out to be “a complete lie.”
“At night they didn’t decrease, but vice versa increased the intensity of military action,” Lomako said.
A top British intelligence official said Thursday that demoralized Russian soldiers in Ukraine were refusing to carry out orders and sabotaging their own equipment and had accidentally shot down their own aircraft.
In a speech in the Australian capital Canberra, Jeremy Fleming, who heads the GCHQ electronic spy agency, said President Vladimir Putin had apparently “massively misjudged” the invasion, he said. Although Putin’s advisers appeared to be too afraid to tell the truth, the “extent of these misjudgments must be crystal clear to the regime,” he said.
U.S. intelligence officials have given similar assessments that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about the poor performance of his military in Ukraine because they are too afraid to tell him the truth.
Five weeks into the invasion that has left thousands dead on both sides, the number of Ukrainians fleeing the country topped a staggering 4 million, half of them children, according to the United Nations.
“I do not know if we can still believe the Russians,” Nikolay Nazarov, a refugee from Ukraine, said as he pushed his father’s wheelchair at a border crossing into Poland. “I think more escalation will occur in eastern Ukraine. That is why we cannot go back to Kharkiv.”
Zelenskyy said the continuing negotiations with Russia were only “words without specifics.” He said Ukraine was preparing for concentrated new strikes on the Donbas.
Zelenskyy also said he had recalled Ukraine’s ambassadors to Georgia and Morocco, suggesting they had not done enough to persuade those countries to support Ukraine and punish Russia for the invasion.
“With all due respect, if there won’t be weapons, won’t be sanctions, won’t be restrictions for Russian business, then please look for other work,” he said.
During talks Tuesday in Istanbul, the faint outlines of a possible peace agreement seemed to emerge when the Ukrainian delegation offered a framework under which the country would declare itself neutral — dropping its bid to join NATO, as Moscow has long demanded — in return for security guarantees from a group of other nations.
Top Russian officials responded positively, with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying Wednesday that Ukraine’s willingness to accept neutrality and look outside NATO for security represents “significant progress,” according to Russian news agencies.
But those statements were followed by attacks.
Oleksandr Pavliuk, head of the Kyiv region military administration, said Russian shells targeted residential areas and civilian infrastructure in the Bucha, Brovary and Vyshhorod regions around the capital.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said the military also targeted fuel depots in two towns in central Ukraine with air-launched long-range cruise missiles. Russian forces hit a Ukrainian special forces headquarters in the southern Mykolaiv region, he said, and two ammunition depots in the Donetsk region, in the Donbas.
In southern Ukraine, a Russian missile destroyed a fuel depot in Dnipro, the country’s fourth-largest city, regional officials said.
The U.S. said Russia had begun to reposition less than 20% of its troops that had been arrayed around Kyiv. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said troops from there and some other zones began moving mostly to the north, and some went into neighboring Belarus. Kirby said it appeared Russia planned to resupply them and send them back into Ukraine, but it is not clear where.
The Ukrainian military said some Russian airborne units were believed to have withdrawn into Belarus.
In northern Ukraine, Russian forces took no offensive actions Wednesday, focusing on reconnaissance and logistics, the general staff said in a statement. But Russia is expected to increase attacks soon to protect its own troops as they are repositioned, it said.
The Russians also are expected to try to blockade Chernihiv.
Top Russian military officials say their main goal now is the “liberation” of the Donbas, the predominantly Russian-speaking industrial heartland where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014.
Some analysts have suggested that the focus on the Donbas and the pledge to de-escalate may merely be an effort to put a positive spin on reality: Moscow’s ground forces have been thwarted — and have taken heavy losses — in their bid to seize the capital and other cities.
In other developments:
— The U.N. is looking into allegations some residents of the besieged and shattered southern city of Mariupol were forcibly taken to areas controlled by Russian forces or to Russia itself.
— Germany said Russia had reassured it European companies won’t have to pay for Russian gas in rubles, a prospect that raised fears Russia could cut off supplies. Also, Poland said it would end Russian oil imports by the year’s end.
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Story: Nebi Qena and Yuras Karmanau. Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report. | https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/international/2022/03/31/ukrainian-president-says-defense-is-at-a-turning-point/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:13Z |
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For North Carolina, the Big One that Kept Getting Away, decade after decade, was an auto plant.
Try as it might over the years, lobbing buckets full of money and sweet nothings, the state could not hook a carmaker. Not Mercedes-Benz. Not Toyota. Not Volkswagen. Not Volvo. Not anyone.
Not anymore.
The Vietnamese company VinFast plans to locate a multibillion-dollar electric car factory in Chatham County that will employ 7,500 workers at a minimum average wage of more than $51,000.
The company intends to produce both a five-passenger SUV and a seven-passenger SUV in the facility.
If you’ve never heard of VinFast, there’s a good reason.
It’s a relatively new company, only 5 years old, that produced its first line of gas-powered cars in 2019. The plant in Moncure, about 30 miles from Raleigh, will represent a $4 billion investment and is expected to produce 200,000 vehicles a year.
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In return, the state will provide an incentives package of up to $854 million over 32 years. Chatham County will add $400 million in enticements.
Yes, that’s a lot, but it is based on the company reaching certain employment and investment benchmarks.
This hopeful news follows our own good fortune in the Triad to land a Toyota electric-car battery plant at the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite.
As it happens, the VinFast plant will be built at a megasite as well, the state’s largest. Also as in the Triad, economic recruiters had been trying for years to find a tenant.
After that, a start-up supersonic jet manufacturer, Boom Supersonic, announced that it had chosen a site at Piedmont Triad International Airport for a plant that would produce a new supersonic airliner. The facility will hire up to 1,761 employees at an average annual salary of nearly $69,000.
When state dignitaries come to town for these big announcements, there’s bipartisan joy, as there should be.
And as he did during the Boom and Toyota announcements, Senate leader Phil Berger of Rockingham County, the state’s most powerful Republican, sounded a familiar theme.
“Today’s announcement is just another example of the unprecedented growth in North Carolina’s economy, fueled by low taxes, a strong workforce and reasonable regulations,” Berger said Tuesday. “Businesses small and large are finding a home right here in North Carolina.”
What Berger did not tout at any of the announcements was the added benefit of greener approaches to transportation.
Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, did.
“For decades, North Carolina has sought to bring auto manufacturing to our state,” Cooper said. “Well now, it’s coming on the wave of clean energy, and it’s been worth the wait.”
In fact, the greatest promise in all of these developments is that they are forward-thinking, based on where technology is headed, not where it has been.
Electric cars, not gas-powered ones. Jets that can exceed the speed of sound, practically and profitably.
Of course, there’s an inherent risk as well in pushing those envelopes.
Not every grand new idea pans out.
Not every start-up succeeds.
Not every big bet is a winner.
Among these, the safest wager appears to be the Toyota battery plant.
As for VinFast, will it find success in its first attempt to do business outside of Vietnam? (The News & Observer of Raleigh reports that VinFast is shifting to electric cars because it lost more than $1 billion on its gas-powered vehicles in 2021.)
Boom’s plans may be even more audacious. It has yet to build a prototype for its sleek, needle-nosed Overture jet, which exists only as a scale model and in artists’ drawings.
But the incentives in each case are conditional.
And the potential upside of being on the ground floor of these companies’ growth and development outweighs the challenges that can derail new ventures.
It’s good to hear that North Carolina will be going along for the ride. | https://greensboro.com/opinion/editorial/our-opinion-finally-a-carmaker-in-n-c/article_ea7ec52a-b10c-11ec-99bd-9b8477079878.html | 2022-04-01T01:59:13Z |
Around 40 people attended Waterford’s pre-Town Meeting information session on Tuesday, March 29 — a number that longtime Town Moderator (and interim select board member) Maurice Chaloux found quite high.
“We’re used to having like 4, 5, 6 people here for this,” Chaloux said. “I guess maybe we can blame the newspaper for that but, anyway, it’s good to have more people.”
However, one important figure was not in attendance: Fred Saar.
“The one selectman who has any seniority is not here, so we’ll do the best we can,” Chaloux explained, gesturing to the four interim town officials in attendance — all of whom began their service in February of this year.
Saar said in an email Tuesday morning that he spent Monday evening at an Itzhak Perlman performance in Burlington, the tickets for which he had purchased several months prior.
When asked if there was a reason pre-Town Meeting wasn’t scheduled or rescheduled to a time when he could attend, Saar said, “none that I know of.”
“I let the other two Selectmen know I wasn’t available, but we never suggested [rescheduling],” Saar wrote.
Nevertheless, the pre-Town Meeting ran for just over two hours and fifteen minutes, with interim town officials answering questions to the best of their ability as well as audience members who represented town departments or organizations with articles on the warning.
Town Meeting itself will be held in person next Tuesday, April 5th, at 5 p.m. in the Waterford School gym.
Warning Missing Two Standard Articles
David Morrison, a lifelong Waterford resident, raised his hand partway through the information session.
“If nobody noticed, this warning is a little funky,” he said. “Somebody — I guess it’d be the one selectman who is not here — advised [interim Town Clerk Kandy Benedetti] just to use last year’s warning. Well, last year we had a 100 percent Australian ballot meeting at the fire station.”
Morrison explained that the warning for next Tuesday’s meeting does not include the typical last article — “To transact any other non-binding business proper and necessary that may come before said Meeting.”
“There’s been a lot of things that various people have brought up at select board meetings over the whole last year; we’ve had kind of a strange year,” Morrison said, noting that without the final article, he felt pre-Town Meeting was the only space to work through anything.
Chaloux said he had also reviewed the warning and had missed that article’s omission. After some discussion between the two and former longtime select board member Gary Allard, Chaloux said, “we’ll probably be able to figure out how to talk about what we want to talk about.”
Then, lister Howard Remick asked how the time and place for next year’s town meeting — a perennial topic of discussion in Waterford — would be set, as it was also missing from the warning.
“I’ll figure that out between now and next Tuesday,” Chaloux said.
Budgetary Questions
Throughout the meeting, residents asked various questions about the town’s budget for the upcoming year as well as the actuals for previous years. While interim Town Treasurer Heather Gonyaw — who put together the proposed budget from scratch — explained what had happened and what was in the budget as best she could, some items came up short.
Josh Oakley, Waterford resident, raised his hand.
“This is a serious question,” he asked Gonyaw. “Have you met with the previous Treasurer?”
Former Town Clerk and Treasurer Jessy Pelow and former Assistant Town Clerk, Assistant Treasurer and Delinquent Tax Collector Donna Berry resigned at the end of January.
After Gonyaw replied that she had not, Oakley asked if it might be helpful to try and meet with them to answer the townspeople’s questions.
“I will say this as politely as possible,” Gonyaw replied. “I tried to set up a meeting before I took over the post on February 1st, and I was not able to get a meeting.”
Earlier in the pre-Town Meeting, Remick, Chaloux and a number of residents discussed how townspeople could ask for an audit of town finances for 2021 (a 2020 audit was recently completed) within the current framework set for Town Meeting.
“It’d [only be] to protect the future Treasurer and everybody else,” Remick said. “Because we all know it was a mess down there.”
Some discussion was also had on the $25,000 added last minute to the town budget, destined to begin to repair the town garage — built in 1968 and “in pretty rough shape.” Road Foreman Lisle Houghton provided a verbal list of items the money would begin to cover.
Church Purchase, Library Funding, Number of Select Board Members
Town residents and officials also discussed a number of other topics at the meeting, including if the town should start to fully support its library’s entire budget as many surrounding towns do — an issue that was brought to the forefront by the pandemic and the library trustees’ ensuing limited ability to fundraise.
Another topic of much discussion was Article 22: if the town will take ownership of the Lower Waterford Congregational Church, along with a $140,000 “endowment” for its upkeep and the promise that the Waterford Preservation Trust would continue raising funds.
WPT officials explained that, if the building is owned by the town, it could be used as a community gathering space. In addition, the building would be eligible for more grants if it was owned by the municipality instead of a religious institution.
Some discussion was also had on Article 2 — if the Town should increase the size of its select board from three to five. If the article is approved, four different members will be elected to the board on Tuesday; Saar’s current term expires next year. | https://www.caledonianrecord.com/news/local/waterford-select-board-chair-misses-pre-town-meeting-info-session/article_70f36f0a-5395-599c-8b58-cdea0f3b8222.html | 2022-04-01T01:59:13Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility in 1971 sued New York state prison authorities on Thursday, saying they’ve unconstitutionally banned her book behind bars.
Author Heather Ann Thompson, a University of Michigan professor, brought the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court over the treatment by New York State Department of Corrections officials of her book: “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971,” published in 2016.
Named as defendants were the department’s acting commissioner and a second official with decision-making authority regarding censorship determinations.
The lawsuit contends that the ban is unconstitutional, particularly because the state has blocked inmates from accessing her book, prevented her from sharing it with inmates and denied her an opportunity to contest the ban.
“People have a right to read, and people have a right to history,” Thompson said in a release. “We also have a right to have our books read. It’s a shame we live in a country where we censor people and ideas.”
In a document issued in late January, the New York State Department of Corrections division of Corrections and Community Supervision said it was department policy to “encourage incarcerated individuals to read publications from varied sources if such material does not encourage them to engage in behavior that might be disruptive to orderly facility operations.”
The document said any materials also “should not incite disobedience towards law enforcement officers or prison personnel.” It added that “incite disobedience” means “to advocate, expressly or by clear implication, acts of disobedience.”
Contacted about the lawsuit Thursday, a corrections spokesperson said the department cannot comment on pending litigation.
The Attica uprising began in September 1971 when inmates angry over living conditions seized control of part of the prison and took some of its staff hostage. Four days later, the disturbance ended when state troopers and guards shot tear gas into a prison yard before firing hundreds of rounds into the smoke.
The gunfire killed 29 inmates and 10 hostages. In all, 11 staff members and 32 inmates were killed in the riot and siege. No law enforcement officers were put on trial for their roles in the massacre.
The lawsuit was brought on Thompson’s behalf by the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Civil Rights Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said the state “cannot censor an important historical text like ‘Blood in the Water’ just because it doesn’t like the content.”
Cardozo’s Civil Rights Clinic Director Betsy Ginsberg said: “It is, simply put, a history book, and its denial to incarcerated people runs counter to this country’s core values.”
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Associated Press Writer Michael Hill in Albany contributed to this report. | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/historian-sues-ny-prisons-over-ban-of-attica-uprising-book/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:12Z |
This moment shouldn’t pass without a word of congratulations to the University of South Dakota women’s basketball team, which saw its outstanding season end Saturday with a 52-49 loss to Michigan in the Wichita Region semifinals. The Coyotes crashing the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament is a terrific achievement, even though the sting of Saturday’s defeat may, right now, numb some of that joy. But the gravity of this season’s performance will grow even stronger with time.
In fact, USD’s accomplishment, combined with the Sweet 16 appearance by the South Dakota State University women’s basketball team three years ago, makes a statement about how far NCAA Division I collegiate athletics have come in this state.
Two decades ago, South Dakota was the only state in the country without a Division I collegiate athletic program (in North Dakota, the University of North Dakota was DI in hockey), but the two biggest schools here were either ready (SDSU) or nearly ready (USD) to make the jump. However, it seemed a daunting and perhaps ill-advised step up for some fans.
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Since making the jump, both South Dakota schools have proven themselves to be solid “mid-major” entries. Both have posted signature victories over larger Division I competition in various sports. Clearly, these fish have adjusted well to the larger NCAA seas.
While we could cite various triumphs in other sports, let’s stick to women’s basketball today.
In the past three years, both SDSU and USD have surprised “bracketologists” by making the Sweet 16, which indicates that these schools field some formidable talent.
In fact, both SDSU and USD have been dominant in Summit League play. According to the Press & Dakotan’s sports department, the State-U combination went 36-0 against the rest of the league this past season; over the past five years, these two programs have gone 151-3 overall against the other Summit League teams, including 132-2 in the regular season.
As a rule, whenever mid-major schools get so far in the NCAA tourney, it rates as a surprise. Smaller DI programs usually hail from leagues that traditionally (but not always) get only one NCAA postseason bid, while major conferences score multiple invites. That’s always been the nature of the NCAA beast.
When smaller schools manage to crack the Sweet 16 or Elite Eight, it is, for them, practically like winning a championship. It’s a glorious climb viewed in the broader context as a Cinderella ride that will be forever remembered by the players and fans.
But for both the SDSU and USD programs, it’s not unreasonable now to see something more as a realistic goal. These programs have matched up with the best and have held their own. For instance, USD’s postseason win last week at Baylor, one of the strongest women’s basketball programs in the country, was a huge statement. Also, the success both USD and SDSU have had in the WNIT — the Coyotes won it in 2016 and the Jackrabbits are in the semifinals now — adds some muscle to their reputations.
Bigger things may be in store for both programs, which says a lot about the quality of women’s basketball in this state. While we should revel in the magic of this moment, we shouldn’t be shocked if even bigger steps are ahead. | https://siouxcityjournal.com/other-voices-usds-cinderella-seasons-and-the-promise-ahead/article_3d2a085b-5dec-5b85-84f6-84124514a815.html | 2022-04-01T01:59:13Z |
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'Property Brothers' Star Drew Scott and Wife Linda Phan Share Their Pregnancy Journey: 'We're Just Embracing It as It Comes'
Property Brothers star Drew Scott and podcast producer Linda Phan—his wife of almost four years (and partner of nearly 12)—are getting ready to welcome their first child together. As they prepare, Phan says she's been surprised by how fast it all seems to be going, but notes one of the biggest challenges has been making sure they have the time to experience the pregnancy as a couple.
"The toughest part is lining up our schedules so that we're both experiencing it," she says in a video that coincides with the spring issue of Reveal magazine. She points out that although she's the one going through physical changes, she wants her husband to feel like he's a part of the process as well.
Despite that, they have been discovering a great deal together. "There's always something new that we're learning," explains Scott, who along with his brother, Jonathan, shares the stories behind home renovations and life in Reveal. "It's almost like Christmas every other day."
Although the parents-to-be might feel like they're having lightbulb moments these days, there was a time when the pair felt like they were in the dark about why they weren't conceiving. Lacking both the support team and the knowledge that they now have, the couple started out on a two-year fertility journey that involved trying to conceive naturally, then through IUI and IVF.
But as they went through the highs and lows of fertility treatments, finding their people—both health care providers and other couples going through similar experiences to conceive—bolstered their confidence, notes Scott.
"When it comes to IVF, I wish someone told me that there's such a supportive community," adds Phan. "That's the thing I leaned into the most and appreciated the most."
Scott agrees, admitting that initially, he had "no idea just how many people have had really rough experiences getting to finally having a baby." He adds, "The more we realized a lot of people go through some pretty tough journeys as well, it helped to build a community of support."
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Now, by sharing their experience and raising awareness around conception journeys like their own, the couple aims to support the community that was there for them along the way.
The HGTV host and the podcast producer are also happily doing their best to be in the moment. "I was glad that we were told to enjoy this journey leading up to it, because we're not really freaking out over anything," says Scott. "We're just embracing it as it comes."
The experience has amplified just how grateful the adorable couple are for one another. As the proud dad-to-be puts it, "I could not imagine experiencing this journey with anybody else."
Now, as he and Phan count down the days until the arrival of their child, Property Brothers fans are sure to be waiting for more heartwarming updates.
Read more from Drew Scott and Linda Phan about their pregnancy journey and follow along on their YouTube channel. | https://www.parents.com/parenting/celebrity-parents/property-brothers-drew-scott-linda-phan-embracing-pregnancy-as-it-comes/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:15Z |
WASHINGTON — A lot is known about the few hours that shook American democracy to the core. The defeated president’s incendiary speech, the march by an angry crowd to the U.S. Capitol, the breaking in, the beating of cops, the “hang Mike Pence” threats, the lawmakers running for their lives, the shooting death of rioter Ashli Babbitt. All of that chaos unfolded over about eight hours on one day: Jan. 6, 2021.
But for all that is known about the day, piecing together the words and actions of Donald Trump over that time has proved no easy task, even though a president’s movements and communications are closely monitored.
There’s a gap in the official White House phone notations given to the House committee investigating Jan. 6 – from about 11 a.m. to about 7 p.m., according to two people familiar with the congressional investigation into the riot. Details may still turn up; the former president was known to use various cellphones and often bypassed the White House switchboard, placing calls directly.
And over the past four-plus months a lot has surfaced about what Trump did do and say on Jan. 6 – in texts, tweets, videos, calls and other conversations.
The following account is based on testimony, timelines and eyewitness reporting gathered by The Associated Press and The Washington Post and CBS News, and from officials and people familiar with the events who spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity.
SORE AT HIS NO. 2
Trump entered the Oval Office at 11:08 a.m. By that time, about 400 pro-Trump demonstrators had already massed at the Capitol. Trump placed a call to Vice President Mike Pence – their only conversation of the day. It didn’t go well: Trump wanted Pence to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and he was very unhappy the vice president wouldn’t do it.
At 11:38 a.m., the president left the White House to address his rally on the Ellipse, a big grassy oval behind the White House, about a mile or so from the Capitol. It was bitter cold, but that didn’t keep the crowd away. Trump was up on stage by 11:57 and addressed his supporters until about 1:15 p.m.
Among Trump’s challenging final words: “We fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country any more. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country. So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to the Capitol.”
‘THEY’RE THROWING METAL POLES’
Growing crowds were migrating to the Capitol. Almost immediately after Trump concluded, a Capitol Police officer called for backup.
“They’re throwing metal poles at us,” the officer said in a panicked voice. “Multiple law-enforcement injuries.”
Would Trump himself head for the Capitol, as he’d suggested in his speech? It was unclear at first, but his motorcade turned to head back to the White House.
At 1:21 p.m., Trump met with his valet at the White House, logs say. At the Capitol, meanwhile, then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund begged for help from the National Guard as the crowd started to swell around the west side of the building and became increasingly violent.
By then the TV networks had picked up the melee and were broadcasting live as the mob broke through metal police barricades and advanced toward the doors of the building where lawmakers were gathered to certify the presidential election results. The surreal images soon filled television screens throughout the West Wing, where staffers watched, stunned.
LOCKDOWN
By 2 p.m. the U.S. Capitol was locked down. At 2:11, Pence was evacuated. At 2:15, congressional leaders were evacuated. At 2:43, demonstrator Babbitt was shot trying to enter the House chamber through a window broken by the mob.
No official record has surfaced yet of what Trump was doing during this time. The next entry in Trump’s daily diary is not until 4:03 p.m., when he went out to the Rose Garden to tape a public address after frantic urging.
But during this time Trump was hardly idle. He was in touch with lawmakers and he was, according to aides, watching the violence unfold on national television. And he was tweeting.
At 2:28, he tweeted not about the violence but to show his pique at his vice president:
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
At some point, Trump also talked to lawmakers. Republican Kevin McCarthy told a California radio station that he had spoken to the president.
“I was the first person to call him,” McCarthy said. “I told him to go on national TV, tell these people to stop it. He said he didn’t know what was happening.”
Washington Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler said McCarthy relayed that conversation to her. By her account, when McCarthy told Trump it was his own supporters breaking into the building, Trump responded: “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”
Trump also talked to Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, among other GOP lawmakers. Tuberville later said he spoke to the president while the Senate was being evacuated. Utah Sen. Mike Lee said Trump accidentally called him when he was trying to reach Tuberville.
Others, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, tried but failed to get through to the president.
‘IT HAS GONE TOO FAR’
At 3:14 p.m. a Trump tweet at last made a sideways reference to the havoc. “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
At some point, he sequestered himself in the dining room off the Oval Office to watch the violence play out on TV, rewinding and re-watching some parts, according to former aides. Unable to get through by other means, allies including his former chief of staff and communications director resorted to tweeting at him to try to get through. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was getting a flurry of texts from lawmakers, from Fox News personalities and even Trump’s own children.
“Hey, Mark, protestors are literally storming the Capitol. Breaking windows on doors. Rushing in. Is Trump going to say something?” reads one text.
“We are all helpless,” says another.
As the violence continued, the president’s elder son texted Meadows:
“He’s got to condemn this (expletive) Asap,” Donald Trump, Jr. texted.
Meadows responded: “I’m pushing it hard. I agree.”
Trump, Jr. texted again and again, urging that his father act:
“We need an Oval address. He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.”
‘REMEMBER THIS DAY FOREVER!’
At 4:08 p.m. Trump went out to the Rose Garden. At 4:17 p.m. he released a scripted, pre-recorded video, which included a call for “peace” and “law and order” and finally told his supporters “you have to go home now.”
But they didn’t. Things were still wildly out of control. In fact, the Capitol building was not secured until 5:34 p.m.
At 6:01, Trump’s message was back to indignant: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” he wrote. “Remember this day forever!”
At 6:27, he went back to the residence, and started calling his lawyers.
Congress did not resume counting electoral votes until 8 p.m. They finished at 3:40 a.m. and certified Biden as the winner.
Associated Press Writers Jill Colvin in New York, Nomaan Merchant, Zeke Miller, Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Mike Balsamo contributed to this report.
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Following the passing of the filing deadline March 25, the ballots for Jones County’s primaries are set.
At a county level, incumbent Jon Zirkelbach will face a contested Republican primary for the District 3 seat on the Board of Supervisors from John Carlson. No Democratic candidate filed in the race. There is no contested race in District 4, the other supervisor seat up in the election, but there will be a contested general race in the general election between incumbent Republican Ned Rohwedder and Democratic candidate Bob Gertsen. Incumbent Republicans Sheri Jones and Amy Picray were the lone candidates to file for each recorder and treasurer, respectively. No partisan candidates filed for the office of county attorney, but incumbent Kristofer Lyons has filed as a “no party” candidate for the general election.
For statewide office, there are a trio of contested primaries. In the new Iowa House District 66, incumbents Lee Hein and Steven Bradley will face off for the Republican nomination. No Democratic nominee has filed for the office. For the office of state auditor, both Todd Halbur and Mary Ann Hanusa filed to challenge incumbent Democrat Rob Sand. Democrats Joel Miller and Eric Van Lancker have filed to earn their party’s nomination for secretary of state and challenge incumbent Paul Pate.
In setting up the general election ballot, incumbent Carrie Koelker will be unchallenged in her state senate Republican primary. For governor, Deidre DeJear was the lone Democrat to file for challenging incumbent Republican Kim Reynolds. Matt Robinson of Dubuque has filed on the Democratic side. For state treasurer, Republican Roby Smith has filed to challenge incumbent Democrat Michael Fitzgerald. Democrat John Norwood has filed to challenge incumbent Republican Mike Naig for secretary of agriculture. Republican Brenna Bird has filed to challenge incumbent Democrat Tom Miller for the office of attorney general.
Federally, Jim Carlin of Sioux City is challenging incumbent Chuck Grassley for his senate seat in the Republican primary. On the Democratic side, former Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer, retired admiral Mike Franken and rural doctor Glenn Hurst are vying for the nomination. For the new U.S. House of Representatives District 1 seat, incumbent Mariannette Miller-Meeks faces a challenge in the Republican primary from Bettendorf business owner Kyle Kuehl. Christina Bohanan was the lone Democratic candidate to file. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/news/primary-ballot-set/article_21fe40dc-2705-5ea7-bf06-77e2800ae9cf.html | 2022-04-01T01:59:15Z |
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Russell Knox recorded four straight birdies on the back nine and fired a 7-under 65 on Thursday for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Valero Texas Open.
Knox closed out his round with a seven-foot putt to save par at the par-5 18th at TPC San Antonio, and was one shot ahead of Rasmus Hojgaard.
Hojgaard fired a 66 despite a double bogey on his final hole. Matt Kuchar is another stroke back after an opening 5-under 67 and is among a group that includes Denny McCarthy, Aaron Rei and J.J. Spaun.
Defending champ Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy finished at even-par 72. They were outside the top 60 after one round and could flirt with the cut line on Friday.
Bryson DeChambeau had a 1-over 73. After holing a bunker shot for eagle on his 11th hole and following with a birdie on the next, he made bogey on four of his last six holes.
Knox, a 32-year-old Scotsman with two career PGA Tour wins, started his birdie streak at No. 12. All of his birdie putts were inside 10 feet. At the 15th, he was about 20 feet away from a back pin position following his approach and chipped in from the fringe. It was his second chip-in in the round.
“That was one of those kind of bonus birdies that you need when you’re going to have a good day,” Knox said. “Obviously thrilled with the round. It’s been more of the way I want to play.”
Hogjaard, a 21-year-old from Denmark and two-rime winner on the European Tour, had his sights on the first-round lead heading to his closing hole. But, his drive sailed well left of the fairway. It took him four shots to reach the green on the par-4 ninth.
“I had to chip sideways back into the fairway,” he said. “Just was a little too aggressive after that. Yeah, short-sided myself and I didn’t get up and down and suddenly you walk away with double-bogey. Yeah, that was a bit annoying, but it happens.”
Kuchar was 5 under after 11 holes. Thirty feet away from the pin on the next hole, he failed to get up and down and missed a seven-foot putt for par. He got a shot back with a birdie on his 14th hole, and parred out, falling short in a bid to match his season-best round of 64 at the Sony Open, where he finished in the top 10.
“A lot of good and bad that can happen here on this course,” Kuchar said. “I was kind of managing early on in the round and then found a little something on about the fifth or sixth hole. I started having some birdie chances and converted on a few late in my first nine.”
Kuchar has won nine times on the PGA Tour. McCarthy, Rai and Spaun are looking for their first.
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Epson Philippines recently held a media session to discuss its 2022 sustainability efforts and overall business efficiency solutions that cater to a market changed by the recent pandemic.
Epson put emphasis on how its business solutions, including printers and projectors, help users achieve greater productivity and efficiency in their operations through innovative technologies that allow for smarter and greener ways to get things done.
This is in light of the recently changed market that calls for a fresh and non-traditional way of giving solutions to businesses affected by the pandemic, and who are implementing the hybrid setup.
Epson said its products are designed to contribute to transforming how businesses work for the better as the market gravitates towards a more sustainable world.
Its inkjet printers, the company said, offer savings on power consumption compared to similar speed laser printers, allowing businesses to save on energy costs through its heat-free technology.
This, said Epson, enables businesses to save up on energy consumption and expedite processes, while also contributing to lessening environmental impact in the form of less carbon dioxide emission and less waste production.
As the global sustainability movement accelerated over the years, Epson said it has ensured that its products and services are aligned with the company’s and the global drive for sustainability.
On the local front, the company has partnered with World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines to create a three-dimensional virtual museum showcasing various habitats and how they are affected by climate change.
The partnership is aligned with Epson’s sustainability initiatives to create greater awareness on climate change, especially among students and teachers, with the overarching goal of promoting environmental stewardship among Filipinos.
In a talk delivered by Jonna Jacinto, project officer for the education for sustainable development team of WWF Philippines, the virtual museum was described as an opportunity to bring an immersive experience to the Filipinos, allowing them to better appreciate the effects of climate change and global warming on different parts of the world, from the arctic to tropical countries like the Philippines.
Anchored on Epsons’ “Turn Down the Heat” campaign, the virtual museum aims to raise awareness on how people can reduce their impact on global warming by spawning a call-to-action in reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint — from their homes, to offices, and other businesses.
“Epson is always committed to put sustainability at the core of its business, and we hope that through our initiatives to constantly innovate our products and solutions, we’ll help shape an ecologically sound future. Through our efforts to put sustainability into focus, we hope that we can encourage our partners and the Filipino community to join us in this sustainability journey, not only for ourselves, but also for future generations,” said Ed Bonoan, general manager of marketing division at Epson Philippines. | https://newsbytes.ph/2022/03/31/epson-ph-touts-sustainable-tech-greener-business-initiatives-in-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=epson-ph-touts-sustainable-tech-greener-business-initiatives-in-2022 | 2022-04-01T01:59:16Z |
EDINBURGH, Ind. (WXIN) – Scientists believe the loud boom that was heard across several counties in South Central Indiana recently was caused by a meteor explosion. Scientists at Purdue watched surveillance videos that captured the noise and believe the boom can be attributed to an “air burst.”
“Essentially when a meteor is entering the atmosphere it will essentially explode in the atmosphere and they can make a loud boom,” Purdue planetary scientist Brandon Johnson said.
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Johnson said it’s likely similar to the “air burst” that happened in the skies over Chelyabinsk in Russia back in 2013. That incident lit up the sky and caused major damage on the ground.
“If it was big enough to make that loud an explosion it should’ve been seen but it was a pretty cloudy day,” Johnson said. “If there was enough cloud cover it’s possible that no one saw it but it still did occur above the clouds.”
The boom was large enough to show up on seismic scales at Indiana University. “There was a significant pulse of seismic energy recorded on our instruments at 12:44 p.m. yesterday,” geophysics professor Michael Hamburger said. “If this coincides with the timing of the reports, it is likely the result of the sonic disturbance experienced by local residents.”
The American Meteor Society said it took two reports of meteor sightings yesterday afternoon. One of those reports came in from Columbus, the other from Bloomington.
Based on those reports the society was able to triangulate the impacted location and said it was likely a “fireball meteor.”
Johnson said it’s a good reminder that a lot happens out in space. “It’s a reminder that we need to stay vigilant and know how to protect ourselves and detect these before they happen,” Johnson said.
Johnson said that if it was a meteor then it’s likely that parts of it made it to the ground. He said they’ll likely be small rocks with a black coating on them.
The American Meteor Society is encouraging anyone who saw anything to report it to them. You can report those at amsmeteors.org. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/loud-boom-caught-on-camera-believed-to-be-meteor-explosion/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:19Z |
As West Texas populations fluctuate because of the oil industry, one city is steadily growing over the years, and has big plans to keep growing.
Pecos has seen its population grow 45% in the last decade.
“If you haven’t been to Pecos in the last 10 years, you’d be surprised,” says executive director of Pecos Economic Development Corporation Kenneth Winkles Jr.
Pecos is looking towards the future. Winkles Jr. says it has now has just under 13,000 people who live there, up from 8,800 back in 2010.
Some of the biggest upgrades include the development of 300 housing units in the last five years, a new grocery store, $114 million dollars towards a new hospital, a $15 million dollar rec center, and $18 million that was spent on a new sports complex.
Other investments include upgrades to the local golf course, the senior center, and the high school football stadium.
“In economic development you learn one rule: without rooftops, retail doesn’t come,” says Winkles Jr. “We did not have the rooftops, now we do.”
We also talked to Pecos native Joseph Jaquez. He owns multiple businesses in the city, including Airlawn Furniture, Old Mill Restaurant, and Dairy Mart.
“We want the community to continue to grow,” says Juaqez. “Support anybody who wants to come.”
Jaquez says investments like this have been a long time coming.
“I feel Pecos has always been behind before the boom had picked it up,” says Jaquez. “We’ve come a long ways in development and trying to get new businesses here.”
The city is also prioritizing reducing traffic on its streets. Because of where it’s located, the town sees more than 3,000 semi-trucks go through it every day, which can cause headaches.
“Our traffic is sometimes, to say the least, horrendous,” says Winkles Jr.
Local entities are working with TxDOT on a loop that could relieve traffic in the coming years. Part of that loop, the Eastern Reliever Route, is set to break ground in 2026. Winkles says it will be a generation before that loop gets fully completed. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/pecos-builds-towards-future/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:19Z |
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Teaching Kids About the American Immigrant Experience Is Now Easier
Most immigrant parents—such as myself— that I have met over the years strive to teach their Latinx children about their roots. But the pressure to assimilate can make it more more complicated than it sounds.
Language barriers, fading memories of grandparents, and the lack of time due to everyday responsibilities can make it difficult to tell our stories in a meaningful way to our kids. And Latinx heritage isn't something we grow up learning about in our schools here in the U.S. outside of Hispanic Heritage Month. And even within our own households it can sometimes be difficult to see how multifaceted the Latinx experience actually is. My parents for instance only knew about what life was like in Cuba for highly educated, privileged light-skinned Latinos y Latinas, so that was the only narrative I was familiar with as a kid. It wasn't until I was in my 20s that I took time to learn about the breadth of our Latinx communities.
Now the mother of a 2-year-old, I do want my son to learn about his Cuban ancestors, but I also want him to know about different kinds of American immigrant experiences and learn about what living the American dream means to different familias. Particularly those who immigrated here from Latin America. Thankfully, the Library of Congress is now making that easier for us to not only learn about those stories but hear about them first-hand through video testimonials from American immigrants themselves.
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In 2018, Tony Hernández began The Immigrant Archive Project by traveling across the U.S. to capture video interviews with Americans from immigrant families. Since then, he has interviewed thousands of people.
Earlier this month, he received the happy news that the Library of Congress will be archiving his work in the Handbook of Latin American Studies Web Archive. It will become part of a more extensive collection of historically and culturally significant websites that the library has deemed is necessary for preservation, according to NBC News.
Calling his work with immigrants "the quintessential American story," Hernández initially focused on telling the stories of Latinx immigrants, but the project has since expanded to include those from Asia, Africa, and Europe.
The video interviews include stories from celebrities such as singer Luis Fonsi and actor Edward James Olmos. But they don't just deem celebrities worthy of having their stories told, the interviews also include tales from regular Americans who detail their emotional and funny tales. And now, these stories will be widely available and saved for future generations.
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Saving these stories for our children is an incredible achievement by Hernández. Being able to access the over 3,000 videos that the The Immigrant Archive Project calls "visual history testimonies" will allow parents like me to show our children stories from our own countries and learn about the journeys of how so many families made a home here in the United States.
For me, this is a crucial part of teaching my son about his background. To know that you are the descendant of an immigrant is one thing but to hear thousands of people telling their stories first-hand about how they got here and the hope that drove them to this country is unforgettable. The common theme amongst most? According to Hernández is "a tremendous amount of optimism and belief that you can create a better life for yourself in the United States." At the very least he says the hope is that they can do something that impacts their children's futures. A feeling we can all relate to.
And for those of us raising multicultural kids this archive allows us to find a variety of American immigrant experiences from across the globe. The journey of how we got here is essential and now forever remembered through this archive.
As for me, I'm not only excited to share the videos with my son that teach him a bit more about how and why his Cuban family migrated here, but as a multicultural family I'm equally excited to share videos that will teach him about his father's German and Polish heritage. To be honest, I'm pretty excited to learn these stories too. | https://www.parents.com/parents-latina-magazine/teaching-kids-about-the-american-immigrant-experience-is-now-easier/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:21Z |
WARSAW, Poland — As the number of people fleeing Ukraine slows, authorities in Poland and other neighboring nations are encouraging refugees from the war to find jobs, especially in health care and education.
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR reported Thursday that the daily number of arrivals recorded by the countries that border Ukraine dropped below 40,000 on Wednesday, the fewest since Russian troops invaded five weeks ago.
Poland’s Border Guard registered more than half of the new arrivals, maintaining a pattern seen since the start of the war. Of the conflict’s more than 4 million refugees, almost 2.4 million went to Poland, according to the country’s border agency. It’s Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.
Humanitarian organizations and other observers have attributed the slowing of the Ukrainian exodus in recent days to several possible factors, including residents of surrounded and besieged cities having no way to safely evacuate. Others may be reluctant to leave their homes and hoping to wait out the hostilities, observers say.
A spokesperson for Poland’s Border Guard, Anna Michalska, said the numbers could pick up again if Russian attacks continue.
Recent legislation passed in Poland allows refugees from Ukraine to obtain ID numbers that entitle them to free medical care, education, social benefits and the right to work for 18 months.
Many Poles are putting up refugees in their homes or volunteering in civic groups that bring all sorts of assistance.
Refugees in Warsaw have submitted about 700 applications and some 100 have been hired for jobs in the Polish capital’s medical centers and schools, according to city officials.
To boost the employment drive, Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and Deputy Mayor Renata Kaznowska met Thursday with the director of the Bielanski Hospital and some Ukrainian and Polish staff members.
“Our guests are full of fortitude, they want to start to help us right away, they want to find jobs,” Trzaskowski told a news conference.
Kaznowska said employment and professional activity were the best way to integrate the adults who have fled Ukraine into Polish society.
Educators are also needed to help thousands of refugee children adjust to their new school environment, where lessons are taught in Polish and where the curriculum is largely different from the one in Ukraine. Adjusting the school system will cost over 440,000 zlotys ($105,000) in Warsaw alone, city authorities said.
Two nurses who are in the hiring process, speaking in Ukrainian mixed with Polish, said they appreciated the chance to continue their careers.
Olena Halych had to fight back tears as she spoke of fleeing home near shelled Bucha “to save my children.”
“I want to truly thank people in Poland for offering us shelter,” Halych said in Ukrainian. “I have found a job at the Bielanski Hospital, I want to really thank you for that.”
Hospital director Dorota Galczynska-Zych said the new recruits have provided valuable skills, and added that language has not been a barrier.
Some 570,000 refugees have reached Warsaw, a city of some 1.8 million, and some 300,000 remain in the capital for now, Trzaskowski said.
In Romania, which has received over 608,000 refugees, 35-year-old Uliana Polyakova from Odessa was busy Thursday registering at the Brasov city refugee center’s integration office that helps find accommodation, jobs and access to social assistance.
“Some people told me to arrive here at the center … in case we need medicine or something else,” she said, as her 7-year-old son enjoyed some screen-time nearby. “(A) Romanian family invited us to live with them. I did not expect that Romania is so kind to Ukrainians.”
“We’re not here because we want to leave Ukraine, me and my husband want to live with our relatives in Odessa,” she said. “I hope that the war is over in two weeks, one month, and we will go home.”
Stephen McGrath in Brasov, Romania, contributed to this report.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge struck down portions of a Florida election law passed last year, saying in a ruling Thursday that the Republican-led government was using subtle tactics to suppress Black voters.
The law tightened rules on mailed ballots, drop boxes and other popular election methods — changes that made it more difficult for Black voters who, overall, have more socioeconomic disadvantages than white voters, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote in his ruling.
“For the past 20 years, the majority in the Florida Legislature has attacked the voting rights of its Black constituents,” Walker wrote. Given that history, he said, some future election law changes should be subject to court approval.
Florida’s Republican-led legislature joined several others around the country in passing election reforms after Republican former President Donald Trump made unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Democrats have called such reforms a partisan attempt to keep some voters from the ballot box.
“It was only designed to fuel the narrative around the big lie and that the election was stolen from Trump,” Democratic state Rep. Fentrice Driskell, who is Black, said in a phone interview after the ruling was issued. “What we absolutely can’t have is a system that, I almost feel like, is separate and unequal. Making it harder for Black people to vote is unconstitutional.”
Democratic state Rep. Ramon Alexander said he and others argued before the bill passed that it would disproportionally affect voters of color, and he is glad Walker agreed.
“Florida has a long history of discrimination at the ballot box, and (the bill) was just another roadblock put in front of Black people trying to cast a legal vote,” said Alexander, who is Black.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who made the election bill a priority, said the state will appeal Walker’s decision and win.
“In front of certain district judges, we know we will lose no matter what because they are not going to follow the law,” DeSantis said at a news conference in West Palm Beach. He did not say specifically why he believes the ruling is incorrect.
Upon appeal, the case would go to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, which is seen as being more conservative.
Republican Sen. Dennis Baxley, who sponsored the bill, didn’t immediately return a voicemail message seeking comment.
Much of the debate focused on vote-by-mail ballots and how they are collected and returned. Walker overturned a provision of the law limiting when people could use a drop box to submit their ballot, along with a section prohibiting anyone from engaging with people waiting to vote. Walker said the latter provision “discourages groups who give food, water, and other forms of encouragement to voters waiting in long lines from continuing to do so.”
“One way, then, to measure whether this provision will have a disparate impact on Black or Latino voters is to determine whether Black and Latino voters are disproportionately likely to wait in line to vote,” said Walker, citing testimony that showed that to indeed be the case.
Walker, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, also overturned a provision in the law putting new restrictions on groups that register voters, including requiring that people working to register voters submit their names and permanent addresses to the state.
Walker ordered that for the next 10 years, any attempt by the Legislature to write new laws on the issues he overturned will need court approval.
“Floridians have been forced to live under a law that violates their rights on multiple fronts for over a year,” he wrote. “Without preclearance, Florida could continue to enact such laws, replacing them every legislative session if courts view them with skepticism. Such a scheme makes a mockery of the rule of law.” | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/judge-strikes-down-parts-of-florida-election-law-cites-race/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:19Z |
After gaining feedback, the Springville school board and district officials discussed the feasibility of bringing wrestling back into the fold at the district.
The district’s wrestling club expanded to 68 for this year. Activities director Joe Martin said he’s tried to gauge interest by giving a survey to sixth, seventh and eighth graders, as well as high schoolers. Martin found eight junior high students and four high school kids would be interested if it was at Springville. The district currently coops with Anamosa for wrestling but has only had a couple of junior high students participate. Central City, who the district has shared with in the past for the program, had eight total students between the high school and junior high.
In discussing with the other conference athletic directors what costs could be, the program would be “very low-key in terms of up-front costs,” Martin said. The program would be scheduled for away meets only, with the costs being for uniforms and coach payments. With the excitement garnered by the wrestling club, they are looking at the possibility of holding a tournament in Springville by borrowing the necessary equipment from other schools.
“If we’re going to commit to our kids and commit to a program, you want to jump in,” Martin said, adding starting a new program could be difficult, but he’d felt he’d done his due diligence.
Board vice-president Albert Martin said he felt it was important to give students as many opportunities as they could in the district. Before making any decisions, board members said there were items they needed more clarity on, such as if it was the correct time and how it impacted the district’s budget for next year. Board president Kate O’Brien May said while she felt the wrestling program was important, she wanted to make sure the numbers worked, and the district was being fiscally responsible.
Joe Martin said the district would have to decide around the end of July whether they wanted to start a program. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/news/return-of-wrestling-weighed/article_cb3f9ac7-8e2c-5c39-a278-0cdb21f2299a.html | 2022-04-01T01:59:21Z |
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CANADA, March 31 - The Province is establishing an office to rapidly expand hydrogen deployment and to streamline projects from proposal to construction.
The BC Hydrogen Office will work with federal and local governments to help attract investments and simplify the multi-jurisdictional review and permitting processes.
This investment is a key pillar of the StrongerBC Economic Plan, which will help B.C. compete and thrive in an ever-changing global economy.
“Our government recognizes the importance hydrogen projects will have for our climate and British Columbia’s economy,” said Premier John Horgan. “That’s why we are taking steps to streamline the process to get these projects up and running as quickly as possible.”
There are already 40 hydrogen projects proposed or under construction in B.C. with more on the way. These projects represent $4.8 billion in proposed investment in the province. Many are small or medium-sized projects to provide local hydrogen supply or solutions, but some are major investments, including some of the largest proposed green hydrogen-production projects in the world.
“With our clean electricity, abundant natural resources and innovative companies, B.C. is a world leader in the growing hydrogen economy,” said Bruce Ralston, Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation. “We’re already seeing innovative B.C. companies engaged in businesses that show how hydrogen is helping us meet our CleanBC goals and that create new, high-paying clean-tech jobs throughout the province.”
Like all major energy projects, hydrogen projects are complex and require engagement and co-ordination across multiple levels of government, agencies, regulators, First Nations and stakeholders. Hydrogen projects also do not fit into existing federal or provincial regulatory frameworks. Developing a domestic market and retail delivery infrastructure will encourage hydrogen deployment in B.C.
A 2019 provincial hydrogen study showed that by 2050, B.C. could expect hydrogen to provide a positive, $2.5-billion impact to the province's annual gross domestic product, including economic activity from the domestic use and export of hydrogen and 3,750 new jobs in the province. Given B.C.’s proximity to export markets, it could capture a significant portion of the global hydrogen market, estimated to be worth more than $305 billion by 2050.
“Our ambition is to build the province we want for our future generations and create a low-carbon economy that works for everyone,” said Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation. “The actions we are taking to welcome new investments in hydrogen technologies speak directly to our commitment to establish B.C. as a world leader in environmental and social responsibility.”
In 2021, British Columbia became the first province in Canada to release a comprehensive hydrogen strategy. Part of CleanBC, the B.C. Hydrogen Strategy includes 63 actions for government, industry and innovators to take over the short term (2020-25), medium term (2025-30) and long term (2030 and beyond). The strategy’s immediate priorities include scaling up production of renewable hydrogen, establishing regional hydrogen hubs and deploying medium and heavy-duty fuel-cell vehicles.
“Using hydrogen as a fuel produces no carbon emissions and is therefore one of the key tools for decarbonizing sectors of the economy,” said George Heyman, Minister of Environment. “Hydrogen, as part of our CleanBC plan, is especially helpful where direct electrification is more difficult, such as in heavy-duty transportation or industrial heating.”
British Columbia’s abundant natural resources, clean electricity grid, existing energy infrastructure, strong climate policies, innovative companies, highly skilled workforce and proximity to export markets make it an ideal jurisdiction for investments in hydrogen production, research, use and export. The Province, through the StrongerBC Economic Plan, is well positioned to meet increasing demand for low-carbon solutions and capture a significant part of the global hydrogen market.
The StrongerBC Economic Plan moves British Columbia forward by tackling the challenges of today while growing an economy that works for everyone. This long-term plan builds on B.C.’s strong economic recovery and works to address two long-standing challenges – inequality and climate change – by closing the skills gap, building resilient communities and helping businesses and people transition to clean-energy solutions. The plan sets two main goals of inclusive growth and clean growth, and puts forward six missions to keep B.C. on track.
Learn More:
To read the B.C. Hydrogen Strategy, visit: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/electricity-alternative-energy/electricity/bc-hydro-review/bc_hydrogen_strategy_final.pdf
To read the strategy’s executive summary, visit: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/electricity-alternative-energy/electricity/bc-hydro-review/bc_hydrogen_strategy_-_executive_summary_july_5.pdf
For more information about CleanBC, visit: https://cleanbc.gov.bc.ca/
A backgrounder follows. | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/567180966/b-c-moves-to-streamline-hydrogen-projects-to-ensure-clean-energy-future | 2022-04-01T01:59:22Z |
BOSTON (AP) — After a 15-year career in which he etched his name on the Stanley Cup and the Vezina Trophy, Tuukka Rask is focusing now on avoiding the rink.
“Don’t even go there. Not yet,” the retired Bruins goalie said Thursday night when asked if his daughters had taken up hockey. “They’re into dance and whatnot. If I have to go and spend my days at hockey rinks, so be it. But not really at the top of my list.”
A two-time All-Star, and the winner of the 2014 Vezina as the NHL’s top goalie, Rask announced his retirement last month after a setback in his attempt to come back from a torn labrum in his hip. The Bruins invited him back to drop the ceremonial first puck before Thursday night’s game against the New Jersey Devils, and again – perhaps for the last time – the chants of “Tuuuuk!” echoed through the TD Garden.
Rask took the ice with his wife, and their three daughters dressed for a ballet class. He bumped fists with the players on the Bruins bench while both teams tapped their sticks on the ice to salute him.
“I don’t know what the future holds,” Rask told reporters beforehand, saying that he would be showing up at games and golf outings as a team ambassador. “Maybe I’ll get into coaching. Maybe not, but for now, I’ll be hanging out with sponsors.”
The franchise’s all-time leader in wins, Rask helped the Bruins allow the fewest goals in the NHL in the pandemic-interrupted 2019-20 season, when Boston finished with the most points in the league. He injured his hip during the 2021 playoffs and worked his way back to the team midway through this season.
But after just four starts, he aggravated his injury on Jan. 24 against the Anaheim Ducks. Two weeks later, he announced he was through.
“It was kind of time to be honest with yourself,” he said. “I just figured it was better for everybody to call it. I had a great career. No regrets.”
While his hip still has some good days, Rask said no one could talk him out of retirement. His immediate future will involve as much golf as he can squeeze in between shuttling his daughters to dance class and school.
He may need a hip replacement at some point.
“It was at a point where it affected my everyday life,” Rask said. “I’m a guy who makes pretty quick decisions, anyway. So I wasn’t dwelling on it too long.”
Rask was 308-165-66 with a 2.28 goals-against average and .921 save percentage in a franchise-leading 564 games. He was the backup goalie for the Bruins team that won it all in 2011, and he led the team to Stanley Cup Final appearances in 2013 and ’19.
Although coaching is not in his plans, Rask said he would be available if Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman wants him.
“I told him right after I retired: Tell me if you need anything,” Rask said. “Just make sure you don’t get too high or too low.”
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Queen Elizabeth II horoscope: Taurus Queen 'anchor of the zodiac' - 'powerfully resilient'
QUEEN ELIZABETH II was born on April 21, 1926, making her a Taurus. What does this say about HRH's character?
Queen Rania says she 'looks up to' Queen Elizabeth II
Earth sign Taurus is the second sign of the zodiac. It encompasses those born between April 20 and May 21. What kind of person and leader is Queen Elizabeth II, based on astrology?
Taurus is "smart, ambitious, and trustworthy", making them the "anchor of the zodiac".
Fittingly, Queen Elizabeth II is the anchor of the country.
Horoscope.com stated: "Amazing friends, colleagues, and partners, Taureans value honesty above all else and are proud that their personal relationships tend to be drama free."
Indeed, the Royal Family have endured many a crisis, but the Queen has remained a pillar of stability through them all.
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A true leader, "this searching sign is willing to see another point of view, but they won't flip-flop on an opinion just to make someone else happy".
"They will shift their thinking only if they truly have a change of heart."
Her Majesty has spent seven decades on the throne, so it is unsurprising that Taurus is known for being "one of the hardest-working signs in the Zodiac".
Dedicated to her people, "a Bull is never afraid to roll up those sleeves and get to work, and won't blink an eye at pulling an all-nighter to get the job done".
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Coming up to her 95th birthday just next month, the Queen is as dedicated and diligent as ever.
As for Taurus' romantic prospects, the Queen was married to Prince Philip for just over 73 years.
Horoscope.com said: "When it comes to love, Taureans are all about honesty, which is why a first date with a Bull may resemble a job interview.
"They're not being rude - they're built for partnerships and are simply trying to see if you're a good fit at the start."
Taurus' motto, "Nothing worth having comes easy", is incredibly fitting for the Queen.
This sign's key characteristics are "trailblazing, ambitious, unwavering, reliable, understanding and stable".
According to astrology, Taurus' "secret weapon" is their willpower, and resolution to get things done irrespective of circumstances.
"They push, roll over, and dominate whatever challenges they're facing until those challenges are history.
"They're also a model for perseverance."
With HRH recently celebrating her Platinum Jubilee, she has a great deal to be proud of.
"Taurus' symbol, the Bull, not only exemplifies strength, it's also an immediate visual representation that shows the sign's bravery, passion, and determination."
The four monarchs that preceded Queen Elizabeth II were all men, so she was tasked with navigating her royal duties in a typically male dominated field.
Indeed: "Bulls are powerfully resilient. Nothing can bring this sign down, and adversity only makes them stronger." | https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1589149/zodiac-horoscope-royal-family-queen-elizabeth-ii-taurus-personality-traits | 2022-04-01T01:59:25Z |
BBA seeks support for pageant
Published 6:00 pm Thursday, March 31, 2022
The Brundidge Business Association’s primary purpose is to support the stability and growth of the business community. However, just as importantly is its role as a contributor to the quality of life for the city’s citizens.
Brain McDaniels, BBA president, said the BBA sponsors a variety of events during the year including the Annual Miss & Little Miss Brundidge Pageant.
“The Miss and Little Miss Brundidge Pageant celebrates young ladies who are willing and committed to representing the City of Brundidge and their communities,” McDaniels said. “We applaud those who have an interest in our community and want to actively represent Brundidge in a variety of ways throughout the year.”
The 2022 Miss and Little Miss Brundidge Pageant will be held on Saturday, April 30, at the Pike County High School Fine Arts Building.
“We are looking forward to this annual event and are inviting others to join us in support of the young ladies who are willing and committed to representing the City of Brundidge,” McDaniels said.
The BBA and the pageant committee invites members of the city’s business and at-large community to support the pageant with monetary assistance in sponsoring awards, gift certificates and prizes for the winners and runners up.
“In recognition of your generous support, the business’ name will be included in the souvenir program as well as acknowledged during the pageant,” McDaniels said. “Your support will be greatly appreciated.”
For more information, contact McDaniels or any member of the Brundidge Business Association. | https://www.troymessenger.com/2022/03/31/bba-seeks-support-for-pageant/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:25Z |
By Vicky Pathare
Health officials in Pune somewhat faced a two-pronged battle last year... treating COVID-19 cases, although they were on a decline compared to a year before, and tackling an “unknown fever”.
According to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the city reported 28,605 cases of fever of unknown origin (FUO) – also known as pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) – in 2021. The number was a big increase compared to the 10,627 cases of such fever recorded a year before in 2020.
What measures are need to tackle the FUO? Dr Sanjeeev Wavare, assistant health chief, PMC, said, “The higher authorities should be informed in case the source of the fever remains completely unidentified, so that restrictive measures could be initiated.”
Wavare, however, allayed fears, saying that last year’s figure was not alarming for Pune, which has a population of over 50 lakh.
Stressing on the importance for maintaining a record of such fever cases in order to ensure that there is no outbreak of the disease, PMC officials pointed out that the surge could be attributed to the setting up of additional outpatient departments (OPDs) for testing Covid-19 symptoms. Several patients got diagnosed with fever with unknown origin at these OPDs.
The city also witnessed a drastic surge in acute respiratory syndrome cases from 53,000 in 2020 to 72,000 in 2021. Likewise, pneumonia cases increased from 376 in 2020 to 510 in 2021.
Wavare said, “It is essential that a proper diagnosis of FUO cases is carried out for determining whether the fever is viral or bacterial. Testing could help ascertain whether the fever symptoms have been caused by microbes responsible for typhoid, malaria or any other infection.”
The health official said that besides, there could be other non-infectious ailments or underlying conditions behind the fever. The patients are required to undergo advanced tests and investigations to help ascertain the exact cause of fever before being recorded as caused by unknown factors,” he said.
Explaining the importance of such diagnosis, Wavare said the process provides an idea about the spread of FOU and its nature, thus helping in putting necessary measures in place.
Pointing out that the term PUO originated in 1961, at a time when advanced diagnostics methods did not exist limiting the nature of investigations, Dr Abhijit Lodha, physician, Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, said, “Earlier, fever caused by infections were also considered as FUO cases. However, the definition has changed with the advancement in healthcare. Many a time, medical professionals randomly label a fever case as PUO while it is necessary to wait for at least three weeks and conduct all relevant tests before doing so.”
Lodha expressed concern over the number of PUO cases doubling in the city calling it a bad sign, as the exact reason could not be ascertained in spite of the advancement in technology.
“It is quite possible that a patient is suffering due to some other non-infectious reason and a proper diagnosis can help him get timely treatment,” he added. | https://punemirror.com/pune/civic/%E2%80%98Unknown-fever%E2%80%99-struck-citizens-as-doctors-tackled-COVID-19/cid7038038.htm | 2022-04-01T01:59:25Z |
Andy Tullis / The BulletinEartH2O CEO Steve Emery explains the recycled-plastic water bottle filling process, while standing by the filling station at the company’s plant in Culver. File photo from 2015.
EartH2O, the spring water company in Culver, may cease operations on Thursday, according to a county commissioner.
A representative for the company, said she had no comment about the possible closure. No additional details were provided.
But community members from the county commission to the chamber of commerce and even the school district talked about how the potential closure could affect upwards of 40 employees.
No plant closure notice was filed under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, but companies with fewer than 100 employees are not required in Oregon to file the 60-day notice in the event of a closure or mass layoff.
"I feel horrible for the employees, but I believe the job market is very strong here in the county," said Kelly Simmelink, Jefferson County commissioner. "I believe there are some excellent opportunities for those seeking work and existing companies with positions to fill."
Simmelink said in an email that calls and emails seeking additional information from the county to the company have not been returned.
EartH2O was purchased in July 2021 by Primo Water North America, a subsidiary of Primo Water Corp., a publicly traded company with $2.1 billion in annual revenues.
The acquisition added about 9,000 customers to the company's portfolio.
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King County will pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit filed by an incarcerated man who was severely beaten in 2018 by another person in jail who officials knew was dangerous, psychotic and had a long history of attacking his cellmates.
Toby Meagher, who himself has a long history of mental illness, suffered a traumatic brain injury, broken bones in his face, damaged facial nerves and broken teeth when he was attacked by Troy Leae (pronounced lee-AYE-ee), who had just been returned to the jail from Western State Hospital where he had assaulted six individuals, including a mental health professional.
Evidence showed that the day of the assault, July 15, 2018, jail corrections officers disregarded Meagher’s pleas to be moved from his cell after Leae had told him he was going to fight him. Less than an hour later, Meagher, who weighed 145 pounds, was found unconscious in a bloody heap on the cell floor after the 5-foot-10, 300-pound Leae pounded his head against a metal sink, according to documents and grisly photographs contained in the pleadings.
According to the lawsuit, the injuries Meagher suffered “exacerbated his mental disorder and have deeply affected his ability to communicate.” At the time the lawsuit was filed a year later, his attorneys said he “still struggles to string a sentence together.”
“He spends much of his time confused and upset, constantly revisiting the attack itself, and plagued by nightmares, insomnia, and paranoid thoughts that center specifically around Mr. Leae and the attack.”
It is the second seven-figure payout by the county for a jail assault in four months. The county paid $1.25 million to a man in November after he was attacked and beaten by another incarcerated individual in a “meth-fueled rage.”
In a statement, King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention spokesperson Noah Haglund said, “We deeply regret the injuries that Mr. Meagher suffered, and the impact that this attack has had on Mr. Meagher and his family. We are committed to the safety of everybody in our custody, as well as to our staff and visitors.”
Haglund noted that mental illness is not a reason to isolate people who are incarcerated as it can exacerbate their problems.
“In light of this incident and others, we have increased the training that Jail Health Services staff receive about sharing appropriate medical information with their DAJD colleagues,” he said.
U.S. District Judge James Robart refused to dismiss the lawsuit or grant the involved corrections officers qualified immunity in 2020, and the county appealed his decision to the 9th Circuit Court, where a panel of three judges upheld Robart’s decision and sent the case back for trial.
According to the pleadings. Meagher was booked into the King County Jail in Seattle in August 2017 after he approached two strangers near a convenience story in Burien, punched the man and threatened them with a knife. It was his 20th arrest and booking.
In jail, he assaulted a guard and was twice sent to Western State Hospital for evaluation and was found to suffer from schizoaffective disorder and other mental illnesses.
“Both evaluations concluded that Mr. Meagher’s mental health symptoms impaired his ability to rationally understand court proceedings and assist his defense,” according to court documents.
Robart, in his order declining to dismiss the charges, noted that Meagher’s history included more than 300 outpatient contacts with mental health providers, numerous civil commitments, and repeated findings of mental incompetence at Western State Hospital.
After he was returned to the jail, he continued to be affected by his illnesses. Three days before the assault, a psychiatrist found he continued to hear voices and suffer delusions.
Even so, he was placed in general population with close security, according to the lawsuit.
The county did not dispute that Leae had a “long history of committing violent, unprovoked attacks” and that he had committed several in the months leading up to his attack on Meagher.
On Aug. 6, 2017, police had taken him to Harborview Medical Center for evaluation after an assault. While there, “Leae, without provocation, repeatedly punched a mental health
professional and caused the professional to blackout,” according to Robarts’ findings in the case.
After being booked into jail, he was placed in restrictive housing and eventually taken to the “Ultra Security” section of the jail. For the next month, he was isolated from other inmates, and in September was ordered by a judge to undergo evaluation at Western State Hospital, according to court pleadings.
However, that transfer did not happen until January 2018, and in the interim Leae was returned to general population, where in October he assaulted another incarcerated man without provocation, knocking him to the floor and kicking him repeatedly in the head. Leae was returned to “Ultra Security” again, according to court documents.
In January, Leae was taken to Western State Hospital where records show he was involved in six assaults on staff and other patients and became so violent that he was placed in five-point restraints. A February evaluation showed Leae to be psychotic and paranoid with unabated symptoms, and incapable of facing trial for the jail assault the previous October.
After a second judicial commitment to restore his competency, Western State Hospital officials determined Leae could understand the proceedings against him despite his “very psychotic behavior.” He was returned to the King County Jail in April, on medication and placed in general population. Documents provided to the jail by the hospital said his medication regime was crucial to prevent further assaults.
However, documents showed that Leae repeatedly refused to take his medication, and at one point tried to drown himself in a jail toilet. Even so, his security classification was lowered by corrections officials at least twice until he was placed in the cell with Meagher, who had returned from his own competency-restoration trip to Western State on July 2, 2018.
Once bunked together, Meagher repeatedly asked to be moved to another cell, saying he and Leae were not getting along. Another incarcerated man who gave a statement afterward said Meagher “was looking worried … like he felt like he knew something was going to happen.”
Meagher would later say he tried to get the officers’ attention but was told to “handle it himself.”
“The assault that caused these horrific injuries was not an unpreventable assault by an unpredictable inmate,” attorneys Felix Luna and Tomas Gahan wrote.
Jail officers “locked the mentally ill Mr. Meagher in the same cell as the homicidal Mr. Leae, walled in by cement, steel and glass, a decision that effectively granted Mr. Leae free reign over his vulnerable victim.
“Such conduct, by the very individuals tasked with ensuring Mr. Meagher’s safety within the jail and in light of the foreseeability and preventability of the attack, was far beyond negligence — it was an act of reckless disregard.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/king-county-pays-3-million-to-settle-lawsuit-filed-by-man-who-was-severely-beaten-in-jail/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-04-01T01:59:25Z |
A telecom tower unit of Singapore Telecommunications and pension fund
AustralianSuper will buy rival
Axicom, part-owned by investment bank giant Macquarie Group Ltd, for A$3.58 billion ($2.68 billion), the companies said on Friday.
Following the deal with
Australia Tower Network (ATN), co-owned by Singtel and AustralianSuper, Singtel's shareholding in the combined business will be 18%, with the remaining held by AustralianSuper.
"This acquisition is a unique opportunity to scale up ATN's operations and expand its customer base,"
Singtel Group Chief Corporate Officer, Lim Cheng Cheng said.
"It also reinforces Singtel's commitment as a long-term investor in the Australian telecoms space," Cheng added.
Shareholders of Axicom, which owns and operates about 2,000 telecommunication sites across Australia, are a consortium led by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets. The consortium also includes Unisuper and UBS.
"AustralianSuper is looking to double its infrastructure portfolio over the next five years from its current A$31 billion," AustralianSuper head of infrastructure Nik Kemp said.
"We believe that there will be significant growth in demand for digital infrastructure and will actively consider future opportunities in this space." | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/australiansuper-singtel-backed-unit-to-buy-macquaries-axicom-for-2-68-bln/90580978 | 2022-04-01T01:59:25Z |
A man is in the hospital after a shooting in Trotwood this evening.
The shooting was reported in the 4900 block of Biddison Avenue at 7:33 p.m., according to Montgomery County Regional Dispatch Center records.
Medics took a man who had been shot in the leg to Kettering Health Dayton, formerly Grandview Medical Center.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The state is accepting applications from healthcare workers to help pay off their student loans. The Health Professional Loan Repayment Program repays student debt for those practicing in rural and underserved communities. The program covers more than 25 licenses in dental, medical, and mental health fields.
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Program applications will be accepted until May 1, 2022, and can be completed online at hed.state.nm.us. Practitioners must be U.S. Citizens or permanent residents, established New Mexico residents for at least 12 consecutive months, licensed or certified in the State of New Mexico as of July 1, 2022, and employed at least 40 hours per week. Preference is given to graduates of New Mexico colleges and universities. | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/state-launches-health-professional-loan-repayment-program/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:25Z |
MIDLAND, Texas (Nexstar) – Bruce Willis and his family announced that the well-known actor has been diagnosed with aphasia and has stepped away from acting. But many people still don’t quite understand the disease. Now the actor’s diagnosis is bringing more awareness to this condition.
The Aphasia Center of West Texas said about 86% of people have no clue what happens when a person is diagnosed with aphasia. The program director of the center, Beth Crawford, said there are a lot of people in the United States that live with aphasia every day.
“There’s someone that acquires aphasia about once every four minutes, in the U.S. So, one in about 250 people in West Texas acquire aphasia, every year,” added Crawford.
Crawford said it’s a common disease that right now, at least 2.5 million people have it in the U.S. alone, and that 75% don’t return to work after their diagnosis.
“So, aphasia is a loss of language. It’s a communication disorder and it’s usually a result of a sudden brain injury or stroke,” said Crawford.
She said most people don’t know what aphasia is because the loss of the language makes it difficult for those who have it, to explain what they’re going through.
“Whenever someone acquires aphasia, they have difficulty expressing themselves using language, understanding words, using reading and writing, so it’s hard to have a spokesman, for a disorder that effects language,” emphasized Crawford.
Crawford stressed that having aphasia doesn’t mean someone has lost their memories or abilities to think, but that people need to understand the problem is expressing those thoughts and memories.
“Their memory, reasoning, problem solving, judgement, are all intact. It’s not what they know it’s how they reveal what they know, that is the problem,” said Crawford.
Crawford and the Aphasia Center understand the difficulties that those who are affected by aphasia go through, but also want to make things clear that no one is ever alone.
“We want you to know that you’re not alone, that other people are here to support you and there is hope, there’s growth, there’s improvement,” said Crawford
The Aphasia Center of West Texas also offers their deepest concerns and compassion to the Willis family as they are going through this time.
If you wish to learn more about the Aphasia Center of West Texas or aphasia itself, you can head to the center’s website. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/what-to-know-about-aphasia/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:25Z |
The press conference at the AdventHealth Training Center on Thursday was unlike any the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had held before. It was simultaneously a celebration of Bruce Arians' time as head coach and his transition into a new role and a traditional introduction of a new head coach in Todd Bowles.
And it even featured an unexpected bombshell.
Buccaneers Owner/Co-Chairman began the proceedings by, as he said, taking a "few moments to reflect on the impact that Bruce has had on our franchise." Three minutes into that reflection, after noting that his family, everybody in the organization and the Bay area community was "eternally grateful" for what Arians had done, Glazer demonstrated that gratitude with a grand announcement: Arians will be inducted into the Buccaneers' Ring of Honor at Raymond James Stadium this fall.
Arians will become the 14th member of the Ring of Honor when his name is added to the stadium façade during a game in the 2022 season. He will be the fourth coach on that list, joining former Head Coaches John McKay and Tony Dungy and long-time defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin.
"That was a little bit of a shock," said Arians, who had no idea the announcement was coming. "I had no intentions of getting emotional, but that got me. You do things in life and you get rewarded with something like that that never goes away, and it's huge. It's huge for our family and I'm looking forward to the day now."
Hall of Fame defensive end Lee Roy Selmon was the first person inducted into the Ring of Honor in a 2009 in-game ceremony, 25 years after he had played his final game. McKay was honored posthumously the following year, and subsequent Ring of Honor selections generally got their names on the stadium a number of years after their Buccaneer careers had ended. Arians' honor will be unique, as he not only goes into the Ring immediately after his last year on the sideline but will still be a senior football consultant on the Bucs' staff when it happens.
"Without a doubt he is somebody who deserves to go right up into the Ring of Honor for what he's done for this franchise, what he represents as a tone-setter, a leader in the National Football League, opening doors," said Glazer. "He is everything you would go, 'Check, check, check' for a person who goes in the Ring of Honor, and I personally think what deserves to be in the Hall of Fame."
Arians made the surprise announcement on Wednesday night that he was stepping aside from coaching to a consultant role and that Bowles would be taking over as head coach. That ended Arians' second stint as an NFL head coach, not counting his 12 games as the Indianapolis Colts' interim head coach in 2012. In both cases, he walked away with a sparkling record. After five seasons (2013-17) as the Arizona Cardinals' head coach, Arians briefly retired as the winningest coach in franchise history. Similarly, his .633 winning percentage in the regular season and .833 mark in the postseason are both far and away the highest for any head coach in Buccaneers history.
And, of course, Arians led the Buccaneers to victory in Super Bowl LV at the end of the 2020 season, his second at the helm, the team's first championship in 18 years. In 2021 the Bucs set a franchise record with 13 regular-season wins and captured the NFC South division title for the first time since 2007.
"There is no doubt it was Bruce's incredible leadership that led us to the top of the mountain," said Glazer. "Off the field, Bruce created a culture within our organization that had been sorely missing throughout the last several years. While Bruce's coaching resume and accomplishments speak for themselves, just as important is the legacy he leaves for providing opportunities for people of all ages, races, genders and backgrounds. So many people talk the talk, but Bruce puts his thoughts and beliefs into action. He's always led the way in opening doors that needed to be opened."
The date and details of Arians' Ring of Honor ceremony this season will be revealed at a later date, after the release of the NFL's 2021 schedule in May. In addition to Selmon, McKay, Dungy and Kiffin, Arians will be joining Ring of Honor members Jimmie Giles, Paul Gruber, Warren Sapp, Derrick Brooks, Mike Alstott, Doug Williams, John Lynch, Malcolm Glazer and Ronde Barber. | https://www.buccaneers.com/news/bucs-bruce-arians-to-be-inducted-ring-of-honor-2022 | 2022-04-01T01:59:25Z |
‘Works a dream and lasts ages’: Mrs Hinch fans use white vinegar to clean shower doors
CLEANING enthusiasts have shared how to use white vinegar to clean shower doors. One Mrs Hinch fan claimed the method "works a dream and lasts ages".
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Cleaning sensation Mrs Hinch, whose full name is Sophie Hinchliffe, garnered popularity after sharing her cleaning tips and recommendations on social media and TV. The cleaning enthusiast has managed to gain over 4.3 million followers on Instagram. Now, fans of hers have created their own social media groups dedicated to cleaning and tidying tips.
On one such group, Facebook user Ann Hardman said: “What is the best thing to clean the shower screens. Thank you.”
Ann’s post was inundated with suggestions from Mrs Hinch fans, but the most popular response was to use white vinegar.
Mrs Hinch fans suggested either using white vinegar neat or with washing up liquid.
Stephanie Chinnery said: “One cup of white vinegar, one cup of washing up liquid.
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“Works a dream and lasts ages!”
Sian Marie Williams agreed and said: “Equal amounts of washing up liquid and white vinegar.
“Scrub on neat, rinse with warm water and buff dry with a microfibre cloth.”
Kathryn Denman commented: “White vinegar and a glass cloth.”
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Kathryn added: “I clean people's houses for a living and always use this.”
Ally Farrier suggested: “A spray bottle with dish liquid and vinegar with a magic eraser.”
Amy Barnes wrote: “Just white vinegar.”
Kelsey Sadler simply said: “White vinegar.”
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Other suggestions from Mrs Hinch fans included using glass cleaner, Viakal and Method spray.
Jo Bristo said: “I use glass cleaner daily, keeps it sparkling clean and works great.”
Joan Ruffle replied: “Astonish shower spray cleans mirrors to work for me.”
Sandra Tippen wrote: “I shower every morning and I spray with Shower and Shine and once a week use Viakal to rinse off and dry with an old towel.”
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TULALIP — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into law a bill that creates a first-in-the-nation statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people, to help address a silent crisis that has plagued Indian Country in this state and nationwide.
The law sets up a system similar to Amber Alerts and so-called silver alerts, which are used respectively for missing children and vulnerable adults in many states. It was spearheaded by Democratic Rep. Debra Lekanoff, the only Native American lawmaker currently serving in the Washington state Legislature, and championed by Indigenous leaders statewide.
“I am proud to say that the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s and People’s Alert System came from the voices of our Native American leaders,” said Lekanoff, a member of the Tlingit tribe and the bill’s chief sponsor. “It’s not just an Indian issue, it’s not just an Indian responsibility. Our sisters, our aunties, our grandmothers are going missing every day … and it’s been going on for far too long.”
Tribal leaders, many of them women, wore traditional hats woven from cedar as they gathered around Inslee for the signing on the Tulalip Reservation, north of Seattle. Afterward they gifted him with a handmade traditional ribbon shirt and several multicolored woven blankets.
The law attempts to address a crisis of missing Indigenous people — particularly women — in Washington and across the United States. While it includes missing men, women and children, a summary of public testimony on the legislation notes that “the crisis began as a women’s issue, and it remains primarily a women’s issue.”
Besides notifying law enforcement when there’s a report of a missing Indigenous person, the new alert system will place messages on highway reader boards and on the radio and social media, and provide information to the news media.
The legislation was paired with another bill Inslee, a Democrat, signed Thursday that requires county coroners or medical examiners to take steps to identify and notify family members of murdered Indigenous people and return their remains. That new law also establishes two grant funds for Indigenous survivors of human trafficking.
This piece of the crisis is important because in many cases, murdered Indigenous women are mistakenly recorded as white or Hispanic by coroners’ offices, they’re never identified, or their remains are never repatriated.
A 2021 report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found the true number of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the U.S. is unknown due to reporting problems, distrust of law enforcement and jurisdictional conflicts. But Native American women face murder rates almost three times those of white women overall — and up to 10 times the national average in certain locations, according to a 2021 summary of the existing research by the National Congress of American Indians. More than 80% have experienced violence.
In Washington, more than four times as many Indigenous women go missing than white women, according to research conducted by the Urban Indian Health Institute in Seattle, but many such cases receive little or no media attention.
The bill signing began with a traditional welcome song passed down by Harriette Shelton Dover, a cherished cultural leader and storyteller. Dover recovered and shared many traditions and songs from tribes along Washington’s northern Pacific Coast and worked with linguists before her death in 1991 to preserve her language, Lushootseed, from extinction. Women performed an honor song after the event.
Tulalip Tribes of Washington Chairwoman Teri Gobin said Washington and Montana are the two states with the most missing Indigenous people in the U.S. Nearly four dozen Native people are currently missing in Seattle alone, she said.
“What’s the most important thing is bringing them home, whether they’ve been trafficked, whether they’ve been stolen or murdered,” she said. “It’s a wound that stays open, and it’s something that we pray with each person, we can bring them home.”
Investigations into missing Indigenous people, particularly women, have been plagued by many issues for decades.
When a person goes missing on a reservation, there are often jurisdictional conflicts between tribal police and local and state law enforcement. A lack of staff and police resources, and the rural nature of many reservations, compound those problems. And many times, families of tribal members distrust non-Native law enforcement or don’t know where to report news of a missing loved one.
An alert system will help mitigate some of those problems by allowing better communication and coordination between tribal and nontribal law enforcement and creating a way for law enforcement to flag such cases for other agencies. The law expands the definition of “missing endangered person” to include Indigenous people, as well as children and vulnerable adults with disabilities or memory or cognitive issues.
The law takes effect June 9 and some details are still being worked out. For example, it’s unclear what criteria law enforcement will use to positively identify a missing person as Native American and how the information will be disseminated in rural areas, including on some reservations, where highways lack electronic reader boards — or where there aren’t highways at all.
The measure is the latest step Washington has taken to address the issue. The Washington State Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Task Force is working to coordinate a statewide response and had its first meeting in December. Its first report is expected in August.
Many states from Arizona to Oregon to Wisconsin have taken recent action to address the crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women. Efforts include funding for better resources for tribal police to the creation of new databases specifically targeting missing tribal members. Tribal police agencies that use Amber Alerts for missing Indigenous children include the Hopi and Las Vegas Paiute.
In California, the Yurok Tribe and the Sovereign Bodies Institute, an Indigenous-run research and advocacy group, uncovered 18 cases of missing or slain Native American women in roughly the past year in their recent work — a number they consider a vast undercount. An estimated 62% of those cases are not listed in state or federal databases for missing people.
The law is already drawing attention from other states, whose attorneys general have called to ask how to enact similar legislation, said state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who called the law “truly groundbreaking.”
“Anytime you’re doing something for the first time in this country, that’s an extra heavy lift,” he said. “This most certainly will not be our last reform to make sure that we bring everybody back home. … There is so much more work that needs to be done and must be done.”
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Shina Biblow always knew she would have to have open heart surgery one day, she just never thought it would be when she was four months pregnant with her second child.
“He’s here and he’s healthy and growing. It’s a miracle,” said Biblow of the family’s latest addition, a healthy baby boy named Merritt, born Jan. 26.
Unlike her first textbook pregnancy a few years before with their son Morris, Shina developed health problems almost immediately that would require complex, high-risk heart surgery at St. Paul’s Hospital when she was just 15 weeks pregnant.
“There was a 40 per cent risk of losing the baby. It was very hard … (but if ) there’s no me, then there’s no baby so we had to do what we had to do.”
In a sense, Biblow’s story began 32 years ago. She was born with a narrowing of her aortic valve, the main blood vessel leaving the heart. She required surgery for this as an infant.
The condition meant that when she turned 18, she became part of the Pacific Adult Congenital Heart Clinic (PACH) at St. Paul’s Hospital, a multidisciplinary team that follows adults born with heart disease.
Feeling unwell from the pregnancy’s start
Apart from being unable to do certain intense sports, Biblow led a normal life, including an uneventful first pregnancy and birth of their oldest son, Morris.
This second pregnancy was different.
From the get-go, she felt unwell. “I was nauseous and tired, my heart was racing and I got what I call hot flashes,” she says. “I just assumed they were caused by a surge of pregnancy hormones.”
She received care at Cariboo Memorial Hospital’s emergency department.
“That’s when they discovered I was going into heart failure.”
Doctors sent an urgent referral to the highly specialized Cardiac Obstetrics Clinic (COB) at St. Paul’s Hospital. She received tests that revealed episodes of sudden extremely rapid heart rhythms.
Calf cramps followed – also a pregnancy symptom, she figured. When she developed itchy red spots on her body, she became alarmed.
“Things just kept getting worse,” Shina said.
Breathing was so hard she could not even care for her toddler. When she called a PACH Clinic nurse, she exploded into fits of coughing.
Dr. Marla Kiess, St. Paul’s cardiologist and COB founder, followed Biblow by Zoom to monitor the heart palpitations, shortness of breath and other symptoms.
A soaring heart rate
As they persisted, Dr. Kiess directed the local hospital to airlift her for more advanced care to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops on August 12. There, her heart rate soared to 190 beats/minute. A normal rate is 60 to 100.
Tests found growths on her aortic valve, suggesting a bacterial infection: serious in any patient, more so in a pregnant woman.
“The infection in the valve was totally unexpected and unpredictable,” recalls Dr. Kiess.
She and her team arranged for Biblow’s transfer to St. Paul’s, the only centre in British Columbia for complex cardiac-obstetrics cases like this.
Surgery poses big risk to fetus
Shortly after arriving on August 15, St. Paul’s cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Jamil Bashir told Biblow she’d need open-heart surgery to replace the infected aortic valve.
“It was scary,” says Biblow. “But it needed to be done if we wanted to keep the baby and save my life.”
Risks were high. “That point in gestation is a critical time in the baby’s evolution because many organs are developing,” says Dr. Kiess.
A complex case requires a large care team
In surgery, Biblow would be supported by a heart-lung bypass machine, which would reduce blood flow to the fetus and risk organ malformation. Alarmingly, it would bring a 40 per cent risk of the baby dying, says Dr. Kiess.
Because of the case’s complexity, her care team began a huge amount of planning to anticipate potential responses to problems in both mom and baby. It included nurses and doctors from cardiology, anesthesia, surgery, infectious diseases, the ICU, and obstetrics. Zoom proved invaluable.
Her husband Tyson, a millwright at Gibraltar Mine, rushed to Vancouver to be with his wife, narrowly getting over the Coquihalla pass before it was closed due to last summer’s wildfires.
Delicate balance around medication
On August 18, Dr. Bashir and his team successfully implanted a mechanical aortic valve to replace the severely infected one. The good news was, a mechanical valve (unlike a cadaver valve) would never have to be replaced. The bad news was, it increased Biblow’s risk of clotting. She would need blood thinners for the rest of her life.
Those drugs brought risks to the fetus, so Dr. Anna Rahmani and Dr. Tony Wan from the St. Paul’s Thrombosis clinic were also part of her care.
St. Paul’s teams then followed her post-surgery to monitor her with the new valve and pregnancy.
The birth approaches
As the delivery date approached, her team wanted her in Vancouver near the hospital several weeks before, to tend to her cardiac and obstetrical needs. Registered nurse Karen Sandhu, complex care coordinator for maternity, and Amy Graham, COB RN, oversaw the many logistics around that chapter, as did PACH/COB social worker Kassandra Maxwell.
“I coordinated with her St. Paul’s obstetrician, Dr. Nancy Matinko and the virtual visits Shina would have with her,” says Sandhu.
More planning ensued, especially around her anticoagulants. They had to stop in advance because of the risk of a severe bleed giving birth. Yet she couldn’t be off them for more than 24 hours because of clotting risks.
Amid it all, Merritt arrived on January 24 at 38 weeks’ gestation, weighing six pounds, four ounces. “With all the meds I was on, they were expecting a smaller baby,” Biblow says proudly. He is healthy and well.
The family is now home on their ranch, enjoying life at Miocene.
Shina has regular virtual visits with St. Paul’s teams, including COB and the Thrombosis Clinic.
She and her husband Tyson are grateful to St. Paul’s expansive team of doctors, nurses, social workers and many others who helped her and her baby survive risky cardiac surgery and see her through delivery and post-partum care.
“Even though everything happening was very scary and we didn’t know what the outcome was going to be, our faith and prayers from our family and friends, and the care from the team at St. Paul’s is what got us through the experience.”
With files from Providence Health Care
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Meet the Science Moms Working To Save The Planet For Future Generations
After Rosimar Rios-Berrios watched her family endure months without water and electricity when Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, where she grew up, in 2017, the atmospheric scientist became determined to further understand how climate change impacts extreme weather events. Then she became a mom, and her Ph.D research took on a new urgency, one that compelled her to speak out about the climate crisis.
"Climate change is real. It is happening now. We have no time to waste," says Dr. Rios-Berrios, who now works at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. "As a scientist, I feel the responsibility to share that information with the public and encourage action. But as a mom, I am worried about my child, my child's future, and the world that we are leaving behind for him and for other children."
Moms may just be one of our most potent weapons against the climate crisis. Dr. Rios-Berrios joined forces with several climate scientists and parents in Science Moms, a nonpartisan group launched by the Potential Energy Coalition in 2021. Science Moms works to help mothers concerned about the future of their children's planet understand the science behind climate change and how they can help.
"Moms have superpowers," says Erica Smithwick, Ph.D., a Science Moms member and Pennsylvania State University professor of geography and an associate director of the Institutes of Energy and Environment. "Moms don't shy away from the work that needs to be done because we're passionate about our children. I think tapping into that commitment will change the narrative around climate science and climate action."
Scientists aren't usually whom you expect to be activists. They tend to like data and research, not politics. Still, the climate experts behind Science Moms are quick to point out that climate change isn't political. As moms who have spent decades studying the Earth and what human activity is doing to it, they knew they had to find a way to act on that information.
"I'm a scientist and I will share evidence-based solutions about what I'm doing but I'm also a mom and I'm going to share how I interpret that science in my daily life," says Dr. Smithwick.
Through their website and social media presence, Science Moms, which today is made up of 11 scientists, shares quick, easy-to-digest facts about everything from how climate change is affecting America's National Parks to information on President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill. There are resources to dive in more with suggestions of books for parents to read themselves, ones to read to their kids, and actions to take.
"One of the things I love about the Science Moms program is that the website and outreach make it easy for moms to get involved. It takes this complicated topic and breaks it into bite-size pieces," says Science Mom's Tracey Holloway, Ph.D., a professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and mom to two.
For parents who want to get involved in climate crisis action, Science Moms stresses the importance of talking about climate change with friends, colleagues, other parents, and elected officials.
"Because climate has become so partisan and divisive in our society, it's hard to move forward with practical solutions," says Dr. Holloway. "And so, I think this focus on nonpartisan communication is really a path toward solving the problem versus just fighting about it."
It can be a tricky subject to broach, and the organization recognizes that by providing a whole kit on how to talk about climate change with kids of all ages that includes an easy explanation of the science behind the climate crisis. The scientists also stress the importance of organic conversations that meet people where they are and talk naturally about why they do certain things, especially with their kids and others.
"My kids don't have to have a job in climate. But I want them to be good humans on the Earth, and I want them to pay attention to some of the choices that they're making," says Dr. Smithwick. "I'm a vegetarian, and I'm going to raise my whole family vegetarian, and we are going to buy the eco-friendly car. We're making life decisions around it and try to infuse it into every day."
At the same time, the Science Moms team knows that tackling climate change requires system-level movement, which is why communication is so important.
"We should be talking about it with our kids," says Dr. Rios-Berrios. "Explaining when we do things like turning off the lights, why we do that, and encouraging them to spend time outdoors—all those things are excellent starting points. The reality is that climate change is not a 'me problem.' It's an 'us problem.' That's why I'm trying to emphasize the need to talk about it."
While the problems we're facing are immense, the Science Moms are hopeful.
"It's something people lose sight of, but we have been able to accomplish things like that in the past," says Dr. Holloway, citing the hole in the ozone layer as one of those challenges. After scientists discovered the ozone layer hole, all 198 member countries of the United Nations adopted The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which has since phased out the production of 99 percent of the chemicals that harm the ozone layer. "We have faced similar challenges, and we've been able to overcome them."
What Your Family Can Do To Curb Climate Change
Want to know what your family can do to help counter climate change? Here are four ways parents and kids can take action.
Kindle an appreciation for nature. Use books, videos, art, and get outdoors with your kids—even if it's just a short walk around the block looking for different trees or birds—to foster a love of nature in your kids.
Talk to your kids about climate change. You can use the Science Moms' kit to get you started. Remember it's not a one-time conversation but rather an ongoing one that can happen organically as you do everyday things, such as why you turn off the lights or eat less meat, and bigger things like why you bought the eco-friendly car.
Share your actions and knowledge. To protect the planet for our kids, Science Moms says we need systemic change and that means sharing our knowledge of climate change and the actions we're taking with our communities.
Send a letter. Along with sharing what we know, Science Moms encourages parents to write to their elected officials. You'll find a sample letter and the information you need to send a message to your government representatives on their website. | https://www.parents.com/parentsirl/meet-the-science-moms-working-to-save-the-planet-for-future-generations/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:27Z |
Iowa taxpayers are reaping the rewards of a more than 55% increase in participation in Iowa Auditor of State Rob Sand’s Public Innovations and Efficiencies (PIE) program in just its second year. The increase includes entries from 84 counties, 310 cities, and first-time submissions from 121 school districts.
“I’m thrilled government entities in every Iowa county used this opportunity to save taxpayers money,” Sand said. “Ultimately, the PIE program has the potential to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in savings for communities across our state.”
The government entities participating in the 2021 PIE program in Jones County were: Monticello, Martelle and the Jones County Recorder’s office.
Sand created the PIE program in 2019 to spark innovative ideas to cut waste and save tax dollars. The PIE program also provides local leaders with tools to collaborate and share their cost-cutting concepts, known as PIE recipes, via the Auditor of State website. The submissions range from installing solar panels to shutting down computers when not in use.
The PIE program has proven so successful, it is being replicated by Mississippi Auditor of State, Shad White, who said his office was “inspired” by Auditor Sand’s PIE program.
“The across-the-aisle friendship shows what elected officials should put first: public service, not party,” Sand said. “I’m humbled to share what we started in Iowa but also excited to in turn copy innovations uncovered in Mississippi.”
Auditor Sand will announce the winners of the 2021 PIE awards at a later date and recognize their money-saving achievements by hand-delivering a pie to community leaders. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/news/sand-congratulates-public-innovations-and-efficiencies-participants/article_a7462e3d-0a0a-5fac-a6a7-79f4308c14d3.html | 2022-04-01T01:59:28Z |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gay rights advocates sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday to block a new law that forbids classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
The law has catapulted Florida and DeSantis, a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, to the forefront of the country’s culture wars. Critics call it the “ Don’t Say Gay ” law and argue that its true intent is to marginalize LGBTQ people and their families.
The challenge filed in federal court in Tallahassee on behalf of Equality Florida and Family Equality alleges that the lawviolates the constitutionally protected rights of free speech, equal protection and due process of students and families.
“This effort to control young minds through state censorship — and to demean LGBTQ lives by denying their reality — is a grave abuse of power,” the lawsuit says.
“The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that LGBTQ people and their families are at home in our constitutional order. The State of Florida has no right to declare them outcasts, or to treat their allies as outlaws, by punishing schools where someone dares to affirm their identity and dignity,” the lawsuit says.
The law deliberately employs broad terms and invites arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement, empowering parents to be roving censors who can sue school boards for damages based on any perceived violation, the lawsuit adds.
The law states: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” Parents would be able to sue districts over violations.
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona met with LGBTQ students and their family members at a school in Orlando on Thursday, discussing privately how the legislation is affecting their lives. Cardona’s visit was one of several Biden administration events Thursday showing support for the queer community, including a presidential proclamation recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility.
“We know while many transgender students experience valuable support at school, many others face significant challenges because of hostility directed at them by others,” Cardona said. “This includes a growing number of state laws that bully and intimidate LGBTQI+ students and their families.”
DeSantis and other Republicans have repeatedly described the rules as reasonable, saying children should learn about sexual orientation and gender identity from their parents, not in schools.
“We will make sure that parents can send their kids to school to get an education, not an indoctrination,” the governor said when he signed it into law this week.
Many critics have said the law’s language, particularly the phrases “classroom instruction” and “age appropriate,” could be interpreted so broadly that discussion in any grade could trigger lawsuits, creating a classroom atmosphere where teachers would avoid the subjects entirely.
Intense public backlash followed the bill’s introduction in Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature this year, with the White House, Hollywood celebrities, students, Democrats and LGBTQ advocates condemning the policy. Legal challenges have been expected.
The filing by Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP and the National Center for Lesbian Rights seeks to block the law from taking effect and also names Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran and other education officials as defendants.
“Already, our children have told us that they are afraid that they will not be able to talk about their family at school,” Dan and Brent VanTice, parents of two first-grade students, said in the statement announcing the suit. “We are heartbroken that our children are already feeling isolated and stigmatized by this law.”
Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association union, said the law is politically motivated because elementary schools, especially in kindergarten through third grade, do not teach about these subjects and have state curriculum standards guiding classroom lessons.
The law adds fuel to a persistent feud between DeSantis and Democratic President Joe Biden, who tweeted after DeSantis signed the bill this week that “My Administration will continue to fight for dignity and opportunity for every student and family — in Florida and around the country.” Cardona has said his agency will be monitoring for any federal civil rights violations that result. | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/lgbtq-group-sues-florida-over-so-called-dont-say-gay-law/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:27Z |
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Former MI6 spy warns Ukraine conflict could end with Putin’s assassination – ‘No way back’
A FORMER MI6 OFFICER has claimed that the conflict in Ukraine could end with Putin's assassination.
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Former secret intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who ran the Russia desk at MI6 in London from 2006 to 2009, believes the war will only end when a deal is made that excludes Vladimir Putin and sees him ousted from leadership.Mr Steele told Sky News’ Beth Rigby there is no way back for Putin and this will cause issues for the diplomatic discussions and negotiations trying to secure a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
Mr Steele noted that the peace deal with Putin will be “one of the big problems that the West is going to face going forward”.
He added: “I don’t see how we can trust Putin in any sort of peace deal that comes now, and I don’t see how we can deal with him in terms of normal business going forward.
“Afterall, the President of America has called him a war criminal.”
Ms Rigby pressed the former spy to explain how he thought the conflict would come to an end if peaceful negotiations are scuppered by Putin going too far down the rabbit hole.
Mr Steele replied: “I think it does end in a deal of some sort, but I think that that deal is some way off and I think it probably doesn’t include Vladimir Putin.
“I think he may well be pushed aside out of the top leadership, or even possibly assassinated by his own people.”
Former Director at the US National Security Council, Fiona Hill previously stated that Putin is now fearing for his life and is “paranoid” about an assassination attempt.
She said: “Any kind of loose talk about somebody taking him out, regime change… He’s extremely paranoid about this.”
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As concerns of rising opposition in Russia have reached the Kremlin, police in Russia have clamped down on protestors and the media machine has continued to churn out Russian propaganda.
Putin himself also made a direct attempt to keep people on side, possibly after fearing a coup is on the way to see him removed as President.
The Russian President said: “The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like an insect in their mouth onto the pavement.”
Nikoli Petrov, a Senior Research fellow on Russia and Eurasia at Chatham House stated that “the possibility [of assassination] is increasing” and believes this could come from a family member with trusted access to the Russian.
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Mr Steele stated “we’ve gone over a watershed” now that Putin cannot come back from, adding “I can’t believe he can be rehabilitated in the international community and that’s a big problem for us going forward.”
Ms Rigby added: “It also means he has no incentive to stop fighting.”
The former agent agreed before adding: “Unless of course, they start losing on the ground.
“One of the remarkable things about this situation now is that it does look as if the Russian army, at least in some areas, is being defeated.” | https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1589552/Ukraine-Putin-assassination-beth-rigby-christopher-steele-MI6-ont | 2022-04-01T01:59:29Z |
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“This is just the beginning and we will continue to fight,” said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is organizing the union drive in Bessemer, at a Thursday press conference. “Regardless of the final outcome, workers have shown what is possible. They have helped ignite a movement.”
Appelbaum said RWDSU will be filing objections to how Amazon handled the election but declined to be specific. He also took the opportunity to lash out at current labor laws, which he believes are rigged against unions and favor corporations.
“It should not be so difficult to organize a union in the United States," he said.
If a majority of Amazon workers votes yes in either Bessemer or Staten Island, it would mark the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company's history. Organizers have faced an uphill battle against the nation’s second-largest private employer, which is making every effort to keep unions out.
In New York, the ALU has led the charge to form a union along with Chris Smalls, a fired Amazon employee who now heads the fledging group. Turnout for the in-person election was unclear but Smalls was hopeful of victory.
“To be leading in Day One and be up a couple hundred against a trillion dollar company, this is the best feeling in the world,” Smalls said after the conclusion of Thursday’s counting.
While Smalls’ attention has been focused on securing victory in New York, similar efforts in Alabama also weighed heavily.
“I’m not too sure what’s going in Alabama right now, but I know that the sky’s the limit if you can organize any warehouse,” he said, noting that the vote in Alabama could well end up differently. “I hope that they’re successful. I don’t know what’s going on yet, but we know we show our support and solidarity with them.”
The warehouse in Staten Island employs more than 8,300 workers, who pack and ship supplies to customers based mostly in the Northeast. A labor win there was considered difficult, but organizers believe their grassroots approach is more relatable to workers and could help them overcome where established unions have failed in the past.
John Logan, director of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University, said the early vote counts in New York has been “shocking.” ALU has no backing from an established union and is powered by former and current warehouse workers. The group had also filed for a union election after getting support from about 30% of the facility's workforce, a much lower percentage than what unions usually seek.
“I don’t think that many people thought that the Amazon Labor Union had much of a chance of winning at all,” Logan said. “And I think we’re likely to see more of those (approaches) going forward.”
Though RWDSU is currently lagging behind with challenged ballots outstanding, Logan said that election was also remarkable because the union has made a good effort narrowing its margin from last year’s election.
After a crushing defeat last year, when a majority of workers voted against forming a union, RWDSU is hoping for a different outcome in the Bessemer election, in which mail-in ballots were sent to 6,100 workers in early February. Federal labor officials scrapped the results of the first election there and ordered a re-do after ruling Amazon tainted the election process.
The RWDSU said election there had a turnout rate of about 39% this year, much smaller than last year. Appelbaum blamed the low numbers on high turnover — he believes thousands of people who worked for Amazon in January and were on the official list to be eligible to vote either quit or were fired. He also believes that an in-person election, which the RWDSU had asked for, would have made a difference
Amazon has pushed back hard in both elections. The retail giant held mandatory meetings, where workers were told unions are a bad idea. The company also launched an anti-union website targeting workers and placed English and Spanish posters across the Staten Island facility urging them to reject the union. In Bessemer, Amazon has made some changes to but still kept a controversial U.S. Postal Service mailbox that was key in the NLRB's decision to invalidate last year's vote.
Both labor fights faced unique challenges. Alabama, for instance, is a right-to-work state that prohibits a company and a union from signing a contract that requires workers to pay dues to the union that represents them.
The mostly Black workforce at the Amazon facility, which opened in 2020, mirrors the Bessemer population of more than 70% Black residents, according to the latest U.S. Census data.
Pro-union workers say they want better working conditions, longer breaks and higher wages. Regular full-time employees at the Bessemer facility earn at least $15.80 an hour, higher than the estimated $14.55 per hour on average in the city. That figure is based on an analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual median household income for Bessemer of $30,284, which could include more than one worker.
The ALU said they don’t have a demographic breakdown of the warehouse workers on Staten Island and Amazon declined to provide the information to The Associated Press, citing the union vote. Internal records leaked to The New York Times from 2019 showed more than 60% of the hourly associates at the facility were Black or Latino, while most of managers were white or Asian.
Amazon workers there are seeking longer breaks, paid time off for injured employees and an hourly wage of $30, up from a minimum of just over $18 per hour offered by the company. The estimated average wage for the borough is $41 per hour, according to a similar U.S. Census Bureau analysis of Staten Island’s $85,381 median household income.
A spokesperson for Amazon said the company invests in wages and benefits, such as health care, 401(k) plans and a prepaid college tuition program to help grow workers’ careers.
“As a company, we don’t think unions are the best answer for our employees,” the spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “Our focus remains on working directly with our team to continue making Amazon a great place to work.”
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Associated Press staff writers Tali Arbel and Bobby Caina Calvan in New York contributed to this report.
Caption Signs are posted outside the the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island borough of New York at a bus stop on March 16, 2022. An independent group formed by former and current Amazon workers are trying to unionize a company warehouse in New York City. If successful, the effort at the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island could lead to the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. (AP Photo/Haleluya Hadero)
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Caption Signs are posted outside the the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island borough of New York at a bus stop on March 16, 2022. An independent group formed by former and current Amazon workers are trying to unionize a company warehouse in New York City. If successful, the effort at the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island could lead to the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. (AP Photo/Haleluya Hadero)
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Credit: Haleluya Hadero
Caption Elijah Ramos stands outside the the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island borough of New York at a bus stop on March 16, 2022. An independent group formed by former and current Amazon workers are trying to unionize a company warehouse in New York City. If successful, the effort at the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island could lead to the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. (AP Photo/Haleluya Hadero)
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Caption Elijah Ramos stands outside the the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island borough of New York at a bus stop on March 16, 2022. An independent group formed by former and current Amazon workers are trying to unionize a company warehouse in New York City. If successful, the effort at the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island could lead to the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. (AP Photo/Haleluya Hadero)
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Credit: Haleluya Hadero
Caption Michelle Valentin Nieves stand outside the the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island borough of New York at a bus stop on March 16, 2022. An independent group formed by former and current Amazon workers are trying to unionize a company warehouse in New York City. If successful, the effort at the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island could lead to the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. (AP Photo/Haleluya Hadero)
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Caption Michelle Valentin Nieves stand outside the the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island borough of New York at a bus stop on March 16, 2022. An independent group formed by former and current Amazon workers are trying to unionize a company warehouse in New York City. If successful, the effort at the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island could lead to the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. (AP Photo/Haleluya Hadero)
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Caption Signs are posted outside the the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island borough of New York at a bus stop on March 16, 2022. An independent group formed by former and current Amazon workers are trying to unionize a company warehouse in New York City. If successful, the effort at the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island could lead to the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. (AP Photo/Haleluya Hadero)
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Caption Signs are posted outside the the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island borough of New York at a bus stop on March 16, 2022. An independent group formed by former and current Amazon workers are trying to unionize a company warehouse in New York City. If successful, the effort at the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island could lead to the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. (AP Photo/Haleluya Hadero)
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Caption Amazon worker Dale Wyatt talks about a drive to unionize the company's fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., during an interview in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Workers are voting for a second time on a labor push at the warehouse after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced an initial vote in 2021. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Caption Amazon worker Dale Wyatt talks about a drive to unionize the company's fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., during an interview in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Workers are voting for a second time on a labor push at the warehouse after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced an initial vote in 2021. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Caption Signs supporting the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union are shown near an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Workers are voting for a second time on a labor push at the warehouse after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced an initial vote in 2021. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Caption Signs supporting the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union are shown near an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Workers are voting for a second time on a labor push at the warehouse after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced an initial vote in 2021. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Caption Suspended Amazon employee Reyn McGuire talks about her support for a drive to unionize the company's fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., during an interview in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Workers are voting for a second time on a labor push at the warehouse after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced an initial vote in 2021. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Caption Suspended Amazon employee Reyn McGuire talks about her support for a drive to unionize the company's fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., during an interview in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Workers are voting for a second time on a labor push at the warehouse after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced an initial vote in 2021. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Credit: Jay Reeves
Caption Suspended Amazon employee Reyn McGuire, right, talks with an unidentified union organizer in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Workers are voting for a second time on a labor push at the company's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced an initial vote in 2021. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Caption Suspended Amazon employee Reyn McGuire, right, talks with an unidentified union organizer in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Workers are voting for a second time on a labor push at the company's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced an initial vote in 2021. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Caption Angelika Maldonado, right, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) chairwoman of workers committee at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, and Brett Daniels, director of organizing for ALU workers committee, watch a zoom-cast of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., Thursday March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Caption Angelika Maldonado, right, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) chairwoman of workers committee at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, and Brett Daniels, director of organizing for ALU workers committee, watch a zoom-cast of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., Thursday March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Caption Amazon Labor Union (ALU) lead organizer Mat Cusick, second from right standing, watches a zoom-cast of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Caption Amazon Labor Union (ALU) lead organizer Mat Cusick, second from right standing, watches a zoom-cast of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Caption Amazon Labor Union (ALU) volunteers Tim Hunter, right, and Drisana Hughes, left, watch a zoom-cast of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Caption Amazon Labor Union (ALU) volunteers Tim Hunter, right, and Drisana Hughes, left, watch a zoom-cast of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Caption Angelika Maldonado, right, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) chairwoman of workers committee at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, and Brett Daniels, director of organizing for ALU workers committee, react while watching a zoom-cast of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., , Thursday March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Caption Angelika Maldonado, right, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) chairwoman of workers committee at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, and Brett Daniels, director of organizing for ALU workers committee, react while watching a zoom-cast of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., , Thursday March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Caption Angelika Maldonado, right, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) chairwoman of workers committee at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, Brett Daniels, center, director of organizing for ALU workers committee, and Connor Spence, left, ALU Vice President for membership, check their phones during a watch party of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., Thursday March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Caption Angelika Maldonado, right, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) chairwoman of workers committee at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, Brett Daniels, center, director of organizing for ALU workers committee, and Connor Spence, left, ALU Vice President for membership, check their phones during a watch party of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., Thursday March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Roermond, the Netherlands - Newsfile Corp. - March 31, 2022 - Reflex Finance, a hyper-deflationary token running on the Binance Smart Chain, has recently announced new details about its upcoming Launchpad. Also, the project's representatives have disclosed the KYC process for other projects looking to launch through the platform. Lastly, they mentioned the imminent migration from the protocol's first version (V1) to version 2 (V2).
The Reflex Finance team has been working on the Reflex Launchpad since the beginning of February 2022. Now, the developers announced they are offering buybacks of all tokens that launch through this feature. The platform will return the tokens to the launching token at a price available from the 1st to the 48th hour that passes after launch.
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Those using the Launchpad can take a picture at any time during this interval. Next, they must send it to the team via their Telegram channel and comply with the Launchpad rules. Furthermore, once the admins confirm the price, Reflex offers an additional discount of up to 15% off the buyback price. "Our goal at Reflex is to become the safest and most project friendly Launchpad in the crypto space," says CEO Ryan Arriaga.
If you ask Chairman Myles Tweedy about his vision, "Our focus is to differentiate ourselves from traditional launch pads and bring a more human-centric feel to our services and act as a "full" launchpad in every sense of the word. Meaning, our additional services will also help serve and guide the entrepreneur to have the most successful launch possible." Additionally, Reflex will post subscription offers consistently through the Launchpad to help new tokens grow. For instance, users may apply for Discord-building services at discounted rates. This service is also available on-demand to create an account within 24-48 hours without extra costs.
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Reflex Finance will migrate from V1 to V2 in early April and create a bridge between several networks and blockchains. For instance, this feature will link prestigious chains, such as Ethereum, Polygon, and Avalanche. Furthermore, it will maintain a 1:1 ratio for all the $REFLEX tokens users hold in their wallets. Lastly, the new platform will support farming and a custom DEX showing real-time pricing via charts.
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Reflex Finance launched in February 2022 as a hyper-deflationary reflection token on the BNB Chain (Binance Smart Chain). It runs on a liquidity-generating protocol with additional staking opportunities. Furthermore, it offers staking and farming opportunities, a Ticker, and the Legion Launchpad for token releases. Lastly, the protocol provides accelerated buyback and burn for $REFLEX tokens to decrease its supply while boosting its long-term value.
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Published 6:06 pm Thursday, March 31, 2022
Charles Henderson Middle School students that missed out on a cultural opportunity finally had a chance to visit the International Arts Center on the Troy University campus.
IAC Director and Curator Carrie Jaxon said the Junior Warriors program was founded to get young students on campus to experience a positive experience in a collegiate setting, introduce them to art outside on an educational experience and to provide them with a cultural experience.
“Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we weren’t able to have the Junior Warriors program in 2020 or 2021,” Jaxon said. “So, we had students from two classes that weren’t able to have the same experience as other students. We didn’t think that was fair to those students. The Alabama State Council on the Arts was able to provide us with a grant to bring the students that missed the opportunity to campus.”
The IAC recently hosted about 120 seventh grade students from Charles Henderson Middle School for the current year’s Junior Warriors program. In the fall, the IAC brought about 240 the fifth and sixth graders to campus that missed the experience because of the pandemic.
The IAC collaborated with the Center for International Languages and Cultures to provide students with both an artistic and cultural experience. While at the IAC, the students were able to attend a variety of workshops and activities. At the CILC, students had an opportunity to tour the center and learn a Dragon Dance and take part in Chinese paper cutting.
“One of the other highlights for the students is having lunch at the Trojan dining hall,” Jaxon said. “The students are able to interact with college students and that helps give them a really positive experience when on campus.” | https://www.troymessenger.com/2022/03/31/junior-warriors-tour-iac/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:31Z |
Deschutes County Commissioner Patti Adair and two other Republican candidates in the May primary attended an event at a Bend church over the weekend where the keynote speaker — a nationally known pastor who supports the discredited QAnon conspiracy theory — prayed over them on stage.
A video circulating online from the website Right Wing Watch shows Adair, gubernatorial candidate Marc Thielman and Darin Harbick, who is running for the U.S. Senate, being prayed for at an event called “Restore: Government and Economy” at Eagle Mountain, an Apostolic Resource Center in Bend.
In addition to aligning with QAnon — a conspiracy theory that falsely claims the world is run by Satan-worshiping pedophiles — the Tennessee-based pastor, Johnny Enlow, believes in Seven Mountains Dominionism. This philosophy calls for Christians to take over the seven “culture-shaping” areas of influence in society, such as media, government, family, arts and entertainment. The idea is to “reclaim our culture for Christ,” according to a summary of his book, "The Seven Mountain Prophecy."
Enlow is also known as one of the self-proclaimed Christian prophets who has spread election misinformation, claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Enlow believes former President Donald Trump was put into his position by God and as of April of last year still believed Trump was president because of a vision he had of him holding a golden scepter, according to reporting from Newsweek magazine.
At the end of the prayer this past weekend, Pastor Bobby Haaby, a senior leader at Eagle Mountain, says to the candidates, "Go take this state for Jesus.”
When asked about the event, Adair said she was invited by Haaby to attend a service to be prayed over. She said she had no idea who Enlow was, or his beliefs in QAnon and Seven Mountains Dominionism.
“Since when is it a crime to be prayed over?” Adair said.
Adair said she didn’t want to speak more about the event, other than to say, “I’m doing the best I can. We do live in America.”
Adair did not address what her own opinions are about QAnon or Seven Mountains Dominionism in the interview.
Deschutes County Republicans did not respond to a request for comment.
Jason Burge, the chair of Deschutes County Democrats, in a text message said the video is a part of a larger pattern of Adair “immersing” herself with conspiracy theories and extremist views. Burge said Adair, while serving as the chair of the Deschutes County Republican Party, hosted a former FBI agent considered to be an anti-Muslim extremist, and did not denounce misinformation related to the 2020 presidential election as examples.
“When someone lives in a misinformation bubble, it's hard to imagine how that person can make sound policy decisions,” Burge said in a text.
Morgan Schmidt, a Bend pastor and Democrat challenging Adair in the fall for her commission seat, said she couldn’t overstate the danger in having someone in power who aligns with conspiracy theories rooted in extremism.
“For me, a public official has no business attending, let alone being commissioned by religious extremists who are not subtle about their intent to undermine our democracy and forward this sort of conspiracy-fueled, Christian nationalist agenda,” Schmidt said. | https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/adair-attended-service-where-qanon-supporter-prayed-for-her-election-success/article_d3178e52-b149-11ec-abee-a790d2f4a179.html | 2022-04-01T01:59:31Z |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – On Wednesday night New Mexico United lost two points by giving up a goal in the 91st minute for a 2-2 final against Oakland. It was the second time in less than a week that United ended the game with a draw after surrendering a goal during stoppage time.
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“It can’t become a thing, and it wont become a thing,” said head coach Zach Prince. “What we’ll do is we’ll address it and put the players in these situations in training and replicate these situations in training.”
Following Wednesday night’s match, United is now 2-0-2 on the season. The club has yet to lose a game, but failing to close out a second straight has left the team feeling like the record is much worse than it is.
“Right now it feels like the last two games, because our standards are very high for ourselves, that we’ve lost two matches,” Prince said. “The reality is that we’re unbeaten. So, there’s a lot of positives to take out of these first four games, but at the same time, if we’re not looking at what we can be better at, we’re kidding ourselves.”
Up next for United is a match in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open cup. The Las Vegas Legends will come to Albuquerque at the UNM soccer complex on Tuesday night. | https://www.krqe.com/sports/local-sports/united-feeling-down-despite-unbeaten-record/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:31Z |
ODESSA, Texas (Nexstar) – The foundation of the Odessa Jackalopes’ success this season has come from Alex…or William…Proctor.
“That’s what I’ve got him in my phone as… Alex William Proctor,” said Jackalopes head coach Scott Deur.
“Just whatever our PA [public address] guy has got for me,” said Proctor.
Whatever you call him… the native Texan loves playing in Odessa.
“I couldn’t ask for a better place to play hockey,” said Proctor.
“I grew up watching the Jacks play in the CHL [Canadian Hockey League] so it’s a dream come true. This is where I want to be, this is where I always wanted to be.”
And Proctor has been stellar this season between the pipes currently sitting second in Jackalopes history for wins in a season and he’s been integral in the team’s playoff push.
“It starts with him. He’s the one making the big saves for us and he’s the one that’s keeping us in every game,” said Deur.
The only man ahead of him on the wins list? That is none other than Vezina trophy winning goalie Connor Hellebuyck who got his number retired by the Jackalopes on March 26th and is a player Proctor has tried to emulate.
“I think I thought about it more at the beginning of the season, like it wasn’t that long ago that he was right here, on this very ice, playing the same position I play,” said Proctor.
And while Hellebuyck’s influence can be seen all over the Jack Shack on a game night, there’s no shortage of support for Proctor.
“It feels like the big leagues. You see people wearing the shirseys and it just makes me feel right at home.”
And while the young goaltender is still enjoying his time in the Permian Basin, he’s got plenty more of exciting stops ahead of him.
“He’s going to go as far as he wants to go,” said Deur.
But as for leaving his own legacy, Proctor doesn’t want to see Hellebuyck’s number 37 getting lonely.
When asked if his own jersey will be up next, Proctor responded “That’s the hope.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/sports/local-sports/proctor-leaving-his-mark-in-odessa/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:31Z |
By Archana Dahiwal
If you are planning to pack your bags for vacation and hoping to book an affordable stay at the Maharashtra State Tourism Development Corporation-run (MTDC) resorts, think twice.
A Right to Information (RTI) enquiry has revealed that around 15 hotels under MTDC, including those at popular tourist destinations such as Ajanta, Ellora, Panchgani and Panhala have been shut for years.
MTDC was set up with the objective to provide affordable stays to travellers. The state tourism department has been enthusiastically promoting its properties, however, the situation on ground seems to be altogether different. Vivek Velankar, president, Sajag Nagarik Manch had filed an RTI seeking details about the resorts and hotels under MTDC.
Speaking to Mirror, Velankar said, “One of my friends was trying to book a stay at the MTDC resort in Panchgani but could not since it was shut. I was shocked as it is one of the most popular tourist destinations and people visit the area in all seasons. I filed an application under RTI in November 2021 and received a reply four months later.”
In his application, Velankar asked for details such as how many of these places have been built by MTDC and the amount that has been spent on them.
Also, he sought details such as places that have been allowed to be run by the MTDC and the number of hotels that have been closed, since when, and how much was spent on the maintenance and repairs.
Velankar then forwarded the application to the divisional offices at Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Amravati, Nagpur, Ratnagiri and Mumbai. He claimed the Mumbai and Ratnagiri offices did not provide any information, while the other offices provided partial information.
The RTI reply states that accommodations at 15 places in four divisions have been closed for years. These include those at Ajanta, Verul, Aundha Nagnath in Aurangabad division, Khindsi in Nagpur division, Riddhapur, Chikhaldara, Balapur and Sindkhedraja in Amravati division, Panchgani, Shikhar Shingnapur, Akkalkot, Sinhagad, Panhala and Naigaon in Pune division, and Toranmal in Nashik division.
Velankar further said, “I am going to file an appeal for the Mumbai and Ratnagiri divisions to get the update of these MTDC resorts soon.”
The RTI information further revealed that Five Hills Panchgani in Satara district has been shut since 2014 and Shikhar Shingnapur’s MTDC has been shut since 2015. The one at Toranmal was also shut in 2006 while the resort at Aundha Nagnath has been shut since March 2017.
The popular resort at Ajanta shut operations in November 2017.
No repair or maintenance work was carried out in the last five years in these properties. In the Amravati division, four centres, including Yatri Nivas of Riddhapur have been shut since December 2018, Green Valley Resort of Chikhaldara has been closed since March 2017, Balapur Akola’s MTDC centre is shut since June 2016 and Sindkhed Raja in Buldhana district was closed from November 2011.
The RTI also revealed that in the Nagpur division, Paryatak Nivas Khindsi was shut from December 2020 and no funds have been spent on this resort in the last five years.
Mirror tried to reach the MTDC Mumbai centre several times, but no one was available for comment. Later, the attendant informed that the senior official was on leave. | https://punemirror.com/pune/civic/Active-online-but-nothing-on-ground/cid7038098.htm | 2022-04-01T01:59:31Z |
Todd Bowles, who has unexpectedly graduated from defensive coordinator to head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this week, is obviously amid a period of great adjustment. In fact, he found himself adjusting on the fly during his introductory press conference on Thursday as he tried to find his spot on the 'cool-chill' spectrum.
Bowles, of course, is moving into the head seat because Bruce Arians is stepping aside and transitioning into a consultant role. Arians finishes a three-year stint at the Buccaneers' helm that started with him making it clear he was going to be the coolest guy that most of the people in the building had ever worked for. Bowles doesn't think he can quite match that description.
"I may not be 'the coolest guy you'll ever meet,' but I'm pretty damn chill myself," he said with a laugh. "I'll take that. Bruce will always be the coolest but I'll roll with the chill category and I'll try to start something there."
The problem, though, was that Bowles was eventually prompted to talk about Tom Brady, who happened to be in the first row, and that brought him to the realization that he might not get to claim the top spot in the chill category either.
"He's probably a little more chill than I am, so I've got to find a new thing other than that, too, because Tom is chill," riffed Bowles, clearly enjoying showing off the sense of humor some don't realize he has. "I've got to find my niche in this whole thing."
That was all a bit of entertainment on Thursday afternoon, but Bowles really does have to carve out his own niche as he replaces the man that has been a mentor for him for most of his life. Bowles played for Arians at Temple back in the '80s and they both worked on the same coaching staff together for the first time in 2001 with the Cleveland Browns. It was Bowles' excellent work as the defensive coordinator on Arians' staff with the Arizona Cardinals that launched him to his first NFL head coaching job with the New York Jets in 2015.
View photos of Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles' introductory press conference.
Bowles obviously knows that Arians has had a huge hand in molding him into the coach he is today.
"He will probably be – not probably, definitely – the most influential coaching figure, father figure that I have ever had in my life in this league, for as long as I shall live or continue to be in this league," said Bowles. "And I just want to thank him personally before I go on, just face to face so the whole world knows what he has meant to me, what he means to our coaching staff, what he means as a family man … he teaches, he takes advice, he understands, and that's what you need to be a good leader. I'll try to do that going forward."
But if there are countless lessons Bowles can take from playing and coaching under Arians – and even if he can continue to get advice from Arians at Buccaneer headquarters moving forward – he knows he can't just be an Arians clone. In fact, that's yet another lesson he got from Arians.
"That's the best advice that I've gotten," said Bowles. "I think that when I first started in New York [I found that] when you try to do things the 'right way,' you don't do things your way and you end up having regreat. So I'm going to do things my way.
I think Bruce hit it right on the head: I'm just going to be me. I cannot be him. I don't expect to duplicate the things he's done. [He] won a Super Bowl, won a division – I want to duplicate that part, but probably with some tweaks and in a different way. There are a lot of ways to skin a cat, and I'm just going to do it my way. I'm going to do it my way. I'm going to do it my way wit ha lot of advice from him, a lot of advice from the other coaches. But I'm going to say what I feel. I'm a very honest guy, very straightforward there, and we'll get to know that as a group, as well.
In his first season at the Jets' helm, Bowles took a team that had finished 4-12 the season before and guided it to a promising 10-6 record. However, the Jets struggled the next three seasons and Bowles left with an overall win-loss record of 24-40. Could you find some reasons to spread the blame around for that tough stretch? Probably. For one, the Jets had a bit of a QB carousel in that span, ending in Sam Darnold's rookie season. However, Bowles has no interest in looking for such excuses.
"I think when you take a head job [for the first time] you have to wear a lot of hats, but you had never experienced wearing those hats," he said. "When you understand that going in…without the experience I think you tend to do things a little differently. You have to be man enough to know when you can change things. Usually when people get fired they blame everybody else. The first thing I did was look within myself, and there were a lot of things I can do better."
The timing of Bowles' end in New York was actually pretty fortuitous. Arians had spent the 2018 season in retirement but the Buccaneers were able to lure him back into the job in 2019. He insisted at the time, and has emphasized frequently since, that he probably wouldn't have returned if he didn't have the opportunity to hire a number of specific people for his staff. Bowles was at the top of that list.
And Bowles is back in a head coaching seat now largely because that reunion has gone so well. The Buccaneers' defense over the past three seasons has been among the league's best in a wide variety of categories and was a juggernaut on the biggest stage in Super Bowl LV. Arians expected to lose Bowles to another head coaching position after that game and again this offseason. Bowles did get some interviews but no offers, but he says even those interviews have helped him be in better position for the job he has now.
"Anytime you get an [interview] opportunity, I think it's an opportunity to learn, to grow, to get inside an organization and see how they run things," he said. "Sometimes the timing isn't right. There's only 32 of these things in the league. When you talk about all the football programs in college and 32 in the professional league, it's hard to say you're disappointed. To be even considered for the opportunity is really a blessing, no matter how many times you have to do it."
Bowles was the man for this sudden and unexpected opportunity in Tampa. And he plans to make the most of it by being his own man this time. | https://www.buccaneers.com/news/bucs-head-coach-todd-bowles-introductory-press-conference-interview-follow-up | 2022-04-01T01:59:31Z |
Govt asks telcos to withdraw COVID pre-call announcements, caller tunes
In a circular dated March 29, DoT referred to the instructions that were issued for implementation of corona pre-call announcements and caller tunes to the operators.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi release date: Disney delays premiere to rival Netflix's Stranger Things
OBI-WAN KENOBI'S release date has faced a major delay which will see the series go up against Stranger Things' premiere.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Ewan McGregor stars in Star Wars trailer
Star Wars’ highly anticipated spin-off Obi-Wan Kenobi, was expected to land on Disney plus on May 25. However, the streaming service Disney Plus have pushed back its release date, which means the return of the Jedi Master will be up against the season four premiere of Netflix’s Stranger Things.
Earlier this year it was announced Star Wars fans would see the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Ewan McGregor) in an all-new spin-off series.
The actor will be reprising his role from the prequel trilogy and while the news sent fans into a frenzy, a new announcement revealed the fans will have to wait a while longer.
This comes after Disney Plus disclosed Obi-Wan Kenobi’s premiere date had changed and it would instead be pushed back by two days.
With a new release date of May 27, the Star Wars spin-off will go up against Stranger Things, as their fourth season will also premiere on the same date
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Network bosses have long decided to release shows on the same date as others drop on rival platforms.
While this could be a battle for viewership, Disney Plus decided to become even more competitive as they plan to release the first two episodes on the premiere.
The Jedi Master star Ewan McGregor broke the news to fans on Twitter with a video which also thanked them for ongoing support.
He stated: “Thank you for all your incredible support and response to Obi Wan-Kenobi,” before sharing some “important news”.
He told the fans: “Our premiere date is moving just a couple of days, from Wednesday to Friday, May 27.
“But here’s the exciting part,” McGregor added, “The first two parts will premiere together.”
The actor will be taking over as Jedi from the original Obi-Wan Kenobi, Alec McGuiness, as he recalled: “There’s a hunger for this character to come back.
“The fans have been waiting long enough, you know?” and thankfully the wait will soon come to an end.
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Obi Wan-Kenobi is set ten years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, the final instalment in the prequel trilogy.
According to the official statement, the story will focus on Obi-Wan, who: “faced his greatest defeat — the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader.”
Alongside McGregor, a majority of the original cast will also be stepping back into their Star Wars roles.
This includes Hayden Christensen, Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse, while Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Benny Safdie and Maya Erskine will make their first appearance in the franchise.
Ahead of Christensen’s return as Anakin Skywalker, McGregor revealed what it was like to be working with the actor again.
He disclosed: “I think it's no secret that Hayden Christensen comes back and we got to play scenes together again as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, and it was just fantastic to work with him again.”
He added the series is: “really going to satisfy Star Wars fans”.
The fourth season of Stranger Things was also highly anticipated and the instalment had faced multiple delays.
The Obi-Wan Kenobi premieres on Disney Plus on Friday, May 27.
Stranger Things season 4 premiers on Netflix Friday, May 27. | https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1589553/Obi-Wan-Kenobi-premiere-rival-Stranger-Things | 2022-04-01T01:59:31Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
“The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. “Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical.”
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
“But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards,” said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He said the compound is in “the top tier of problematic chemicals in our water.”
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing facilities in Henderson, Nevada, were the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites in the state between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in data provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites, where severe perchlorate contamination is generated from the burning of hazardous byproducts from weapons manufacturing and munitions. One such site is in Colfax, Louisiana, where environmentalists have long advocated for reform.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what's needed.
“Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water," said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
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AP reporter Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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Victoria police on Thursday took over the investigation of a child’s sudden death that occurred on March 24.
The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit was initially set to investigate the case, but has now handed it over to VicPD’s major crime unit.
B.C. Emergency Health Services paramedics responded to a call just after 7 p.m. March 24 that saw a child, along with a parent, transported to Victoria General Hospital. The child died later that night.
Just before 9 p.m., police were called to VGH regarding the death, where they learned officers had conducted a well-being check on the child and parent early that morning, in the 900-block of Johnson Street. (An original release about the death said the well-being check occurred the evening of March 23).
VicPD notified the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. and an investigation was commenced to determine what role, if any, police actions or inactions may have played in the death.
Anyone with information can contact VicPD at 250-995-7654, ext. 1, or report anonymously to Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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Applications are being accepted through April 8 for the Mabel Vacek Scholarships.
Mabel Vacek was a former Oxford Junction resident who died in 1998, leaving a legacy in excess of $240,000 to be used for scholarships for local youths. Mabel and her husband, Chuck, former Oxford Junction postmaster, were very community-minded and interested in helping young people. Due to health and family reasons, Mabel was not able to complete the eighth grade.
Over the past 21 years, the Mabel Vacek Scholarship Trust has awarded 184 scholarships totaling $146,800.82.
The scholarships are available to high school graduates who lived in an area served by the Oxford Junction Post Office for a period of at least six months before their last day of attendance after completing requirements for graduation. Eligibility is determined by residency, not by the high school attended. Preference will be given to current high school graduates, but scholarships will also be available to undergraduate high school students. Recipients of the scholarships must be planning to attend, or are attending a two- or four-year college or university in a program leading to an associate, bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree.
The criteria for selection include academic performance, participation in extracurricular activities, positive citizenship characteristics and economic need. Applicants do not have to be at the poverty or low-income level to qualify. Recipients are eligible for multiple year scholarships, but must reapply each year.
Applications may be obtained from the guidance counselor of the Midland Community Schools and should be returned to the school by April 8.
Selections are made by the Midland Community School Scholarship Committee.
Citizens State Bank of Wyoming, Oxford Junction, Olin and Maquoketa administers the trust. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/news/scholarships-open-for-oxford-junction-students/article_cb656fe5-36b5-5b5e-9b6b-624787527165.html | 2022-04-01T01:59:34Z |
Winchester, Va. — Stocker-Feeder Cattle ($/100 wt.) (as of March 22) Hay and Straw Prices — New Holland, Pa., per ton:. Maryland 4-H Forest Exploration program, March to June — Maryland 4-H is looking for youth who are interested in exploring the state’s forests and learning how to conserve our natural resources. This new, statewide program will provide hands-on experiences for participants ages 8 to 18 to gain a strong understanding of trees, forest management and environmental issues. 4-Hers and volunteers from all clusters will meet virtually once a week, and participate in monthly field sessions across the state. The Maryland State 4-H Forestry Contest will be held in June. Winners of this contest will have a chance to represent Maryland at the National 4-H Forestry Invitational at Jackson’s Mill State 4-H Camp in Weston, West Virginia. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556267753153/agriculture-topics | 2022-04-01T01:59:35Z |
A National Security Agency employee has been charged with emailing classified national security information to somebody who wasn’t authorized to receive it, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
Mark Robert Unkenholz, 60, of Hanover, Maryland, was arrested Thursday but ordered released after his initial court appearance in Baltimore.
Unkenholz held “top secret” security clearance, giving him access to the information, according to a 26-count indictment. He worked for an NSA office responsible for the agency’s engagement with private industry.
The indictment accuses Unkenholz of using his personal email address to send information classified as “secret” and “top secret” to somebody else’s private company email addresses on several occasions between February 2018 and June 2020.
The recipient held “top secret” clearance from April 2016 until approximately June 2019, while employed at a company that isn’t named in the indictment. However, from July 2019 until approximately January 2021, the person worked for a different company and wasn’t authorized to access or receive classified information, the indictment says.
A grand jury indicted Unkenholz on Tuesday on 13 counts of willfully transmitting national defense information and 13 counts of willfully retaining national defense informaton. Each count carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. Federal sentencing guidelines typically recommend sentences far below the maximum.
Unkenholz pleaded not guilty to all 26 counts at his initial court appearance. U.S. Magistrate Judge Beth Gesner ordered him released after the hearing, court records show.
Gesner appointed the federal public defender’s office to represent Unkenholz. Federal Public Defender James Wyda declined to comment.
The FBI is investigating.
The case against Unkenholz is the latest prosecution from federal authorities in Maryland, home to some of the most secretive government agencies, alleging mishandling or improper storage of classified materials.
One of the more prominent federal cases involved Harold Martin, a former NSA contractor who was charged in 2016 with storing reams of classified records in his Maryland home, car and shed. The information spanned from the mid-1990s to the present and included personal details of government employees and “top secret” email chains, handwritten notes describing the NSA’s classified computer infrastructure, and descriptions of classified technical operations. He was sentenced in 2019 to nine years in prison.
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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker contributed from Washington, D.C. | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/nsa-employee-charged-with-mishandling-classified-material/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:34Z |
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Salvation Army’s ‘Empty Bowls’ on the table April 8
Published 6:19 pm Thursday, March 31, 2022
Once again, it’s Empty Bowls in Troy!
The Pike County Salvation Army’s annual Empty Bowls Luncheon is one of the most highly anticipated annual events in Troy.
And, this year, it will be the biggest and the best with more than 20 soups in the pot and 10 desserts in the cupboard, said Donna Kidd, Salvation Army Service Center director.
The 13th annual Empty Bowls Luncheon will be from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on April 8 in the Fellowship Hall of Bush Baptist Church on George Wallace Drive in Troy. Soups will be available for take-out or dining in. Either way, the $20 ticket will include, choices of soups, bread, desserts and drink, and an empty, handmade bowl to take home as a reminder that 821 million people go to bed every night on an empty stomach.
“We are excited about Empty Bowls this year because we are able to be out and about more and we’re looking forward to being together and in support of our friends and neighbors in need, Kidd said. “The money raised by Empty Bowls each year supports the Salvation Army’s food pantry. And, the pandemic has increased the need for food.”
Kidd said, in addition to the handmade bowls that are a bonus with each ticket, there will also be bid bowls made by local professional, amateur and student potters.
“Also on the bid table, will be other bid items including a signed Troy University football and other sports items,” Kidd said. “The Salvation Army will have additional items for sale including stained glass and quilts. And, of course, entertainment by vocalist and guitarist Ed Whatley, who is a favorite local entertainer. So, there won’t be a better ticket around town on April 8 than at Empty Bowls. We hope everyone will help make this year’s Empty Bowls Luncheon the best ever.” | https://www.troymessenger.com/2022/03/31/salvation-armys-empty-bowls-on-the-table-april-8/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:37Z |
Alycia Herriott, one of two new Deschutes County Circuit Court judges, is sworn in Thursday at the makeshift courtroom at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center.
A crowd watches as two new circuit court judges are sworn in Thursday at a makeshift courtroom at the Deschutes County Fair and Expo Center in Redmond.
Michelle McIver, left, and Alycia Herriott were sworn in Thursday to fill two newly created judgeships in Deschutes County.
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Alycia Herriott, one of two new Deschutes County Circuit Court judges, is sworn in Thursday at the makeshift courtroom at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center.
Bulletin photo/Tim Trainor
Michelle McIver is sworn in Thursday to fill a newly created judgeship in Deschutes County.
Bulletin photo/Tim Trainor
A crowd watches as two new circuit court judges are sworn in Thursday at a makeshift courtroom at the Deschutes County Fair and Expo Center in Redmond.
Bulletin photo/Tim Trainor
Deschutes County Circuit Court judges watch the investiture ceremony for two new judges on Thursday.
Michelle McIver and Alycia Herriott were sworn in as Deschutes County's newest circuit court judges on Thursday.
McIver and Herriott were selected by the governor to fill two new judgeships created by the Oregon Legislature in 2021.
Herriott, 39, is a native of Klamath Falls. McIver, 46, is originally from Detroit. Both were working in Deschutes County primarily as defense attorneys at the time of their appointments.
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By Avinash Rajput
Shivajinagar Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Siddharth Shirole on Thursday surveyed the stretch of Fergusson College (FC) Road from Goodluck Chowk to Vaishali restaurant over the issue of littering on the road.
He emphasised the need for an awareness campaign to solve the issue, which was raised by civic activist Sumita Kale. The problem of littering was highlighted by Mirror in its edition on March 29.
Shirole, as promised, intervened in the matter and met shop owners, along with civic staffers and officials from the Ghole Road ward office, to resolve the issue. Some chronic littering spots were brought to his notice on the stretch of the road. During his visit, the MLA discussed the issue with the businesspersons at length.
Speaking to Mirror, Shirole said, “Since FC Road is an iconic landmark, such mindless littering is spoiling its reputation. Civic officials and I met the shop owners who shared details about the chronic spots where solid waste is dumped mindlessly. After taking their feedback, it was decided to run an awareness campaign through posters, under which people will be educated to use dustbins that have already been installed on the footpaths. We will also significantly increase the number of dustbins in the area. We have asked the shop owners to take responsibility for the cleanliness of the areas around their shop.”
He further said, “Installing CCTV cameras cannot be a solution since people need to understand that it is our city and our road. We need their support in keeping it clean.”
Sandeep Kudale, a show owner, said, “Most of the hawkers discard their food products after their sale time is over. We are old vendors, hence, we ensure the area around our shops is cleaned before closing for the day. Some of the roadside stalls litter without making an effort to clean it. We hope the issue gets resolved and the Smart City footpath looks cleaner the way it is supposed to.” | https://punemirror.com/pune/civic/MLA-Shirole-civic-officials-suggest-drive-to-keep-iconic-FC/cid7038074.htm | 2022-04-01T01:59:37Z |
Tom Brady isn't the only quarterback who has chosen to stick around in Tampa.
On Thursday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers re-signed quarterback Ryan Griffin, who has been with the team since September of 2015. Griffin spent the 2021 season on Tampa Bay's practice squad but had been on the active roster for most of the previous six campaigns.
Griffin originally joined the Buccaneers as a waiver claim in 2015 after he had been waived by the New Orleans Saints in the final roster cutdown before the regular season. He has since re-signed with Tampa Bay four times, having previously done so in 2017, 2019 and 2021. Griffin's return in 2022 gives the Buccaneers three quarterbacks under contract, as he joins Brady and second-year man Kyle Trask.
Though regular-season playing time has been scarce for Griffin he has three years of experience in the team's current offensive system and has performed well on several occasions in the preseason. For instance, he played in eight preseason games with two starts in 2018 and 2019 combined and completed 111 of 167 passes for 1,262 yards, eight touchdowns and two interceptions, with a passer rating of 99.9. Most recently, Griffin appeared in two preseason games in 2021, connecting on 12 of 22 throws for 92 yards and two interceptions.
During the Buccaneers' 2020 Super Bowl championship season, Griffin served as the teams' third quarterback and was inactive for all 20 games, including the postseason. He saw his first bit of regular-season action late in the 2019 season, as he appeared in two games, though he did not attempt a pass in one of them. Against the Indianapolis Colts in Week 14 he completed two of four passes for 18 yards.
Griffin spent the first half of the 2017 season on injured reserve but was otherwise on the Bucs' active roster from 2015-20. He spent most of the 2013 and 2014 seasons on the Saints' practice squad after signing with them as an undrafted free agent out of Tulane. | https://www.buccaneers.com/news/bucs-re-sign-quarterback-ryan-griffin-free-agency-roster-moves | 2022-04-01T01:59:37Z |
TIM, CDP eye formal talks for network deal in alternative path to KKR's bid: Sources
The negotiations would come as TIM boss Pietro Labriola presses ahead with a plan to revamp Italy's biggest phone company centred around a split of its wholesale network operations from its service business.
MILAN: Telecom Italia (TIM) and state lender CDP are expected to start formal negotiations over a potential merger of TIM's network assets with those of state backed Open Fiber, two sources familiar with the matter said.
The sources said CDP and TIM are expected to ink a confidentiality agreement (NDA) in the early days of April.
TIM and CDP declined to comment.
While discussions with KKR over the U.S. fund's takeover approach for TIM are ongoing, TIM and CDP's plans to sign off on an NDA would mark a further step in an alternative direction to the bid.
A person familiar with the U.S. fund's thinking on Wednesday said KKR was pessimistic about the prospects of its bid, which it has said it would only pursue with the backing of TIM and the Rome government. KKR declined to comment.
A top government adviser last week said Rome's goal remained that of creating a single broadband network in Italy. This can be achieved by merging TIM's fixed assets with those of Open Fiber, which is 60% owned by CDP.
CDP also owns 10% of TIM and would retain control of any combined network as it oversee other key infrastructure in the country.
CDP has said the tie-up would avoid costly duplication of investment needed to upgrade the national network for Italian households and businesses.
Hindered by antitrust issues, a TIM-Open Fiber deal has proved elusive so far.
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KKR, which has already invested 1.8 billion euros for a 37.5% stake in TIM's last-mile fixed-line network last year, submitted an indicative bid to buy the group in November.
While a merger of Open Fiber was not part of KKR's plans for TIM, the fund wants to discuss with the company the antitrust implications of a such a deal and how it can create value for the FiberCop business in which KKR is already an investor.
TIM's top shareholder Vivendi has billed KKR's proposal as too low even though it was pitched at 0.505 euros. TIM shares traded at 0.33 euros on Thursday.
TIM left the New York-based fund waiting for nearly four months without an answer before agreeing earlier in March to engage in talks, while pressing ahead with its standalone reorganisation to unlock the group's "untapped value".
Sources have said TIM asked KKR to clarify by Monday whether the price of 10.8 billion euros for the equity was confirmed. TIM and KKR are at odds over a due diligence analysis KKR wants to perform before making a formal offer, while TIM has said it can only have confirmatory nature, meaning it would have preceded by a formal offer.
"The problems here go well beyond disagreements over the due diligence, there is little appetite on TIM's part and Rome's to work on KKR's takeover project," a source familiar with the negotiations said. | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/tim-cdp-eye-formal-talks-for-network-deal-in-alternative-path-to-kkrs-bid-sources/90581003 | 2022-04-01T01:59:38Z |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The 'I-65 Killer' or 'Days Inn Killer', as he's known in some cases, could be responsible for as many as three murders and several other assaults from the 1980s and 1990s.
For more than 30 years, investigators have been working to find the man responsible. Now, Indiana State Police, Elizabethtown Police and the FBI have announced that they have a big update on the case.
On February 21, 1987, Vicki Heath was sexually assaulted and shot twice in the head. Police found her body behind the dumpsters at the Super 8 Motel off of I-65 in Hardin County.
Elizabethtown Police Chief at the time, Ruben Gardner, worked the case as a detective when it happened and said even then he thought this murderer was someone traveling I-65 and this was a crime of opportunity.
"We did all the routine things that you do, compared it to every crime we could find around that had any similarities at all," Gardner told WHAS11 in 2013. But without any significant leads, the case went cold until 2008 when Detective Clinton Turner submitted DNA from well-preserved evidence.
"I say there's an 80% chance we could find him," said Turner.
Elizabethtown Police matched the DNA in Heath's case to at least four other cases in several states. In each case, the women were all motel clerks, they were all sexually assaulted and robbed and they all worked along I-65.
Police said these incidents were the trail of a traveling serial killer.
The DNA also linked the murderer to two women who were sexually assaulted and killed in Indiana in 1989.
One year later, in 1990, a woman in Columbus, Indiana was sexually assaulted and stabbed but survived. That was the first time police were able to get a description of the killer. She described the assailant as a man with green eyes and a lazy right eye.
In 1991, a woman in Minnesota who was also sexually assaulted and stabbed gave police a similar description of her attacker. The victim described the suspect as a white male, 6'- 6'2'', with green eyes, the right eye was described as a lazy eye, and he had grayish-brown hair. He was wearing a flannel shirt and blue jeans.
"That was why is was so difficult because most of our murders are local or have some type of domestic tie or something. Whereas this is a random murder and there are 16 million people that travel up and down 65 in a year's time," Elizabethtown Police Detective Clinton Turner told WHAS11 in 2013.
After 35 years, could detectives have an answer? The announcement is scheduled for Tuesday, April 5, at 11:00 a.m. ET in Indianapolis.
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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://www.yourbasin.com/washington/washington-dc/bill-seeks-to-put-cap-on-overdraft-fees/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:37Z |
A pepper spray attack in the Mt. Tolmie area left a victim shaken and injured Monday.
The attack happened around 4 p.m. on March 28 as the man – who wishes to remain anonymous for his safety – was walking near the former Mt. Tolmie Hospital that now serves as a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness.
“I was out for my regular walk and listening to a podcast with my earbuds in,” the man said. “I was across the street from the shelter and saw three people exchanging a wad of cash and other stuff. One of them happened to glance up and see that I was looking in their direction while I was still walking – then they started yelling and gesturing at me, but I couldn’t hear what they were saying since I had my headphones in.”
He kept walking on while ignoring the shouting and a few minutes later a man rode up on a bicycle, yelled “hey,” and proceeded to douse the victim in what police said later was likely pepper spray.
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The man didn’t have time to react or get a good look at the attacker before being sprayed, he said. Immediately afterwards he fell to his knees and cried out. People stopped to help and an ambulance and police arrived a short time later.
The spray blinded him for nearly an hour, he said, and he could barely breathe for a time – he already suffers from asthma. Days after the traumatic incident, he is recovering by staying with family and is healing from the burns on his face, eyelids and body.
Saanich Const. Markus Anastasiades said such incidents are not common in Saanich, however, advised people and residents in the area to be mindful of their surroundings.
Police began an investigation, he said, but with limited information provided and no evidence obtained to assist in identifying the suspect, further investigation could only happen if new details were provided by the public.
Anastasiades said police are not actively seeking any suspect living in the shelter.
Anyone who may have witnessed the attack, or has any related information is asked to contact the Saanich Police Department at 250-475-4321, or report anonymously to Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Do you have a story tip? Email: megan.atkinsbaker@saanichnews.com.
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Research firm IDC recently published an IDC Future of Work Employee Perspectives Survey for Asia-Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ), which revealed that flexibility and sustained productivity continue to be the strongest sentiment in the region.
“Great resignation is the latest buzzword. As employees reassess their current employment, talent retention is a top business agenda item for organizations. To successfully compete and thrive in the labor market and retain the best talent, organizations need to deliver enhanced employee experience – one that focuses on providing flexibility, well-being and safety of employees, and building a more empowered and motivated workforce,” said Deepan Pathy, senior research manager for future of work practice at IDC Asia-Pacific.
The IDC survey showed that more than 56% of the employees in Asia-Pacific want flexible work with options to work both in the office and remotely, even beyond the pandemic.
Furthermore, IDC data showed that more than 70% of the employees said their productivity was higher or at least at the same level compared to pre-pandemic.
Despite a sustained productivity for many while working remotely, IDC’s latest survey revealed that Asia-Pacific employees felt they needed to overcome various technological challenges around access, tools, apps, data, and networks.
The top five technologies that employees believe will support their productivity include: moving data and applications to the cloud, collaboration tools, connectivity/broadband solutions, 5G connectivity, and on-demand IT support.
Health and safety are among the top concerns for Asia-Pacific employees when returning to the office, most companies across all industries are mandating vaccination for their employees.
However, the IDC report said vaccination mandate alone is not enough for a safe return to office; companies need to rethink and replan their office spaces to ensure they meet employee needs for health and wellbeing.
Smart office technologies such as temperature sensing, upgraded ventilation, contactless sensors, touchless fixtures, robotic cleaning, and smart meeting room management are some examples that can facilitate a safer office environment, the study said. | https://newsbytes.ph/2022/03/31/idc-report-56-of-asia-pacific-employees-want-flexible-work-even-beyond-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=idc-report-56-of-asia-pacific-employees-want-flexible-work-even-beyond-pandemic | 2022-04-01T01:59:38Z |
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.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/ex-minor-leaguer-ran-major-league-sports-betting-operation/7EHBZBBUZ5GW3KD4FNHUP5JANU/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:39Z |
Anamosa
For the first production of the 2022 season, a first-time Starlighters director is putting a new twist on a Shakespeare classic.
Grant Freeman has been involved with community theatre for 17 years but is making his Anamosa debut by putting a 1960’s twist on “Julius Caesar” with “Julius Caesar 1963.” A massive fan of the bard, Freeman knew he wanted to do Shakespeare and is no stranger to productions telling of Rome’s most famous leader.
“It’s a big passion of mine,” Freeman said of Shakespeare, having taught it as a professor in Virginia. “I think ‘Julius Caesar’ is one of the most applicable shows to the modern times as almost any shows. I think it’s dealing with our modern politic, but not specifically from a Democrat or Republican side, from a conceptual side.”
In 14 years directing, this is his seventh attempt at directing a version of “Julius Caesar.” For this telling, Freeman trades out Ancient Rome for an all-girls Catholic high school named Camelot for the tie-in with the JFK administration—another theme explored in the production. Freeman describes the show as a drama, with comedic aspects sprinkled in. It’s not a musical, but Freeman does utilize music to enhance his themes. By updating the timeframe and setting, it allows for a unique discussion played out at a local level.
“At a small-town level, a school building is the same as a White House. Your superintendent, for that world, is your president,” he said.
Board member Mary Sue Vernon—who plays Cassius—said having an original production was fairly unique for one of the main productions but has always been a part of what Starlighters does in groups like their young people’s theatre. It’s not the only original on the schedule for 2022. In August, the theatre will also host the world premiere of “Lost Memories” — written by local playwright, Shawn Carr.
“It’s kind of the year of local playwrights,” she said.
It’s a female-laden cast, including a couple of students Freeman has taught during speech competitions at Mount Vernon. Giving some younger performers a chance to make their Starlighters debut was of utmost importance for him as his belief that theatre can be done anywhere and everywhere.
“My focus has always been doing that with specifically students,” he said. “If you become good at theatre, you will be successful…at anything you do moving forward.”
Vernon, in particular, is looking forward to playing against type a bit when she takes the stage.
“Cassius is conniving and a little bit on the angry and jealous side,” she said. “It is a departure from the roles that I’m typically cast for…We all have many facets, and so I delve into that depth of emotion that I don’t typically express.”
Freeman said community theatre is the most important form of theatre.
“The most important thing about community theatre is not the theatre, it is the community. What we create here…is a family unit,” he said, something he’s seen with this cast. “They always seem to show up for each other, which is important.”
When asked what he hoped people got out of the show, Freeman said he hopes the audience feels the community aspect and comes away with feeling like they were a part of that community. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/news/starlighters-to-put-a-new-twist-on-shakespeare/article_57d42447-7a41-5757-976f-9ce3cafc2d44.html | 2022-04-01T01:59:40Z |
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.
Soskin “spent her last day providing an interpretive program to the public and visiting with coworkers,” a Park Service statement said.
She led tours at the park and museum honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit after learning that “she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white,” according to a Park Service biography.
“Being a primary source in the sharing of that history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”
Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.
“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”
Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921 but recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 while living with her Creole family in New Orleans, according to the Park Service biography.
Her family then moved to Oakland, California, and Soskin remained in the San Francisco Bay Area, where in 1945 she and her first husband founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the area, the biography said.
She also was a civil rights activist and took part in meetings to develop a general management plan for the Home Front park. She has received several honors.
She was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.
In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas tree at the White House.
In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.
Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. Glamour Magazine named her woman of the year in 2018. | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/oldest-u-s-active-park-ranger-retires-at-100/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:42Z |
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A wind-driven brush fire consumed around 3 acres across multiple open pastures near Redmond on Thursday before fire crews were able to contain it.
At 2:48 p.m., Redmond Fire & Rescue was alerted to a reported grass fire in the 3600 block of NW Canal Boulevard. As crews responded to the fire, a large column of black smoke was visible to the northeast of Redmond, the fire department said in a news release.
When crews arrived, the fire was moving across multiple pastures. Gusting winds made it difficult for firefighters to stop the fire.
No injuries were reported, and no structures were damaged. Animals in the pastures were moved to safe places.
An initial investigation of the fire indicated the landowner was burning in a nearby ditch when winds picked up and caused the fire to burn out of control.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — On Thursday just under 400 people showed up to the Mahoning County GOP’s Lincoln Day dinner at the Maronite Center in Youngstown.
Many people spoke at the event including former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders.
Due to a contract between the facility and Huckabee’s team we were not able to film her speech.
She mentioned her love of service was instilled in her at a young age by family — something she hopes to do with hers.
Huckabee is currently running for Arkansas governor. | https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/former-white-house-press-secretary-speaks-at-local-gop-dinner/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:43Z |
By Yashpal Sonkamble
Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) vice chancellor Nitin Karmalkar on Thursday admitted that the staff and officials are arrogant while performing their duties. This is the first time in the history of the university when a VC, who is the administrative head of the SPPU, has made such an observation.
The comment by Karmalkar, who will be retiring on May 17, came during the senate meeting, which witnessed an uproar over some issues on the second consecutive day, including the behaviour of the staff and officials from various departments.
It was alleged that the university staff are not cooperative, behave arrogantly and often treat students with disrespect. The other charges made at the meeting were that students are made to wait for hours for minor work, and in some cases, they also demand bribes.
Karmalkar admitted that he himself had faced similar situation in the past with the staff and officials and condemned the arrogance of the SPPU employees from the dais.
The issue was raised by senate member Girish Bhawalkar. “A student from a college in Pune visited the examination department for some work. She could not get her work done even after waiting for four hours. I personally talked to the staff member concerned, but in vain,” he said.
Replying to his observations, Karmalkar said, “The SPPU staff cannot treat a member of the senate and students like this. They have to be courteous towards the people who visit them for official work.”
KL Giramkar, a senate member, levelled a serious allegation against the staff, saying that PhD students also face difficulties. “Some employees even expect bribes for doing their work.”
Participating in the discussion, Karmalkar made a serious observation: “The staff and officials feel that they are permanently placed in the university while the vice-chancellor and the members of the senate are there for five years only.”
█ Gold coin scheme, D Litt for Pawar
Senate member Abhishek Bokey strongly opposed the scheme to distribute 10-gm gold coins to retired employees. He demanded discontinuation of the practice. He suggested that a memento instead of a gold coin can be given to retired employees. Lakhs of rupees are being spent on this scheme when the university has been facing funds crunch. However, Nitin Karmalkar rejected the demand.
Abhishek Bokey, Sharad Pawar’s grandson, also moved a proposal before the senate for awarding honorary Doctorate of Literature (D Litt) degrees to NCP supremo and veteran cricketer Chandu Borde. It was accepted by the senate.
█ CAG report on anomaly goes missing
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had passed strictures in its report against the construction work carried out by the SPPU during 2012-2016. A three-member inquiry committee was appointed in 2017. Committee chairman Girish Bhavalkar made a shocking revelation in the Q&A session that the CAG documents pointing out anomalies in the SPPU estate department works have gone missing. This caused a huge uproar in the senate. He promised to submit a report in two months.
█ Congratulatory motion passed
Senate member and veteran journalist Rajeev Sabade presented a proposal to congratulate Shantishree Pandit, the first woman vice chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, who earlier served in the SPPU. It was accepted without reading the proposal, which could have caused a din in the meeting. Registrar Prafulla Pawar avoided a possible ruckus and hurriedly accepted the proposal. | https://punemirror.com/pune/civic/Senate-members-slam-arrogant-SPPU-staff-officials;-VC/cid7038052.htm | 2022-04-01T01:59:43Z |
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Magic: The Gathering just returned Pro Tour from the graveyard
The Pioneer format will be highlighted at the first regional championship round.Hardcore cardboard slingers received some good news today after Wizards of the Coast announced that it would return to the Pro Tour format for trading card game Magic: The Gathering’s 2022-2023 competitive season.
The Pro Tour was unceremoniously cancelled in 2018 after 22 years as the standard path for Magic’s elite players to travel on their way to the world championship. Its return comes with expected caveats and more than a few uncertainties, and the community will likely remain a little shy of Wizards’ continued support for this new version.
If the only place you tap lands is around the kitchen table, it could feel a little daunting to consider competitive Magic in the first place. Here’s the gist: the Magic Pro Tour will be the structure of the upcoming competitive Magic: The Gathering season, which begins July 2nd. The previous convoluted qualifying structure has been simplified with in-person events at local stores, regional championship events, and three Pro Tour dates per season. How the COVID-19 pandemic will impact this structure is an open question, even to Wizards of the Coast.
Magic: The Gathering trashcanned the former Pro Tour model in 2018 to refocus its competitive scene on the then-new digital client, Magic Arena. Advertising for the Magic Pro League and related Rivals League centred on a supposed democratisation of competitive play by moving much of the events online and opening several new paths for qualification. The result was confusing for both pro players and spectators, and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic mere years into its life was the final nail in a quickly assembled coffin.
Players interested in taking part in the new system will attend events at local games stores that are part of the Wizards Play Network. High performance at organised play, which can be structured around Standard, Limited, Modern or Pioneer formats - will earn them spots in regional championships where individuals will compete to earn spots at one of three Pro Tours scheduled for each competitive season. Wizards of the Coast did not provide much information on the number of players and prize pool for these first two levels, as they will be handled by third-party organisers.
Each Pro Tour will feature around 300 players vying for pieces of a $500,000 prize pool, and all three should be highly advertised opportunities for spectating. This was one of the biggest community complaints about the MPL and Rivals - folks were never sure when matches took place and how important they were. If competitive Magic: The Gathering wants to tout its ability as an esport, the Pro Tours should be where it happens.
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Magic Arena players will still be able to take part in digital qualifiers, and other systems for clinching a Pro Tour invite were outlined in a recently published FAQ. All told, it’s a much simpler system that seems to emphasise paper Magic, including the first event focusing on the Pioneer format. Introduced in 2019, months before COVID-19 became a global concern, Pioneer has garnered ardent support from the playerbase who warmly welcomed its addition to competitive play on social media.
Speaking of the coronavirus, Wizards of the Coast had little to say about how the ongoing pandemic will affect the upcoming competitive season. The company did not outline its own mask or vaccination requirements for World Championship XXIX and said regional events will “comply with local laws and regulations”. For countries whose government is already beginning to act as though COVID-19 is a solved issue, this decision is an unsettling one. Dicebreaker has reached out to Wizards of the Coast for more information but did not immediately hear back.
More information on how Magic Arena and MTG Online will fit into the newly returned Pro Tour model is expected by the end of April. A detailed breakdown of paths to qualification and the FAQ can be found on Wizards of the Coast’s esports website. | https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/magic-the-gathering-game/news/magic-the-gathering-pro-tour-returns | 2022-04-01T01:59:44Z |
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AustralianSuper will buy rival
Axicom, part-owned by investment bank giant Macquarie Group Ltd, for A$3.58 billion ($2.68 billion), the companies said on Friday.
The purchase builds on
SingTel's physical footprint in Australia, where it already has No. 2 telco provider Optus, while offering a way for investment partner AustralianSuper to reach a goal of doubling its infrastructure holdings in five years.
Following the deal with
Australia Tower Network (ATN), co-owned by Singtel and AustralianSuper, Singtel's shareholding in the combined business will be 18%, with the remaining held by AustralianSuper.
"This acquisition is a unique opportunity to scale up ATN's operations and expand its customer base,"
Singtel Group Chief Corporate Officer, Lim Cheng Cheng said.
"It also reinforces Singtel's commitment as a long-term investor in the Australian telecoms space," Cheng added.
Shareholders of Axicom, which owns and operates about 2,000 telecommunication sites across Australia, are a consortium led by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets. The consortium also includes Unisuper and UBS.
"AustralianSuper is looking to double its infrastructure portfolio over the next five years from its current A$31 billion," AustralianSuper head of infrastructure Nik Kemp said.
"We believe that there will be significant growth in demand for digital infrastructure and will actively consider future opportunities in this space." | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/australiansuper-singtel-backed-unit-to-buy-macquaries-axicom-for-2-68-bln/90580978 | 2022-04-01T01:59:44Z |
INDIANAPOLIS — This week, a motorcyclist died and a major highway was temporarily shut down because of police chases in central Indiana.
13 Investigates learned the rules for when to chase differed, depending on which policing agency was involved.
13 Investigates requested the vehicle pursuit policies of five agencies involved in chases this week. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Indiana State Police, the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department, and the Henry County Sheriff’s Department all shared their policies. Greenwood Police was also involved in a chase this week, but did not provide a policy for review before our deadline.
Henry County deputies were involved in this week’s first major pursuit. It happened Sunday and involved a motorcyclist. Deputies crossed into Hancock County to chase down the driver wanted for a felony warrant. The sheriff's department said he died after running a red light and crashing into another driver on SR 9 in Greenfield.
Henry County's deputy pursuit driving policy allows "high speed" chases if a suspect has committed a serious felony that resulted in death or serious bodily injury. It also allows a deputy to pursue if he or she thinks a suspect will commit such a crime. They can also pursue for lesser offenses, but not as aggressively.
Hancock County deputies did not participate in the pursuit, but did help process the crash scene. Its policy allows deputies to pursue if they believe a person may have “committed a traffic infraction, a misdemeanor or a felon.”
Hancock County deputies are also allowed to chase a person or group of people that “poses an immediate threat to the safety of the public or other police officers.” However, the policy does not allow officers to fire at or from a moving vehicle, “unless it is necessary to prevent imminent death or serious bodily injury.” The Hancock County Sheriff’s Department said the policy was updated in 2007, and it is currently in the process of updating all policies.
This week, 13News reported a couple pursuits involving IMPD officers. The department has one of the more restrictive policies we reviewed. The policy was updated in 2020 and explicitly says officers cannot give chase just because someone flees or for a traffic violation alone. Officers can pursue if there is a "reasonable suspicion" someone in a vehicle has "committed, is committing, or is about to commit a felony" or if the officer "witnesses a misdemeanor offense."
IMPD’s policy also states a pursuit should end if "the risk to public safety outweighs the government's interest in apprehending the suspect."
As of Thursday morning, IMPD officers were involved in 100 chases this year. In 2021, officers were involved in 448 pursuits.
One of the most notable chases this week happened Wednesday when police had to shut down part of I-74 temporarily. Troopers were chasing a suspect who they say refused to stop for a traffic violation. State police say the suspect shot at troopers and then died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Indiana State Police's policy gives troopers more discretion when it comes to conducting a vehicle pursuit. The policy states a chase should not happen or should stop when the "risk to the public's safety" outweighs the need to make an arrest.
All four of the policies 13 Investigates reviewed allow officers to cross jurisdictions. However, there are rules about communicating with their own department and other policing agencies via radio.
ISP has statewide jurisdiction. Troopers can only take pursuits across state lines if the suspect used deadly force or is suspected of using deadly force.
The vehicle pursuit policies 13 Investigates reviewed also encourage officers to consider public safety, as well as weather, traffic, and pedestrian conditions before giving chase. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/investigations/13-investigates/police-pursuit-chase-policies-differ-across-central-indiana-counties/531-f046a865-80cb-478f-8296-b125fad713fb | 2022-04-01T01:59:44Z |
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Jennifer Kupcho shared the lead Thursday in The Chevron Championship in her second — and last — start at Mission Hills, the tree-lined layout she has quickly fallen in love with.
“Honestly, I think it’s just being comfortable on this golf course,” Kupcho said. “I get here and I just, I feel comfortable. I love this place."
Kupcho shot a 6-under 66 in sunny and calm morning conditions to join fellow early starter Minjee Lee atop the leaderboard after the first round of the final edition of the major championship at Mission Hills.
“I really like the layout of this golf course, the beautiful shape that it’s in every year,” Kupcho said. “It always is so fun to be here, so just taking advantage of how much I like the course and the atmosphere.”
Unable to find a sponsor willing to remain at Mission Hills, the tournament that started in 1972 as the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner’s Circle and became a major in 1983 is shifting to Houston next year under a deal with Chevron.
“Definitely sad," Carolina Masson said after a 68. "I understand why we’re doing it, but I’m just trying to soak in every second being out here. The golf course is playing as good as ever."
Defending champion Patty Tavatanakit was a stroke back, finishing late in the afternoon in gusting wind.
“Really proud,” Tavatanakit said. “I feel like I really got my momentum going, was really present today.”
Kupcho birdied Nos. 11-14 to get to 8 under, then bogeyed the next two holes. She birdied four of the first five and finished with nine birdies and three bogeys.
“You really need to hit fairways on a major golf course, so that was like my biggest thing today, to hit a bunch of fairways,” Kupcho said. “That really set me up for all my birdies.”
Winless on the LPGA Tour, Kupcho won the 2018 NCAA individual title for Wake Forest and took the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur the following year after passing up a spot that week at Mission Hills.
The 24-year-old from Colorado arrived early in the desert after missing the cut Friday in Carlsbad. "I just used the two days that I did have on the weekend to come here and practice,” she said.
Lee birdied all four par 5s in a bogey-free round on the mountain-framed course.
“It was perfect,” Lee said. “Not like a breath of wind when we played. Maybe just a tiny bit. But conditions are great. Putting greens are rolling real nice. I don’t think you can get better than that.”
The 25-year-old Australian, ranked fourth in the world, won the Evian Championship last summer for her first major title and sixth LPGA Tour victory.
“I know I have one under my belt, but I do want a little bit more,” Lee said. “I just think I have a little bit more belief in myself and my game, so I can be a little bit more comfortable just hitting the shots."
Third-ranked Lydia Ko, the 2015 champion, was at 68 with Masson, Anna Nordqvist, Georgia Hall, Gabriela Ruffels and Pajaree Anannarukarn. Lexi Thompson, the 2014 winner, was another stroke back with Sarah Schmelzel, Annie Park, Lauren Stephenson, Pauline Roussin-Bouchard and Hinako Shibuno.
Thompson marveled at course she first played as a 14-year-old amateur.
“I’ve never seen it this good," Thompson said. “It always surprises me every year. It’s always better. The greens are amazing. I’m one to putt and usually aim at things along the way, and there is just not an imperfection on greens to aim at. It’s a good problem.”
Schmelzel is making her fourth appearance.
“This place is really special,” Schmelzel said. “I feel like growing up watching the LPGA Tour, these are holes that I remember. These are holes that I wanted to be on one day.”
Park played as a single in the first group in the afternoon off the first tee.
“It was kind of weird the first couple holes just playing by myself,” Park said. “It was really peaceful."
Top-ranked Jin Young Ko, the 2019 winner, shot a 74 to end her under-par streak at 34 rounds. Her run of at least one birdie ended at 53 rounds.
“I was hitting lots of great shots, but my putting wasn’t good,” she said. “I couldn’t see the break as much or speed. Everything was wrong."
Ally Ewing and Moriya Jutanugarn had an eventful finish on the par-5 18th when the sprinklers on the green turned on at about 6 p.m. as Ewing was preparing for a 4-foot birdie putt. After a short delay, she holed out for a 70.
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Working in Japan has many benefits. One of which is the actual employment benefits plan all full-time employees get. You will get health insurance, pension, paid leave and various allowances. The usual ones are transportation and meal allowances. But many companies also offer moving bonuses and family support like marriage, child, funeral.
All this is, of course, separate from the (usually) bi-annual salary bonus.
But since the IT market can get competitive and there is a shortage of IT professionals in Japan, most companies have their own welfare systems. Think extra perks.
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Regular events
Maybe you have already heard about Japanese business etiquette. And how in the golden-olden times you were supposed to go to company drinking parties not to come over as impolite. Well, those times are (mostly) gone.
Instead, you get seasonal parties like Christmas and New Year.
And to keep the current aces and future prospects motivated, special events. Think family-friendly BBQs and all you can eat pizza parties.
If you already have experience working in Europe or the States, you might be familiar with the ‘Taco Fridays’. In-office treats you get on certain days. It can be anything from simple tea and biscuits to boutique sweets.
The more practical
With all that is happening with the economy and the job market, it is hard to blame one for being a little cynical. Maybe you want to spend your spare time with your family and friends rather than a company function. Or maybe you don’t even like pizza that much.
No worries, some companies will go out of their way to help you get your mind off some of life’s trivialities.
There are positions that come with options like easy access to nurseries, dry cleaners, fitness gyms and recreational facilities.
Special Health Care
Most Japanese companies offer a yearly basic health check. But some companies beef this up to a full head to toe medical check. That, in some cases, is even bi-annual.
Another cool thing the more modern-minded companies offer is mental health care.
A popular example is to have days for service dogs trained to give anxiety relief. Once a week or so, the dog handlers and the PSDs (psychiatric service dogs) visit the companies and spend time with the workers.
Flexible working hours and remote work
The big one.
As an IT professional, the ability to work remotely is probably the most sought after ‘Perk’. There’s good news and more good news.
Modern Japanese companies are constantly trying to improve by creating the best, most productive environment for their workers. Various studies and the conditions caused by the C-word- you must be so bored of hearing by now, show that working out of the office is the most productive method for (most) IT specialists.
It is likely that the company you want to work for already has this figured out and, working from home or a place of your liking, is very much on the table.
If you are happy to go to the office but would like to do it a little later or a little earlier, no problem. Most Japanese companies have a thing called flex-time. You can avoid the peak travel times by shifting the start/end of your workday.
Conclusion
Working as an IT professional in Japan is not too different from working for a top European or American company. You get all the benefits the labour law grants you. And to make the position and the work environment more appealing a little extra. It differs from company to company, but there are many great options.
If you struggle to find something on your own, get a recruitment agency to help you. I know a great one, can you guess which? | https://talenthub.jp/blog/uncategorized/welfare-in-japanese-it-companies/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:44Z |
The 2022 Jones County Tourism Kick-Off was held Tuesday, March 22, at the Camp Courageous Durgin Pavilion.
The event featured a light program with refreshments and displays.
In addition to displays from local tourism attractions, like the National Motorcycle Museum, and general information about the county’s tourism options. Highlights included the nine museums, 51 parks, split between 22 city parks, six Iowa Department of Natural Resources areas and 23 parks under the umbrella of Jones County Conservation, 900 places to camp, five county golf courses, hiking trails with canoeing opportunities, tourist attractions, like Stone City and the new Jones County Freedom Rock, events like the hill climb and the two fairs, the Wyoming Fair and Great Jones County Fair.
In addition to educating the local community, the tourism office also showcases Jones County attractions to those outside of the county through marketing efforts, trade shows and bus tours given in the county.
The goals of the county’s tourism industry are to increase awareness of Jones County as a vacation destination, increase membership in the Jones County Tourism Association, increase attraction/organization participation in jones County tourism, increase overnight stays in Jones County motels and bed and breakfasts and expand volunteer base. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/news/tourism-holds-kick-off/article_7f0b12e0-dc84-5155-8647-1aac4f56c7d5.html | 2022-04-01T01:59:46Z |
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On Monday, a great deal of attention was focused on little Fayetteville, West Virginia — population 2,806 — because of plans to invest $15 million into renovating three former schools into boutique hotels and apartments. Fayetteville native Charlie Wendell and his development company, Mountain Shores Properties, will...
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NEW YORK (AP) — More than 4 in 10 U.S. high school students said they felt persistently sad or hopeless during the pandemic, according to government findings released Thursday.
Several medical groups have warned that pandemic isolation from school closures and lack of social gatherings has taken a toll on young people’s mental health.
“This really gives us the evidence to say with certainty that the pandemic was incredibly disruptive for young people and their families,” said Kathleen Ethier of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The reports are based on anonymous online surveys of about 7,700 public and private high school students from 128 schools during the first six months of 2021. It is based on a similar survey the CDC conducts every other year in schools,
Among the findings:
—44% reported feeling persistently sad of hopeless during the past year. A similar survey before COVID-19 hit put the figure at 37%.
—66% said they found it more difficult to complete their schoolwork.
—29% said a parent or other adult in their home lost a job and 11% said they experienced physical abuse by a parent or other adult at home.
—24% said they went hungry during the pandemic because there was not enough food at home.
There likely was some underreporting, especially for certain questions about emotional or physical abuse in the home. Teens might be afraid that an abusive parent or other adult might see their responses, said Ilan Cerna-Turoff, a Columbia University researcher who studies children’s mental health.
CDC officials said that the pandemic did not affect teens equally. LGBT youth reported poorer mental health and more suicide attempts than others. About 75% said they suffered emotional abuse in the home and 20% reported physical abuse. By comparison, half of heterosexual students reported emotional abuse and 10% reported physical abuse, the CDC said.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Gov. Ron DeSantis floated the idea Thursday of changing Florida law to revoke the Walt Disney Company’s right of self-rule in the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the Florida-based seat of the Magic Kingdom.
In the days since DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education bill into law, which opponents call the “Don’t Say Gay” law, opposition to the legislation by Disney has provoked talk of using state legislation to take away the company’s ability to self-govern its lands. Disney first got the right of legal self-control in 1967, with passage of the Reedy Creek Improvement Act.
According to historical documents from the Reedy Creek Improvement District, then-Florida Gov. Claude Kirk signed the RCID Act into law in May 1967, creating two municipalities: Bay Lake and Reedy Creek, which was later renamed Lake Buena Vista. The location, nestled between Orange and Osceola counties, would later become the site where Walt Disney World was built.
The RCID Charter created a 25,000-acre of land as a special taxing district. At the time, it was considered remote and uninhabitable, but now is the site of one of the busiest theme parks in the United States.
To make Disney’s plan happen, the area had to get special privileges from the state of Florida to essentially run itself.
“In 1967, the Florida State legislature, working with Walt Disney World Company, created a special taxing district – called the Reedy Creek Improvement District – that would act with the same authority and responsibility as a county government,” RCID says on its website.
Enter an era of the Magic Kingdom living a life of self-determination and self-rule.
Now, following the company’s public opposition to HB 1557, DeSantis and other state lawmakers have said they’re considering revoking that charter through a repeal of the RCIA, potentially ending Disney’s right to rule in Central Florida.
State Representative Spencer Roach, R-Fort Myers, tweeted on March 30 that he met with colleagues for a second time to discuss repeal of the decades-old law. In Ponte Vedra Beach on Thursday, DeSantis said he wanted to repeal it but not just over the current political fight, and not just the privilege that Disney currently enjoys.
The governor’s words are reminiscent of the state’s 2021 “Big Tech Censorship Crackdown,” in which a law was passed to allow lawsuits against companies like Facebook and Twitter over banning political candidates and equating it to a fight over free speech.
In his speech in Ponte Vedra Beach, DeSantis said the point was to take away the power of “woke” corporations from interfering in Florida politics.
“I would not say that would be retaliatory. The way I view it is there are certain entities that have exerted a lot of influence through corporate means to generate special privileges in the law. I don’t think we should have special privileges in the law at all,” DeSantis said. “Some of these things have developed over the years. I had to deal with this last year, when we passed a law last year to protect Floridians from big tech censorship. The idea was to let them be able to sue under the ‘Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act,’ protect political candidates from being de-platformed, stuff that was good. And it’s being litigated in the courts, which we knew it would. But at the 11th hour, the Legislature slips in a provision in that law that said ‘If you operate a theme park, it doesn’t apply to you.’ And that was meant solely to protect Disney.”
DeSantis said when the provision was added, he had to decide whether to veto the bill and “throw the baby out with the bathwater” or allow it to become law as-is, with the protection for theme parks. To be clear, Disney is not the only theme park in Florida. Universal Studios, SeaWorld, Legoland, Busch Gardens and Discovery Cove are all in the state, to name a few.
DeSantis claims he isn’t just targeting Disney over his administration’s current disagreements with the company.
“I don’t think it’s retaliatory, I just think that Disney’s posturing has alienated a lot of people now. And so, the political influence they’re used to wielding, I think has dissipated, so the question is ‘Why would you want to have special privileges in the law, at all?'” DeSantis said. “And I don’t think that we should. But it’s not a matter of acting like those were really great policies. I think that those were policies over decades that were embedded in Florida’s law, largely because they wielded a lot of influence. I think because they’ve been able to do that over the years, I think that’s why they’ve gotten so, that’s one of the reasons they’ve got so far over their skis on this parental rights stuff.”
He said he thinks Disney is used to getting their way, and not having lawmakers stop them. DeSantis said he thinks that’s different now.
“They’re not used to having people that will stand in their way and say ‘Actually, the state of Florida’s going to be governed by the best interests of its people in Florida,” DeSantis said. “We’re certainly not going to bend a knee to woke executives in California. That is not the way the state is going to be run.”
Other than the “big tech carve-out” from 2021, he said he’s never given Disney anything while he’s been governor. DeSantis said he wanted to “reevaluate any special privileges of the law,” not just Disney’s. | https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/florida-gop-considers-revoking-disney-worlds-right-to-self-rule-over-dont-say-gay-opposition/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:49Z |
By Avinash Rajput
Although the much-awaited Sinhagad Road flyover has got a new layout with the inclusion of additional pillars keeping the Metro route in mind, it is not certain whether the traffic woes of commuters will cease due to the lack of continuity and connection of the overbridge till the Rajaram Bridge signal.
Locals feel that the stretch from Dhayari to Swargate should end near the Rajaram Bridge instead of ending at the petrol pump at Vithalwadi, a junction prior. The other stretch will start from the Rajaram Bridge signal and end at Sharda Mutt.
As such, residents are demanding that instead of making two stretches of the flyover for a road section of 400 metres, the earlier part of the flyover stretch should have a ramp for commuters who want to take a left towards Karve Nagar.
Underlining the fact that the plan is set to compound traffic congestion by creating bottlenecks at the two prominent signals, thus defeating its purpose, Ruta Deshpande, a resident of Anand Nagar, said, “Instead of dividing the flyover into two stretches, the overbridge should be designed in such a manner that it passes above the two signals. It would be pointless if the traffic congestion continued at the signal. The PMC should reconsider the draft plan and make necessary changes before kicking off the work.”
Commenting on the issue, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Madhuri Misal said she has been advocating the construction of a single stretch of the flyover right from the day when the planning for the project started five years ago.
“Now, the bridge’s layout has been changed to accommodate the installation of pillars to ease the work on the Metro project. The flyover near Dhayari is ending near the petrol pump at Vithalwadi instead of Rajaram Bridge. I will hold a meeting with PMC commissioner Vikram Kumar and the engineers involved to suggest changes,” Misal said.
She also assured that efforts were being made to start alternative routes soon to avoid traffic snarls in the area when the flyover construction work would begin.
An estimate of Rs 135 crore was prepared by the civic administration. The contract has been awarded to T&T Infra Ltd for Rs 134.70 crore. The project is likely to be completed in 36 months.
While maintaining that the original project has not been changed much, Kumar said, “Only extra pillars have been included along the whole stretch of the flyover.
Since the inception of the plan, two stretches of the flyover have been envisaged near the Rajaram Bridge. The consultant must have studied the areas before finalising the plan. However, we are open for discussion and exploring the possibilities of changing the plan if required.” | https://punemirror.com/pune/civic/Will-Sinhagad-Road-residents-ever-be-free-of-traffic-woes/cid7038023.htm | 2022-04-01T01:59:50Z |
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — Representative Buddy Carter is sounding the alarm on the potential future of the Combat Readiness Training Center (CRTC). He says he’s received word that the 2023 proposed federal budget would close the facility.
“You’ve got your most utilized, your most efficient combat readiness training center and you’re going to close it. This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of,” Carter said Thursday.
The CRTC is located on the grounds of the 165th Air Lift Wing in Garden City and Carter says it’s one of the busiest in the country.
Every F-22 fighter has been trained in Savannah over the past year, every one of them,” said Carter.
Carter said he received a heads up about the budget proposal and on Wednesday confirmed with the Air Force.
“I had a call yesterday with the leaders of the Air Force explaining what they were having to do,” Carter said. “What’s happened within the Air Force is that the National Guard budget is being cut and this is the way they’re trying to accommodate those cuts.”
The plan proposal would keep three other training centers around the country open in Wisconsin, Mississippi and Michigan.
But Carter insists that picking the Savannah area facility doesn’t make sense. He said last week more than $1,000,000 in new technology was installed and that construction of a $24 million hangar is still being completed.
“And now all of that is going to go to waste because they’re going to close this center down,” said Carter.
We’re told that there are 117 jobs at stake and Carter says many of them are civilian jobs.
“This will impact the economy in our area but more importantly it impacts the security of our country,” Carter said.
Carter says with the state of the world there should be more training centers not less.
“We need to end this, this is ludicrous, we need more combat readiness training centers, not cutting them out. We need to be doing just the opposite,” said Carter.
Carter stressed this is just a proposal but said the Georgia delegation is looking at ways to ultimately keep funding for the CRTC. | https://www.wsav.com/news/local-news/savannah/rep-buddy-carter-angry-about-proposed-closure-of-combat-readiness-training-center-near-savannah/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:50Z |