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The Risks of a Russian Ceasefire Offer
AFGHANISTAN, March 31 -
Nataliya Bugayova
Ukraine may soon face a new threat in this war—Russia’s ceasefire offer. It seems odd to say that a ceasefire is a threat. Once war begins, the default position in the West is to seize the earliest opportunity to “stop the fighting.” But while some ceasefires lead to peace, others lead to more war—as the Russians have repeatedly shown. The frontlines frozen in a ceasefire set the conditions for the negotiations and reconstruction that follow. They also set conditions for future conflict. Those seeking enduring peace in Ukraine must resist the temptation to accept a Russian ceasefire offer that sets conditions for renewed conflict on Russia’s terms or gives Russia leverage on Ukraine with which to force concessions and surrenders.
Russia is on the ropes in Ukraine today. It has not achieved any of Putin’s central objectives. The Russian army is suffering damage that will take years to repair if repair is even possible. Ukrainian forces are conducting counteroffensive operations, steadily pushing the Russians back from their positions around Kyiv and Kharkiv. A ceasefire can stop the fighting, for a time, but it will also give Moscow a chance to reset and prepare to renew the fighting on more advantageous terms. Vladimir Putin has used this approach successfully in Syria and Ukraine since 2014. He will likely try to use it again soon, and we must recognize it for what it is—a trap.
Properly supported, the Ukrainians may well be able to reclaim much of their territory from the exhausted and demoralized Russian forces. The West must back Kyiv in that endeavor, providing military aid that Ukraine needs and disregarding Russian ceasefire offers meant to freeze the battlefield in what is likely close to the best configuration Putin can hope for and in a way that supports maximalist Russian “peace” demands that have only one goal—stripping Ukraine of its sovereignty.
Any consideration of a Russian ceasefire offer must take account of six primary risks.
Putin’s intentions toward Ukraine have not changed and likely never will. Putin’s goals in Ukraine always exceeded countering NATO or forcing Ukraine into neutrality. Putin has made it clear in word and action over the past 20 years that he will accept nothing less than Russian control over Ukraine. He explicitly said that Ukraine “never had its own statehood” in advance of the Feb 24 invasion.[1] There is no room for an independent Ukraine in Putin’s “Russian World.”
Putin’s intent has remained constant, but his ability to act on it has varied. Ukraine has fended off Putin’s attempts to control Ukraine for years: by denying the Kremlin’s proxies the ability to dominate Ukraine’s politics in 2004 and 2013; by halting Russia’s offensive in 2014 and since refusing Putin’s manipulative peace frameworks; and now by defeating the first phase of Russia’s full invasion.
The Kremlin will use any ceasefire to adapt, not scale down, its ambitions to erode and ultimately destroy Ukraine’s sovereignty. We must help Ukraine ensure that any ceasefire it accepts makes it harder, not easier, for the Kremlin to resume political, economic, or military activities to deprive Ukraine of its independence.
Russia has a long history of ceasefire violations. Russia regularly violated ceasefires in Syria and framed its troop rotations as “withdrawals” to buy time for its military operations, as ISW analyzed in detail.[2]
The Kremlin has also repeatedly violated ceasefire agreements in Ukraine since 2014.[3] Russia exploited ceasefires in attempts to manipulate Ukraine in Russia-favorable peace frameworks.[4] A ceasefire with Russia can only be acceptable, therefore, if it freezes the lines in positions favorable to Ukraine. The ceasefire must reflect a Russian defeat, not a draw.
Russia would use a ceasefire to try to break the momentum of Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Ukraine has defeated Russian objectives in the first phase of this war. Russia has not achieved its explicit goals of seizing Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa and changing Ukraine’s government.[5]
Ukraine is gaining the initiative and conducting limited but successful counteroffensive operations.[6] Ukraine would likely be able to prevent any consolidation of Russian gains and reclaim more of its territory with an increase in the quantity and speed of assistance from the West, including more of the advanced weapons systems needed to conduct counteroffensive operations.
A ceasefire is one of the few options Putin has available to him to interrupt Ukraine’s initiative, as well as to shift the Russian invasion off the losing trajectory it is currently on. Ukraine should seek, provided full Western support, to continue counteroffensive operations until it has reached a position and situation of its choosing at which to freeze the fighting.
Russian forces would use a ceasefire to regroup. Ukraine has forced Russia to slow and scale back some of its efforts but there is no indication that Russia has defined down its overall military objectives—despite the rhetoric about concentrating on Ukraine’s east.[7]
Russian forces are likely already regrouping and preparing to launch a new campaign. But Russian units are badly damaged and repairing them will take a long time. If the currently planned Russian push in Ukraine’s east does not quickly go Moscow’s way, Putin might offer a ceasefire to buy time to rebuild some of his units.
Russia can use a ceasefire to consolidate gains and freeze the frontline in the best configuration Putin can hope for. Make no mistake—Russia will dig in and establish a long-term military foothold in Ukraine to threaten its statehood and NATO in perpetuity if undeterred. But Ukraine’s south is the only place where Russia has made substantiative gains and even they are not solidified.
Driving Russian forces out of Ukraine, especially from the south, is critical to Ukraine’s long-term viability, given the south’s military and economic significance. Ukraine might be able to do that with proper Western support. Russian forces are militarily controlling some places, like Kherson, but they cannot yet govern them. The local population, including many Russian speakers, is challenging Russia’s rule despite Russia’s brutal efforts to force the locals into submission.[8] Ukrainian troops are also contesting Russia’s military gains in the south.[9]
A ceasefire would allow Russia to focus on consolidating its gains in the south, which would inevitably mean increased terrorizing of the local population as the Kremlin tries to establish governance and a military foothold. A ceasefire would also halt any Ukrainian military counter-offensive in the south.
The Kremlin will use a ceasefire to introduce ambiguity in the information space. The Kremlin is on the defensive in the information space domestically and globally, where Ukraine has a clear advantage. The Kremlin would use a ceasefire to put Ukraine’s forces on the defensive in the information space by blaming Ukraine for any ceasefire violations.
The Kremlin has effectively used ceasefires to muddy the diplomatic waters in the past. And the West has shown that it does not cope well with Russia-introduced ambiguity—especially in long-lasting conflicts. The Kremlin would use the appearance of ceasefire negotiations to discourage more reluctant Western countries from continuing military aid to Ukraine.
A ceasefire would give the Kremlin a breather to adjust its domestic narrative. Many Russians pushed back against even a mention of scaling down Russian objectives in Ukraine on March 29.[10] If given time, the Kremlin would likely find a way to solidify a new storyline domestically to explain the Kremlin’s failures and delays in Ukraine—and then prepare for and justify a renewed military effort to avenge its losses.
The West should resist Russian ceasefire offers that give Putin leverage on Ukraine and instead provide Ukraine with everything it needs to win as long as the Ukrainians are willing to fight. Ukraine has a chance to defeat Russia’s objectives in the second phase of this war. The West’s highest priority should be providing all the lethal aid that Ukraine needs to do so.
Specifically, the West should prioritize helping Ukraine defend its cities from Russia’s air and artillery strikes, deny Russia the ability to resupply, and increase the mobility of the Ukrainian armed forces. The priority capabilities include long and mid-range ground-based air defense systems, combat aircraft, counter-battery radars, tanks, armored vehicles, demining vehicles—in addition to an increased supply of Javelins, Stingers, and combat drones.
Faster Western assistance is critical to helping Ukrainian forces maintain their momentum and reducing the number of lives it takes to preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty.
[1] https://lenta dot ru/news/2022/02/21/state/
[2] https://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/ISW%20Report%20-%20...
[3]
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Russia also used a negotiated ‘green corridor’ during the battle of Illovaisk as an opportunity to massacre retreating Ukrainians soldiers.
[4] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russia-review-putin-accele... P. 18, p. 22 - https://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Putin's%20Offset%20The%20Kremlin's%20Geopolitical%20Adaptations%20Since%202014.pdf
[5] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign...
[6] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign... https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign...
[7] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign... https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign...
[8] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign... https://www.economist.com/europe/ordinary-ukrainians-are-resisting-vladi... https://hromadske dot ua/ru/posts/v-hersone-okkupanty-pytalis-razognat-mirnyj-protest-strelboj-smi-soobshayut-o-ranenyh
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[10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9EfSgPIymo; https://t dot me/RKadyrov_95/1690; https://twitter.com/clzeeman/status/1508827067395235842; https://t dot me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2263; https://t dot me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2260 | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/567183593/the-risks-of-a-russian-ceasefire-offer | 2022-04-01T02:06:39Z |
Ukraine told not to back down from 'bully' Putin amid Russian withdrawal from key airfield near Kyiv and Chernobyl over fears the Kremlin is simply buying time to let its troops regroup and launch fresh attacks
- Boris Johnson warned Zelensky not to concede to Russian despot Vladimir Putin
- British officials are concerned other allied leaders may push the Ukrainian President to give up too much to Putin in order to secure an early peace deal
- A government source said a deal must be made with Ukraine in a strong position
- Zelensky meanwhile expressed worry that the Russian retreat is in fact a regroup
- He told his soldiers to continue fighting and not let up as the invaders pulled out
- Russian soldiers yesterday abandoned Hostomel airbase - a key strategic position for an assault on Kyiv - and also handed over control of Chernobyl
Britain has warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to remain strong in the face of Russian aggression amid fears other allied leaders could push him to agree a rushed peace deal advantageous to Putin.
Progress towards a ceasefire seemingly got started earlier this week when the Kremlin announced it would pull back some of its troops from Kyiv and Chernihiv as negotiations progressed in Turkey.
But government officials are now concerned that US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz may encourage Zelensky to give up significant concessions to reach a peace deal as soon as possible.
A senior government source told The Times yesterday that the aforementioned allied leaders appeared 'over-eager' to secure a peace deal, which could see Putin enjoy weaker sanctions and avoid persecution as a war criminal among other concessions, in return for an end to hostilities in Ukraine.
'Some of our allies may be too eager for [Zelensky] to settle,' the source said, before adding: 'Ukraine needs to be in the strongest possible position militarily before those talks can take place.'
Zelensky meanwhile is said to have expressed worry to Boris Johnson over Russia's apparent scale-back of military activity in key regions and posited that Russia's negotiators may be feigning progress in peace talks to buy time for fighting forces to regroup and reposition.
It comes after Russian forces withdrew from a series of positions around the Ukrainian capital, including Hostomel airbase which is thought to be a key strategic position, and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant which they had held since day one of the invasion.
In his daily video address yesterday evening, Zelensky said the sight of Russian troops retreating was heartening for all Ukrainians, but appeared confident that Russia will simply refocus its military might after regrouping and urged his forces not to let up
Britain has warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to remain strong in the face of Russian aggression amid fears other allied leaders could push him to agree a rushed peace deal advantageous to Putin. Boris Johnson told Zelensky that Putin is 'a liar and a bully' who would use negotiations to 'wear you down and force you to make concessions'
A view shows residential houses destroyed by shelling, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the village of Hostomel, in Kyiv region, Ukraine March 31, 2022. Russian forces withdrew from a series of positions around the Ukrainian capital yesterday, including Hostomel airbase which is thought to be a key strategic position
Ukrainian service members rest in the village of Hostomel amid Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv region, Ukraine March 31, 2022
A senior government source told The Times yesterday that the aforementioned allied leaders appeared 'over-eager' to secure a peace deal, which could see Putin enjoy weaker sanctions and avoid persecution as a war criminal among other concessions, in return for an end to hostilities in Ukraine
In his daily video address yesterday evening, Zelensky said the sight of Russian troops retreating was heartening for all Ukrainians, but appeared confident that Russia will simply refocus its military might after regrouping and urged his forces not to let up.
'We know their intentions. We know what they are planning and what they are doing,' the Ukrainian leader said.
'We know that they are moving away from those areas where we hit them in order to focus on other, very important ones where it may be difficult for us.
'We all want to win,' Zelensky added. 'But there will be battles ahead. We still have to go through a very difficult path ahead to get everything we are striving for.
'We endured much more than the enemy expected. They said three or five days. They thought that this would be enough for them to seize our entire state. And it's already 36. And we are standing. And we will continue to fight.'
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg last night voiced his agreement with the assessment of Russia's tactics: 'According to our intelligence, Russian units are not withdrawing but repositioning.
'Russia is trying to regroup, resupply and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas region. At the same time, Russia maintains pressure on Kyiv and other cities. So we can expect additional offensive actions bringing even more suffering.'
The Ukrainian President also said he spoke with European Council President Charles Michel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday, while his adviser spoke with US national security adviser Jake Sullivan and advocated for more military and monetary support.
Zelensky's mistrust of the Kremlin and rousing speech encouraging his countrymen to keep fighting comes after Boris Johnson told him not to back down.
The Prime Minister told Zelensky that Putin is a 'liar and a bully' who would use talks to 'wear you down and force you to make concessions' during a phonecall just days ago.
Johnson has said Western allies must intensify sanctions on Russia until all the Kremlin's forces withdraw entirely from Ukraine, including Crimea, which was annexed in 2014.
But government officials appear to have questioned the resolve of other allied leaders to support the Ukrainian war effort.
Zelensky himself previously criticised German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on several occasions, saying that he was 'mistaken' in his handling of the situation.
The Ukrainian president said Scholz's judgment was clouded by his country's reliance on Russian gas and his earlier refusal to allow even foreign country's to deliver German-supplied weapons to Ukraine's armed forces.
He also accused French President Macron of being 'afraid' of his Russian counterpart.
Macron has perhaps been the Western leader most willing to speak with Putin - the pair have shared frequent phonecalls in the weeks before and since the start of the invasion - but no common ground has yet been reached.
A fresh round of peace talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegates are set to begin today, though Zelensky has maintained that face-to-face negotiations with Putin may be the best way to bring about an end to the conflict.
Ukrainian soldiers walk next to destroyed Russian tanks in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022
Local residents are seen in front of an apartment building destroyed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine March 31, 2022
A woman walks past a residential area which was destroyed as a result of a rocket strike in Kyiv as Ukraine makes military gains in the region
Russian forces appeared to leave the village of Hostomel and the nearby airbase on the outskirts of Kyiv after more than a month of fighting.
The airbase - located a mere 12 miles from Kyiv city centre - played host to one of the biggest skirmishes so far in the early days of the invasion, and is thought to be a key strategic position for Russia's forces to occupy should they want to launch an all out assault on the Ukrainian capital.
The land changed hands several times amid fierce fighting in late February and early March, before Russian forces ultimately overwhelmed the defenders and seized control.
But after the nearby town of Irpin was retaken in a Ukrainian counter attack earlier this week, the Kremlin's troops today appeared to shut up shop.
Further north, Russian soldiers also withdrew completely from the region around Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what appears to be another victory for the Ukrainian armed forces.
The damaged wreckage of the world's largest plane is pictured after it was burnt during a Russian attack on Hostomel airbase in the early days of the invasion
This close-up image of the plane shows the extent of the damage caused by the Russian attack
But Ukrainian and US defence officials have speculated the troops are unlikely to be withdrawing from the conflict altogether, and warned that the Kremlin's soldiers were likely resupplying before being redeployed to other battle zones.
A US defence official told The Telegraph: 'Just because they're going to put more energy there doesn't mean it's going to be easy for them.
'We have continued to see unit cohesion issues, command and control problems, problems with faulty leadership.
'We continue to believe that this is a repositioning. We certainly haven't seen any indications that any of these troops are going back home, or that they're being taken away from the fight forever.'
Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom announced yesterday afternoon that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is now back under the control of Ukrainian forces for the first time since the war began on February 24.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meanwhile said the Russian forces which were in control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant have 'in writing, transferred control' of the facility to Ukrainian personnel.
Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom has announced the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is now back under the control of Ukrainian forces for the first time since the war began on February 24
Though Russian soldiers seized control of Chernobyl soon after the Feb. 24 invasion, the plant's Ukrainian staff continued to oversee the safe storage of spent nuclear fuel and supervise the concrete-encased remains of the reactor that exploded in 1986, causing the world's worst nuclear accident
The UN's nuclear watchdog 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.
Ukrainian authorities said that three convoys of Russian forces had left the site toward Belarus, with a small contingent of remaining troops preparing to leave.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the Russian troops who dug trenches in the forest nearby the plant 'voluntarily received such doses of radiation that the consequences will be explained to them by doctors in special protective suits.'
A Ukrainian official overseeing the exclusion zone around Chernobyl backed up Vereshchuk's claims, saying that several Russian soldiers were transported to Belarus to receive treatment for radiation poisoning. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10674595/Ukraine-told-not-bully-Putin-amid-Russian-withdrawal-key-airfield-near-Kyiv.html | 2022-04-01T02:06:40Z |
Which green wreath is best?
A green wreath has a classic aesthetic that will never go out of style. Its somewhat traditional design looks nice with many decor schemes. Whether you’re buying one for a specific holiday or for an entire season, you can find a green wreath that suits your tastes.
If you’re in need of the perfect green wreath, consider the Three Posts 24-Inch Red Berries, Pine Cones and Holly Leaves Lighted Wreath. Classic details like holly leaves and red berries give this wreath a look that’s strongly evocative of the holiday season.
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Natural vs. artificial
Live green wreaths will die after a few weeks or, at the most, a couple of months. They can also be quite expensive. While natural wreaths have a limited display time and they’re less affordable than artificial leaves, they offer certain benefits artificial wreaths do not. The pine-branch scent unique to live green wreaths is a top priority for some people and an aspect they are not willing to forgo. And to other people, even the most well-made synthetic wreaths can’t compete with the natural look of live wreaths.
That said, an exquisitely designed and constructed artificial green wreath can masterfully mimic the aesthetic of a natural wreath. Look for materials like silk, which create a more lifelike effect than materials like plastic. Synthetic wreaths also cost less than live wreaths. And you can display them year after year, because they’ll never die.
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You might want to display your green wreath year-round or for the entirety of the winter, spring, summer or fall season. If this is the case, avoid wreaths with holiday-specific accents like ornaments, holly berries and mistletoe. Look for design details like ribbons, florals and white string lights instead.
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Speaking of string lights, some green wreaths are pre-strung with them. And not just Christmas wreaths. The main benefit of a lighted wreath is the cheerful glow of the lights on the wreath itself and the surrounding area.
What to look for in a quality green wreath
Fullness
If you want a larger-than-life look from your green wreath, you should choose one with full foliage. Put simply, this means the foliage is substantial in thickness and quantity. As a result, the hole in the center will be smaller. If you prefer a more streamlined style, chances are good that you’ll favor sparse foliage.
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The durability of a wreath is determined in large part by the material that composes the base. Wood and wire are used most frequently. Once the base has been constructed, pine boughs, wheat or straw are wound around it to provide camouflaging.
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How much you can expect to spend on a green wreath
As stated above, natural wreaths are priced higher than artificial wreaths. A live green wreath might cost you anywhere from $80 to upward of $125. Synthetic wreaths range from $20-$100 in price.
Green wreath FAQ
What kind of design details look nice on a green wreath?
A. While the season ultimately determines the design details used, some are universal. These elements include leaves, fruit, ribbon, string lights and flowers. If you wish to display the wreath in the winter season, you might want to consider a green wreath embellished with white flocking that imitates snow.
What’s the best way to hang a green wreath?
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What’s the best green wreath to buy?
Top green wreath
Three Posts 24-Inch Red Berries, Pine Cones and Holly Leaves Lighted Wreath
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The Holiday Aisle 17-Inch Pine, Magnolia and Apple Plastic Wreath
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Worth checking out
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I am assuming that the current revival of old television shows is an attempt by the networks and local stations to keep us entertained during these times when it is difficult to produce new shows. That said, I must say that I’m rather enjoying this unexpected trip down memory lane. I also must admit that I’d quite thoroughly forgotten a good number of the programs and that I am surprised to find myself enjoying some that I previously shunned or missed out on for other reasons (the main reason being that I didn’t have much control over the TV set during those years.)
You also must remember that I grew up without television. Even though it was around for quite a few years during the late 1940s and early 50s, reception in Knoxville was spotty, and my dad wouldn’t buy a set until that improved.
There were televisions in the lounges in the dorm where I lived in college, only during certain hours, and nobody that I knew had a TV in their room.
I became a regular watcher only after I was married. When our first son was born, we found it difficult to go out for an evening of entertainment. My husband bought a small black and white portable set and I discovered Television Land. I remember watching the old Gary Moore Show for the first time, and that it featured a very young Carol Burnett.
Today, I catch bits of her popular reruns and wonder why I never watched her delightful shows when they were originally broadcast. Could it be that there was something on a different channel that my husband wanted to watch at the same time? Probably.
I missed out on MASH the first time around for the same reason. I am glad that it has been rebroadcast in recent years, for it is possibly the best series ever produced, and I never get tired of it. Many people (including my husband) avoided it because they thought it was about the Korean War. Anybody who watches it regularly knows that it is about much more than that. It also has some of the best acting seen on a regular series ever.
Two stars of those programs I’ve just referred to — Carol Burnett and Alan Alda — once starred in a delightful production, Same Time Next Year, which I would love to see again. I wish the person in charge of sorting through all those reruns would pull that one off the shelf and let me see it once more.
The old Gunsmoke programs are still entertaining, as I assume Bonanza and Dallas are, though I didn’t see much of them ‘way back when. And Wagon Train and Rawhide suffer from being black and white, along with The Rifleman, Paladin and Wanted; Dead or Alive.
There are quite a few more recent programs that we haven’t seen for several years, but they don’t seem to be available — probably because of residual agreements or having been purchased by cable companies.
It would be great to get to enjoy, again, those wonderful Red Skelton shows and, quite frankly, I’d much rather see reruns of Johnny Carson than what passes for late-night television these days.
I have often wished that PBS would let us enjoy some of those old Agatha Christie mysteries and more of the early Vincent Price films, and I wish I’d taped them when I had the chance. They are still using the graphics for Gorey Mansion, but none of the programs — a pity.
As long as I’m complaining about reruns, or the lack thereof, I want to ask how many more years are they going to be recycling the old Andy Griffith show? I think I’ve seen every episode at least twenty times.
Now, I agree that it was a nice, wholesome, family-oriented type of program and had some pretty good actors as well as teaching some valid lessons about human relations. But – surely enough is enough and the lessons are becoming outdated.
There are times when it would be nice to just kick back with a snack or a cup of tea and watch a good old movie or other program. Daytime television needs serious upgrading.
Soap operas are out; you have to watch them every day because the stories go on and on, and I’m not THAT desperate for entertainment.
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Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment,” Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to “Good Morning America.” “They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options.”
But Packer said Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,” Packer said. “And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no.”
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night’s ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer’s interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.”
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.”
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The 21 Best Coffee Shops in Atlanta
Whether you’re looking to camp out with your laptop to work or for the best cappuccino in Atlanta, these are the cafes for you.
For some, the day hasn’t officially started until after that first sip of coffee. There are many ways you can take your freshly roasted brew, and nearly everyone has a preference. Year after year, different shops emerge throughout Atlanta’s culinary scene, each bringing a unique blend of roasts to this billion-dollar industry we call the coffee business. The metropolitan area has plenty of options for the casual drinker to the die-hard coffee enthusiast; so, the only question is—which one to choose? From neighborhoods ranging from West Midtown all the way to Stone Mountain, here are the best places in the city to grab a cup of coffee.
Urban Grind
Established in 2007, this Black-owned coffee shop in West Midtown is the perfect space for the city’s most creative minds. The panini sandwiches and delicious pastries provide food for thought for the people either constructing new ideas, planning future business models, or studying for the next exam. During evening hours, Urban Grind is home to weekly open mic nights for comedy, music, and poetry, and even showcases art exhibitions from time to time. Along with buying their freshly brewed coffees and herbal teas, you can also support local artists by purchasing a sticker or two from the Artist Series.
Hodgepodge
In need of some amazing brew in East Atlanta? Be sure to swing by Hodgepodge, an independent coffeehouse featuring craft selections and baked goods made from scratch, daily. In staying true to the community, this establishment contains food, fruits, vegetables, and other food from local vendors, and maintains a comfortable ambiance for all its customers. One of their signature drinks named Bless Your Heart, is a Ghirardelli caramel and French vanilla latte that you’ll never forget, and for $10 you can purchase 16-ounce bottles of their house syrups and concentrate in different flavors.
Read Shop
Founded in 2016 by Dan Collier, this quaint establishment located in Vinings Jubilee is a bookstore where you can find some great coffee… or a coffee shop for book lovers… eh, let’s call it both. The Read Shop contains books from every genre you can think of, including magazines, greeting cards, and of course, books about coffee—all types of them. At the coffee counter you can take your pick from the shop’s seasonal drinks, expressos, cold brew, and tea.
San Francisco Coffee Roasting Co.
When Tanya and Doug Bond came to ATL in the 90s, specialty coffee wasn’t a thing yet here. So, they made it one. This bean-roasting couple opened this Virginia Highland establishment out of necessity, but it soon became a go-to in the neighborhood. The “Cake In A Cup” cappuccino is a local favorite and many of their hot coffee or cold brews will pair well with a breakfast burrito, bagel, or deli-style sandwich.
Dancing Goats Coffee Bar
With shops in Buckhead, Midtown, Ponce City Market, and Decatur, Dancing Goats is the perfect to give you all the fuel you need to take on the day. They serve Batdorf & Bronson coffee which is an Atlanta mainstay roastery. You can’t go wrong with a cup of drip or something fancier, like a Chilly Goat latte. In 2012, the Dancing Goats Coffee Bar was the first business to open at PCM. So, if you’re in the area, you can take your drink to go but if you do want to hang out, the covered deck is a comfortable spot regardless of the weather.
Rev Coffee
Headed to a game or concert at the Battery? You might want to fuel up at nearby Rev Coffee first. It was one a repair shop so it’s funky with a slightly industrial charm. They roast their own coffee and change the lineup frequently (though you can’t go wrong with a cup of the Consensus blend) and offer seasonal lattes. The coolest part about coming here, though, is the ever-changing local art. If you’ve been meaning to add to your collection, this is a good starting point.
Dairies Coffeehouse & Cold Brew Bar
If you love cold brew coffee, then you’ll love Dairies Coffeehouse and its 14 taps of cold brew. There’s truly a cold brew for everyone, but standouts include the nitro oat milk latte, nitro cold brew, and the Captain on Tap, a decadent drink made with cereal milk. The coffee menu is actually pretty extensive beyond the cold brews on tap, but their cold brews are so smooth and refreshing we’re not sure why you’d order anything else.
Brash Coffee Roasters
Compared to other parts of town, Buckhead is a bit of a coffee desert. If you do find yourself in need of a pick-me-up while in the area, though, head to Brash at the Atlanta History Center. You don’t need to pay admission to get to the coffee shop, which happens to be filled with plenty of seating and natural light. If the hunger pangs kick in, you can grab a bite from Souper Jenny which happens to share the same space.
East Pole Coffee Co.
East Pole isn’t the easiest spot to get to, it’s tucked back in that part of town that’s not quite Buckhead and not quite Midtown. But the mission is worth it, because East Pole roasts their coffee right on premises (you can even see them do it) and there is plenty of space to post-up and work for a bit. The modern space practically sparkles on a sunny day making it all the more inviting. The crowd can be pretty quiet on weekdays, which is great if you’re hoping to concentrate while drinking that pour-over.
Valor Coffee
Found in downtown Alpharetta, the bright coffee shop feels like it was meant to be Instagrammed. From the millennial pink tables outside to the retro vibes inside, the space is modern and inviting. The coffee, roasted in a facility nearby, rivals some of its in-town counterparts. If you’re feeling fancy, try the seasonal latte crafted with house-made syrup.
Little Tart, Summerhill
Little Tart may be located in Summerhill, a neighborhood just south of Downtown, but it has strong French vibes. The coffee, made with Counter Culture, is good, but you’d be remiss to visit and not try one of the pastries (even Anthony Bourdain ate one on Layover). If you want something heartier, the quiche and egg and cheese sandwich is always available for breakfast, and on the weekends, you can order cheddar waffles and French toast (good luck trying to decide).
Java Cats Cafe
If you’ve ever wanted to pet a cat while drinking a cup of coffee, good news: You can at Java Cats Cafe. Guests can spend up to an hour in the cat lounge with about 15 - 20 cats in it. While you’re in there you can have a cup of coffee, but let’s be honest, you’re there for the cats. The best part: all of the cats are adoptable through PAWS Atlanta.
Chrome Yellow Trading Co
They take their coffee seriously at Chrome Yellow, and it shows when you chat with the baristas about the beans they’re currently brewing (they rotate among Stumptown, Methodical, and other roasteries). Their drinks, like the vanilla bourbon latte, are known for being some of the best executed in town. The indoor seating is limited right now, but the crisp, minimalist space is still a beautiful spot meant to be enjoyed.
Momo Cafe
Set inside Momonoki (meaning peach tree in Japanese), Momo Cafe features pastries with a Japanese twist. The sunny spot has excellent coffee, the drip is satisfying as are the more creative takes like the black sesame latte, but really, you have to get a pastry. Creative options vary, but have included matcha chocolate chip cookies, black sesame escargot, and kumquat hojicha cheesecake. There’s also soft-serve if you need something cool.
Sessions Stand
Located about a half mile from Marietta Square, Sessions Stand is like a speakeasy coffee shop. Set among charming historic homes, Sessions Stand is dreamy with its brass tables, string lights, and blue and white accents. You may even be tempted to buy one of the colorful bouquets arranged by Dianthus & Co. Just know, there is only outdoor seating so you may not want to come on a rainy day. Order at one of the windows and grab a table. The pastries are baked at the stand by co-owner Katie Pfister, a pastry chef for the stand’s sister restaurants, The Butcher The Baker and WR Social House.
Gilly Brew Bar
Co-owner Daniel Brown and his team dream up concoctions beyond traditional coffee beverages. There’s a reason why coffee isn’t in their name — they do make coffee drinks, of course, but they also brew other ingredients, such as tea and barley. The drink menu changes frequently, and there’s always a story to be told (the summer menu, for example, was inspired by Paul the Apostle). One recent drink, the Keeping Kosher, combined oolong tea and pickle brine. Keep an eye out for the opening of their Castleberry Hill location soon.
Alchemist Trading Co.
Sure, Alchemist is located in a suburban strip mall and looks typical from the outside. When you step inside, though, it’s pretty trippy. There’s a coffee bar with geodes, black brick, and a galaxy theme. This makes for a trippy but cozy vibe, and the coffee is good, too. Alchemist’s specialty is Dutch coffee, which they explain is a 20 - 24 hour slow-drip cold brew method using a tower-like device. This results in a smooth, chocolatey coffee that’s easy to drink. There are also snacks on hand like shaved ice and wraps.
Academy Coffee ATL
What happens when a former bartender opens a coffee shop? Coffee drinks that are reminiscent of cocktails. Think syrups, bitters, and garnishes. Located inside Kinship in Virginia-Highland, so you can grab some meat from the butcher while you wait for your drink to be made.
Spiller Park Coffee
Spiller Park has a fun retro vibe, and they make a mean cortado, but don’t overlook the weekend bagels. Spiller Park’s owner, Dale Donchey, started a bagel pop-up dubbed Dear Friend, Bagels that operates out of Spiller Park on the weekends. Offerings include bagel sandwiches (the Wendell, with labneh and strawberry jam, was a hit over the summer) as well as individual bagels and tubs of cream cheese. To keep up with the week’s offerings, your best bet is to follow them on Instagram.
Alon’s Bakery
Alon’s isn’t just a coffee shop. It has an excellent coffee program (using Batdorf & Bronson), but it’s also a one-stop shop for treats like sandwiches, salads, pastries, and confections. Dunwoody and Alon’s newest location in Buckhead have ample seating making them ideal for leisurely stopovers.
Perc Coffee Atlanta
Savannah-based roaster Perc opened two locations in Atlanta during the pandemic. East Lake came first, with its sunny dining room adorned with hanging plants (and plenty of outdoor seating) followed by Virginia-Highland with a more intimate setup. The coffee is great at both locations, though, especially their creative cold brews. Most importantly, they sell their own version of the Pop-Tart that’ll give you ‘90s nostalgia.
Lia Picard is an Atlanta-based journalist writing about food, travel, and a variety of other topics. Her work appears in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wine Enthusiast, and CNN Travel. | https://www.thrillist.com/drink/atlanta/best-coffee-shops-atlanta | 2022-04-01T02:06:42Z |
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Matthews scores 50th goal of the season, Leafs down Jets
Auston Matthews scored his 50th goal of the season as the Toronto Maple Leafs thumped the Winnipeg Jets 7-3 on Thursday night. The sniper, who buried his team's sixth goal into an empty net with 2:06 left in regulation, is the first Leaf to hit the half-century mark since Dave Andreychuk scored 53 in 1993-94.
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Auston Matthews scored his 50th goal of the season as the Toronto Maple Leafs thumped the Winnipeg Jets 7-3 on Thursday night.
The sniper, who buried his team's sixth goal into an empty net with 2:06 left in regulation, is the first Leaf to hit the half-century mark since Dave Andreychuk scored 53 in 1993-94.
William Nylander added two on the power play to go along with an assist and Ilya Mikheyev had a short-handed goal as part of his first three-point night in the NHL for the Leafs.
Mark Giordano, with a goal and an assist, John Tavares and Timothy Liljegren also scored Toronto (43-19-5), which got 20 saves from Erik Kallgren. Mitch Marner added three assists.
Nikolaj Ehlers, with a goal and an assist, Blake Wheeler and Paul Stastny replied for Winnipeg (33-26-10). Eric Comrie stopped 31 shots.
The Leafs were coming off key victories over the Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins in the race for Atlantic Division playoff seeding, while the Jets picked up a crucial 3-2 shootout victory against the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday as they continue to battle for a wild-card spot in the Western Conference.
Matthews joins Andreychuk, Rick Vaive (three times) and Gary Leeman as the only Leafs to reach the half-century mark.
“It feels like just another game day,” Matthews said following the team’s morning skate with 50 beckoning. “I don’t really stress about that stuff too much.”
Kallgren got the start with Petr Mrazek likely to be out at least six weeks with his third groin injury of the season suffered in Tuesday’s 6-4 victory over Boston. No. 1 goalie Jack Campbell (rib ailment) has been cleared medically to resume action for the first time since March 8, but didn’t dress with Toronto set to embark on a four-game road trip starting Saturday in Philadelphia.
The Leafs’ list of absences also included defenceman Ilya Lyubushkin, who took a blindside punch to the head from Bruins winger Taylor Hall last time out.
The Jets, meanwhile, were minus two players in COVID-19 protocol – leading scorer Kyle Connor and defenceman Nate Schmidt.
Trailing 2-1 after the first period, Toronto tied things up 1:58 into the second when Nylander banged a Matthews’ rebound off the end boards past Comrie for his 25th goal of the season.
Ehlers then wired his 21st – and seventh in the last 10 games – home on a Winnipeg power play at 3:45 past a screened Kallgren.
But the Leafs got back even at 3-3 just 23 seconds later when Tavares swatted his 23rd past Comrie, who got the start in place of Connor Hellebuyck in the second of a back-to-back.
Nylander poked his second of the night an 26th of the year on another man advantage at 8:40 as the Leafs’ top-ranked power play connected again for Toronto’s first lead.
Mikheyev made it 5-3 when took a pass from Pierre Engvall with the Leafs killing a penalty, settled the puck on his stick and fired his 15th upstairs at 13:55 for his team’s league-leading 11th short-handed goal.
Nylander had a great opportunity to secure his second-career hat trick five minutes into the third, but was his rebound chance with Comrie at his mercy go off the stick of Jets defenceman Adam Stanley.
Matthews, meanwhile, pressed for No. 50, but couldn’t find a way through Comrie until the goaltender was on the bench for an extra an attacker.
Winnipeg opened the scoring at 3:19 of the first when Wheeler stepped around Giordano before scoring his 12th.
The Jets made it 2-0 at 7:45 when Stastny took a rebound off the end boards and fooled Kallgren on a wraparound for his 18th.
Giordano made up for his earlier mistake on the Wheeler goal when his attempted pass pinged off two defenders for his seventh of the campaign – and first as a Leaf at 15:03.
Matthews was twice robbed of 50 goals by COVID-19. He found the back of the net 47 times in 70 games in 2019-20 before the pandemic abruptly ended the regular season before putting up 41 in 52 contests over the course the 2020-21 coronavirus-shortened campaign to win his first Maurice (Rocket) Richard Trophy as the NHL’s top goal-scorer.
Matthews ran away in the overall goal title last season, but things are much tighter this time around with Edmonton Oilers star Leon Draisaitl scoring eight in his last five contests to hit 49.
“I’m not too surprised,” Matthews said prior to the game against Winnipeg. “He makes stuff happen every night.”
Thursday was Matthews’ 62nd game of the season – he missed three because of injury and two via suspension – while Draisaitl has suited up for each of Edmonton’s 68 contests.
New York Rangers forward Chris Kreider is also in the Richard Trophy conversation with 46 goals in 68 games.
The Leafs and Jets played a physical game in Winnipeg in early December, with the home side building a 5-1 lead before coming away with a 6-3 victory.
“Is there anything better than beating the Leafs?” Jets centre Mark Scheifele asked teammates post-game that night in a video that featured on Winnipeg’s social media. “Anything better?”
Toronto certainly noticed.
“That’s fine,” Leafs winger Wayne Simmonds said Thursday morning. “Most teams feel that way.”
“I know when I used to play the Leafs I’d want to crush them every single time,” he added. “I know that feeling.”
After Matthews scored his 50th, the rough stuff resumed with Toronto's Kyle Clifford fighting Brenden Dillon before Liljigren scored his second on a late power play.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 31, 2022.
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Former President Donald Trump sued former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday because, according to him, she wrongly linked him to Russia’s Trump-friendly election interference during his run against Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Earlier in the week, Clinton announced she’d tested positive for Covid. Laughing can be painful during a respiratory illness, but one could guess she’d gladly bear it for this joke of a lawsuit. The Washington Post reports that her spokesperson, Nick Merrill, responded to Trump’s suit in a statement that was a single word long: “Nonsense.” | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556272202961/why-is-there-a-500-character-limit | 2022-04-01T02:06:43Z |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
5-9-2-3
(five, nine, two, three)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.thetelegraph.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17049955.php | 2022-04-01T02:06:43Z |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
5-9-2-3
(five, nine, two, three)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17049955.php | 2022-04-01T02:06:43Z |
Updated March 31, 2022 at 9:31 PM ET
Oscars' guests and viewers are still reeling over Will Smith's surprising and infamous onstage slap of comedian Chris Rock, who joked about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. Shortly after, Smith went onstage to accept the Best Actor Oscar for his role in King Richard.
Will Packer, producer of the Academy Award, ceremony told the ABC News show Good Morning America that Los Angeles police officers were ready to arrest Will Smith if Rock wanted to press charges.
"They were saying, 'This is battery.' That was the word they used in that moment," Packer told T.J. Holmes, in an exclusive interview that was teased during ABC's World News Tonight. "They said, 'We will go get him. We are prepared. We will go get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him. They were laying out the options. And as they were talking, Chris was, he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, 'No, I'm fine.' He was like, 'no, no, no.' And even to the point where I said, 'Rock, let them finish.'"
In the clip, Packer said after the officers finished laying out what Rock's options were, "they said, 'Would you like us to take any action? And he said no.'"
Packer also said he did not speak to Smith at all on Oscar night. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released a statement saying Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused.
In his acceptance speech, Smith apologized to the Academy and his fellow nominees for the incident, but not Rock. On Instagram the following day, Smith wrote that he was embarrassed by his behavior and told Rock he was sorry. Still, the Academy began disciplinary proceedings against Smith-- which could include "suspension, expulsion, or other sanctions permitted."
SAG-AFTRA is also weighing sanctions against Smith.
On Wednesday night, Rock was onstage in Boston with a new comedy routine. He didn't say much about the slap. "I'm still kind of processing what happened," he said, adding that at some point he will talk about it "and it will be serious and funny."
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
5-9-2-3
(five, nine, two, three)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.newstimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17049955.php | 2022-04-01T02:06:44Z |
NSW adds 331 previously unreported deaths to COVID-19 toll
By Mary Ward
Health authorities have added more than 300 deaths to the state’s COVID-19 toll following a review of data from Births, Deaths and Marriages, including 66 people who died from the virus in the home.
The 331 previously unreported deaths, which were certified by a doctor on the person’s death certificate as being caused by or contributed to by COVID-19, were added on Thursday.
NSW has now recorded 2433 deaths from COVID-19, including two – a man in his 50s from western NSW and a man in his 70s from the Central Coast, both with significant underlying health conditions – reported on Friday.
Of the previously unreported deaths, 270 occurred this year, 58 in 2021 and three were deaths from 2020, in the first year of the pandemic.
There were 131 previously unreported deaths in aged care facilities (39.6 per cent of the missing deaths). Another 98 (29.6 per cent) occurred in public hospitals, 66 (19.9 per cent) occurred at the person’s home and 22 (6.6 per cent) occurred in private hospitals.
“COVID-19 related deaths are notified to NSW Health from a range of sources, including public and private hospitals, aged care facilities, and the Coroner,” the ministry said in a statement, noting it was “usually” automatically notified when a death from COVID-19 occurred in a public hospital.
“To ensure NSW COVID-19 mortality data is as robust as possible, NSW Health has been cross-checking these deaths with all those identified in death certificates by the NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages during this period.”
The deaths followed a similar geographic distribution to those authorities were already aware of. Thirty per cent – 102 deaths – occurred in South Western Sydney Local Health District, where about a quarter of the state’s virus deaths have been recorded.
In a report released by NSW Health on Thursday providing further information about the previously unreported deaths, the ministry said processes had been put in place such that deaths certified by a doctor as caused by COVID-19 would now be included in its figures.
“For people where an expected death occurred at home, for example an elderly person with significant underlying health conditions or people receiving palliative care, the doctor may not have reported the death through any channels other than the [registry],” the report stated.
“As many of the deaths occurred recently, and there is sometimes a delay between a death occurring and it being reported to NSW Health, it is possible that NSW Health would have received a report of the death through the usual channels, but at a later date.”
NSW Health was aware of a positive test result for 256 of the 331 deaths, but did not receive a report of death. It did not have a record of a positive test result for the remaining 75.
The report said health authorities “do not yet know the details of why” the additional deaths in hospitals and aged care facilities had not been reported.
“It is known that some infections may have been identified by a rapid antigen test that was not registered with Service NSW and some may have had a diagnosis based on testing performed outside of NSW, or based on a clinical diagnosis without a laboratory test,” the report read.
“In some cases, it is possible the facilities may have assumed the death was already reported by another authority. Some deaths were associated with other significant conditions such as end-stage cancer or significant neurological conditions.”
NSW Health also plans to use excess mortality data over the pandemic to further assess the impact of the virus on the community.
There were 25,495 new local COVID-19 cases reported in NSW on Friday. The number of people in hospital who are COVID-positive is trending up: there are 1345 cases admitted to hospital including 43 in intensive care.
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'It feels like it's losing dignity': B.C. parents unable to register baby with Indigenous name
For Salia Joseph and her partner, giving their newborn daughter a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim (Squamish language) name was an important way to honour her heritage, and to continue the work of reclaiming and revitalizing Indigenous languages.
Joseph, whose ancestral name is St’ax̱í7aluts, is from Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (the Squamish Nation). Her partner Joseph Currie is Cree from the Montana Indian Band and Blackfoot from the Piikani Nation.
Born in North Vancouver on March 1, their baby girl was named Alíla7 – which means wild raspberry. Ever since, her parents have been trying to register her birth and her name, but the province won’t recognize the ‘7’ as a valid character.
“My partner and I are both Indigenous,” Joseph said. “We're raising our daughter in Squamish territory. I am a language learner and advocate. Our language is really important to me.”
Joseph is the executive director of the Sníchim Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to language learning and revitalization. For her and her partner, giving their daughter an Indigenous name and raising her to speak her language is part of a larger effort to make sure Indigenous languages are not lost.
“The idea of having a Squamish name for our daughter felt like a part of a really exciting time, and the result of so much labour from our ancestors to keep our language alive and to keep it so that we could be using it today,“ she said.
“In my eyes, keeping our language and our culture relevant is embodied first by being able to start in our own house, and start with our kin.”
Salia Jospeh and her partner Joseph Currie. So when she realized the province wouldn’t allow her to enter the 7 in her daughter’s name, she felt compelled to follow up with the B.C.’s Vital Statistics Agency “The ‘7’ is really important in our language. It's very distinct to Squamish, and I really didn't want to compromise on that. I figured it would be okay because a seven is on everybody's keyboard,” she said.
After she contacted the agency, she was told she could work around the online form and submit a paper copy through the mail.
“I was very early post-partum, filling out documents, waddling my way to the post office to deliver it,” she said.
But once again, the name she and her partner had chosen for their daughter was rejected because the 7 is not one of the approved “special characters,” and numbers are not allowed.
“I just said to them, ‘That's not good enough.’ If I spell her name wrong on that, it means I can't spell her name correct on any of her ID because it won't match. Her birth certificate, her SIN card, her passport, her care card – all of that has to be spelled incorrectly,” Joseph said.
“It also rules out lots of Squamish people who have sevens in their names who will now know that they aren't eligible to see themselves represented correctly.”
The 7 is a common character in the Squamish language, and signifies a brief pause between syllables.
“Elder speakers in cooperation with linguists developed this character in the late 1960s while translating these oral languages into written form,” according the Squamish Lilwat Cultural Centre.
PROVINCE, FEDS PLEDGE ACTION ON RECLAIMING INDIGENOUS NAMES
Joseph points to Article 13 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which specifically addresses the use of Indigenous languages, writing systems and names.
“Indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons,” the declaration reads.
On Wednesday, B.C. released an 89-point action plan for upholding UNDRIP, with changes to be implemented over the next five years. One of the actions points to a possible solution to the situation Joseph is currently struggling with.
The province will “adopt an inclusive digital font that allows for Indigenous languages to be included in communication, signage, services and official records,” the plan says.
In the meantime, Joseph says the solution she is being offered isn’t at all adequate, saying she’s been told just to use an Anglicized version of her daughter’s name, and to pursue a correction some time in the future.
“Being forced to pick an English name when that isn't our choice feels very reminiscent of many of the ancient struggles that our ancestors have had to go through,” she said.
“It feels like it's losing dignity, that Squamish has to be watered down and I don’t want that for her. I don't want that for our language or our people, and the many other people that have sevens in their names in their traditional names or their given names that want to be represented fully.”
Further, she questions when and whether the change will actually be possible, and what kind of paperwork and fees will be required.
Last year, the federal government announced a process for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people who were stripped of their names in the residential school system or the Sixties Scoop to reclaim them on identification documents. All associated fees will be waived. The move was a response to one of the 94 Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015.
However, the rules outlined by the province for those pursuing this option put constraints on what is possible. Single names are not allowed, numbers can not be included, and “special characters” are limited to apostrophes, periods, hyphens, and French-language accents on vowels.
“Squamish has been spoken here, where I'm from, for thousands of years. English has been spoken here for a couple hundred. That is colonialism, that is white supremacy in action that prioritizes English and French over any and all Indigenous languages of these territories,” Joseph said.
Asked about the issue Thursday, Health Minister Adrian Dix said he understands that situations like Joseph’s can be “distressing,” and pointed to the commitment detailed in the province’s newly-release action plan.
“I think we've made a number of active changes in this area of governance around names and giving people agency around that and certainly we're working to do it as soon as possible. We're committed to acting on this,” he said.
The ministry elaborated in a written statement, saying it understands the limitations of the system are frustrating for families, and have a disproportionate impact on Indigenous people.
“We are aware that parents have been unable to register the births of their children with names that include certain characters,” the statement said.
“We are committed to ensuring that Indigenous languages are living, used, taught and visible throughout their respective territories and across the province – and that includes ensuring that parents can register the births of their children with traditional names.” the statement says.
Newborn Alíla7 Jospeh Currie in her mother's arms.
Joseph says she hopes sharing her story will pave the way for these changes to be made, saying it is a critical part of reconciliation.
“My dad is a day school survivor, my grandparents are residential school survivors. Same with my partner. It's the same with native people all over. Their ancestors were not allowed to speak their language and as a result, so many of our family members don't,” she said.
“Squamish people were told for generations that their language was backwards, that they were dumb, or that their language was outdated. To see people reclaiming it, to see it spoken openly, to see people claiming it proudly is really healing – and can't be underestimated.”
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Football club will stop playing Dam Busters March and using air raid sirens before kick-off to be more 'socially aware' amid war in Ukraine
- The theme of the 1955 film The Dam Busters was played before kick-off
- A siren was also heard at the LNER Stadium in Lincoln when corners are taken
- But this has now been suspended and the matter will be reviewed in the summer
A football club has suspended the use of air raid sirens and the Dam Busters March on match days in response to the war in Ukraine.
Lincoln City said it wanted to ‘strike an appropriate balance’ between its heritage and being ‘socially aware’.
The theme of the 1955 film The Dam Busters, about raids on German dams in World War Two by RAF’s 617 Squadron – which was based near Lincoln and has a long association with the League One club – was played before kick-off.
Lincoln City said it wanted to ‘strike an appropriate balance’ between its heritage and being ‘socially aware’
A siren is also heard at the LNER Stadium when corners are taken. The matter will be reviewed in the summer.
Liam Scully, chief executive of the League One club, said neither would be used for the rest of the season, but the matter will be reviewed in the summer.
He acknowledged the position is ‘not flawless’ and may ‘polarise views’, but appealed for unity.
Lincolnshire became known as Bomber County for the role it played during the Second World War.
A supporters’ group for the club was formed in 2011 and named 617 Squadron, with their aim to boost the atmosphere at Lincoln games.
Mr Scully, in an update to supporters, wrote: ‘At the most recent supporters’ board meeting we discussed at length the merits of the air raid sirens we hear before corners at the LNER Stadium and the use of the Dam Busters March, which we play in the build-up to games, in the context of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The theme of the 1955 film The Dam Busters, about raids on German dams in World War Two by RAF’s 617 Squadron – which was based near Lincoln and has a long association with the League One club – was played before kick-off
‘As a club we are very aware of our heritage and wish to ensure we strike an appropriate balance between our long-standing synonymous gestures and actions, along with being socially aware and generally good citizens.
‘The supporters’ board and I discussed the topic at great length and we collectively concluded it would be appropriate to temporarily suspend the use of the sirens and for the club to stop playing the Dam Busters March for the rest of this season.
‘I’m sure everyone has their own opinions on this matter and I fully accept our position is not flawless.
‘While I understand this decision may polarise views, could I expressly comment that it is not our intention to divide.
‘In the spirit that this decision was made, please could I ask for your support and backing with this conclusion, which was a very challenging matter to navigate?
‘Can I be clear that there is a commitment to reviewing this decision in the close season and we will communicate further on this matter following our summer review.’
In 2009, supporters voted to keep the Dam Busters March as the club’s anthem in a newspaper and website poll.
The song comfortably beat Jeff Beck’s Hi Ho Silver Lining and Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones.
City supporter Alex Webber, 36, from Lincoln, said: ‘Personally I don’t think that playing the Dam Busters March is disrespectful, I believe the club should look at reinstating our anthem before the matches and in the second half when the teams come out.
‘I can understand not using the air raid siren due to the ongoing bombing that’s continuing in Ukraine and how that would make people feel.’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10674607/Football-club-stop-playing-Dam-Busters-March-kick-off.html | 2022-04-01T02:06:47Z |
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The 13 Best Secret Bars in Denver
Here’s how to get into the best speakeasies and hidden bars in Denver.
Some may say that, because Denver suffered under Prohibition for four years longer than the rest of America, it has a special claim to the libations and atmosphere of the era. And with about a dozen speakeasies in the area all flourishing, we’re inclined to believe it. After all, Denver’s longest-running bar still draws in as many eager tourists and locals as it did when it opened, just one day after Prohibition was repealed in 1933. But despite the days of code words and threats of arrest being long gone, the secret freezer doors and intimate, tech-banned lounges beneath Denver streets and the modern chalets high above its skyline continue to be some of the coolest places to drink in all of Colorado.
Reynard Social
The latest luxury hotel to open its doors in Denver is Thompson, and with it comes a secret bar not on the ground level or the rooftop—but on floor six. The hidden, modern chalet has cozy seating, a fully functional fireplace, and Apres-themed drinks and elevated snacks to transport you from the heart of downtown to a snow-covered peak among the Rockies.
How to get in: Once inside Thompson, take the elevator to the sixth floor and check in with the host.
Five Nines
With a recent unveiling that’s generated a lot of buzz for Clayton members and Cherry Creek visitors alike, this is the place to feel super bougie and exclusive (even if you aren’t IRL). With fresh cocktails categorized into “Uncut Gems,” “Forged in Fire,” and “Compounds & Concoctions,” Five Nines has intrigue nailed down from the jump. And then there’s the “stage” for alluring live entertainment, which takes the secrecy and excitement up about 100 notches.
How to get in: Starting at the Clayton Hotel front entrance, walk past OAK Market and just before the building ends, you’ll see five golden nines next to a black door with a circular window. That’s your ticket.
Luci’s Shambles and Provisions
New to the cocktail lounge scene, this place has the intimate, eclectic vibes that are often paired with handcrafted drinks and delightful late-night snacks. Sharing space with Modis in the City where Colt & Gray and Saint Ellie used to reside, Luci’s is open from Thursday to Sunday, 6 pm - 2 am, where turquoise velvet chairs, drinks like the Black Dahlia (complete with black sugar rim), and bites like stir fry, charcuterie, beef tartare, and duck thigh await.
How to get in: Head through the glass door to the right of Modis’ entrance and take the stairs down to the basement.
Golden Moon
Okay, technically not in Denver but it’s one that should always be on your list. Plus, a trip to downtown Golden is always a good time. The drinks here are all crafted with Golden Moon Distillery’s own spirits, so you’re getting the best that Colorado has to offer when it comes to truly handcrafted cocktails.
How to get in: Head down Miners Alley off of 12th Street (around the back of Old Capitol Grill and Smokehouse). Look for the small patio and black garage door, with a small door to the right.
Run For The Roses
With an unassuming entrance in the Dairy Block alley, it’s easy to miss this hidden gem, but those who know, know. Picture your rich uncle’s secret study/gambling hall/cocktail lounge and that pretty much hits the nail on the head. The space is just as polished as the drinks and both are equally worthy of the ‘Gram.
How to get in: Enter Dairy Block alley from 18th Street and look for a set of stairs on your right. Follow the signs and check in with the host to be seated (if there’s room).
Peaks Lounge
Pair your cocktail with a view of the Rocky Mountains and the city lights from 27 stories up. The Peaks Lounge may be a pretty typical hotel bar where you’ll find mostly out-of-town visitors, but the floor-to-ceiling windows make for a sunset cocktail hour that’s enough to impress even the most jaded native.
How to get in:Head into the Hyatt Regency Denver’s main lobby and take an elevator to the 27th floor.
Retrograde
When you want a drink, an ice cream shop usually isn’t the first place you’d think of. But this is no ordinary ice cream shop, where an unmarked “freezer” door leads to a cozy ‘60s throwback bar. Along with playfully flavored ice cream varieties like miso salted caramel and buttermilk sweet corn, this shop’s also hiding one of Denver’s best spots for creative cocktails.
How to get in: Go inside Frozen Matter, head to the back and find the freezer door. Flip the switch and hang tight with your ID ready.
Cooper Lounge
In 2014, Denver’s historic Union Station got a major makeover, transforming the space from a quiet, forgotten corner of Downtown into one of the most popular destinations for dining and shopping. Though many have already discovered this elegant spot to grab a drink, its upstairs location keeps much of the typical Union Station crowds away.
How to get in: Look for the Cooper Lounge desk on the South side of the main floor of Union Station’s Great Hall (near Amtrak). If there’s space, you’ll be escorted past a velvet rope to the lounge upstairs.
Williams & Graham
What do you get when you hide a bar with only seven tables behind a moving bookshelf? Apparently, a lot of success. Williams & Graham has racked up local and national accolades, so while it’s not really a well-kept secret at this point, you shouldn’t pass up the chance to use a real-life secret passageway -- especially one that leads to such classy cocktails.
How to get in: Head inside the “bookstore” and give the staff your name to add to the list. Eventually, one of the bookcases will swing open and you’ll be taken to your spot inside the bar.
B&GC
Retro is a description that gets thrown around a lot, but B&GC is a true Mad Men-style step back in time. Sleek design, martini service, shrimp cocktail, and caviar? That’s exactly what you’re getting here.
How to get in: B&GC is located in the Halcyon, a hotel in Cherry Creek. But to find the entrance to the bar, you'll need to head down the alley between Second and Third Ave. Look for a sign that says "Stair 3" and a golden doorbell. Finding it is only the beginning, though. Hotel guests may be able to garner admission but, otherwise, the bar is members-only, and the process of becoming a member remains under wraps.
Millers & Rossi
From the outside, this spot appears to be a trendy art gallery. Sure, you can browse the art, but the main event is the dimly lit lounge bar which makes a superlative setting for smoked old fashioned and small bites including charcuterie and raspberry chipotle wings.
How to get in: Enter the art gallery and head towards the back. There, behind the desk, you’ll find the door that leads to the bar.
The Cruise Room
Come bathe in the red glow of this historic spot that was the first bar to open the day after Prohibition’s repeal (although, rumor has it that secret panels and underground tunnels remain from its clandestine moonshine past). Not much has changed at the Cruise Room since then -- the popular martinis and Art Deco style make this spot a true throwback experience.
How to get in: Head into the lobby of the Oxford Hotel and look for the Cruise Room on your left, or enter through the back of Urban Farmer.
Great Divide Beer Dinner
This 1920s-style speakeasy owned by Denver restaurateur Frank Bonanno encourages you to embrace the past with rules that include no cell phones allowed (except inside the telephone booth). As a chef-owned bar, expect bar food that goes above the norm and updated takes on classic cocktails.
How to get in: Follow the signs that point you down a set of stairs to a door that says, “Wednesday’s Pies.” Head in, tell the hostess you’re looking for Green Russell, and you’ll be escorted through another door that leads to the bar.
Molly Martin is a freelance writer in Denver, Colorado who is always on the lookout for fun things to do. Follow her Mile High adventures @mollydbu on Twitter and Instagram. | https://www.thrillist.com/drink/denver/best-speakeasies-secret-bars-denver | 2022-04-01T02:06:48Z |
Purple Martinis make their debut on the Suncoast
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Sarasota is home to so many wildlife creatures that every day can feel like safari. A flock of feathery friends have been migrating to the Suncoast and attracting a lot of attention. Meet the Purple Martini, a bird with midnight black feathers and a purple sheen to it’s wing that has Sarasota bird watchers longing to get a closer look.
Terry Suchma spends her time running The Purple Martini society, a group dedicated to providing refuge for the birds and their babies in multi-dwelling bird houses while offering group tours. ABC7 got an exclusive look during one of the group bird watching tours in the celery fields.
“We don’t want to keep the eggs or babies out too long, because the wind could change the temperature of the eggs.” Terry says as she shows off a nest of babies to a tour group.
While the Purple Martinis aren’t quite snowbirds, they will be traveling through our region to the tropics of South America soon.
“They’re fantastic fliers, they’re wonderful singers, they just have such a social behavior that’s enjoyable to watch.”
Terry and her group find so much joy in bringing these special experiences to the public. It’s not every day they get to see mother nature like this so up close and personal.
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Matthews becomes fourth Maple Leafs player to score 50 goals
Auston Matthews has become the fourth Toronto Maple Leafs player to score 50 goals in a season. The 24-year-old star centre scored his 50th Thursday night into an empty net against the Winnipeg Jets in his 62nd game of the 2021-22 campaign.
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Must See: Matthews becomes first player to hit 50 goals this season
Auston Matthews has become the fourth Toronto Maple Leafs player to score 50 goals in a season.
The 24-year-old star centre scored his 50th Thursday night into an empty net against the Winnipeg Jets in his 62nd game of the 2021-22 campaign.
The Leafs defeated the Winnipeg Jets 7-3.
Only Rick Vaive (1982, 1983, 1984), Gary Leeman (1990) and Dave Andreychuk (1994) have reached the 50-goal plateau for the Leafs prior to Matthews.
Matthews scored his 49th goal of the season Tuesday night in a 6-4 win over the Bruins in Boston.
This is the first time the Scottsdale, Ariz., native has reached the 50-goal summit. He came close in 2019-20, scoring 47 goals in 70 games.
After being drafted first overall by the Leafs in 2016, Matthews has scored 250 goals and registered 438 points in 396 games over six seasons.
The 6-foot-3 forward is battling with Edmonton Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl in a bid to win his second straight Maurice (Rocket) Richard Trophy. | https://www.tsn.ca/auston-matthews-becomes-fourth-maple-leafs-player-to-score-50-goals-1.1779310 | 2022-04-01T02:06:48Z |
Shark vacuum review
Pets bring much to our lives — including extra messes. Pet parents need vacuums that have the added power necessary to clean up hair, dander and dirt trodden in on paws, and even though a heavy-duty vacuum cleaner can do the trick, it isn’t always necessary.
Shark claims its Rocket Pet Plus Corded Stick Vacuum offers power and versatility in a lightweight package. The company says it can tackle dirt deeply embedded in carpets and makes cleaning stairs and upholstery easy in the handheld mode.
We tested the Shark Rocket Pet Plus to see if there’s truth to these claims and if this vacuum is worth the buy.
Testing the Shark Rocket Pet Plus Corded Stick Vacuum
At BestReviews, we know that testing out a product for a couple of hours isn’t the same as using it day in, day out. That’s why we send products to our group of testers to use them over an extended period, test out the manufacturer’s claims and see how they really perform.
We sent the Shark Rocket Pet Plus to a tester who lives in a three-bedroom home with a short-haired dog. Our tester usually uses a Dyson V8 Animal vacuum, so they were able to compare it to another big brand. They tried it out for two weeks before reporting their findings.
What is the Shark Rocket Pet Plus Corded Stick Vacuum?
The Rocket Pet Plus is a stick vacuum, which is a type of lightweight vacuum cleaner. We found it extremely lightweight and modern compared to traditional upright vacuums. It converts into a hand vacuum for smaller cleaning tasks, stairs and upholstery. It’s also specifically designed as a pet vacuum and comes with a range of tools to make it easier to clean up after pets.
Shark Rocket Pet Plus Corded Stick Vacuum price and where to buy
The Shark Rocket Pet Plus costs around $180 and is available at Amazon.
How to use the Shark Rocket Pet Plus Corded Stick Vacuum
We found this Shark vacuum extremely easy to set up. It comes in three parts: the body, the stick and the cleaning head. All you need to do is fit one end of the stick to the body and the other end to the cleaning head and you’re ready to go. You can also set it up as a handheld vacuum by attaching the cleaning head or another cleaning tool directly to the body without the stick.
As it’s a corded vacuum, it must be plugged into an outlet before you can start vacuuming. It has just two modes to choose from, labeled I and II: I is a less powerful mode that we used for hard floors and II is a more powerful mode that we used for carpeted areas.
Shark Rocket Pet Plus Corded Stick Vacuum benefits
Maneuverability
We found this lightweight vacuum highly maneuverable. We had no problems navigating around furniture and squeezing the cleaning head into tight corners to get the best clean possible. It was just as lightweight and easy to maneuver as the Dyson V8 Animal, although lacking the convenience of being cordless.
Suction power
The suction power was good and we experienced no issues cleaning up the hair from a short-coated dog on both carpets and hard flooring. There’s an indicator light that turns red if there are any clogs, so it’s easy to solve issues that might affect suction power as they arise.
Cleaning modes
You can select between two cleaning modes. Mode I is a standard powered mode, while mode II gives you an extra boost. Although mode I is supposed to be for hard floors and mode II for carpet, we found both worked well for carpets and hard floors, so it’s more dependent on whether you need extra power.
LED headlights
The LED headlights illuminate your cleaning path to help you see dirt. This is especially useful in low-light conditions or for cleaning under furniture.
XL dust cup
While it isn’t as large as the dust cups you’d find on upright vacuums or in canister models, it has a large capacity for a stick vacuum, so you don’t need to empty it too often while cleaning. We found it easy to empty, especially when you remove the body of the vacuum from the stick.
Handheld mode
The handheld mode is great for tackling stairs, upholstery and for spot cleaning. It’s easy to convert into a hand vacuum and back into its regular configuration again, so it’s not a huge ordeal if you want to switch modes during a cleaning session. You can use the regular cleaning head or the other cleaning attachments in handheld mode.
Shark Rocket Pet Plus Corded Stick Vacuum drawbacks
Power cord
Although the power cord is long enough to vacuum large rooms without unplugging it and moving to another outlet, it’s still a pain to switch outlets when you clean your whole home and to coil it up when you’re done. We must say we prefer the convenience of a cordless vacuum, but many buyers are happy to stick with corded options to save money.
Loudness
This is a loud vacuum cleaner. We had the TV playing in the background while cleaning, and it was inaudible over the sound of the vacuum. The lower-powered mode I is somehow louder than the higher-powered mode II.
Top-heavy
We didn’t like the fact that it’s so top-heavy that you can’t leave it standing up if you take a break from cleaning. Even the best stick vacuum has this problem, so it isn’t unique to this one. However, some have sticks that fold in the center so they’ll balance standing or have rest notches to make leaning them easier, which are features this model lacks.
Should you get the Shark Rocket Pet Plus Corded Stick Vacuum?
It might not be the best Shark vacuum of all time, but the Shark Rocket Pet Plus is a good stick vacuum at an affordable price. If you’d rather not pay the premium for a cordless model, it’s an excellent choice, but some buyers long for the convenience of going cord-free. Of course, not every vacuum is right for every buyer, but this one is a solid mid-range option for homes with pets.
Consider other products
Black+Decker Powerseries Extreme Cordless Stick Vacuum
This cordless pet vacuum comes at a similar price to the Shark Rocket Pet Plus. It runs for up to 55 minutes on a full charge and has an anti-tangle brush roll for pet hair.
Sold by Amazon.
Dyson V8 Fluffy Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner
Thanks to its powerful motor, this vacuum makes light work of cleaning up after pets. It’s on the pricey side but worth the investment.
Sold by Amazon.
Shark Vertex Ultra-Lightweight Cordless Stick Vacuum
With an anti-allergen filter and a dedicated pet tool, it’s a great choice for homes with pets, plus there’s no cord to worry about.
Sold by Amazon.
Bissell Pet Hair Eraser Turbo Rewind Vacuum
If you don’t mind a bulkier upright design, this vacuum does an excellent job at removing pet hair from carpets and hard floors, with a reasonable mid-range price tag.
Sold by Amazon.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
1st:6 Whirl Win-2nd:5 California Classic-3rd:2 Lucky Star, Race Time: 1:42.46
(1st: 6 Whirl Win, 2nd: 5 California Classic, 3rd: 2 Lucky Star; Race Time: one: 42.46)
¶ To win the grand prize, ticket-holders must match in exact order the winning race time and the first, second and third place horses. Lesser prizes are given to ticket-holders who correctly match other horses or race times. | https://www.thetelegraph.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Derby-game-17049956.php | 2022-04-01T02:06:49Z |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
1st:6 Whirl Win-2nd:5 California Classic-3rd:2 Lucky Star, Race Time: 1:42.46
(1st: 6 Whirl Win, 2nd: 5 California Classic, 3rd: 2 Lucky Star; Race Time: one: 42.46)
¶ To win the grand prize, ticket-holders must match in exact order the winning race time and the first, second and third place horses. Lesser prizes are given to ticket-holders who correctly match other horses or race times. | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Derby-game-17049956.php | 2022-04-01T02:06:49Z |
USA Luge head coach steps down
LAKE PLACID — USA Luge announced the resignation of head coach Robert Fegg this past Friday. The German native, who lives in Canada with his family, spent four years with the U.S. national governing body. Fegg coached the junior national team for two seasons,...
www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556272209982/usa-luge-head-coach-steps-down | 2022-04-01T02:06:50Z |
By Adam Cooper
Former Australian Test cricket captain Tim Paine says the woman he sexted also sent him explicit text messages, according to court documents in which he and three other men deny they sexually harassed her.
Cricket Tasmania has rejected allegations made by former staffer Renee Ferguson about the organisation and her past colleagues. Federal Court documents said the former receptionist sent explicit messages to Mr Paine and his brother-in-law, made sexualised comments at work and spoke of a drug problem.
The case could go to trial as recent mediation between the parties failed to settle the dispute.
Ms Ferguson has alleged Mr Paine sent her sexually explicit and unsolicited messages, including a photograph of his penis, on November 23, 2017. Mr Paine was to play in an Ashes Test that day but wasn’t captain at the time.
Ms Ferguson also alleges she was sexually harassed by Shannon Tubb – Mr Paine’s brother-in-law – in 2016 and 2017 while he was Cricket Tasmania’s high-performance manager, and that she was subjected to sexualised comments by two other managers at the organisation.
She is seeking about $900,000 from Cricket Tasmania to cover medical costs, pain and suffering and lost wages. She claims she lodged complaints of sexual harassment with five managers, but nothing was done.
In a written response filed with the court, Cricket Tasmania denies Ms Ferguson was sexually harassed at the organisation, and that four then-managers denied she made complaints to them.
It said a fifth manager offered to “escalate” Ms Ferguson’s report that she was sent an inappropriate picture in a text message, but that she declined the offer.
Cricket Tasmania’s response says Mr Paine denies the full exchange of messages between him and Ms Ferguson is detailed in her court papers, and that her version of the exchange is “incomplete and inaccurate”.
“Mr Paine said there were approximately 20 to 30 texts exchanged between him and the applicant. The applicant’s text messages to Mr Paine escalated such that they contained highly sexualised and explicit sexual content,” Cricket Tasmania’s documents say.
Mr Paine doesn’t deny he sent lewd messages. He resigned in tears as captain of the Test team last year when he learned details of the text messages were to become public. It later emerged he was cleared of misconduct in 2018 after a Cricket Australia investigation.
The Cricket Tasmania documents say Cricket Australia concluded Mr Paine had not engaged in any conduct that was non-consensual, unwelcome or unsolicited.
Mr Tubb denies he sexually harassed Ms Ferguson. He admits sending messages but said the exchanges were mutual and consensual.
“He estimates that he and the applicant would have exchanged around 1500 messages each. The applicant often initiated their exchanges and engaged in their ‘banter’,” the documents say.
“Mr Tubb said it had started as office banter which escalated to more sexual messages and extended into non-work hours.”
According to Cricket Tasmania, Mr Tubb said Ms Ferguson sent him explicit photographs, exposed her bra and the top of her breasts to him at the reception area, and made sexualised comments at work. The documents say Mr Tubb said Ms Ferguson had a drug problem and that they discussed it.
Two other men who were managers at Cricket Tasmania deny making inappropriate remarks at work. One said it was Ms Ferguson who initiated sexual innuendo.
Cricket Tasmania denies Ms Ferguson suffered financial loss, and that after she left she worked at a hotel in country Victoria.
Ms Ferguson worked at Cricket Tasmania from 2015 to 2017 and in her documents, said she left in December 2017 when suspended as the organisation investigated money that went missing.
She has since been charged with stealing and has pleaded not guilty in Hobart Magistrates Court. That case is to return to court next week.
The Federal Court case is due to return to court in May.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
1st:6 Whirl Win-2nd:5 California Classic-3rd:2 Lucky Star, Race Time: 1:42.46
(1st: 6 Whirl Win, 2nd: 5 California Classic, 3rd: 2 Lucky Star; Race Time: one: 42.46)
¶ To win the grand prize, ticket-holders must match in exact order the winning race time and the first, second and third place horses. Lesser prizes are given to ticket-holders who correctly match other horses or race times. | https://www.newstimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Derby-game-17049956.php | 2022-04-01T02:06:50Z |
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Nurse to face disciplinary hearing for failing to report alleged abuse at Maple Ridge care home
Disturbing allegations of abuse at a Metro Vancouver care home have emerged as a nurse faces a disciplinary hearing for failing to report the incidents.
The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives is holding a disciplinary hearing for licenced practical nurse Barbara Berg, who is accused of breaching professional standards.
According to a citation from the college, Berg failed to report or document incidents of staff abusing residents in care to management at Maple Ridge Seniors Village.
The college says that in December 2020, a care aid told Berg about witnessing an incident in which another care aid “made a fist at and put a resident…in a chokehold.”
Another care aid allegedly advised Berg of a different incident involving the same resident that month. The woman reported she witnessed another care aid abuse the resident by “putting an electric razor in… (the resident’s) mouth three times to attempt to ‘keep him quiet.’”
The college says it contacted Berg 18 times, but that she “failed to respond to BCCNM communications, inquiries and requests for information in a timely, full and substantive manner with respect to the investigations.”
CTV News contacted the general manager at MRSV, Bianca Goldberg, in an attempt to determine whether staff involved in the alleged incidents were still working at the facility, or if an internal investigation had occurred. Goldberg said she was unable to comment due to confidentiality and the upcoming hearing.
CTV News also tried to contact Berg through the care home but did not hear back.
Berg’s hearing is set to take place on May 11 and 12.
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Russians leave Chornobyl as fighting rages elsewhere
Russian troops handed control of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and began leaving the heavily contaminated site more than a month after taking it over, authorities said Thursday, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.
Putin targets enemies at home as his missiles strike Ukraine
Long before Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the mass detentions of Russian peace protesters, the Kremlin was already stifling dissent with choking bureaucracy. Throughout 2021, the Kremlin tightened the screws on its opponents – including supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny – using a combination of arrests, internet censorship and blacklists.
Ontario has 'eliminated all our defences' against COVID subvariant: epidemiologist
An infectious disease expert says 'there's no doubt' a sixth wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across Ontario, and it's being driven by the highly transmissible BA.2 subvariant at the same time restrictions have been lifted across the province.
NACI guidance on fourth dose of COVID vaccine expected soon: PHAC
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is expected to release guidance on fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccine in early April as public health indicators tick up across Canada.
'Obvious attempt to create chaos,' Charest campaign says of fake donation pledges
Jean Charest's team says it is aware that fake donation pledges were made to the Conservative leadership candidate's campaign, calling the situation 'an obvious attempt to create chaos.'
First Nations say Pope Francis meeting the beginning of a 'new partnership'
Assembly of First Nations delegation lead Chief Gerald Antoine says he believes a meeting held with Pope Francis at the Vatican will be the beginning of a 'new partnership' between Indigenous groups and the Catholic Church in working towards reconciliation.
With federal alcohol tax set to increase, MPs advance bills to rein it in
The Conservative Party and the New Democrats are each focusing new private members' bills on the rising cost of beverages – both alcoholic drinks and low-alcohol beer, specifically.
Dyson headphones' April Fools? Company says they're real
Dyson, the company famous for its bagless vacuum cleaners and pricey hair dryers, has revealed its first set of noise-cancelling headphones that come paired with a unique feature, air purifiers.
Sweet justice: Ringleader of Canada's notorious maple syrup heist must pay more than $9M in fines, top court rules
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a $9 million fine for the thief in a 2012 maple syrup heist. | https://bc.ctvnews.ca/nurse-to-face-disciplinary-hearing-for-failing-to-report-alleged-abuse-at-maple-ridge-care-home-1.5843698 | 2022-04-01T02:06:52Z |
Chandigarh, March 31
The 40th All-India Police Equestrian Championship and Police Mounted Duty Meet 2021-22 was inaugurated by the Governor of Haryana, Bandaru Dattatreya, at the basic training centre of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) in Bhanu near Chandigarh today.
The Governor said the event gave riders a platform to showcase their skills. He also assured the ITBP of all assistance by the state government to promote equestrian sports.
A total of 18 teams comprising 280 horses and 522 riders and officials from various Central Armed Police Forces and state police forces are participating in the 12-day event, which has been named “Thunderstorm” in the memory of the first ITBP horse to win a medal in equestrian championships.
Director-General, ITBP, Sanjay Arora; Additional Director-General, Western Command, Manoj Rawat; Inspector-General Ishwar Singh Duhan and other senior officers were present on the occasion.
The riders, including women, will be competing in 26 events. The objective of the championship is to encourage and prepare police riders for various national level equestrian competitions and promote esprit de corps among the uniformed forces.
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March is the first of five months that I treasure for family and friend memories (June, July, August and October are the others). This year is especially significant because Doris Looney’s birthdate was March 5, 1922. For over 30 years until Doris died, on Thanksgiving Day in 2007, my family and the Connelly family celebrated Doris’ birthday on March 5, my birthday on March 6 and John Connelly’s birthday on March 24.
I first met Doris in 1968 when I started teaching third grade in the Solon Community Schools second semester. Doris worked on the cafeteria lunch line. In the summer of 1968 my husband, Ron, and I moved into the log cabin on the Richard Adams farm on Highway One south of Solon. Doris’ twin brother, Donald, and his family farmed the property for Mr. Adams and lived there, too. Donald’s wife, Maxine, was the elementary school secretary and we sometimes carpooled to school.
In 1971 our son, John, was born. In 1972 we needed more space and moved to 233 S. Dubuque Street in Solon. John and Phyllis Connelly became our north neighbors on S. Dubuque Street in 1973 and their first daughter, Becky was born.
When we lived on S. Dubuque St., Doris, John C. and I began celebrating the “March Birthdays.” Sometimes, John Connelly’s parents joined us, too. The places we celebrated changed over the years, but usually we had pizza. I always remember John I. and Becky at Happy Joe’s peeking up over the window to see the pizza makers and loving the ice cream, plus the “Happy Birthday” serenade. In later years, we usually went to Mount Vernon to the Alger’s Pizza Palace.
After we moved to 601 Green Acres Drive and the Connelly’s moved to Windsor Drive, Doris would babysit with John I. and Becky before and after school. When Megan Connelly was born, John and Becky were old enough to not need Doris’ daycare. Doris also would sometimes babysit John and Steve Stange (Solon’s current mayor) together, if both sets of parents needed her help for the same night.
Doris always had part-time jobs in Solon. I mainly remember her working at the Solon Hardware Store over the years. John Ikan really loved it when he could see Doris at the Little Red Barn bait and fishing supplies shop during the summer months.
If you didn’t know Doris personally, you probably knew her because she rode her bicycle with the red flag on the back all over Solon. Doris never drove, and over the years I was happy to take her places when the Seats van wasn’t available. She was always at the Solon Methodist Church for services, football dinners and when Senior Dining meals began being served there. Doris attended services at Our Lord’s Church, too.
Doris was so pleased to be the first person to move into independent living unit #24 at Terrace Lane when it was built. She’d spent a lot of time at the Solon Nursing Care Center attending daily to her mother, Dorothea, and visiting others. Now that she lived at Terrace Lane, she had a lot of neighbors and friends nearby. After Doris’s childhood friend, Vic Vislisel, moved to Terrace Lane, we included Vic in the March birthday celebrations.
Doris’s legacy to Solon lives on via the gifts she made to various Solon organizations after her death — especially her scholarship fund. Celebrating Doris’ 100 years only had John Ikan, Becky Connelly and me alive this year of 2022, but we cherish those memories of the “March Birthdays” family. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/solon/guest-opinion-march-memories-looney-would-have-been-100-years-old/article_5e4c6833-e5e2-5519-98b9-e4066819634f.html | 2022-04-01T02:06:53Z |
Ministers ditch 'shambolic' Covid catch-up plan to give private tutoring to poor pupils
- A firm had its contract to run the National Tutoring Programme ended early
- Randstad was meant to arrange private tuition for disadvantaged pupils
- But schools said the tutors were often of a poor standard or didn't show up
The Covid catch-up scheme for schools was dubbed ‘shambolic’ yesterday after the firm running it was axed after less than a year.
Randstad, a Dutch company, was originally awarded a £25million contract to run the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) for three years.
It was supposed to arrange private tuition for the most disadvantaged pupils, whose education had suffered the most during the pandemic.
But schools said many tutors either did not turn up or lacked expertise.
Yesterday, the Department for Education (DfE) said that it would not be renewing Randstad’s contract in August, a year after it was appointed.
The Department for Education (pictured) ended the contract to run the National Tutoring Programme with Randstad years early due to its 'shambolic' management
Chris McGovern (pictured), of the Campaign for Real Education, said the new plan to give the schools more freedom to control the budget was a 'no-brainer'
Instead, the cash will go directly to schools so that they can either employ their own tutors or use existing teachers.
A total of £349million has been allocated for next year. The DfE said: ‘This will simplify the system and give schools the freedom to decide how best to provide tutoring for their children.’
Chris McGovern, of the Campaign for Real Education, added: ‘Giving schools control of the budget for catch-up tutoring is an educational no-brainer.
‘Its current management has been shambolic.’
As of December 12, pupils had started 52,000 courses with the official tuition partners, just 10 per cent of the firm’s target of 524,000 for the academic year.
Robert Halfon (pictured), chairman of the Commons education committee, said that the Dutch firm's delivery of the programme over the past year was 'particularly alarming'
Schools have said that the programme is a ‘bureaucratic nightmare’ and that Randstad’s online tuition hub was ‘dysfunctional’.
Last month the NTP removed its target of giving two thirds of its tutoring to children on the pupil premium, a key marker of deprivation.
Robert Halfon, chairman of the Commons education committee, said: ‘Randstad’s delivery of the national tutoring programme has been particularly alarming. I strongly welcome the measures.’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10674617/Ministers-ditch-shambolic-Covid-catch-plan-private-tutoring-poor-pupils.html | 2022-04-01T02:06:53Z |
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Roadside memorial continues to grow for 7 yr old boy James Lenzi
PALMETTO, Fla. (WWSB) - A Palmetto community is in shock as they continue to morn the life of James Lenzi, the 7 year old boy who was struck and killed by an impaired driver last week.
James was jogging with his father near 8th avenue west on Wed 3/25 when Aaron Naylor drove his van on the sidewalk, hitting the boy. He was immediately taken to the hospital via helicopter to Tampa General Hospital. Unfortunately, the boy did not survive the intense injuries.
Over the weekend a candlelight vigil was held for James. The roadside memorial has been growing ever since.
The driver of the vehicle, Naylor, is a 35 year old Parrish resident now facing a DWI, manslaughter, and possession of drugs. He was booked into the manatee county jail where he is being held on $506,000 bond. Last week he entered a plea of not guilty. He is scheduled to be arraigned on April 8th.
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Islanders use strong third period to top Blue Jackets
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.
The Canadian Press
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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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
12-17-18-23-35
(twelve, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-three, thirty-five)
¶ The numbers are listed in sequential order, but any combination wins. | https://www.thetelegraph.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17049953.php | 2022-04-01T02:06:55Z |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
12-17-18-23-35
(twelve, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-three, thirty-five)
¶ The numbers are listed in sequential order, but any combination wins. | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17049953.php | 2022-04-01T02:06:55Z |
Which coffee maker with a grinder is best?
The smell of fresh coffee is one of life’s greatest pleasures. What makes it even better is a coffee maker with a grinder that grinds the beans as you need them for perfect flavor every time.
When you can’t decide whether you want to have coffee or espresso, the Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine is a good choice for both.
What to know before you buy a coffee maker with a grinder
Type of grinder
A coffee maker with a grinder can come with one of two types of grinders: blade or burr.
- Blade: Blade grinders are the most economical choice and the simplest to operate. Two or more blades spin to grind the coffee. These blades get the job done, but they can produce inconsistent results. Some coffee beans come out finely ground, while others might remain nearly whole.
- Burr: Grinders are the choice of coffee connoisseurs. Two abrasive grinding surfaces called burrs rub the coffee together between them to grind it. This type of grinder is more expensive, but the results are more consistent and produce a delicious cup of coffee every time.
Drip coffee vs. espresso
Once you decide which type of grinder you want your coffee maker to include, you’ll need to decide whether you want drip coffee or espresso. This is largely a matter of preference, but it’s also a matter of time. Drip coffee can be made with less hands-on time, but espresso requires more attention.
In addition, drip coffee makers make hot coffee for a crowd, but espresso makers can only produce enough for one or two drinks at a time. Espresso is stronger and may not be to the taste of casual coffee drinkers.
Capacity
The capacity of your coffee maker varies depending on whether or not it produces drip coffee or espresso, as well as the size of each of these machines. It’s possible to get a single-serve drip coffee maker with a built-in grinder, and you can also find espresso machines that pull two or more shots at once.
Which you select depends on the number of coffee drinkers in your household, plus the amount of counter or storage space you have. Large espresso machines take up more real estate than a simple drip coffee maker.
What to look for in a quality coffee maker with a grinder
Grind settings
When you’re investing in a coffee maker with a grinder, make sure it has enough grind settings to suit your tastes and the coffee you’re making. If you aren’t particular, a single grind setting may work for you, but for those who like to vary the strength of their coffee, look for different settings such as extra-fine, fine, medium, medium-coarse and coarse. These allow you to customize the strength and flavor of your brew.
Carafe
Carafes are most common with drip coffee makers. Coffee brews directly into a carafe, which keeps it hot for hours. The benefit of a carafe is that the coffee won’t continue to cook on a heated plate.
Timer
There’s nothing quite like waking up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee. The best coffee makers with grinders come with a timer that can be programmed the night before to freshly grind beans and brew coffee before you get out of bed.
Auto shutoff
The auto shutoff feature is great for those days when you sleep through the alarm (and the sound of coffee grinding). It’s a safety feature that also protects your coffee from burning and ruining the pot.
Water filter
High-quality coffee makers use filtered water to preserve the subtle flavors of the coffee without interference from any minerals or additives in tap water. If you don’t want to use bottled water to make coffee, look for a coffee maker that features a built-in water filter.
How much you can expect to spend on a coffee maker with a grinder
The price range for coffee makers with grinders is wide and depends on the type of coffee you make, the grinder and other features. Expect to spend $70-$600 or more.
Coffee maker with grinder FAQ
Do freshly ground beans really make a difference?
A. Yes. Different coffee varieties have subtle differences in flavor and even texture that are lost when beans are ground and prepackaged in the grocery store. These grocery store ground coffee beans can be months old, and even sealed, they begin to lose their subtle flavor quickly. Grinding only the amount of beans you need each day for coffee ensures that the freshness, flavor and aroma of your coffee is preserved.
Grinding your own coffee at home also allows you to control the fineness of the grind so you can customize your cup to your specific tastes.
How do you store coffee beans?
A. Coffee beans begin to deteriorate in the presence of moisture, air and light. To keep them fresh longer, invest in an opaque, airtight canister. Store this canister in a cool, dark place (i.e. a cabinet or the top shelf of your fridge). Don’t leave coffee beans out on the counter or next to the stove. The light and heat will cause them to break down quickly.
Without storage in an airtight container, your coffee beans will only last for a week or two before losing their flavor.
What’s the best coffee maker with grinder to buy?
Top coffee maker with grinder
Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine
What you need to know: This produces coffee shop-quality espresso drinks in your own kitchen.
What you’ll love: The temperature is easy to control for perfect brewing every time. The grinder is easy to operate and clean, and this machine comes with both drip coffee and espresso capabilities. It also has a hot water dispenser and an automatic shutoff.
What you should consider: Plastic parts inside the machine make this less sturdy than its commercial counterparts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Sur La Table
Top coffee maker with grinder for the money
Black + Decker 12-Cup Mill and Brew Coffeemaker
What you need to know: This machine is easy to use and produces a delicious cup of coffee.
What you’ll love: The filter and grinder are integrated for mess-free brewing. It also takes already-ground coffee, if needed. You can customize the strength of your brew with simple programming, and the automatic shutoff feature is available. This is good for a crowd, with a 12-cup capacity.
What you should consider: If you break the carafe or any other parts, you need to order directly from the manufacturer.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Cuisinart DGB-400 Automatic Grind & Brew Coffeemaker
What you need to know: This coffee maker works well in small kitchens.
What you’ll love: Coffee beans are ground just before brewing for the freshest cup of coffee. It can be programmed for a hands-off morning cup.
What you should consider: There’s only one grind size.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
12-17-18-23-35
(twelve, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-three, thirty-five)
¶ The numbers are listed in sequential order, but any combination wins. | https://www.newstimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17049953.php | 2022-04-01T02:06:56Z |
Opinion
Toxic masculinity or protective and caring? Can violence ever be justified?
Kate Halfpenny
Regular columnistLadies out there, honesty time. What did you really think when you saw Will Smith slug Chris Rock at the Oscars over his Jada Pinkett Smith haircut jibe? Was there a frisson of “I wish someone did that for me” or were you repulsed?
The slap has been endlessly dissected as everything from toxic masculinity and intergenerational trauma to an adult lost child wrestling with his past who “snapped”. It’s way too analytical. A man whacking another to save face or salve feelings was overbearing, terrible behaviour that shouldn’t be dressed up as anything else or excused away with deep dives into – save us – triggers.
It was a bloke hijacking a situation involving the little woman and turning it into a crusade to make him look bigger. Stand back love, think of shopping and SNS nails, I’ll take it from here.
That’s just me, though. How did you see it, sexy or stupid?
Do you love it when partners turn into slappy swear bears to defend you or do you see it as retrograde assholery that removes your power (which includes being able to run countries and make people)? No right or wrong answer, I’m genuinely curious.
Smith tried to cover his tracks by tearfully claiming he’s a protector of women: “Love will make you do crazy things.”
That self-serving dross makes me feel like smacking myself in the face. Tell family violence victim Hannah Clarke’s grieving family that love makes you crazy. What her murderous husband did isn’t love, and neither was what Will Smith did.
Different ends of the spectrum, obviously, but same root cause. Possessiveness should be at the top of every woman’s Run Away Now list of relationship red flags.
When I first married at 24, my beautifully cautious, wise friend Lynne asked why I was so sure of my choice: “If I was hanging off a cliff by my fingernails, and he said he would save me, he would.”
Minus cliffs, that was borne out – he was like MacGyver in terms of ingenuity and keeping his word. Yet pledging my heart second time around at 48, my husbandly wish list was different. Brains, black humour, pink heart, footy knowledge.
The last thing I wanted was to be rescued by anyone.
Still, my husband had a few good cracks at it. Saddling up for a Berlin bike tour in 2016, a trainee rider crashed and knocked me over. All he gave was a rueful look before wobbling off, my incensed, roaring husband in pursuit: “You, come back! Apologise!”
On the same holiday, Chris fronted an unlikely nemesis, the octoganerian hiring out banana lounges on Italy’s Cinque Terre. A day earlier, he’d thrown me off a chair when I lost my ticket. Suddenly, amid an end-of-days downpour, the only people at the fast-flooding train station were us and the beach ticket man.
He was frantically searching his pockets for something. Chris pounced: “Oi! Where’s your f---ing ticket?”
I’ll admit both times I felt not just queasiness at someone fighting my corner when it wasn’t asked for but quietly thrilled he was prepared to do it. There was also something comedic going on. I would have hated it though had he started throwing haymakers – that’s the line between being protective and possessive which Smith spectacularly crossed.
My friend Nicola has been married to Tom for 34 years. They met at Rocktober in ’79. She says what makes a good husband isn’t getting punchy: “Compassion, encouragement and intelligence. Also, that look he gives me – happy to see me naked even though I’ve gained some kilos.”
Will Smith must wish he could turn back time and react differently. Laugh at the joke (as he actually did), then when he clocked his wife’s stink eye, yell “man, that’s lame – Jada, you’re so beautiful” and give her a smooch.
But he can’t and will remain a living cautionary tale for what not to do if you want to look like a fabulous partner or, even more radical, be one. | https://www.smh.com.au/national/toxic-masculinity-or-protective-and-caring-can-violence-ever-be-justified-20220331-p5a9tx.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed | 2022-04-01T02:06:56Z |
It was a miracle. That’s how Grammy Award-winning musician Lani Hall describes it. Hall, who remembers singing songs from the radio in the backseat of her dad’s car at two years old, absorbing them, learning them, would later begin to sing them in her bedroom. They were mostly jazz standards at the time. And doing so was a transforming experience. While she never thought she would become a professional singer, she couldn’t get enough music. But at the same time, Hall kept it all a secret. Until one day. When she was in her late teens, a friend who worked at a nightclub came by her house unexpectedly and heard her singing through her bedroom door. From that chance encounter, a career blossomed. And today that career includes Hall’s forthcoming tender album, Seasons of Love, which is set to release on April 22—her first solo LP in nearly 25 years. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556272266642/stories-provide-delightful-entertainment-for-mud-season | 2022-04-01T02:06:56Z |
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'Our city's in a crisis': Small community asks for help amid big surge in crime
Officials from the small city of Terrace, B.C., were in Victoria this week as a last-ditch effort to ask for help as thefts and break-ins continue hitting businesses already negatively impacted during the pandemic.
Ginny Kenmuir and her husband own two businesses in Terrace, and they're at the epicentre of a surge in crime. In one month, they were robbed four times, forcing the couple to take drastic measures.
"My husband has slept off and on at each store,” said Kenmuir. “Which, I think that's not a great idea. It's pretty dangerous.”
It's a story city councillor Sean Bujtas has heard over and over. He's been told by some businesses that thefts like those the Kenmuir businesses have suffered would leave them on the brink of closing.
"I feel sick," he told CTV News. "It's depressing. It's upsetting.”
Kenmuir, Bujtas and others believe the problem isn't policing, but rather the courts’ revolving door.
On Wednesday and Thursday, Bujtas joined Terrace Mayor Carole Leclerc in Victoria to meet with ministers and ask for help.
"Our city's in a crisis,” Leclerc said. “We could be any city in the province of British Columbia. We have problems with prolific offenders.”
Some of their asks included integrated provincial courts, mental health and addiction supports, and for Crown counsel to be at the table when looking for solutions. The province didn't respond to CTV News Vancouver's request for an interview.
"We need to prosecute repeat offenders,” Burjtas said after the meeting.
“We need to get these prolific offenders off the streets of Terrace and have them stop terrorizing our municipality.”
Until help arrives for a complex issue, business owners like the Kenmuir family are left on their own to protect their livelihoods.
"It's it's been very hard. Our staff is very young, and they're terrified," said Kenmuir.
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The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a $9 million fine for the thief in a 2012 maple syrup heist. | https://bc.ctvnews.ca/our-city-s-in-a-crisis-small-community-asks-for-help-amid-big-surge-in-crime-1.5843786 | 2022-04-01T02:06:58Z |
The Iowa Hawkeyes finished 10-4 last year winning the West Division for the first time since 2015.
Iowa got beat in the Big Ten championship game against Michigan, 42-3, and lost to Kentucky in the Citrus Bowl ,20-13.
The Hawks had big victories over Iowa State (27-17), Maryland (51-14) and Penn State (23-20).
The Iowa offense averaged 23.4 points and the defense gave up 19.2.
The Hawks averaged 123.6 yards rushing and 189 passing.
Ken O’Keefe retired as quarterback coach.
Brian Ferentz is taking over as quarterback coach as well as offensive coordinator
Abdul Hodge, former Hawkeye linebacker, is the new tight-end coach.
In the next couple of weeks, I’ll break down the two-deeps starting with the offense.
Offensive line
Gone is All-American center Tyler Linderbaum.
The former Solon prep was a four-year starter, three-time All-Big Ten and won the Rimington Award as the nation’s best center.
Kyler Schott was a three-year starter at guard, but was injured the first couple of games last year.
Sophomore Mason Richmond (6-6, 296) is the top left tackle, who started 12 games at left tackle last fall. He played in three games as a true freshman and then redshirted.
Redshirt freshman David Davidkow (6-6, 286) is the backup tackle.
Junior Justin Britt (6-4, 302) is at left guard. Britt started three games at right guard last season before being injured, played in four games as a freshman and three games as a sophomore.
Redshirt freshman Beau Stephens (6-6, 300) is the backup left guard and was first team all-conference on offense and defense as a senior in Blue Springs, Missouri.
Tyler Elsbury (6-5, 301) is listed as the starting center. The sophomore from Byron, Illinois redshirted his first two years.
Senior Matt Fagan (6-5, 287) is the backup center. He is a former walk-on and a two-time academic All-Big Ten selection.
Sophomore Connor Colby (6-6, 298) is the left guard. He started the last 11 games at right guard last fall as a true freshman and was named freshman All American by the football writers of America.
Sophomore Josh Volk (6-4, 308) is the backup left guard.
Senior Jack Plumb (6-7, 296) is the starter at right tackle. He started seven games at right tackle last year after coming to Iowa as a tight end and switched to tackle his first year. The Wisconsin prep played in 13 games as a redshirt freshman and six games in 2020. That was the Covid year with only eight games played and Plumb started twice.
Junior Nick DeJong (6-6, 292) is the second-team right tackle, started two games last year and played in seven games as a redshirt freshman.
The Hawkeyes have more experience this year and will need to do a better job of protecting the quarterback.
Iowa gave up 32 sacks last season and averaged only 3.4 yards per rush.
Fullbacks
Iowa is one of the few schools left in Division I to use a fullback. This is a blue-collar guy who has to be a great blocker, can run in short-yardage and catch a pass out of the backfield.
Senior Monte Pottebaum (6-1, 246) is listed as the top fullback. He started in six games last year and ran the ball 16 times for 76 yards (5.4 per carry) scoring one touchdown. The senior from West Lyon was academic All-Big Ten two years in a row and has seven receptions in his career.
Senior Turner Pallissard (6-0, 245) is the backup at fullback. He is also a two-time academic All-Big Ten and played in 12 games in his career.
Both of the fullbacks are built like offensive guards and are good blockers.
Tight ends
I was pleasantly surprised when Sam LaPorta decided to come back for another year. The 6-4, 250-pound junior tight end from Illinois led the Hawks with 53 receptions, 670 yards and three touchdown catches last season. I thought he would be a high draft pick. LaPorta saw action in 12 games as a true freshman in 2019 with two starts including the Holiday Bowl when he had six catches in a 49-24 win over USC. As a sophomore, he led the team in receptions with 27 and was second in receiving yards (271) in an eight-game season. LaPorta has great hands and is a top-rated blocker.
Sophomore Luke Lachey (6-6, 248) is the No. 2 man. He played in all 13 games with eight catches for 133 yards Lachey is a top recruit out of Ohio and played in two games as a freshman.
Look for one or two more tight ends to step up as Iowa likes to have two tight ends in the lineup, possibly junior Jason Frericks (6-6, 229) or a redshirt freshman.
Next week I’ll look at the quarterbacks, wide receivers and who will replace Tyler Goodson at running back. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/solon/hawk-talk-hawkeyes-kickoff-spring-football/article_df68a3a5-ae9a-5d80-b68c-b79544057562.html | 2022-04-01T02:06:59Z |
Don't call us! Chats on phones are hung up in favour of videos or text messages, survey shows
- Spoken phone calls are becoming notably less popular for younger generations
- Eight in ten now prefer texts, instant messaging or video calls, a survey said
- More than half of 18 to 34-year-olds will schedule phone calls unlike over 55s
Spoken phone calls are in sharp decline as eight in ten now prefer messaging or video calls, a survey has shown.
People want the speed and simplicity of texts, WhatsApp or social media, it found. But 45 per cent would still rather talk when contacting their parents.
The poll by Sky Mobile comes ahead of the 49th anniversary on Sunday of the first public mobile phone call.
Younger generations are more likely to schedule their calls, with over half of 18 to 34-year-olds doing so, compared with a quarter of over-55s.
80% of people prefer to message of video call rather than have a phone call according to a poll by Sky Mobile
While many Britons wish they had more time to make phone calls with family and friends, people still prefer the speed and simplicity of texts
Answerphone messages are also seen as a nuisance, with more than a fifth saying they are inconvenient and one in ten saying they delete them without even listening to them.
Nearly half of Britons say they wish they had more time for quality calls with family and friends, and 28 per cent say they have been calling loved ones more in the pandemic.
Earlier this week, BT put its controversial move to replace all landline phones with digital versions on hold after pensioners were left without working lines for days during power cuts.
The survey showed that traditional calls are most commonly made for a ‘proper catch-up’ with close family and friends (40 per cent) or to share major news, whether good (34 per cent) or bad (33 per cent).
Almost every mobile phone offers the option to video call, which may be one of the reasons why they are preferred over just a phone call (stock image)
They are also often favoured for special occasions (29 per cent), difficult conversations (28 per cent), advice (24 per cent), when someone is being missed (23 per cent) and to ensure nothing is lost in translation (22 per cent).
Nearly half – 48 per cent – of Brits say they wish they had more time for quality calls with family and friends.
And 28 per cent say they have been making more effort to phone their nearest and dearest during the pandemic.
A similar number – 27 per cent – say that staying connected by phone has helped them deal with feelings of loneliness during lockdowns.
Managing director Paul Sweeney said: ‘We’re encouraging our Sky Mobile customers to connect with a friend or family member this weekend for a proper catch-up, as even the quickest of calls can help put a smile on someone’s face’. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10674631/Dont-call-Chats-phones-hung-favour-videos-text-messages-survey-shows.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:00Z |
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Mohali, March 31
A local court today sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping his minor niece.
District and Sessions Judge Ranjan Kumar Khullar, while pronouncing the sentence, also slapped a fine of Rs30,000 on the convict, Sagar, a native of Uttar Pradesh.
The case dates back to May 2015 when Sagar had raped a Class VI girl living with her parents at a rented accommodation in Mohali. He entered the girl’s house while her parents were away to work and asked her to give him water to drink. As she went to fetch water, Sagar gagged her and violated her. Later, he also threatened the victim with dire consequences if she revealed the incident to anyone.
The victim kept quiet for a day. The next day, she came back from her school and found her maternal uncle again sitting in her house. Sagar again attempted to rape her, but she managed to run out of the house and raised the alarm.
In the meantime, her neighbours gathered and she narrated the crime to them following which Sagar was nabbed and handed over to the police.
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USDA forecasting higher food, grocery costs in 2022
(Gray News) - It looks like elevated food prices are going to continue this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The USDA released its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and predicted the cost of groceries would continue to increase to as much as 4%.
According to the Consumer Price Index, grocery and supermarket food prices were already 8.6% higher in February than last year and up nearly 1.5% from January to February in 2022.
As reported by the Associated Press, prices for U.S. consumers have continued to jump recently, leaving families facing the highest inflation rate since 1990.
“We’re getting into this situation where we have spiraling inflation,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors. “Inflation in one area drives inflation in another.”
Currently, the CPI reports all food categories are increasing in price other than fresh vegetables. Last year, the beef and veal categories had the most significant price increase of 9.3%, and the fresh vegetable category had the smallest at 1.1%. However, no food categories decreased in price in 2021.
Poultry prices are also expected to increase up to 7%, with egg prices predicted to increase up to 3.5% in 2022.
Overall, grocery store and supermarket food purchases are expected to increase up to 4%, with restaurant purchases or food away from home forecasted to increase up to 6.5%, according to the USDA.
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Kupcho, Lee share early lead in last major at Mission Hills
Jennifer Kupcho shared the lead Thursday in The Chevron Championship in her second — and last — start at Mission Hills, the tree-lined layout she has quickly fallen in love with. Kupcho shot a 6-under 66 in sunny and calm morning conditions to join fellow early starter Minjee Lee atop the leaderboard after the first round of the final edition of the major championship at Mission Hills.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Jennifer Kupcho shared the lead Thursday in The Chevron Championship in her second — and last — start at Mission Hills, the tree-lined layout she has quickly fallen in love with.
“Honestly, I think it’s just being comfortable on this golf course,” Kupcho said. “I get here and I just, I feel comfortable. I love this place."
Kupcho shot a 6-under 66 in sunny and calm morning conditions to join fellow early starter Minjee Lee atop the leaderboard after the first round of the final edition of the major championship at Mission Hills.
“I really like the layout of this golf course, the beautiful shape that it’s in every year,” Kupcho said. “It always is so fun to be here, so just taking advantage of how much I like the course and the atmosphere.”
Unable to find a sponsor willing to remain at Mission Hills, the tournament that started in 1972 as the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner’s Circle and became a major in 1983 is shifting to Houston next year under a deal with Chevron.
“Definitely sad," Carolina Masson said after a 68. "I understand why we’re doing it, but I’m just trying to soak in every second being out here. The golf course is playing as good as ever."
Defending champion Patty Tavatanakit was a stroke back, finishing late in the afternoon in gusting wind.
“Really proud,” Tavatanakit said. “I feel like I really got my momentum going, was really present today.”
Kupcho birdied Nos. 11-14 to get to 8 under, then bogeyed the next two holes. She birdied four of the first five and finished with nine birdies and three bogeys.
“You really need to hit fairways on a major golf course, so that was like my biggest thing today, to hit a bunch of fairways,” Kupcho said. “That really set me up for all my birdies.”
Winless on the LPGA Tour, Kupcho won the 2018 NCAA individual title for Wake Forest and took the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur the following year after passing up a spot that week at Mission Hills.
The 24-year-old from Colorado arrived early in the desert after missing the cut Friday in Carlsbad. "I just used the two days that I did have on the weekend to come here and practice,” she said.
Lee birdied all four par 5s in a bogey-free round on the mountain-framed course.
“It was perfect,” Lee said. “Not like a breath of wind when we played. Maybe just a tiny bit. But conditions are great. Putting greens are rolling real nice. I don’t think you can get better than that.”
The 25-year-old Australian, ranked fourth in the world, won the Evian Championship last summer for her first major title and sixth LPGA Tour victory.
“I know I have one under my belt, but I do want a little bit more,” Lee said. “I just think I have a little bit more belief in myself and my game, so I can be a little bit more comfortable just hitting the shots."
Third-ranked Lydia Ko, the 2015 champion, was at 68 with Masson, Anna Nordqvist, Georgia Hall, Gabriela Ruffels and Pajaree Anannarukarn. Lexi Thompson, the 2014 winner, was another stroke back with Sarah Schmelzel, Annie Park, Lauren Stephenson, Pauline Roussin-Bouchard and Hinako Shibuno.
Thompson marveled at course she first played as a 14-year-old amateur.
“I’ve never seen it this good," Thompson said. “It always surprises me every year. It’s always better. The greens are amazing. I’m one to putt and usually aim at things along the way, and there is just not an imperfection on greens to aim at. It’s a good problem.”
Schmelzel is making her fourth appearance.
“This place is really special,” Schmelzel said. “I feel like growing up watching the LPGA Tour, these are holes that I remember. These are holes that I wanted to be on one day.”
Park played as a single in the first group in the afternoon off the first tee.
“It was kind of weird the first couple holes just playing by myself,” Park said. “It was really peaceful."
Top-ranked Jin Young Ko, the 2019 winner, shot a 74 to end her under-par streak at 34 rounds. Her run of at least one birdie ended at 53 rounds.
“I was hitting lots of great shots, but my putting wasn’t good,” she said. “I couldn’t see the break as much or speed. Everything was wrong."
Ally Ewing and Moriya Jutanugarn had an eventful finish on the par-5 18th when the sprinklers on the green turned on at about 6 p.m. as Ewing was preparing for a 4-foot birdie putt. After a short delay, she holed out for a 70.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.tsn.ca/jennifer-kupcho-minjee-lee-mission-hills-chevron-championship-1.1779197 | 2022-04-01T02:07:01Z |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Pick 10" game were:
03-06-07-17-21-23-32-42-47-52-54-59-61-65-66-67-69-78-79-80
(three, six, seven, seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-three, thirty-two, forty-two, forty-seven, fifty-two, fifty-four, fifty-nine, sixty-one, sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-nine, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty) | https://www.thetelegraph.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-10-game-17049898.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:01Z |
SEATTLE — Some desserts are beautiful and delicious — and the cakes that Valeria Koulikova makes fall into that category.
"Baking is always something that I love doing. And then I was scrolling through Instagram, and that's when these mousse cakes started popping up everywhere," said Val. "And I was like, oh my god, I have to know how to make them."
Four years later, Val went from a journalist to a baker with her very own business — From V with Love.
Val makes mousse cakes, which usually have four layers. Mousse, a jelly or creamy layer, something crunchy, and sponge cake. The cakes are layered, baked, and then frozen — that's how they keep their shape. On top is a mirror glaze, which Val pours on the cake to create incredible designs.
Val does custom cakes, but also sells sample boxes if you'd like to try different flavors. Head to her website to order, or check out her Instagram to see when sample boxes are available.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Pick 10" game were:
03-06-07-17-21-23-32-42-47-52-54-59-61-65-66-67-69-78-79-80
(three, six, seven, seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-three, thirty-two, forty-two, forty-seven, fifty-two, fifty-four, fifty-nine, sixty-one, sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-nine, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty) | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-10-game-17049898.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:01Z |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Pick 10" game were:
03-06-07-17-21-23-32-42-47-52-54-59-61-65-66-67-69-78-79-80
(three, six, seven, seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-three, thirty-two, forty-two, forty-seven, fifty-two, fifty-four, fifty-nine, sixty-one, sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-nine, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty) | https://www.newstimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-10-game-17049898.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:02Z |
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48 years of service: Say goodbye to Hollowood
Paul Hollowood always expected to spend his professional life racing to emergencies with lights and sirens clearing the path before him.
His plan was to follow his father’s footsteps into the Fire Brigade. “As a kid I spent half my life at the Carlton fire station. When we played footy and cricket out the back, the firefighters would join in.”
The fire service had a father-son rule, which meant Paul was to be fast-tracked into the service. The trouble was you had to be 21 to join and at 16 he was done with school.
His father suggested he join the police as a cadet, learn that trade and then slip over to the fire brigade when the time was right.
“The trouble was that as soon as I joined I found I really loved policing,” he says. And so he stayed - for 48 years, retiring on Friday, April 1, as a superintendent.
While Paul’s career was long and varied, his most important investigation was fire-related, into the 2009 Black Saturday disaster that cost 173 lives.
As an experienced homicide investigator, Hollowood was used to a crime scene that might be the size of a room or a backyard.
The Black Saturday scene was 350,000 hectares - 86 separate sites of blackened, smouldering devastation.
The first challenge was to find and identify victims lost in the furnace. The Victorian Institute of Forensic Services identified every one - a modern scientific miracle.
There were 521 serious injuries, 3394 buildings destroyed and 726 vehicles melted. One way of dealing with the aftermath would have been to decide it was just too big, accept the death toll and complete a general inquiry with broad conclusions.
Instead, it was decided each individual victim and every grieving family was entitled to the truth, resulting in Australia’s biggest police investigation.
Hollowood was then in charge of several investigative units, including the Arson Squad.
“Because of the extreme weather, for about a week before Black Saturday we were aware of the growing risk, but no one was prepared for what happened,” he recalls.
“I was duty Crime Department Superintendent on the day, and it was as bad as it could be. Units were reporting from around the state saying it was utter chaos.”
Police set up the Phoenix Taskforce and initially 400 Crime Department detectives were sent into the field. It would take two years, more than 100,000 investigative hours and result in taking more than 5000 statements.
If each case went before the Coroner in the usual way, the process would have taken years and traumatised thousands of witnesses and family members.
“It soon became apparent that we just couldn’t do this the traditional way,” Hollowood says.
Police experimented with “electronic briefs” that were more than online versions of the vast paper files that would make up one case. The final interactive product was both brilliant and awful.
The before-and-after satellite photos show the lottery that is life and death. There are well-prepared properties, seemingly bushfire-proof, that are obliterated, while others dropped into the scrub, often built without planning permits, are spared.
Click on the mouse and you see a man standing proudly by his house. Click again and a graphic program shows the man trying to save the property, his wife urging him to go, his car idling in the garage if he needs to escape.
Then the call to 000 when he yells above the roar of a wall of fire that he is trapped. Then he is gone.
Instead of having to sit in a sterile courtroom and hear strangers describe their loved ones’ last moments, Hollowood says, “we were able to sit with relatives and explain exactly what happened”.
As a young cop, Hollowood was part of a group that benefited from a change of policy that fast- tracked talented young police into criminal investigations, becoming a detective in Brunswick. Soon he was assigned to homicide and by the age of 32 was running a team as a Detective Senior Sergeant.
In June 1991, six-year-old Sheree Beasley was abducted from outside a Rosebud milk bar, with witnesses saying they saw a distressed girl driven away by a middle-aged man.
Her body was found stuffed in a Red Hill stormwater drain three months later.
Initially the case was treated as an abduction and a taskforce formed to try and find her. After her body was found it became a homicide investigation, with Hollowood in charge.
It would take 18 months to lay charges and Hollowood had to enlist the help of a police killer to resolve the case.
One of the first routine suspects was church elder and convicted sex offender Robert Arthur Selby Lowe. He was telephoned and asked about his movements after his work car, along with 775 others, were flagged as similar to the vehicle in the abduction.
He was called in for a further interview in August but gave an alibi for the day of the crime.
After the body was discovered, Hollowood ordered a review of known suspects: “We kept coming back to Lowe.”
It wasn’t only the police who had their doubts. Lowe occasionally consulted psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs, who became increasingly concerned at the sinister nature of her patient and tipped off police.
Hollowood decided to use a court-approved bug in her office. Lowe, he recalls, used Hobbs as a sounding board, never telling the truth but rehearsing versions of events he could later use if confronted again by police.
After Lowe was charged, Hollowood found another ally. Armed robber Peter Reid, convicted of the 1982 murder of Senior Constable Stephen Henry, gave evidence that Lowe had confessed to him inside jail.
“Lowe was using Reid as a jailhouse lawyer and Reid had no time for a child killer. Reid had done a drafting course in prison and was able to map out the abduction better than some professionals,” says Hollowood.
If you work homicide, you deal with offenders who kill for a variety of reasons. Then there are the stone killers, those who turn murder into business and see life as a tradeable commodity.
None was worse than Alistair Farquhar “Sandy” MacRae, implicated in 20 suspicious deaths.
“I would have to say that he would be Australia’s worst known multiple murderer, and we will never know how many people he has killed. He had no regard for life at all,” says Hollowood.
After quitting as a standover man for Melbourne’s biggest vice ring, MacRae moved to a 10-hectare property at Merbein, near Mildura. This was no retirement move, as he began to lure people to his property on the promise of buying marijuana in order to kill them.
In 1987 police found the body of Domenico Marafiote buried under MacRae’s chicken coop.
Two years earlier MacRae had shot and killed his victim (he had already dug the grave) before driving to Adelaide to kill Marafiote’s parents Carmelo, 69, and Rosa, 70. He was desperate to find the money that Marafiote was to use for the marijuana deal but didn’t find the cash, which was sewn into Rosa’s clothing.
Hollowood says it was over a space of a few years that law enforcement went from a craft for the crafty to a profession. He began in an era when short-tempered detectives in short-sleeved shirts had a tendency to punch suspects with a short right to gather information, and worked through to a time when tertiary-educated investigators drinking short blacks punch a keyboard to gather intelligence.
“The big change was from the early 1980s to the late 1980s. We started taking statements on typewriters and ended with video-recorded interviews. We could only collect blood group samples and there was no DNA. We were only allowed to present black-and-white crime photos because colour ones were considered likely to inflame a jury.
“We moved from caveman days to professional in a few years.”
He learnt it was the cop who went one step further that made the difference, such as the search-and-rescue sergeant called in to look for a body who spotted a tiny piece of rug - “no bigger than a thumb” - stuck on top of a barbed wire fence in arid Mallee country.
Concentrating on the area from the police helicopter he spotted a darker area of disturbed sand. “The victim was buried there, wrapped in the rug. It had caught when the offenders carried him over the fence. I was amazed he could spot the piece on the wire.”
Professional criminals have also changed, Hollowood says. “They robbed banks or were safe-breakers or committed fraud. Now they are opportunistic. They may commit robberies, aggravated burglaries and then frauds.”
Paul Hollowood has a loyal group of police admirers who respect his coolness under pressure, his guidance and his legendary work ethic. He has his detractors as well, those who have been bruised as he has always been more concerned about results than popularity.
One admirer is Assistant Commissioner Bob Hill, who as a young homicide detective learned that with Hollowood the job always came first: “Paul was the consummate professional but a hard taskmaster, who demanded the very best from his staff. If I needed advice, he has always been the first person I turned to.” | https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/48-years-of-service-say-goodbye-to-hollowood-20220330-p5a9cc.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed | 2022-04-01T02:07:02Z |
Village OKs $2.5M fund for firehouse construction
SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake Village Board voted Monday to set aside $2.5 million in a reserve fund to put toward an emergency services building to be built sometime in the future, possibly on land the village moved to purchase this month behind the existing fire hall....
www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556272312741/village-oks-2-5m-fund-for-firehouse-construction | 2022-04-01T02:07:03Z |
How to choose the best baseball bat for your needs
Unless you play Major League Baseball, you have a choice when it comes to picking the material for your bat. Your options are wood, aluminum or composite. Each of these materials provides the player with a distinct set of advantages. Each also has an inherent set of drawbacks.
When shopping for a baseball bat, you must consider what your needs are and match the type of bat to those needs. A wood bat still has its place, even though aluminum and composite bats offer a performance advantage.
Wood baseball bats
Because of safety (and other) issues, the MLB only uses ash, birch and maple bats. If you want to play like a pro, this would be your bat of choice. It honors tradition and offers a little more safety, although a pair of quality batting gloves will come in handy to reduce the sting.
Wood baseball bats pros
- From a budget perspective, wood bats are appealing because of their lower cost.
- Wood bats are the best bat for training because they provide the most feedback. This helps the player improve their swing mechanics.
- Wood bats are safer because the bat doesn’t increase the ball’s velocity like other materials.
Wood baseball bats cons
- Wood bats break more easily than aluminum or composite bats.
- The sweet spot on a wood bat is smaller than it is on the other options.
- Wood bats are the heaviest type of bat, which means they are harder to swing and may be smaller in size, so they won’t provide as much plate coverage.
Best wood baseball bats
The Big Stick is certified for MLB play. It is made of maple and employs a heavier barrel, making it ideal for power hitters.
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Louisville Slugger Series 3X Ash Bat
This bat is from a trusted name in baseball. It is made of ash and has a natural finish. The large sweet spot and lighter weight make this a favorite.
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Wilson Sporting Goods Louisville Slugger
This 27-inch wood bat is cupped for reduced weight. The black design features red lettering so your bat is sharp looking and easy to identify.
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Aluminum baseball bats
Aluminum bats were introduced to college baseball in the early ’70s to cut down on the rising costs of replacing broken wood bats. Besides being more durable, aluminum is lighter than wood and provides more pop when hitting a ball. However, aluminum bats are not without their downsides.
Aluminum baseball bat pros
- Aluminum bats are best when they are new — there is no break-in period required.
- Aluminum bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them ideal for a beginner who is having trouble hitting with any sort of power.
- Aluminum bats have a trampoline effect. When the bat makes contact, some of the energy is transferred to the ball, making it travel farther and faster than a ball hit by a wood bat.
- The lighter weight of an aluminum bat means they can be longer and larger, giving the player greater plate coverage and a faster swing.
Aluminum baseball bat cons
- Although an aluminum bat will rarely break, it can lose its pop over time. The more imperfections the bat gains from hitting balls, the more its performance deteriorates.
- Aluminum bats cost slightly more than wooden bats, but they are less than composite bats.
- With an aluminum bat, there is less feedback sent to the batter, so it can be harder for a beginner to develop proper swing mechanics.
Best aluminum baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Omaha USA Youth Bat
The Omaha USA youth bat features a one-piece construction. It feels solid in the batter’s hands and offers enhanced energy transfer. It has a cushioned leather grip for increased comfort and control.
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The lightweight construction of this bat gives the player increased speed, letting them get more power behind their swing. It has a cushioned grip and is approved for all associations that follow the USA Baseball standard.
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This affordable aluminum bat is for entry-level T-ball players. The ultralightweight design is suitable for ages 7 and under. It has a large sweet spot to deliver greater satisfaction and foster confidence.
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Composite baseball bats
A composite baseball bat is made of carbon fiber. These crystalline filaments are thinner than a strand of human hair but become remarkably rugged when twisted together. It is a lightweight material that has incredible strength. Some composite bats are made from a single piece of material, while others are two-piece items: a handle and a barrel. A two-piece bat is better for the average player because it doesn’t transfer as much vibration to the hands after a solid hit. Advanced players with greater speed and power, however, may opt for one-piece bats.
Composite baseball bat pros
- Composite bats are the lightest baseball bats available. This lets manufacturers make longer bats without increasing the weight so players have greater plate coverage.
- Since most composite bats have a two-piece design, they are less likely to sting a player’s hands.
- Composite bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them best for inexperienced players.
- Over time, the trampoline effect increases on a composite bat.
Composite baseball bat cons
- Composite bats are not as durable as aluminum bats, and it is possible to break them.
- Compost bats cost more than wood bats and aluminum bats.
- A composite bat is not ready to go out of the box. You need to break it in. This process takes anywhere from 150 to 300 hits.
Best composite baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Meta BBCOR Bat
This is a high-end composite bat that is best for the serious player. It features a large barrel with a balanced design and a comfortable yet secure grip.
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Easton Ghost X Hyperlite Youth Bat
This composite bat from Easton is 29 inches long but only weighs 18 ounces. It has a large sweet spot and a balanced swing weight that makes it a good choice for beginners.
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This bat is available in five sizes ranging from 27-31 inches. It features an ultralightweight design to help young players succeed. The lower price adds value.
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Should you get a wood, aluminum or composite baseball bat?
For the average player, an aluminum bat wins out because it offers the best of all worlds. It has a large sweet spot, a lightweight design, and it is available at a reasonable price. However, if you have an unlimited budget, a composite bat might edge out an aluminum bat. A composite bat won’t help you hit the ball farther, but the larger barrel and lighter weight design could up your batting average. For players who want to perfect their swing mechanics, however, there is no better option than using a wood bat at practice.
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Dr Nick Coatsworth SLAMS politicians and health bureaucrats for Covid fearmongering as he demands an end to 'disgraceful' mask mandates in schools
- Kids in Grade 3 to 6 in Victoria are required to wear masks while at school
- Premier Dan Andrews, his deputy and chief health officer all defended the rule
- Almost all mask rules for adults were lifted in the state earlier in March
- Thousands of parents, teachers have joined health experts in slamming the rule
Australia's former chief medical officer Dr Nick Coatsworth is leading calls for Victoria to end mask mandates for children and slammed public health and political leaders for perpetuating fears about Covid-19.
In a message posted to Twitter on Friday, Dr Coatsworth wrote: 'It’s time. #UnmaskOurKids.
After sending the message, Dr Coatsworth faced an onslaught of support from parents calling for the mask mandates to end.
However, he also faced criticism from several trolls who claimed he was 'misinformed.'
Dr Coatsworth (pictured) and other health experts have said the mask rules for kids don't make sense
One wrote: 'Nick, is this your idea of an April Fool's Day prank or are you once again unmasking how little you care about vulnerable people (including children)?'
But Dr Coatsworth quickly fired back with a brutal message for political and public health leaders: 'I forgive the abusers in the comments section,' he wrote.
'Who I don’t forgive is the leaders, both political and public health, that perpetuate the level of COVID fear that leads to this level of discourse. The community has a right to an accurate representation of risk.'
While almost all mask rules were scrapped for adults at the beginning of March, primary school kids in Grades 3 to 6 are still forced to wear masks while at school.
Last month, Victorian chief health officer Professor Brett Sutton defended the decision saying it would 'put downward pressure on transmission'.
Meanwhile, Premier Dan Andrews added the decision was made because vaccination rates in kids aged 5-11 were slow compared to the rest of the population.
Most mask rules were lifted for adults in Victoria earlier in March but school kids still have to wear them five days a week (pictured: Port Melbourne College)
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews (pictured) said it 'wasn't his job to interpret the advice' of the chief health officer despite introducing new laws to that effect
'You've got to draw the line somewhere... it's much harder to get a little kid in prep or (Grade) 1 and 2 to wear their mask than it is for kids who are a bit older,' Mr Andrews said,
Deputy Premier James Merlino joined in too, saying his kids had 'gotten used' to wearing masks at school.
Dr Nick Coatsworth retweeted a post from mental health advocacy group Shadow Pandemic in which they polled thousands of parents who had a very different view.
'Mr Merlino your job is to represent constituents... we polled 20,000 parents and teachers to ask if their kids mind being masked all day five days a week, you are well out of touch,' the group said.
'That's a ridiculous statement, they shouldn't be used to wearing masks,' one parent said.
'How absurd, of course they mind. My son's glasses are always fogging up because of the mask. And let's consider how much communication is being missed by covering up everyone's speech and facial expressions,' a second said.
'They can't see their friends or teachers smiling at them, and there's no scientific evidence behind it,' added a third.
Dr Coatsworth retweeted a post of mental health advocacy group Shadow Pandemic (pictured)
Some of the thousands of messages received from parents and teachers against the mask rules (pictured)
The comments echo sentiments of respected medical experts who also disagreed with the mask rule for children.
'I continue to be definite. No masks for primary school students,' Dr Coatsworth himself previously said.
Meanwhile infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon said the rule made no sense when masks are not required for adults.
'The biggest spreading events come from bars, pubs and clubs but they don't wear masks,' he said.
'It's good news that younger children are now exempt (from masks) but it really should be all primary school children.'
Emma McBryde, James Cook University professor of infectious diseases modelling agreed saying she 'can see no genuine reason' for keeping the mask rules for kids.
'I would recommend they draw the line at no schoolchildren needing to wear masks anymore,' she told The Herald Sun.
'It's a silly measure to keep a small cohort of young children wearing masks. It almost feels as though they can't let go of control. To me, there's no genuine rationale of it.'
While Werribee GP Joe Garra said the rule was 'illogical' because the risk of Omicron for children was extremely low and masks 'shouldn't be mandated for kids to protect adults'.
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A local court today sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping his minor niece.
District and Sessions Judge Ranjan Kumar Khullar, while pronouncing the sentence, also slapped a fine of Rs30,000 on the convict, Sagar, a native of Uttar Pradesh.
The case dates back to May 2015 when Sagar had raped a Class VI girl living with her parents at a rented accommodation in Mohali. He entered the girl’s house while her parents were away to work and asked her to give him water to drink. As she went to fetch water, Sagar gagged her and violated her. Later, he also threatened the victim with dire consequences if she revealed the incident to anyone.
The victim kept quiet for a day. The next day, she came back from her school and found her maternal uncle again sitting in her house. Sagar again attempted to rape her, but she managed to run out of the house and raised the alarm.
In the meantime, her neighbours gathered and she narrated the crime to them following which Sagar was nabbed and handed over to the police.
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BELLEVUE, Wash. — At bus stop 68594 in Bellevue, you get the sense some things are just meant to be.
Parked in the lot right behind the stop is a colorful food truck called Lari Adda.
"'Lari Adda’ means bus stop or truck stop,” said Sheraz Malik, who owns the business with Saira Bano.
They didn’t plan the literal proximity, in the same way they never planned on running a restaurant on wheels. They were simply two friends and foodies who loved cooking the kind of food they grew up eating in Pakistan.
"A majority of our friends would say, 'You should have a restaurant or you should have a food outlet, because you cook well,'” Malik said.
“And we never took them seriously,” Bano added.
Then, the pandemic hit, a truck went on the market, and they took a leap of faith.
Within two months of serving Pakistani street food, they were named one of Seattle’s 10 best food trucks by a local publication.
"It's our baby," Bano said. "It's a well-behaved baby."
It also fills a longtime void in the local food scene, according to regular customer Asad Faizi.
"I think too regular,” he said, laughing. "It was like love at first bite when we came here and ate it and said, 'This is exactly what's been missing.'"
The menu blends regional influences — Bano is from Karachi, Malik is from Lahore.
"The food scene is very different. They're hardcore meat-eaters,” Bano said. “So are we, but we still give respect to the vegetables. They would only eat it when they're sick.”
Best-sellers include the beef bahari rolls, crispy chicken burger that packs a punch of heat, and samosa chaat.
Customers also rave about the chai — but just don't order "chai tea."
"Every time someone comes we tell them, 'You're asking for two cups of tea, because chai means tea,’” Bano said, laughing.
For Malik, introducing people to a new flavor profile and cuisine is part of the joy.
"We do get a lot of customers who are not from South Asia and they get to try some things, they ask questions, I think that's part of our goal — to kind of introduce those flavors, which area they're from in Pakistan, so to get to know the country as a whole as well,” he said.
Both owners still maintain their day jobs and operate Lari Adda after hours. But for them, food isn't work — it's love.
"Working 9-5 was fun, it still is. But we come here after work and we cook and we do this and we go home late. Every day, we still look forward to it,” Malik said.
Lari Adda is located at 1624 145th Pl. S.E. in Bellevue and is open for dinner Tuesday-Saturday. Brunch is also available on Saturdays.
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LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — 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.
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LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — 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.
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CALABASAS, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH) (the "Company") today announced that its operating partnership, American Homes 4 Rent, L.P. (the "Operating Partnership"), has priced an offering of $600 million aggregate principal amount of 3.625% Senior Notes due 2032 (the "2032 Notes") and $300 million aggregate principal amount of 4.300% Senior Notes due 2052 (the "2052 Notes" and together with the 2032 Notes, the "Notes"). The 2032 Notes will be issued at 97.517% of par value with a coupon of 3.625% per annum. The 2052 Notes will be issued at 97.237% of par value with a coupon of 4.300% per annum. Interest on the Notes is payable semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year, commencing October 15, 2022. The 2032 Notes will mature on April 15, 2032 and the 2052 Notes will mature on April 15, 2052. The offering is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and is expected to close on or about April 7, 2022.
The Operating Partnership intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay amounts outstanding on its revolving credit facility and any remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes, including, without limitation, property acquisitions and developments, the expansion, redevelopment and/or improvement of existing properties in its portfolio, other capital expenditures, the redemption of its Series F preferred shares, the redemption of its other preferred shares, the repayment of outstanding indebtedness, working capital and other general purposes.
BofA Securities, J.P. Morgan and PNC Capital Markets LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering, and Wells Fargo Securities, BMO Capital Markets, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Raymond James are acting as book-running managers for the offering. Mizuho Securities, Scotiabank, US Bancorp, Regions Securities LLC, Ramirez & Co., Inc. and RBC Capital Markets are acting as co-managers for the offering.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any offer or sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful before registration or qualification thereof under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
The offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and only by means of a prospectus and prospectus supplement. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the offering and the final prospectus supplement, when available, may be obtained by visiting EDGAR on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or from BofA Securities, Inc., 200 North College Street, NC1-004-03-43, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, by telephone at 1-800-294-1322 or by email at dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Attn: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at 1-866-803-9204; and PNC Capital Markets LLC, The Tower at PNC Plaza, 300 Fifth Avenue, Floor 10, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or by telephone at 1-855-881-0697.
About American Homes 4 Rent
American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH) is a leader in the single-family home rental industry and "American Homes 4 Rent" is a nationally recognized brand for rental homes, known for high-quality, good value and resident satisfaction. We are an internally managed Maryland real estate investment trust, or REIT, focused on acquiring, developing, renovating, leasing, and operating attractive, single-family homes as rental properties. As of December 31, 2021, we owned 57,024 single-family properties in selected submarkets in 22 states.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" that relate to beliefs, expectations or intentions and similar statements concerning matters that are not of historical fact and are generally accompanied by words such as "estimate," "project," "predict," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "potential," "plan," "goal," "outlook," "guidance" or other words that convey the uncertainty of future events or outcomes. These forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, the Operating Partnership's ability to complete the offering and the intended use of net proceeds. The Operating Partnership has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations and assumptions about future events. While the Operating Partnership's management considers these expectations to be reasonable, they are inherently subject to risks, contingencies and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Operating Partnership's control and could cause actual results to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These and other important factors, including "Risk Factors" disclosed in, or incorporated by reference into, the prospectus from the Company's and the Operating Partnership's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in the Company's and the Operating Partnership's subsequent filings with the SEC, may cause the Operating Partnership's actual results to differ materially from anticipated results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to conform to actual results or changes in expectations, unless required by applicable law.
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By Cameron Houston
Convicted drug trafficker Tony Mokbel has been rushed from Barwon Prison with chest pains and is currently being treated in hospital.
An ambulance was called to the prison, near Geelong, about 6.30pm on Thursday after an alarm was raised.
Barwon Health, which operates the Geelong hospital, and Corrections Victoria declined to comment on the incident, citing privacy concerns.
Mokbel, the 56-year-old underworld figure, has a history of health problems including a 2012 heart attack. He went into cardiac arrest when stabbed multiple times by two inmates at the maximum security prison in 2019.
He has been held in a management unit at the prison since the vicious attack that also left him with a fractured skull, a brain haemorrhage and extensive bleeding.
Mokbel is serving a 30-year jail term, but has appealed against his convictions because of his previous association with Nicola Gobbo, who was a registered police informer and assisting the Purana Taskforce while also representing him.
He went on a hunger strike last year in response to repeated delays by Victoria Police to hand over documents for his latest appeal hearing, according to his new lawyer, Ruth Shann, SC. In a court hearing last year Ms Shann described the police conduct as “oppressive and unnecessary”.
In 2020, Mokbel had a conviction quashed over the importation of a commercial quantity of cocaine in 2000, because of Ms Gobbo’s involvement in the case.
The drug kingpin famously fled to Greece while standing trial and was convicted in his absence in 2006, when he was sentenced to a 12-year custodial sentence for his role as the financier of the importation syndicate.
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LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — 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.
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Office of the Governor News Release: Governor Ige, first lady kick-off Washington Place anniversary events
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HONOLULU — Gov. David Ige and First Lady Dawn Amano-Ige welcomed former governors, first ladies, other community leaders and fourth grade students from across the state to Washington Place today, for the opening ceremony and proclamation signing marking the historic home’s 175th anniversary.
This year marks 175 years since the construction of Washington Place, which served as the official residence of Queen Liliʻuokalani and her husband, John Dominis, as well as former territorial and state governors.
“Today, Washington Place is an historic home that honors the memory and legacy of Queen Liliʻuokalani and the special place she holds in our collective hearts and memory,” said Gov. Ige. “Washington Place was a place of contrasts, of loss and healing, of sorrow and joy, and above all, of perseverance.”
“Like many before us, we also built special memories at Washington Place. Many who have lived here hosted U.S. presidents and foreign dignitaries, held historic bill signings, made major announcements, and invited community groups to the home. Each resident at Washington Place took care in preserving the home for the next family, all while creating memories, joy, hope, and healing of their own,” said Amano-Ige.
The opening ceremony included a special performance by fourth graders from Hawaiʻi’s public schools, including 120 students from Nuuanu, Keolu and Ke Kula Kaiapuni ʻo Ānuenue Elementary Schools. They were joined by more than 2,000 additional fourth graders representing 38 schools across the state, dancing simultaneously to Ē Liliʻu Ē at their respective campuses. See the video here.
For a link to a list of Hawaiʻi Department of Education schools that participated in the virtual hula performance, click here.
The Royal Hawaiian Band will also hold a special concert at Washington Place on Saturday, April 2, 2022, which is free and open to the public. A link to register for the event can be found here.
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Which basketball hoop is best?
Imagine playing basketball with your friends only to find that a group of kids has already taken over your favorite court. You’ll never face this dilemma again if you have a hoop at home.
If you want a high-quality basketball hoop for your driveway, the Silverback In-Ground Basketball Hoop is worth your attention. It’s an arena-style hoop made with durable steel and delivers elite performance thanks to its tempered glass backboard and breakaway rim.
What to know before you buy a basketball hoop
Location
You’re going to need ample space to work with if you want a basketball hoop for your home. Driveways are a popular location for hoops, and they’re also the safest since you can put one close to your house. It’s recommended to do so, especially if you have small children, as there’s less chance that the ball will roll or bounce onto the street.
Hoop type
There are three types of home basketball hoops: in-ground, portable and mounted.
In-ground hoops are placed into the ground with cement, so they’re more of a long-term or permanent option. Portable hoops are the most versatile since you can move them around easily, and they have bases that need to be filled with water or stand to stay in place. Both hoop types have mechanisms for adjusting height, so they’re both excellent options for young players who are still growing physically.
Mountable hoops are usually placed on walls or over garage doors. They’re the least expensive option, but unfortunately, they don’t have as many features as in-ground or portable hoops. For example, if you have the space to do so, you must remove a mounted hoop and relocate it to adjust the height.
Playability
If all you want to do is shoot around occasionally, you can save yourself a few dollars by going with a mountable hoop if you have somewhere to put it. However, if you want something that can last you for years and help you or your child develop as a player, a portable or in-ground hoop is the better option. They’re more durable and are engineered with advanced metrics to deliver a professional-level experience.
What to look for in a quality basketball hoop
Backboard size
Small backboards make for an easier target and are designed for children learning to play the game. Backboards with a width of 32 to 48 inches are considered youth sizes and are usually cheaper than hoops with larger backboards. 48 to 52 inches is considered regulation-size and the best option for adults and experienced players.
Backboard material
The backboard can be tempered glass, polycarbonate or acrylic. Tempered glass backboards are the most expensive as it delivers the best bounce and is used for backboards across all competitive levels. Polycarbonate and acrylic backboards are durable and less delicate than tempered glass, making them excellent options for portable hoops.
Height adjustability
The basketball hoops used in the National Basketball Association are 10 feet high, and while that’s the height teenagers and adults should be playing with, younger players need lower nets. As they grow and develop, you can adjust the hoop’s height based on your strength and skill level. Also, lowering the height on a portable hoop can make storage easier.
How much you can expect to spend on a basketball hoop
You can find youth portable and mountable basketball hoops for $100-$300, but if you’re looking for a regulation-size in-ground or portable hoop, it can cost you anywhere from $500-$2,000.
Basketball hoop FAQ
Can in-ground hoops be moved?
A. Some newer in-ground hoops come with goals that can change their orientation and detachable upper portions. However, removing an in-ground hoop can be complicated and requires professional assistance.
Is it better to use water or sand to fill a portable hoop base?
A. Water is more convenient, but sand is denser, so it’s more reliable and adds more weight. More weight means less shifting or shaking, which can be common once water leaks or evaporates from the base.
What’s the best basketball hoop to buy?
Top basketball hoop
Silverback In-Ground Basketball Hoop
What you need to know: This in-ground hoop has sturdy, powder-coated steel construction and offers gymnasium-style performance.
What you’ll love: It’s height adjustable between 7.5 and 10 feet and boasts a tinted tempered glass backboard. It can be unbolted to move around the net’s orientation and has a flexible breakaway rim. Also, it comes with a backboard pad and a five-year limited warranty.
What you should consider: Many customers report that it shakes too much on missed shots.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top basketball hoop for the money
Lifetime 52-Inch MVP Portable Basketball Hoop
What you need to know: It’s an excellent driveway hoop for those who want something easy to maneuver and light on the wallet.
What you’ll love: The backboard isn’t as large as an arena-style basketball hoop, but it’s shatterproof, and at 52 inches, it’s enough for casual pick-up games. It’s adjustable between 7.5 and 10 feet and has a high-quality rim flexible rim.
What you should consider: Assembly isn’t complicated, but it can be time-consuming, even with quality tools.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Spalding The Beast Glass Portable Basketball Hoop
What you need to know: This is a high-quality hoop with premium features you wouldn’t find on other portable models.
What you’ll love: It has a sturdy alloy-steel frame, a 54-inch tempered glass backboard, and a screw jack lift for easy height-adjusting. The base has four wheels and can be filled with water or sand.
What you should consider: Some reported that the base leaks if filled with water and that sand works best to avoid this.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Tax rises risk giving Labour an open goal
Anyone who believes the cost of living crisis is already biting hard is today in for a rude awakening.
Compared to the savaging ahead, the past weeks have been a mere nip on the ankle of family budgets.
The arrival of a new financial year signals a barrage of crippling bills, tax rises and price increases – the most vicious squeeze on family incomes since the 1950s.
The average household will pay an extra £700 a year for gas and electricity. Council tax, water rates and broadband are going up. And rocketing inflation means the cost of filling up the car and buying food becomes more expensive by the day.
Make no mistake, millions up and down the country are in for a very rough ride.
The arrival of a new financial year signals a barrage of crippling bills, tax rises and price increases [stock image]
True, many factors fuelling the crisis are beyond the Government's control. But not all. Why, for example, are ministers worsening the hardship by stubbornly insisting on the national insurance hike?
This not only hurts working people, but also employers. It is a profoundly un-Conservative tax, making families poorer and businesses less competitive.
Of course, the Mail understands the need to balance the books after the eye-watering debts incurred during the pandemic.
But the best way to get money into Treasury coffers is the old Tory way – by encouraging hard work and enterprise.
If Britons are taxed to high heaven, they won't have money to pump into shops, pubs and restaurants, nor the confidence to grow job-creating companies.
It's not rocket science: Ditching punitive levies ultimately brings in more revenue.
Imposing them on the already struggling is an unwise gamble. It conveys that the Government doesn't take seriously the cost of living pain – and offers a deeply unimpressive Labour party an open goal.
Develop a conscience
By sensibly handing the Foreign Office responsibility for the aid programme, the Government aimed to align handouts with Britain's overseas policy goals.
So how is that working out? We reveal that £1.3billion of the bloated development budget is being sent to nations unwilling to condemn Putin's brutal assault on Ukraine.
Fence-sitters include India (wealthy enough to have its own space programme).
The Mail understands the concept of realpolitik. Countries act in their own best interests. But then we should too.
Let's stop paying a fortune to those appeasing a murderous, maternity hospital-bombing psychopath and his illegal war.
Why not use the money instead to help those fleeing the carnage?
Let's get over Covid
It's a mark of how far we've come since those fretful days of two years ago.
From today, Covid tests are no longer routinely handed out for free (although each one costs taxpayers a chunky sum).
Predictably, doomster scientists warn it could lead to an explosion of infections.
But we have to move on. Britain is suffering economic and social long Covid: Huge debts, a healthcare backlog, children woefully behind on their education.
(And how typical of Whitehall ineptitude that a firm's contract to help pupils catch up has quickly been abandoned as a flop).
Cutting out the scaremongering and incompetence would be a giant step towards getting Britain back on its feet.
- It is revolting that water companies discharged raw sewage into our rivers and coastal seas 372,533 times last year, often illegally. There is now a plan for new infrastructure which will eliminate 40 per cent of these discharges. And who will foot the massive bill? Lo and behold, the hard-pressed customer. Why? The polluters make obscene profits. They alone should pay for the clean-up. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10674699/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Tax-rises-risk-giving-Labour-open-goal.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:13Z |
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Bey's late scoring surge helps Pistons top 76ers
Saddiq Bey scored 10 of his 20 points in the final 4:23 as the Detroit Pistons pulled away down the stretch and beat the Philadelphia 76ers 102-94 on Thursday night.
The Canadian Press
DETROIT (AP) — Saddiq Bey scored 10 of his 20 points in the final 4:23 as the Detroit Pistons pulled away down the stretch and beat the Philadelphia 76ers 102-94 on Thursday night.
Cade Cunningham scored 27 points for Detroit, which snapped a three-game losing streak and had a 39-8 edge in scoring off the bench.
Joel Embiid had 37 points and 15 rebounds and James Harden finished with 18 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for the 76ers.
Detroit didn't lead until the fourth quarter, and Isaiah Livers' 3-pointer with 5:05 left gave the Pistons a 90-87 advantage. After Harden missed, Bey made it 93-87 with another 3-pointer, forcing Sixers coach Doc Rivers to call a timeout.
Embiid answered with a dunk, but Bey scored seven points in a 9-0 run that gave the Pistons a 102-89 lead with 1:54 to play.
Embiid had 18 points and nine rebounds in the first half, going 10 for 11 from the line. Philadelphia attempted 20 free throws in the half compared to four for Detroit. But the Pistons' 21-0 advantage in bench points kept them within 54-50.
Detroit stayed close through most of the third, but Embiid dunked over Cunningham and Isaiah Stewart to give the Sixers a 79-73 lead going into the fourth. He had 15 points and six rebounds in the quarter, giving him 33 points and 15 rebounds.
Marvin Bagley III left the game in the third quarter with a hip injury after landing awkwardly while being fouled by Embiid.
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Sixers: Shake Milton's 3-pointer with 4:03 left in the third quarter was the first basket from Philadelphia's reserves after the starters had scored the first 69 points.
Pistons: Cunningham could become part of a very rare double. No city has swept the NHL and NBA Rookie of the Year awards since Ray Bourque and Larry Bird did it in Boston in 1980, but Cunningham could join defenseman Moritz Seider or forward Lucas Raymond of the Red Wings, two of the leading candidates for the Calder Trophy.
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Sixers: Host the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday.
Pistons: Visit the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday.
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Olivia Rodrigo / April 6 / Wamu Theatre
She's the former Disney starlet-turned-pop powerhouse. Olivia Rodrigo is riding a massive wave of success, including seven nominations at next week's Grammy Awards. The teenage singing phenom will be performing at the WAMU Theater on April 6.
Tacoma Rainiers / April 6 / Cheney Stadium
It's time to play ball in Tacoma! The Tacoma Rainiers are kicking off the 2022 season with a five-game homestead against the Salt Lake Bees. The first game of the season is next Wednesday, April 6.
Shen Yun / April 2 - 10 / McCaw Hall
The once-yearly staple has returned. Shen Yun invites audiences to travel back to ancient China and experience the lost culture through classical Chinese dance and music. The troop will be performing at McCaw Hall from April 2 - 10.
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival / April 1 - 30 / Skagit County
It's finally tulip time again! The annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is back for the 2022 spring season. Tulip Mainstays Roozengaarde and Tulip Town will both welcome visitors to see their gorgeous colorful fields. Online tickets are on sale now. The festival runs seven days a week during the entire month of April in Skagit County.
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‘You want sex? I’ll kill you’: the capers that bonded these 90-year-old twins
By Susan Horsburgh
Together, 90-year-old Melbourne twins Liliana del Porto and Lydia Marcuzzi have survived wartime bombing, a taste of Italian Hollywood and a total of five husbands. They’re happiest at home watching TV detective shows.
LILIANA: We don’t know who was born first; our mother wanted only [our brother] Giorgio, then she got two more who were nine kilos! She got thrombophlebitis, so for 40 days she had her legs up, and we had wet nurses. We were born in Skopje, Macedonia, because our Italian father was a diplomat. Lydia was a terrible, rebellious child. After church, she’d go off with the orphans to queue for a piece of bread with jam. If I had new shoes, she’d want to ruin them, so she’d wipe her feet on them.
After our father died in 1939, we went back to Zara [now Zadar in Croatia], where our parents had been born. The bombing started in 1943. One day, a bomb exploded as we were coming home from church. I was the only one left standing. My mother was covered with big stones; her leg was hurt. She was saying, “My Lydia! My Lydia!” We couldn’t find Lydia for two hours. It was terrible. She was buried under two ladies. Now I am claustrophobic and Lydia is afraid of thunder.
For the next seven years, we were moved around refugee camps. When we were 18, we went to Roma, where they were making movies; Mussolini had built Cinecittà [a large film studio], like Hollywood. We were extras in three movies, including Quo Vadis with Peter Ustinov; he wrote a love letter to Lydia. They wanted to put Lydia in other movies, but my mother said, “Forget it!” She was terrified of us [being with men]. When Lydia first got married [in 1952 in Melbourne], she didn’t consummate the marriage for three days because she was so scared.
We arrived in Australia in 1951 and, after two weeks at Bonegilla migrant camp [east of Wodonga in north-east Victoria], they put Lydia and me in two beautiful villas in Toorak to learn English and nursing. We used to take a suitcase to Prahran Market and fill it with [animal] heads, tongues, tails, eyes … we ate everything. It was free because nobody bought it; the butchers thought we were crazy.
“We couldn’t find Lydia for two hours. It was terrible. She was buried under two ladies.”
I’d met Ugo in Naples and he came to Melbourne to marry me in March 1952 at St Patrick’s Cathedral. We lived in Broadmeadows in a little house that rained inside and, every Wednesday, Lydia came with a lobster. We found a magpie in the kitchen one day, so we got a blanket and caught it. We took off the feathers and boiled it, but the meat was terrible.
I had one husband and four sons and Lydia had one son and four husbands! When she married the fourth one, Lydia was crying at the altar. I said, “Lydia, were you moved?” and she said, “No, I already regret marrying this one.”
We are not similar at all. She likes a bit of a drink: scotch and champagne. I drink maybe a spoonful of Baileys in the evenings. I like blues and jazz; she likes classical. Lydia doesn’t ring anybody and nobody rings her. She’s not crazy for the clubs like me; I like bingo. To everything, at first she says, “No.” I always say, “Yes.”
Lydia lives around the corner. She comes every day at about 8am – “Do you need something, Liliana?” – then drives to Malvern Central to go shopping. At 2-2.30pm, I go to see her, then at 5.30pm she comes back with dinner for me: salmon with an egg on top. We both love Foyle’s War. I tape it and we watch it together. I love her generosity. And the closeness.
LYDIA: My mother said, “I wanted you both dead because I didn’t have any milk and the wet nurses all had syphilis”, so they imported two from overseas: I had one type of milk and Liliana another. Maybe because of this we are a bit different. I was a very naughty child – I used to run away – but Liliana was very good.
In Roma, they put ads in the paper: “Extras wanted.” It was like living in Hollywood. And we were beautiful. They used to say, “Liliana’s got a bum like a guitar and Lydia’s is like a mandolin.” The Italian men used to follow us. Our mother said, “You want sex? I’ll kill you, then I’ll kill myself!” We were terrified. She threw a knife at me once because I was talking to a Hungarian. We were virgins when we got married.
“To me, marriage wasn’t very important; it was easy come, easy go. Liliana was serious about marriage. I got tired of them.”
Sometimes, we didn’t feel very welcome in Australia; if we spoke Italian, they didn’t like us. But being nurses’ aides [the twins worked in a number of hospitals, including Caulfield Hospital] was all right; we were happy to help people. Liliana and I worked together. At Caulfield, there were 20 or 30 people on each ward and the nurse told me to wash their teeth. I got a bucket and went, “Give me your teeth, give me your teeth …” I collected all the dentures, washed them in Dettol and took them back. They said, “Those aren’t my teeth!” I didn’t know [dentures] were all different!
It was sad when Liliana went back to Italy with Ugo [for 14 years], but you get used to it. And I was busy getting married. Four times is a lot! They all died, but I divorced them, then they died. I didn’t kill them. To me, marriage wasn’t very important; it was easy come, easy go. Liliana was serious about marriage. I got tired of them. And childbirth was so terrible, I screamed and screamed; they put on a mask to shut me up. But Liliana didn’t complain. She’s stoic.
Liliana is more elegant, I’m more casual. I love animal print. I like the colour. My hair? I went to the chemist and bought a bottle of pink dye for $5. I just did it for fun. We are happiest together when we watch Foyle’s War. She tapes Judge Judy and Dr Phil, but I don’t like them. I like Diagnosis: Murder with Dick Van Dyke. And Jake and the Fatman. I like the policemen.
Liliana is beautiful, gentle and talkative; she talks, talks, talks. She asks questions all the time. I really don’t care about people. Liliana cares. All my friends have died and I haven’t made other friends. Sometimes I see a person and cross the road not to meet them; I don’t like to talk. With Liliana, I can be a silent witness. We never fight. It’s like having a good friend who never goes away. I moved here from Wollongong because I wanted to be near Liliana. She loves me, I love her. We know what we mean to each other without talking smooshy.
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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 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.
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Chandigarh: A resident of Sector 56 has been arrested for allegedly stealing an iron grill. Manjit Singh, supervisor, Hockey Stadium, Sector 42, alleged that Krishana (30) was caught by him while stealing an iron grill installed at the boundary wall of the stadium. TNS
Youth held with banned vials
Chandigarh: A 24-year-old youth has been arrested with banned injections. The suspect, Radhey Sham, alias Pata, a resident of the Mauli Jagran complex, was caught with 48 injections. A case has been registered against him at the Mauli Jagran police station. TNS
Cong to meet on water tariff
Chandigarh: In the wake of the water tariff hike and inflation, senior leaders of the city Congress have convened a party meeting on April 3 at its Sector 35 office. City Congress president Subhash Chawla and former Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal will be present. “All are invited to chalk out the course of action on the unprecedented increase in the water tariff and unbridled inflation due to the “anti-people” policies of the BJP,” the Congress said in a statement. TNS
Mobile snatcher in police net
Mohali: The Zirakpur police on Thursday arrested a mobile snatcher and recovered four phones from his possession. The suspect has been identified as Vijay Chauhan, a resident of Ashiana Complex, Panchkula. The Dhakoli SHO said Sunil Kumar, a resident of Shalimar Enclave, Dhakoli, had lodged a complaint with the police that an unknown person had snatched his phone on Wednesday. A case had been registered at the Dhakoli police station. TNS
Unidentified Man hit by train, dies
Panchkula: The Government Railway Police recovered a man’s body on the railway tracks in the Mansa Devi Complex (MDC) area here on Wednesday evening. The deceased, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, was apparently hit by a train. GRP Sub-Inspector Rajbir Singh said they had shifted the body to the mortuary at the Civil Hospital in Sector 6, where it will be preserved for 72 hours for identification. TNS
Soccer star at St Stephen’s
Chandigarh: Indian footballer Anirudh Thapa, along with many other national soccer players, is attending AIFF D-License Course, being conducted at St Stephen’s School, Sector 45. Thapa is one of the leading midfielders of the national football team and has captained Indian Super League (ISL) franchisee Chennaiyin FC in 2021-22. — TNS
PGI scientist awarded
Chandigarh: Dr Subhabrata Sarkar, Scientist-C at Regional Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Health Research/ICMR, PGI, has bagged the second Best Poster Award for his research work on “Utility of CDC DENV 1-4 Real Time PCR assay and Trioplex RT-PCR assay for the diagnosis of dengue in clinically suspected patients with acute febrile illness”. — TNS
Badminton meet begins today
Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Badminton Association will organise the Chandigarh State Masters Badminton Championships from April 1 at the Sector 42 badminton hall. The championship will be conducted in various age groups. For any queries, players can contact Haroon Rashid and Vijay Sharma of the organising committee. TNS
Key appointment for PU Prof
New Delhi: Prof Ashutosh Kumar of the political science department, Panjab University, has been appointed the first visiting professor to the TN Seshan Chair at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), the training arm of the Election Commission. “A search committee under Gopalaswami had recommended the name of Prof Kumar. His areas of specialisation include electoral dynamics in Indian states,” a statement of the ECI read.
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AS THE WAR IN UKRAINE ENTERS ITS SECOND MONTH, more than 20 French museums sent material—like crates and fire extinguishers—to institutions in the country to aid them in protecting their collections, the Art Newspaper reports. Bloomberg took a look at those extensive efforts to save culture from destruction. In Poland, Bloomberg also reports, volunteers are using a paper partition system developed by Shigeru Ban to create shelters for arriving refugees. Ukrainian artists are making art in response to the conflict, the Financial Times reports. And in Tomsk, Russia, the Washington Post reports, a man named Stanislav Karmakskikh was arrested for holding a poster showing Vasily Vereshchagin’s 1871... | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556272330295/is-oprah-a-spiritual-leader | 2022-04-01T02:07:17Z |
Which backpack leaf blower is best?
If you have a yard or patch of land, you may have some difficulty dealing with leaves in the fall. Smaller yards with fewer trees usually clean up easily with a handheld leaf blower. But if you have a large plot that has plenty of foliage, you might want to consider investing in a backpack leaf blower. These handy devices can significantly cut your workload. And there are a number of worthwhile options in every price range.
The best backpack leaf blower for most consumers is the Echo PB-580T due to its budget-friendly price, performance, weight and reliability.
What to know before you buy a backpack leaf blower
They’re perfect for large jobs
Since backpack leaf blowers are considerably more powerful than handheld models, you won’t have to walk as much. They transfer the bulk of the weight to your back, hips and legs instead of your shoulders and arms.
Most importantly, they let you work on your entire property without being tethered to an electrical outlet. It’s this versatility that makes backpack leaf blowers the go-to choice for contractors and commercial lawn care outfits.
Noise factor
Backpack leaf blowers pack more power than handheld models because it has an internal combustion engine. One of the biggest issues with this is how much noise it makes. Four-cycle backpack leaf blowers are usually in the neighborhood of 70-80 decibels, and two-cycle models can easily exceed 90 decibels. Aside from wearing proper ear protection, you’ll need to consider noise level regulations. Some communities have laws prohibiting the use of lawn power tools that exceed 65 decibels.
Fuel blend
Most backpack leaf blowers have two-cycle engines, which use a combination of gasoline and motor oil. It’s extremely important to remember to use this blend since the wrong mixture could wreck your leaf blower. Most use a fuel-to-oil blend, but this can vary based on the model. Take time to review the manufacturer’s instructions carefully to ensure you use the right formula.
What to look for in a quality backpack leaf blower
Airspeed and cubic feet per minute
Both velocity and volume are important considerations. They’re related but not necessarily correlated. These factors vary depending on the design of the specific model and brand. If you want a truly effective backpack leaf blower that can handle a good amount of space, look for leaf blowers with a velocity of nearly 200 mph or more and at least 500 CFM in volume.
Throttle position
The leaf blower’s throttle control location is a subtle but important detail. Most users find that tube-mounted throttles are more convenient and comfortable to use. Leaf blowers with hip-mounted throttles tend to be slightly less expensive, but that depends on the brand. Ultimately, the choice will come down to your personal preference.
How much you can expect to spend on a backpack leaf blower
The most affordable backpack leaf blowers cost just over $200. The best options for private landowners are in the $500-$700 range. Those with landscaping businesses that do multiple jobs a week might want to invest in even more expensive models, some up in the thousands.
Backpack leaf blower FAQ
Are battery-powered backpack leaf blowers worth it?
A. Not really. If you have enough land and debris to need a backpack leaf blower, there aren’t battery-powered models that will last long enough to complete the job. To be clear, some systems allow you to strap high-powered, long-lasting batteries to your back for running specific leaf blowers, but they cost over $1,000.
What’s the best safety equipment for using a backpack leaf blower?
A. Wear work boots with plenty of traction as well as durable pants and long-sleeve shirts. These are important basics when working with any potentially hazardous tools. In addition, you should also use other safety equipment when using a commercial-grade leaf blower, such as protective glasses, earmuffs, earplugs and work gloves. All of these will keep you safe and ensure you’re protected while you’re using this heavy-duty equipment.
What’s the best backpack leaf blower to buy?
Top backpack leaf blower
What you need to know: It combines the performance of a commercial leaf blower with a consumer-friendly cost and lightweight design.
What you’ll love: It’s powerful enough to satisfy homeowners with large plots and plenty of brush. Echo is a well-respected manufacturer, so it’s an investment you can trust. It boasts a maximum airspeed of 215 mph and weighs just over 22 pounds.
What you should consider: One of its few drawbacks is that you can’t adjust or repair the carburetor.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot and Amazon
Top backpack leaf blower for the money
What you need to know: This relatively affordable option doesn’t sacrifice power or comfort.
What you’ll love: It’s one of the rare options that is less than $300 and still offers long-lasting effectiveness. It’s about as light as they come and significantly more powerful than a handheld mode.
What you should consider: It doesn’t quite have the same kind of power that many lawn care professionals need.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
What you need to know: Put simply, this four-cycle model is a beast of a leaf blower.
What you’ll love: It has more raw power and speed than just about any other option. Plus, since it uses a four-cycle motor, the sound it makes isn’t quite as painfully loud as others. If you need premium performance for professional jobs, this one is a great choice.
What you should consider: While it outperforms much of the competition, it may be too much power for the average homeowner.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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Solon Senior Advocates was organized in 2002 with the mission of supporting seniors’ well-being by engaging them in activities to promote independence.
Sandy Hanson, President of Solon Senior Advocates, said “Solon Senior Advocates was organized mainly, primarily, to support the Old Gold Diner (Senior Dining) program. They bought a van and put a $10,000 wheelchair lift on the back of it. There were two ladies who provided money for the van, and they were ones the van picked up every Monday through Friday to come up to Senior Dining.”
Hanson joined Senior Advocates in 2006 and started shuttling people to and from the meals. At the time the Johnson County Senior Center in Iowa City prepared the meals, under strict federal guidelines and overseen by the Heritage Agency on Aging in Cedar Rapids. “They provided us with a site manager and the girl they sent us would call me to come in (and cover her shift for her). So, I got more and more involved.”
Recreational trips, with Hanson piloting the van, began in 2006. However, the van was difficult for some seniors to get in and out of, and as she noted, “it wasn’t made for highway travel,” she said recalling a “white-knuckle” trip to Newton on a very windy day. The trips are still on a Covid-induced hiatus, but Hanson said they’re working on organizing bus trips. “I’m waiting to get quotes from Cedar Valley (Cedar Valley Transit Lines, Inc.) because they have a 32-passenger bus, and that’s plenty. Most of the people I took back then, are gone.”
In 2011 Hanson saw a story the Lisbon Food Pantry needed money, to buy food. Realizing Lisbon’s population was about the same as Solon’s, the Advocates started the Solon Community Food Pantry (located in the basement of the Solon United Methodist Church). “And then in 2020 we started the Emergency Assistance Fund. I wrote, last week, checks for four people to pay their utilities and rent. So now the Senior Advocates (a 501c3 non-profit organization) are over the Pantry, are over the Emergency Assistance Fund, and now we’re over Senior Dining (in cooperation with Solon Senior Support).”
The purpose of the Senior Advocates, she said, is to keep seniors active, engaged, and entertained. “That’s why we’re taking trips.
The Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island is a perennial favorite. “There’s a tribute to Barbara Streisand, and John Denver, and they’ve had some dynamite musicals. You get a meal, and it’s pricey, tickets are about $47, and the bus is about $1k.” Hanson figures the cost per person would be around $85, which would be too much for many. However, with $600 funding per trip from the Advocates, the price will be much lower. “We’ve got one in September (tentatively) to the Celebration Belle River Cruise in Dubuque to see Barefoot Becky. We’ve gone to the Villages of Van Buren (County), there’s five villages and they’re very strict Amish. That’s 100 miles, so it’s going to be pricey, and we need at least 25 to sign up for it.” A trip to Breitbach’s Country Dining in Balltown is also in the works. The Advocates also organize trips to local eateries on a monthly basis.
During the pandemic, with people staying home and restrictions on local businesses, Hanson grew concerned about the seniors who were essentially “locked in” and unable to go anywhere. When the government’s relief checks started arriving, some people reached out to Hanson and the Senior Advocates saying they didn’t want the money and would rather it go to a family in need. She was able to give some of the money to a local family needing help with their mortgage. Another wanted to send the money to help the employees of the local restaurants who’d been laid off. “I started calling around and I called Big Grove and their people were well-taken care of. And Andrew (Mitchell, General Manager) had been talking with Doug (Goettsch, co-founder and Director of Hospitality) about providing a free meal for the seniors.” Hanson got 65 names and with help from the Solon Senior Support, they were delivered. She then contacted the other locally-owned restaurants in Solon. “We did that for most of the summer. Then I started to get nervous about the Covid, so I started pestering Towncrest Pharmacy, and Jill Weetman (founder of Solon Senior Support) also got on it, and we set up a vaccination clinic and vaccinated 1130 people. So, we’ve done things for seniors. That’s what we do.”
Hanson emphasized the generosity of the Solon community and pointed out “These people give money for our emergency fund and our pantry. She gave kudos to Sam’s Main Street Market, Big Grove, and Bridge Bank for their support over the years.
In May, Older Americans Month, a board comprised of past recipients select a Solon senior who has contributed to the community. The awardee, the Solon Senior of the Year, is presented a certificate at a City Council meeting. In addition, an open house is organized for the honoree, who also rides in a convertible in the annual Solon Beef Days Parade.
Advocate Board meetings are held the third Tuesday of the month at 1:00 p.m. at the Solon United Methodist Church in the community room. Anyone with an interest in helping research, plan and organize services and activities of interest to Solon’s seniors are encouraged to attend.
To become involved with the Solon Senior Advocates, donate, or for more information on programs and activities, call any board member (Larry Meister, Ivan Hasselbusch, Art Tellin, Don Burch, Barry Byrne, John Lamantia, Larry Brecht, and Jill Weetman) or Sandy Hanson at (319) 624-2710 or mail to P.O. Box 99, Solon, IA 52333. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/solon/keeping-seniors-active-engaged-and-entertained/article_de59a15e-d436-5c59-9a67-4a7683f361d6.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:18Z |
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Hospital horror as nurse is charged with sexually assaulting a 25-year-old heart surgery patient in her bed and groping two others on the job
- Male nurse charged with sexual assault of patient as she recovered from surgery
- Incident alleged to have taken place at Bella Vista hospital in Sydney's northwest
- Nurse charged with inappropriately touching two other women, aged 67 and 21
- He has been refused bail and will appear in Liverpool Court on Friday
A male nurse has been charged with sexually assaulting a 25-year-old female patient who was recovering from heart surgery in hospital.
The 42-year-old nurse allegedly assaulted the woman while she was recovering at Bella Vista Hospital, in Sydney's north-west, last September.
The nurse was charged with sexual intercourse without consent on March 11, but in the weeks since has been accused of two further sexual touching incidents.
He is accused of groping a 67-year-old woman at Kingswood Hospital just weeks ago and a 21-year-old nursing student in December 2018.
Police released video of the nurse being taken in custody for the second time in weeks on Friday morning.
In a press statement, police said the older alleged victim had been awaiting heart surgery at the time the man allegedly touched him.
The nursing student claimed she was assaulted during a shift.
The man has been refused bail and will appear in Liverpool Court on Friday. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10674713/Horror-25-year-old-recovering-heart-surgery-sexually-assaulted-nurse.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:19Z |
SEATTLE — At Wedgwood Elementary, a program that turns out big performances has received nothing but praise from parent Miranda Lu.
“Our multi-arts teacher actually stitched together little clips,” said Lu. “She basically made a virtual concert for every class, and each class had their own song.”
It meant the show went on even during remote learning. But parents are worried about what next year will bring.
“At the school level, parents have been really concerned,” said Lu.
It is an issue being felt districtwide.
Enrollment projections are used to determine the budget, and right now enrollment is down, according to Seattle Public Schools. On the district's website, it states the district budgeted for 52,165 students this school year, but actual enrollment was 1,915 fewer students. The difference resulted in a $28 million gap in revenue. The district anticipates the lower enrollment will continue, and that means staffing adjustments.
At Wedgwood Elementary, parents have been told about some of the possible reductions. For the art teacher, it would still be a full-time schedule, but that time would be split between Wedgwood Elementary and a second school, according to Tim Robinson, district spokesperson.
In an email, Robinson wrote, “the school is committed to maintaining the offering of multi-arts and visual arts."
“I realize these are hard decisions, but to us the arts are equally important,” said Erin Bowles, who added that the multi-arts class is one of her daughter's favorites.
“I would like to see the school district and the state contribute more funding and keep arts programs as a core source of education for our kids,” said Bowles.
Lu said investments need to be made in "our kids and their futures and the future of our community."
That's why parents say they are pushing for creative solutions to save the program from budget reductions. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/education/lower-enrollment-seattle-public-schools/281-88a0083b-d2a1-43b3-b050-c936a58e0e89 | 2022-04-01T02:07:20Z |
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The fate of the trial of the man accused of raping parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins will be handed down next week following a bid to have the case indefinitely halted.
Lawyers for Bruce Lehrmann, who worked with Ms Higgins under Coalition minister Linda Reynolds at the time of the alleged assault, launched an application to permanently stay the proceedings in light of the media coverage the allegations have received.
Mr Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to the allegation he raped Ms Higgins on March 23, 2019, in the Parliament House office of Ms Reynolds.
ACT Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucy McCallum placed a non-publication order over Friday’s hearing, which went for about two hours, prohibiting any submissions or evidence discussed during the morning from being aired outside the courtroom.
She said she would revisit that order when she handed down her decision on the stay at some point next week.
As well as a permanent stay, Mr Lehrmann’s lawyers have sought a take-down of media articles regarding Ms Higgins. | https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/fate-of-higgins-rape-trial-to-be-learned-next-week-20220401-p5aa20.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed | 2022-04-01T02:07:21Z |
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Awarded funding from the Gates Foundation to support development of inhaled formulation technology to deliver cost-effective monoclonal antibodies against influenza and COVID-19
LOS GATOS, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel anti-infective therapies to treat life-threatening infections, today reported financial and corporate results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2021.
Fourth Quarter Highlights
- Continued enrollment in the Company's Phase 2a study of AR-501 targeting cystic fibrosis (CF), conducted in collaboration with the funding support from the CF Foundation. Aridis is on track to report top-line data from this CF study in mid-2022.
- Continued enrollment in the Company's Phase 3 study evaluating AR-301 for the treatment of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP). Aridis is on track to report top-line data in the second half of 2022.
- The Company is on track to initiate the Phase 3 trial of AR-320 for the prevention of VAP in mid-2022 following regulatory feedback on the clinical development plans and Phase 3 study design received from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA). Clarity on the regulatory pathway to the registrational Phase 3 trial and licensure has been achieved. The Phase 3 SAATELLITE-2 study will be conducted in collaboration with the COMBACTE-Net consortium of HAP/VAP experts, funded up to 25 million Euros by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) program of the European Commission.
- Reported preclinical data demonstrating that AR-701, the Company's first fully human monoclonal antibody (mAb) cocktail, is broadly reactive against the Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) variants, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus), and multiple seasonal ('common cold') human coronavirus strains.
- In January 2022, Aridis announced that it had received a $1.9 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates Foundation) to evaluate the application of the Company's inhaled formulation technology to deliver cost-effective monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against influenza and SARS-CoV-2 to people in low- and middle-income countries.
- Signed loan agreement for $10 million in non-dilutive financing with Streeterville Capital. Received first $5 million payment in November 2021 and the second $5 million payment in February 2022.
"I am proud of our team's work in 2021 as we strengthened our foundation and advanced key development programs," commented Vu Truong, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Aridis Pharmaceuticals. "2022 will be a pivotal year for Aridis as we achieve important clinical milestones, including data readout from our AR-501 Phase 2a and AR-301 Phase 3 studies as well as the initiation of the AR-320 registrational Phase 3 study, and the anticipated launch of the first-in-human clinical study of AR-701. We look forward to sharing further updates on the progress of these programs in the coming months as we continue to build our leadership in the respiratory health space."
Clinical Program Update
AR-301 (tosatoxumab): AR-301 is being evaluated in a Phase 3 clinical study as an adjunctive treatment to standard of care antibiotics in S. aureus VAP patients. The ongoing AR-301 Phase 3 study remains blinded, and the independent Data Monitoring Committee with access to unblinded data continues to monitor study subjects for safety and has not expressed any safety concerns. The Company observed modest improvement in enrollment in recent months despite the continued pandemic. However, because a significant number of participating clinical sites in the study are in Eastern Europe, the escalating Ukraine-Russia conflict is expected to negatively impact enrollment. At the present time, the company anticipates reporting top-line data in the second half of 2022.
The trial represents the first ever Phase 3 superiority clinical study evaluating immunotherapy with a fully human mAb to treat acute pneumonia in the ICU setting. Details of the study can be viewed on www.clinicaltrials.gov using identifier NCT03816956.
AR-320 (suvratoxumab): The Company licensed this Phase 3-ready asset from AstraZeneca in July 2021. A multinational, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 study (n=196 patients) showed that mechanically ventilated ICU patients colonized with S. aureus who were treated with suvratoxumab, a fully human mAb, demonstrated a relative risk reduction in onset of pneumonia by 32% in the overall intent-to-treat (ITT) study population, and by a statistically significant 47% in the under 65-year-old population, which is the target population in the planned Phase 3 study. This statistically significant relative risk reduction in the target population was also associated with a substantial reduction in the duration of care needed in the ICU and hospital. The Company completed successful discussions with the EMA via the Scientific Advisory meeting and the FDA via an End-of-Phase 2 meeting, including obtaining agreement on the planned Phase 3 study serving as a single pivotal trial. The regulatory feedback from these agencies is incorporated in the Company's clinical study design. The Company expects to launch its Phase 3 SAATELLITE-2 study of AR-320 in the mid-2022 in collaboration with the public-private COMBACTE-Net consortium of HAP/VAP experts, funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) program of the European Commission in the amount of up to 25 million Euros.
AR-501 (gallium citrate): The Company initiated its Phase 2a study to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetic (PK), and preliminary efficacy in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients in the first quarter of 2021. The Phase 2a study is actively enrolling patients with a goal of delivering full data readout in mid-2022. AR-501 is being developed in collaboration with the CF Foundation and has been granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD), Fast Track and Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) designations by the FDA. In addition, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) granted ODD to AR-501. The Phase 1/2a clinical trial underway is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, utilizing single- and multiple-ascending dose and dose-ranging strategies, investigating the safety and PK of inhaled AR-501 in healthy volunteers and CF patients with chronic bacterial lung infections. Details of the Phase 1/2a clinical trial can be viewed on https://www.clinicaltrials.gov using identifier NCT03669614.
AR-701: AR-701 is a cocktail of two fully human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) mAbs discovered from screening the antibody secreting B-cells of convalescent SARS-CoV-2 infected (COVID-19) patients. Each mAb of the AR-701 cocktail neutralizes coronaviruses using a distinct mechanism of action, namely inhibition of viral fusion and entry into human cells (AR-703) or blockage of viral binding to the human 'ACE2' receptor (AR-720). The AR-701 mAbs are engineered to be half-life extended and potentially active for 6-12 months in the blood. AR-701 is being developed as a long-acting intramuscular prophylactic to prevent COVID-19 infections, as well as a self-administered inhaled formulation for the treatment of COVID-19 patients who are not yet hospitalized. In February 2022, Aridis reported that both of its fully human mAbs in the AR-701 cocktail neutralized the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. Moreover, both mAbs conferred strong protection against Omicron infected animals when given either parenterally or by intranasal administration. The performance of the AR-701 cocktail is published in Biorxiv [see https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.05.483133v1]. We expect to initiate a Phase 1 clinical study in 2H2022.
Fiscal 2021 Financial Results:
- Cash: Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash as of December 31, 2021, were approximately $20.0 million.
- Revenues: Grant and licensing revenue increased to approximately $1.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 primarily due to the recognition of revenue from grants from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) and the Gates Foundation as well as from Kermode, an Apex technology licensee. Grant and licensing revenue earned during the year ended December 31, 2020 was approximately $1.0 million, all from CFF. Grant and licensing revenue was approximately $0.6 million and $0 for the three months ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
- Research and Development Expenses: Research and development expenses increased by approximately $21.0 million to $38.0 million for year ended December 31, 2021 from $17.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increase was due primarily to: an increase of approximately $11.5 million to in-license AR-320 rights from Medimmune; an increase of approximately $6.6 million for AR-320 drug manufacturing and clinical trial preparation costs; an increase of approximately $0.7 million for costs associated with the development of AR-701; an increase of approximately $0.5 million for the continuing conduct of the Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating AR-501 for the treatment of Cystic Fibrosis and an increase of approximately $0.6 million in personnel, consulting and other related costs.
Research and development expenses increased by approximately $4.4 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2021 to $8.6 million from $4.2 million in the same quarter in 2020. This is primarily due to increases in drug manufacturing for our AR-320 trial ($2.8 million), spending on the Gates Foundation funded project ($0.5 million) and spending on personnel, consulting and other related costs ($0.4 million). - General and Administrative Expenses: General and administrative expenses increased by approximately $0.9 million to $7.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 from $6.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increase was due primarily to increases in professional service fees, franchise tax and recruitment expense to attract talent. General and administrative expenses increased in Q4 2021 to $2.0 million from $1.6 million in Q4 2020 primarily due to increases in consulting, legal fees, insurance and recruitment offset by lower accounting, rent and repairs expense.
- Interest Income (Expense) net: Net interest expense, increased by approximately $322,000 to approximately $245,000 for the year ended December 31, 2021 from approximately $77,000 net interest income for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increased expense was primarily due to our debt servicing in 2021.
- Share of Loss in Equity Method Investment. Loss from our share of equity method investment in Shenzhen Arimab Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. decreased by approximately $9,000 to zero for the year ended December 31, 2021. The loss was $9,000 for the year ended December 31, 2020. Our share of loss from our minority interest calculated under the equity method was limited to the reduction of the net book value of the investment to zero as of March 31, 2020.
- Other Income: Other income in the year ended December 31, 2021, increased by approximately $796,000 from zero during the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to forgiveness of the $722,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Additionally, other income from a sublease agreement we entered into with a tenant in March 2021 to sublet a small portion of our Los Gatos facility increased by approximately $74,000 during the year ended December 31, 2021, from zero for the year ended December 31, 2020. Other income increased by approximately $22,000 in Q4 2021. There was no sublease agreement or related income during the three months ended December 30, 2020.
- Net Loss: The net loss available to common stockholders for the year ended December 31, 2021, was approximately $47.3 million, or $3.85 net loss per share, compared to a net loss available to common stockholders of approximately $22.3 million, or $2.44 net loss per share, for the year ended December 31, 2020. The weighted average common shares outstanding used in computing net loss per share available to common stockholders was 12,291,600 million and 9,168,744 million for the years ended December 31 of 2021 and 2020, respectively.
About Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops anti-infectives to be used as first-line treatments to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and viral pandemics. The Company is utilizing its proprietary ʎPEX and MabIgX® technology platforms to rapidly identify rare, potent antibody-producing B-cells from patients who have successfully overcome an infection, and to rapidly manufacture mAbs for therapeutic treatment of critical infections. These mAbs are already of human origin and functionally optimized by the natural human immune system for high potency. Hence, they are already fit-for-purpose and do not require further engineering optimization to achieve full functionality.
The Company has generated multiple clinical stage mAbs targeting bacteria that cause life-threatening infections such as ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) and hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP), in addition to preclinical stage antibacterial and antiviral mAbs. The use of mAbs as anti-infective treatments represents an innovative therapeutic approach that harnesses the human immune system to fight infections and is designed to overcome the deficiencies associated with the current standard of care, which is broad spectrum antibiotics. Such deficiencies include, but are not limited to, increasing drug resistance, short duration of efficacy, disruption of the normal flora of the human microbiome and lack of differentiation among current treatments. The mAb portfolio is complemented by a non-antibiotic novel mechanism small molecule anti-infective candidate being developed to treat lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. The Company's pipeline is highlighted below:
Aridis' Pipeline
AR-301 (VAP). AR-301 is a fully human IgG1 mAb currently in Phase 3 clinical development targeting gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) alpha-toxin in VAP patients.
AR-320 (nosocomial pneumonia). AR-320 is a fully human mAb targeting S. aureus alpha-toxin for prevention of nosocomial pneumonia. Statistically significant Phase 2 data in the target population of those ≤ 65 years of age, was recently published in Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. The Company has completed discussions with the EMA and FDA on study design and expects to launch its Phase 3 study of AR-320 in mid-2022.
AR-101 (HAP). AR-101 is a fully human immunoglobulin M (IgM) mAb in Phase 2 clinical development targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) liposaccharides serotype O11, which accounts for approximately 22% of all P. aeruginosa hospital acquired pneumonia cases worldwide. This program is licensed to the Serum Institute of India and Shenzhen Arimab.
AR-501 (cystic fibrosis). AR-501 is an inhaled formulation of gallium citrate with broad-spectrum anti-infective activity being developed to treat chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. This program is currently in a Phase 2a clinical study in CF patients.
AR-701 (COVID-19). AR-701 is a cocktail of fully human mAbs discovered from convalescent COVID-19 patients that are directed at multiple envelope proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
AR-401 (blood stream infections). AR-401 is a fully human mAb preclinical program aimed at treating infections caused by gram-negative Acinetobacter baumannii.
AR-201 (RSV infection). AR-201 is a fully human IgG1 mAb directed against the F-protein of diverse clinical isolates of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This program is licensed exclusively to the Serum Institute of India.
For additional information on Aridis Pharmaceuticals, please visit https://aridispharma.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These statements may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "forecast," "estimated" and "intend" or other similar terms or expressions that concern Aridis' expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. These forward-looking statements are based on Aridis' current expectations and actual results could differ materially. There are a number of factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the need for additional financing, the timing of regulatory submissions, Aridis' ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of its existing product candidates and any other product candidates it may develop, approvals for clinical trials may be delayed or withheld by regulatory agencies, risks relating to the timing and costs of clinical trials, risks associated with obtaining funding from third parties, management and employee operations and execution risks, loss of key personnel, competition, risks related to market acceptance of products, intellectual property risks, risks related to business interruptions, including the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus, which could seriously harm our financial condition and increase our costs and expenses, risks associated with the uncertainty of future financial results, Aridis' ability to attract collaborators and partners and risks associated with Aridis' reliance on third party organizations. While the list of factors presented here is considered representative, no such list should be considered to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those described or implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including, without limitation, market conditions and the factors described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Aridis' 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, and Aridis' other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements included herein are made as of the date hereof, and Aridis does not undertake any obligation to update publicly such statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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Chandigarh, March 31
An official WhatsApp group created three months ago for better coordination between councillors and officers was suddenly left by MC Commissioner Anindita Mitra. The top brass of the civic body followed suit.
The development came a day after Opposition councilors, belonging to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress, rejected all seven agendas during the MC House meeting, shocking all officers and the ruling BJP councillors.
Group was created three months ago
- A WhatsApp group was created on December 30 last year in which councillors used to post problems pertaining to their wards and used to get direct response from officials of the civic body.
- MC Commissioner Anindita Mitra left the group on Wednesday night after AAP councillor Daman Preet Singh sought redressal of some civic work. He later asked "no reply" following which Mitra left the group.
A senior official said, “Exiting the group was in no way connected to the meeting. Certain councillors were posting petty issues in the group and were also not using appropriate language with the MC Commissioner. Thus, the chief exited the group.”
The MC boss left the group on Wednesday night after AAP councillor Daman Preet Singh sought redressal of some civic work. He later asked “no reply” following which Mitra left the group.
Right after one hour, Joint Commissioner Shalini Chetal also left the group. Following this, Chief Engineer NP Sharma, superintending engineers Inderjeet Gulati and Krishan Pal Singh and other senior officials also exited.
Today, Mayor Sarabjit Kaur, Senior Deputy Mayor Dalip Sharma, five BJP councillors and six AAP also left the group.
Now, 29 members are left in the group, which was created on December 30 last year. Councillors used to post problems pertaining to their wards and used to get direct response from officials of the civic body.
“These are not good signs for the MC as well as the city. First, all official agendas, which were for the city and not for any particular party, get rejected and now, members leave the group, which may hit development works,” commented a councillor.
When contacted, MC Commissioner Anindita Mitra said, “If not in the group, I am available on my WhatsApp number to address issues.”
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