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The
Department of Telecom has asked telecom operators to withdraw all
COVID pre-call announcements and
caller tunes. The telecom service providers have been playing the pre-call announcements and caller tunes related to
coronavirus to spread awareness among citizens and to tell them about the precautions and vaccination to be taken during the pandemic.
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.
"In this regard, the approval of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is received for withdrawal of the caller tunes with immediate effect," it said.
Accordingly, the telecom service providers have been asked to withdraw all the corona pre-call announcements and caller tunes issued by DoT from time to time.
The government had earlier received representations that the audio clips have served their intended purpose and were delaying critical calls during emergencies. | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/govt-asks-telcos-to-withdraw-covid-pre-call-announcements-caller-tunes/90580959 | 2022-04-01T01:59:50Z |
GREENWOOD, Ind. — 13Sports director Dave Calabro took a drive to Greenwood to speak with the customers and staff at Main Street Grille, asking them to share their good news.
The visit began with one customer singing the praises of the restaurant.
"The quality of the food, it's always consistent, and the service is always great," he said.
The same customer said his good news was simple.
"Waking up this morning. From there, it's downhill," he said with a smile. "That's good news!"
Another customer told Dave he was a fan of their sweets.
"Their prime dessert, the Ice Cream Brownie Delight, it is unbelievable," he said.
The employees also had great things to say about the restaurant's positive environment.
"I feel like we're all family around here, customers, the co-workers, the bosses," said one staff member. "Everyone knows everybody, for the most part."
Dave asked her how the business survived the pandemic.
"You know, actually, our customers took really good care of us. They did. They came in, got to-go from us and tipped us really good. We survived," she said.
You can see more of Dave's Main Street Grille stop in the media player, and check out some previous Good News stories in the links below.
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The Dragon Prince’s new TRPG Tales of Xadia bridges the animated show’s third and fourth season
Roleplay on the Wyrm-Wide Web.Tales of Xadia, The Dragon Prince’s officially licenced tabletop RPG, launched on March 29th, offering a digital copy of the core book alongside a suite of web-based tools. The physical book will arrive a few weeks later thanks to shipping delays, but publishers Cortex and Fandom Gaming invited Dicebreaker to preview how the game adapts the popular animated series.
The Dragon Prince follows a group of young heroes as they journey across the world to bring the titular young dragon to its rightful home amid mounting political tensions and the emotional pitfalls of growing up. Tales of Xadia takes place in the same setting but lets players create their own characters within the various societies and cultures of Xadia while the magical elves and the more militant humans prepare for war.
Tales of Xadia establishes a mechanical foundation using Cortex Prime, the most recent iteration of a genre-agnostic, modular toolset first created by designer Cam Bank and more recently acquired by Fandom for its new tabletop branch. Community manager Mellie Doucette led a brief demo adventure that included an explanation of character creation. A classic array of stats - with the addition of spirit, which Doucette described as “gumption” or “wherewithal” - will seem familiar to any Dungeons & Dragons players, but Tales of Xadia places a stronger emphasis on a character's relation to the world than their capacity of killing.
This design principle is evident in two other important character bits - distinctions and values. Distinctions explain someone’s place within society and their formal ties to political entities. For example, Bineta is both a Sunfire Elf and a Knight of Lux Auria, both of which are tools a player can rely on during conflict and roleplay. Values are the ideals that shape how a character views the world and interprets their own actions. All six - devotion, glory, mastery, liberty, truth and justice - will have a die attached that signifies how important they are to the character (bigger dice means more belief) along with a brief statement detailing their outlook. These aren’t stuck on a morel binary - a thief may have the largest die in Tales of Xadia, a d12, assigned to truth because they see it as the most useful and reliable tool in their trade.
In play, characters can evoke the values, distinctions and assets - the category where weapons and more traditional equipment fall - as possible solutions for the problems they will encounter throughout their adventures. Players work with the facilitator to build a dice pool out of the relevant details, and the resulting success or failure will be tied to whatever they brought to bear. Players also have the option to intentionally take a lower die in order to store a Plot Point to use during a more pivotal moment. All of these approaches allowed the Cortex Prime team to translate to the tabletop a show where violence is often the last resort, and one not taken lightly.
“We can focus on sorts of things that are conflicts that aren't necessarily physical battle type conflicts, and there was a lot of that driving the flow of character development on the show,” Banks said. “These were characters who were making extremely difficult choices based on what they felt was right and what they felt was supposed to happen. And sometimes they really didn't get what they wanted out of it.”
Tales of Xadia includes three published adventures at launch that players can use as the beginning of their own homebrewed stories or link together as a larger narrative. A collection of smaller encounters, which Doucette called “fun-sized tales” will be released in the coming weeks as Fables of Xadia and will build on the conflicts and locations introduced in both the show and the core book’s fiction.
The tabletop RPG adaptation falls during the prolonged gap between The Dragon Prince’s third season, which aired in 2018 and the upcoming fourth season. While not originally the plan, Wonderstorm co-founders Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond said that Tales of Xadia has been an apt avenue of exploring people and places of the world that can’t necessarily be the focus of the animated show. “We want it to have that kind of relevance and connection on an ongoing basis. So that's to say, there's not a specific plan to be like, “Oh, there's gonna be some Tales of Xadia stuff between season five and season six”, but that would be a very natural expectation if we want it to be connected to the world and real and relevant on an ongoing basis,” Ehasz said.
Platform host Netflix has renewed the show through a seven season run that will reportedly close out the planned story, but no release dates have been provided. That’s likely due to production delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic but may also be tied to the 2019 allegations of misogyny, professional neglect and gaslighting against Ehasz. Several people left Wonderstorm after sharing their stories, all of which centred on Ehasz’s mistreatment and mismanagement of women at the company.
Tales of Xadia has been an important project for Cortex Prime in helping to create the core of the team’s new digital toolset, including character journals, dice trays and other resources. Fandom Tabletop also handled D&D Beyond, which explains some of the emphasis on developing online capabilities for new licenced TRPGs, but the team said every new release - such as the upcoming Legends of Grayskull game - will expand and refine what’s on offer.
“I think it's kind of gonna help pave the way to continue to make digital first be something that is almost a part of the expected experience for a first class game,” Doucette said. “I don't think anybody's expecting every indie TTRPG to have a digital toolset - that seems very unfair. But I think just for these triple-A games, this should be something that we start to see and expect from everywhere.” | https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/tales-of-xadia/news/tales-of-xadia-rpg-dragon-prince-cortex-interview | 2022-04-01T01:59:50Z |
The Ukrainian government said Russian forces blocked 45 buses that had been sent to evacuate civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol, and only 631 people were able to get out of the city in private cars.
Twelve Ukrainian trucks were able to deliver humanitarian supplies to Mariupol, but the supplies were seized by Russian troops, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said late Thursday.
According to Ukrainian officials, tens of thousands of people have made it out of Mariupol in recent weeks along humanitarian corridors, reducing the prewar population of 430,000 to about 100,000 by last week.
Vereshchuk said about 45,000 Mariupol residents have been forcefully deported to Russia and areas of eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Heavy fighting rages near Kyiv as Russia appears to regroup
— Kremlin decree says foreign currency can still buy natural gas
— As Russia sees tech brain drain, other nations hope to gain
— Ukraine refugees encouraged to find work as exodus slows
— Ukrainians in US mobilize to help expected refugees
— Go to https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine for more coverage
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
LVIV, Ukraine — The last Russian troops left the Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, according to the Ukrainian government agency responsible for the exclusion zone around the plant.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Russian troops who dug trenches in the forest were exposed to radiation, but that could not be confirmed.
The Ukrainian nuclear operator company Energoatom said Thursday that Russian troops were headed toward Ukraine’s border with Belarus.
Energoatom said that the Russian military was also preparing to leave Slavutych, a nearby city where power plant workers live.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after Russian troops withdrew from the north and center of the country, the situation has been heating up in the southeast where Russian forces are building up for new powerful attacks.
In his nighttime video address to the nation Thursday, Zelenskyy said it was heartening for all Ukrainians to see Russian troops retreating from north of Kyiv, from around the northern town of Chernihiv and from Sumy in the northeast. By he urged Ukrainians not to let up, saying the withdrawal was just a Russian tactic.
Zelenskyy said he spoke Thursday with European Council President Charles Michel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while his adviser spoke with U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
“We need more support from our partners right now when Russian troops are concentrating additional forces in certain areas,” Zelenskyy said.
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WASHINGTON — The top-ranking Ukrainian Catholic cleric in the United States warned Thursday that religious minorities in the Eastern European country stand to be “crushed” if Moscow gains control, as fighting raged on more than a month after the Russian invasion began.
Archbishop Borys Gudziak said groups at risk include Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox who have broken away from the patriarch of Moscow.
Gudziak also cited reports that Russian forces have damaged two Holocaust memorials and Moscow’s false portrayal of Ukraine as a “Nazi” state although Ukraine overwhelmingly elected a Jewish president in Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“What is at stake for the people of faith is their freedom to practice their faith,” Gudziak said during an online panel discussion on the war, hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.
Gudziak is head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and president of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He also oversees external relations for the Kyiv-based Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says an initial half-dozen shipments of weapons and other security assistance have reached Ukraine as part of the $800 million package of aid that President Joe Biden approved on March 16.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that the shipments included Javelin anti-tank weapons, Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, body armor, medical supplies and other material. He said the 100 Switchblade armed drones that Biden approved as part of the package have not yet been delivered.
Kirby said the $800 million in assistance is likely to be fully delivered within about two weeks. It also includes Mi-17 helicopters, small arms, ammunition, vehicles, secure communications systems, and satellite imagery and analysis capability.
Separately, Kirby said U.S. troops are not training Ukrainian troops in Poland but are acting as liaisons with Ukrainian personnel who cross the border into Poland to take possession of U.S. security assistance. He noted that the standard U.S. military training mission that had existed in Ukraine for years was suspended shortly before Russia invaded.
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DOHA, Qatar — A video showing the head of Ukrainian soccer wearing an armored vest on the streets of Kyiv brought the impact of Russia’s war into the FIFA Congress.
Andriy Pavelko used a recorded message to the gathering in Qatar on Thursday to talk about the deaths of footballers even as the sport “has taken a back seat in our country.”
The gathering in Doha featured delegates from Russia, including Alexey Sorokin, the chief executive of Russia’s 2018 World Cup organizing committee.
Russia won’t be in the draw for the World Cup on Friday after being disqualified from playing internationally by FIFA over the war. Ukraine can still qualify but its playoff semifinal against Scotland has been postponed until June with the hope the team will be in a position to return to the field by then.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s ombudsperson says that at least one person has been killed and four others have been wounded in the Russian shelling of a humanitarian convoy.
Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova said those who came under the shelling on Thursday were volunteers accompanying a convoy of buses sent to the northern city of Chernihiv to evacuate residents.
She said that the Russian forces besieging Chernihiv have made it impossible to evacuate civilians from the city that has been cut from food, water and other supplies.
The Russian shelling continued two days after Moscow announced it would scale back military operations around Kyiv and Chernihiv.
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BERLIN — The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has been informed by Ukraine that the Russian forces which were in control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant have “in writing, transferred control” of the facility to Ukrainian personnel.
Ukraine said three convoys of Russian forces have already left the site toward Belarus, while the remaining troops were presumed to be preparing to leave, the agency said Thursday.
The IAEA added that it was in close consultations with Ukrainian authorities on sending a first assistance and support mission to Chernobyl in the next few days.
The agency said it has not been able to confirm reports of Russian forces receiving high doses of radiation while being inside the exclusion zone of the now-closed plant, but is seeking further information in order to provide an independent assessment of the situation.
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his offer to host a meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian leaders during a telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
A statement from Erdogan’s office said the Turkish president also told Zelenskyy Thursday that a meeting between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators who met in Istanbul earlier this week had given “a meaningful impetus” to efforts to end the fighting.
Earlier this week, Ukraine’s delegation laid out a framework under which the country would declare itself neutral and its security would be guaranteed by an array of nations, including Turkey.
Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a joint news conference with a top Turkish Cypriot official that Erdogan also is expected to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said there’s “no clear evidence” that Vladimir Putin is scaling back military operations around Kyiv and suggested that the Russian president may have ordered some of his advisers fired or placed under house arrest.
Biden told reporters that “there’s some indication” that Putin has taken those steps against some of his advisers. He added, “But I don’t want to put too much stock in that at this time because we don’t have that much hard evidence.”
The White House on Wednesday released unclassified intelligence findings that Putin is being misinformed by his advisors about how badly the Russian military is performing.
The president made the comments after formally announcing that the U.S. would release 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve in hopes of easing surging gasoline prices.
Biden also reiterated that his administration remains skeptical that Russia will scale back operations around Kyiv as Moscow announced earlier this week.
Russian forces continued to shell Kyiv suburbs Thursday, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv.
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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine says the United Nations and its partners have delivered supplies for thousands of people in the country’s northeast but have been unable to reach some encircled cities in the south.
Osnat Lubrani said Thursday that food rations from the humanitarian organization People in Need and the U.N. World Food Program will benefit nearly 6,000 people in Sumy and areas including Trostianets and Okhtyrka.
In addition, she said, basic household items including blankets and kettles from the U.N. refugee agency will support 1,500 people and sanitation kits will help 6,000 people with hygiene and drinking water.
Lubrani said medical supplies and trauma kits from the U.N. World Health Organization will treat 150 patients needing intensive care for serious injuries while other medical supplies will support 10,000 people for three months.
Shei said the U.N.-facilitated humanitarian notification system with Ukraine and Russia enabled safe passage for the convoy to Sumy on Thursday “but this is clearly not enough.” Efforts over the past month to reach Mauripol, Kherson and other encircled cities in the south have been unsuccessful because of safety concerns.
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BERLIN — The U.N. nuclear watchdog says its director-general has arrived in Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad for talks with senior Russian officials.
The International Atomic Energy Agency didn’t specify in a tweet whom exactly Rafael Mariano Grossi will meet on Friday or give further details of his agenda.
He arrived in Kaliningrad Thursday following a visit to Ukraine, where he visited a nuclear power plant and conferred with the energy minister and other officials on efforts to ensure the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants.
Ukraine has 15 active nuclear reactors at four plants -- one of which, at Zaporizhzhia, is under the Russian military’s control.
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GENEVA — A team with the International Committee of the Red Cross has arrived in a Ukraine-held city where staff are preparing to take civilians out of the beleaguered port city of Mariupol.
Julien Lerisson, deputy director of operations for the ICRC, said Thursday that the team assembling in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, has medicines, food, water, hygiene items and other essentials.
He said the organization has high-level agreement for the mission but is focused on making sure “the order trickles down the chain of command,” allowing the team to enter and leave Mariupol safely.
The Russian military has said it committed to a cease-fire along the route from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian authorities have said 45 buses would be sent to collect citizens and provide resources to those who remain.
Lucile Marbeau, a staff member with the ICRC team hoping to enter Mariupol, said on Thursday: “We’re here because really, we hope to be able to facilitate safe passage for civilians desperately wanting to flee Mariupol.”
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LONDON — Britain’s defense minister says Ukraine’s international allies have agreed to send more military equipment, including artillery ammunition and armored vehicles.
U.K. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace held a conference call Thursday with defense ministers from more than 35 countries, including the United States, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan.
Wallace said that as a result “there will be more lethal aid going into Ukraine.” He said that would include “more long-range artillery, ammunition predominantly,” to help counter Russia’s bombardment of Ukraine’s cities.
Wallace said Ukraine was “also looking for armoured vehicles of some types, not tanks necessarily, but certainly protective vehicles.”
He said allies were also “looking to see what more we can do” to help Ukraine defend its coastline.
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has sanctioned an employee of a state-affiliated Russian defense firm that developed malicious software that was used to target the energy sector.
The Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh. He was one of four Russians charged in Justice Department indictments unsealed last week that alleged the hacking by Russia of critical infrastructure around the globe, including in the U.S. energy and aviation sectors.
Among the thousands of computers targeted in some 135 countries were of a Saudi petro-chemical plant where the hackers overrode safety controls.
That hack is singled out in a Treasury Department release announcing sanctions against Gladikh and several other employees of the research firm. In total, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced that it was designating 21 entities and 13 individuals, including in the aerospace, marine and electronics sectors.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Russian troops were leaving the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and heading towards Ukraine’s border with Belarus, the Ukrainian nuclear operator company said Thursday.
The operator, Energoatom, said that the Russian military was also preparing to leave Slavutych, a nearby city where power plant workers live.
Energoatom also said reports were confirmed that the Russians dug trenches in the Red Forest, the 10-square-kilometer (nearly four-square-mile) area surrounding the Chernobyl plant within the Exclusion Zone, and received “significant doses of radiation.”
The Russian troops “panicked at the first sign of illness,” which “showed up very quickly,” and began to prepare to leave, the operator said. The claim couldn’t be independently verified.
Energoatom said the Russians have signed a document confirming the handover of the Chernobyl plant and stating that the plant’s administration doesn’t have any complaints about the Russian troops who were “guarding” the facility.
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LONDON — The head of Britain’s military says Russian President Vladimir Putin has “already lost” in Ukraine and is weaker than he was before the invasion.
Adm. Tony Radakin at a think-tank seminar Thursday in London said Moscow’s aim to “take the whole of Ukraine” fell apart. He added that the coming weeks “will continue to be very difficult” for Ukraine.
“But in many ways, Putin has already lost,” he said. “Far from being the far-sighted manipulator of events that he would have us believe, Putin has damaged himself through a series of catastrophic misjudgements.”
Radakin also said there was “disquiet” at all levels of Russia’s military about the campaign, from troops who were not told they were invading Ukraine up to senior commanders.
Western officials say Putin’s small inner circle is not giving him the true picture of the war, and his isolation may have contributed to miscalculating the strength of resistance Russian troops would meet.
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BERLIN — The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe expressed regret Thursday at Russia’s decision to veto the extension of its observer mission in Ukraine.
The OSCE’s special monitoring mission has been present in Ukraine since 2014, when fighting between Ukrainians and Russia-backed separatists broke out in the country’s eastern regions after Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, who holds the OSCE rotating chair, said the observers had played a “crucial role by providing objective information on the security and humanitarian situation on the ground and relentlessly working to ease the effects of the conflict on the civilian population” in Ukraine for the past eight year.
The Vienna-based body’s secretary general, Helga Maria Schmid, expressed gratitude to the mission’s members, several of whom were wounded or killed over the years.
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BERLIN — Germany’s economy minister says Europe should impose additional sanctions on Russia to prevent what he described as a “barbaric” war in Ukraine.
Robert Habeck said he discussed what further measures could be taken with his French counterpart during a bilateral meeting in Berlin on Thursday.
“The last package (of sanctions) doesn’t need to be the final one, it should not be the final one,” he told reporters, adding that he and French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire had “identified additional points that could be included in a (sanctions) package.”
Habeck declined to elaborate on what those points might be.
Speaking ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement on new rules requiring countries to pay for Russia’s natural gas sales in rubles, Habeck insisted that contracts would be adhered to. These stipulate payment in euros or dollars.
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BERLIN — The Austrian and German leaders have underlined their rejection of a halt to Russian energy deliveries at this point.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer noted that several central and eastern European countries depend to one extent or another on Russian gas deliveries.
He and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz argued that existing sanctions already are having a significant effect and said they need time to switch to new providers and renewable energy sources.
Nehammer said that “sanctions only make sense … when they hit those they are supposed to hit, and don’t weaken those who carry out sanctions.”
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ROME — A Kremlin decree says “unfriendly countries” can continue to pay for natural gas in foreign currency through a Russian bank that will convert the money into rubles.
The decree published Thursday by state media came a day after the leaders of Italy and Germany said they received assurances from President Vladimir Putin.
Putin talked tougher, saying Russia will start accepting ruble payments starting Friday for Western countries that imposed sanctions over its conflict with Ukraine. He said contracts will be stopped if buyers don’t sign up to the new conditions, including opening ruble accounts in Russian banks.
European leaders had rejected paying for deliveries in rubles, saying it would undermine sanctions imposed because of the war in Ukraine.
The decree Putin signed and published by state news agency RIA Novosti says a designated bank will open two accounts for each buyer, one in foreign currency and one in rubles. The buyers will pay in foreign currency and authorize the bank to sell that currency for rubles, which are placed in the second account, where the gas is formally purchased.
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ROME — Italy’s leader is urging Europe to “cultivate all available land” as a partial remedy to reductions in agricultural imports, especially of Russian grain, due to the war in Ukraine.
Premier Mario Draghi told reporters on Thursday that under existing agricultural practices in the European Union 10% of land is purposely left fallow, but that must now change as European countries search for ways to reduce dependency on farm imports.
It’s not clear whether Ukraine, one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, maize and sunflower oil, might be able to salvage any of this planting season.
Meanwhile, Draghi noted that Western Europe will be looking to food producers like Canada, the United States and Argentina to help make up the shortfall of imports from Ukraine and Russia.
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STOCKHOLM — The deputy director of Sweden’s Military Intelligence and Security agency says Russia has made “a strategic miscalculation when invading Ukraine.”
Daniel Olsson said the invasion of Ukraine “has shown that the Russian leadership is ready to take great risks, larger than previously taken.”
The government agency’s analysis suggested a likely “a western containment of Russia,” including reducing trade in Russian energy.
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GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A South Carolina middle school student said he was walking down the hall with a friend when the friend pulled out a gun and shot another student Thursday afternoon.
The victim of the shooting at Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville County was pronounced dead at an area hospital, according to Nexstar’s WSPA. Community activist Bruce Wilson, a family friend, identified the student as 12-year-old Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson.
“We were friends, and we were just walking down the hallway. He was walking really fast, and he looked really nervous. … And all of a sudden, he just reaches in his backpack, just pulls out a gun, fires one shot,” a seventh-grader identified only as Michael said. “I didn’t think twice. I just ran.”
Michael said he had never seen his friend walk like that or act that nervous, but he didn’t realize a shooting was about to happen.
When he saw his friend pull a gun out of his backpack, he remembered thinking, “Oh my God. He’s about to shoot the school.”
Michael said students started screaming, running to classrooms and locking the doors.
He said the shooter “just ran.”
Michael said it will be difficult to move past the deadly incident, stating, “It is going to be hard to sleep because I just know I could have lost my life that day too.”
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office took the shooter into custody in close proximity to the school.
“We are all devastated by today’s tragedy,” Jackson’s family said in a statement. “We love Jamari dearly and we would ask that our privacy be respected as we grieve during this very difficult time.”
“My heart breaks for this young boy’s family and my prayers are with them tonight,” said Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis in a statement. “Additionally, I will be praying for the other young boy who pulled the trigger and his family. I cannot fathom what would cause someone to do this to another human being and especially at that age, but I know it’s a situation where we all need to turn to God.”
Greenville County Schools Superintendent Dr. Burke Royster released this statement Thursday evening:
We are deeply saddened to hear that the student victim in the shooting at Tanglewood Middle School passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his fellow students, the staff members at the school and everyone who knew this child. This is an absolute tragedy, and we will continue to do whatever we can to support his family and the Tanglewood community as they mourn the young life that was lost today.
Dr. Burke Royster
We want to recognize the tremendous response from Principal Walles and the staff at Tanglewood, the school resource officer, Sheriff Hobart Lewis, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, EMS, and the multiple local, state and federal law enforcement agencies who all responded rapidly in accord with our emergency response plan.”
The principal of Tanglewood Middle School, Dr. Graysen Walles, also released this statement:
My heart goes out to the family of our student who passed away, and my prayers are with them. Our entire Tanglewood family is hurting with this news and from the events that took place today. Our school is mourning and will work together to heal and process this tragedy.”
Dr. Graysen Walles
Greenville County Schools announced that attendance on Friday will be optional in order to provide “counseling support for both students and staff.” | https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/its-going-to-be-hard-to-sleep-south-carolina-student-says-he-was-walking-with-shooter/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:55Z |
By Archana More
Pimpri-Chinchwad police use all their expertise to solve murders, but unidentified bodies make their probe difficult; six cases remain unanswered with no arrests made; latest being of a woman’s body found on a tree on Wednesday; top cop Krishna Prakash says unclaimed bodies pose a huge challenge
We might be under the impression that our city is safe, but an astounding number of 85 murders were reported in the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation jurisdiction in the year 2021 alone.
The cops are at their wits’ end and completely clueless as six of those cases still remain unsolved. These undetected murders threw unparalleled challenges before the police. While probing these cases, they checked the missing persons records all over the state, reviewed a large number of CCTV camera footage, used human intelligence, conducted technical analyses and inquired hundreds of people, however, their efforts did not pay off. All of these cases are baffling, strange, creepy, frustratingly unanswered and above all, the victims remain unidentified.
The latest case is of a woman whose highly decomposed body was found on a tree near a river in Hinjewadi. The cops managed to identify the body on Thursday after continuous efforts, but they are yet to figure out whether it is a murder or death by suicide case.
The police on Wednesday received a call from a local about the body of a woman being spotted. A police team rushed to the spot and found that the decomposed body was kept on a tree next to the Mula river at Maan in Hinjewadi.
Police commissioner Krishna Prakash formed three teams and launched a probe into the matter. On Thursday, the cops were able to identify the deceased as Sudha Sadashiv Hawde (57), a resident of Dhamale Vasti, Nanded, in Mulshi taluka. The cops said the gown worn by the woman helped them in i dentifying her.
According to police, Hawde left home without informing anyone after a heated argument with her son. Her husband had filed a missing complaint with Pune rural police. The cops suspect that Hawde might have committed suicide. However, DNA reports are awaited.
Speaking to Mirror, Prakash said, “Prima facie, it seems to be a case of suicide. However, further investigations are underway, and DNA test reports are awaited. Police investigation revealed that the woman left home after a quarrel with her son over his marriage. She was forcing him to ‘get settled’, and after their arguments, the woman left her house around eight to nine months back.”
Prakash said there is a possibility that the woman’s body drifted to Hinjewadi during a flood and got stuck on the tree. “We are looking at all possible angles,” he added. The Pimpri-Chinchwad police commissionerate has 18 police stations under its jurisdiction.
The crime branch is composed of several squads and five units. All the police personnel had launched massive operations and made several efforts to crack these murder cases, but they did not get any clues in their endeavours.
According to sources, these unsolved cases are spread across the twin towns. In October 2020, two women sleeping in their house in Kalewadi were murdered. The Wakad police had lodged a double-murder case, which is still undetected. The cops went to great lengths and even conducted a brain mapping and polygraph test of the daughter-in-law, son of one of the deceased women and the other two suspects, but did not get a single lead in the matter. In another case, a man was murdered in a farm. The victim did not belong to the city and had arrived on a motorcycle. There were no witnesses, and no one had ever seen him before.
The vehicle, too, could not be identified. The cops tried all possible methods to crack the case but have not succeeded till date. The police were left dumbstruck in one murder case. A man named Raju Pal had been killed.
The cops searched for him across the district and all people with that name were found to be hale and hearty. Also, there was no missing complaint lodged in any of the police stations. The case remains unsolved.
In the Bhosari MIDC area, a burning body was spotted, and till date, no one has come forward to claim the corpse.
Explaining the challenges of murder investigations, Prakash said, “The primary reason for cases to go undetected is failure to identify the bodies. When there are no claimants for the body, probing the matter gets extremely difficult. The cops face unprecedented challenges in unidentified body cases.”
Unsolved Mysteries
♦ Talegaon Dabhade: In Gahunje, a youth was killed by hitting a stone on his head. The killer kept coins of 50 paise on his neck. The murder came to light on February 8, 2021.
♦ Chinchwad: In Walhekarwadi, a man was murdered by slitting his throat with a sharp weapon. The incident took place on February 12, 2021.
♦ MIDC Bhosari: A man was set on fi re and the halfburnt body was spotted by an unidentifi ed person on February 18, 2021.
♦ Dehu Road: A man was murdered by assaulting his private parts. The incident came to light on February 28, 2021, and cops reported it as a murder case in March 2021 after the probe.
♦ Hinjawadi: A construction worker was killed with a broken glass bottle. The incident came to light on March 5, 2021.
♦ Alandi: A corpse of a woman was found in a gunny bag. Her legs and hands were tied up with a rope. The Alandi police lodged a murder case on August 12, 2021.
♦ Chikhali: Another dead woman was found with her legs and hands tied and her mouth was sealed with sellotape. | https://punemirror.com/pune/cover-story/Do-Kanoon-Ke-Haath-need-extension/cid7038012.htm | 2022-04-01T01:59:56Z |
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CANADA, March 31 - People living in Merritt and Princeton will benefit from rural development grants to help them recover from the effects of climate-related events.
“We need to ensure that we’re supporting rural communities so that jobs and services are there for the people who rely on them during and after challenging times,” said Katrine Conroy, Minister of Forests. “There’s no question that climate change has had a devastating impact on communities around the province, so we need to get funding to areas where it is most needed.”
As the lead for economic recovery in B.C.’s disaster recovery framework, the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development worked directly with communities affected by the atmospheric river flood events. As a result, economic recovery funding is being provided to both Merritt and Princeton to support these communities in their recovery efforts.
“Our province is increasingly being affected by climate change, and when communities are trying to recover from these events, we want to make sure funding is in place for residents and businesses to support their recovery needs and the economic development opportunities they identify,” said Roly Russell, Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development.
These new funds supported:
- the Princeton Industrial Park Expansion & Marketing Recovery Strategy with a grant of $500,000 to support projects that will target economic recovery through industrial business and resident attraction, and stimulation of the local tourism sector; and
- the City of Merritt with $500,000 to complete a suite of economic development projects and initiatives to support long-term economic recovery, including sustainable tourism and business and investment attraction.
This recovery funding is part of the government’s commitment to build resilient communities as outlined within the StrongerBC Economic Plan. The 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. | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/567180967/province-provides-recovery-funding-to-hard-hit-communities | 2022-04-01T01:59:53Z |
GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — A South Carolina middle school student said he was walking down the hall with a friend when the friend pulled out a gun and shot another student Thursday afternoon.
The victim of the shooting at Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville County was pronounced dead at an area hospital, according to Nexstar’s WSPA. Community activist Bruce Wilson, a family friend, identified the student as 12-year-old Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson.
“We were friends, and we were just walking down the hallway. He was walking really fast, and he looked really nervous. … And all of a sudden, he just reaches in his backpack, just pulls out a gun, fires one shot,” a seventh grader identified only as Michael said. “I didn’t think twice. I just ran.”
Michael said he had never seen his friend walk like that or act that nervous, but he didn’t realize a shooting was about to happen.
When he saw his friend pull a gun out of his backpack, he remembered thinking, “Oh my God. He’s about to shoot the school.”
Michael said students started screaming, running to classrooms and locking the doors.
He said the shooter “just ran.”
Michael said it will be difficult to move past the deadly incident, stating, “It is going to be hard to sleep because I just know I could have lost my life that day too.”
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office took the shooter into custody in close proximity to the school.
“We are all devastated by today’s tragedy,” Jackson’s family said in a statement. “We love Jamari dearly and we would ask that our privacy be respected as we grieve during this very difficult time.”
“My heart breaks for this young boy’s family and my prayers are with them tonight,” said Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis in a statement. “Additionally, I will be praying for the other young boy who pulled the trigger and his family. I cannot fathom what would cause someone to do this to another human being and especially at that age, but I know it’s a situation where we all need to turn to God.”
Greenville County Schools Superintendent Dr. Burke Royster released this statement Thursday evening:
“We are deeply saddened to hear that the student victim in the shooting at Tanglewood Middle School passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his fellow students, the staff members at the school and everyone who knew this child. This is an absolute tragedy, and we will continue to do whatever we can to support his family and the Tanglewood community as they mourn the young life that was lost today.
Dr. Burke Royster
We want to recognize the tremendous response from Principal Walles and the staff at Tanglewood, the school resource officer, Sheriff Hobart Lewis, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, EMS, and the multiple local, state and federal law enforcement agencies who all responded rapidly in accord with our emergency response plan.”
The principal of Tanglewood Middle School, Dr. Graysen Walles, also released this statement:
My heart goes out to the family of our student who passed away, and my prayers are with them. Our entire Tanglewood family is hurting with this news and from the events that took place today. Our school is mourning and will work together to heal and process this tragedy.”
Dr. Graysen Walles
Greenville County Schools announced that attendance on Friday will be optional in order to provide “counseling support for both students and staff.” | https://www.wsav.com/news/local-news/south-carolina-news/its-going-to-be-hard-to-sleep-sc-student-says-he-was-walking-with-shooter/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:56Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is offering a “Freedom Agenda” platform for Republicans ahead of this year’s midterm elections, presenting a framework for GOP candidates — and possibly himself for a 2024 presidential run.
Pence’s platform, released Thursday, combines traditional Republican goals such as increasing American energy production, cutting taxes and rolling back regulations, with priorities pursued by former President Donald Trump on issues like trade and immigration.
Pence also offers plenty of culture war red meat for the GOP base, pledging, for instance, to save women’s sports by “ensuring that sports competitions are between those who share their God-given gender” and calling for all high school students to pass a civics test.
“Elections are about the future, and I think it’s absolutely essential that, while we do our part to take the fight to the failed policies of the Biden administration and the radical left, at the same time, we want to offer a compelling vision built on our highest American ideals,” Pence told reporters ahead of the plan’s release. “It really is an effort to put in one place the agenda that I think carried us to the White House in 2016, carried two Bush presidencies to the White House and carried Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980.”
Much of the 28-page plan reads like the platform of a presidential campaign, underscoring Pence’s ambitions and providing a clear road map of the themes and policies he is likely to pursue if he moves forward with a 2024 run. While Pence in recent weeks has worked to distance himself from his former boss as he begins to reintroduce himself to voters and develop a political identity of his own, he has also been careful to tie himself to the policies of the Trump-Pence administration, which remain extremely popular among Republican voters.
It’s part of what aides see as Pence’s unique opportunity, as a former talk radio host, congressman and Indiana governor, to merge the traditional conservative movement with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda.
“There is a winning coalition for America that believes in the traditionally conservative values that the vice president has championed through his career,” said Marc Short, co-chair of Advancing American Freedom, the advocacy group Pence launched last year.
Still, Pence argues that “elections are about the future,” in contrast to Trump’s continued focus on his own false 2020 election claims.
Pence’s plan comes as the GOP has been at odds over the wisdom of offering voters a concrete policy agenda ahead of the midterm elections this year. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has been pointedly opposed to such efforts, arguing that Republicans should keep the focus on President Joe Biden, whose popularity has slumped amid the highest inflation in 40 years and the Russian war in Ukraine, and make the election a referendum on him.
The risks of a specific plan came into stark relief last month when Florida Sen. Rick Scott, another potential 2024 contender and the chair of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, unveiled his 11-point plan to “rescue America.” The effort drew immediate criticism from Democrats and even some Republicans, particularly its call for all Americans to “pay some income tax to have skin in the game” — which would amount to a tax hike for millions of people who pay no income tax because they earn so little.
On Thursday, Scott defended his plan during a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation.
“Bring it on,” the Florida senator said to his critics. “If the Republicans return to Washington’s business as usual, if we have no bigger plan than to be a speed bump on the road to America’s socialism and collapse, we don’t deserve to govern.”
House Republicans, meanwhile, have been working on their own “Commitment to America” plan with echoes of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America,” which Republicans unveiled in 1994 before sweeping the midterms that year.
“For the American public to join with you and support you, first they want to know what will you do,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said at the party’s annual retreat in Jacksonville, Florida, last week.
Candidates on the campaign trail have expressed similar sentiments.
At a Republican Senate primary debate in Ohio on Monday, several of the candidates applauded Scott for his effort, even as they said they disagreed with parts of his plan.
“I’m so sick of Republicans who say, ‘Well, we’re just going to push back against the Biden agenda.’ Well, of course we’re going to do that. But what are we gonna actually do for our voters?” candidate J.D. Vance asked. “There are a lot of problems out there. A lot of very serious problems. And we can’t just sort of stick our flag in the mud and say, ‘We’re against, we’re against, we’re against.’ We gotta be for stuff.”
Pence said that was part of his intention.
“As important as it is for us to criticize and to confront and to be the loyal opposition,” he said, it is “absolutely of equal importance that we offer a positive, compelling vision built on our highest ideals and frankly the successes that we were able to demonstrate during our administration.”
The economic plan unveiled Thursday calls for fast-tracking permits for oil and gas production, expanding drilling on federal lands and offshore and pursuing trade agreements that better protect American workers. On foreign policy, Pence calls on China to “establish a victims compensation and economic recovery fund” for “negligently unleashing and hiding the origins of COVID-19.”
On immigration, Pence’s agenda sounds much like a Trump press release. It calls on leaders to “oppose all forms of amnesty,” typically defined as a path to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally, and seeks an end to what he calls “chain migration” by limiting family reunification to an immigrant’s close family. It also calls for promoting “the patriotic assimilation of immigrants” and finishing Trump’s border wall.
Under a section dedicated to “protecting American culture,” Pence calls for the promotion of “patriotic education” by ending “radical political indoctrination — including the teaching of anti-American racist ideologies like Critical Race Theory,” which views racism as systemic in the nation’s institutions.
Pence also calls on states and local jurisdictions to require that all high school students pass a test on the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Federalist Papers to graduate. And he seeks limits on mail-in voting and early in-person voting, among other election measures.
Pence has been raising his public profile, making frequent media appearances, headlining political events and delivering policy speeches. He has traveled in recent weeks to South Korea, Israel and the Ukrainian border with Poland, where he greeted fleeing refugees. And he has paid numerous visits to early voting states, including New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, which he’ll return to next month.
Meanwhile, his advocacy group is spending millions of dollars on ads and filing friend-of-court briefs opposing vaccine mandates and abortion rights, and he’s working on a pair of books in addition to projects with the Heritage Foundation and Young America’s Foundation.
___ Associated Press writer Steve Peoples contributed to this report. | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/pence-unveils-republican-policy-agenda-for-midterm-elections/ | 2022-04-01T01:59:55Z |
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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 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.
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.
Rakesh Kumar Bhatnagar Director General, Voice of Indian Communication Technology Enterprises (VoICE) said that BSNL has not received a single mobile project in the last five years, and all projects of USOF were awarded to two private telecom service providers only "in the name of open tendering" and added that the "equipment deployed in all projects by them was imported and very clearly in violation of PM’s Atmanirbhar Bharat pitch flouting Make in India policy."
The resolution plan which involves Jio purchasing RITL for about Rs 4,000 crore has been kept in abeyance, after the telecom company found that a clutch of banks including State Bank of India had listed RTIL as a fraudulent account but not disclosed it either to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) or Jio. | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/tim-cdp-eye-formal-talks-for-network-deal-in-alternative-path-to-kkrs-bid-sources/90581003 | 2022-04-01T01:59:56Z |
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PUTNAM COUNTY, Ind. — People in Putnam County are rallying around tow truck driver Matt Roberts who was shot multiple times last Friday on I-70 near Plainfield.
"Why do these things happen? He was such a nice guy. He was doing his job. He works hard. He came out to help somebody. Instead of helping somebody, he got shot five times," said Putnam County Sheriff's Office Cpl. Scott Ducker.
What happened to Roberts, said Ducker, is a warning for people to watch out if they walk up to a stranger - in this case, a stranded driver. Roberts developed a friendly relationship with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department while working at Curtis Garage & Wrecker Service, assisting police with stranded motorists.
According to Indiana State Police, Roberts drove up to help a stranded driver.
That driver was Joseph Jackson, who had his 4-year-old daughter in the car.
Investigators said Jackson shot Roberts, grabbed his daughter, jumped into the tow truck and took off.
Roberts survived. Amazingly, his family said he's recovering, because the bullets missed his major organs.
"It is a miracle. He's a tough guy. He's going to fight to pull through," said Ducker.
Roberts' colleagues told 13 News he's a man of faith and a jokester.
"He's always got a joke or something funny to say. He's quick-witted. He knows what to say to get a smile on your face"
For the folks who know Roberts, like Ducker, they hope if anyone is smiling any time soon, it's Matt Roberts. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/tow-truck-driver-shot-recovering-matt-roberts/531-e59c3bc6-13c5-49f3-841d-73fd2117f1ab | 2022-04-01T01:59:57Z |
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.
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EDINBURGH, Ind. (WXIN) – Scientists believe the loud boom that was heard across several counties in South Central Indiana recently was caused by a meteor explosion.
Scientists at Purdue watched surveillance videos that captured the noise and believe the boom can be attributed to an “air burst.”
“Essentially when a meteor is entering the atmosphere it will essentially explode in the atmosphere and they can make a loud boom,” Purdue planetary scientist Brandon Johnson said.
Johnson said it’s likely similar to the “air burst” that happened in the skies over Chelyabinsk in Russia back in 2013. That incident lit up the sky and caused major damage on the ground.
“If it was big enough to make that loud an explosion it should’ve been seen but it was a pretty cloudy day,” Johnson said. “If there was enough cloud cover it’s possible that no one saw it but it still did occur above the clouds.”
The boom was large enough to show up on seismic scales at Indiana University.
“There was a significant pulse of seismic energy recorded on our instruments at 12:44 p.m. yesterday,” geophysics professor Michael Hamburger said. “If this coincides with the timing of the reports, it is likely the result of the sonic disturbance experienced by local residents.”
The American Meteor Society said it took two reports of meteor sightings yesterday afternoon. One of those reports came in from Columbus, the other from Bloomington.
Based on those reports the society was able to triangulate the impacted location and said it was likely a “fireball meteor.”
Johnson said it’s a good reminder that a lot happens out in space.
“It’s a reminder that we need to stay vigilant and know how to protect ourselves and detect these before they happen,” Johnson said.
Johnson said that if it was a meteor then it’s likely that parts of it made it to the ground.
He said they’ll likely be small rocks with a black coating on them.
The American Meteor Society is encouraging anyone who saw anything to report it to them. You can report those at amsmeteors.org. | https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/loud-boom-caught-on-camera-in-indiana-believed-to-be-meteor-explosion/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:02Z |
By Archana Dahiwal
In an appaling incident, a 39-year-old Dalit woman entrepreneur has alleged that she was molested by a person on Tuesday on the premises of her company at Bhosari MIDC.
The victim, who runs a rubber factory along with her husband, has lodged a complaint against Ambegoan’s Shetewadi resident Navnath Shete (35) for insulting and assaulting her and attempting to outrage her modesty by trying to tear her clothes.
The woman has alleged that Navnath assaulted her husband as well and attempted to kill both of them with an iron rod. The incident took place in front of the workers at their factory.
The matter is being investigated by Bhosari MIDC police. According to a statement received from the Pimpri-Chinchwad police commissionerate, the woman has lodged a complaint under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
According to the victim, Shete had placed a few orders with their company. However, he had been pressuring them to deliver more than agreed at less cost.
The woman is also a member of Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce (DICCI). When the CCTV footage of the incident got leaked and was viewed by members of the organisation, it created panic in the industrial town.
Speaking to Mirror, the victim said, “We have known the accused for the last two years. He visited the company premises on Tuesday to collect his order in an almost filmy style. We had already delivered an order worth Rs 60,000 to him.”
The victim claimed that Shete’s ego would get offended whenever he heard that the company was owned by a woman.
“He not only hurled abuses on my husband and me but also assaulted us physically in front of our labourers. He even kicked our bike to the ground, but my husband and I managed to escape and rushed to Bhosari MIDC to register a complaint,” she said.
Shocked by the dreadful experience, the victim said that there were only one per cent women entrepreneurs in Bhosari MIDC. Such incidents will further demoralise them.
Meanwhile, the Bhosari police inspector investigating the case could not be reached for comments despite repeated calls and messages.
█ He hurled abuses on my husband and me and assaulted us physically in front of our labourers. We managed to escape and reached Bhosari MIDC police station.
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(KTLA) — The IRS on Wednesday reminded tax filers to claim any missing third-round stimulus payment on their 2021 income tax return.
The tax season gives eligible people who never got the $1,400 payment the chance to claim it.
Since the IRS is no longer issuing the Economic Impact Payments, people who are missing a stimulus payment, or got less than the amount they’re eligible for, will have to claim a Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2020 or 2021 federal tax returns, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
Most eligible people have already received their stimulus payments and won’t need to include anything about the payment when they file their 2021 tax return.
The IRS says it has issued more than 175 million third-round payments worth more than $400 billion to people across the country. Most of those payments were sent out in the spring and early summer of 2021.
Still, there are many who haven’t gotten their payments.
Authorities have identified 644,705 potentially eligible people who had not received payments totaling $1.6 billion, according to a report issued last week by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
What to do if you never received the third payment
The IRS encourages residents to double-check their bank accounts first to make sure they never got the third payment, especially in early spring and summer of 2021.
People can also access their IRS Online Account to view the total amount of the third-round Economic Impact Payment issued to them. For married couples filing jointly, each person will need to log into their own online account.
Once people confirm they never got the payment, and their IRS online accounts show a payment amount greater than $0, or if they got a Notice 1444-C or Letter 6475, they should contact the IRS as soon as possible to see if a payment trace is needed.
But they do not need to wait until their trace is complete to file their 2021 tax return, officials said.
When completing the Recovery Rebate Credit worksheet, taxpayers have two options: either use the amount on the Letter 6475 (or EIP 3 amount from the online account) to calculate the recovery rebate credit amount on line 30, or use the amount of stimulus payment the taxpayer believes they received to calculate the rebate credit amount on line 30. (Details on that can be found here.)
Those who contact the IRS to trace the stimulus payment amount will receive notification of the results. If it is found that the taxpayer didn’t get the money, the IRS will adjust the recovery rebate credit amount on the tax return and issue any refund.
If people make a mistake calculating the recovery rebate credit and claim an amount on line 30 for the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit, the IRS will have to correct the amount and send a notice about the changes made. If that happens, there may be a delay in processing the return, officials said.
What if I already filed my taxes?
An amended return may be needed to claim the credit if IRS records show no payment was issued.
For eligible people who didn’t claim a recovery rebate credit on their 2021 tax return (so line 30 is blank or $0), they will need to file a Form 1040-X, Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return to claim the remaining amount of stimulus money — if IRS records don’t show that they were issued a payment.
This includes people who think they didn’t get the full amount of their third-round Economic Impact Payment because their circumstances in 2021 were different than they were in 2020.
People trying to figure out if they should amend their original tax return can use this online tool.
More details on how to claim the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit can be found here. | https://www.wsav.com/news/national-news/never-got-the-3rd-1400-stimulus-payment-heres-what-to-do-when-filing-taxes/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:02Z |
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CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice and the West Virginia Housing Development Fund are pleased to announce the launch of a new program to help West Virginia homeowners affected by COVID-19. The West Virginia Homeowners Rescue Program distributes federal COVID-19 relief funds to eligible homeowners who have experienced a pandemic-related hardship. The...
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Fentanyl-laced pill seizures increased nearly 50-fold since 2018, study says
The number of fentanyl-laced pills seized by law enforcement has increased nearly 50-fold between 2018 and 2021, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The rise in seizures comes amid a period of record-high overdose deaths, researchers said.
"An increase in illicit pills containing fentanyl points to a new and increasingly dangerous period in the United States," director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse Dr. Nora D. Volkow said in a statement Thursday.
A team of scientists compared data from the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program for the first quarter of 2018 and the last quarter of December 2021. Researchers found that the number of seizures of pills containing fentanyl increased from 68 to 635. The total number of individual pills containing fentanyl seized by law enforcement rose from 42,202 to 2,089,186 and seizures of powder containing fentanyl grew from 424 to 1,539.
Pills represented more than a quarter of illicit fentanyl seizures by the end of 2021, the scientists said, more than double the proportion in 2018.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that's around 50 times more potent than heroin, is a major driver of the recent rise in drug overdoses, the study said.
Researchers said recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the U.S. hit a record high number in overdose deaths over the 12-month period ending in October 2021. The CDC estimated that nearly 106,000 people died from drug overdoses during that time, according to the study.
The researchers said many of those who may seek out the drug are not aware that other drugs they're using, like heroin and cocaine, could be contaminated with fentanyl. The authors of the study said using fentanyl-laced drugs greatly increases the chance of an overdose, given that a lethal dose "may be as small as two milligrams."
Volkow said fentanyl-laced pills are often consumed by "people who are more naïve to drug use, and who have lower tolerances."
Researchers called for more harm reduction strategies like fentanyl test strips, drug risk education and distribution of naloxone, a drug that helps reverse overdoses.
"For the first time we can see this rapid rise in pills adulterated with fentanyl, which raises red flags for increasing risk of harm in a population that is possibly less experienced with opioids," Dr. Joseph J. Palamar, who led the team of scientists, said in a statement. "The immediate message here is that pills illegally obtained can contain fentanyl."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Military bases with a high risk for sexual assault, harassment and other harmful behaviors often have leaders who don’t understand violence prevention, don’t make it a priority and focus more on their mission than on their people, a Pentagon review has concluded.
The review studied 20 bases in the United States and Europe, including 18 with some of the more severe problems identified in command climate surveys. It found that the failures were worse in a number of bases in Germany and Spain where key leaders and resources weren’t on site. The report was publicly released Thursday.
At Naval Station Rota in Spain, for example, the report said that the military mission requirements “were prioritized above and at the expense of the sailors’ well-being.” They said sailors reported bullying, mental health issues, sexual harassment and relationship problems, but often could not seek help due to their mission requirements.
In one location, officials said, they found that young enlisted men were taking steps to help their female peers stay safe by keeping them away from more senior leaders who were harassing them.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the report as part of his effort to strengthen sexual assault and harassment prevention across the forces, identify what programs work and ensure high-risk bases get attention quickly. Austin approved the report, and in a memo said it will help the department tailor improvements for bases where needs may vary.
“While we have made progress, we must do more to strengthen the integrated capabilities we have on the ground to prevent sexual assault, harassment, suicide, domestic abuse and other harmful behaviors,” he said.
The report comes nearly two years after Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén went missing from Fort Hood, Texas, and her remains were found two months later. Guillen was killed by a soldier, who her family says sexually harassed her, and who killed himself as police sought to arrest him.
Her death and a number of other crimes, murders and suicides led to heightened scrutiny on assaults and other violence in the military, and to a series of reviews. An independent panel appointed by Austin last year made more than 80 recommendations, including specific changes to improve accountability of leadership, command climate and culture, and victim care and support.
Officials said Austin’s goal is to find effective ways to prevent harmful behavior, which includes sexual assault and harassment, suicides and domestic violence. They said this latest report is designed to pinpoint which leadership and other failures contribute to higher instances of such behavior and which prevention programs and other changes actually work.
According to the report, 16 of the bases were selected because a command climate survey of nearly a million personnel identified problems there, which included things such as binge drinking, toxic leadership, stress, and racial or sexual harassment. While serious problems were identified at these 16 bases, the report looked at a variety of factors for each location and doesn’t specifically characterize them as the worst in the military.
Two other bases were chosen because the survey showed good results, such as high morale, inclusion and good leadership. Two others had a mix of both high-performing and problem units.
Defense officials said that while in many cases leaders had a genuine desire to prevent violence, there was a “pervasive” misunderstanding of how to do it and they often didn’t devote enough personnel or time for it or hold subordinates accountable.
And even if they understood department policies, leaders often didn’t recognize when there was a high risk for violence or harmful behavior among their people.
In the United States, the bases surveyed were: Fort Custer, Michigan; Naval Support Activity Sarasota Springs, New York; Fort Polk, Louisiana; Fort Bliss, Texas; Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia; Marine Corps Base Hawaii; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska; Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California; Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas; Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California; Dyess Air Force Base, Texas; Vandenberg Space Force Base, California; the Kentucky National Guard; and the Army Reserve base in Fraser, Michigan.
The last two — the Guard and Reserve bases in Kentucky and Michigan — were the ones chosen because they had less risk and more positive command climates.
The overseas bases were: Army Garrison Ansbach, Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfatz Smith Bararcks; Army Garrison Bavaria; Naval Station Rota; Army Garrison Stuttgart; and the Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz, Kaiserslautern. All but Rota are in Germany.
As an example, the report found that at the Kentucky National Guard base leaders believed that their soldiers came first, and their “well-being was part of the mission, not an adjacent effort that was secondary.” In contrast, commanders in at the bases in Germany and Spain “tolerated harmful behaviors” and it was difficult to access resources “due to mission requirements or geographic dispersion of services.”
The report said that the changes proposed by the independent review board will help address the problems. Those improvements include establishing a dedicated prevention workforce, expanded sexual assault prevention and response programs, and better leadership. The budget for 2023 includes funding to hire additional personnel.
The report also recommends that the department establish data to help the military services share prevention and program support information, hold leaders accountable if they don’t have healthy command climates. Officials said it’s important to ensure that leaders better understand the prevention policies and programs and that service members and employees know where to go to get help.
Officials also said that there will be follow-up visits to the bases by this fall, and that similar site visits and reviews will be done every two years.
Austin is asking military service leaders for implementation plans by early June and said the department will issue more guidelines and policies by early October. | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/pentagon-links-leadership-failures-to-violence-at-bases/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:02Z |
It is with deepest sorrow that we announce the death of our beautiful, cherished daughter, Malorie Shea Hults, 31, of Cedar Rapids. Malorie unexpectedly passed away March 24, 2022. We welcomed friends for visitation Thursday, March 31, 2022, at Stewart Baxter Funeral & Memorial Services in Cedar Rapids. A funeral service for Malorie will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 1, 2022, at the funeral home, by celebrant Dawn Stephens. Burial will follow at Holy Cross Cemetery in Anamosa.
Malorie was born Sept. 30, 1990, in Anamosa. After high school, she became a licensed massage therapist and was currently studying architecture at Kirkwood Community College. Malorie was passionately creative with an amazing talent for fashion, drawing and singing. She enjoyed modeling and acting, but most of all she loved being with her family, especially Cole and Tate. Her wings were ready but we were not. Malorie will be forever missed, loved, and remembered for the beautiful soul she was inside and out.
Malorie is survived by her parents, Cristy and Chris Caldwell and father, Randy Hults; maternal grandfather, Gary Bergman; paternal grandmother, Rhonda Hults; siblings, Steven Turner, Monika (Chad) Carson, Cole Turner, Tate Turner, Brandon (Hillary) Caldwell and Stephanie Pineda; nephews, Donavin, Bradley and Holden; her best friend and confidante, Brett Michael, her faithful companion, Socrates; aunts and uncles, Tammy (Sterling) Silver, Bill (Cindy) Bergman, Julie (Matt) Cunningham, Eric (Becky) Bergman, Mary Jo (Brian) Holland and Kenny Hults and many beloved cousins.
She was preceded in death by her grandmother, Glenna Bergman and her uncle, Steve Hults.
Please share your love and support with Malorie’s family on her Tribute Wall at www.stewartbaxter.com under Obituaries.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Naomi Osaka's eyes welled with tears when her match ended, an all-too-familiar scene for her in recent years.
These were of the happy variety.
For the former world No. 1, that's major progress.
The unseeded Osaka defeated No. 22 Belinda Bencic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday in the Miami Open semifinals. She's in a championship match for the first time since the 2021 Australian Open, and will meet either No. 16 Jessica Pegula or No. 2 Iga Swiatek on Saturday.
“Damn, I'm almost crying," Osaka said.
Maybe not even almost. She hid her face in an orange towel a few times right after the match ended, at least one tear clearly making its way down her right cheek. Osaka entered this tournament ranked No. 77 in the world, will leave Miami no worse than 36th and would be back in the top 30 if she wins the title.
It has been a long, trying and often emotional ride for Osaka since her win in the 2018 U.S. Open final over Serena Williams. She was rattled during a loss at Indian Wells on March 12 following a derogatory shout from a spectator, withdrew from last year’s French Open to address her mental state and left last year’s U.S. Open in tears.
But in South Florida, one of the places she considers home, it's been all support from the fans.
“From the bottom of my heart, thank you," Osaka told them in her on-court interview.
Pegula and Swiatek — who will replace the now-retired Ashleigh Barty as the No. 1-ranked women's player in the world next week — were meeting in the other women's semifinal on Thursday night.
Meanwhile, Daniil Medvedev came into the tournament as the No. 2-ranked men's player in the world. Hubert Hurkacz ensured he will stay there.
Hurkacz — the No. 8 seed and defending Miami champion — wore down the top-seeded and cramp-riddled Medvedev 7-6 (7), 6-3 on Thursday in a men’s quarterfinal.
“Every muscle just went ‘cramp, cramp, cramp, cramp,'" Medvedev said.
Had Medvedev prevailed, he would have overtaken Novak Djokovic on Monday and returned to No. 1 in the world rankings. Instead, the Russian will stay No. 2 in the world and find out who wins the Miami title on Sunday like everyone else.
“For me, it was more important in a way just to win the match itself than to become No. 1,” Medvedev said. “Winning the match, I saw it more as a bonus.”
Hurkacz, who is from Poland, will next meet No. 14 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain in the semifinals. Alcaraz defeated unseeded Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (5) on Thursday night in the last men's quarterfinal.
“I was returning pretty well, I was putting some pressure on his serves and that was helping my game,” Hurkacz said. “I was able to get some free points on my serve and that was pretty big.”
The other semifinal pits sixth-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway against unseeded Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina.
Hurkacz has played Medvedev four times, and Medvedev has been ranked No. 2 in the world in each of those meetings — which they’ve now split. Hurkacz improved to 14-5 this year, and his record in Miami is 12-1 all-time.
“Coming here is so much fun,” Hurkacz said.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment,” Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to “Good Morning America.” “They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options.”
But Packer said Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,” Packer said. “And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no.”
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night’s ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer’s interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.”
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.” | https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/oscars-producer-says-police-offered-to-arrest-will-smith/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:08Z |
(ABC4) — If you’re tired of looking at old furniture that you bought last year from IKEA, the retailer has announced that it will now pay customers to bring back old furniture.
The IKEA buyback and resell option has now been made available for 37 of its U.S. stores. As a way to help pave a path toward sustainable living, the company has brought back the initiative that was launched late last year.
How does it work?
You start by filling out a form on IKEA’s website in order to receive an emailed quote of the buyback value for your furniture. Customers are asked to bring a copy of their quote, buyback number, and fully assembled furniture to your participating IKEA store where an employee will assess the furniture’s buyback value.
When you buyback, you will get store credit and your furniture gets a second life in the As-Is department.
What are the buyback requirements?
According to IKEA, the following categories of products are not currently eligible for the furniture buy-back service:
- Non-IKEA products
- Home furnishing accessories including lighting and textiles
- Add-on units and componentry
- Products that have been used outside including outdoor furniture
- Mattresses and bad textiles (such as blankets and mattress toppers)
- Kitchens including bench tops, cabinets, and fronts
- Modular wardrobes and accessories
- Electrical appliances and products
- Chests of drawers
- “Hacked,” modified or painted products
- Non-assembled products
- Market Hall products (including small kitchen goods, art, rugs, and picture frames)
- Upholstered or leather products
- Sofas or armchairs
- Plants
- Items containing glass (including mirrors)
- Children’s and baby products (such as cribs, mattresses, and change tables)
- Beds and bed frames
The retailer said on its website that large quantities and commercially used items are exempt. | https://www.wsav.com/whatstrending/ikea-will-pay-you-to-return-old-furniture-at-select-stores/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:08Z |
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Acronis Cyber Protection Week Global Report 2022 reveals growing threats and need for integrated cyber protection solutions
76% of organizations suffered downtime and data loss in 2021, system crashes, human error and cyberattacks to blame
SINGAPORE and SYDNEY, April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acronis, the global leader in cyber protection, has released its annual Cyber Protection Week Global Report 2022 timed to this year's World Backup Day. The report which surveyed over 6,200 IT users and IT managers from small businesses to enterprises across 22 countries, exposes some of the most critical shortcomings appearing in cyber protection practices today, examines why they're appearing and offers guidance on how they can be fixed.
One of our key findings last year was that 80% of organizations ran as many as 10 solutions simultaneously for data protection and cybersecurity — yet more than half of them suffered downtime because of data loss. Clearly, more solutions do not translate into more protection.
This year, we see that trend getting worse: while 78% of organizations globally run as many as 10 different solutions, 76% of organizations experienced downtime due to data loss — a 25% increase from 2021. This downtime stemmed from a number of sources, including system crashes (52%), human error (42%), cyberattacks (36%) and insider attacks (20%).
As a result, 61% of global organizations' IT teams now report a preference for integrated solutions that replace their complicated stacks of cybersecurity and data protection tools with a single, unified console.
"As the entire world is increasingly at risk from different types of attacks, accelerating to universal all-in-one solutions is the only way to achieve truly complete cyber protection. And that's precisely the problem Acronis has set out to solve," says Candid Wuest, Acronis V.P. of Cyber Protection Research. "Attackers don't discriminate when it comes to means or targets, so strong and reliable security is no longer an option, it's a necessity."
Overconfidence as a trend: IT teams are overselling their readiness
We've traced another worrying trend that is responsible for cyberdefenses lowering and increasing IT security budgets:
70% of organizations' IT managers claim to have automated patch management. However, based on any reliable industry research, only a handful of companies follow the 72-hour "golden time" for patch management.
82% also claim to have ransomware protection and remediation. Yet, successful attacks occur weekly and the size of ransom demands grows each year.
20% claimed to be testing backup restoration weekly. Again, not consistent with any other industry-issued data.
It seems that IT managers are trying to appear better prepared than they are; but that is, in turn, misleading their managers, boards of directors, industry analysts and customers.
However, if the overwhelming majority of IT managers indeed have these solutions, they aren't using them right: they have simply stocked their IT stacks with all of the recommended cybersecurity technologies — spending more money in vain.
Our findings prove that organizations are spending more on IT security this year, but when we compare it to their overall IT budget, it becomes clear – organizations are still treating cyber protection as a "nice-to-have" not as a "must-have":
Half of organizations globally allocate less than 10% of their overall IT budget on IT security.
Only 23% of organizations globally are investing over 15% of their overall IT budget in security — even despite the increasingly threatening cyber landscape.
Pandemic-driven spike in awareness proves temporary
Frequent backups that were fuelled by the shift to remote work are over: a third of IT managers only back up weekly, while another 25% back up monthly. Use of backup best practices is declining across the board — only 15% of organizations' IT teams adhere to them.
Same as last year, 10% of IT managers still aren't sure if their company is subject to any data privacy regulations — proving that IT managers, like IT users, get stuck in their ways.
According to our research, 86% of organizations globally are also concerned about the threat of increasing politically-driven cyberattacks caused by the worsening geopolitical climate — but their concern does not translate into improvements to their cyber protection.
Bottom line, the outdated approaches that professional IT teams have relied on for years are now actively failing them. A comprehensive, easy-to-follow approach is essential to achieving a more reliable, holistic protection for data, applications and systems – one that combines cybersecurity, data protection and management into one solution.
Users show concern over cyberthreats, but backup habits remain unchanged
Only one in ten users backs up daily, while 34% of users back up on a monthly basis — a staggering 41% of users back up rarely or never. Still, 72% of users had to recover from backup at least once in the past year (33% — more than once). Meaning that some of the users who chose not to back up have permanently lost their data:
43% of users update a week or more after an update release — of those, 7% take more than a month to perform these recommended updates. A decline in response time compared to 2021.
While only 12% of users are following the recommended hybrid model of cloud and local backup storage, users have doubled down on cloud backup: for 4 years, we saw local backups shrinking from 62% in 2019 to 33% in 2022 — at the same time cloud backups jumped from 28% to 54%.
66% of users would not know or be able to tell if their data had been modified.
43% of users are not sure if their anti-malware solutions could protect against new and emerging cyberthreats.
What we see here is a massive gap in how organizations and individuals approach cyber protection in theory — and in practice. Acronis provides a number of solutions that are able to bridge that gap — among them Acronis Cyber Protect, used by over 20,000 service providers to protect more than 750,000 businesses.
For more global and regional insights, check out the Acronis Cyber Protection Week Global Report 2022 and the regional deep dives — download the reports for free on our website.
About Acronis
Acronis unifies data protection and cybersecurity to deliver integrated, automated cyber protection that solves the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges of the modern digital world. With flexible deployment models that fit the demands of service providers and IT professionals, Acronis provides superior cyber protection for data, applications, and systems with innovative next-generation antivirus, backup, disaster recovery, and endpoint protection management solutions powered by AI. With advanced anti-malware powered by cutting-edge machine intelligence and blockchain based data authentication technologies, Acronis protects any environment – from cloud to hybrid to on premises – at a low and predictable cost.
Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis now has more than 2,000 employees and offices in 34 locations worldwide. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 companies, and top-tier professional sports teams. Acronis products are available through over 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries and 26 languages.
SOURCE Acronis | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/acronis-cyber-protection-week-global-010000818.html | 2022-04-01T02:00:10Z |
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As a result of redistricting, Republicans of Jones and Jackson counties have a choice to be made in the June 7 Primary Election for our new House District 66. While I have been represented by Lee Hein since 2011 in Jones County, many others have been represented by Steve Bradley.
After spending more than a decade as our representative, many of us, are wondering why Lee is attacking his opponent in the primary? Shouldn’t Lee be running on his record? Lee has recently been criticizing Steve Bradley for the public endorsements he is receiving.
From what I can tell, Americans for Prosperity has a long record here in Iowa. AFP-Iowa is working to help Iowans hear about the issues they care about, get the facts and support common-sense, conservative legislation. Maybe, that’s why AFP-Iowa is endorsing Steve Bradley. Steve supports tax relief, school choice and opposes mandates; all of which align with APF’s conservative positions. The endorsement seems to fit.
In fact, I was introduced to AFP-Iowa last year when Lee Hein was leading the charge on a bill to prohibit all Iowa retail gas stations from selling regular gas if they didn’t sell E-15 gas. Fortunately, it did not pass last year due to many Iowans speaking up! Lee brought it back this year and dropped the mandate stopping the sale of regular gas but continues to mandate the sale of E-15. In addition to the mandate, we, the taxpayers are to subsidize gas stations for making the necessary changes to their establishments and subsidizing for every gallon of E-15 sold. So, to you and me, the price at the pump may appear lower for E-15, however, our tax dollars are making up the difference.
I encourage Republicans, in the new Iowa House District 66, to decide if you want your next representative to push mandates on private businesses and you, as a consumer, do not run on their record and attack their opponent; or do you want someone that is being recognized for their conservative voting record at the Iowa Capitol? | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/opinion/bradley-recognized-for-record/article_a846774c-4f9f-56d6-b811-5d92078cd593.html | 2022-04-01T02:00:11Z |
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old student was shot and killed Thursday by another 12-year-old student inside their South Carolina middle school, authorities said.
The shooter was found hiding under a deck at a home not far from Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville about an hour after the shooting and was still armed, Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said.
The boy is charged with murder, possession of a firearm at a school and possession of a weapon by someone under 18. He was taken to a juvenile prison in Columbia, Lewis said.
“He was hiding. He’s a young man, probably didn’t understand the consequences of what had just happened,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “I don’t think he knew what to do, honestly, except for to leave the school.”
The boys knew each other, but the sheriff said investigators are still trying to figure out what led to the shooting in a front part of the school and how the boy got the gun.
No one else was injured in the shooting.
The family of the boy killed released a statement saying he was Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson and asking people to respect their privacy as they grieve.
“We are all devastated by today’s tragedy. We love Jamari dearly,” the family said in a statement released by community justice group Fighting Injustice Together.
A police officer at the school called in the shooting and requested emergency backup around 12:30 p.m. and more than 200 deputies and other law enforcement officers rushed to the school, Lewis said.
Helicopter footage from WYFF-TV showed dozens of officers walking around outside the school with more than two dozen buses lined up. Some students were slowly boarding the buses.
Everyone on campus, including teachers, were taken to a nearby church.
Greenville County Schools Superintendent Burke Royster said he doesn’t have any idea how the gun ended up at school and a student killed.
“I’m not sure after a full and thorough law enforcement investigation anyone will really know what was going through the mind of that young person who took this rash act,” Royster said. | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/police-student-kills-peer-at-south-carolina-middle-school/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:10Z |
“There will be battles ahead,” he added.
Meanwhile, a convoy of 45 buses headed to Mariupol in another bid to evacuate people from the besieged port city after the Russian military agreed to a limited cease-fire in the area. But Russian forces blocked the buses, and only 631 people were able to get out of the city in private cars, according to the Ukrainian government.
Twelve Ukrainian trucks were able to deliver humanitarian supplies to Mariupol, but the supplies were seized by Russian troops, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said late Thursday.
The city has been the scene of some of the worst suffering of the war. Tens of thousands have managed to get out of Mariupol in the past few weeks by way of humanitarian corridors, reducing its population from a prewar 430,000 to an estimated 100,000 as of last week, but other relief efforts have been thwarted by continued Russian attacks.
A new round of talks was scheduled for Friday, five weeks into the war that has left thousands dead and driven 4 million Ukrainians from the country.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had been informed by Ukraine that the Russian forces at the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster had transferred control of it in writing to the Ukrainians.
The last Russian troops left the Chernobyl plant early Friday, the Ukrainian government agency responsible for the exclusion zone said.
Energoatom gave no details on the condition of the soldiers it said were exposed to radiation and did not say how many were affected. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin, and the IAEA said it had not been able to confirm the reports of Russian troops receiving high doses. It said it was seeking more information.
Russian forces seized the Chernobyl site in the opening stages of the Feb. 24 invasion, raising fears that they would cause damage or disruption that could spread radiation. The workforce at the site oversees the safe storage of spent fuel rods and the concrete-entombed ruins of the reactor that exploded in 1986.
Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert with the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said it “seems unlikely" a large number of troops would develop severe radiation illness, but it was impossible to know for sure without more details.
He said contaminated material was probably buried or covered with new topsoil during the cleanup of Chernobyl, and some soldiers may have been exposed to a “hot spot” of radiation while digging. Others may have assumed they were at risk too, he said.
Early this week, the Russians said they would significantly scale back military operations in areas around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv to increase trust between the two sides and help negotiations along.
But in the Kyiv suburbs, regional governor Oleksandr Palviuk said on social media Thursday that Russian forces shelled Irpin and Makariv and that there were battles around Hostomel. Pavliuk said there were Ukrainian counterattacks and some Russian withdrawals around the suburb of Brovary to the east.
Chernihiv came under attack as well. At least one person was killed and four were wounded in the Russian shelling of a humanitarian convoy of buses sent to Chernihiv to evacuate residents cut off from food, water and other supplies, said Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova
Ukraine also reported Russian artillery barrages in and around the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said intelligence indicates Russia is not scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead trying to regroup, resupply its forces and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas.
“Russia has repeatedly lied about its intentions,” Stoltenberg said. At the same time, he said, pressure is being kept up on Kyiv and other cities, and “we can expect additional offensive actions bringing even more suffering.”
The Donbas is the predominantly Russian-speaking industrial region where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014. In the past few days, the Kremlin, in a seeming shift in its war aims, said that its “main goal” now is gaining control of the Donbas, which consists of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including Mariupol.
The top rebel leader in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, issued an order to set up a rival city government for Mariupol, according to Russian state news agencies, in a sign of Russian intent to hold and administer the city.
With talks set to resume between Ukraine and Russia via video, there seemed little faith that the two sides would resolve the conflict any time soon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that conditions weren’t yet “ripe” for a cease-fire and that he wasn’t ready for a meeting with Zelenskyy until negotiators do more work, Italian Premier Mario Draghi said after a telephone conversation with the Russian leader.
In other developments, Ukraine’s emergency services said the death toll had risen to 20 in a Russian missile strike Tuesday on a government administration building in the southern city of Mykolaiv.
As Western officials search for clues about what Russia's next move might be, a top British intelligence official said demoralized Russian soldiers in Ukraine are refusing to carry out orders and sabotaging their equipment and had accidentally shot down their own aircraft.
In a speech in Australia, Jeremy Fleming, head of the GCHQ electronic spy agency, said Putin had apparently “massively misjudged” the invasion.
The Pentagon reported Thursday that an initial half-dozen shipments of weapons and other security assistance from the U.S. have reached Ukraine as part of an $800 million aid package President Joe Biden approved this month.
The shipments included Javelin anti-tank weapons, Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, body armor, medical supplies and other materials, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the war is going because they are afraid to tell him the truth.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the U.S. is wrong and that “neither the State Department nor the Pentagon possesses the real information about what is happening in the Kremlin.”
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Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Caption People hide in a basement of a church which is used as a bomb shelter, after fleeing from nearby villages, that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday as NATO Secretary-General says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Credit: Petros Giannakouris
Caption People hide in a basement of a church which is used as a bomb shelter, after fleeing from nearby villages, that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday as NATO Secretary-General says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Credit: Petros Giannakouris
Caption Destroyed Russian armor vehicles are seen in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Caption Destroyed Russian armor vehicles are seen in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Oleksandr, 81, rides a bicycle next to a destroyed Russian tank in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption Oleksandr, 81, rides a bicycle next to a destroyed Russian tank in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption A Ukrainian soldier stands one top of a destroyed Russian tank on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption A Ukrainian soldier stands one top of a destroyed Russian tank on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored transporter driving through a Russian position overran by Ukrainian forces outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Caption Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored transporter driving through a Russian position overran by Ukrainian forces outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption A Ukrainian soldier crosses the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption A Ukrainian soldier crosses the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces under the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces under the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Private cars burnt by the Russian forces and left by refugees on the road outside Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Private cars burnt by the Russian forces and left by refugees on the road outside Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption A Russian military hat lies on the pavement after Ukrainian forces overran a Russian position outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption A Russian military hat lies on the pavement after Ukrainian forces overran a Russian position outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption Ukrainian soldiers collect bodies of civilians killed by the Russian forces at the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption Ukrainian soldiers collect bodies of civilians killed by the Russian forces at the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption A machine gun of a Ukrainian soldier rests next to condiments for lunch in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption A machine gun of a Ukrainian soldier rests next to condiments for lunch in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Credit: Rodrigo Abd
Caption A Ukrainian soldier carries a dog saved from under the ruins of houses destroyed by the Russian forces in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption A Ukrainian soldier carries a dog saved from under the ruins of houses destroyed by the Russian forces in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Credit: Efrem Lukatsky
Caption An elderly woman who was evacuated from Irpin, lies on a stretcher on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Caption An elderly woman who was evacuated from Irpin, lies on a stretcher on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Credit: Vadim Ghirda
Caption Ukrainians arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday as NATO Secretary-General says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Caption Ukrainians arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday as NATO Secretary-General says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Credit: Sergei Grits
Caption Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored transporter driving through a Russian position overran by Ukrainian forces outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Caption Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored transporter driving through a Russian position overran by Ukrainian forces outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones Thursday amid indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation as cover while regrouping and resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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MENTOR, Ohio (WKBN) – The Canfield girls lacrosse team went on the road Thursday night and got a win over Lake Catholic 13-7.
Senior Elena Martin had a career night, posting a personal-best five goals to lead the Cardinals.
Fellow senior Emily Wilson had four goals on the night while Ally Wilson had three, Campbell Klingensmith also netted three with Gwen Lolakis and Bryanna Corll tallied one apiece.
Goalie Karley D’Apolito had 19 saves to help stop the Cougars’ offense.
Canfield will face off against the Chardon Lady Hilltops on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at home in Bob Dove Stadium in Canfield. | https://www.wkbn.com/sports/canfield-girls-lacrosse-rolls-in-road-win-over-lake-catholic/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:14Z |
SKILLS students make LC proud in state competitions
Several Lewis County High School students who attend Fred Eberle Technical School competed, and won, in various categories at the state SkillsUSA competition held March 25 and March 26 at Fairmont State University. More than 800 career and technical education students competed in 65 events in the trade, technical, and leadership...
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All Hempire Direct products are made in the USA with USA grown hemp and are formulated by a biochemist. We believe in constant research and testing to continually produce the most effective products in the industry.
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Targeted Relief: Custom blends utilize the unique properties of each cannabinoid and terpene to produce tailored effects
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Aphelion Aerospace secures investment from The Mercury Group, Founder Advisors, and Richtr Financial Studio
DENVER, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aphelion Aerospace, based in Denver, Colorado is establishing itself as a one-stop-shop for low-cost small satellite integration and on-demand launch operations from practically anywhere around the world. Aphelion announced today that it has received significant investment from strategic investors including The Mercury Group, Founder Advisors, and Richtr Financial Studio. These investments are part of Aphelion's Seed round which the company is running in parallel with their equity crowdfunding campaign on StartEngine.
Aphelion Aerospace announce investment from The Mercury Group of North Carolina and Founder Advisors of Colorado.
Aphelion CEO Miguel Ayala and CTO Matthew Travis indicate that these investments will help them continue pushing forward with the development of their suborbital launch vehicle technology demonstrator. They plan to conduct low-altitude suborbital demonstration launches by the end of the year to prove out their green non-toxic, non-cryogenic propulsion technology in flight.
Based on the caliber and background of their board advisors and investors, it is clear that the Aphelion team is positioning to become a strong player in the space industry. Last year, Aphelion announced that Edward Mango, former Program Manager of the NASA Commercial Crew Transportation Program had joined their board of advisors. Mr. Mango is one of the key NASA leaders behind the success of SpaceX. Aphelion also announced that Kevin Rice, former Director of Business Management at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works had joined their board of advisors. Mr. Rice practically wrote the book on business management for NASA. In addition, Aphelion announced that Geoff Brim, former VP of Product Management at Deutsche Telekom had joined their board of advisors. Mr. Brim evangelized digital transformation, data science, artificial intelligence, and robotics at Deutsche Telekom.
Now come Aphelion's visionary investors. Ben West of The Mercury Group is a US Air Force veteran. Before his years in finance, Ben was an F117A and F16 Crew Chief. He is well aware that military fighter jets use hydrazine in their emergency power units. He knows very well that hydrazine is extremely toxic and thus costly and slow to deal with. He is also aware that other uses of hydrazine include spacecraft propulsion. Hearing that Aphelion had developed a propulsion technology that could essentially replace anything hydrazine powered was music to his ears. Ben feels excited to back Aphelion with investment and plans to continue supporting Aphelion along its journey to bring this new technology to market.
Steven Williams, of Founder Advisors advises Aphelion on market strategy. Along with Steven, the Founder Advisors team provides corporate and business strategy advisory to Aphelion. They are composed of accomplished aerospace and tech entrepreneurs and executives like Steven. Some have spent years in launch vehicle development at companies such as Lockheed Martin. These guys truly understand and value the business model that Aphelion is structuring for bundled small satellite integration and launch services.
James Graham, CEO of Richtr Financial Studio, is an ardent supporter of Aphelion's possibilities. Richtr Financial Studio supports Aphelion with financial and accounting services. They are a powerhouse for startups that are poised for exponential growth.
For more information about Aphelion Aerospace, please visit: https://aphelionaerospace.com
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Having already written about the phenomenal basketball success at Springville over much of the last decade in last week’s column, this week’s is dedicated to the other Oriole sport that has regularly competed at the highest level making numerous state tournament berths.
And amazingly, it’s a sport that has been to state equally as much as the mind-boggling basketball program over the past decade.
That sport is of course, volleyball.
Dating back to 2013, Springville volleyball has been to the state tournament seven times in the last nine years (Oriole basketball has been to state seven times in the last eight years) making for one of the greatest small school runs in the entire state during that span.
The 2013 volleyball team, who started the dominating run and finished with a 30-11 overall record that fall. Springville, the undefeated Tri-Rivers Conference champions, were led by sophomore Megan Wagaman who hammered down a team-best 309 kills to go with 122 blocked shots while seniors Tracy Kilburg, Kerrigan Riley, Leanna Mysak and Sidney Hopkins were also key members of the rotation with Hopkins setting 740 assists. Junior Sarah Matus, a key basketball star, played a major role in the back row in volleyball too, leading the 2013 team with 308 digs.
Though the run at state was a short one dropping a quarter-final contest against top-seeded Janesville (15-25, 9-25, 6-25), the precedent had been set. State was now the expectation, not just the dream.
After missing the tournament the following season, Springville returned to the U.S. Cellular Center in 2015 and once again led by Megan Wagaman (now a senior), as well as star sophomores Mikayla Nachazel, Alyssa Jaeger, Samantha Johnson, Rylee Menster and Madi Wagaman (Megan’s sister), the team wrapped a sensational 32-7 season with a quarter-final loss against Sidney. Junior Olivia Dlouhy as well as seniors Sydney Williams, Nicole Miller, Ashley Brady, Hallie Corum and Chrissy Hoogland all played roles in the enormous success the team had.
A year later Springville made it back-to-back state volleyball berths and once in Cedar Rapids this time posted a huge quarter-final win over Audubon to advance to the semi-final round where they were edged against Hudson, closing the 2016 campaign with a 31-8 overall record.
The phenomenally gifted junior class of Menster, Nachazel, Jaeger, Johnson and Madi Wagaman were the leaders but also got a lot of help from seniors in Dlouhy and Megan Allsup as well as sophomore Rylee Chapman.
A third-straight trip to state in 2017 saw another semi-final berth where the Orioles had a school record-breaking 39-3 run ended by Gehlen Catholic after defeating North Tama in the quarters.
Menster, Nachazel, Johnson, Jaeger and Madi Wagaman, now all seniors, closed their record-breaking careers as the most successful volleyball class in Oriole history (they did the same in hoops as well). Juniors Chapman, Mel Nulle, Dara Hoskins, Nichole Kane and Kali Spicer all got a taste of what state is like as well, and what it takes to get there.
The 2018 campaign finished with a 16-21 overall record as the team fell short of the state tournament, but the drought wouldn’t last long, as keyed by an extremely young and talented group of girls, Springville pulled off a stunner defeating a highly-ranked Lisbon team in the 1A regional championship game and shocked the state making it back to the U.S. Cellular Center in 2019.
A team that had been hovering around .500 all season long got hot in the post-season, and with sophomores Lauren Wilson, Morgan Nachazel, Savannah Nealman and Grace Matus, along with freshmen Lily Clark, Molly Stamp, Nia Howard and Kennady Breitfelder helped along by junior Penny Blackmore, defeated Lone Tree, Cedar Valley Christian and Belle Plaine in regionals before knocking off the Lions to earn their spot back at the state tournament.
Once there the Orioles dropped a quarter-final contest against top-ranked Sidney, wrapping the 2019 campaign with a 20-17 overall record.
There would be no slowing the Springville program from there on out, as the 2020 team rolled to a 27-5 record and dropped a quarter-final contest against Gladbrook-Reinbeck at the state tournament.
Coming into 2021, the Orioles, and their amazing senior class, had one goal in mind.
Winning at state.
Which they did, as after the team rolled through regionals, defeated Gladbrook-Reinbeck and North Tama at state to advance to the program’s first-ever state championship against top-seeded Burlington-Notre Dame.
While the Springville girls fell short of the title, Wilson, Nealman, Matus and Nachazel cemented their names in Oriole lore while classmate Kelcie Clothier was also a key role player on the team’s run to a 35-5 overall record, and third straight state berth.
Between basketball and volleyball, that’s 14 state tournament berths in a nine-year span.
Like it says at the top of the column. Nothing short of amazing! | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/opinion/editorials/between-the-lines-tradition-never-graduates-part-two/article_8165c233-2d88-548f-82be-d4c51c2e5c9a.html | 2022-04-01T02:00:17Z |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Seeking to counter international fears over its new security alliance with China, the Solomon Islands said Friday it won't allow China to build a military base there.
But that insistence will do little to ease concerns about the pact from the nation's traditional partners that include New Zealand, Australia and the United States.
The leader of neighboring Micronesia added his voice to those expressing trepidation by invoking the bloody battles of World War II and warning that the pact could again see the South Pacific region become a battleground for much larger powers.
The Solomon Islands government said Thursday a draft agreement of the new security pact had been initialed by representatives from the Solomons and China and would be "cleaned up" and signed.
In a statement Friday, the Solomon Islands government said that “contrary to the misinformation promoted by anti-government commentators” the agreement did not invite China to establish a military base.
“Government is conscious of the security ramification of hosting a military base, and it will not be careless to allow such initiative to take place under its watch,” the statement said.
The statement seemed to more emphatically rule out the possibility of a base after Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare had earlier told parliament it had no intention of asking China to build a base.
Sogavare said his nation sought only peace and prosperity, citing its foreign policy mantra: “We are friends to all and enemies to none.” He said it wasn't a secret deal but a sovereign issue.
Under the terms of the draft agreement, China could send police, military personnel and other armed forces to the Solomon Islands “to assist in maintaining social order” and for a variety of other reasons. It could also send warships to the islands for stopovers and to replenish supplies, which had led to speculation about the possibility of China establishing a naval base on the South Pacific islands.
Micronesia President David Panuelo wrote a letter to Sogavare saying Micronesia had “grave security concerns” about the "novel and unprecedented" arrangement.
He said the two small nations had become battle grounds during World War II and that it could happen again as China, the U.S. and Australia asserted themselves in the region.
“And is it plausible that, once the spheres have been carved out, that our concerns about climate change — today’s problem — would manifest into all-too-real concerns about a war in our backyards, with our people, our islands, as the playground for children playing as adults?” Panuelo wrote to Sogavare.
Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton said Friday that while it respected the Solomons' sovereignty, the deal showed that China was acting aggressively in the region.
“We need to be very cautious here because the Chinese are incredibly aggressive, the tactics that they’re deploying into small island nations are quite remarkable,” he told Sky News.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern this week described the possibility of Chinese military forces stationed on the Solomon Islands as “the potential militarization of the region.” And the U.S. State Department said Washington did not believe China’s security forces and methods needed to be exported.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Thursday that “relevant parties should see the China-Solomon Islands security cooperation objectively and rationally and stop making irresponsible remarks.”
“Attempts to provoke, obstruct and undermine China’s friendly relations with the island countries is not popular and will not succeed,” Wang told reporters at a daily briefing.
“China-Solomon Islands cooperation does not target any third party and is not in conflict with Solomon Islands’ cooperation with other countries. Instead, it complements the existing regional cooperation mechanisms in a positive way,” he added.
The Solomon Islands, home to about 700,000 people, switched its diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to Beijing in 2019 — a contributing factor to riots in November last year between residents of different islands within the country.
Australian police have been in the capital, Honiara, maintaining peace since then under a bilateral security treaty established in 2017. It provides a legal basis for the rapid deployment of Australian police, troops and associated civilians in the event of a major security challenge.
Chinese police are already on the islands conducting a training mission.
The Federated States of Micronesia is home to about 100,000 people. It has diplomatic relations and considers itself a “friend” of China, as well as having a close relationship with the U.S. under a compact of free association. | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/solomon-islands-says-china-deal-wont-include-military-base/6OOVEXPITFA3XMQ5GED4CIVIIU/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:17Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Thursday that the Justice Department has closed without criminal charges an investigation into political fundraising activity at his former business.
“As I said from the beginning and have maintained throughout this process, I was confident that after a thorough review the Justice Department would find all of my activities to be lawful,” DeJoy said in a statement provided to The Associated Press. “I have always adhered to the law in my personal and professional life.”
He added that he was “not surprised” that the department had concluded its investigation and that he was “pleased that this episode is over.”
The Justice Department declined to comment. But it is standard practice for department officials to reveal to defense lawyers that their investigations have concluded without charges rather than make that announcement themselves. A DeJoy spokesman said DeJoy’s lawyer had received that notification from the department.
DeJoy, a wealthy former logistics executive and GOP donor, was appointed postmaster general in 2020 by the Board of Governors controlled by then-President Donald Trump. He remains in the position in the Biden administration. He confirmed the existence of a Justice Department investigation last June when his spokesman said investigators were examining campaign contributions made by employees who worked for him when he was in the private sector.
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This story has been corrected to show that DeJoy was appointed by Trump-controlled Board of Governors, not Trump himself. | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/postmaster-general-says-hes-been-cleared-in-federal-probe/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:17Z |
STRUTHERS, Ohio (WKBN) – Ursuline registered their second win in as many days following their 17-0 victory over Western Reserve.
The Irish were paced by their top three hitters in the lineup – Jack Ericson, Luca Ricchiuti and Brady Shannon. Each finished with two hits apiece and combined to score 11 runs. Shannon also belted a homerun and collected 5 RBIs.
Tre Ciavarella tossed 4 innings for Ursuline, allowing one hit and struck out 7 batters for the win.
Ursuline is scheduled to meet Springfield on Friday.
Evan Slaven had the lone base hit for the Blue Devils.
On Friday, Reserve will welcome Columbiana. | https://www.wkbn.com/sports/ciavarella-strikes-out-7-shannon-homers-for-ursuline/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:20Z |
ASEAN Automotive Bearings Market Is Expected To Reach US$ 1614.8 Million by 2032 - Comprehensive Research Report by FMI
Booming Automotive sector in South-East Asia Steer Automotive Bearings Market Past US$ 964.8 Mn: Future Market Insights
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global sales of automotive bearings are set to be valued at over US$ 964.8 Mn in 2022, with a stable long-term projection, according to Future Market Insights (FMI). A new report estimates the ASEAN Automotive Bearings Market to expand at over 5.3% CAGR from 2022 to 2032.
According to Future Market Insights, the ongoing growth in the automotive sector in ASEAN region is expected to create opportunity for the automotive bearing manufacturers in the region. As per the Automotive federation of ASEAN overall sales of motor vehicle were 3.4 Mn in year 2019, The number will increase in the coming years due to population growth and economic development which has created huge opportunity for automotive bearings demand.
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The demand for automotive bearings in the ASEAN market was negatively impacted in FY 2020 due to global COVID -19 outbreak, which also led to shut down of production industries. Distribution of various products and industrial goods were hampered, including production and sales of automotive bearings.
This highly impacted the automotive industry and the production of motor vehicle was down by 20% in FY 2020. However, in last quarter of 2020 effect of COVID faded and industries started to get back on track. The demand for automotive bearings in ASEAN region is therefore expected to pick up at a steady pace in the coming years.
Prominent players operating in the market are involved in technological innovations. The market has seen various innovative products in recent past which has fueled the demand of the bearings. Also Introduction of Electro mobility has boosted the demand. Rising vehicle sales in the region has created huge opportunity for aftermarket sales. Thus the automotive bearings market is expected to grow at an impressive rate in upcoming period.
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Key Takeaways from Automotive Bearings Market Study
By application, automotive bearings for transmission system are projected to hold more than 1/4th value share of the ASEAN market in 2022.
By product type, the roller bearings segment is set to hold more than half of the market share on value basis by the end of forecast period.
Thailand will remain the primary market, backed by rising demand from automotive industry in the country. It is expected to account for over 30.2% of the demand registered in ASEAN in 2022.
By vehicle type, passenger car segment is expected to hold significant market share & grow at high growth rate of 5.0% CAGR in forecasted period.
Sales of automotive bearings in ASEAN is expected to reach 1.6 Bn in 2032.
“Expansion of automotive production will encourage automotive bearing manufacturers in ASEAN to focus on product launches. Besides this, they are expected to strengthen their aftersales services to gain competitive edge,” says a Future Market Insights analyst.
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The Automotive Bearings market is highly consolidated with having key players accounting for around more than 75% of the market share. These players are likely to invest in new technology developments and expansion of their distribution networks in order to maintain their market presence.
Some of the key players in this industry include but are not limited to Schaeffler AG, JTEKT Corporation, AB SKF, Minebea Mitsumi Inc., NSK Ltd, NTN Bearing Corporation, The Timken Company, Saint-Gobain, Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp., Fersa Group, C&U Group Ltd, and Metro Bearing and Automotive Limited.
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Automotive Roller Bearing Market - Automotive roller bearings are used for supporting rotating shafts in mechanical equipment. Automotive roller bearings are simple tools which can be precision manufactured in mass production quantities.
Automotive Wheel Bearings Market - The purpose of bearings is to enable rotational or linear movement and to reduce unnecessary friction between two mating parts. Bearings are used in various assemblies in automobiles. Wheel bearings are specifically used in the Wheel Hub Assembly.
Automotive Engine Bearings Market - In an automobile internal combustion engine, the engine bearing is usually a journal or a plain bearing on which the crankshaft rotates. The function of a bearing is to hold the crankshaft in place and to prevent the dislodging of connecting rod from the crankshaft.
Camshaft Bearings Market - With the need for smooth closing and opening of engine valves synchronized with crankshaft rotation, it is equally vital to achieve appropriate functioning of camshaft. As camshaft bearings assist in seamless camshaft functioning.
Railway Bearing Market - Bearings are mechanical elements that control the motion of the components they are attached to, allowing only the desired motion. In the operation of locomotives, due to the high torque involved, there is always a risk of a component moving away from its axis of rotation, the whole system.
Automotive Connecting Rod Bearing Market - Automotive connecting rod bearing also known as rod-end bearing makes an important part for an engine assembly. Being a two piece band it provides the rotatory motion when the two parts i.e. connecting rods and the bearings are connected.
EV Sensors Market - According to research, the EV sensors market is projected to witness growth of over 9% to 11% CAGR during the assessment period of 2021 to 2031.
EV Tires Market - According to assessment, sales of EV tires are projected to increase at 12% -14% CAGR over the next ten years (2021-2031). Increased average vehicle life, higher kilometers driven per year, growing concern for maintenance and safety, technological developments leading to longer tire life, and other factors are boosting the EV tires market.
Motor Gear Unit Market - According to latest study, motor gear unit market is set to witness steady growth during 2021-2031. In the short term, demand for motor gear unit will rebound steadily, with positive long-run outlook.
Wiper Blade Market - Assessment on the wiper blade market reveals that the industry is expected to progress at around 6% CAGR from 2021 to 2031. Increased demand for vehicles and the introduction of rear wipers in new range of vehicles is projected to boost the market.
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TJ's Greenhouse hoping for another big spring
On Corridor H just to the east of Weston, across from Tree Farm Road, there sits what currently looks like a sleepy little roadside produce stand, but once spring gets into full swing, TJ’s Greenhouse comes to life. The business is owned by Jerry Stout and has been...
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21.58% CBD
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98MM Raw Organic Hemp Cone
White or Black Doob Tube Included
CBD Hemp Flower, Machine Rolled, Hand Inspected
1.0 Grams 100% Flower/Trim Blend
100% Organic, No pesticides, No additives
Bend, Oregon
Lab Tested for Purity and Compliance
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All Hempire Direct products are made in the USA with USA grown hemp and are formulated by a biochemist. We believe in constant research and testing to continually produce the most effective products in the industry.
Hempire Direct provides private label manufacturing for a variety of hemp products ; Delta 8 THC Oil, Delta 8 THC Vapes, Delta 8 THC Edibles, Delta 8 THC Softgels. CBD Oils, Concentrates and Topicals, and premium Indoor Hemp Flower.
Targeted Relief: Custom blends utilize the unique properties of each cannabinoid and terpene to produce tailored effects
Lab Tested Extracts: Lab-tested at the extract level so you can see the full cannabinoid content used to create your product
Biochemist Formulated: Products are developed using trained scientific methods and research
Hempire Direct products are available at HempireDirect.com or just download our app from the app store. And at select retailers around the country.
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The Lawrence Community Center opened up in 1990. It is part of the Anamosa Parks and Recreation Department. Its slogan has always been “something for everyone.” I found this to be true in the 10 years that I have worked there.
The Lawrence family Ray, Roy and Marion donated money for this center. It has turned into a community treasure for Anamosa.
There have been four directors of the LCC: Scott Kelly, Warren Spurgeon, Tyler Laing and Shelly Carr. I have worked for: Scott, Tyler and Shelly.
The current Anamosa Parks Board members are: Heath Engelbart (president), Jason Wagner, JoAnn Hinz, Nancy Shaffer, Mindy Brown, Hailee Adams and Martha Rowland (honorary).
I have seen many unique things at the LCC such as: meeting President Bill Clinton and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, attended Anamosa High School Veterans Day luncheons, Ryan Norlin Pumpkinfests, Christmas Tree Walks, Supper with Santa, LCC Spook Parade, Post Prom activities, Father/Daughter Dances, graduation/ birthday/anniversary parties, auctions, craft shows, school foundation fundraisers, reunions, Thanksgiving Day community meals and wedding receptions to name some things.
The LCC contains: two meeting rooms, two kitchens, two racquetball courts, gymnasium with six basketball hoops, weight room and cardio room for the community to utilize. It is also responsible for the Anamosa swimming pool, eight ball fields and nine city parks.
Other events the LCC sponsors are youth flag football, soccer camps, basketball camps, little league baseball, blastball, T-ball and adult leagues: volleyball, racquetball and men’s basketball.
This past Veterans Day luncheon, I had the privilege to visit with many Veterans and Ray “Bubba” Sorenson who was our guest speaker at the AHS Annual Veterans Day Assembly. Ray is the artist of the Freedom Rocks. Ray painted the Jones County Freedom Rock in Stone City. The LCC is a perfect place for such events.
The new weight room and cardio room was built in 2012 by AHS shop students. The Jones County Endowment Grant, memory money from Jason Pillard’s family and community members, helped finance this new addition.
I have worked many wedding receptions over the years, and people from across the country have attended these. Many people have commented on how nice our facility is and how reasonable our rates are. They have also stated that we are lucky to have a facility like this for a town our size.
A couple years ago, a man walked into the LCC and was asking questions about our facility. Shelly and I answered all his questions, then he said he was possibly interested in renting out our gymnasium for a politician to speak in. I asked him who this politician was, and he replied “I can’t say right now.” I told him if I guess will you let me know if I am right? I guessed Joe Biden, and this man shook his head up and down. That is one interesting thing about working at the LCC, you never know who may be coming through the front door. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/opinion/lawrence-community-center-history-lesson/article_99b67bcd-a8d7-5e79-8f8e-cd4209850938.html | 2022-04-01T02:00:23Z |
Broadcom Inc. Announces Private Exchange Offers of Certain Outstanding Notes for New Notes
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO) ("Broadcom" or the "Company") announced today the commencement of offers to all eligible holders (together, the "Exchange Offers") of the Company's or its subsidiaries' Existing Notes listed in the table below to exchange Existing Notes for consideration consisting of a combination of up to $2,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company's new notes due 2037 (the "New Notes") and a cash payment, the complete terms and conditions of which are set forth in an offering memorandum, dated today (the "Offering Memorandum"). Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Offering Memorandum.
Set forth below is a table summarizing certain material terms of the New Notes to be issued in the Exchange Offers:
The aggregate principal amount of New Notes to be issued pursuant to the Exchange Offers will be subject to a maximum amount of $2,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount.
The following is a summary of certain key terms of the Exchange Offers:
- The Exchange Offers will expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of April 27, 2022, unless extended by the Company (the "Expiration Date").
- Eligible Holders who validly tender and do not validly withdraw their Existing Notes at or prior to the Early Participation Date will receive: (a) New Notes in a principal amount equal to (i) the Total Consideration (as defined below) applicable to such Existing Notes minus (ii) the Cash Component (as defined below), and (b) a cash payment equal to the Cash Component, for each $1,000 principal amount of such Existing Notes tendered and accepted for exchange by the Company.
- Eligible Holders who validly tender and do not validly withdraw their Existing Notes after the Early Participation Date will receive: (a) New Notes in a principal amount equal to (i) the Exchange Consideration (as defined below) applicable to such Existing Notes minus (ii) the Cash Component, and (b) a cash payment equal to the Cash Component, for each $1,000 principal amount of such Existing Notes tendered and accepted for exchange by the Company.
- "Total Consideration" means, as calculated in accordance with the formula set forth in Annex A to the Offering Memorandum, the discounted value of the remaining payments of principal and interest through the maturity date or par call date, as applicable, of the applicable series of Existing Notes (excluding accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the applicable Settlement Date), using a yield equal to the sum of (a) the bid-side yield on the applicable Reference UST Security (as set forth in the tables above with respect to such series of Existing Notes) as calculated by the Dealer Managers (as defined below) in accordance with standard market practice, as of 11:00 a.m. New York City time on April 14, 2022 (such date and time, the "Pricing Time"), as displayed on the Bloomberg Government Pricing Monitor Pages listed in the tables set forth on the cover page of the Offering Memorandum with respect to such series of Existing Notes (or any recognized quotation source selected by the Dealer Managers in their sole discretion if such page is not available or is manifestly erroneous) and (b) the Fixed Spread as set forth in the tables above with respect to such series of Existing Notes. For the avoidance of doubt, the Total Consideration includes the Early Participant Payment, as defined below.
- "Exchange Consideration" means the Total Consideration minus the Early Participant Payment.
- "Cash Component" means the portion of the Total Consideration, or the Exchange Consideration, as applicable, to be paid to holders in cash and is equal to the applicable Total Consideration for the relevant series of Existing Notes minus $1,000. For the avoidance of doubt, the Cash Component payable with respect to each series of Existing Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Early Participation Date, and accepted by us for exchange, will be equivalent to the Cash Component payable with respect to such series of Existing Notes validly tendered after the Early Participation Date and at or prior to the Expiration Date, and accepted by us for exchange.
- "Early Participant Payment" means $50 (payable in applicable New Notes) for each $1,000 principal amount of each series of Existing Notes tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Participation Date.
- The Company will pay interest on the New Notes at a rate per annum equal to (a) the yield, calculated in accordance with standard market practice, that corresponds to the bid-side price of the 1.875% United States Treasury due February 15, 2032 as of the Pricing Time as displayed on the Bloomberg Government Pricing Monitor page FIT1 (or any recognized quotation source selected by us in our sole discretion if such quotation report is not available or is manifestly erroneous), plus (b) a fixed spread of 215 basis points.
- Assuming the Company elects to have an early settlement, settlement for Existing Notes tendered at or prior to the Early Participation Date and accepted by the Company is expected to be April 18, 2022, unless extended by the Company (the "Early Settlement Date"). Settlement for Existing Notes tendered and accepted after the Early Participation Date is expected to be April 29, 2022, unless extended by the Company (the "Final Settlement Date").
- Eligible holders who validly tender and who do not validly withdraw their Existing Notes at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on April 13, 2022, unless extended by the Company (the "Early Participation Date"), and whose tenders are accepted for exchange by the Company, will receive the Total Consideration for each $1,000 principal amount of Existing Notes.
- All Eligible Holders whose Existing Notes are accepted in an Exchange Offer will receive a cash payment equal to accrued and unpaid interest on such Existing Notes to, but not including, the applicable Settlement Date in addition to their Total Consideration.
- Tenders of Existing Notes in the Exchange Offers may be validly withdrawn at any time at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on April 13, 2022, unless extended by the Company (the "Withdrawal Deadline"), but will thereafter be irrevocable, except in certain limited circumstances where additional withdrawal rights are required by law.
- Consummation of the Exchange Offers is subject to a number of conditions, including, among other things, the issuance of at least $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of New Notes and the Company's determination that New Notes issued on the Final Settlement Date, if any, will be treated as part of the same issue as the New Notes, if any, issued on the Early Settlement Date for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
- The Company will not receive any cash proceeds from the Exchange Offers.
If and when issued, the New Notes will not have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or any state securities laws. The New Notes may not be offered or sold in the United States or to any U.S. persons except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. The Company will enter into a registration rights agreement with respect to the New Notes. The New Notes will be unsecured obligations of the Company and will rank pari passu with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company.
The Exchange Offers are only made, and copies of the documents relating to the Exchange Offers will only be made available, to a holder of Existing Notes who has certified in an eligibility certification certain matters to the Company, including its status as a "qualified institutional buyer" as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act, a person other than a "U.S. person" as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act or a Canadian "accredited investor" and "permitted client" as defined in National Instrument 45-106—Prospectus Exemptions, Section 73.1(1) of the Securities Act (Ontario) and National Instrument 31-103—Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations. Holders of Existing Notes who desire access to the electronic eligibility form should contact D.F. King & Co., Inc., the information agent (the "Information Agent") for the Exchange Offers, at (866) 416-0577 (U.S. Toll-free) or (212) 269-5550 (Collect). Holders that wish to receive the Offering Documents can certify eligibility on the eligibility website at: http://www.dfking.com/broadcom. In connection with the Exchange Offers, Barclays Capital Inc., BBVA Securities Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC are acting as dealer managers (collectively, the "Dealer Managers").
This news release does not constitute an offer or an invitation by the Company to participate in the Exchange Offers in any jurisdiction in which it is unlawful to make such an offer or solicitation in such jurisdiction. None of Broadcom, the Information Agent or the Dealer Managers makes any recommendation as to whether any eligible holders should participate in the applicable Exchange Offer, and no one has been authorized by any of them to make such a recommendation. Eligible holders must make their own decisions as to whether to exchange their Existing Notes, and if so, the principal amount of such Existing Notes to be exchanged.
About Broadcom Inc.
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial. Our solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise, mainframe and cyber security software focused on automation, monitoring and security, smartphone components, telecoms and factory automation.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements (including within the meaning of Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended) concerning Broadcom. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements that address our expected future business and financial performance, the anticipated offerings and use of proceeds, and other statements identified by words such as "will," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "should," "intend," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "aim," and similar words, phrases or expressions. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and beliefs of the management of Broadcom, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, such management, current market trends and market conditions and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the Company's and management's control, and which may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on such statements.
Particular uncertainties that could materially affect future results include risks associated with: the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disrupted, and will likely continue to disrupt, normal business activity, and which may have an adverse effect on our results of operations; any loss of our significant customers and fluctuations in the timing and volume of significant customer demand; our dependence on contract manufacturing and outsourced supply chain; our dependency on a limited number of suppliers; government regulations and administrative proceedings, trade restrictions and trade tensions; global economic conditions and concerns; cyclicality in the semiconductor industry or in our target markets; global political and economic conditions; our significant indebtedness and the need to generate sufficient cash flows to service and repay such debt; the amount and frequency of our share repurchase program; dependence on and risks associated with distributors and resellers of our products; dependence on senior management and our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; any acquisitions we may make, such as delays, challenges and expenses associated with receiving governmental and regulatory approvals and satisfying other closing conditions, and with integrating acquired businesses with our existing businesses and our ability to achieve the benefits, growth prospects and synergies expected by such acquisitions; involvement in legal proceedings; quarterly and annual fluctuations in operating results; our ability to accurately estimate customers' demand and adjust our manufacturing and supply chain accordingly; our competitive performance and ability to continue achieving design wins with our customers, as well as the timing of any design wins; prolonged disruptions of our or our contract manufacturers' manufacturing facilities, warehouses or other significant operations; our ability to improve our manufacturing efficiency and quality; our dependence on outsourced service providers for certain key business services and their ability to execute to our requirements; our ability to maintain or improve gross margin; our ability to protect our intellectual property and the unpredictability of any associated litigation expenses; compatibility of our software products with operating environments, platforms or third-party products; our ability to enter into satisfactory software license agreements; availability of third party software used in our products; use of open source code sources in our products; any expenses or reputational damage associated with resolving customer product warranty and indemnification claims; market acceptance of the end products into which our products are designed; our ability to sell to new types of customers and to keep pace with technological advances; our compliance with privacy and data security laws; our ability to protect against a breach of security systems; fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; our provision for income taxes and overall cash tax costs, legislation that may impact our overall cash tax costs and our ability to maintain tax concessions in certain jurisdictions; and other events and trends on a national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business, competitive and regulatory nature. Many of the foregoing risks and uncertainties are, and will be, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and any worsening of the global business and economic environment as a result.
Our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which you may obtain for free at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov, discuss some of the important risk factors that may affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Actual results may vary from the estimates provided. We undertake no intent or obligation to publicly update or revise any of the estimates and other forward-looking statements made in this announcement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Contact:
Broadcom Inc.
Ji Yoo
Investor Relations
408-433-8000
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SOURCE Broadcom Inc. | https://www.prnewswire.com:443/news-releases/broadcom-inc-announces-private-exchange-offers-of-certain-outstanding-notes-for-new-notes-301515468.html | 2022-04-01T02:00:24Z |
Return flow from the Gulf will increase the humidity here through the weekend. As a weak front arrives late Monday; a few badly needed showers are expected by Tuesday.
Tonight, will be mainly clear, damp and cool with a moderate breeze and a low of 59.
Friday will be rather breezy and humid and seasonal with variable sunshine and a high of 81.
Friday night the winds weaken and become light along with cloudy skies, patchy fog and a milder low of 61.
Saturday expect less wind, more sunshine and warmer with a high of 85 and generally light winds.
Sunday will be mostly cloudy and seasonal again with a high near 80 and more wind by afternoon. | https://www.kristv.com/weather/todays-forecast/quiet-weather-pattern-headed-into-the-weekend | 2022-04-01T02:00:24Z |
This is the second part of a two-part series on related-party sales. If you're just joining us, go back and read part one to learn about how Section 267 defines an investor's related parties and important exceptions to the rule.
What happens when an investor passes the loss on. Sometimes, a disallowed loss can be salvaged, as when a related buyer resells at a profit.
Let’s say an investor buys 100 shares of DEF Company for $10,000 that she later sells to her brother for $8,000. Generally, she can’t deduct her $2,000 loss. This holds true even though she made the sale “in good faith,” that is, without intending to avoid taxes.
When does related-buyer brother get the benefit of the disallowed loss? When he realizes a profit on the sale of his DEF shares. His profit escapes taxes up to the amount of the original investor’s loss.
The brother’s basis for the DEF shares is the $8,000 that he paid his sister. If he sells them for $11,000, making his gain $3,000, then he’s liable for taxes on only $1,000 of the gain ($3,000 minus the $2,000 disallowed loss).
This break benefits only the brother. It’s unavailable to a subsequent purchaser.
Is the gain long-term or short-term? It depends on how long the original investor held the share.
What happens if he sells his shares for $7,000? His loss is $1,000. He can’t deduct the loss that the IRS wouldn’t allow his sister, the original investor.
No break for family feuds. The related-party rules apply even in the event of a family fight. This was underscored by a Tax Court decision that disallowed a capital loss for a sale between two brothers that was ordered in binding arbitration that separated the brothers’ stock and real estate holdings.
Sometimes, the IRS makes exceptions. In one case, the IRS allowed an estate to claim a loss from the sale of real property to the decedent’s daughter. The estate was unable to find a buyer for the property, and the property was sold at a loss, on behalf of the estate, to the daughter, who was a co-executor for the estate. The IRS said that the creation of an estate wasn’t the result of the same “forethought” as a trust, which can be set up specifically to reduce taxes.
I remind clients that even when the related-party rules are inapplicable, the transaction must be bona fide. The IRS can still disallow the loss if it determines that the primary motive for a sale was tax avoidance.
Beware of multi-asset sales. Related-party sales can cause other complications. When the sale includes a number of blocks of stock or pieces of property, the IRS measures gain or loss separately for each asset sold––not by the overall result of the sale. Thus, even if a lump-sum sale results in a net loss for an investor, she may have a taxable gain if the IRS disallows the losses on some of the assets involved.
Let’s say she owns over 50 percent of the stock of Geneva Enterprises. To satisfy part of a debt to Geneva, she gave the company $65,000 worth of stock that she owned in a publicly held corporation. As a result of the transfer, she incurred a $1,000 loss.
But by figuring the profit or loss separately on each block of stock she had purchased (at different times and at different prices), the IRS computed total losses of $10,000 and total gains of $9,000. Since the sale was between related parties, the $10,000 loss was disallowed, and she wound up with a taxable gain of $9,000.
What should she have done to avoid this unfavorable tax result? Sell her loss stock on the market and give the proceeds to Geneva, that way, she would’ve wound up with a $10,000 deductible loss to offset her $9,000 gain. | https://www.accountingweb.com/practice/practice-excellence/how-to-tell-when-related-party-rules-apply | 2022-04-01T02:00:24Z |
5 fetuses found inside DC home of anti-abortion activist
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police found five fetuses in the home of a self-proclaimed “anti-abortion activist” who was indicted this week on federal charges alleging that she was part of a group of people who blocked access to a Washington, D.C. reproductive health center.
The Metropolitan Police Department says officers were responding to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a home in Southeast Washington on Wednesday when they located the five fetuses inside.
A local television station, WUSA9, captured video of police searching the home and reported that the home belonged to Lauren Handy. The 28-year-old was one of nine people charged in an indictment that was made public on Wednesday that accused the group of traveling to Washington, blocking access to the reproductive health center and streaming it on Facebook.
The station, which first reported the discovery, said Handy told a reporter that “people will freak out when they hear” what detectives found inside her house. Handy did not respond to a message sent to her Facebook profile seeking comment.
Police said the five fetuses were collected by Washington’s medical examiner and the investigation is ongoing.
In the indictment, prosecutors said Handy had called the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient and scheduling an appointment. Once there, on Oct. 22, 2020, eight of the suspects pushed their way inside and began blocking the doors, according to the indictment. Five of them chained themselves together on chairs to block the treatment area as others blocked the employee entrance to stop other patients from coming inside, the indictment alleges. Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge.
Handy and the eight others were charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The federal law, more commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services.
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ShackStream: Big Team Building in Halo Infinite - Episode 12
After a brief foray into another Halo title, the team are back for some more Halo Infinite.
Wow, is it that time of the week already? That’s right, it’s Halo Infinite time. The team are jumping back into Halo Infinite after last week’s Halo 2 session. Will we come out more victorious and in better shape than we did a few weeks ago? Tune in to the Shacknews Twitch channel at 4:00 p.m. PT / 7:00 p.m. ET to find out.
The Halo Infinite Big Team Building livestream will begin at 4:00 p.m. PT / 7:00 p.m. ET and will go for two hours. During that time, you can expect all manner of Halo Infinite plays from Big Team Battle to Tactical Slayer, maybe even a round of Oddball if I can sneak it in under everyone’s noses.
Last week, we decided we’d mix it up with some Halo 2. That game, despite the rough edges of online connection and pings, remains a stellar experience. I don’t know if you saw, but I was putting up some impressive kills. Check out the clip of me getting 36 kills in a Team Snipers match on Beaver Creek. Good times. The Halo 2 Sniper Rifle feels so good.
We love playing a bit of Halo here at Shacknews and we also love hearing from our community. Make sure you stop by and say hello and also follow the channel. In fact, if you’ve got Amazon Prime linked to Twitch, you can subscribe using a free monthly sub. We would greatly appreciate it.
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Sam Chandler posted a new article, ShackStream: Big Team Building in Halo Infinite - Episode 12 | https://www.shacknews.com/article/129602/shackstream-big-team-building-in-halo-infinite-episode-12 | 2022-04-01T02:00:24Z |
BANGKOK (AP) — A report by the World Wildlife Fund shows illegal purchases of wildlife online are growing in Myanmar in a threat both to public health and to endangered species.
The report released Friday found that enforcement of bans on such transactions has weakened amid political turmoil following a 2021 military takeover.
The number of such dealings rose 74% over a year earlier to 11,046, nearly all of them involving sales of live animals. For the 173 species traded, 54 are threatened with global extinction, the report said.
Researchers identified 639 Facebook accounts belonging to wildlife traders. The largest online trading group had more than 19,000 members and dozens of posts per week, it said.
The animals bought and sold included elephants, bears and gibbons, Tibetan antelope, critically endangered pangolins and an Asian giant tortoise. The most popular were various species of monkeys, often bought as pets.
Most of the animals advertised for sale were taken from the wild. They also included civets, which along with pangolins have been identified as potential vectors in the spread of diseases such as SARS and COVID-19.
Shaun Martin, who heads the WWF's Asia-Pacific regional cybercrime project, said monitoring of the online wildlife trade shows different species being kept close together, sometimes in the same cage.
“With Asia’s track record as a breeding ground for many recent zoonotic diseases, this sharp uptick in online trade of wildlife in Myanmar is extremely concerning,” he said.
The unregulated trade in wild species and resulting interactions between wild species and humans raise the risks of new and possibly vaccine-resistant mutations of illnesses such as the COVID-19 that could evolve undetected in non-human hosts into more dangerous variants of disease, experts say.
COVID-19 is one of many diseases traced back to animals. The killing and sale of what is known as bushmeat in Africa was thought to be a source for Ebola. Bird flu likely came from chickens at a market in Hong Kong in 1997. Measles is believed to have evolved from a virus that infected cattle.
“Illegal wildlife trade is a serious concern from the point of view of biodiversity preservation and conservation and its potential impact on health security," said Mary Elizabeth G. Miranda, an expert on zoonotic diseases and illness and CEO of the Field Epidemiology Training Program Alumni Foundation in the Philippines.
Social media and other online platforms have joined a worldwide effort to crack down on the thriving trade in birds, reptiles, mammals and animal parts. In Myanmar, much of the trade in wildlife is through Facebook, which as a member of the Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking online has taken action to block or remove accounts of people engaged in such transactions.
But as is true elsewhere, new accounts often pop up just as soon as old ones are shut down, hindering enforcement, the report noted. Easy online access to the animals also is driving up demand, worsening the problem.
Discussions of purchases of protected species often took place in open Facebook groups, suggesting that such dealings remain “largely risk-free,” the report said. Since payments and deliveries often are done using messenger apps, controlling the problem is doubly difficult.
Highlighting the lack of enforcement, people in the illegal wildlife trade in Myanmar often use rudimentary methods of moving the animals and animal products around — with buses being the usual form of transport.
The study by WWF in Myanmar focused on trade online of animals and other creatures inside the country, though there were some imports from neighboring Thailand, mainly of birds such as hornbills and salmon crested cockatoos, and of crocodiles, to India.
Some deals might involve animals or parts being sent into China, it said.
The conservation group said it plans future studies to better understand Myanmar’s role in the global trade in endangered species.
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Since its re-establishment 30 years ago, the southcentral province of Ninh Thuan has been exerting efforts to make breakthroughs towards dynamic and sustainable development.
On December 26, 1991, during its 10th session, the 8th-tenure National Assembly decided to divide Thuan Hai province into Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces. On April 1, 1992, Ninh Thuan was re-established with four district-level entities, namely Phan Rang – Thap Cham, Ninh Son, Ninh Hai, and Ninh Phuoc.
Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Tran Quoc Nam said since then, many mechanisms and policies have been issued to create a favourable legal corridor for socio-economic development in Ninh Thuan. Besides, Vietnam’s intensive and extensive integration in the “Doi moi” (Renewal) period, as well as national industrialisation and modernisation, has brought about numerous opportunities for the local development.
The first 10 years since its re-establishment (1992 – 2000) was the time Ninh Thuan faced an array of challenges and had to invest resources in addressing difficulties and identifying orientations for its growth.
In the following decade (2001 – 2010), the province managed to effectively capitalise on its potential and advantages, thus achieving moderate and relatively comprehensive growth. Its economy in 2010 expanded by 5.7 folds from 2000, rising 8.31 percent annually on average.
Over the last 10 years, it has raised its stature and boosted all-round, fast, and sustainable development with a new mindset. In particular, the Government’s Resolution No. 115/NQ-CP, dated August 31, 2018, has created conditions for Ninh Thuan to optimise local potential and competitive edges while strongly attracting investment, especially as it has been envisioned to become an energy and renewable energy centre of Vietnam, according to Nam.
He noted over past three years, despite many difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the province has remained one of the fastest growing localities nationwide, ranking fourth among the 63 provinces and cities.
Over the development course, Ninh Thuan has gained a facelift, with modern and uniform infrastructure built and many urban areas taking shape. From a province with underdeveloped infrastructure, it now boasts seaport, railway, road, and irrigation systems and is gradually establishing itself as an energy and renewable energy centre of the whole country.
Tourism is on its way to become a key economic sector in the context that a number of local destinations have been planned to become national tourism sites. While industrial parks and clusters have proved to be magnets to investment, the zones designated to serve as economic engines are coming into being.
Despite many difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the province has remained one of the fastest growing localities nationwide, ranking fourth among the 63 provinces and cities.
Ninh Thuan targets average annual growth of 10.84 percent for 2021 – 2030. To that end, it is pushing ahead with economic restructuring, growth model reform, science – technology application, innovation, digital transformation, development of a digital economy and digital society, and improvement of economic competitiveness.
Chairman Nam said in the coming time, the province will step up administrative procedure reform, investment climate improvement, and competitiveness enhancement.
It will also focus on developing the key and potential sectors into growth drivers, particularly energy, renewable energy, high-end tourism, high-tech agriculture, maritime economy, urban economy, and its southern key economic zone.
In addition, the province will mobilise maximum resources for completing infrastructure, with priority to transport, seaport, irrigation, urban, industrial, power transmission, digital information, health care, education, cultural, and tourism facilities, in order to meet requirements in socio-economic development, environmental protection, and climate change response, the official added./.
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Along with a pair of major qualifiers for the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Oaks (G1), the $1 million Florida Derby (G1) and $250,000 Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2), Gulfstream will offer an additional eight stakes on Saturday’s blockbuster 14-race program.
Here are some of the highlights.
Pan American (G2) – Race 9 (3:37 p.m. ET)
Multiple Grade 1 winner Gufo, unraced since an unplaced finish in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), will open his five-year-old season in the $200,000 Pan American (G2) at 1 1/2 miles on turf.
An earner of more than $1.2 million, Gufo will retain the services of Joel Rosario, and Christophe Clement will remove blinkers. The chestnut son of Declaration of War has been pegged as the 9-5 second choice on the morning line.
Other runners in the seven-horse field include Abaan and Temple, and the Pan American serves as a rubber match after splitting the Mac Diarmida (G2) and W.L. McKnight (G3) in their last two starts.
Abaan, who rolled to a two-length win in the McKnight in late January, is listed as the 8-5 favorite following a troubled fourth in the Mac Diarmida. Luis Saez rides for Todd Pletcher. Temple, a one-length scorer in the Mac Diarmida for Mike Maker, has been installed as the 5-2 third choice with Jose Ortiz.
Ghostzapper (G3) – Race 6 (1:57 p.m. ET)
Contested over 1 1/8 miles, the $100,000 Ghostzapper (G3) has a pair of major contenders in Greatest Honour and Fearless.
Greatest Honour recorded convincing wins in the Fountain of Youth (G2) and Holy Bull (G3) before ending last year with a third in the Florida Derby, and the Shug McGaughey-trained Tapit colt is eligible to improve upon a sixth in the March 12 Challenger S. (G3) at Tampa Bay Downs.
Fearless should appreciate getting away from Speaker’s Corner in the seven-horse field, finishing second to that classy rival in the Gulfstream Park Mile (G2) and Fred Hooper (G3), and the six-year-old gelding loves it at Gulfstream (7-4-3-0).
Appleton (G3) – Race 12 (5:55 p.m. ET)
Unraced since taking the 2021 Mac Diarmida, Phantom Currency will bring a two-race win streak to his first start in 13 months, the $100,000 Appleton (G3). Irad Ortiz Jr. will take over the reins on the six-year-old gelding, and Phantom Currency looks like the one to catch among nine contestants in the mile turf race.
Carpenters Call will make his stakes debut with a three-race win skein in tow, and English Bee will make his third start off the layoff following a respectable third in the March 5 Canadian Turf (G3).
Orchid (G3) – Race 3 (12:28 p.m. ET)
Winner of the La Prevoyante (G3) two back, Beautiful Lover will make her career finale against six opponents in the $150,000 Orchid (G3). The Clement-traineed mare will head to the breeding shed after the 1 1/2 miles turf affair, and Rosario guides.
Cutler Bay S. – Race 5 (1:27 p.m. ET)
Multiple stakes victor Red Danger is among eight sophomores seeking the $100,000 Cutler Bay S. at 1 1/16 miles on turf. Winner of December’s Pulpit S. over the course, the Brian Lynch trainee will look to improve upon a fourth as the favorite in the Palm Beach (G3) last out, and Saez will pilot.
Main Event, a neck second when making his stakes debut in the Palm Beach, is a contender for George Weaver, and Smokin’ T merits respect on the switch back to turf.
Sir Shackleton S. – Race 10 (4:09 p.m. ET)
Grade 3 winner Weyburn will return from a six-month layoff and make his first start for trainer Brendan Walsh in the $100,000 Sir Shackleton S. at seven furlongs.
On the Triple Crown path last season, the Pioneerof the Nile colt received a freshening after a fourth in the Wood Memorial (G2). Weyburn finished a neck second to Mandaloun in the Pegasus S. next out, and wound up fourth behind Essential Quality in the Jim Dandy (G2), before completing his three-year-old season with an unplaced outing in the Pennsylvania Derby (G1). Tyler Gaffalione will be up.
Collaborate, Fortin Hall, Girolamo’s Attack, and Shivaree are also among the nine entrants. | http://www.brisnet.com/content/2022/03/gufo-back-for-pan-american-on-stakes-packed-florida-derby-undercard/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:25Z |
COLUMBIANA, Ohio (WKBN) – Crestview senior pitcher Kaedyn Sutton tossed a no-hitter in a 1-0 win over Newton Falls in high school softball action on Thursday evening.
Sutton struck out a total of 16 batters in the game to reach the milestone for the Rebels.
Newton Falls pitcher Sophia Tvaroch was nearly as dominant, striking out 11 in six innings in the setback.
At the plate, Sutton, Brenna Figley and Karsyn Moore each collected a hit in the win for the Crestview. | https://www.wkbn.com/sports/crestview-senior-tosses-no-hitter-in-rebels-win/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:26Z |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An external review of Minnesota’s response to days of civil unrest following theMay 2020 killing of George Floyd found several weaknesses, including a lack of clear leadership early on as businesses were being destroyed and set ablaze, and a failure to discern peaceful from unlawful protesters.
The report by Wilder Research, commissioned by the Department of Public Safety and made public Thursday, says Minnesota can do more to address tensions between law enforcement and communities, and must incorporate a deeper sense of humanity in the way it responds to civil unrest in the future.
“Further research and evaluation are needed to understand the role of racism and other forms of bias in law enforcement responses to civil unrest and determine additional steps to address community distrust in law enforcement and state government,” the report also found.
The report, which examined the state’s actions from May 26 through June 7, 2020, listed 20 recommendations to improve the state’s response and find ways to prevent such civil unrest from happening again.
Three “critical recommendations” include: strengthening coordination between multiple agencies; improving coordination and relationships with local jurisdictions and the media; and addressing tension between law enforcement and communities through trust-building efforts, police accountability and transformation, and education.
Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said in a letter to Gov. Tim Walz that his agency has already made changes to improve communication and police accountability, including implementing some of the report’s recommendations.
Floyd, who was Black, was killed May 25, 2020, when former Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for about nine and a half minutes as Floyd was handcuffed and lying face-down on the pavement. Bystander video showed Floyd said multiple times that he couldn’t breathe, before he eventually went silent and stopped moving.
The killing sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice. In Minneapolis, some of the protests became violentas businesses, and even a police station, were ransacked and burned.
The report said that unrest was unprecedented, and left local and state agencies overextended.
Local police and emergency responders couldn’t respond to many calls for help. Several state agencies, as well as the National Guard, were called in — but the report noted they were not experienced in handling large-scale civil disturbances over such an extended period.
The report found that the state was too late in setting up a multi-agency command center to coordinate response, and that several local agencies were following different rules of engagement. There was also a lack of communication, leading some communities and businesses totake matters into their own hands. Some of the response by state agencies was also viewed as escalating by some.
The report also noted some strengths. Among them, it found the state acknowledged that the community had legitimate concerns after Floyd’s killing. It also noted that small mobile field force units were effective in addressing unrest in multiple locations. The report said that a curfew, when enforced, was also effective.
A reportissued earlier this month on the city’s response to the Minneapolis protests was sharply critical and included several recommendations, including improving police training on crowd control tactics.
Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughterand also pleaded guilty in federal court to violating Floyd’s civil rights. Three other former officers were also convicted of federal civil rights violations and are awaiting trial on state charges of aiding and abetting both murder and manslaughter.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the killing of George Floyd at: https://apnews.com/hub/death-of-george-floyd | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/report-state-late-in-response-to-unrest-after-floyd-killing/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:25Z |
CANADA, March 31 - B.C.’s Climate Solutions Council, which provides independent advice to government on climate programs, actions and accountability, has been renewed with the appointment of six new members.
“The Climate Solutions Council’s advice was central to the development of the CleanBC plan and its early implementation. As a group, it went on to play a critical role helping to establish the CleanBC 2030 Roadmap priorities and measures,” said George Heyman, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. “The council’s advice on accelerating implementation and expanding climate action under the roadmap is critical to achieving success. The new council members are uniquely qualified to move the Province to the next phase of climate action. Together with returning members, they represent the diversity and collective interests of British Columbians in taking strong and effective climate action, while building a modern, diversified and clean economy.”
New council members include Lynda Price, Chief of the Ulkatcho First Nation; Patrick Michell, Chief of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band; Kathryn Harrison, UBC professor and former policy analyst for the U.S. Congress and Environment Canada; Eden Luymes, UBC masters student with a focus on climate justice and global governance; Tamara Vrooman, president and CEO of the Vancouver Airport Authority; and George Benson, managing director, Climate Displacement Planning Initiative.
“The global challenge of addressing climate change has never been more pressing, and progress means having deeply committed people with proven expertise and experience around the table to determine the best path forward,” said Nancy Olewiler, co-chair of the Climate Solutions Council. “I am proud of the impact the council has achieved through the early implementation of the Province’s climate plan and I know with these new appointments, we will double up on the impact to accelerate the kind of change we all need to see.”
British Columbia’s Climate Solutions Council provides independent advice to government on actions and policies to contribute to carbon pollution reductions and sustainable economic development. The council includes members from First Nations, environmental organizations, industry, academia, youth, labour and local government.
The CleanBC Roadmap is the Province’s plan to reduce carbon emissions across all sectors, creating good economic opportunities while adapting to the ongoing impacts of climate change. It includes clear sectoral emission-reduction targets and pathways to achieve them. The process to achieve the plan’s goals is set out in the Annual Climate Change Accountability Report which, under law, is presented to the legislature.
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To learn more about the 20-member Climate Solutions Council and for a full list of member biographies, visit: www.gov.bc.ca/climatesolutionscouncil
To learn more about CleanBC, visit: www.cleanbc.gov.bc.ca | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/567180968/new-members-appointed-to-b-c-s-climate-solutions-council | 2022-04-01T02:00:26Z |
Avicanna Announces Filing of Annual Financial Statements for Year Ended December 31, 2021
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$3.3M in revenue representing 108% Y-Y growth, significant growth in finished product sales
Total of 4 brands, 16 SKU’s and 35 “cannabis 2.0” listings across medical and retail channels in Canada
Expansion of international footprint with entrance into Avicanna’s 14th international market
TORONTO, March 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avicanna Inc. (“Avicanna” or the “Company “) (TSX: AVCN) (OTCQX: AVCNF) (FSE: 0NN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of plant-derived cannabinoid-based products, is pleased announce the filing of its annual financial statements for the year ended December 31st, 2021 and provide a corporate update.
Aras Azadian, CEO stated, “2021 was the most progressive and successful year for our team which managed to accomplish numerous remarkable milestones while navigating unprecedented internal and external challenges. We have successfully commercialized and demonstrated the differentiated value of our proprietary products through four brands across both medical and retail channels in Canada and in parallel have established strategic footprints across several international markets.”
2021 corporate highlights
Total fiscal 2021 revenue of $3.3M representing growth of 108% from fiscal 2020 ($1.57M). Record quarterly revenue of approximately $1.2M in the fourth quarter of 2021, representing the fourth consecutive quarter-over-quarter increase of approximately 20%, minimum.
Revenue growth driven by sales of proprietary cannabinoid-based products sold across global sales channels. This includes 69,000 units sold in the fourth quarter of 2021, representing a 160% growth from the third quarter 2021. A total of 124,000 units was delivered in fiscal 2021 compared to 4,100 units delivered in fiscal 2020.
Launched a total of 16 “cannabis 2.0” proprietary product SKUs as of December 31, 2021, in Canada including RHO Phyto, Pura HW, Viola, and re+Play branded products. Expanded distribution channels through a total of 35 “cannabis 2.0” product listings across medical and adult-use channels in Canada, signifying an increase of 37% from the third quarter of 2021.
Expanded its partnership with the Medical Cannabis by Shoppers™ online portal with a total of 13 SKUs available to patients and the medical community including all four commercial brands as at December 31, 2021.
The launch of re+Play branded CBD topicals across medical and adult use channels in Canada. re+PLAY is a sports performance and recovery-focused brand founded by National Basketball Association (“NBA”) veteran Al Harrington with evidence-based CBD formulations developed in partnership with Avicanna.
Viola Brands Nationwide launch in Canada through medical channels in partnership with Medical Cannabis by Shoppers™ and across adult use channels in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Saskatchewan. Avicanna’s partnership with Viola brings the US equity-focused brand founded by NBA veteran, Al Harrington, to Canada for the first time.
The Company filed a patent on its advanced oral cannabinoid drug delivery system related to neurological disorders including a range of liquids, capsules, powders, and controlled release tablets utilizing proprietary self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDS) technology. The formulations offer enhanced stability, bioavailability and controlled release of cannabinoids including (CBD, THC, CBG, CBN and THCv) and are intended to be utilized in global medical and pharmaceutical products.
IP licensing and distribution partnership with established Argentinian pharmaceutical company. The partnership will focus on the licensing, supply and expected commercialization of the Company’s drug candidate Trunerox™ in Argentina in the second half of fiscal 2022.
Avicanna's subsidiary obtains Good Agricultural and Collection Practices ("GACP") Certification in Colombia, which will allow the Company’s Aureus-branded raw material include low cost and sustainable cannabis biomass and flower for sale and export to the global marketplace.
The opening of the Company’s 14th international market across four continents including the initial export and commercialization of its CBD skin care line Pura H&W™ in the United States and its medical cannabis brand RHO Phyto™ into the Caribbean region.
International expansion of Aureus branded products including the first commercial export of CBG, a rare cannabinoid, into the European Union and initial export of psychoactive cannabinoids into Chile. Additionally, the Company completed initial exports of its proprietary genetics with completed exports of feminized seeds into Argentina and Peru.
Other highlights subsequent to Q4 2021
2022 strategy and guidance release including the Company’s forecasted revenue of $9M from global operations, which is expected to be led by the anticipated sales of approximately 310,000 units of proprietary cannabinoid-based products.
Supply Agreement with Chilean Pharmaceutical Pioneer Knop Laboratorios S.A. Expansion of the relationship, originally established in 2020. Supply of Avicanna’s active pharmaceutical ingredients for existing commercial and pipeline of pharmaceutical products in South America.
Changes to the Board of Directors and executive team with two experienced pharmaceutical executives including the appointment of Eileen McCormack to the Board of Directors and Stephen Kim as the Chief Legal Officer.
Strategic Partnership with Tetra Bio-Pharma, which will encompass three potential strategic pillars across supply of API, commercialization of prescription products, and co-development of pharmaceutical drug candidates.
Commenced of Epidermolysis Bullosa studies with the Hospital for Sick Children, the study led by Dr. Elena Pope is analyzing the efficacy of the company’s dermatological pharmaceutical product on rare skin disease.
The Company is also hosting an update webinar on Tuesday April 5th in collaboration with CHFIR, if you are interested in attending, please sign up through the provided link. https://tinyurl.com/AVCN050422
About Avicanna Inc.
Avicanna is an innovative, commercial-stage, and international biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, advancement, and commercialization of evidence-based cannabinoid-based products for the global consumer, as well as medical and pharmaceutical market segments. In leading global cannabinoid advancements, the Company actively collaborates with leading Canadian academic and medical institutions. Avicanna has established a scientific platform including R&D and clinical development that has led to the commercialization of more than thirty products across four main market segments:
Medical Cannabis & Wellness Products: Marketed under the RHO Phyto™ brand these medical and wellness products are a line of pharmaceutical-grade cannabinoid products containing varying ratios of cannabidiol (“CBD”) and tetrahydrocannabinol (“THC”). The product portfolio contains a full formulary of products including oral, sublingual, topical, and transdermal deliveries that have been designed for controlled dosing, enhanced absorption and stability studies supported by pre-clinical data. The formulary is marketed with consumer, patient and medical-community education and training.
CBD Derma-Cosmetic Products: Marketed under the Pura H&W™ or Pura Earth™ brands, these registered, clinically tested, derma-cosmetic products include a portfolio of functional CBD topical products.
Pharmaceutical Pipeline: Leveraging Avicanna’s scientific platform, vertical integration, and real-world evidence, Avicanna has created a pipeline of patent-pending drug candidates that are indication-specific and in various stages of clinical development and commercialization. These cannabinoid-based drug candidates look to address unmet medical needs in the areas of dermatology, chronic pain, and various neurological disorders. Avicanna’s first pharmaceutical preparation (Trunerox™) is in the drug registration stage in South America.
Cannabinoid Raw Materials: Marketed under the Aureus™ brand, the Company’s raw material business has successfully completed sales to 12 countries. Aureus™ offers cannabis dried flower, standardized seeds, full-spectrum extracts, and cannabinoid distillates, isolated cannabinoids such as CBD, THC, cannabigerol (“CBG”) and other rare cannabinoids. Aureus™ products are produced at Santa Marta Golden Hemp S.A.S, the Company’s majority-owned subsidiary in Colombia, which is also GACP certified and has United States Department of Agriculture USDA National Organic Program certification for its hemp cultivar.
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This news release contains “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking information contained in this news release may be identified by the use of words such as, “may”, “would”, “could”, “will”, “likely”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “believe, “intend”, “plan”, “forecast”, “project”, “estimate”, “outlook” and other similar expressions. Forward-looking information contained in this news release includes, without limitation, statements related to the Offering, the use of the proceeds of the Offering, the receipt of all approvals of the Toronto Stock Exchange in connection with the Offering, statements with respect to the Company's future business operations, the opinions or beliefs of management and future business goals. Although the Company believes that the expectations and assumptions on which such forward looking information is based are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking information because the Company can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by these statements. Forward-looking information is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to current and future market conditions, including the market price of the common shares of the Company, and the risk factors set out in the Company’s annual information form dated September 3, 2021 and final short form prospectus dated November 27, 2020, filed with the Canadian securities regulators and available under the Company’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The statements in this news release are made as of the date of this release. The Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise, other than as required by applicable securities laws. | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/avicanna-announces-filing-annual-financial-004600615.html | 2022-04-01T02:00:28Z |
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It isn’t like Anamosa boys’ soccer coach Dr. Mike Weston is completely starting from scratch when it comes to the 2022 campaign, but on paper it sure might look like it.
The Raiders lost absolutely all of their scoring from the 2021 season to graduation in seniors Jordan Brown, Robert Weaver and Dominic Haas. No one else recorded a goal or an assist last year. That means this season’s group will have new roles to accept, and how quickly they’ll be able to do that will certainly factor into the team’s success this spring.
But if there was ever a coach who could guide a team through such a season, it’s Weston. The all-time winningest soccer coach in school history.
“We lost six seniors from our team last year and a young nucleus is going to be expected to step in and fill some big cleats that anchored key spots in our line-up,” said Weston, who returns letter winners in Nick Raine, Sean Hollett, Skylar Hollett, Gio Lopez, Robert Scranton, Tayte Peterschmidt, Ayden Koob, Sam Kenny and Landon Graham from a 2021 team that posted a 1-13 overall record, but that one win was big posting a 3-1 triumph over Monticello that kept ‘The Ball’ in Anamosa for another year.
“We have been emphasizing the importance of improving the quality of our passes and possessions to take more control of our matches this year. Our team defense has to be an upmost commitment, too.”
Anchoring that defense is Raine, who returns as the Raider goalie after a season that saw the junior make 201 saves and allowing 78 goals.
“Last season was difficult and we had a hard learning curve,” Weston said. “I have players who are stronger and better from it with goals to increase our scoring with better offense and shot selection. We are committed to help Nick in the goal by stepping up our defensive efforts too. When we hone ourselves as a team in those areas, we will be competitive on the pitch and rewarded with the wins that narrowly escaped us last season.”
Weston is also hoping an influx of young talent might help the cause as well.
“We are excited to welcome a great and eager freshman class into our program,” he said. “It’s early, but Coy Braden, Andrew Green, Dean Lambertsen, Wes Meyer, Brody Maloney and Austin Scranton are showing promise and vying for playing time in our defensive and midfield spots with our returning players Hunter Ash, Christian Hudson, Estuardo Gonzalez and Drew Staab.
“I appreciate the dedication to the sport the boys are showing. They are juggling other in and out of school commitments, yet give their undivided attention to the drills and skill development tasks at hand on any given day. While we see rawness in their tools, I am already seeing progress and refinement that if carried forward, will provide us with several talented players.” | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/sports/anamosa-boys-soccer-preview-trying-to-fill-some-big-cleats/article_677fe9b3-ce53-574d-8ca2-68f60a8e8aa7.html | 2022-04-01T02:00:29Z |
Math Field Day, Social Studies Fair students compete regionally
Students from Robert L. Bland Middle School, Leading Creek Elementary, and St. Patrick School recently competed in the regional Math Field Day competition and the regional Social Studies Fair. Math Field Day was held in Morgantown on March 26, and the Social Studies Fair was held at Glenville State University on...
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ShackStream: Going ultra-wide in Death Stranding Director's Cut
It's time to strap on some cargo and head out into the unknown as we explore the Death Stranding Director's Cut in ultra-wide on PC.
Shack Air is taking a break this week as we fire up the newly released Death Stranding Director's Cut on PC instead. Jan will head out into the unknown and revisit the beautiful and terrifying landscape in all its ultra-wide glory. We'll see what new features and improvements we can dig up as we spend two hours with one of the most unique games in recent memory.
It's been a while since Jan put cargo on his back instead of into the hold of an aircraft, so today's stream should be an adventure. Join him and get a look at what's new and improved in the PC Director's Cut. Next week, we'll head back to the skies with a special scenic flight through the recently overhauled Iberian Peninsula.
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01-02-27-29-30, Cash Ball: 3
(one, two, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty; Cash Ball: three) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash4Life-game-17049899.php | 2022-04-01T02:00:30Z |
North American Allowance Results March 31 March 31, 2022 Brisnet Staff Data Reports, Maidens & Results 0 AQU, 7TH, AOC, $81,480, 3YO/UP, F/M, 6F, 3-31.7—ROSSA VELOCE, f, 4, Girolamo–Spuntastic, by Hard Spun. ($12,000 ’19 FTKOCT). O-Blue Streak Racing, LLC and Handal, Raymond, B-John Scott Rogers (NY), T-Raymond Handal, J-Jalon L. Samuel, $46,200. 2—Royal Meghan, m, 5, Uncaptured–Royal Sighting, by Rahy. ($62,000 2019 OBSAPR). O-Lowwood Farm, LLC and Abreu, Fernando, B-Ocala Stud (FL), $16,800. 4—Halo City, m, 5, Commissioner–City Angel, by City Zip. ($18,000 ’17 KEENOV; $25,000 ’18 OBSOCT; $50,000 2019 OBSJUN). O-Rich Spiesman, B-HE Ervin, Spotted Pony Stables LLC, Scott A Stephens & Betsy T We (KY), $10,080. Winning Time: 1:12 3/5 (ft) AQU, 5TH, AOC, $72,000, 3YO, 1M, 3-31.4—STATE PLANNING, c, 3, Liam’s Map–Two Susans, by Purge. ($25,000 ’20 KEESEP). O-New Horizon Farm, B-Sugar Maple Farm (NY), T-Juan C. Vazquez, J-Trevor McCarthy, $39,600. 1—Pineapple Man, c, 3, Gormley–New Doo, by Borrego. ($34,000 2021 OBSSUM). O-Justice Racing Stable LLC and Steigmeier, Ryan, B-Monhill Farm LLC (NY), $14,400. 5—Convertible Freeze, c, 3, Connect–Goods and Services, by Paynter. ($32,000 2021 OBSMAR). O-Anthony M Perri, B-Klaravich Stables (NY), $8,640. Winning Time: 1:40 1/5 (ft) HOU, 6TH, ALW, $37,000, 4YO/UP, F/M, 6F, 3-31.7—JADES GELLY, m, 5, Lea–A. P. Reality, by Pulpit. ($120,000 ’18 KEEJAN; $190,000 ’18 KEESEP). O-JKX Racing, B-Centaur Farms, Inc (KY), T-Austin Gustafson, J-Rene Diaz, $22,080. 6—Texas Red Bel, f, 4, Texas Red–Bel Air Kid, by Lemon Drop Kid. ($12,000 2020 TEXSUM). O-Hickerson, Reggie and Hamm, Joyce, B-Wayne Ray Detmar & Roland Cantu (TX), $7,360. 2—Madison’s Place, m, 5, My Pal Charlie–Tot Shop Donna, by Value Plus. O-Sandy Badeaux, B-Floyd Pitzer & Renee Pitzer (LA), $4,048. Winning Time: 1:12 1/5 (ft) CT, 3RD, AOC, $36,300, 3YO/UP, F/M, 7F, 3-30.4—DECOUPAGE, m, 6, Alternation–Deco Rocks, by Rockport Harbor. O-Wayward Farm, B-Dr Stephen G Jackson & Debbie Jackson (KY), T-Michael E. Gorham, J-Jean C. Alvelo, $21,780. 6—Moma Tiger, m, 5, Smiling Tiger–Proposed, by Benchmark. O-Maria Montez Haire, B-Mary K Haire (FL), $7,260. 5—Complete Surprise, m, 5, Magician (IRE)–Nikki Allyn, by Bernstein. O-Ernest M Haynes, B-Kevin Horgan (KY), $3,630. Winning Time: 1:28 1/5 (ft) CT, 7TH, ALW, $34,900, 3YO/UP, F/M, 7F, 3-30.1—TEQUILA FOG, m, 5, Giant Surprise–We Kept Her, by Victory Gallop. ($10,000 ’18 FTNAUG). O-Timothy Freitag, B-Mr & Mrs Grant L Whitmer (NY), T-Anthony Farrior, J-Marshall Mendez, $20,859. 3—R Averie Lynn, f, 4, Gone Astray–Tereska, by Tale of the Cat. ($13,000 ’19 OBSOCT; $25,000 2020 OBSSUM). O-Old Coach Farm, B-Dancing Wind Stables LLC (FL), $6,953. 4—Uncaptured Ruby, m, 5, Uncaptured–Proud Brush, by Proudest Romeo. ($50,000 2019 OBSAPR). O-Tina Malgarini-Mawing, B-Sherry R Mansfield & Kenneth HDavis (FL), $3,477. Winning Time: 1:29 4/5 (ft) TUP, 7TH, AOC, $32,410, 4YO/UP, F/M, 6F, 3-31.5—COPPER CHARM, f, 4, Curlin to Mischief–Gotta Skedaddle, by Top Hit. O-Jan Osborn, B-Jan Osborn (CA), T-Miguel L. Hernandez, J-Karlo Lopez, $19,692. 1—Last Punch, m, 5, Uh Oh Bango–Double Punch, by Two Punch. O-Kevin R Owens, B-Kevin R Owens (AZ), $6,353. 7—Dance Shoes, f, 4, Mank–Dancin for Dellana, by Whywhywhy. O-Mohamad K Khan, B-James K McFadyen (AB), $3,176. Winning Time: 1:08 4/5 (ft) PEN, 6TH, ALW, $31,600, 4YO/UP, 1M 70Y, 3-30.2—TRENDING UP, g, 4, Kantharos–Sky Mystic, by Sky Mesa. O-James C Wolf, B-Donald L Brown Jr (PA), T-Timothy C. Kreiser, J-Julio A. Hernandez, $18,960. 3—Long Tom, g, 6, To Honor and Serve–One More Lillian, by Mutakddim. O-Jose Guadalupe Salazar, B-Paul F Spears (PA), $6,320. 4—Crypt, g, 4, Jump Start–Di’s Delight, by French Deputy. O-Joseph E Besecker, B-Barlar, LLC (PA), $3,476. Winning Time: 1:44 2/5 (ft) North American Allowance Results | http://www.brisnet.com/content/2022/03/north-american-allowance-results-march-31-6/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:31Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Palmieri scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period to lift the New York Islanders to a 5-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night.
Mathew Barzal had a goal and an assist, and Sebastian Aho, Oliver Wahlstrom and Ryan Pulock also scored as New York improved to 7-1 in their last eight home games dating to a 6-0 win against the Blue Jackets on March 10.
Semyon Varlamov made 30 saves in his second consecutive start and third straight appearance with Ilya Sorokin sidelined with an upper-body injury.
Emil Bemstrom and Justin Danforth scored for Columbus, which lost its fifth straight. Elvis Merzlikins made 31 saves.
Palmieri broke a 2-2 tie at 3:16 of the third period with his 12th goal of the season. The 31-year-old winger breezed by Blue Jackets forward Patrik Laine and roofed a wrist shot to give New York a one-goal advantage. Merlikins was unable to close off the short side and Palmieri took advantage of the opening.
Barzal stretched the Islanders' lead to 4-2 with a pretty breakaway deke after he blew by two Blue Jackets defenders in the neutral zone at 9:52 of the third period.
Pulock added an empty-net goal in the final minute.
The Blue Jackets erased a two-goal deficit in a span of 1:39 midway through the second period. The Islanders left Bemstrom all alone at the top of the crease and he finished a pass from Eric Robinson at 8:47. Jake Bean also assisted on the play.
Danforth tied it at 2 with his fifth goal of the season. Yegor Chinakov skated into the offensive zone and found Vladislav Gavrikov in the slot after Islanders defenseman Zdeno Chara prevented the forward from getting behind him. Varlamov stopped the initial shot from Gavrikov, but was unable to hold onto the rebound and Danforth was able to capitalize.
The Islanders took a 2-0 lead with two goals in 11 seconds midway through the first period.
Aho opened the scoring when he stopped short and wired a wrist shot over the glove of Merzlikins at 8:39. Brock Nelson extended his point streak to six games with an assist on the play.
Wahlstrom extended the Islanders lead to 2-0 after he buried a feed from Zach Parise at 8:50. Barzal started the sequence with a floating backhand that Parise was able to corral in the offensive zone.
New York outshot Columbus 10-0 in the first half of the opening frame.
90 YEARS YOUNG
The Islanders honored hockey historian and veteran journalist Stan Fischler at the game to celebrate his 90th birthday. "The Hockey Maven” has been a hockey television personality in the northeast since the early 1970s and has authored over 100 books. He began his career with the New York Rangers in the 1950s, working in the team’s public relations department.
COVID IN COLUMBUS
Blue Jackets coach Brad Larsen and assistant coach Steve McCarthy were placed in the COVID-19 protocols and each missed their second straight game. Associate coach Pascal Vincent led the team behind the bench. ... D Zach Weresnki missed his second straight game after he sustained a hit to the head late in the late first period of Saturday night’s 3-2 overtime loss against Minnesota.
MARCH MAYHEM
The Islanders closed out a hectic March schedule with a 10-6-1 record. The 17 games New York played in March are the most the franchise has played in a single month in franchise history.
DIVISION FOES
Nine of the final 16 games remaining in the Islanders' regular season are against division opponents. The Islanders are 8-2-1 against Metropolitan teams since returning from the holiday break.
UP NEXT
Blue Jackets: Visit the Boston Bruins on Saturday night.
Islanders: Visit the New York Rangers on Friday night.
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CANFIELD, Ohio (WKBN) – The Canfield boys lacrosse team earned a win over their bitter rivals Poland 10-5 in the ‘Battle of 224’ on Thursday night.
Watch the video above to hear from the Cardinals about the win.
“It feels really good,” says Canfield sophomore Santino Cooca.
“We always love the battle of 224 and I’m just really excited. We got out there and won. We started off with two losses and then today we beat our rival. So morale is high right now.”
Canfield scored seven goals in the first half and was able to hold Poland to just one second half goal.
“Our offense did a good job going to the goal and, you know, putting up the points and our defense did a good job keeping them down to a low, low point total,” said head coach Gordon Byrne. | https://www.wkbn.com/sports/love-the-battle-of-224-canfield-celebrates-win-over-rival-poland/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:32Z |
A line of severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight — killing at least two in the Florida Panhandle, toppling trees and power lines and leaving homes and businesses damaged as the vast weather front raced across several states.
In Florida, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday morning that two were killed and two injured when a tornado touched down in the western Florida Panhandle.
Two homes were destroyed and powerlines were knocked down, according to Washington Country Emergency Management spokeswoman Cheryl Frankenfield. The county’s Facebook page showed at least one home that was obliterated, as well as trees down on another home. No other details were immediately available.
The Florida Division of Emergency Management has employees in the area to help, spokesperson Samantha Bequer said. She said neighboring Jackson County also had property damage.
“It’s a nasty day, but thankfully these storms are moving quickly,” she said.
At least two confirmed tornadoes injured several people Wednesday, damaged homes and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee after earlier storm caused damage in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.
About 185,000 customers were without electricity Thursday morning in the wake of the storm along a band of states: Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utilities.
The worst of the weather Thursday morning appeared to be at the southern end of the storm front, which was expected to bring heavy rain and high winds all along the U.S. East Coast later in the day. Much of the Florida Panhandle was under a tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.
Widespread damage was reported in the Jackson, Tennessee, area as a tornado warning was in effect. “Significant damage” occurred to a nursing home near Jackson-Madison County General Hospital and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office in Jackson, said Madison County Emergency Management Director Jason Moore.
In Nashville, Tennessee, paneling fell five stories from the side of a downtown hotel Wednesday evening and onto the roof of a building below. The fire department warned that debris could become airborne as high winds continued, and some hotel guests were moved to other parts of the building due to concerns the roof would become unstable. No injuries were immediately associated with the collapse.
Daylight revealed widespread wind damage across Alabama.
One person suffered minor injuries when a storm hit the University of Montevallo campus south of Birmingham, damaging three buildings, officials said, and a woman was injured when a manufactured home rolled over in rural Bibb County. A school bus was flipped at a high school in south Alabama, and part of the roof was missing from a church in northwest Alabama.
Elsewhere, a warehouse roof collapsed as the storms moved through Southaven, Mississippi, near Memphis, police said. The building had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.
The Mississippi Senate suspended its work Wednesday as weather sirens blared during a tornado watch in downtown Jackson. Some employees took shelter in the Capitol basement.
Rander P. Adams said he and his wife, Janice Delores Adams, were in their home near downtown Jackson when severe weather blew through during a tornado warning Wednesday afternoon. He said their lights flashed and a large window exploded just feet from his wife as she tried to open their front door.
“The glass broke just as if someone threw a brick through it,” he said. “I advised her then, ‘Let’s go to the back of the house.’”
Adams said the storm toppled trees in a nearby park, and a large tree across the street from their house split in half. “We were blessed,” he said. “Instead of falling toward the house, it fell the other way.”
Earlier Wednesday, a tornado that struck Springdale, Arkansas, and the adjoining town of Johnson, about 145 miles (235 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, shortly after 4 a.m. injured seven people, two critically, according to Springdale Mayor Doug Sprouse.
Sprouse said in a statement that one of those critically injured had improved and was in stable condition and the other five were released from a hospital.
“Our first responders have completed door-to-door searches, and we believe everyone has been accounted for,” Sprouse said.
The National Weather Service in Tulsa said Thursday that the tornado has been rated an EF-3, up from an initial assessment of EF-2, with wind speeds between 136-165 mph (219-265 kph). The tornado reached a peak speed of about 145 mph (233 kph) and 5 miles (8 kilometers) while on the ground for about eight minutes, according to the weather service.
In northwest Missouri, an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds around 90 mph (145 kph) struck St. Joseph on Tuesday night, damaging two homes.
A small tornado also touched down briefly on the eastern edge of Dallas, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. The tornado struck just after 4:30 a.m. Wednesday near McClendon-Chisolm with top winds of about 100 mph (161 kph) and damaged homes, but no injuries were reported, according to the weather service.
The storms come a week after a tornado in a New Orleans-area neighborhood carved a path of destruction during the overnight hoursand killed a man.
Strong winds in Louisiana overturned semitrailers, peeled the roof from a mobile home, sent a tree crashing into a home and knocked down power lines, according to weather service forecasters, who did not immediately confirm any tornadoes in the state.
The National Weather Service office in New Orleans said Thursday that teams would be out in Tangipahoa and St. Tammany Parishes in southeastern Louisiana and in Jackson County in southeastern Mississippi surveying damage. They said the highest wind speed recorded in the office’ coverage area was 67 mph (108 kph) at the New Orleans Lakefront airport with winds in Baton Rouge reaching into the high 50 mph (80 kph) range.
Firefighters, meanwhile, have been trying to get handle on a wildfire spreading near Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, amid mandatory evacuations as winds whipped up ahead of the approaching storm front.
The fire, which was not contained, had expanded to about 250 acres (more than 100 hectares) as of Wednesday afternoon. One person was injured, and a plume of smoke rose above one community not far from where 2016 wildfires ravaged the tourism town of Gatlinburg, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying about 2,500 buildings.
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Wagster Pettus reported from Jackson, Mississippi; Farrington reported from Tallahassee, Florida; and Mattise from Nashville, Tennessee; many other Associated Press journalists contributed to this report. | https://www.ketk.com/news/national/severe-storms-pummel-south-after-7-hurt-in-arkansas-tornado/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:32Z |
Broadcom Inc. Announces Pricing of Private Offering of Senior Notes
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO) ("Broadcom") announced today that it has priced its previously announced offering (the "Offering") of $750,000,000 of 4.00% Senior Notes due 2029 and $1,200,000,000 of 4.15% Senior Notes due 2032 (together, the "New Notes"). The New Notes will be unsecured obligations of the Company and will rank pari passu with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company. The Offering is expected to settle on April 14, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
Broadcom intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the New Notes to redeem in full its 4.700% Senior Notes due 2025 and 4.250% Senior Notes due 2026 (collectively, the "Redemption Notes"), including accrued and unpaid interest thereon, and to pay fees and expenses in connection therewith.
The New Notes are being sold in a private placement to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and to non-U.S. persons outside the United States under Regulation S under the Securities Act. The New Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other applicable securities laws.
This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the New Notes, nor shall there be any sale of the New Notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. This notice is being issued pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 135c under the Securities Act.
Nothing in this press release should be construed as an offer to purchase, notice of redemption or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any of the Redemption Notes. The redemption of the Redemption Notes is conditioned on the completion by the Company of one or more debt financing transactions and the receipt of the net proceeds therefrom in an amount, together with cash on hand, sufficient to pay the redemption price for the Redemption Notes.
About Broadcom Inc.
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial. Our solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise, mainframe and cyber security software focused on automation, monitoring and security, smartphone components, telecoms and factory automation.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements (including within the meaning of Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended) concerning Broadcom. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements that address our expected future business and financial performance, the offering and use of proceeds, and other statements identified by words such as "will," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "should," "intend," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "aim," and similar words, phrases or expressions. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and beliefs of the management of Broadcom, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, such management, current market trends and market conditions and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the Company's and management's control, and which may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on such statements.
Particular uncertainties that could materially affect future results include risks associated with: the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disrupted, and will likely continue to disrupt, normal business activity, and which may have an adverse effect on our results of operations; any loss of our significant customers and fluctuations in the timing and volume of significant customer demand; our dependence on contract manufacturing and outsourced supply chain; our dependency on a limited number of suppliers; government regulations and administrative proceedings, trade restrictions and trade tensions; global economic conditions and concerns; cyclicality in the semiconductor industry or in our target markets; global political and economic conditions; our significant indebtedness and the need to generate sufficient cash flows to service and repay such debt; the amount and frequency of our share repurchase program; dependence on and risks associated with distributors and resellers of our products; dependence on senior management and our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; any acquisitions we may make, such as delays, challenges and expenses associated with receiving governmental and regulatory approvals and satisfying other closing conditions, and with integrating acquired businesses with our existing businesses and our ability to achieve the benefits, growth prospects and synergies expected by such acquisitions; involvement in legal proceedings; quarterly and annual fluctuations in operating results; our ability to accurately estimate customers' demand and adjust our manufacturing and supply chain accordingly; our competitive performance and ability to continue achieving design wins with our customers, as well as the timing of any design wins; prolonged disruptions of our or our contract manufacturers' manufacturing facilities, warehouses or other significant operations; our ability to improve our manufacturing efficiency and quality; our dependence on outsourced service providers for certain key business services and their ability to execute to our requirements; our ability to maintain or improve gross margin; our ability to protect our intellectual property and the unpredictability of any associated litigation expenses; compatibility of our software products with operating environments, platforms or third-party products; our ability to enter into satisfactory software license agreements; availability of third party software used in our products; use of open source code sources in our products; any expenses or reputational damage associated with resolving customer product warranty and indemnification claims; market acceptance of the end products into which our products are designed; our ability to sell to new types of customers and to keep pace with technological advances; our compliance with privacy and data security laws; our ability to protect against a breach of security systems; fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; our provision for income taxes and overall cash tax costs, legislation that may impact our overall cash tax costs and our ability to maintain tax concessions in certain jurisdictions; and other events and trends on a national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business, competitive and regulatory nature. Many of the foregoing risks and uncertainties are, and will be, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and any worsening of the global business and economic environment as a result.
Our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which you may obtain for free at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov, discuss some of the important risk factors that may affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Actual results may vary from the estimates provided. We undertake no intent or obligation to publicly update or revise any of the estimates and other forward-looking statements made in this announcement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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DUBUQUE
With the Anamosa boys’ track and field team consistently showing gradual improvement throughout the indoor campaign so far this spring, the Raiders saved their best for last competing at the River Valley Conference indoor meet on the University of Dubuque campus Tuesday, March 22.
“We had a nice third-place team finish, and I believe if we would have had our full roster available, we would have won this meet,” said Anamosa boys track coach Justin Bader. “We scored 57 points which is a good number for the amount of solid teams this meet had to offer.
“This conference has a lot of great 2A teams and probably the best 1A program in the state in Bellevue. We have to continue to score more points in field events other than Jay (Gatto).”
Anamosa was led by a pair of indoor conference championship winning efforts from Shea Keister (in the 800) and the 4x400 relay.
Keister bested a loaded field in the 800-meter run crossing the finish line first, and by a pretty wide margin too, with a time of 2:11.92 that topped West Branch’s Joe Hamann who was runner-up after posting a 2:13.80 clocking.
“Shea had his best meet of the year,” Bader said. “He won the 800, had his best split in the 4x800 relay and had a top-5 finish in the 1600. He scored a lot of points for us at this meet.”
Ky Kaufmann, Grant Ware, Seth Countryman and Tristan Weers guided the 4x400 relay to their conference title as the foursome combined for a 3:38.11 clocking that edged runner-up Northeast (3:39.61).
“The 4x400 relay team was another highlight of the night,” Bader said. “We knew we could win this race, but it was just great watching the kids run a tremendous race. We had a good lead-off leg (Kaufmann, 55-seconds) which was huge because we were able to stay with the lead pack. Tristan had the best 400 race of the season for us, too.”
Weers ran the anchor leg in 52.3 to bring the team home while Ware (55.5) and Countryman (54.9) also kept the Anamosa team right with the leaders.
Raider relay teams had a big night as the 4x800 group of Drew Pate, Countryman, Weers and Keister scored third after their 8:53.20 clocking while the distance medley team of Gatto, Weers, Grayson Weers and Countryman managed a time of 3:58.58, good enough to place fourth in the league.
“For a freshman, Seth Countryman continues to run amazing right now,” Bader said. “He’s running great 400s and 800s for us and is probably the best freshman runner we have had since I have been coaching at Anamosa. He just knows what he’s doing and runs so smart.”
Gatto continues to soar in the long jump, adding yet another top-5 all-time program performance as his 21-foot, 5.5-inch effort was good enough to score second-place points for the Raiders at the conference event and trailed only league champion Alex Pitts, of Bellevue, of flew 21-6.5.
Pate came through with a solid fourth-place effort in the 800-meter run as he and Keister ran together for most of the race with Pate coming through with a time of 2:15.61 while Tristan Weers crossed fifth in the 400 after his 55.16 clocking.
Pate and Keister doubled up points for the Anamosa boys in the 1600 with Pate (4:56.09) taking fourth and Keister (4:59.92) fifth.
Also competing for the Raiders at the River Valley Conference indoor meet were: 55-meter dash- Cole Sigler (30th, 7.40), Carter Kuehl (36th, 7.60); 200- Sigler (16th, 26.48), Ware (21st, 27.17), Kuehl (23rd, 27.61); 400- Gatto (9th, 56.72), Karter Theilen (19th, 1:01.30); 800- Theilen (14th, 2:27.93); 1600- Carver Reiss (18th, 5:29.38); 55 hurdles- Ware (17th, 9.78); 4x200 relay- Grayson Weers, Sigler, Kuehl, CJ Marek (19th, 1:46.98), Theilen, Caleb Loehr, Jacob Loehr, Ike Claussen-Tubbs (23rd, 1:52.56); 4x400 relay- Ware, Marek, Kuehl, Reiss (17th, 4:23.01); 4x800 relay- Grayson Weers, Calen Loehr, Theilen, Reiss (10th, 9:38.72); high jump- Claussen-Tubbs (9th, 5-4), Marek (14th, 4-10); long jump- Ware (20th, 16-5); shot put- Logan Dales (9th, 39-11), Sigler (25th, 32-6), Cameron Osterkamp (33rd, 26.3).
Anamosa trailed only champion Bellevue (76 points) and runner-up Northeast (69) at the River Valley Conference indoor meet and defeated Tipton (50), Mid-Prairie (43), Cascade (42), North Cedar (38), West Branch (32), Iowa City Regina (31), Durant-Bennett (24), Monticello (22) and Beckman (4). | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/anamosa/sports/anamosa-boys-track-and-field-doubling-up-on-the-rvc-titles/article_9fb9614f-4de4-5404-af60-4e8f2eba720f.html | 2022-04-01T02:00:35Z |
Over the years your firm may have invested in a variety of applications that, hopefully, worked with your platform of choice and met current needs. Much of this decision making, no offense, was done with limited research or thought about the future. At AccountingWEB Live Summit, Dawn Brolin, CPA, CFE is co-hosting a pointed discussion on how your firm can get a better return on its overall tech investments and how you can take control.
AccountingWEB recently had the pleasure of chatting with Dawn Brolin, CPA, CFE and owner of Powerful Accounting, about the growing importance of firms having the right tech stack.
Many of you may have seen Dawn's name, or even met her in person, many of you may not. You will have a chance to do so at AccountingWEB Live Summit, May 9-12 in San Diego at the Paradise Point Resort & Spa. Know that she is very much like many of you, a small-firm owner that has a variety of tax and bookkeeping clients.
Moreover, during her career, she learned a great deal about the apps and platforms that work for her and her clients, and those that don't...often, the hard way. Dawn is also a firm believer is sharing her experiences with her fellow accountants so that they can also enjoy some of the success that she has, or at the very least, not have to go through the pains associated with having tech that works with the way You want to work.
One of her philosophies is that of the Designated Motivator, something she believes firm leaders and select staff can and need to be, for their firms and their clients. She even wrote a book about it!
Dawn is on some tax-focused sessions at Summit, but her fireside chat along with keynote speaker Clayton Oates should not be missed. In the video chat below, she shares some details of what a Designated Motivator is, the importance of investing properly in tech, and why she personally chose to be a part of our first ever Live event.
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Ocean County Man Busted For Drugs In Apartment Search
BERKELEY – Five bricks of heroin, many prescription pills and a large quantity of drug paraphernalia. That’s just a small list of what investigators found during an authorized search warrant of an apartment in the township. The resident is now facing serious charges.
Berkeley Township Police confirm 37-year-old Henry McKay of Bayville was arrested on March 29 and charged with possession of heroin with the intent to distribute, possession of heroin with the intent to distribute within 500 ft of a public housing complex, possession of heroin and possession of CDS paraphernalia.
The Berkeley Township Police Department Detective Bureau and the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Strike Force searched the unit in the Berkeley Gardens Apartment Complex.
The warrant was the result of an investigation into the distribution of heroin. During the probe, police also found scales, wax paper and over $1,500 in cash.
McKay was lodged in the Ocean County Jail.
In the last few weeks, police had heard many quality of life complaints related to drug activity along the Route 9 corridor. If anyone sees anything suspicious or strange, you are urged to contact police. They are taking anonymous tips at 732-341-1132 ext 611. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556267876320/ocean-county-man-busted-for-drugs-in-apartment-search | 2022-04-01T02:00:35Z |
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Net Profit Achieves High Growth of 120.0% to RMB 412.4 Million
HONG KONG, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cogobuy Group ("Cogobuy" or the "Company", stock code: 400.HK; with its subsidiaries (the ''Group'')), a technology services company focusing on serving the global chip industry and artificial intelligence ("AI") and internet of things ("IoT", together "AIoT") ecosystem, is pleased to announce its unaudited consolidated results for the Year ended December 31, 2021 ("2021" or the "Year").
Financial Highlights of the Full Year of 2021
The continued expansion of 5G development and application scenarios has caused demand for chips to surge, significantly increasing and supporting the Group's revenue. The chip business achieved a higher growth during the Year. The Company's net profit and revenue both increased significantly, with net profit growing faster than revenue. As of December 31, 2021, the Group's net profit was approximately RMB 412.4 million, a YoY increase of 120.0%; revenue was approximately RMB 9,452.4 million, a YoY increase of 52.8%; gross profit was approximately RMB 933.4 million, a YoY increase of 33.6%. The increase in gross profit margin was mainly attributable to the change in the Company's sales mix. The services provided by the Group cover areas with higher gross profit margins, including V2X, smart homes, AI surveillance and other markets. During the Year, the Group's profit attributable to equity shareholders of the Company was RMB 296.2 million, a significant YoY increase of 140.4%; the Company's cash and bank balances including short-term bank deposits and pledged deposits was RMB 519.3 million. The Group's bank loans were RMB 405.3 million. Basic common shares outstanding were 1,412,766,732, weighted average number of ordinary shares for the purpose of diluted earnings per share were 1,393,448,000.
Following technology's trend towards the creation of a 5G industry ecosystem and widespread digital transformation, the Group has formed a "Comtech and IngDan" platform to better serve the "Chips-Devices-Cloud" ecosystem along the entire AIoT industry chain, with the goal of supporting long term, sustainable income for the Group. "Comtech" focuses on the application design and distribution of IC chips to AIoT enterprises in China. Meanwhile, "IngDan" focuses on the R&D and sales of proprietary products, as well as customized application design, which include related support services for modules, devices, and cloud, to further develop AIoT module customized solutions. Through the two business platforms, the Group is creating a closed loop of "Chips-Devices-Cloud" ecosystem along the AIoT value chain, and provides services for the five main AIoT verticals: V2X, Smart Home, Robotics, Smart Manufacturing, and Smart Medical, so as to promote the comprehensive and sustainable development of the Group.
Strong Growth Momentum of the Chip Business
5G's large-scale and rapid development is further driving the comprehensive application of chips. In 2021 global chip sales volume was 1.15 trillion pieces, with a YoY increase of 26.2% to US$555.9 billion. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) predicts global chip sales will increase by 8.8% in 2022.[1] Comtech's chip business also benefited directly and grew rapidly, with a significant YoY increase of 93.3% in revenue. "Comtech" maintains connection with over 50% of global high-end chip suppliers and many leading domestic chip companies, allowing it to serve over a hundred global high-end chip suppliers upstream, and ten thousands of AIoT hardware companies downstream, while also providing chip application development solutions and sales services. As 5G continues to empower digital transformation across many industries, the demand for chips will continue to drive rapid growth for the Group's chip business.
Participated in the building of OpenHarmony ecosystem and Launched the First OpenHarmony Product
During the Year, "Comtech" became a platinum-level donor to the OpenAtom Foundation, and committed to creating an independent and controllable OpenHarmony industrial ecosystem and industry standards with technology giants such as Huawei. OpenHarmony promotes information security and the independent and controllable core technology industries in China, and facilitates the standardization of AIoT and technology applications in various industries. OpenHarmony is a core operating system software incubated and operated by the OpenAtom Foundation, which is widely used in various smart devices and will become the mainstream standard for AIoT in the future. The Group actively participated in the building of OpenHarmony ecosystem, and continuously improved the Group's AIoT application technology services, leading to new opportunities for the Group's business.
During the Reporting Period, the Group successfully launched the first Smart BMS battery management system based on a combination of domestic chips and OpenHarmony solutions, which are mainly used in the smart battery products of new energy vehicles, electric motorcycles, and the industrial power system. As a result, the performance and safety of power batteries are now greatly improved and further diversified communication transmission functions and cloud real-time data management have been implemented, to further achieve lower power consumption and better intelligent applications. This first product laid the foundation for the integration of the Group's chips application and OpenHarmony solutions, helping the Group to develop the AIoT industry chain market.
Spin-off and Separate Listing of "Comtech" on A Shares
The Company obtained approval from The Hong Kong Stock Exchange Limited for the spin-off and separate listing of "Comtech" on A shares in Mainland China, which will further expand the Group's development in the domestic capital market. As the domestic chip market gains strong support from national policies, "Comtech" is preparing for the A share listing. After the completion of the Proposed A Share Listing, the Company will remain the ultimate controlling shareholder of "Comtech", and its financial results will still be consolidated into the Company, which will facilitate the sustainable growth of the Group's performance. Moreover, in order to give investors a clearer understanding of the main business of "Comtech" and "Cogobuy Group", the Company plans to change its name from "Cogobuy Group" to "Ingdan Inc.". The proposed name change of the Company has been approved by the Board and will be subject to shareholders' approval at the annual general meeting in June 2022.
Strengthening the Layout of iPaaS Services
The applications of 5G and AI are only becoming more extensive, and the demand for digital innovation and transformation in various industries is rising, which further promotes the accelerated development of "Chips-Devices-Cloud" with AIoT application technologies. The technology integration of iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) has become one of the most important parts of digital transformation. The iPaaS platform service automates business processes and makes it easier to share data across applications. According to IndustryARC Report, the global iPaaS market is expected to reach US$6.1 billion in 2025, representing a CAGR of 36.4% from 2020 to 2025.[2] The Group has long recognized the opportunities and provided iPaaS services such as technology integration solutions, marketing solutions and distribution services to core technology suppliers in the "Chips-Devices-Cloud" ecosystem along the AIoT value chain through the two business platforms of "Comtech" and "IngDan". These iPaaS services covers five main AIoT verticals: V2X, Smart Home, Robotics, Smart Manufacturing, and Smart Medical, helping the Group capture the blue ocean market of iPaaS in China.
The Group actively deployed in the five main AIoT verticals and continues to explore opportunities in the iPaaS market. During the Year, the Group worked with different AIoT suppliers to formulate various solutions for chips and technology integration, and successfully built high-end equipment in different fields. These include 4K video endoscopes and ultrasound diagnostic systems for high-end medical equipment in the smart medical field, intelligent security systems for smart city construction, and a WIFI-BT wireless solution that empowers the intelligent transformation of TV, achieving intelligence and high efficiency for various industries. By leveraging its technological expertise in integrating upstream and downstream industrial supply chain resources, the Group has empowered the implementation of more iPaaS projects, and laid a solid foundation to further expand the Group's domestic iPaaS service market, which brings strong growth momentum for the Group.
V2X is one of the most important application scenarios in the implementation of 5G and AIoT, and it has driven a significant increase in demand for automotive semiconductors. According to the report by Omdia, semiconductor chips used in EV are 2.9 times more prevalent than those of traditional internal combustion EVs, and the automotive semiconductor industry will grow at a CAGR of 12.3% by 2025.[3] The Group has captured the huge market opportunity of V2X, and cooperated with various chip manufacturers, module suppliers, and automobile manufacturers. During the Year, the Group, together with the world's leading FPGA suppliers and technology enterprises, jointly created a hardware acceleration engine of LiDAR's 3D cloud data to empower the smart transportation field. With the surging wave of V2X, the Group will further develop and invest in the V2X market to consolidate its competitiveness in the field of V2X, and facilitate the steady development of the Group.
Outlook
Mr. Jeffrey Kang, CEO of Cogobuy Group, said, "2021 was the first year of China's '14th Five-Year Plan', and the national policy strongly supported — and continues to support — the development of technology. The government has introduced a number of favorable policies for the chip and 5G industries, which have led to a continuous increase in demand for chips. The Group also took advantage of favorable policies and market developments to maintain rapid growth in our business during the Year. In order to fully cover the needs of AIoT industry chain, the Group's iPaaS technology integration service has successfully promoted the implementation of multiple intelligent projects and achieved new breakthroughs for our business.
By joining the OpenAtom Foundation, we are committed to embedding OpenHarmony into a wide range of AIoT products with billion dollars market opportunities. In order to further the development of the application technology services field, the Group joined hands with Chinasoft International Ltd to launch a complete 'OpenHarmony +' solutions platform in early 2022, as well as an OpenHarmony collaborative innovation platform to form a comprehensive technical service capability.
The potential of chip development is viewed favorably by the market, which makes the Group's chip business a favorite of financial institutions. 'Comtech', a subsidiary of the Group, has received strong financial support from eight financial institutions. In particular, the Bank of China (Shenzhen) granted a credit facility of RMB300 million in early 2022, which fully affirmed the development potential of the Group's chip business and helped the Group deploy in the trillion-level chip industry market.
Looking forward, the rapid development of 5G and the explosive growth of AIoT applications will drive the continued increase in demand for chips, which will enable the Group's chip business to continue to grow rapidly. The chip business is expected to continue to be the core driver of the Group's growth. The Group will also continue to strive towards high-quality development, capture opportunities arising from the domestic 5G process and policy dividends, and actively explore the growth potential of the chip market. Through continuous improvement of the Group's business and services, and the use of the dual-platform development model, the Group is committed to creating a closed loop of "Chips-Devices-Cloud" ecosystem along the AIoT value chain and covering the entire 5G industry chain, which will promote the rapid growth of our business, as well as bring greater value returns to shareholders."
Caution Statement
The information contained in this document has not been independently verified. No representation, warranty or undertaking, express or implied, is made by the Company or any of its affiliates, advisers or representatives as to, and no reliance should be placed on, the fairness, accuracy, completeness or correctness of such information or opinions presented or contained herein. The information contained in this document should be considered in the context of the circumstances prevailing at the time, is subject to change without notice and the Company makes no undertaking to update the information in this document to reflect any developments that occur after the date of the presentation. It is not the Company's intention to provide, and you may not rely on these materials as providing, a complete or comprehensive analysis of the Company, or its financial or trading position or prospects. Neither of the Company nor any of its affiliates, advisers or representatives accept any responsibility or have any liability whatsoever (in negligence or otherwise) for any loss howsoever arising from any use of this document or its contents or otherwise arising in connection with this document.
This document may contain statements that reflect the Company's current intent, beliefs and expectations about the future as of the respective dates indicated herein. These forward-looking statements not guarantees of future performance and are based on a number of assumptions about the Company's operations and factors beyond the Company's control and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, and accordingly, actual results may differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates, advisers or representatives has any obligation, nor do they undertake, to update these forward-looking statements for any events or developments including the occurrence of unanticipated events that occur subsequent to such dates.
About Cogobuy Group
Cogobuy Group (stock code: 400.HK), a technology services company serving the global chip industry and artificial intelligence and Internet of Things ("AIoT") ecosystem, is headquartered in Shenzhen, with offices and branches across major cities in China, including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan, Chengdu, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Xi'an, as well as overseas branches in Singapore, Israel, and Japan. The Group is comprised of two companies operating a dual-platform model: Comtech, a technology services platform for the chip industry, and IngDan, a platform providing AIoT technology and services. Together, the two platforms form a closed loop of "Chips-Devices-Cloud" ecosystem along the AIoT value chain. For further information, please visit www.cogobuygroup.com
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State of Decay 3 developer Undead Labs accused of toxic workplace environment
Workers at Undead Lab describe misogyny, burnout, and harassment at the studio.
It’s been nearly two years since Undead Labs revealed State of Decay 3, and we haven’t heard much about the game since. Though it’s been speculated that there have been some development issues behind the scenes, it now appears that the problems at the studio run much deeper than that. New reports allege a history of sexism, mistreatment, and burnout at Undead Labs.
A recently published report from Kotaku dives deep into allegations made against the studio by current and former employees. The twelve people that the outlet spoke to all shared stories that depict Undead Labs as a toxic work environment. The handful of years since the studio was acquired by Microsoft are described as being particularly bad, as Microsoft’s “hands-off” approach facilitated bad practices at Undead Labs.
“The culture the studio had up until recently was not the most hospitable for anyone that was not a white cishet man,” one of the anonymous developers told Kotaku. “It’s improved in the last six months or so. But the studio hired a lot of diverse talent that it did not adequately support [in the past].”
There are also anecdotes of poor management tactics, including the fact that workers were often moved around throughout different teams, making it hard for there to be a sense of consistency within groups. “Every couple of months, after a milestone, teams would be completely broken up and shuffled around into new teams.” The report also states that there were instances in which QA workers were told not to report on certain bugs so that there would appear to be progression in State of Decay 3’s development.
The news out of Undead Labs is unfortunately all too familiar for the video game industry, which has seen numerous studios, both big and small, have to deal with a similar reckoning in recent years. We’ll be sure to update this story with any potential new information.
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Real Madrid could potentially steal Arsenal’s perfect Nicolas Pepe replacement in the summer transfer window. Carlo Ancelotti is reportedly interested in bringing Serge Ganbray to the Bernabeu for next season.
According to German news outlet BILD, Real Madrid are interested in the Bayern Munich winger, whose contract ends in June 2023. The player is very good friends with David Alaba and the former Bayern defender has been talking to him about a move to Madrid.
Pepe has been struggling for game time under Arteta, and a move is certainly on the cards in the summer. If he does move on, then the Gunners will need to replace the Ivorian and Gnabry would certainly be the best choice.
READ MORE:Edu's £35m Arsenal transfer call means Gabriel Martinelli is set for new role under Mikel Arteta
German outlet Bild have also claimed that Gnabry and his representatives are demanding £12.5m-a-year in wages to sign a new contract. But Bayern have yet to agree to these terms, which has put talks currently on hold.
The German winger still has a lot of admiration for Arsenal club, which was proven with a tweet claiming that London is Arsenal’s after Gnabry’s Bayern Munich side dismantled Tottenham in the Champions 7-2 in 2019. He has also been pictured in Arsenal shirts on multiple occasions in recent times which also highlights his love for the club.
The north London side needs to make the decision whether to keep or sell Pepe at the end of the season, as he enters the territory of having less than three years left on his contract.
Keeping him beyond two years remaining on his contract will massively debunk his value and increase the threat of losing him on a free transfer which would be an absolute nightmare considering his £72m price tag.
The Ivorian joined the club in 2019 for a club-record fee of £72m from Lille with the highest of expectations due to his success in Ligue 1, but has only contributed with 27 goals and 17 assists.
If the Gunners were to sell Pepe at the end of the season, then competition alongside Saka would certainly be needed. Despite the excellent performances the Englishman has shown for Arsenal throughout the season, there has been times when he has shown signs of burnout, and it having someone who can help successfully share the attacking load would certainly be beneficial.
Gnabry left the Gunners in 2016 to join Bundesliga side Werder Bremen after he failed to agree on a new contract when Arsene Wenger was manager of the club.
Since his move away from the Premier League, he has become a Champions League winner and a multiple German league champion with Bayern Munich.
If Pepe is to depart from the club in the summer, then a return would be more than welcome. But Real Madrid’s interest in the winger certainly clouds doubt over a potential deal. | https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/transfer-news/gnabry-real-madrid-pepe-arsenal-23555127 | 2022-04-01T02:00:37Z |
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Activision Blizzard Chief Administrative Officer Brian Bulatao (above) emailed all employees of the company earlier today, informing them that “effective immediately” the publisher was removing the mandate for employees working from offices to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and hopes to have everyone working in-person again in the coming weeks.
Bulatao says that as “businesses and other indoor venues across the U.S. lift vaccine requirements…we feel it is important to align our site protocols with local guidance”. The primary reason for this is clearly a desire for employees to return to the “benefits of in-person collaboration” as early as June, though some employees also see the move as a chance to monitor staff more closely as part of management’s union-busting efforts.
There’s also a safety risk involved; as the email says, “we know the situation is ever-evolving and we will continue to monitor the risks for COVID-19 in all areas where we operate”, which seems like a massive understatement when the New York Times is running stories like “A New Wave of Covid-19 Is Coming”, in part because the full vaccination rate among American adults is still a relatively poor 66%.
While the email says the company will “act quickly – and pivot if necessary – if we see a future spike in cases”, for those who cannot return to the office for health reasons, or simply choose not to in the face of the dangers involved, the email says “you may have personal circumstances you’d like to discuss with your manager and HRBP” (we’ve contacted Activision Blizzard for more information on this point).
You can read the email below, first shared by ABK Worker’s Alliance’s Jessica Gonzalez:
March 31, 2022
Bcc: U.S. employees
Everyone, As conditions improve and we prepare to welcome more of you back to our offices, I’d like to share an update regarding our vaccine policy. Effective immediately, we are lifting our vaccine mandate for all U.S. employees. This means that employees no longer need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to return to the office.
Over the past several weeks, we’ve seen businesses and other indoor venues across the U.S. lift vaccine requirements, and we feel it is important to align our site protocols with local guidance. While this change in policy addresses our current state in the pandemic, we know the situation is ever-evolving and we will continue to monitor the risks for COVID-19 in all areas where we operate. I encourage you to review these FAQs, which should help answer your questions.
Although proof of vaccination is no longer required to return to the office, we ask that you continue to confirm your vaccination status in Workday by following this link. Having this information readily available will allow us to act quickly – and pivot if necessary – if we see a future spike in cases.
We recognise that returning to the office looks different across our business units and even within our business units. We also recognise that different sites are in various stages of return. While this change may not have an immediate impact on those who are still working remotely, we wanted to communicate this now so that you have sufficient time to prepare.
Over the next few weeks, you’ll receive additional updates on what returning to the office looks like from your Business Unit or Site Leader. While we look forward to your return, we recognise you may have personal circumstances you’d like to discuss with your manager and HRBP.
As we define what the future of work looks like, I want to remind us all of the benefits of in-person collaboration. In order to ensure we all have a safe workspace where we can gather with colleagues and innovate together, it is essential we stay committed to protecting ourselves and others.
Thank you for your continued patience and understanding during this time.
Brian | https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/04/activision-blizzard-removes-vaccine-mandate-effective-immediately/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:37Z |
1 officer killed, 2 others shot in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
LEBANON, Pa. - A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and two others injured Thursday during a shooting that occurred while responding to a domestic disturbance call, Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said.
Police officers went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. for the disturbance call. Nearly an hour later gunfire broke out and officers radioed in they were hit, Capello said at a brief news conference.
All three officers were taken to hospitals. One of them has been pronounced dead. A second was in critical condition, but stable, and a third was in stable condition, Capello said.
"This is an extremely difficult moment for everyone," Capello said.
The suspect, a 34-year-old man from Lebanon, was killed in the shooting, Lebanon Police Chief Todd Breiner said.
"As one can imagine, it's clearly a traumatic event," Breiner said. "Our guys are strong, but we're human and we have families."
The slain officer's name is being withheld pending notification of extended family members.
Police did not release further details.
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SAN ANTONIO -- 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. | https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/33642341/russell-knox-uses-4-birdie-run-one-stroke-lead-texas-open | 2022-04-01T02:00:37Z |
Record inequality, crippling debt, a devastating pandemic, unfulling and unsafe jobs, discrimination and abuse, environmental and weather disasters, skyrocketing costs of living: this stark snapshot of “business as usual,” of human suffering and climate destruction under capitalism, are enough to drive any individual into overwhelming despair. The past decade has made it clear that capitalism is in crisis for all but a handful.
As of October 2021, the wealth of the United States’ 745 billionaires—or the country’s top 0.0002%—increased by over 70%, from $2.1 trillion to an astounding total of over $5 trillion, during the COVID-19 pandemic. That 2,750 people have as much wealth as over one half of the planet, or 3.9 billion people, stands testament to the criminality of this system. No amount of “self-care” can overcome the senseless material deprivation and devastation faced by billions of people, and the profound anxiety and alienation that as a result strain our relation to work, not to mention our relationships at home and in our communities.
But that does not mean the current state of society is hopeless. Recent events and history alike prove that is far from the case. A better understanding of the material causes driving economic, political, and social processes over the last decade—as well as over the last several centuries of capitalism—reveals how we can concretely fight back. Millions of working people and youth have refused to resign to this situation, and have fought back against corruption, greed, and climate destruction. As scientific socialists, we think that the greater organization and unity of these forces behind a clear, socialist program is not only possible, but absolutely necessary to drive society forward.
In reply to multiple recessions, racist police brutality, rampant sexism, climate change, and degraded working conditions, workers and youth made their mark on the 2010s: Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the #MeToo movement, Fridays for Future, Red For Ed and the reemergence of mass labor struggles. This list encompasses far more when taking into account the international struggles that have both inspired and been inspired by these recent movements in the U.S. The growth of social and labor movements demonstrate that millions of radicalizing workers and youth are ready to test new methods of struggle against their oppressors and the capitalist class, with more people identifying as “anti-capitalist” and, increasingly, as socialist. According to a 2021 Axios and Momentive poll, 54% of adults aged 18 to 34 years said they had a negative view of capitalism, while 51% percent supported socialism. Bernie Sanders and the call for a political revolution against the billionaire class has influenced the political views of millions during an incredibly turbulent era, and democratic socialist organizations like DSA and Socialist Alternative have grown as a result.
Socialism’s re-emergence as a popular political identifier produces questions and important debates about what socialism actually is. How can it work, and how will it address inequality, oppression, and climate change? What is necessary to actually achieve it and overthrow capitalism? Can we get there by reforming the current system, or do we need to break entirely from it for the working class to be able to assert itself? Did socialism “fail” in the Soviet Union, China, and throughout the developing world? All of these questions deserve much study and discussion. Right now, one of the most important tasks Marxists have is to patiently and thoroughly respond to them, and to win more people to the struggle for socialism.
The socialist movement has deep traditions stemming from the scientific economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Throughout the latter 19th and 20th centuries, Marxist theory and class-based struggle won numerous victories for workers and the oppressed, the most groundbreaking of which was the Russian Revolution. Movements have of course also experienced setbacks. The lessons derived from this history inform what kind of politics and organization we need to take on capitalism and win socialism in the twenty-first century.
Capitalism Is Killing Us
Over the 500 years or so of its existence, capitalism has paved the road for technological breakthroughs that have transformed society again and again. Railways, automotive vehicles, and airplanes have revolutionized transportation and commerce. Discoveries and inventions from the internal combustion engine to the generation of electric power propelled agrarian economies through industrialization; since then, increasingly complex computing, robotics, and rocket technology have allowed for automation and space travel. From the telephone and radio to satellite networks and the Internet, advancements in communication have connected billions globally, to information, goods, services, and each other. Such feats of human ingenuity have increased exponentially during the capitalist era.
For example, engineers built the first electronic computers capable of storing information in the early 1940s. In 1949, Popular Mechanics magazine predicted that “computers in the future may have only 1,000 tubes and weigh only one and a half tons.” Today an ordinary smartphone is millions of times faster than NASA’s car-sized Apollo mission computers in the 1960s; even a TI-84 calculator is 350 faster and has 32 times more RAM than the computers that put men on the moon!
New technology obviously has the power to dramatically shape the society of the time. It also reflects the society from which it emerges: its changing priorities and material needs, how it’s organized, and as a result of its organization, its increasing productive capability. The explosion of technological advances made under capitalism reflects this. Both the higher concentrations of workers living in and near cities and the expanded access to resources and specialized goods through increased trade have allowed populations to produce more since the 18th and 19th centuries. This has brought about more efficient socialized labor processes in factories, more precise tools, and eventually automation. As a result, global gross domestic product (GDP), which measures the market value of goods and services produced, is over 20 times what it was a century ago. Compare this to global population growth, which has increased a little over 4 times! In other words, today’s workforce is much more productive.
Unfortunately, the standard of living for much of the working class, while improving for some sections, has largely not kept up with this rise in productivity. Wages have not risen at a comparable rate. In fact, in the U.S. productivity rose 3.5 times more than hourly wages and benefits between 1979 and 2020. Meanwhile, in the same period of time, CEO pay rose by over 1322%, or to 351 times what an average worker makes. We can compare that to CEO pay in 1965, when it was 21 times that of ordinary workers—still far above what is necessary to live very comfortably!
Meanwhile, public services, research and development, and welfare safety nets are severely underfunded. Despite all of the incredible technology developed under capitalism, this system has not sufficiently provided food for over 700 million malnourished people, or clean water and sanitation for over 2 billion. It has failed to contain the coronavirus before it infected over 280 million and killed 5.4 million by the end of 2021, two years after the first cases were identified—all as the pandemic continues to exacerbate every other problem faced by billions of working class and poor.
That is because capitalism’s driving force is not the well being and advancement of humankind, but the maximization of profits for a small minority that controls the world’s wealth and assets. Historically, capitalism has enormously developed the productive forces of our society: our means of transportation, technology, communication, science, and the factories in which new goods are made. But the defining features of capitalism—private ownership and the nation state —have shackled the further development of our economy and society. When it comes to applying and allocating that accumulated capital, it’s not according to any plan based on mutual cooperation and benefit. Whether we’re talking about developing or distributing personal protective equipment or vaccines during a pandemic, building greener infrastructure to minimize climate disaster, or providing food or life-saving drugs, most decisions boil down to whether it will increase the wealth of the world’s richest elite.
American journalist William Greider opens One World Ready or Not by describing modern capitalism: “A wondrous new machine, strong and supple, a machine that reaps as it destroys… Now imagine that there are skillful hands on board, but no one is at the wheel. In fact, this machine has no wheel or any internal governor to control the speed and direction. It is sustained by its own forward motion, guided mainly by its own appetites.” Under capitalism, the blind, groping forces of profiteering are in the driving seat.
Despite piecemeal half measures to provide selective and temporary relief, capitalism’s inability to solve poverty, hunger, disease, or climate crisis are not for a lack of resources or ideas. These are willful failures of a system that has long outlived its progressive utility, and is now literally killing us.
A 2018 UN Report claims 2.8 million workers die per year, including several hundred in the U.S. each day, due to hazardous workplace conditions. Millions more face verbal, physical, psychological, and sexual abuse on the job. Horror stories emerge from Amazon distribution centers, where workers regularly collapse from exhaustion and are denied bathroom breaks. In one outrageous case workers were forced to sort and deliver packages during deadly tornado storms in Illinois. Brutal sweatshops that pay just several cents an hour and employ child labor make products for Adidas, Nike, H&M, GAP, and other major clothing retailers. The International Labour Organization estimates that occupational diseases and cancers, which are preventable with strict safety protocols, affect 160 million each year. The coronavirus pandemic continued to expose just how little workers’ lives mean to their bosses, as “essential workers” were forced to work without adequate sanitation measures, protective equipment, sick or hazard pay.
This is to say nothing of climate change and the ecological havoc wreaked by capitalism, as we reach or surpass climate tipping points that guarantee dramatic consequences for the planet and its inhabitants. Rising sea levels, long-term droughts, and famine threaten to displace hundreds of millions. Already we’ve seen an 83% rise in global weather disasters over the last 20 years, resulting in the deaths of 1.2 million as well as the devastation of homes and public infrastructure; over the last 40 years, average wildlife populations have dropped by 60%.
The conversion of the Amazon rainforest into a savannah, the melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and the collapse of the Gulf Stream are not natural developments. One hundred giant companies like Shell, Exxon, and BP have been responsible for 71% of industrial carbon emissions over the last three decades, while 33 global banks have invested $1.9 trillion into fossil fuels since the 2015 Paris Accords were signed. Despite the existential urgency, capitalism continues to put short-term profit-making over the planet, and every year delays a desperately needed rapid transition to renewable energy. Since 1995 and up to the most recent “Conference of the Parties” summit (COP26), top polluting countries—China, Russia, India, and the U.S.—failed to make meaningful commitments to phase out coal or cut methane emissions, as imperialist competition overrode global cooperation.
The Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin described imperialism as the monopoly stage of capitalism: wealth is concentrated with a few giant corporations and super-rich capitalists that link up with and are controlled by a few very large banks that can manipulate the economy. In their thirst for increasingly profitable returns on investments, finance capital must resort to going beyond national boundaries, setting their sights on foreign markets, resources, and labor. For territories not yet under the thumb of capitalist rule, it has meant forced colonization. In the case of rivalries between superpowers, it can mean a complicated web of trade deals or economic sanctions; but when that fails to produce the desired results for different sections of the ruling class, it has meant bloody war. In any of these scenarios, the working and oppressed classes are forced to pay with their livelihoods or their lives. “What other solution of the contradictions can be found under capitalism,” Lenin asks, “than that of force?” War, in all its economic and physically violent forms, is an inevitable feature of capitalism.
Corporate politicians are lying when they say there is no money to cancel student debt, grant healthcare for all, or pass a Green New Deal, when every year the U.S. military budget is increased by billions to protect U.S. interests overseas. But it’s not just foreign populations that fall victim to state violence as national ruling classes spar for domination over global capital. At home, hundreds of people are killed every year by police, many of them disproportionately people of color, low income, or disabled. Police are employed to protect the interests of landlords and businesses, over-policing and evicting residents in areas ripe for profitable development, without any real community control over public safety or justice for the working class. Meanwhile, millions are stuck in an alienating prison industrial complex that produces cheap labor and strips inmates of their rights, reinforcing societal prejudices against Black and Latino people and the poor.
There is nothing redeemable about this system, which shed its usefulness as a progressive force for society centuries ago. Over one hundred years ago, in the middle of the first brutal World War, the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg recalled the words of Marxist theorist Frederich Engels of the century before her, writing that capitalist society “stands at the crossroads: either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” She continues: “A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means.” The same could be easily said of society today, having continued down that very destructive path. But the path to an alternative remains right in front of us. The future of civilization and humanity still depends now, as it did then, on the working class taking matters fully into our own hands.
What is Socialism?
Of course, it is not enough to be anti-capitalist. To win more people to the fight against this disastrously oppressive system, we also need something to fight for. Following the 2008 recession and Occupy movement, in 2016 Bernie Sanders harnessed public outrage against corrupt politics and corporate greed, calling for a “political revolution” against Wall Street and the 1%. Since then he and other “democratic socialists” have popularized demands for a $15/hour minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, taxing the rich, canceling student debt, and a Green New Deal. Such reforms are a key part of any socialist program today. Fighting for them will not only vastly improve people’s lives, but also build stronger movements to challenge the system altogether, by strengthening our experience and capacity for struggle.
It is therefore often believed that socialists simply want to better share out the wealth. Sanders and others on the left, like Jacobin’s Bhaskar Sunkara, propose far-reaching reforms within a regulated market. Such a vision takes cues from the welfare states of northern Europe and the “New Deal” era of pro-worker reforms in the U.S. This would certainly be a marked improvement for millions of people; but for reasons this article will explain in more depth later, this vision falls short of what can actually be achieved, and is even utopian.
In short, Marxists would disagree with this overly simplistic definition of “socialism.” In proposing a redistribution of wealth through an expanded the public sector within the framework of a capitalist society, it contradicts itself. Leaving the market forces of private ownership intact, even alongside more worker-owned cooperatives, would not allow for a truly equal society in the long term, but would be doomed to repeat the processes of monopolization. Competition for market share and profits would continue, as this “market socialism” would tend to resemble market capitalism.
That is because it does not decisively resolve the main conflict between the ruling and oppressed classes. Instead, it supposes they could co-exist in harmony. But capitalism by definition relies on the exploitation of workers, extracting the “surplus value” (profit) made after their labor produces a good or service. While some might argue that “capitalism made your iPhone,” the basic reality is that workers produced this device—and they would do so under socialism. The difference is that those workers would be paid better wages while working fewer hours in safer conditions, using materials mined sustainably under the direction of local populations. All of this would be possible because super profits would be eliminated, as workers collectively determine what to do with the resulting wealth.
For Marxists, socialism is therefore a fundamentally different system that must break entirely with the existing global capitalist order. Not only do we need a “political revolution,” but a social revolution as well, with an economy controlled entirely by workers. Only in this scenario is a true redistribution of wealth possible.
So what would a socialist society actually look like, and what is needed for it to actually work? Those fighting for socialism today cannot possibly map out the future with such precision; but over a century of theoretical study and historical experience have confirmed several basic aspects:
- a working class-run government with universal and direct suffrage and representatives subject to recall;
- a democratically planned, central economy, made possible by the democratic public ownership of key industries and the banks;
- guaranteed quality public housing, healthcare, transportation, and education for all, as well as the sharing out of work to guarantee robust social services;
- cooperative internationalism respecting nations’ rights of self-determination.
Genuine Democracy for the Billions – Not the Billionaires
A socialist economy would have to be planned democratically in order to work. Far unlike what’s been pitched by decades of capitalist propaganda, a genuine socialist government would not be dictatorial. On the contrary, socialism would extend and deepen democracy far beyond the limited version that capitalism can grant, i.e. a democracy for the rich. In the case of the United States, democracy is roughly understood as electing representatives every two or four years. As Lenin remarked, “Elections held in such circumstances are praised by the bourgeoisie… as being ‘free’, ‘equal’, ‘democratic’ and ‘universal’. These words are designed to conceal the truth, to conceal the fact that the means of production and political power remain in the hands of the exploiters, and that therefore real freedom and real equality for the exploited—that is, for the vast majority of the population—are out of the question.”
And yet even such a “democracy” is blatantly undemocratic: voter suppression has always been baked into our political system which has always privileged the wealthy. Despite gains won by women’s and civil right movements during the 20th century, the right to vote remains limited and threatened by rightwing attacks in the 21st century. The electoral college, racist voter ID laws, an unelected and archaic Supreme Court, gerrymandering, restrictive voting timeframes, polling location shutdowns, and costly recall campaigns driven by the corporate elite all threaten what little say we have in governing, while particularly disenfranchising people of color. But this is besides the point that we don’t have much choice for “representatives” under capitalism: those who willfully do the bidding of billionaires and corporations, and those who cave into the establishment’s pressure.
Instead, under genuine socialism, everyone could take part in deciding how society and the economy would be run, on the basis of open and constructive debate. This would require a dramatic reduction of the work week with no loss of pay, universal childcare, and a full array of language and accessibility tools. With the participation of the whole of society in decision-making, the iron grip of the rich over our workplaces, schools, and communities would be broken. Of course, it does not make sense for every individual to attend to every decision there is to make in such a complex, globalized society. Therefore, democratically-elected representatives would still be necessary for decision-making at local, national, and international levels. Even in the workplace, your “manager” would be elected from among the best workers, and would rely heavily upon collective decision-making rather than unilateral calls out of step with workers’ observations or interests. With the right of immediate democratic recall, these leaders would also be far more accountable than anything seen under capitalism.
Today most politicians comprise a privileged section of society doing the bidding of the capitalist class; and like most bosses, they live remote from the daily hardships faced by ordinary people. A socialist government and workplaces would ensure that no elected representatives received financial privileges as a result of their position but, instead, lived the same lifestyle as those they represented. This would help prevent the formation of the sort of privileged bureaucracies we see throughout capitalism, or in a deformed “socialist” state like the Soviet Union.
That is why International Socialist Alternative believes that workers’ elected representatives should only receive the average wage of those they represent, and ensures its members in public office follow suit. For example, Socialist Alternative and Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant accepts only the average pay of a skilled worker in her district—$40,000, as opposed to the full $140,000 accepted by other council members—and donates the rest to workers’ and social movements. This also applies to any SA members elected to union leadership positions.
The Case for a Democratically Planned Economy
There is another crucial aspect to socialist democracy. Under capitalism, most of the important economic decisions are not made directly by congressional bodies or the president. They are made in the boardrooms of giant corporations. Only by bringing those companies into democratic public ownership can economic decision-making be brought under working class control.
This does not mean bringing small businesses, like small local shops and restaurants, into broad public ownership. Many community-based businesses, co-operatives, and small start-ups struggle to compete with much larger ones, and may be forced out of business or bought out and corporatized as a result. Rather, it’s the dictatorial power of huge companies that need to be urgently brought under democratic public ownership during the transitional stages of socialism.
Bringing a company into public ownership means taking its resources—factories, machinery, distribution networks, technologies, infrastructure—and its existing financial reserves out of the hands of wealthy investors and into the hands of the workers at the source of its wealth. Once that critical step is taken, democratic committees can replace the capitalist bosses, reflecting the expertise of the workers in that industry who are intimately familiar with how it operates, what it produces, and what can be improved. And so the aim to maximize profitability would be replaced with the aim to maximize that industry’s ability to meet society’s needs. This would lead to a substantial increase in the general standard of living of the vast majority of people: there would be no reason to keep wages down, work weeks unnecessarily long, or social services starved.
Imagine what would be possible if workers ran the major industries. In the context of minimizing climate catastrophe, workers can cooperate to ensure cleaner, more efficient production and global trade, and oversee a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy while guaranteeing safe well-paid jobs and rebuilding crumbling infrastructure. In the context of a pandemic, workers could rapidly retool industrial plants to build much-needed medical and personal protective gear, and freely distribute vaccine formulas and disease research. Rather than suffering under the mismanagement of privatized, for-profit healthcare, instead doctors, nurses, and hospital workers could coordinate the distribution of equipment and information, while ensuring safe, adequate staffing and quality care to all patients.
Capitalism also results in the unnecessary proliferation of similar products. Companies fiercely compete to produce the first and seemingly best goods for the highest possible price, and then spend over half a trillion dollars every year to convince consumers to buy them. As a result, half of an aisle at the local pharmacy is devoted to thirty brands of toothpaste. Socialism would instead aim to produce the necessary amount of the best-quality products based on general need, and thereby save a huge amount of resources that could otherwise improve and innovate new goods and services. This is far from unrealistic: much of the information required to achieve such a feat of planning is currently under the control of Amazon’s corporate executives! Instead of giant corporations using online tracking to bombard us with tailored ads to convince us to buy products, these tools could enormously aid in democratic planning.
This also does not mean, as is commonly claimed, that socialism would result in a lack of choice or poor-quality goods: a society where everyone dresses in a gray uniform. Instead, it would mean a genuine choice of diverse products, rather than the illusion of variety fabricated by competitive corporations. Further still, instead of the wasteful planned obsolescence of technology or fast fashion clothing, workers can take the time to make high-quality long-lasting products according to actual demand, and under safe and equitable conditions far from today’s hellish sweatshops.
Capitalists also organize supply chains around securing the cheapest possible raw materials, component parts, and labor to maximize their profit. Unfettered by the irrationality and anarchy of this system, under socialism workers would cooperate to organize distribution and labor on the basis of need and collective benefit. Today millions seek full employment as millions more work inhumanly long shifts. While millions face homelessness and housing insecurity, millions of housing units remain vacant. Many commute long distances to work, when they could be employed closer to home; and the pandemic has demonstrated how some could even work from home without impacting productivity.
A planned socialist economy can make huge strides towards solving these contradictions within months. It would require a centralized inventory of workers and their skills, which can be used to connect them to the nearest opportunities for work. Those who are overworked can share their hours with those who are underemployed, allowing for a maximum 35-hour work week and extended vacation with no loss of pay. New automated technology would not have to result in layoffs, when workers can simply be allowed to work less. This would give working class people more time to participate in running society.
A democratically planned economy would be able to reorganize work in such a way that it provides everyone with a well-paid job requiring the least commuting time, and to direct work to the most essential projects needed for society and the environment to thrive. This would of course extend to science and technology. No longer would ground-breaking research hit a wall because investors saw no short-term profits to be made. Engineers previously working on destructive military technology could instead work on constructive solutions to stabilize the planet’s ecosystems and develop technology to bring carbon emissions to zero. There will no doubt be new inventions and discoveries, from renewable energy and medicine to artificial intelligence and space flight.
Some will argue that such a transformation is utopian, and that people would not be bothered to participate in such economic planning. But such pessimism pales before a history that has offered numerous examples of workers stepping up to run cities, devising democratic structures like those described during mass struggles. This includes the Russian soviets of 1917, and in the U.S., the Seattle general strike of 1919, the Minneapolis Teamsters’ strike, and the wave of sit-down strikes of the 1930s. Today thousands of working-class people attend tenant councils, school board meetings, and local community and faith-based groups. Organizations in a worker-led state would be completely different to the toothless bodies that working-class people are currently allowed to take part in—the committees would actually have the power to say how the economy and society is organized.
What Socialism Could Achieve: Realizing A Socialist Program
We’ve already talked about how a democratically planned socialist economy could eliminate unemployment by sharing out the work, and by diverting huge amounts of wealth towards public services. This makes possible many of the popular reforms that we support today.
The “Green New Deal” and Medicare for All, popularized by Bernie Sanders, could go even further. We need to transform major industries on a sustainable basis, which includes retraining millions of workers in polluting industries with the promise of good union jobs in renewable energy. Publicly-funded research facilities and universities should prioritize developing technology to bring the economy’s carbon emissions to zero and reverse air and water pollution. This would have a hugely positive effect on public health to start.
We also need to build sustainable state-of-the-art hospitals and affordable social housing to ensure everyone has access to safe, sanitary living conditions and free, quality healthcare on demand. We can work towards guaranteed housing starting with rent control tied to wages and a permanent end to evictions. As banks are brought under public ownership and community development is planned according to democratic committees, free public housing for all will become a reality under socialism.
Beyond this, to ensure high-quality public education for all, we must rebuild new schools to replace crumbling, poorly ventilated buildings. They should be rooted in their local communities and connected to an array of public health and recreational services. Free higher education can ensure more well-trained teachers and thus smaller class sizes; more nurses and mental healthcare professionals; and more chefs to ensure access to nutritious meals for all students. Finally, to make the distribution of materials and labor more efficient, we need to massively expand public transit to be high-speed and eco-friendly. All of this new infrastructure must not only be able to withstand extreme weather events, but must also reach the poorest areas of the country so that every person has access to these basic necessities and high-quality services.
Out-of-control police brutality in the U.S. has led many to challenge not only the lack of accountability, but also the bloated state of the country’s police budgets, championed by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Under socialism, public safety budgets and protocols would be entirely controlled by communities. Guaranteed food, shelter, work, and education–in other words, the elimination of poverty–would eliminate most crime. Social workers, mental healthcare professionals, and rehabilitation clinics can address many of the anti-social behaviors that remain, while mass educational programming can work to undo prejudicial attitudes and unhealthy behaviors. The old capitalist state institutions of policing and prisons would have no place in this society, and democratically-elected courts would no longer rule according to the old phrase “property is nine-tenths of the law,” but instead according to genuine working class justice.
Under socialism, we would also be able to eliminate military spending. Today even as national economies are shrinking, military spending continues to increase, as countries prepare for long-term crises like climate change and an intensifying “Cold War” between the U.S. and Chinese imperialist superpowers. In 2020, military defense spending reached $738 billion in the U.S., the largest by far in a total of $2 trillion spent globally. By the time it withdrew troops, the U.S. had spent approximately $5.8 trillion on the invasion of Afghanistan and other conflicts in the oil-rich Middle East following the September 11 attacks. The senseless twenty-year war that followed only served to massively destabilize the region, while killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and displacing millions more. Now a weakened but still dominant U.S. imperialism is twisting the country’s priorities around fierce competition with the rise of Chinese imperialism.
Contrary to what each country’s ruling capitalist class will say, these massive military budgets, invasions, and trade wars aim to defend and extend their imperialist interests—not those of ordinary people in their country. They turn national working and oppressed classes against each other to fight their unjust wars, while we bear the brunt of economic sanctions. Ending imperialism—and building a thriving socialist world—depends instead on the cooperation and unity of the international working class, first in its struggle against the ruling elite, and then in the construction of a worldwide planned economy.
The Importance of Internationalism: For a Socialist World
The transition to a planned economy may well start in one country; but to succeed, it will need to spread internationally and give rise to global socialist planning. New international structures would need to be established to facilitate the maximum coordination of workers’ councils in different industries across borders.
Big businesses and banks already do quite a bit of “planning” across their sprawling multinational structures to try to maximize their own market shares and profits. To inflate revenue or mislead investors, some companies “cook the books” by delaying expenses, fixing prices, laundering income, or creating subsidiary companies. Multinational corporations have built programs to procure the cheapest possible components worldwide, and plan extensively to avoid paying taxes. Meanwhile, business-friendly governments have been unable to negotiate solutions to global tax competition. Global Alliance for Tax Justice estimates that “Countries are losing a total of over $427 billion in taxes each year to international corporate tax abuse and private tax evasion.” Such schemes have been exposed by the Panama and Pandora Papers, which detail the involvement of major banks, companies, and politicians in hiding the full scale of their profits “off-shore” to avoid taxation.
Other international capitalist structures exist, such as the World Bank, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund (IMF), United Nations, and many others; but these are neither neutral nor benevolent. Instead they mirror the interests of dominant imperialist countries, determining global fiscal policy and trade, military alliances, insubstantial aid, and predatory lending to less developed countries.
From its birth, the socialist movement has broadly recognized the need to overthrow capitalism on a global basis in order to usher in a new socialist world. This international outlook was captured in the memorable lines of Marx’s Communist Manifesto: “Workers of the World Unite!” But internationalism is also much more than a slogan for Marxists. It is central to any serious attempt to build the socialist movement. Historically, four different international organizations took on the massive project of organizing the international working class, to collectively share the lessons from national struggles, discuss and debate strategy, and support each other in fighting for a common socialist program worldwide.
Based on the ideas of Marx and Engels, the original leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917 – Lenin, Leon Trotsky and the Bolshevik Party – saw the overthrow of capitalism in Russia as the prelude to an international transformation of society. They understood that, economically, Russia was not ready for socialism, as it was mostly agrarian and only newly industrializing after centuries of feudalism. But the world was ready for such a transformation. For them the success or failure of the Soviet Union depended on the working classes of other countries successfully overthrowing capitalism. This is even truer today, with the increased integration of the world economy, than it was in 1917. With supply chain and production now conducted on an international level, the scope for coordinated international working class struggle has never been larger.
This is why Socialist Alternative is a part of International Socialist Alternative, with sections in over 30 countries. It is especially important to build a strong movement in the U.S. to challenge the American imperialist ruling class, which has been one of the greatest obstacles to international workers’ struggles over the past century. Having taken on the role of the world’s top banker and policeman after World War II, the United States’ history as a global superpower has nothing to do with its mythical exceptionalism or “freedom,” but its brutal interventions throughout Central and Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East to extend its control over the world’s resources and markets. In the process, it’s mowed over workers’ and oppressed peoples’ movements.
In all these situations, Marxists side with those working class people oppressed by foreign imperialist forces, and defend the right to the self-determination of nations, while advocating that such struggles from below also extend to their own national capitalist class. This is not at odds with fighting for a unified international working class struggle. Rather, Marxists are confident that a powerful socialist movement could inspire millions around the world to take up similar struggles in their own countries, in the same way the Arab Spring inspired the Occupy movement of the early 2010s, or how Black Lives Matter inspired global protests against racism and state repression.
Lessons of Russian Revolution of 1917
Marxists also emphasize the centrality of working class internationalism because it’s not possible to create socialism in one country, surrounded by a world capitalist market. The Russian Revolution of October 1917 is the only time the working class has succeeded in overthrowing capitalism and attempted to build a socialist society. Even though we live under vastly different conditions and circumstances today, socialists carefully study this historic event to understand how ordinary people can rise up to not only take control over society, but run it far better than the profit-driven and power-hungry capitalists. A closer look at this example also reveals that, despite the best efforts of capitalist propaganda to convince us otherwise, the defeat and degeneration of socialism is far from inevitable. What’s key is international socialist revolution led by the working class across the world.
The odds were stacked against revolutionary socialists in a situation of extreme economic and cultural backwardness in 1917. Russia was devastated by World War I. For decades leading up to the revolution, political dissidents faced severe repression, and most Russians lacked even basic democratic rights under the absolutist rule of Tsar Nicholas II. Only 8% of the population was part of a new industrial working class, while the majority was illiterate and many workers lacked administrative skills. Despite this, a mass revolt led by women and striking factory workers demanding “peace, land, and bread” began on International Women’s Day (March 8) in 1917, ultimately forcing the Tsar to abdicate. Out of this revolt, new democratic structures formed around elected workers’ councils, or “soviets,” which made collective decisions across factories and barracks and across cities.
Alongside these working class structures, a new provisional government was formed, but it failed to achieve the movements’ demands. That’s because it consisted mostly of Russian capitalists, who were bound to feudal tsarism’s ties to European capital, alongside socialists who advocated a gradual transition to socialism by way of reforms through a stage of liberal democracy, like that which prevailed throughout the West. Standing in contrast to the latter was the revolutionary socialism of the Bolshevik Party, who instead argued for a total socialist transformation that required breaking from capitalism, which Socialist Alternative continues to argue for today. The provisional government’s aim to establish a liberal democracy favoring the capitalists ultimately contradicted the aim of the workers, women, and disaffected soldiers who led the February Revolution. Together with the political leadership and organization of the increasingly popular Bolsheviks, they took the revolution a step further and seized power during the bloodless October Revolution later that year, establishing a worker-led socialist government to the dismay of pro-Tsarist aristocrats and capitalists everywhere.
The Russian people continued to face a desperate situation. The Bolshevik Party understood that the Soviet Union’s survival depended on the success of revolutionary workers’ movements elsewhere, and they launched the Communist International to assist such struggles. Sure enough, civil war further devastated the economy of the new Soviet Union. Much of the movement’s socialists and worker activists were killed as foreign imperialist armies sought to isolate the world’s only workers’ state. This meant that in many cases, the soviets had no choice but to retain the specialists and administrators of the old absolutist regime, even at the cost of bribing them with privileges. In the town of Vyatka in 1918, for example, no fewer than 4,476 out of 4,766 officials were the same individuals who had previously served the Tsar.
Under these conditions, the system degenerated, and a hideous bureaucracy developed under the misleadership of Joseph Stalin. Stalin broke with Marxism when it came to the centrality of working class leadership and internationalism. Instead, both were subordinated to his project to build “socialism in one country,” and those who challenged the bureaucracy were labled as “counter-revolutionary” and either imprisoned, banished, or murdered.
The Soviet Union’s planned economy was kept intact, although distorted and undemocratic. Instead of being guided by the workers, decisions were made by a few privileged bureaucrats who intended to maintain their standing in this new society. Nonetheless, up until the early 1970s, the nationalized economies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe states produced impressive economic advances, especially in heavy industries. In less than 50 years, only newly emerging from feudalism, this society was the first to put a man in space! The state also provided basic education, housing, healthcare, and other social amenities to the majority of the population. For the Soviet Union, which began very backward economically, such rapid advances were unparalleled and exceeded that seen in any capitalist country.
During the 1970s and 1980s, however, it became clear that the outdated, rigid, bureaucratic framework could not cope with the complexities of technological change nor the social demands emerging in this more developed society. Workers’ struggles in Poland, East Germany, Hungary, and elsewhere triggered a political avalanche throughout Eastern Europe. Initially, these sweeping mass movements had features of political revolution: workers demanded democratization of the factories and economic planning from below. Such was the deep revulsion against the grotesque Stalinist caricature of ‘“socialism,” however, that a counter-revolutionary tide driven by Western capitalism was soon able to engulf more progressive demands for a truly democratic form of socialism. Sensing impending collapse and fearful of losing their material privileges, sections of the bureaucracy were ready to abandon this degenerated ‘socialism’ and stake their future on a transition to capitalism.
Since 1990, this restoration of capitalism in the former Soviet Union and satellite nations has been an unmitigated disaster. One small glimpse of it was given by an interview the journalist Robert Fisk conducted with a young Russian woman, Natasha. She was desperate for money and had, like tens of thousands of others, become involved in international prostitution. Fisk suggested to her that she and her friends were victims of “the worst side of men.” Natasha disagreed: “They were victims of the collapse of the Soviet Union, she said, a way of life – free schooling, free universities, free apartments – that had been taken from them.”
Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the Russian revolution, led a heroic fight against the Stalinist degeneration of the Soviet Union, and was assassinated as a result. As far back as 1936, Trotsky put forward two possible outcomes for the Soviet Union: “A successful uprising of the Russian working class, a political revolution and the restoration of democracy; or the return of capitalism with calamitous consequences for the mass of the population.”
These consequences were in store for not only the working class in the USSR, but across the world. Capitalists used the collapse of Stalinism in 1990 to discredit all socialist ideas and to claw back many of the gains working-class people made in the post-WWII period, during which the Soviet model acted as a certain counterweight to capitalism. Capitalist leaders returned to the naked, unabashed brutality of capitalism of the past. In the long run, however, their overconfidence has undermined their system and delegitimized their own institutions. A new generation plainly sees the need for an alternative, and more people are reconsidering these distorted narratives about socialism.
Reform or Revolution?
Today many are attracted to the major economic and social reforms advocated by Bernie Sanders and the Squad. At least two-thirds of Americans favor a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for All, and taxing the rich according to most polls, and this sentiment has only grown with the pandemic, environmental, and economic crises of the early 2020s. And yet these are not the policies adopted by the majority of Congress.
These are reforms capitalism is unwilling to grant short of tremendous social pressure. So the key question facing progressives and socialists hungering for reform and systemic change is “how do we win?” A follow up to this question, debated on the left a century ago as well as today, is “do we really need a revolution to achieve these changes?”
Many hope that these socialist policies can be achieved by slowly reforming the existing system by working from within. But the last 150 years of history has shown that this gradual reformism cannot possibly lead to socialism. Bernie Sanders has referenced social democratic countries in Scandinavia, and he’s correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But all reforms won under capitalism are temporary, and require continued organization to defend.
As we’ve demonstrated above, capitalism is not a stable or rational system. It’s subject to booms and busts that can overwhelmingly hit working and poor people the hardest while the rich remain relatively unscathed. Big business has many tools to make us pay for the crises of their system: paying us less while raising rents, prices, and interest rates; cutting or privatizing public services; and delivering massive bailouts to big business, while small businesses are shuttered and workers lose their jobs. Even if social democratic welfare states could magically offer their own population stability, there are workers in another parts of the world who pay the price. Countries like Norway have made their wealth off of fossil fuels, and have expropriated land from indigenous populations. The Swedish company H&M’s profits are squeezed from underpaid workers in Bangladesh.
But stability is not possible even for advanced capitalist countries. As our counterparts in Sweden have written, “Public housing has been privatized to a high degree, state planning abolished and subsidies have disappeared.” The various public services and safety nets extolled by Bernie Sanders have eroded and in some cases have been virtually eliminated. Much like what we witnessed in the U.S. and other capitalist countries, Sweden’s big businesses and banks received a stimulus at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but cuts to healthcare remained unchanged!
While huge reforms were won in Europe, capitalism was not overthrown. Instead, the capitalists were forced to temporarily make concessions in order to contain powerful labor and social movements during and after World War II. For a whole historic period after the War War II, U.S. capitalism was the strongest in the world. Having avoided the worst destruction to its own infrastructure, it profited fabulously off the war and loans granted to rebuild Europe and Japan. By making extensive use of the state, capitalism was able to rebuild these economies. The U.S. economy also boomed as a result, and could more than afford to concede rising living standards to its population.
But that period is over. By the 1970s, the rate of profit began to decline, and capitalism moved to end this temporary social contract by clawing back these concessions. A new “neoliberal era” introduced deep tax cuts for the rich, privatized various public sector industries, deregulated the financial sector, slashed welfare and social programs, and relentlessly attacked unions. We’re now reckoning with decades of this unsustainable policy. As one disaster after another pulls at the fraying seams of their system, a divided capitalist class is groping for solutions, unable to rely on these methods to reap and rule in the same way as millions across the globe lash back in anger.
Bernie and AOC have painted FDR’s New Deal as something that should be emulated as a step towards socialism. They set high expectations for the Biden administration, which has not only broken its many promises, but continues Trump-era policies. Biden is no FDR. He has no intention of shaking up the political stalemate in Washington to pass desperately needed reforms in the wake of the pandemic and economic crises. But FDR was also no socialist. Nor was he a “friend of labor.” He was a fiscal conservative whose main objective during the Great Depression was to save capitalism and avoid an increasingly powerful labor movement from following in the footsteps of the Russian Revolution.
As long as the balance of political power is tipped towards the capitalists, who continue to shatter profit-breaking records, we can expect continued defeats for Biden’s botched “Build Back Better” agenda without the challenge of a strong mass movement from below. That is what ultimately forced the hand of FDR: every major welfare and jobs program that passed under the New Deal corresponded to major strikes and demonstrations led by militant workers across the country. Over the decades that followed, similarly massive movements turning towards the same tactics won major victories. The Civil Rights movement dismantled Jim Crow, won voting rights, and passed anti-discrimination and legislation. The women’s rights movement forced the hand of a conservative Supreme Court to win Roe v. Wade. The environmental movement forced the conservative President Nixon to establish the Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Water and Air Acts by bringing 10% of the population in the U.S. into the streets!
In reality, Bernie’s program can only be won through mass struggle—not by relying on the Democratic Party to deliver it. Socialist Alternative helped win the first $15/hour minimum wage in a major city by activating Seattle’s working people to build a grassroots movement independent of big business and the Democratic Party. We were able to do the same and won a huge tax on Amazon and other corporate giants, combining this movement with mass BLM protests to demand funds for affordable housing. Every step of the way, the Democrats on the council worked behind the scenes to undermine and roll back these victories, proving their own allegiances with big business over working people.
Any system dominated by these forces, maintained by a state that defends the interests of the ruling class, will not allow for a gradual transition to socialism. Bosses will not be convinced to gradually give up more and more of their profits. Capitalism demands that they accumulate more and more capital to remain profitable in a competitive economy. This means it demands greater exploitation to extract greater profits, or else companies risk falling behind. Whether a “democracy” or dictatorship, the capitalist state can’t be separated from its primary role of defending private property and ensuring profitability. Again and again we see big bailouts for corporations during crises, while working and poor people are told to tighten their belts and brace for austerity.
Lenin and the Bolshevik Party recognized this fundamental relationship between the ruling class and the state in 1917, and fully backed the soviets in their struggle for power against the weak, pro-capitalist Provisional Government. As the October Revolution demonstrated, a socialist revolution could fundamentally end the exploitative relationship between bosses and workers, and completely replace the pro-capitalist state with a new democratic, worker-led government which would side wholly with the working class and oppressed.
However, the organized strength of working and young people can certainly win important victories in the meantime. These are the forces that Bernie and the Squad should be organizing and mobilizing to win Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, a federal $15/hr minimum wage, and more. These are also the forces that, with enough experience, momentum, and confidence in their own political independence, can usher in socialist change. A critical step in this process will be to build a new mass political party that can unite behind such a progressive program, and unite various struggles against social oppression to the struggle against capitalism.
Another crucial factor in the struggle against capitalism is the existence of a strong revolutionary Marxist party, which can also play a role in building and strengthening a new independent mass party. This was the key to workers’ historic victory in Russia. In other countries, where the revolutionary party was weak and inexperienced, or where the completion of a working class-led revolution was subordinated to the class conciliatory approach of gradual reformism, the capitalist class has been able to violently cut across electoral mandates and revolts from below.
One tragic example came in Chile in 1973. After Salvador Allende was elected president from a coalition of socialist left parties, he pursued major reforms and nationalized several large-scale industries, with the support of powerful working class organizations. Inflation and unemployment went down, salaries went up, and basic necessities like milk were provided to families for free. But this attempt to incrementally restructure the economy threatened landowners, financiers, and foreign business interests, namely those of U.S. capitalists. Initial gains quickly came under siege. The Chilean right wing and global ruling class moved to destabilize the economy, and Chile struggled to maintain these reforms as the price of its chief export, copper, dropped.
However, this failed to dull mass support for socialism. Furthermore it was clear to revolutionary workers that a violent counter-revolutionary backlash was on the horizon, and that a total struggle against capitalist forces were necessary. Instead of turning to the mass social power of the workers, who were denied arms to defend themselves and seize power, Allende’s reformist government tried and failed to compromise with its capitalist opposition. A bloody military coup, backed by the CIA, destroyed the powerful organizations and leaders of the Chilean working class, and installed the right wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Had the revolutionary workers’ movement not been blocked by its own socialist and communist leadership in the parliament, such a crisis could have been averted.
There are many more examples illustrating the need for socialist revolution. Socialist Alternative is committed to building an organization united behind a clear revolutionary perspective and program, in addition to strengthening and uniting broader movements and mass organizations. All of our members play a role in bringing forward the lessons and strategies of militant working class struggle, wherever people are organizing against injustice, oppression, and exploitation.
Fighting Racism, Sexism, Oppression and the Far Right
The main obstacle to achieving a socialist society is a ruling elite determined to preserve its class position of power. Well aware it is a small minority, it has devised strategies to divide and prevent working and oppressed people from organizing to overcome its control and recognize their common oppressor.
In the U.S., this has mainly taken the form of anti-Black oppression. Racism was baked into American capitalism’s DNA from the start. Early in this country’s history, the colonial upper class faced a united struggle of poor white servants and black slaves during Bacon’s Rebellion, which produced the divisive Virginia Slave Codes in an attempt to crystalize unequal racial castes. Ever since, a predominantly white ruling class has made use of slavery, Jim Crow, and the War on Drugs to not only amass generations of wealth, but also convince the white working class that they had little in common with the Black working class and poor. This has expressed itself differently over time, from slavery and Jim Crow to the War on Drugs and mass incarceration. At each stage of our history, capitalists have had to adapt their racist “divide and conquer” strategy to protect their profits as powerful united antiracist struggles challenged their system. Internationally, racist ideology was also adapted to justify the colonial and imperialist powers’ carving up of the world in the name of “civilization,” “democracy,” and “freedom.” Today it still dictates the economic fate of poor countries via the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
While liberal sections of the ruling class pretend to adopt anti-racist attitudes while permitting racial pay gaps, its right wing continues to aggressively promote racism to justify its agenda. Just like Bush’s “War on Terror” demonized Muslims, Trump has whipped up anti-immigrant sentiments to account for economic setbacks and unemployment suffered by the white working class as capitalists chase cheaper labor. He’s also spurred on Asian hate crimes by painting COVID-19 as the “Chinese flu,” all to further justify ramping up a New Cold War with China. And yet, multi-racial protests spanned Trump’s presidency through 2020’s mass uprising demanding Justice for George Floyd, demonstrating that much of the country rejects and is willing to stand up to these racist narratives and police violence.
Discrimination against women and gender oppression is also embedded in capitalism, and other class-based societies before it. Sexual harassment, lesser pay, femicide and transphobic violence, and limited reproductive rights hold back a huge section of society. The way that capitalism is organized and structured – in particular the role that the family has played and still plays as an economic and social unit – perpetuates and reinforces this.
Under capitalism, the family plays an ideological and economic role. Its traditional structure is based on the dependence of the ‘non-productive’ members of the household on an individual wage earner. This has forced centuries of standard gender roles and stereotypes upon its members, thus sowing division between men, women, and gender non-conforming people. The small “nuclear” family was framed as essential to survival and security during the Cold War, as an alternative to communism and an economic lever for consumerism. It has also been used to reinforce the idea that on an individual level, we bear personal responsibility for being unable to thrive in a system that is, in reality, unequal by design.
The family, along with the education system, has ultimately been used to discipline, socialize, and prepare young people to assume their productive role as adults in capitalist society–including the role of reproducing the working class. The repression of reproductive rights and bodily autonomy is therefore not simply a moral imperative. It derives from capitalism’s attempt to chain women to the household, where they’re often expected to take on the bulk of domestic work and raise the next generation of workers, in a world where they are divorced from any economic power.
The struggle against racism, sexism, and all other forms of oppression are crucial to building a powerful socialist movement. To overcome the ruling class’s divide-and-conquer strategy, socialists and the labor movement have an especially important leading role to play in uniting the multi-racial, multi-gender working class. Unions should mobilize workers behind the demands of various social movements, as well as broader economic demands that go beyond the workplace, while organizing in opposition to far right white supremacy. The reverse is also true: while it would be naive to suggest these prejudices could be eliminated overnight, a socialist transformation of society is the only chance we have to truly extract them from the fabric of our culture. Removing the profit motive would lay the material basis for addressing climate change, ending endless wars, and eliminating the nightmarish discrimination that strangles our social institutions as a result of centuries of capitalist exploitation.
Immediate economic and democratic measures–such as fair wages, jobs for all, free high-quality childcare and universal education, and affordable housing–would immediately lift millions out of poverty to a more dignified standard of living. This would especially improve the lives of people of color, women, and LGBTQ people who make up the most economically exploited layers of society. And without economic inequality to justify discrimination, this new society can begin to truly root out these harmful ideas.
Widening inequality and worsening attacks on workers’ living standards has fueled the growing anger and frustration with the political establishment, and a desperate search for an alternative. This has led to increasing political polarization, which has deepened with the inability of Obama, Trump, and now Biden to respond to capitalism’s crises. Now the far right is looking to cash in on growing instability where it can. It’s ability to use bigotry and culture wars to whip up its base presents a huge threat to working class movements, especially where it spurs on right-wing vigilantism and terrorism. Meanwhile, rather than organizing a mass public opposition, the Democratic Party does absolutely nothing. In fact, it has done more to marginalize Sanders and the left, appealing to a diminishing “moderate” center, than it ever did to stand up to Trump. This continued allegiance to corporate liberalism over the working class continues to leave millions further behind, leaving them vulnerable to right-wing ideas.
There is only one way to effectively fight the growth of the far right. The organized left, including organizations like the DSA and its officials as well as the labor movement, urgently needs to offer a fighting working-class political alternative based on the collective power of the working class. This era of polarization has also seen a larger shift to the political left, especially among younger workers and teens. More desperate sections of the ruling class will not hesitate to use the far right’s base to disorient and demobilize the stirring labor and social movements that threaten their control. These forces can easily outnumber the far right. But we need to be organized and prepared to fight for a more compelling program based on economic and social demands that takes today’s crises head on.
Fighting for a Socialist Future: Where To Begin?
An inspiring and complex history of socialist and workers’ movements is left out of public education, and for good reason: the capitalist class can’t afford working class youth’s rediscovery of these traditions. The two-party system in the U.S. in particular benefits from workers’ resignation that this system can never change, or that it always existed this way. But various working class organizations and parties have presented formidable challenges to capitalism over the last two centuries, and one can certainly take hold today.
2020 marked the George Floyd rebellion and pandemic-related backlash of essential workers against bosses’ disregard for safety. We’ve seen an uptick in mass demonstrations and strikes, and general support for labor unions and BLM grow. Although he refused to break with the Democrats, Bernie Sanders’ grassroots presidential campaigns showed that millions of people are willing to devote their limited time and money to building a real challenge to corporate greed in Washington, D.C. Many have also turned to mutual aid to address the gross inequity, systemic racism, and fatal shortcomings of the government laid bare over the pandemic. Mutual aid can be useful as a tactic in mass movements; but by sharing out the limited resources of the working class and poor, it is unable to fundamentally resolve the problems of capitalism, i.e. who controls or distributes the vast untapped resources of society.
To move forward and win lasting changes for the working class, we need to draw the key lessons from recent struggles. Rank-and-file-led teachers’ strikes in West Virginia and Arizona achieved more success in improving working and learning conditions than did decades of relying on the Democrats. The same was true of the huge labor struggles of the 1930s, as well as the Civil Rights, women’s, and anti-war movements of the 60s and 70s. Just in the last few years, some of the biggest victories for workers, renters, and the poor have come through movements independent of the Democrats, epitomized by the struggles of Socialist Alternative City Councilmember Kshama Sawant in Seattle.
The kind of organization that this moment needs can take the form of a new membership-based political party uniting the multigenerational, multi-racial working class and poor. It’s independence from big corporations and the two corporate parties would empower it to truly stand up to these forces. Unlike the Democratic and Republican parties, decisions about the party’s platform and strategies would not be made top-down by a self-appointed leadership, but decided democratically at mass conferences. It also would not limit itself to electoral campaigns on the capitalists’ playing field–although it should run candidates bound to its platform, who in turn could use their offices to organize movements that can win its demands. In sum, a new mass working class party could unify the enormous power of unions, youth movements, and social struggles like Black Lives Matter behind common action, and fight for bold reforms by mounting grassroots electoral campaigns, mass demonstrations, walkouts, and strikes.
It’s not likely that such a new party will be “socialist” at the outset, and some members may not even be fully won over to the idea that capitalism is at the root of society’s ills. Even so, it would represent a tremendous step forward, and beyond serious campaigns, could even assist with coordination of mass projects and emergency responses. Socialists will have an important role to play in arming such a mass organization with socialist ideas and methods. Major victories would encourage more people to become politically active and learn through the experience of struggle.
Socialist Alternative has learned from its own experience how such an organization could empower the working class. Kshama Sawant was first elected as a City Councilmember in Seattle in 2013; she won as an open independent socialist, before the seismic campaign of Bernie Sanders. This bellwether victory proved that there was an opening for independent left politics and deep dissatisfaction with the two-party system and economic inequality. But every victory won through the council office–$15, landmark renters rights, the Amazon Tax, and so on–was made possible due to the organization behind her, with members organizing in their workplaces, unions, schools, and communities for these campaigns.
Socialist Alternative has similarly participated in and at times helped to lead struggles across the U.S. for $15, new unions, rent control, wage increases and fair union contracts, big business taxes, and community control over the police, using the same Marxist methods to unite workers and youth in struggle. Internationally, our organization led the successful repeal of Ireland’s abortion ban. The ISA has led anti-corruption protests in Russia, demonstrated against Bolsonaro’s right-wing regime in Brazil, resisted armed Israeli occupations of Palestine, and launched a global solidarity campaign against repression in China and Hong Kong. We also mobilized over three hundred of our members from across the world to the COP26 protests against corporate climate destruction to build support for an international socialist program.
While Socialist Alternative strives to build support for Marxist ideas and methods, we think a much broader mass working class party–one that includes various left-leaning and progressive organizations and movements–is necessary to take on the capitalist class. We also take the project of building a revolutionary party alongside this aim very seriously. Such an organization will be necessary to win a complete break with capitalism, and to defend the socialist future that working and young people have long deserved.ns If you agree, and believe that independent and international class struggle points the way forward, you should join International Socialist Alternative today! | https://www.socialistalternative.org/2022/03/31/a-socialist-world-is-possible-what-is-socialism-and-how-could-we-win-it/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:37Z |
Barges are in place to dredge Stump Pass between Stump Pass Beach State Park and Knight Island on Wednesday. The sand removed by the dredging of Stump Pass will be used to nourish the beaches north and south of the pass.
ENGLEWOOD — The weather hasn’t always cooperated, but the Stump Pass dredging project keeps pressing ahead.
The Charlotte County Beaches and Shores Advisory Committee will be updated at its next meeting, April 7, and learn how windy weather kicking up the surf last week led to a Atlantic & Gulf Dredging & Marine bulldozer and other equipment ending up in the Gulf of Mexico.
The good news, Public Works project manager Matthew Logan said Thursday, is that the recovery and cleanup was finished Friday.
Also, Atlantic & Gulf replaced the drenched equipment and picked up where crews left off dredging Stump Pass and pumping sand along the shorelines of the Palm Island Resort and Knight Island south of the pass.
The $2.2 million maintenance dredging project, contracted by the county, is nearing its completion. Permitting agencies will allow the project to continue on Knight Island after May 1, the official start of sea turtle nesting season, but Atlantic & Gulf intends to finish the project before May 1, Logan said. That is, if the weather allows.
The project calls for 200,000 cubic yards to be dredged from the pass and to straighten the channel which curves to the south. About half of the sand was pumped onto the beach to the north of the pass, which is Stump Pass Beach State Park.
The bulk of the costs are expected to be paid with funding from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and with hurricane funds available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Florida Department of Emergency Management.
Special property taxing units on the barrier islands and other county funding also account for a portion of the dredging project funding.
For more information about the Stump Pass dredging, visit “Project Status” on the county’s website at www.charlottecountyfl.gov.
Charlotte County Beaches and Shores Advisory Committee will meet 9 a.m. April 7, Room B-106 of the Murdock Administration Center, 18500 Murdock Circle, Port Charlotte. For more information, visit the county website.
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Former Test wicketkeeper Peter Nevill has retired from cricket, ending a lengthy career for NSW and Australia.
The 36-year-old made 17 appearances in the Test arena, scoring three half-centuries and taking 61 catches.
But it was for NSW where Nevill shined brightest, during a Sheffield Shield career that spanned 13 years and over 100 games.
Reflecting on his stellar career, Nevill spoke about making the most of his ability and is looking forward to seeing the Blues succeed in the future.
“I’d say (I'm retiring) as someone who got the most out of the ingredients they had,” he said.
“I’ve been fortunate to have played for as long as I have. It is hard to condense (my career) into something short and sweet.
“However, there’s the opportunities I’ve had; the experiences; the people I’ve met; being able to travel the world, the ups...and downs.
“Something that stands out is the very special people I’ve met, and there was no shortage of them at the Blues.
“What stands out (about the current squad) is the talent.
"Talent can sometimes be a dirty word, but we now have an incredibly talented bunch of young players. It is now up to them to take the next step and to really understand their games and how they’re going to be successful.
“Thankfully, there’s a good group of senior players and coaches who will help them do that. Hopefully, they go on to dominate world cricket.”
NSW cricket great Peter Nevill has pulled up stumps on a brilliant career 👏
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The keeper finished his first-class career with 5,927 runs at an average of 36.81, including 10 centuries and a high-score of 235 not-out.
And while Nevill has retired from all forms of cricket, he is expected to continue in an off-field role with his local club, Eastern Suburbs. | https://www.sportingnews.com/au/cricket/news/former-test-wicketkeeper-peter-nevill-announces-retirement/gphgz4adujtxlplquzksh3ud | 2022-04-01T02:00:37Z |
Holding that there was nothing defamatory in the 2021 notice expelling former AIADMK functionary V Pugalendhi from the party, the Madras High Court on Thursday set aside the defamation cases filed by him against party Coordinator O Panneerselvam and joint coordinator Palaniswami on Thursday.
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Accepting the arguments of senior advocates A Natarajan for Palaniswami and Vijay Narayan for Panneerselvam, Justice M Nirmal Kumar quashed Pugalendhi’s complaints seeking to punish them for offences under Sections 499 and 500 of the IPC (defamation). The complaints were pending before the Special Court for Trial of Criminal Cases Related to Elected Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu.
Pugalendhi alleged that by the notice dated June 14, 2021, the duo had expelled him from the basic membership of the party. It was issued without any show cause notice. No reasons were attributed for the expulsion. The sentences asking the party cadres not to have any acquaintance with him had tarnished his image. His name and fame had gone down in the esteem of 1.5 crore party workers, amongst his friends, relatives and acquaintances. The duo, in a calculated and malicious manner, had done this, he had contended.
Turning down the plea, Justice Nirmal Kumar said that the wordings in the expulsion notice are a routine one which are verbatim repeated for years. Even for Pugalendhi, on an earlier occasion when he was expelled in December, 2017, similar notice was issued. His primary grievance appears to be that the duo had not followed the rules and regulations of the party, not issued any show cause notice calling for explanation, failed to follow the principles of natural justice and expelled him from the primary membership of the party without any valid reason.
For this grievance his remedy and answer lies elsewhere and not by filing a defamation case, the judge said.
The other grievance seems to be directing the party cadres not to have any contact with the respondent which had greatly affected his reputation and he had been defamed. The expulsion letter does not contain any imputation of such nature. Further as per Explanation (4) of Section 499 IPC, the imputation must directly or indirectly in estimation of others should lower the moral or intellectual character of that person or lower the credit of that person. In this case, there is no material to show in the complaint or in the sworn statement that who are the others who questioned the respondent and thereby, he was defamed.
The petitioners being coordinator and joint coordinator had lawful authority to take disciplinary action against all in the party. The disciplinary action taken informed to the members through the media is a usual practice. The wordings in the expulsion letter are identical and same, which was issued earlier and the same is followed with regard to Pugalendhi too.
“Thus, looking at the case in any angle, this Court finds that there is no material or reason to proceed against the petitioners (EPS and OPS) and continuation of the proceedings is nothing but abuse of process of law,” the judge said, quashed the cases and allowed the two criminal original petitions from the two top leaders.
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Americans Complete Trade with Reading
March 31, 2022 - ECHL (ECHL) - Allen Americans News Release
Allen, Texas - The Allen Americans, ECHL affiliate of the Seattle Kraken (NHL), announced today the team has sent the rights to forward Zane Franklin, to the Reading Royals, completing the trade that brought forward Josh Winquist to the Americans.
The Americans put Zane Franklin on their protected list this season and owned his ECHL rights until today's trade. Franklin is currently attending the University of Saskatchewan, where he has 26 points in 20 games this season (6 goals and 20 assists).
Since joining the Americans, Winquist has 16 points in 15 games that includes a hat trick on Wednesday night in the Americans 3-2 overtime win over the Kansas City Mavericks.
Allen returns to action on Friday night in Kansas City, and then on to Tulsa on Saturday night before returning home to Allen on Sunday afternoon at 2:05 pm for a second date with the Oilers.
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ECHL Stories from March 31, 2022
- Americans Complete Trade with Reading - Allen Americans
- Royals Acquire Franklin from Allen; Brandt Traded to Worcester - Reading Royals
- Solar Bears Release Matt Barry - Orlando Solar Bears
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- Worcester Railers HC Acquire Defenseman Jared Brandt from Reading Royals for Future Considerations - Worcester Railers HC
- Graves Dealt to Atlanta; Clarke to Toledo - Wichita Thunder
- Admirals Acquire Vilio and Van Os from Rapid City - Norfolk Admirals
- Americans Acquire Colby McAuley from South Carolina - Allen Americans
- Rush Acquire Defenseman Kyle Rhodes from Norfolk - Rapid City Rush
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- Stingrays Sign Two More Huskies; Trade McAuley to Allen - South Carolina Stingrays
- Walleye Make Multiple Moves Ahead of Trade Deadline - Toledo Walleye
- Glads Trade for Defenseman Graves - Atlanta Gladiators
- Thunder Weekly, March 31 - Wichita Thunder
- Worcester Railers HC Sign Forward Steve Jandric to an ECHL Contract - Worcester Railers HC
- Newfoundland's Finkelstein Is AMI Graphics/ECHL Plus Performer of the Month - ECHL
- Thunder Raise over $30,000 During Stick It to Cancer Weekend - Adirondack Thunder
- Rush Defeat Grizz 4-3 - Utah Grizzlies
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- Make It Two in a Row for the Lions - Trois-Rivieres Lions
The opinions expressed in this release are those of the organization issuing it, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of OurSports Central or its staff. | https://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/americans-complete-trade-with-reading/n-5806155 | 2022-04-01T02:00:37Z |
Banjos are bustin’ out all over! We’ve just received word of the successful inaugural Banjo Camp Brasil, the first ever event of its type in the country. If your Portuguese is up to par, you can find out more at the Camp web site.
Here is a report from the organizers, along with a video. Well done all!
Sometimes we can’t imagine how far music and culture can travel. Between the 14th and 16th of January 2022, the first Banjo Camp took place in Brazil, an event that brought together banjoists and bluegrass enthusiasts from all over the country, more specifically to a city in the middle of the Mantiqueira Mountains in São Paulo.
There were 3 days of jams, shows, and workshops about the 5-string banjo. The creator of the project is Wagner Creoruska Jr, who started playing the banjo 10 years ago and during these years he committed himself to promoting and teaching the banjo to hundreds of students all over Brazil. 10 years ago this event would have been impossible, it was already a battle to be able to get banjo material and even the instrument itself here in Brazil, but as time passed and with the internet, Wagner was able to promote his work in the band o Bardo e o Banjo and their online lessons on the Curso de Banjo Online, a platform that took information and banjo culture to more than 200 students throughout Brazil and abroad.
In this first edition of Banjo Camp Brasil, another two special guests were expected for the workshops and jams, the North Carolina banjoist Andy Eversole who travels the world with his Banjo Earth project, and the virtuoso Vitor Rios who is known as Gigito, one of biggest highlights of banjo here in Brazil. Unfortunately, Andy Eversole couldn’t be there due to personal issues, but Gigito brought us a ton of knowledge and gifted us every day with his talent and his attention and love for the banjo.
In addition to the workshops and jams, we also had the shows with 3 Brazilian Bluegrass bands: o Bardo and Banjo, a project by Wagner Creoruska that brings bluegrass songs in Portuguese and a show with lots of energy and joy. The São Paulo band Pilgrim Bluegrass, by banjoist Caio do Banjo, who plays Christian songs and reinterpretations of great themes, and the Brazilian Grass, from the frontman Eduardo Lima, one of the great revelations of the bluegrass in Brazil.
ART BBQ was the place chosen to receive our campers, a themed restaurant in the heart of mountains in Campos do Jordão, and a place with the perfect weather and the necessary infrastructure for the realization of Banjo Camp. In addition to the authentic American BBQ, Art BBQ offers on-site accommodation, all the sound systems for the shows and workshops, and the perfect scenario for our jams and other special moments during Camp days.
Banjo Camp was also only possible through our community of banjoists who have been growing daily, and seeks not only to evolve playing the instrument but propagate the joy of playing and having fun with the sound of banjo.
It was 3 days that passed in the blink of an eye, but left unforgettable moments in memory. The first of many great events with this amazing community! | https://bluegrasstoday.com/brazils-first-ever-banjo-camp-banjo-camp-brasil-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazils-first-ever-banjo-camp-banjo-camp-brasil-report | 2022-04-01T02:00:37Z |
Commissioner for Water resource in Kano, Sadiq Aminu Wali, has resigned to quit Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s cabinet.
Sadiq, a strong stalwart of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the eldest son of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, was appointed as under mutual relationship Ganduje’s administration established with the opposition party in Kano.
Briefing the journalists at a press conference on Thursday, Wali declared the decision to voluntarily terminate his two years period in Ganduje’s government was out of his desire to pursue his next political career.
Although Wali was not categorical about his next political ambition, sources said he is likely to unveil his gubernatorial aspiration under the platform of PDP in Kano.
Wali said, “today, I have decided to pursue other opportunities in my political career and wish to announce my resignation as Commissioner of Water Resources effective Thursday, March 31,…
Source: Guardian Newspaper | https://www.newsheadlines.com.ng/guardian-news/2022/04/01/2023-water-resources-commissioner-resigns-from-gandujes-cabinet-the-guardian-nigeria-news/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:37Z |
North American Maiden Winners March 31 March 31, 2022 Brisnet Staff Data Reports, Maidens & Results 0 Keen Ice–Extravagance by Medaglia d’Oro; KEEN MACHINE, f, 3, CT, Mcl 12500, 3-30, 6 1/2f, 1:25 1/5. B-Calumet Farm (KY.). $1,100 ’20 KEESEP. Mo for the Money–All That Glitters by Harlan’s Holiday; MAZIE G, f, 3, OP, Mcl 16000, 3-31, 6f, 1:13 1/5. B-McDowell Farm (AR.). Sky Mesa–Bugle Ann by Birdstone; GORILLA GIRL, f, 3, TP, Mcl 15000, 3-31, 1m, 1:41 1/5. B-Anne L. Walsh (KY.). Uncaptured–La Parcela by El Corredor; HARD TO CAPTURE, f, 3, GP, Mcl 25000, 3-31, a5f, :57 4/5. B-Orlando Barrera (FL.). $95,000 2021 OBSSPR. Curlin–Private Ensign by A.P. Indy; SALUTE THE FLAG, f, 4, OP, Msw, 3-31, 1 1/16m, 1:44 4/5. B-Siena Farms LLC (KY.). Goldencents–Cool Ten Grand by Malibu Moon; WIN FOR GOLD, c, 4, AQU, Msw, 3-31, 6f, 1:13 4/5. B-Sequel Stallions NY & StonestreetThoroughbred Holdings, LLC (NY.). $90,000 ’19 KEESEP. Hold Me Back–Jade Eyed by Friendly Lover; BOHEMIAN RUBY, g, 4, AQU, Mcl 25000, 3-31, 1m, 1:42 3/5. B-Pinnacle Farms Bloodstock LLC (NY.). Justin Phillip–Some Legs by Bernstein; COSTANARMANDALEG, f, 4, HOU, Mcl 10000, 3-31, 6f, 1:13 . B-Castleton Lyons & Kilboy Estate (KY.). $8,000 ’19 KEEJAN. Midnight Lute–Wide Open Canvas by General Meeting; ISABELLA’S DREAM, g, 4, GP, Moc 40000, 3-31, a1mT, 1:35 . B-Emerald Q Partners, Inc. & Hill N Dale Farms (KY.). $9,000 ’18 KEENOV. Midnight’s Child–What Appeal by Admiralty Arch; REAL APPEAL, f, 4, CT, Msw, 3-31, 4 1/2f, :54 2/5. B-Betty Stehr (WV.). Street Strategy–Automatic Audit by Prospector’s Music; BRASKA, g, 4, OP, Mcl 16000, 3-31, 6f, 1:13 3/5. B-Cody Ungles (AR.). Uh Oh Bango–Miss Pravda by Chester House; FULL VISION, g, 4, TUP, Mcl 15000, 3-30, 5 1/2f, 1:03 2/5. B-Triple Aaa Ranch (AZ.). Emcee–Peg’s Prayer by Rodeo; BOOM BOOM KABOOM, g, 5, AQU, Mcl 25000, 3-31, 6f, 1:15 . B-EKQ Stables Corporation (NY.). $12,000 ’17 FTNOCT; $57,000 ’18 FTNAUG; $100,000 2019 FTMMAY. Khozan–Zale by Pulpit; STARSHIP NUGGET, m, 5, GP, Mcl 12500, 3-31, 6f, 1:11 3/5. B-Mustang Farms, Inc. (FL.). Limehouse–Silver Daughter by Silver Deputy; SILVER AND BLUES, m, 5, CT, Mcl 5000, 3-30, 7f, 1:33 3/5. B-Terry Corbin & Tena Corbin (WV.). Unusual Heat–Aerial Prancer by Tiznow; KINSALER, g, 5, PEN, Mcl 12500, 3-30, 1m 70y, 1:47 . B-Super Horse Inc (CA.). North American Maiden Winners | http://www.brisnet.com/content/2022/03/north-american-maiden-winners-march-31-6/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:37Z |
BEIJING (dpa-AFX) - The China stock market has alternated between positive and negative finishes through the last four trading days since the end of the two-day losing streak in which it had fallen almost 60 points or 1.8 percent. The Shanghai Composite Index now rests just above the 3,250-point plateau and it's likely to see additional consolidation on Friday.
The global forecast for the Asian markets is soft, with oil and technology stocks expected to lead the way lower. The European and U.S. markets were down and the Asian bourses are tipped to open in similar fashion.
The SCI finished modestly lower on Thursday following mixed performances from the financials, properties and resource and energy companies.
For the day, the index lost 14.39 points or 0.44 percent to finish at 3,252.20 after trading between 3,246.06 and 3,272.04. The Shenzhen Composite Index slumped 19.66 points or 0.92 percent to end at 2,117.96.
Among the actives, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China climbed 1.27 percent, while Bank of China strengthened 1.55 percent, China Construction Bank jumped 1.62 percent, China Merchants Bank rallied 1.23 percent, Bank of Communications advanced 1.39 percent, China Life Insurance collected 0.92 percent, Jiangxi Copper tumbled 2.38 percent, Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) tanked 2.51 percent, Yankuang Energy improved 1.00 percent, PetroChina eased 0.18 percent, Huaneng Power plummeted 5.08 percent, China Shenhua Energy spiked 2.55 percent, Gemdale skidded 1.11 percent, Poly Developments fell 0.11 percent, China Vanke added 0.90 percent, Beijing Capital Development skyrocketed 8.55 percent and China Petroleum and Chemical (Sinopec) was unchanged.
The lead from Wall Street is negative as the major averages opened lower on Thursday and the losses accelerated as the session progressed, finishing solidly in the red.
The Dow plummeted 550.46 points or 1.56 percent to finish at 34,678.35, while the NASDAQ plunged 221.76 points or 1.54 percent to close at 14,220.52 and the S&P 500 tumbled 72.04 points or 1.57 percent to end at 4,530.41.
Selling pressure picked up considerably in the final hour of the last trading day of the quarter, which marked the first negative quarter for the major averages since the first quarter of 2020.
For the first three months of 2022, the Nasdaq plummeted by 9.1 percent and the S&P 500 and Dow dove by 4.9 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively, although the major averages regained some ground in March.
Traders may also have been looking to safer havens ahead of the release of the Labor Department's closely watched monthly employment report later today.
Crude oil prices drifted plummeted on Thursday after U.S. President Joe Biden authorized the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the next six months. West Texas International Crude oil futures for May ended lower by $7.54 or 7 percent at $100.28 a barrel, the lowest close since March 16.
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CANFIELD, Ohio (WKBN) – The Canfield boys lacrosse team scored seven goals in the first half to lead them to a 10-5 win over rival Poland in the ‘Battle of 224’ on Thursday night.
Watch the video above to see highlights from the game.
The Cardinals led 7-4 at the end of the first half and held the Bulldogs to just one goal in the second half.
For Canfield, Luke Berry netted a hat trick while Crescenzo Scheetz and Nicolo Cocca had two goals a piece while Scotty Tucker, Andrew Hall and Ethan Remby each had a goal.
For Poland, JT Russo, AJ Cordek, Cole Eaton, Angelo Elia and Alex Medina had a goal each.
Ben Harrell made 18 saves on the night.
With the win, Canfield improves to 1-2 and plays the Hermitage (PA) Hawks on Friday. | https://www.wkbn.com/sports/offensive-explosion-leads-canfield-lacrosse-past-poland-in-battle-of-224/ | 2022-04-01T02:00:38Z |