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Blair approves labor contract
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County commissioners approved another labor contract Tuesday despite pleas to reconsider wages proposed for sheriff deputies. The current base starting pay for a sheriff deputy is $15.39 an hour, Deputy Yale Leslie said Tuesday. With the new contract, that hourly rate is increasing by 13 cents, to $15.52...
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The Lady Spartans soccer team visited Liberty High, in North Liberty, on Tuesday, March 22. Statistics were not posted as the scrimmages typically do not affect seasonal standings, however Head Coach Amanda Paulson used the opportunity to ascertain a final assessment of the team before the season start.
“The scrimmage against Liberty went well,” Coach Paulson summarized. “We were able to get minutes for varsity and junior varsity (JV) and substitute several players in. It allowed us to see players in different positions and watch how they responded to game-like situations. This pre-season scrimmage is great for finalizing our varsity and JV rosters.”
Coach Paulson assessed the conference and affirmed the Lady Spartans’ starting 11 has not been finalized.
“The conference as a whole lost a lot of strong seniors last year,” she outlined. “We were fortunate to have a small graduating class. I am looking forward to these first couple of varsity matches at home and seeing how we match up against West Delaware and Regina, before we host Marion at home.”
“We return Alex Locke, Alex Paisley, Izzy Paisley, Maria Milliman, Morgan Link, Grace Yetley and Gabby Knipper for starters. We also returned Tali Radcliffe, Lauren Bevans, and Georgia Havlicek.”
The current varsity roster also includes Rose McAtee, Silvie Hendricks, Reilly Johnson, Farrah Hendricks, Georgia Havlicek, Elena Swan, Liona Rocca, Addi Greene, Valerie Miller, Gabby Knipper and Morgan Link.
The JV roster includes Mara Duster, Evan Ulch, Meg Duster, Claire Leone, Ella Havlicek, Josie Ryan, Taryn Anderson, Charlotte Leone, Kate Richards, Hannah Vance, Madison Kerkove, Grace Ivy, and Lauran Schwake.
“Andrew West returns as my assistant varsity and head JV coach,” Coach Paulson injected.
“Our captains this year are Izzy Paisley, Alex Locke and Gabby Knipper,” she added. “I am also looking to our returners to lead on the field with their work ethic, drive and determination.”
Solon finished last season 14-6, 8-4 in the WaMaC East, third in the conference behind Mount Vernon (16-3, 10-1) and Marion (12-5, 9-3), besting Beckman Catholic (9-9, 7-6), Maquoketa (2-13, 2-10) and West Delaware (1-15,1-12).
“This season we are focusing on possession and high press defense,” Coach Paulson promised. “The mantra has always been ‘together.’”
This season, the Lady Spartans begin the season with a loaded home schedule, allowing the returning seniors and experienced players time to come together for a great season.
The Lady Spartans 2022 varsity regular season campaign began Monday, March 29, against West Delaware, at Spartan Stadium, and continues Thursday, March 31, hosting the Regina Runnin’ Regals at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, the Lady Spartans host the Marion Wolves at 5:30 p.m.; Friday, April 8, South Tama visits Solon at 5:30 p.m.; Monday, April 11, the Lady Spartans visit Mid-Prairie High School at 5 p.m.; Thursday, April 14, Beckman Catholic visits Solon at 4 p.m.; Monday, April 18, Solon travels to Benton Community High School at 5 p.m.; Thursday, April 21, the Lady Spartans invade West Liberty High School at 5 p.m.; Saturday, April 23, at 10 a.m., Solon hosts the Liberty Lightning; a visit to Maquoketa High School at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26; Mount Vernon visits Friday, April 29, at 5:30 p.m.; Tuesday, May 3, at 4:30 p.m., Solon treks to Fross Park to battle Center Point-Urbana; a trek to Williamsburg High School on Thursday, May 5, at 5 p.m.; a visit to West Branch High School on Monday, May 9, at 5 p.m.; Independence and Viton-Shellsburg visit Solon Tuesday, May 10, and Friday, May 13, respectively at 5:30 p.m.; and the Lady Spartans end the regular season at Clear Creek-Amana High School on Tuesday, May 17, at 5:30 p.m. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/solon/lady-spartan-soccer-reloads-for-2022/article_8be13448-1906-5227-862e-9955d6ca0b6a.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:24Z |
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What is the Sephora Savings Event?
Beauty deals are blooming this season, and starting April 1, you can pick up your favorite makeup, fragrance and skin care products at deep discounts during the Sephora Spring Savings Event.
As usual, the event is exclusive to Beauty Insiders. Depending on their status, they receive up to 20% off their purchases. That’s not all, either. The entire Sephora collection, which now consists of over 350 products, also will be 30% off for Beauty Insiders. And between these deals and other offers, it’s a good idea to brush up on the event’s details and start adding products to your cart so you can check out before they sell out.
What is the Sephora Spring Savings Event?
When is the Sephora Sales Event?
The Sephora Spring Savings Event kicks off April 1 at 11:59 p.m. PST and runs through April 11. It’s Sephora’s first major sales event following Valentine’s Day, and because it falls right before Easter and Mother’s Day, many Beauty Insiders are taking the opportunity to shop early and snag deals on gifts.
What is a Sephora Beauty Insider?
Like many other Sephora events, the Spring Savings Event is exclusive to Beauty Insiders. If you’re not sure what a Beauty Insider is, it refers to members of Sephora’s rewards program, which unlocks access to special promotions and deals. It also gives birthday perks, bonus points throughout the year and free shipping eligibility. And the more you spend at Sephora as a Beauty Insider, the more you’ll save — including during the Spring Savings Event.
How to become a Sephora Beauty Insider
It’s easy to become a Beauty Insider and take advantage of the Spring Savings Event. When you join today for free, you automatically earn Insider status. When you spend $350 annually, you’ll hit VIB, and when you spend $1,000 in a year, you’re promoted to Rouge.
The different levels also play a role in your access to Sephora’s Spring Sales Event, both in terms of how much you save and how early you can access deals:
- Rouge: Rouge members get 20% and get early access to the event starting April 1.
- VIB: VIB members get 15% off from April 5-11.
- Insider: Insiders receive 10% off from April 4-7.
What is on sale for the Sephora sales event?
Most products at Sephora are eligible for Spring Savings Event discounts, ranging from Drunk Elephant skin care to Dyson hair tools. The entire Sephora collection, which includes best-selling brushes and affordable eyeshadow palettes, is on sale for 30%. Other deals and promotions may go live during the event, but Sephora has yet to reveal what those are.
Best products to pick up during the Sephora Spring Savings Event
Marc Jacobs Daisy Eau De Toilette
A popular spring scent, the best-selling Marc Jacobs fragrance features fruity and floral notes, including succulent wild berries and velvety jasmine.
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Fenty Beauty By Rihanna Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer
The high-impact lip gloss is infused with shea butter that coats and protects lips, leaving them with a plump, silky texture.
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Anastasia Beverly Hills Soft Glam Eyeshadow Palette
The day-to-night palette has a well-curated assortment of matte, metallic and duo chrome finishes that create sophisticated looks.
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Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Drops
Add a touch of glow to your skin care routine with these niacinamide drops that hydrate skin and minimize the appearance of hyperpigmentation.
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If your hair and scalp are in need of deep cleaning, this clarifying shampoo removes product buildup and leaves hair soft and clean.
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Supergoop Glowscreen Sunscreen
Besides protecting delicate facial skin, Supergoop’s SPF40 sunscreen has a pearly, luminous finish and wears well under foundation.
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SAMMAMISH, Wash. — Christine Ye, a senior from Eastlake High School was crowned the winner of The Regeneron Science Talent Search, a prestigious math and science competition dating back to 1942.
The competition recognizes promising young scientists who are developing ideas that could solve society's most urgent challenges. Ye took home $250,000 in prize winnings.
Ye was chosen out of nearly 2,000 applicants and competed in the finals in Washington D.C. A panel of judges chose her project as the winner of the 2022 competition.
Ye is passionate about space and analyzed gravitational waves emitted from huge collisions between neutron stars and black holes.
“When you have these really massive and powerful objects colliding with each other they actually shake up the whole universe in a way that we can detect here, even billions of light-years away,” Ye said.
By analyzing data gathered at the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, where scientists use data from these waves to measure astronomical objects, she showed that a quickly spinning neutron star could be extra massive, even larger than a typical neutron star, but still smaller than a black hole.
Impressed? So were the judges.
“I can say from first-hand experience that this is only the beginning of a great path forward for our winners, finals and scholars," said George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., Co-founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/sammamish-high-school-senior-wins-national-math-and-science-competition/281-304aabb7-7c9e-455d-9fae-96f000de154f | 2022-04-01T02:07:26Z |
No, no, no, no, no': Chris Rock shuts down fan who shouts ‘F**k Will Smith!’ during comedian's latest soldout performance in Boston
- Chris Rock stopped his fans from cursing out Will Smith during his comedy show in Boston Thursday night
- 'F**k Will Smith!' a fan shouted, to which Rock replied: 'No, no, no, no, no...'
- The night before, during his first public appearance since the Oscars slap, Rock was also met with 'Will Smith' chants from the audience, but didn't engage
- The comedian did briefly addressed the slap during Wednesday's show, noting that he still needs time to 'process' the assault
- He also told the crowd: 'I haven't talked to anyone, despite what you heard,' referencing rumors that Rock and Smith had made amends
Chris Rock stopped his fans from cursing out Will Smith during his comedy show in Boston Thursday night.
'F**k Will Smith!' a fan shouted, likely in attempt to issue support for Rock after Smith slapped him onstage during the Academy Awards.
'No, no, no, no, no...' the comedian replied, according to People, putting an end to the verbal attacks.
The night before, during his first public appearance since the Oscars slap, Rock was also met with 'Will Smith' chants from the audience, however he did not engage with them.
The comedian did briefly addressed the slap during the show, noting that he still needs time to 'process' the assault.
He also told the crowd: 'I haven't talked to anyone, despite what you heard,' referencing rumors that Rock and Smith had made amends.
Chris Rock stopped his fans from cursing out Will Smith during his comedy show in Boston Thursday night
'F**k Will Smith!' a fan shouted, to which Rock replied: 'No, no, no, no, no...' (Pictured: Rock's Thursday night show at Wilbur Theatre)
The comic, 57, took to the stage at the Wilbur Theatre on Wednesday and asked: 'How was your weekend?'
The rhetorical question got a big laugh from the crowd, which occasionally heckled the Emmy-winning comedian about Will Smith's on-screen strike. But Rock warned those at the sold-out venue that the show would go on as planned.
'I don't have like a bunch of s*** to say about what happened, so if you came to hear that, I had like a whole show I wrote before... this weekend...' he said to more laughs. 'And I'm still kind of processing what happened.
'So at some time I'll talk about that s***... and it'll be serious. It'll be funny,' he said before an audience member shouted, 'F*** Will!'
'I'm gonna tell some jokes,' Rock concluded, later revealing that he hasn't spoken to 'anyone' since the incident, alluding to reports that he and Smith have reconciled.
But some of the 3,000 fans in the audience - who paid up to $1,000 per ticket - are disappointed that the stand-up comedian avoided the topic on everyone's mind.
'We want our money back, I didn't pay $400 to see nothing,' one person told Fox News.
The night before, during his first public appearance since the Oscars slap, Rock was also met with 'Will Smith' chants from the audience, however he did not engage with them
Smith marched onto the Oscars stage on Sunday and hit Rock, after the comedian told a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Rock's wisecrack was targeted at Pinkett Smith's buzzcut, a style she has embraced in wake of her alopecia diagnosis
As evidenced by her unamused expression, Pinkett Smith did not appreciate the joke
The 53-year-old actor marched onto the Oscars stage on Sunday and hit Rock, after the comedian told a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Rock's wisecrack was targeted at Pinkett Smith's buzzcut, a style she has embraced in wake of her alopecia diagnosis.
'Jada, I love you. "G.I. Jane 2," can't wait to see it,' Rock said to Pinkett Smith, whose close-shaven head looked similar to Demi Moore's in the 1997 movie, during his presentation of the award for best documentary.
Whether Rock was aware that Pinkett Smith suffered from a hair-loss condition is unknown, but Smith reacted with the smack and an angry warning 'to keep my wife's name out your f***ing mouth!'
Shortly after, Smith was announced as the winner of the best actor award and went up to collect his statuette to a standing ovation from many of his peers.
In his acceptance speech, Smith apologized to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - whose members vote for the awards, and who stages the ceremony - but stopped short of apologizing to Rock.
Smith initially laughed off the attack, writing on Instagram on Sunday evening: 'You can't invite people from Philly or Baltimore nowhere!!'
Yet as the gravity of the situation became clear, Smith then posted a public apology to Instagram 24 hours after the ceremony, saying he wanted to say sorry formally to Rock. He said his behavior was 'unacceptable and inexcusable' and left him 'embarrassed'.
'I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris,' he wrote. 'I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.'
Pinkett Smith's first public comment came in an Instagram post Tuesday in which she said: 'This is a season for healing and I'm here for it.'
Oscars producer Will Packer revealed Thursday in a preview clip for his upcoming interview with Good Morning America that the LAPD were prepared to arrest Smith during the ceremony Sunday, but didn't at Rock's request.
'We will go get him, we are prepared to get him right now,' the cops said to Rock, Packer recalled. 'You can press charges. We can arrest him.'
Packer claimed Rock was dismissive towards police, but he encouraged the comedian to hear them out before making a decision.
'They were laying out the options, and as they were talking, Chris was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, "No, I'm fine." He was like, "No, no, no,"' the producer said.
Ultimately, Rock declined to press charges, however police said in a statement Sunday 'if the involved party desires a police report at a later date, LAPD will be available to complete an investigative report.'
However, Smith - who was presented with his first Academy Award after the onstage attack - will face 'disciplinary proceedings' with Oscars officials that could result in suspension, expulsion, or other sanctions.
'Consistent with the Academy’s Standards of Conduct, as well as California law, Mr. Smith is being provided at least 15 days’ notice of a vote regarding his violations and sanctions, and the opportunity to be heard beforehand by means of a written response,' the Academy said in a statement Wednesday.
A source close to the actor confirmed to The Sun that Smith and his lawyers are writing to the Academy to plead his case ahead of his upcoming hearing on April 18.
'Things are hanging in the balance. He will write an official letter to apologize, and effectively beg for their forgiveness,' the source said.
'He is also expected to hold a call with show bosses in the next 24 hours. April 18 is D-Day, though — he will find out if he still has an Oscar, and quite possibly, a career.'
Smith met with Oscars leaders on Tuesday to discuss the fallout from the attack, Variety reported. People familiar with the meeting claim Rubin and Hudson talked to Smith on Zoom for roughly 30 minutes.
One source alleged Smith apologized to the Academy leaders for his actions and expressed he was aware that there would be consequences. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum also attempted to justify why he snapped at Rock's joke towards his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, the insider claimed.
However, attendees at Wednesday's emergency meeting of the Academy’s Board of Governors told the magazine they did not recall Rubin or Hudson mentioning the alleged discussion with Smith.
Following the emergency board meeting, the Academy announced Smith had violated the group’s code of conduct and faced 'suspension, expulsion, or other sanctions.'
The disciplinary actions could include a possible year-long ban from the Oscars, which would prevent Smith from being nominated for awards.
'They really feel they have to be seen to act,' an insider said of the Academy, according to The Sun. 'It's no wonder Will is seeking legal advice — he's likely to need all the help he can get to avoid sanctions.'
Sources familiar with the situation also claim the fate of his upcoming projects, including the Apple-funded slave escape drama Emancipation, remains in question.
'Production executives and studio chiefs do not want to be seen picking a side too early,' the insider said, noting that Smith is expected to return for a fourth installment of the Bad Boys franchise although no start date has been set yet. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10674719/Chris-Rock-shuts-fan-shouts-F-k-Smith-comedians-latest-show.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:26Z |
Manly chief executive Stephen Humphreys will front the Sea Eagles board next week over alleged corporate governance issues.
The Sea Eagles have informed the NRL of the development on Friday.
Humphreys is currently unwell after recently contracting COVID-19, while several Sea Eagles directors are also isolating after testing positive.
Humphreys - the son of former NSWRL boss Kevin - took charge of the club three years ago. The Herald has attempted to reach him for comment.
“I can’t make any public comment at this time due to the private nature of this matter,” said Manly chairman Scott Penn.
“We’ll release something more in due course.”
The Sea Eagles will face the Raiders at Mudgee on Saturday afternoon.
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LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — Mayor says 1 officer killed, 2 wounded in shooting in Lebanon.
LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — Mayor says 1 officer killed, 2 wounded in shooting in Lebanon. More NewsArts school named for slain Sandy Hook girl toasts new buildingDanbury police: Middle school students sick from chocolate... | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Alert-Mayor-says-1-officer-killed-2-wounded-in-17049857.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:27Z |
Iowa Sierra Club can continue lawsuit against state DNR over cattle feedlot near trout stream
The Iowa Sierra Club can continue its legal challenge of an Iowa Department of Natural Resources decision that paves the way for a large cattle feeding operation near a trout stream in northeast Iowa.
An Iowa judge ruled this week against the DNR's effort to have the case dismissed, saying the four Iowa Sierra Club members who brought it have sufficient standing to challenge the state's approval of a nutrient management plan for the 11,600-head Supreme Beef cattle operation near Monona.
The group says Supreme Beef's nutrient management plan is flawed, vastly underestimating the amount of nitrogen- and phosphorus-containing material that would be taken from the feedlot each year and applied to fields.
The Sierra Club, which also names Supreme Beef in the suit, claims DNR's approval was based on "an irrational, illogical or wholly unjustifiable interpretation" of law.
The group says the feedlot jeopardizes Bloody Run Creek, a cold-water trout stream the state has designated as an Outstanding Iowa Water.
The area's hilly topography is underlain with porous, fractured limestone that can easily provide a direct path to surface and groundwater for runoff contaminated with manure and other pollutants, opponents say.
In addition to having standing, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Huppert said the Sierra Club members showed sufficient potential harm from the project to continue the case.
The Sierra Club and its members seek to reverse approval of Supreme Beef's nutrient management plan. An Iowa DNR spokeswoman declined to comment this week.
“It is clear the DNR is trying every procedural trick to avoid a hearing on the merits of this case,” Sierra Club attorney Wally Taylor said in a statement. “But that is not working. DNR will have to explain why it violated its own rules in approving the nutrient management plan for Supreme Beef.”
Donnelle Eller covers agriculture, the environment and energy for the Register. Reach her at deller@registermedia.com or 515-284-8457. | https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2022/03/31/judge-says-sierra-club-lawsuit-iowa-cattle-feedlot-can-continue-bloody-run-trout-stream/7221458001/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:28Z |
Perkie's Observations: Trina Gets Support at Her Arraignment From Her Friends on General Hospital
On today's General Hospital recap: Sam and Carly run into Nina at yoga class and Maxie thinks they should take a different class. Nina says she won't be scared off by Carly, a sentiment Carly shares with Sam. Carly worries about Josslyn and Sam agrees she's worried about Scout growing up. The two compliment each other on their mothering skills.
Maxie asks about Wiley and Nina says she's trying to avoid the courts. Nina mentions Harmony and Maxie isn't sure it was a good idea to involve her. Nina says the only other choice is to make a legal statement. Nina thinks she should talk to Carly about Wiley, though Maxie warns against it.
Nina asks Carly to work together for Wiley, but Carly refuses. Carly warns her to leave her family alone, but Nina says that Carly won't keep Wiley away from her. Carly claims Nina is playing the victim when she brought this on herself. Nina swears no one will stop her from fighting for Wiley. Carly says it's all about Nina's need to stay connected to Nelle and doesn't care about Wiley.
Esme is grateful that Nikolas saved her from Sonny, while some man in the background seems to be paying her some attention. Spencer says he doesn't condone Sonny's actions and mentions going to the station to see Trina. This sets Esme off, but Spencer calms her down by saying he sided with her against Trina.
Alone, Nikolas tells Spencer to be nicer to Esme since she could be pregnant. Spencer says he's always believed in Esme and doesn't know why he didn't this time. Nikolas says it's because he has feelings for Trina. Nikolas says he's worried about Esme, but Spencer is still not sure if there is a baby.
Esme tells them she's returning to Kelly's, though lays it on thick how worried she is that Sonny will grab her again. Spencer asks his father if the two of them can move back into Wyndemere. Nikolas agrees it's the best thing for both of them.
Josslyn and Cameron discuss their feelings over the release of the article, and how they're living under a microscope. Josslyn feels they took a lot of control back and Cameron says it won't define them forever. Josslyn complains that Esme has framed Trina perfectly and worries how scared Trina must be. Cameron thinks they should go to the arraignment.
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Scotty goes over what will happen during the hearing and Trina says she'll be pleading not guilty. Molly's the second chair under ADA Arden, who's on the case. She shares a moment with Curtis before the hearing. ADA Arden has a deal for Trina. If Trina pleads guilty to the misdemeanor charge of cyber sexual harassment, she'll drop the felony charge of unlawful surveillance. She says they'll recommend three years probation and avoid jail time.
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Scotty tells the DA to shove it, but Molly says it could be worse if Trina is found guilty. Portia says Trina is innocent and shouldn't plead guilty. Scotty asks what Trina wants to do and says he's almost certain the jury would come back with a not guilty verdict.
Trina asks for a moment alone and is chaperoned in the hallway by Officer Rory.
Trina's happy when Josslyn and Cameron arrive to support her. Trina tells them about pleading guilty, but Joss thinks she should fight it. The two say they're willing to testify on her behalf. Judge Young asks Trina how she pleads.
Diane discusses Michael's case and he whines that he was defending his sister when he hit the reporter. Diane argues that Nina would provide a more stable environment since Michael makes a habit of hitting people. Michael says Nina is less than stable and no one has sympathy for her. Diane promises she has a plan to make it all go away.
Harmony apologizes to Alexis for not telling the truth about being in her house before. Alexis warns her she needs to be completely honest going forward. Harmony says she's decided to help Nina, but worries that Willow will hate her.
Harmony meets with Michael and Willow, and asks them about granting Nina informal visitation to prevent trauma to Wiley. Willow and Michael don't understand why Harmony would advocate for Nina. Harmony admits Nina asked for the favor, so they could settle things amongst themselves. Michael and Willow say they can't find an agreement with Nina, and Harmony understands.
Diane talks to Alexis about Mr. Smoltz and how she wants him to drop the charges against Michael. She wonders if Smoltz would want a story in exchange for dropping the charges, but Alexis says she won't be able to convince him of anything.
The man who was paying attention to the Spencer drama shows up at Alexis' office, and she recognizes him as Neil's brother.
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SPRINGFIELD – A bill that allows teachers and other school and university employees or contractors who are fully vaccinated to take paid administrative leave if they have to miss work due to coronavirus-related issues cleared the Illinois Senate Thursday and will soon be sent to Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
House Bill 1167, by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr, D-Naperville, and Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, would guarantee full pay for any day that a fully-vaccinated school employee misses if they are required to stay home because they have a confirmed or probable case of COVID-19.
It also applies if the employee is required to stay home because they have been in close contact with a person confirmed to have COVID-19, to care for a child with COVID-19, or if the building in which they work is forced to close due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
It also applies to public university and community college personnel.
The bill, which would be retroactive to the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year, defines “fully vaccinated” as having received two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at least two weeks before being forced to miss work.
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The bill is similar to one lawmakers passed during the fall veto session last year, HB2778, except that the earlier bill did not include a vaccination requirement. Pritzker vetoed that bill while at the same time announcing he had negotiated a compromise package with the state’s two major teachers unions, school districts, community colleges and universities that included a vaccine requirement.
“Vaccines are a vital tool in preventing the deadly effects of Covid-19, and those who take the steps to be fully vaccinated against this virus are doing their part to keep everyone safe,” Pritzker said in his veto message on Jan. 24. “They deserve to be able to take the time they need to respond to the ongoing devastating impacts the Covid-19 pandemic continues to have on them and their families.”
But while the earlier bill passed the General Assembly nearly unanimously – 113-0 in the House; 53-1 in the Senate – the inclusion of a vaccine requirement caused lawmakers to split along party lines.
Republicans argued that the new bill amounts to a kind of vaccine mandate for school employees because it treats people who are otherwise equally situated, differently, based on their vaccination status.
Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie, R-Hawthorn Woods, pointed to a hypothetical example of two teachers, one vaccinated and one not, who have to stay home to take care of a sick child. He said one of those would receive paid leave to do so but the other would not.
“I just don’t think it’s the place of the General Assembly to be getting involved in this in which we’re dividing up people under the same collective bargaining agreement,” he said.
Harmon, however, said the bill does not mandate that any school employee be vaccinated, and he compared the extra benefit vaccinated employees would receive to the extra pay some teachers receive if they pursue an advanced degree.
He also said he believed people who object to being vaccinated for religious or medical reasons would be exempted under federal law.
“If you are taking an affirmative step to be better prepared to be in the classroom or in the school, you have an enhanced benefit,” he said.
The bill passed the Senate 32-18. It passed the House on March 1, 70-28.
phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com
Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service covering state government and distributed to more than 400 newspapers statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. | https://thesouthern.com/news/state-and-regional/covid-19-leave-for-vaccinated-teachers-clears-general-assembly/article_bc360f52-8772-5c77-816e-1da39b4289e1.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:29Z |
The counting is over in the second union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. But it's too close to call.
There were 993 "no" votes and 875 "yes" votes, but more than 400 contested ballots remain. According to the National Labor Relations Board, there will be a hearing within a few weeks to decide if any of the challenged ballots will be opened and counted.
More than 6,100 workers were eligible to vote in the do-over election, which was ordered after the NLRB found that Amazon had improperly interfered in last year's tally.
Turnout in this year's vote was down from last year when over half of eligible voters cast ballots. But among those who actually voted this time around, there was greater support for the union. Last year, workers voted more than 2-to-1 against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a well-established national union.
"This time around we were able to educate more about unions," said Jennifer Bates, a warehouse employee, noting that organizers were able to get closer to workers now that the pandemic has eased.
The RWDSU called for every vote to be counted.
"The tenacity and courage of these workers never wavered in this unnecessarily long process," said RWDSU president Stuart Appelbaum in a statement. "Workers will have to wait just a little bit longer to ensure their voices are heard."
Meanwhile in a separate Amazon union election on Staten Island in New York, the vote count will continue Friday morning. Roughly 8,000 workers were eligible to vote on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union, an upstart organization led by former and current Amazon warehouse employees. With ballots still to count, the union is in the lead, with 1,518 voting yes so far, and 1,154 voting no.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2022-03-31/do-over-union-election-at-amazons-bessemer-warehouse-is-too-close-to-call | 2022-04-01T02:07:28Z |
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Rolf Harris is looking for work. He's not morbidly obese, but he's got a history as a singer, thick glasses and his track record suggests he'll be unlikely to sexually abuse a lady of your Nan's advanced years.
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The king of man-child comedy, Judd Apatow turns his attention to self-referential moviemaking spoofery with The Bubble, a limp saga (April 1, Netflix) about the disastrous birth of a would-be blockbuster.
Loosely inspired by the real-life production of Universal’s upcoming Jurassic Park: Dominion, Apatow’s latest details the creation of franchise sequel Cliff Beasts 6 during a global pandemic, which requires cast and crew to hole up in an English mansion for months on end to complete the dino-rampage project under strict quarantine guidelines. What follows is cabin fever, chaos and carnage, both on set and off. Less ever-present, alas, are actual jokes—or, rather, jokes audiences haven’t heard hundreds of times before about show business narcissism, ruthlessness, and craziness.
At a secluded English countryside estate, Carol (Karen Gillan) arrives to reprise her role as Dr. Lacey Nightingale in the sixth installment of the popular Cliff Beasts series, this after she bailed on the prior chapter in order to make a dud called Jerusalem Rising in which she played a half-Israeli, half-Palestinian heroine who was tasked with forging Middle East peace during an alien invasion. Carol’s abandonment of her Cliff Beasts pals earns her an initial reprimand from co-star Lauren (Leslie Mann), but it’s then almost immediately dropped as a plot point, as befitting a script (by Apatow and Pam Brady) that never cultivates any thread long enough to generate consistent amusement.
Joining Carol and Lauren in this sealed-off locale are Lauren’s horndog ex-husband Dustin (David Duchovny), who has scant interest in their adopted delinquent-teen son Rafael (Zander Emlano) and wants to rewrite Cliff Beasts 6 to make it more environmentally friendly; Sean (Keegan-Michael Key), who during his COVID-19 downtime decided to start a quasi-cult; Krystal (Iris Apatow), a TikTok sensation who’s there to court Gen Z viewers; and Dieter (Pedro Pascal), an actor whose primary pastimes are ingesting copious amounts of drugs and trying to hit on hotel employee Anika (Borat breakout Maria Bakalova). They’re all kept in line by ball-busting producer Gavin (Peter Serafinowicz) and dorky director Darren (Fred Armisen), both of whom report to studio chief Paula (Kate McKinnon), who chats with Gavin on Zoom from ski resorts and tropical locales that she can safely visit because—as a rich person—she’s received the vaccine months before it’s even been publicly announced.
The Bubble opens with two low-level staffers signing up for the Cliff Beasts team—Bola (Samson Kayo) and Gunther (Harry Trevaldwyn)—although Apatow doesn’t care much about the upstairs-downstairs dynamic of his scenario. Then again, it’s not exactly clear what he does care about. Lauren and Dustin are a hot mess who quickly find themselves back in each other’s arms, but their love-hate rapport is so scattershot (and ultimately dropped, due to a fatal accident that literally eliminates one of them from the picture) that it never drums up momentum. The same is true of Dieter and Anika; while the latter is intent on proving that they can be a romantic match rather than just a quick-hit fling, so little time is spent putting them in the same room together that they develop no connection. In these and other instances, Apatow ends things before he even begins them, lending the proceedings a tossed-off quality.
Most of the focus is on Carol’s mounting distaste for Cliff Beasts 6, and her attempts to cope with it by sleeping with a hunky soccer player who’s quarantining at the same hotel, and later by staging a cast revolt that promptly falls apart. There’s also some bit about the generational tension between Carol and Krystal, yet The Bubble barely has anything funny or pointed to say about its chosen issues. Instead, it exerts the majority of its energy on elaborate TikTok dances involving Krystal and her colleagues, and CGI centerpieces from Cliff Beasts 6 that are thoroughly corny, and which Apatow cuts away from to show the actors performing this same material on ridiculous-looking green screens—gags that go nowhere given that everyone already knows about the surreal artificiality of such digitally enhanced productions.
Good-natured mockery of studio filmmaking and stardom is nothing new, including from Apatow, whose Funny People is most memorable for its raft of make-believe movie posters featuring its big-screen comedian protagonist (played by Adam Sandler). And sporadically, The Bubble sharply bites the hand that feeds, as when Paula chews out Gavin, is then chewed out by her own boss (played by John Lithgow), who is then sternly talked to by his Chinese superior. Similarly, a scene involving Beck serenading the cast with a rendition of “Ladies Night”—prefaced by him stating “Thank you for fulfilling your contracts! Only 37 more days of shooting and we’ve got this one in the can!”—hilariously captures the industry’s weird art-commerce synergy. By and large, however, The Bubble’s sole idea is that actors are self-interested weirdos and dummies whose theatrical enterprises are driven by money, which is hardly an inspired starting point for hilarity.
The Bubble puts its own budget on full display throughout, yet rarely makes that a target of its satire; on the contrary, it vainly strives to elicit chuckles through sequences of running, screaming, explosions, and helicopter flights. Apatow also enlists a host of luminaries for quick cameos, including one that’s primarily via some special-effects trickery, but in virtually every case, the joke is simply that individual’s surprise participation. The fact that so many talented actors could be squandered this severely speaks less to their abilities than to a script whose characters have been imagined with, at best, a single discernible trait, and nothing approaching a uniquely off-the-wall personality. Actors may be vapid and vain, everyone in Hollywood may be desperate to hold onto whatever semblance of a career they have, and studios may now be parts of conglomerates that are run by monsters, but reiterating those well-known truths in slapdash fashion does not a memorable film make. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/judd-apatows-the-bubble-is-a-limp-mockery-of-hollywood | 2022-04-01T02:07:29Z |
LOS ANGELES, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arixa Capital Advisors, LLC is pleased to announce that Eric Cooper has joined the company as Vice President of Construction. In this role, Mr. Cooper is responsible for enhancing Arixa's construction risk management, through further development of Arixa's funds control program and construction underwriting, as well as building the scalable infrastructure that will allow Arixa to continue to grow its construction lending platform. Mr. Cooper comes to Arixa with over a decade of onsite construction project management experience and five years of construction lending experience.
Prior to joining Arixa, Mr. Cooper was the Vice President of Construction Operations at Genesis Capital. During his five years with that company, he oversaw the development of a nationwide residential construction underwriting program and was responsible for managing the in-house funds control team.
Eric Cooper shares, "As I suspected, Arixa Capital has an incredible culture, talented staff and a fantastic borrower base. I feel lucky and excited to further build out the construction department to best serve both borrowers and investors."
Earlier in his career, Mr. Cooper was the onsite supervisor and project manager for a two-year project, building an ultra-luxury custom home for a celebrity client in the Trousdale Estates neighborhood of Beverly Hills, with the highly regarded general contractor Corbin Reeves. From 2013 to 2015, Mr. Cooper was a project manager for ANR Industries, where he oversaw all aspects of luxury single-family residential construction projects in the Los Angeles area, from conceptual design through final sale. From 2010 to 2013, Mr. Cooper worked as a project manager for Anchor Loans where he oversaw all aspects of remodeling for single-family residential projects with resale values between $700,000 and $3,000,000.
Arixa Capital's Managing Director, Greg Hebner, said, "We are excited to bring someone like Eric onto the Arixa team. Eric's deep construction experience and his passion for client service is an ideal fit for our team. As Arixa continues to grow its lending business across larger construction projects and new geographies, Eric's extensive industry knowledge will allow us to execute on our growth plans and maintain the high level of service that our clients expect, while also mitigating risk for our fund investors."
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Solon took control early and often in the March 26 University of Dubuque sponsored Indoor Track Championship. Several teams had backed out of the meet early with travel and weather concerns. Eventually though, clear roads and 35 degree temperatures provided smooth sailing for the six full teams who did arrive at UD’s 200 meter indoor track complex for the 12-event invitational.
The Lady Spartans ran away with five ‘firsts’ and four ‘seconds,’ and stacked up 112 team points outrunning Iowa City West (97), Dubuque Hempstead (88), Dubuque Senior (72), Mason City (37) and Tipton (27). Each year, UD meet officials vote for three ‘MVP’ performers. For 2022 Solon had two of them: Kaia Holtkamp and Emma Bock.
“It was a great opportunity to get a lot of our people to run…not just the regulars but to put together a lineup that could go heavy on the relays, to help scoring. We need to find out where we sit with shuttle hurdle relays, 400 hurdles and other ‘outdoor’ season events”, outlined Solon coach Brent Sands. For example, at the UD meet, four shot putters made the finals finishing in the top eight, though only two per event are scored.
Points came right away with the 4x800 meter relay. Kaia Holtkamp led off with a 2:25 leg. Teammates Anna Quillin, Gracie Federspiel and Emma Bock’s splits were within a half-second to four seconds of her opener resulting in a meet record 9:46.72. “I felt pretty good. First race of the day,” recalls Federspiel. “I just try to do it for the team, to get the baton to the next person…to do my best.” The sophomore had the baton in her hand again during the final event, the 4x400 relay. “I got the baton in front and kept it in the front. As long as I can maintain it…that’s what I try to do.”
More wins, each worth ten more points on the scoreboard, came in the 4x200 (1:50.68, Megan O’Neill, Mia Duckett, Mia Stahle, Sophia Stahle), the 4x400 (4:06.45, Holtkamp, Sophia Stahle, Federspiel, Bock) as well as in the individual 800 (2:22.53, Bock), and 400 (1:01.81, Holtkamp). Second place finishes from Kayla Young in the 3000 (11:07.53) and O’Neill (backing Holtkamp’s 400 win with her 1:02.06) helped stretch the Lady Spartans’ lead.
Help also came from Sophia Stahle (2nd, 9:17) and Mia Stahle (3rd, 9:43) in the 55 hurdles. “My goal this year is to keep getting stronger,” says Sophia Stahle. “Last year, I learned to three step the (100 meter) hurdles, just not all the way through. This year, I will work on bringing my arms through to go faster over each hurdle. I can three step more and get my trail leg over faster too. Today, I three stepped all five (55 meter) hurdles.” Calla Foster’s 10.00 would have been good for a place in the 55 meter hurdles, except for the ‘two scores per school, per event’ ruling.
In the 55 dash, Mia Duckett (2nd, 7.77) was the winner. Addie McQuinn (8.05) was sixth. Ashlynn Williams (12:23) was good for sixth place in the 3000. Chipping in from the field events were Tatum Holtkamp (5th, 4’8) with Sophia Miles (6th, 4’6) in the high jump. Aisley Foster went 14’5 for fifth in the long jump. Throwers Abby Felton (30-10), Leah Kollar (30’7), Kate Shafer (29’10) and Hillary Wilson (29’2) staked out the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth places in the shot put (again, with the two scores per school, per event, quashing a few more points).
In the 1500, Anna Quillin (4th, 5:16.39) and Annika Kruse (8th, 5:41.31) each reached the scoreboard. Kobi Lietz grabbed an 800 point with her 2.48 (8th), to back Holtkamp’s win.
The early season meets are a great chance to move girls around, see where they might shore up what the team needs. Sands says that strategy seems to be paying off. “Meghan O’Neill is really making an impression on us this early season. She (a four-year cross country letter winner) asked if we could explore sprints a little more, even with plenty of middle distance opportunities in track. Meghan is definitely battling for a spot in the sprints,” including the winning 4x200 foursome.
Weather permitting…. always a ‘maybe’ this time of year, Solon was expected to be at the early bird Tipton outdoor meet this week. Then on Saturday, at Cedar Rapids Kingston Stadium as the big Jefferson Invitational convenes. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/solon/lady-spartans-win-university-of-dubuque-invitational/article_c26f1917-bd88-5aeb-9d1a-03d12764ddad.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:30Z |
James Horan
James M. Horan, 82, of Toronto died Monday, March 28, 1922 at Trinity West. He was born July 28, 1939 in Steubenville. He is the son of the late James and Goldie Raber Horan. He...
www.heraldstaronline.comJames M. Horan, 82, of Toronto died Monday, March 28, 1922 at Trinity West. He was born July 28, 1939 in Steubenville. He is the son of the late James and Goldie Raber Horan. He...
www.heraldstaronline.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556272379277/james-horan | 2022-04-01T02:07:30Z |
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Chandigarh, March 31
Now, people will have to pay more for hiring taxis, maxi cabs or autos in the city and for intercity travel by taxis.
After nearly nine years, the UT Administration today revised the fares chargeable for travel by taxis, maxi cabs and autos within and outside the city.
The UT Administration had last revised the fares in 2013 for intracity travel and in 2015, for intercity travel.
Under the revised rates, a local AC taxi will now charge Rs34 per km instead of Rs23 per km, a non-AC taxi will now charge Rs25 for the first km and Rs19 for each subsequent km. Earlier, the fare was Rs17 for the first km and Rs13 for each subsequent km. Similarly, the radio auto will charge Rs20 for the first km and Rs13 for each subsequent km. Earlier, the fare was Rs15 for the first km and Rs10 for each subsequent km. Also, the ordinary auto will now charge Rs19 for the first km and Rs9 for each subsequent km. Earlier, the charges were Rs14 for for the first km and Rs7 for each subsequent km. For travel on a daily basis up to eight hours or a maximum of 80 km outside the city, the ordinary taxi car (4+1 seater) will now charge Rs13 per km from Rs9 per km. Similarly, the rate for an AC luxury taxi (4+1 seater) has been increased from Rs12 per km to Rs18 per km. An AC ordinary (6+1 seater) taxi will now charge Rs21 per km instead of Rs14 per km.
The rate of an AC supreme taxi (6+1-seater) has been increased to Rs24 per km from Rs16 per km. For an AC luxury taxi (6+1-seater), people will have to pay Rs30 per km instead of Rs20 per km.
Similarly, the rates for the tempo travellers AC (12+1 seater) have been increased from Rs18 per km to Rs27 per km. For the Corolla Alltis/Scoda/Volks Jetta, the rate has been increased from Rs20 per km to Rs30 per km. The new rate for BMW, Audi (P&C), Camry will be Rs47 per km, which was earlier Rs32 per km. Travel by BMW-5 series and Mercedes E-class will cost Rs74 per km, which was earlier Rs50 per km. The Audi 7 series and S Class Mercedez B rate has been revised to Rs111 per km from Rs75 per km.
For hill areas, an ordinary taxi will charge Rs1.5 per km extra instead of Rs1 per km. For an AC car, Rs3 per km will be charged extra instead of Rs2 per km and a luxury car will charge Rs4 per km extra instead of Rs3 per km.
The rates for hiring taxis for local area on a daily basis up to eight hours or a maximum of 80 km have also been increased.
Ordinary taxi cars up to 4+1 seater, which earlier cost Rs1,200 per day, will now cost Rs1,800 per day. AC luxury taxis, which now charge Rs2,100 per day, earlier cost Rs1,400 per day.
The rates of an AC taxi (ordinary 6+1 seater) have also been increased to Rs2,200 per day from Rs1,500 per day. An AC luxury taxi up to 6+1 seater will charge Rs2,500 per day instead of Rs1,700 per day. For an AC luxury taxi, commuters will now have to pay Rs3,100 per day instead of Rs2,100 per day.
Corolla Altis and Honda Civic will now charge Rs3,700 per day, which was earlier Rs2,500 per day. Volkswagon Jetta and Camry will now charge Rs4,700 per day against Rs3,200 per day.
The Tempo Traveller (12+1 seater) rate will now be Rs3,000 per day as compared to the earlier Rs2,000 per day.
On the increase in the fare, Ramesh Ahuja, president of the taxi union, said the new rates would not give any benefit to the taxi operators as they would hardly get the revised rates due to competition in the market.
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The final run of Netflix hit Ozark airs later this month, providing the second part of season two. Part one was an explosive seven episodes and left a lot to wrap up in the remaining seven but the new trailer released this week gives us lots of information about what to expect.
If you haven't seen the show, Ozark follows the Byrde family – Marty (Jason Bateman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) and their kids Jonah and Charlotte – and their mix up with a Mexican Cartel that has them moving from their home in Chicago to the Ozarks in Missouri to launder money. It's a dark thriller that has got darker in recent seasons but is made considerably brighter thanks to the talents of Bateman, Linney and relative newcomer Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore.
Season 4 Part 1 left us on the edge of our seats (spoilers ahead if you haven't seen it yet) with plans starting to unravel, but a lot could still happen. The new trailer gives more than a hint of what to expect and seems to deliver one major spoiler as well. Or does it? Here's what we know...
Marty is done with the whole thing and wants out. At the start of the trailer he tells Wendy, "I'm just so sick of having blood on my hands." But Wendy remains determined. "Don't back out on me when we're almost done," she replies. This ties in with what we've seen so far. All the deals are done and they are so close to going back to their normal life, but the hardest is still to come.
The big shocker here though is Ruth shooting Javi Elizonndro, the new head of the cartel, in broad daylight. We know at the end of season 4 part 1 that she plans to kill him as revenge for killing her cousin Wyatt and Darline (spoiler) but this seems to show her actually going through with it. "Javi dies, everything that we worked for just falls apart," Marty tells Ruth in the trailer. But as we know, it already has for Ruth. "Welcome to my f**king world," she replies.
Ruth killing Javi is likely to throw all the Byrde's plans with Omar Navarro and the FBI, so it's likely that this is from the first new episode and the following six will be dealing with the consequences. We see Marty approach the FBI for help but get turned away. We then see Marty heading to Mexico, presumably to help Navarro reestablish control of the Cartel after Javi's death.
There's lots more in here to unpack though. Wendy is seemingly being investigated for the disappearance of her brother Ben, Ruth is on the run and then seen watching her home be bulldozed, Jonah and Charlotte Byrde seem to be helping to the family's dirty work and Navarro is in the middle of a prison riot. Then there's that car crash from the opening of season four part 1. We see it again here in the trailer in more detail. Is this the end we will see?
Some online fans have suggested that both the car crash and the shooting of Javi could be misleading. Either dream sequences or alternate realities that don't end up happening. That seems a little unlikely for Ozark but one thing is guaranteed is there's bound to be a lot more surprises still to come before the show's end.
Ozark Season 4 Part 2 starts streaming on Netflix from April 29, 2022. | https://www.t3.com/us/news/ozark-season-4-part-2-what-we-learned-from-the-new-trailer | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
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.theage.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_politics_federal | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
A fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine has been rolling out to Ontarians who live in congregate care settings or are severely immunocompromised, but another booster isn’t needed just yet in York Region, according to Dr. Barry Pakes, York’s Medical Officer of Health.
In his weekly pandemic update, Mr. Pakes said while fourth doses of the vaccine have been distributed in those specific circumstances, it’s the third doses that are “critical” for the general population.
“The evidence on fourth doses is accumulating worldwide and it looks very promising for those at higher risk, but not necessarily for those in Ontario at this time,” he said. “For now, it’s third doses that are critical for everyone – especially if your second dose has been over six months ago. There is good evidence that the effectiveness of the vaccine does wane over time.”
That being said, however, Dr. Pakes said COVID-19 transmission in York Region remains high and is on the rise following the lifting of mask mandates. This rise is something that York Region Public Health expected, he said, but current vaccine coverage is helping keep things stable.
“Our wastewater surveillance in York Region and indeed across Ontario is showing a significant and sustained signal increase,” he said. “We did expect to see this after reopening last month and with the recent removal of mask mandates. Fortunately, thanks to our exceptional vaccine coverage, we’re not yet seeing a significant increase in other indicators, including hospitalization, ICU admissions, deaths, and outbreaks in institutional settings. In York Region, these metrics are stable. In some other regions of Ontario, we are seeing increases in these areas.
“Last week, when mask mandates were lifted in most indoor settings across the Province, including businesses and schools, many York Region residents continued to wear masks to protect themselves and to protect others. Thank you for this. Wearing a mask is now a personal decision, but this decision affects you and others. Whatever your choice, please remember to be kind. Everyone is fighting a different fight through this pandemic and someone’s choice to remain cautious could be for many reasons, including living with someone who is at high risk for greater complications or if they are immunocompromised themselves.
“I urge you to continue wearing masks in situations where you’re faced with the three Cs: crowds, close contact, or confined spaces with potentially poor ventilation. I urge you to at least have a mask with you, that way you can put it on as required. If you’re recovering from a COVID-19 infection, please continue to wear your masks at least five days beyond your self-isolation period. If you’re a close contact or are showing any signs of COVID-19, please stay home.” | https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/03/31/fourth-shots-arent-needed-in-york-region-just-yet-for-most-populations-public-health.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
Priyanka Chopra who had announced a few months ago of becoming a parent via surrogacy has yet not named her daughter. Priyanka and Nick right now are enjoying parenthood together and ever since their announcement of becoming a parent, fans want to know every bit about their beloved daughter. Nick and Priyank didn't even reveal the gender of their child, it was Priyanka's cousin Meera Chopra who revealed that she has become a happy mother of a baby girl. And now we got to know that desi girl Priyanka Chopra hasn't yet picked a name for her darling daughter. Yes! Also Read - Malaika Arora gets smitten by her young fan; asks him, 'Are you my date?' – watch video
A very well placed source close to Bollywoodlife reveals, " Priyanka and Nick have got a lot of suggestions of names for their daughter from their family and friends. However, they haven't got the name that has touched their hearts yet! Priyanka and Nick aren't in a rush to name their child as they want something unique and meaningful name for their daughter." The source further adds, " While Priyanka who is connected to her roots very much and also respects and adores her hubby's culture want to name her daughter that has a mix of cultures. Well, we will have to wait for the name of the princess as the parents are in no hurry and are taking their own sweet time." Also Read - Trending TV News Today: Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai's AbhiRa to wed in Rajasthan, Rashami Desai on her bond with Naagin 6 co-star Tejasswi Prakash and more
Priyanka and Nick who became parents via surrogacy had taken to their Instagram and shared this happy news with their fans and well-wishers, " We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate. We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family." On the professional front, Priyanka Chopra will soon begin shooting for her Bollywood film Jee Le Zaraa along with Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif directed by Farhan Akhtar. Also Read - Anupamaa – Namaste America: Rupali Ganguly to narrate 17-year-old incident that changed Anu's life drastically – watch prequel teaser
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21 counties damaged during severe weather across Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (WCBI) – 21 counties are reporting damage to homes after severe storms roll across the Magnolia State on Wednesday.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency is also reporting three injuries. Two of those occurred in Noxubee County. The other was in Holmes County.
MEMA released drone video from Forrest County, near Hattiesburg.
In our area, homes were damaged in Calhoun, Lafayette, Oktibbeha, and Yalobusha.
Preliminary assessments started today and more counties could be added to the list as information is given to MEMA.
The agency encourages everyone with damage to make an insurance claim, take a picture, and report the damage on MEMA’s website. | https://www.wcbi.com/21-counties-damaged-during-severe-weather-across-mississippi/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
17-year-old dead after shooting on Staunton Drive in Columbus
Published: Mar. 31, 2022 at 9:07 PM EDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - One person is dead, and another is injured after a shooting on Staunton Drive.
The shooting occurred at Primus King Park around 6:45 p.m.
Markayala Kalleah Marshall, 17, suffered from multiple gunshot wounds and later was pronounced dead at Piedmont Emergency Room.
Marshall’s sister is currently at the ER suffering from non-life-threatening injuries.
This story is still developing.
Stay with News Leader 9 as we learn more information.
Copyright 2022 WTVM. All rights reserved. | https://www.wtvm.com/2022/04/01/17-year-old-dead-after-shooting-cusseta-rd-columbus/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
This is a story about a little decision going a long way.
One of western Washington’s most popular bakeries, Macrina Bakery, partnered with bakers around the world in a fundraising effort called “Bake for Ukraine.”
They’re raising money for a prominent bakery in Kyiv - “Bakehouse” - which was running out of flour because it was giving away so much free bread to refugees who were literally starving.
As first reported in the Kent Reporter, Macrina joined in the worldwide effort by bakeries last week, decorating their Brown Sugar Shortbread cookies with blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
And they flew off the shelves.
“We sold out of the Ukrainian flag cookies almost every day - at almost all of the cafes,” President/CEO Scott France told KING. “We had other businesses saying, ‘Hey, can we participate?’ And we had to turn them down because we were maxed out at almost 2,000 cookies.”
That’s about seven times the number of cookies they usually make in a week.
France said the motivation was simple; he just imagined what would happen if Washington state was invaded.
"We would be using the flour that we have on hand to bake bread, to sell or to give away to help take care of our community,” he said. “So it's just a tragic situation that they're going through, and it's so impressive that (Bakehouse) is able to continue operating and give out bread to their local community.”
“I wish there was something else we could do to stop the situation,” he continued, “but we can't. So we're honored to be able to participate in this small way.”
Actually – it wasn’t small at all. Their one-week push, selling cookies at only four cafes, raised $11,000.
Macrina’s specialty is pastries, not cookies, so they’re not bringing the Ukraine cookies back, but their donation helped pushed the worldwide total of funds raised past $100,000.
If you'd like to donate, go to the “Bake for Ukraine” GoFundMe page. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/kent-bakery-ukraine-fundraiser/281-32bc39cc-bfde-4492-9125-fb2834b1fe49 | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
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¶ Ticket-holders with all three 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.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17049954.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
New housing community in Stockton, CA, aims to get veterans off the streets
By Adrienne Moore
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STOCKTON, California (KOVR) — In the city of Stockton, on any given night, an estimated 140 veterans are forced to sleep on the streets.
On Thursday, the city celebrated a new housing community dedicated to cutting that number down.
Liberty Gardens is a 74-unit housing community. From above, the brightly-colored building looks like any other massive apartment complex.
But inside, it’s much more. A man named Willie — and his twins — now call a three-bedroom unit at Liberty Gardens their home.
Willie served two tours in Afghanistan, and 90 days ago, he was sleeping on a friend’s couch. Today, he’s studying to be a nurse.
“It’s really worked out for me,” Willie said. “It works out for everyone.”
Travis Parker, an Air Force veteran, has settled into a one-bedroom unit at Liberty Gardens. He says it saved his life.
“I was on the verge of homelessness,” Parker said.
Stockton Mayor Kevin Lincoln turned out for the special ceremony celebrating the end of the second phase of building.
The $27-million project is paid for with city, state and federal grants. It’s a bright spot in a city where crime rates are high and homicides are also ticking up.
“This is exactly the kind of housing we need,” Lincoln said.
As for rent? That sits between $388 to $500 a month. The community has a computer lab, on-site behavioral health service and a preschool facility in place.
The mayor hopes other cities will follow suit.
“I think other cities and counties should take a close look at what we’re doing with housing here in Stockton,” Lincoln said.
Officials at Liberty Gardens say most applicants qualify for either Section 8 housing or veterans housing vouchers.
Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform. | https://kion546.com/cnn-regional/2022/03/31/new-housing-community-in-stockton-ca-aims-to-get-veterans-off-the-streets/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Thursday honoring the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the latest honor for the band inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 and the recipient of six Grammys.
All four members of the band -- lead vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith and guitarist John Frusciante -- spoke at the 11:30 a.m. ceremony in front of Amoeba Music where they will give the first music performance at its new Hollywood location next Thursday.
Emmy-winning actor Woody Harrelson, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame funk singer George Clinton and singer turned chemical dependency counselor Bob Forrest are also set to speak. The ceremony will be streamed on the Walk of Fame's website, www.walkoffame.com.
The star is the 2,717th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the first 1,558 stars.
Red Hot Chili Peppers were selected for a star in 2008 but just scheduled the ceremony "a few months ago,'' Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, told City News Service.
The ceremony comes one day before the release of the band's first studio album since 2016, "Unlimited Love,'' its first recording with Frusciante since 2006.
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Formed in 1983 by Kiedis, Flea (who was born Michael Peter Balzary), guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons, classmates at Fairfax High School, Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold 80 million albums, generated 5 billion YouTube views, and gathered 22 billion Spotify streams, averaging 21 million monthly listeners on the platform.
Smith has been with the band since 1988. Frusciante also joined in 1988, left in 1992, rejoined in 1998, left in 2009 and rejoined again in 2019.
Red Hot Chili Peppers have received 16 Grammy nominations, the first in 1990 for best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal for the single "Higher Ground.'' They won their first Grammy in 1993 for best hard rock performance with vocal for "Give It Away.''
Their other Grammys came in 2000 for best rock song for "Scar Tissue'' and in 2007 for best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal and best rock song, both for "Dani California,'' and best rock album and best boxed or special limited edition package, both for "Stadium Arcadium.'' | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/red-hot-chili-peppers-honored-with-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star/3625729/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Thursday that the state’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs is sending 9,000 pounds of surplus equipment to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
The governor’s office said Thursday that the equipment was donated by 11 local, county, state and tribal law enforcement agencies.
It includes 874 bullet proof vests, 77 helmets, miscellaneous tactical clothing, footwear, pads and shields.
The 17 pallets of equipment will be transported to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Relief Group and is expected to be delivered in the next two weeks.
As a sign of support, the Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix alongside the state flag. | https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Ducey-Arizona-sending-surplus-military-equipment-17049960.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
Posted: Mar 31, 2022 / 03:45 PM CDT Updated: Mar 31, 2022 / 03:45 PM CDT SHARE NEW YORK (AP)Aliyah Boston of South Carolina is The Associated Press women’s basketball Player of the Year. | https://www.ketk.com/sports/aliyah-boston-of-south-carolina-is-the-associated-press-womens-basketball-player-of-the-year/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:31Z |
5 fetuses found inside DC home of anti-abortion activist
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police found five fetuses in the home of a self-proclaimed “anti-abortion activist” who was indicted this week on federal charges alleging that she was part of a group of people who blocked access to a Washington, D.C. reproductive health center.
The Metropolitan Police Department says officers were responding to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a home in Southeast Washington on Wednesday when they located the five fetuses inside.
A local television station, WUSA9, captured video of police searching the home and reported that the home belonged to Lauren Handy. The 28-year-old was one of nine people charged in an indictment that was made public on Wednesday that accused the group of traveling to Washington, blocking access to the reproductive health center and streaming it on Facebook.
The station, which first reported the discovery, said Handy told a reporter that “people will freak out when they hear” what detectives found inside her house. Handy did not respond to a message sent to her Facebook profile seeking comment.
Police said the five fetuses were collected by Washington’s medical examiner and the investigation is ongoing.
In the indictment, prosecutors said Handy had called the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient and scheduling an appointment. Once there, on Oct. 22, 2020, eight of the suspects pushed their way inside and began blocking the doors, according to the indictment. Five of them chained themselves together on chairs to block the treatment area as others blocked the employee entrance to stop other patients from coming inside, the indictment alleges. Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge.
Handy and the eight others were charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The federal law, more commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Thursday that the state’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs is sending 9,000 pounds of surplus equipment to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
The governor’s office said Thursday that the equipment was donated by 11 local, county, state and tribal law enforcement agencies.
It includes 874 bullet proof vests, 77 helmets, miscellaneous tactical clothing, footwear, pads and shields.
The 17 pallets of equipment will be transported to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Relief Group and is expected to be delivered in the next two weeks.
As a sign of support, the Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix alongside the state flag. | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Ducey-Arizona-sending-surplus-military-equipment-17049960.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
Biggest fight in Australian boxing history will see 50,000 fans pack Melbourne's Marvel Stadium as George Kambosos Jr defends his belts against Devin Haney
- Mega-fight officially announced at Marvel Stadium on Friday morning
- Kambosos puts his WBA, IBF, WBO and The Ring lightweight titles on the line
- Devin Haney will risk his WBC strap with winner crowned undisputed champ
It's official: Australia's lightweight world champion George Kambosos Jr will take on American Devin Haney in the biggest fight the country has ever seen when the pair clash at Melbourne's Marvel Stadium on June 5.
The bout will see Kambosos risk his WBA, IBF, WBO and The Ring titles with Haney putting his WBC strap on the line in front of an anticipated 50,000 fans.
It will be the 28-year-old Aussie's first fight since he shocked the boxing world by defeating Teofimo Lopez for the four belts at New York's Madison Square Garden last November, and his first bout in Australia since 2017.
Kambosos and his manager and father Jim celebrate his upset win over Teofimo Lopez in New York last year. They're certain of repeating the scenes in Melbourne on June 5
Devin Haney with his WBC world lightweight title belt. He has beaten big names in Jorge Linares and Joseph Diaz Junior in the lead-up to his scrap with the Aussie
Haney, whose record stands at 27-0, will be a stern test for Kambosos, whose first choice for his title defences was superstar and former pound-for-pound champion Vasiliy Lomachenko.
However, Lomachenko chose to stay in his native Ukraine and help fight the Russian invasion - a decision Kambosos respected and supported.
Haney is coming off high-profile wins against Jorge Linares and Joseph Diaz Junior.
The clash was announced on Friday morning at a press conference at Marvel, with Eddie McGuire controlling proceedings as Haney appeared on video from America.
'These belts will be staying right here,' Kambosos said in his opening comments.
'This is the biggest fight of the year by far,' Haney said. 'There will be a king of the lightweight division and it will be me.'
Kambosos stunned the boxing world when he convincingly beat Teofimo Lopez (pictured) at Madison Square Garden last November as an almost unbackable underdog
Kambosos Jr takes on the world's top jockey, James McDonald, in an exhibition bout to promote The Championships horse races at Sydney's Randwick Racecourse on April 2 and 9. The lightweight king faces a real test when he meets Haney in Melbourne
Kambosos set tensions off when he referred to the American as a 'kid', leading Haney to reply, 'Stop calling me a kid. I'm a man and I will show him that in the ring.
'Respect me as a man.'
Kambosos' comeback was short and sharp: 'Show me.'
The pair then got into a war of words over whether Kambosos chose Haney or was reluctant to fight him and only did so because Lomachenko is unavailable.
'You were chosen, boy. You were chosen, you were forced into this position,' Kambosos said.
'I knew I could beat you,' Haney shot back. 'I'll fight you in your backyard if I have to and I'll show you.'
Vasiliy Lomachenko, until recently regarded as the best pound-for-pound boxer on the planet, was Kambosos' first choice opponent but he elected to remain in his native Ukraine and help fight the Russian invasion
Kambosos knocked Lopez down with a huge right hand in the first round, but had to survive getting knocked down himself on his way to making Australian boxing history
Bob Arum, a colossus of boxing promotions and the CEO of the Top Rank group, said he is anticipating a stellar contest.
'George showed me a lot more ability than I thought he had (in the win over Lopez) and how it is appropriate we match George with a fighter who will give him a tremendous battle.
'Haney is a phenomenon, he is one of if not the leading lightweight in the world. You're going to see the best of American boxing.'
Melbourne's huge Greek community is a major reason the Kambosos camp wanted to stage the bout in the city instead of Sydney.
Marvel's closed roof was another big drawcard for the Aussie's company, Ferocious Promotions.
Australia has hosted some huge fights before, but the Marvel bout should top them all.
Jeff Horn's victory over Manny Pacquiao at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium was watched by more than 50,000 in July 2017, and Jeff Fenech's loss to Azumah Nelson in their highly anticipated rematch at Melbourne's Princes Park drew 40,000 in March 1992. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-10674601/George-Kambosos-Devin-Haney-Australias-biggest-boxing-bout-Marvel-Stadium.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
Opinion
Why the excellence of trans athletes raises difficult questions
Darren Kane
Sports ColumnistThe making of laws, or sporting regulations, isn’t easy. There isn’t a rule book for writing the rule book.
We may aim for fairness, equity and integrity but what often happens instead is we establish an entirely new paradigm, which in reality eschews each of those ideals.
This is why important policies must be enacted only once there’s a proper, reasoned and sound basis for doing so. Educated guesstimating is akin to conducting brain surgery blindfolded - it is an insufficient method of solving complex issues. It’s also dangerous.
Crudely crafted rules can have drastic, detrimental, unforeseen outcomes for particular classes of athletes.
Given that, what should the precise rules be regarding binary male and female competition classes across all sports in circumstances where gender itself is not binary? Such rules affect the right of certain people to freely participate in sport at all, which means great care and consideration is demanded.
The British cyclist, Emily Bridges, was due to compete in the British National Omnium Championships this weekend. Now she isn’t allowed to because the sport’s international federation, the Union Cycliste Internationale, has determined she isn’t eligible. Emily Bridges is a trans female athlete and her right to compete has been squashed.
In 2022, organising elite athletes into either the “male” box or the “female” box, as elite sports invariably do, is a borderline impossible task to complete well. The potential for damage to be caused to athletes, like Emily Bridges, is clear.
These questions can’t be considered inside a vacuum-excluding emotion. Yet that’s exactly how such questions perhaps must be examined, even if not answered.
Improperly considered and non-comprehensive schemes of regulation will definitely generate outcomes such as the material distortion of the competitive balance across a spectrum of competitors of the same gender.
Conversely, a severity of regulation disproportionate to any legitimate concern might result in a subset of female athletes being indefinitely banned from all competition, a fate that is worse than that which befalls all but the most wicked of dopers and cheats.
The objectively excellent performances by Penn State athlete Lia Thomas during the recently completed US college swimming titles must be applauded for being exactly that: excellent performances. Thomas’ results and achievements must, however, bring into question the credibility of the very competitions in which she excelled.
Lia Thomas’ achievement in winning the NCAA 500-yard freestyle raises issues that need to be confronted, by aquatic sports and indeed sport generally.
Thomas is a transgender female athlete, studying and competing in elite US college sports. Her collegiate swimming career results, achieved before she began transitioning from male to female, were altogether humdrum.
Swimming at the just-completed NCAA championships, though, Thomas won an NCAA title. In achieving that result, she defeated two cisgender female athletes – Emma Weyant and Erica Sullivan – each of whom won silver medals at the Tokyo Olympics.
And it’s at this point that one must at least question whether the participation of the archetypal Lia Thomas – a transgender athlete participating in a single-sex sporting competition – distorts the Utopian “level playing field” to the degree it challenges the concept of fair and equal competition.
Not everyone who validly questions the participation of a Lia Thomas in an elite female sporting competition deserves to be tarnished a “transphobe”. These are not questions about only the rights of trans peoplebut are rather questions about fairness in competition and the rights and interests of all athletes and the consequences of upturning that finely balanced table.
Again, the issue is one of trying to fit a whole kaleidoscope of gender into either the box labelled XX or the one labelled XY.
Certain sports, obviously, lend themselves to competitions in which men and women can compete on an even basis, where gender isn’t a factor. Horse racing, motor racing and darts are perfect examples, and implementing regulations permitting unhindered participation rights for transgender athletes is a comparatively straightforward process.
But some other sports are inherently more difficult to organise so that transgender athletes have the same rights as cisgender athletes while simultaneously maintaining fairness for all athletes. The relative importance of strength, stamina and physical size in sports such as rugby league, boxing and wrestling means that those sports don’t offer up obvious ways in which a trans female athlete might be permitted to participate in female competition.
It must, however, be observed, that the reaction to the participation of the trans female Kiwi weightlifter Laurel Hubbard in the men’s program at the last Olympics was unwarranted based on her results alone.
Moreover, although most people wouldn’t quibble at the concept of a trans male athlete competing in a heavyweight wrestling competition against a cisgender male opponent, such a scenario actually presents its own conundrums in terms of athlete safety, specifically that of the transgender athlete.
Which means that although questions as to how the binary nature of elite male/female sports competitions should, and can, be adapted are confused, they are also compulsory.
A core failing is there exists no overarching guidance, at least not at any detailed level. In late 2021, the International Olympic Committee released its Framework on Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sex Variations. Good, you would think.
Disappointingly, but unsurprisingly, the IOC’s framework comprises six pages of high-falutin’ principles and waffle that any lawyer could drive a bus through. In one section, the IOC says the starting point is that an athlete should be allowed to compete in the category that best aligns with their self-determined gender identity.
In the following section, the IOC qualifies this ideal by stating that where sports organisations elect to organise competitions into men’s and women’s categories (and very few don’t), those organisations should do so with a view to ensuring that no athlete within a category has an unfair and disproportionate competitive advantage.
Now, back to Thomas. This isn’t at all about Thomas, but in another way this must be about Thomas.
How can it be fairly put that a trans female athlete in the position of Thomas, who was ranked so far down the pecking order as a NCAA male athlete that nobody ever uttered her name, now could be said to have no unfair and disproportionate competitive advantage?
But if Thomas does have a disproportionate athletic and competitive advantage, how can her sport offer her the opportunities there she should rightfully be afforded? Therein lies the conundrum.
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5 fetuses found inside DC home of anti-abortion activist
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police found five fetuses in the home of a self-proclaimed “anti-abortion activist” who was indicted this week on federal charges alleging that she was part of a group of people who blocked access to a Washington, D.C. reproductive health center.
The Metropolitan Police Department says officers were responding to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a home in Southeast Washington on Wednesday when they located the five fetuses inside.
A local television station, WUSA9, captured video of police searching the home and reported that the home belonged to Lauren Handy. The 28-year-old was one of nine people charged in an indictment that was made public on Wednesday that accused the group of traveling to Washington, blocking access to the reproductive health center and streaming it on Facebook.
The station, which first reported the discovery, said Handy told a reporter that “people will freak out when they hear” what detectives found inside her house. Handy did not respond to a message sent to her Facebook profile seeking comment.
Police said the five fetuses were collected by Washington’s medical examiner and the investigation is ongoing.
In the indictment, prosecutors said Handy had called the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient and scheduling an appointment. Once there, on Oct. 22, 2020, eight of the suspects pushed their way inside and began blocking the doors, according to the indictment. Five of them chained themselves together on chairs to block the treatment area as others blocked the employee entrance to stop other patients from coming inside, the indictment alleges. Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge.
Handy and the eight others were charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The federal law, more commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.azfamily.com/2022/04/01/5-fetuses-found-inside-dc-home-anti-abortion-activist/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Thursday that the state’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs is sending 9,000 pounds of surplus equipment to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
The governor’s office said Thursday that the equipment was donated by 11 local, county, state and tribal law enforcement agencies.
It includes 874 bullet proof vests, 77 helmets, miscellaneous tactical clothing, footwear, pads and shields.
The 17 pallets of equipment will be transported to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Relief Group and is expected to be delivered in the next two weeks.
As a sign of support, the Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix alongside the state flag. | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Ducey-Arizona-sending-surplus-military-equipment-17049960.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:33Z |
From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
Former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, has formally joined the contest for the presidential ticket of the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A group, Like Minds for Peter Obi, obtained the nomination forms for the former Anambra State governor, who was the party’s vice presidential candidate in the 2019 poll, at the party’s secretariat, Abuja, yesterday.
Its leader, Ekene Nwakuche, told journalists that they obtained the N40 million Expression of Interest and Nomination forms for Obi, because of their confidence in his ability to offer purposeful leadership to the country.
He implored members of the PDP to rally round the former governor, as he has the competence to move the country forward.
He noted that already, a political pressure group, “Take Back Nigeria”, has promised to mobilise 10 million votes for Obi, in the general election, if he gets the opposition party’s presidential ticket.
“We don’t belong to any political party. We’re just a group of young Nigeria professionals that feels that the country is not going in the right direction and we need someone, a technocrat, a seasoned technocrat that can steer the affairs of the country in the right direction, and cut down the cost of governance. Because we believe that if we cut down the cost of governance, the country would move in the right direction. And we’ve been following, we are different individuals in the group, professionals, businessman , public servants, different category of contractors, artisans, we have members from everywhere in Nigeria, we are fully represented.
“So, we want the country to move forward. We think Peter Obi can steer it forward and we believe in him because we’ve seen what he did in Anambra when he was a governor. And we have heard him talk, he has the wealth of experience to lead Nigeria to the promised land.
We’re not in this thing because of any gain. We’re doing it because of our children to come.” | https://www.sunnewsonline.com/2023-group-obtains-pdp-form-for-ex-governor-obi/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
5 fetuses found inside DC home of anti-abortion activist
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police found five fetuses in the home of a self-proclaimed “anti-abortion activist” who was indicted this week on federal charges alleging that she was part of a group of people who blocked access to a Washington, D.C. reproductive health center.
The Metropolitan Police Department says officers were responding to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a home in Southeast Washington on Wednesday when they located the five fetuses inside.
A local television station, WUSA9, captured video of police searching the home and reported that the home belonged to Lauren Handy. The 28-year-old was one of nine people charged in an indictment that was made public on Wednesday that accused the group of traveling to Washington, blocking access to the reproductive health center and streaming it on Facebook.
The station, which first reported the discovery, said Handy told a reporter that “people will freak out when they hear” what detectives found inside her house. Handy did not respond to a message sent to her Facebook profile seeking comment.
Police said the five fetuses were collected by Washington’s medical examiner and the investigation is ongoing.
In the indictment, prosecutors said Handy had called the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient and scheduling an appointment. Once there, on Oct. 22, 2020, eight of the suspects pushed their way inside and began blocking the doors, according to the indictment. Five of them chained themselves together on chairs to block the treatment area as others blocked the employee entrance to stop other patients from coming inside, the indictment alleges. Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge.
Handy and the eight others were charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The federal law, more commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.westernmassnews.com/2022/04/01/5-fetuses-found-inside-dc-home-anti-abortion-activist/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:32Z |
The United States Department of Agriculture released an update to its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and found that nearly everything one might ingest – whether it comes from the grocery store or restaurant – is going up in price.
And yes, that's on top of the price increases consumers have already been forced to endure in the last year.
"All food prices are now predicted to increase between 4.5 and 5.5%," the USDA's Economic Research Service explained in the March report.
While the overall increase is alarming, a closer look at various food categories show just how expensive shoppers can expect items to get, according to the USDA:
As for take-out or dine-in menus, the USDA said those prices are predicted to go up between 5.5 and 6.5% for the remainder of this year.
Additionally, food prices climbed 7.9% for the year ending in February 2022.
This was "the largest 12-month advance since July 1981," according to the department.
The report also noted current global events that will only add to the uncertainty of food affordability, saying, "The impacts of the conflict in Ukraine and the recent increases in interest rates by the Federal Reserve are expected to put upward and downward pressures on food prices, respectively. The situations will be closely monitored to assess the net impacts of these concurrent events on food prices as they unfold."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2022-03-31/food-prices-are-going-up-and-at-levels-americans-havent-seen-in-decades | 2022-04-01T02:07:35Z |
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
01-02-27-29-30, Cash Ball: 3
(one, two, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty; Cash Ball: three)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
01-02-27-29-30, Cash Ball: 3
(one, two, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty; Cash Ball: three) | https://www.mysanantonio.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash4Life-game-17049899.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:35Z |
They start having to merge threads about you. Calm the feck down lads, Im just one guy.
I particularly liked Coulby aka the Wealdstone Raiders comment
I dont condone violence, but can someone a bit bigger than me call him out. Id do it myself, but Im busy at work etc
Robbso said you were 8 stone wet through, but Im honestly not that scary Coulbs lad | http://forum.comeonboro.com/index.php?topic=153065.msg1721533 | 2022-04-01T02:07:35Z |
- City of Toronto Social Bond wins Social Bond of the Year, Local Authority/Municipality category – BMO Joint-Lead Manager
- World Bank Sustainability Bond wins Sustainability Bond of the Year, Supranational category – BMO Joint-Lead Manager
- City of Vancouver Sustainability Bond wins Sustainability Bond of the Year, Local Authority/Municipality category – BMO Joint Bookrunner
TORONTO, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The City of Toronto Social Bond, the World Bank Sustainability Bond, and the City of Vancouver Sustainability Bond were recognized today by Environmental Finance's 2022 Bond Awards in the categories of Social Bond of the Year – Local Authority/Municipality, Sustainability Bond of the Year – Supranational, and Sustainability Bond of the Year – Local Authority/Municipality. BMO Financial Group (BMO) acted as Joint-Lead Manager on the City of Toronto and World Bank bond issuances, and Joint Bookrunner on the City of Vancouver Sustainability Bond issuance.
The City of Toronto's Social Bond is the city's second Social Bond, following on their inaugural issue in June 2020 – the first-ever Social Bond from a Canadian Government issuer – which BMO also led. The Social Bond, issued under Toronto's Social Debenture Framework, is part of a program to promote positive socioeconomic outcomes, from affordable housing and access to essential infrastructure and services, to socioeconomic advancement and empowerment.
The World Bank Sustainability Bond is an $8 billion 2-year and 7-year Dual-Tranche Fixed-Rate Global Sustainability Bond launched in April 2021. The World Bank has been issuing sustainable development bonds in the international capital markets for over 70 years to fund programs and activities that achieve a positive impact. BMO is proud to be a joint lead-manager on this issuance. World Bank bonds are aligned with the Sustainability Bond Guidelines published by the International Capital Market Association and support the financing of a combination of green and social projects, programs, and activities.
The inaugural City of Vancouver Sustainability Bond was the first Sustainability Bond from a Canadian governmental issuer. Proceeds of the bond are supporting eligible projects such as green buildings, renewal and upgrade of the main sewer and a fire hall, street and bridge infrastructure, an accessibility program to provide access to essential services, a climate emergency response program and a seawall maintenance program.
"As Joint-Lead Manager we're pleased with the recognition the City of Toronto Social Bond, the World Bank Sustainability Bond, and the City of Vancouver Sustainability Bond have received from Environmental Finance," said Jonathan Hackett, Head, BMO Sustainable Finance. "These transactions are leading examples in sustainable financing that we believe will act as a catalyst to others as they explore social and sustainability labeled financing and BMO is excited to be a leader working with our clients in this space -- one that so closely aligns with our Purpose to Boldly Grow the Good, in business and life."
BMO is a recognized sustainability leader
Carbon neutral in its own operations since 2010, BMO announced its Climate Ambition in March 2021 with a commitment to deploy $300 billion in sustainable lending and underwriting to companies pursuing sustainable outcomes by 2025. BMO is focused on being its clients' lead partner in their transition to a net zero world and, since December 2019, has completed green and sustainability-linked loans for companies in a range of sectors, with targets including decarbonization, diversity & inclusion, and health and safety. To support clients' pursuit of opportunities driven by the increasing momentum of the global economy's shift in production and consumption of energy, in 2021 BMO established a dedicated Energy Transition Group and the BMO Climate Institute.
BMO's leadership on sustainability has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal's 100 Most Sustainably Managed Companies in the World, Corporate Knights' Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations, Dow Jones Sustainability Indices World Index, and Ethisphere Institute's list of the World's Most Ethical Companies.
For more information on BMO's commitment to a sustainable future, please visit the bank's latest Sustainability Report. To learn more about sustainable finance at BMO click here. For BMO's climate ambition, visit its Climate page.
About BMO Financial Group
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $1.02 trillion as of January 31, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
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On March 21, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship awarded nearly $250,000 in grants to help 13 Iowa farmers, businesses and non-profits to increase or diversify their agricultural product offerings.
“Iowa agriculture is the envy of the world as our farmers continue to lead the way in producing healthy, high-quality, affordable food. It is essential that consumers have access to the Iowa-grown products they know and love,” said Secretary Naig. “The Choose Iowa grant program makes this possible through value-added projects that help Iowans grow their businesses and access new markets. I am proud to invest in these projects that continue to position Iowa as a top place to grow, today and in the future.”
Local Harvest CSA, located near Solon, was awarded $5,750 to establish an on-farm kitchen to extend the production season and expand their market of value-added fruit and vegetable products. With the required one-to-one financial match, the total project cost is $11,500.
Secretary Naig visited Local Harvest CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) at the Sundog Farm, north of Solon, Friday, March 25, as part of his yearly 99-county tour.
The CSA runs April through December providing vegetables to over 200 families, in the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids area, and applied for the grant to help facilitate construction of a small processing kitchen onsite. Maja Black, one of the farmers at Sundog Farm CSA, along with sister Carmen, said the goal was to be able to take some of the produce they grow, process and freeze and then be able to sell it year round to help reduce food waste.
“We are very honored to have received the grant,” she said. “We’re really excited that they recognized that this is a valuable enterprise.”
Helaina Thompson also lives and works full time on the farm, after graduating with Maja from Solon High School.
“This kitchen has been a dream project, and it felt like a pretty far away dream, and this funding has allowed it to become much more of a reality,” Thompson said.
Along with Maja, Carmen, and Helaina, is Carlos Williams, who raises chickens at Sundog.
“Carlos has a very powerful story and it’s been very cool to see him grow his own business, and to see how his business works so well with ours,” Maja said.
CSA customers pay for a season worth of locally grown vegetables, delivered weekly throughout the season. There are also opportunities to visit the farm and interact directly with the farmers.
For more information on Local Harvest CSA, contact Carmen at 319-331-3957 or email localharvestcsa@gmail.com. The farm has a website at www.solonsundogfarm.com, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/localharvestcsa. | https://www.eastcentraliowanews.com/solon/local-harvest-csa-receives-choose-iowa-grant/article_ecdf2e4b-6f1c-5c08-9b1f-fb919a931bac.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:36Z |
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Jim Harbaugh has named former 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick as honorary captain of Michigan’s spring game this upcoming weekend, making waves across the national CFB fandom by taking what appears to be a pretty solid pro-Kap stance in a decidedly anti-Kap sport.
After protesting against racial injustice in the United States by taking a knee during the national anthem in 2016, there was an unofficial NFL-wide freeze against hiring him. He has remained iced out of the league ever since, despite Kaepernick’s public statements that he has been working to remain in NFL-level shape in case a team is ready to sign him.
And while people can argue that Harbaugh isn’t taking a political stance in inviting Kap to the Maize and Blue game, as Kaepernick was Harbaugh’s QB with the 49ers between 2011 and 2014 and even reached a Super Bowl together, the ongoing shun and continued ire against Kaepernick from NFL fans and front offices alike makes it a political statement by nature.
A professional relationship is the foundation of the invitation, no doubt, but it’s a big deal for Harbaugh to make this call, particularly given his history and current connections to the NFL. It would be foolish to pretend it’s not. He’s publicly challenging the league’s worst-kept secret that’s front-and-center of the public eye, as Michigan comes off a top-5 finish to their season. Aside from meeting with the players, the former 49ers QB will also have a throwing exhibition at halftime.
Harbaugh’s history as related to Kap’s activism has taken a carefully developed path. When Kap first made headlines for kneeling in 2016, Harbaugh said, “I acknowledge his right to do that, but I don’t respect the motivation or the action.” Only minutes later, he amended his statement, writing, “To clarify, I support Colin’s motivation. It’s his method of action that I take exception to.”
A year later, he amended his stance yet again, writing in an op-ed for Time Magazine,
“At times in our nation’s history, we have been all too quick to judge and oppose our fellow Americans for exercising their First Amendment right to address things they believe unjust. Rather than besmirch their character, we must celebrate their act. For we cannot pioneer and invent if we are fearful of deviating from the norm, damaging our public perception or — most important — harming our own personal interests. I thank Colin for all he has contributed to the game of football as an outstanding player and trusted teammate. I also applaud Colin for the courage he has demonstrated in exercising his guaranteed right of free speech. His willingness to take a position at personal cost is now part of our American story. How lucky for us all and for our country to have among our citizens someone as remarkable as Colin Kaepernick.”
In 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, Harbaugh attended an anti-police brutality protest in Ann Arbor alongside several assistant coaches. He’s been a vocal supporter of the same issues that Kaepernick took so much heat for protesting about, and it’s no mere 49ers coincidence that he would choose this moment to invite Kap to be an honorary captain at a public event for the Wolverines. | https://deadspin.com/michigan-names-colin-kaepernick-as-honorary-captain-1848735426 | 2022-04-01T02:07:37Z |
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WCIA) — Bloomington Police officers arrested a man Wednesday afternoon after he was observed hiding a gun in an alleyway.
Witnesses told officers that they saw someone hide an object they described as a gun before entering the McLean County Courthouse. That same person retrieved the gun after he left the courthouse.
Using witness descriptions of the suspect and an existing Bloomington Police Department safety camera, officers located him on Market Street. He was arrested without incident and officers found a gun on his person.
The man Bloomington Police arrested is James Mathis, 34 of Bloomington. He is facing charges of unlawful use of a weapon, possessing a gun as a felon and possessing a gun without a FOID card, among other changes. He is being held at the McLean County Jail on a $250,000 bond.
“Using an existing BPD public safety camera, officers were able to quickly find the suspect on live video surveillance while downtown,” said Chief Jamal Simington. “These tools continue to allow BPD to solve crimes more efficient and effectively. The reporting of this incident by a concerned community member allowed our officers to seize another weapon from a felon. This arrest and seizure perhaps thwarted another victim of a gun crime, therefore potentially saving lives. The safety of our community is our most important mission and we will work hard to prevent violence.” | https://www.wcia.com/news/bloomington-police-armed-man-arrested-downtown/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:37Z |
*HBO has announced the “Game of Thrones” prequel series, “House of the Dragon,” will premiere on August 21.
The series is set 200 years before “Game of Thrones” “and will recount the height of the Targaryen empire in Westeros—specifically, chronicling what happened before and during the Dance of the Dragons, a destructive civil war between the Targaryens as they vied for the Iron Throne,” per Complex.
George R. R. Martin’s book “Fire & Blood” serves as the basis for the new series. He wrote in a March blog post that he watched snippets of the 10-episode season and “loved” it.
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The @HBO original series #HouseoftheDragon is coming to @HBOMax in 2022. #HBOMaxEurope pic.twitter.com/y29bn3nFIA— House of the Dragon (@HouseofDragon) October 5, 2021
“I have seen rough cuts of a few of them, and I’m loving them,” Martin wrote. “Of course, a lot more work needs to be done. Special effects, color timing, score, all the post production work. But the writing, the directing, the acting all look terrific. I hope you will like them as much as I do.”
The series stars Emma D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra, Matt Smith as Rhaenyra’s uncle, Prince Daemon, Rhys Ifans will play Hand of the King, Otto Hightower, Olivia Cooke will play his daughter, Alicent, Steve Toussaint will play Lord Corlys Velaryon, or the Sea Snake and King Viserys will be played by Paddy Considine.
HBO chief Casey Bloys told Variety that “it’s probably a pretty good bet” that a second season of the show will be ordered. “Generally speaking, we usually let something air and see how it does, but obviously, we’ll make preparations ahead of time to make sure we’re ahead of the game,” he said.
Check out some of the cast photos below:
Time to bask in the glory of the new House of the Dragon images, starting with the different eras of Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower pic.twitter.com/ouE3AMF2ih
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Paddy Considine is King Viserys Targaryen and Matt Smith is his troublesome brother Daemon pic.twitter.com/03Zl6Ox4GP
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Otto Hightower is the Hand of the King to King Viserys and Alicent Hightower’s father pic.twitter.com/gt7zby2KVc
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Mysaria is a dancer from Lys, but she’ll rise much higher before this story is over pic.twitter.com/kdAkFZiNWo
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Finally, there’s the enigmatic Kingsguard knight Cristin Cole, who stirs up lots of trouble during the Dance of the Dragons pic.twitter.com/VQk8oPOFDJ
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New detox center opens in Saranac Lake
SARANAC LAKE — Getting clean from substance abuse in the North Country just got a little easier. St. Joseph’s Addiction Treatment & Recovery Centers’ new detoxification center in Saranac Lake officially opened two weeks ago. Addiction and substance abuse experts around the area are excited about...
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A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Thursday honoring the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the latest honor for the band inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 and the recipient of six Grammys.
All four members of the band -- lead vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith and guitarist John Frusciante -- spoke at the 11:30 a.m. ceremony in front of Amoeba Music where they will give the first music performance at its new Hollywood location next Thursday.
Emmy-winning actor Woody Harrelson, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame funk singer George Clinton and singer turned chemical dependency counselor Bob Forrest are also set to speak. The ceremony will be streamed on the Walk of Fame's website, www.walkoffame.com.
The star is the 2,717th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the first 1,558 stars.
Red Hot Chili Peppers were selected for a star in 2008 but just scheduled the ceremony "a few months ago,'' Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, told City News Service.
The ceremony comes one day before the release of the band's first studio album since 2016, "Unlimited Love,'' its first recording with Frusciante since 2006.
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Formed in 1983 by Kiedis, Flea (who was born Michael Peter Balzary), guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons, classmates at Fairfax High School, Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold 80 million albums, generated 5 billion YouTube views, and gathered 22 billion Spotify streams, averaging 21 million monthly listeners on the platform.
Smith has been with the band since 1988. Frusciante also joined in 1988, left in 1992, rejoined in 1998, left in 2009 and rejoined again in 2019.
Red Hot Chili Peppers have received 16 Grammy nominations, the first in 1990 for best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal for the single "Higher Ground.'' They won their first Grammy in 1993 for best hard rock performance with vocal for "Give It Away.''
Their other Grammys came in 2000 for best rock song for "Scar Tissue'' and in 2007 for best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal and best rock song, both for "Dani California,'' and best rock album and best boxed or special limited edition package, both for "Stadium Arcadium.'' | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/red-hot-chili-peppers-honored-with-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star/3194614/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:37Z |
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Manly chief executive Stephen Humphreys will front the Sea Eagles board next week over alleged corporate governance issues.
The Sea Eagles have informed the NRL of the development on Friday.
Humphreys is currently unwell after recently contracting COVID-19, while several Sea Eagles directors are also isolating after testing positive.
Humphreys - the son of former NSWRL boss Kevin - took charge of the club three years ago. The Herald has attempted to reach him for comment.
“I can’t make any public comment at this time due to the private nature of this matter,” said Manly chairman Scott Penn.
“We’ll release something more in due course.”
The Sea Eagles will face the Raiders at Mudgee on Saturday afternoon.
More to come. | https://www.theage.com.au/sport/nrl/manly-boss-humphreys-to-front-board-over-corporate-governance-issues-20220401-p5aa1p.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_sport | 2022-04-01T02:07:38Z |
Last week, the Federal Liberal government announced it had struck a confidence deal with the NDP that could pave the way for the government to stay in power until 2025.
A key part of the agreement from the NDP’s perspective is to further their goals towards national plans for both pharmacare and dental care.
While critics have characterised the move as a “power grab” by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Aurora’s two Liberal MPs say the agreement will allow the government to further goals shared with the New Democrats.
“I was surprised (by the deal) even though there have been talks since the fall,” says Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill MP Leah Taylor Roy. “Of course, being someone who has worked in business and has an economic background, the thought of additional spending was concerning; however, that really wasn’t my first thought. My first thought was more about the fact it would give us stability and help us get things done.”
Things have been “very toxic” in the House of Commons, she adds, and this atmosphere has translated to Committee work where there has been difficulty moving some agenda items forward.
“On reflection, I thought this [agreement] is good because we’re going to be able to deliver on the things we told Canadians we were going to do during the election,” she says, noting Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland assured Liberal MPs that eyes would be firmly kept on the budget for “fiscal prudence.”
Dental care, for instance, will be phased in first with children under the age of 12 and the goals will be carried out over “numerous budgets.”
“That allows us, quite frankly, to really focus on managing our country’s finances as well, which we all know is needed,” she says.
This perspective is shared by Newmarket-Aurora MP Tony Van Bynen who says his background as Mayor of Newmarket has given him an appreciation for the “level of collaboration” that has come out of the deal.
“[Parliament] had become hyper-partisan and it is time to focus on getting things done,” he says. “This doesn’t change the way our government operates, except the fact we do know that the government will be going forward over the next four budgets. The confidence vote doesn’t mean we can’t disagree. There will be times that we disagree with the New Democratic Party, but this…allows us to focus on the things we do agree on and that allows us to go forward.”
Pharmacare and dental care are things he says “we all agreed on” and says he sees particular merit in dental care.
“There’s a lot of support for the idea of how important it is to have proper dental care,” he says. “What’s important for us is on a very responsible basis that we phase it in on the basis that it is sustainable in the longer term and I think we will be able to come to those terms. The framework that has been identified talks about phasing it in and making some substantial progress.”
Both MPs stress that the agreement does not mean Canadians have a coalition government.
Mr. Van Bynen says Canadians voted “for a government that goes forward on the priorities that we set out in our platform.”
“What this does is create an environment [through which] we can make some significant and meaningful progress,” he says. “It’s all about working together and we have negotiated with different parties on different issues. It gives us a degree of stability that we can go forward in aggressively delivering on the promise we made in the platform.”
Newmarket-Aurora’s Conservative candidate of record, Aurora Councillor Harold Kim, however, has a different perspective. While Mr. Kim says he supports the idea of pharmacare and dental care, he says “the wishes of the Canadian people were essentially t-boned” in the deal.
“It is my belief that Canadians wanted a minority government as a result of the last Federal election in 2021 and the public is smart: they deliberately voted in a minority government because they felt a minority government would be best in this current environment,” he says. “But Trudeau circumvented the public’s wishes by striking a deal with the NDP and now active, democratic discussions will be pointless because all policy decisions have been determined.
“Pharmacare and dental care – those are positives. For the people who cannot afford a drug plan or they don’t work in a company that offers those benefits, and certainly a dental plan is crucial for quality of life… I welcome it. What’s missing are the details: how is the government going to pick? How are we, as taxpayers, going to pay for that? Having policies and providing service is great [but] we need to have more information on the other side of the equation: how is the government going to pay for it?
“Trudeau said the purpose of the coalition was to provide Canadians with predictability and stability and it will certainly do that. The coalition will continue to provide Canadians with exacerbated inflation, bloated housing prices beyond the reach of most Canadians and those in Newmarket-Aurora and a growing national debt with no plans to rein in our debt. Is that going to change? That is the trend line right now and that is what we’re going to experience based on Trudeau’s announcement.” | https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/03/31/liberal-ndp-deal-will-allow-government-to-get-things-done-say-mps.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:38Z |
The final run of Netflix hit Ozark airs later this month, providing the second part of season two. Part one was an explosive seven episodes and left a lot to wrap up in the remaining seven but the new trailer released this week gives us lots of information about what to expect.
If you haven't seen the show, Ozark follows the Byrde family – Marty (Jason Bateman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) and their kids Jonah and Charlotte – and their mix up with a Mexican Cartel that has them moving from their home in Chicago to the Ozarks in Missouri to launder money. It's a dark thriller that has got darker in recent seasons but is made considerably brighter thanks to the talents of Bateman, Linney and relative newcomer Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore.
Season 4 Part 1 left us on the edge of our seats (spoilers ahead if you haven't seen it yet) with plans starting to unravel, but a lot could still happen. The new trailer gives more than a hint of what to expect and seems to deliver one major spoiler as well. Or does it? Here's what we know...
Marty is done with the whole thing and wants out. At the start of the trailer he tells Wendy, "I'm just so sick of having blood on my hands." But Wendy remains determined. "Don't back out on me when we're almost done," she replies. This ties in with what we've seen so far. All the deals are done and they are so close to going back to their normal life, but the hardest is still to come.
The big shocker here though is Ruth shooting Javi Elizonndro, the new head of the cartel, in broad daylight. We know at the end of season 4 part 1 that she plans to kill him as revenge for killing her cousin Wyatt and Darline (spoiler) but this seems to show her actually going through with it. "Javi dies, everything that we worked for just falls apart," Marty tells Ruth in the trailer. But as we know, it already has for Ruth. "Welcome to my f**king world," she replies.
Ruth killing Javi is likely to throw all the Byrde's plans with Omar Navarro and the FBI, so it's likely that this is from the first new episode and the following six will be dealing with the consequences. We see Marty approach the FBI for help but get turned away. We then see Marty heading to Mexico, presumably to help Navarro reestablish control of the Cartel after Javi's death.
There's lots more in here to unpack though. Wendy is seemingly being investigated for the disappearance of her brother Ben, Ruth is on the run and then seen watching her home be bulldozed, Jonah and Charlotte Byrde seem to be helping to the family's dirty work and Navarro is in the middle of a prison riot. Then there's that car crash from the opening of season four part 1. We see it again here in the trailer in more detail. Is this the end we will see?
Some online fans have suggested that both the car crash and the shooting of Javi could be misleading. Either dream sequences or alternate realities that don't end up happening. That seems a little unlikely for Ozark but one thing is guaranteed is there's bound to be a lot more surprises still to come before the show's end.
Ozark Season 4 Part 2 starts streaming on Netflix from April 29, 2022. | https://www.t3.com/au/news/ozark-season-4-part-2-what-we-learned-from-the-new-trailer | 2022-04-01T02:07:38Z |
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A new train-up within the 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) is preparing soldiers for the US Army's elite Sapper Leader Course and helping increase trainees' readiness and combat engineering skills.
"The first goal is getting people to the school and getting people through the school, setting them up for success and doing the hard mental and physical training that leads up to it so they're best set up for success and they'll come back with a Sapper tab - that's one goal," said 1st Lt. Meghan Anderson. "The second goal is really to improve skills across the formation."
If they have 40 people in their train-up and five make it to Sapper school and come back with a tab, then they have another 35 that have learned all the skills and tested their limits, Anderson explained.
1st Lt. Camm Johnson, Staff Sgt. Dustin Sherwood and 1st Lt. Anderson organized and are leading the training, which includes techniques and skills such as land navigation, water, and air operations, mountaineering, and demolition. Though most of the skills are centered around combat engineering, many of them can be applied to other positions as well.
"It's essentially a course you want to go to, to increase your engineering skills, but it's pretty rigorous physically, too," Anderson said.
Anderson said she first joined the Army because of the education benefits but soon fell in love with constant opportunities to grow and test her limits.
"One, the challenge, every single day, testing your limits. And then, really, the teamwork was something that you don't find in every job. So, that's why I decided to make it a full-time job if that makes sense," Anderson said.
She commissioned at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, then went to the Engineer Basic Officer Leadership Course at Fort Leonard Wood before being stationed at JBLM. She is one of a growing number of female combat engineers in the US Army.
"One of the subtle but challenging things we forget about is that since there are only enlisted females since 2015, there's not like women that are higher in the ranks that can be mentors to a lot of junior enlisted females," Anderson said. "Mentorship and networking is super important in the Army just because you learn so much from people who have done it before and they have all the tools to help you, and a lot of junior enlisted don't have that woman in higher mentorship."
She hopes that as one of the leaders of this train-up, she can be a mentor and help set an example for soldiers junior to her.
"Whether it's pushing myself a little bit more or remembering it's OK to be assertive, and that it's OK to step in and say something, it's OK to be loud, I start to remember that I do that because people are watching," Anderson said.
Soldiers in the train-up say they hope to attend the Sapper Leader Course and use the skills they've learned, but can already apply many of those skills to their day-to-day work.
"Going to the school is like a stamp, you are now a certified combat engineer, you are a Sapper," 1st Lt. Amber Thompson said. "So from this train-up, I'm hoping to take away those valuable skills and apply them when I go to [Sapper] school."
Staff Sgt. Zach McCray echoed the importance of the school, both for personal readiness and for leadership.
"We would be able to instruct other engineers to be experts in that technical level - and also the fitness is very important," McCray said.
Soldiers say there are several components on which they've been improving as a result of the course.
"Endurance, strength training workouts, how to stay motivated," said Sgt. Jennifer Jaime.
From leaders like 1st Lt. Anderson, they get a firsthand sense of the experience.
"It's good to see us have a leader in the battalion go out... and have done the things to qualify to be a Sapper," Sgt. Shemik Strickland said. "She comes back and can give us not only good first-hand experience, technical things, and stories about the ins and outs of this, but she can also give us the mental and physical training we need, what we need to do on a day to day basis, in PT or classes that we need to learn." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/national/military-news/combat-engineering-jblm-training/281-d2d6836c-a3e1-4dbd-b35a-b203788851cb | 2022-04-01T02:07:38Z |
Aberdeen HS sends off first female in program history to participate in powerlifting meet March 31, 2022 Jon Sokoloff, Aberdeen sent off Taniya Morris on Thursday to the powerlifting meet in Jackson. She’s the first female to participate in it in the school’s history. More: https://cdn.field59.com/WCBI/1648769403-e487967a1841c7b33aac82d49a4e6f7b71e41519_fl9-720p.mp4 Categories: High School Sports, Local Sports, Sports FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin | https://www.wcbi.com/aberdeen-sends-off-first-female-to-participate-in-powerlifting-meet/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:38Z |
5 fetuses found inside DC home of anti-abortion activist
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police found five fetuses in the home of a self-proclaimed “anti-abortion activist” who was indicted this week on federal charges alleging that she was part of a group of people who blocked access to a Washington, D.C. reproductive health center.
The Metropolitan Police Department says officers were responding to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a home in Southeast Washington on Wednesday when they located the five fetuses inside.
A local television station, WUSA9, captured video of police searching the home and reported that the home belonged to Lauren Handy. The 28-year-old was one of nine people charged in an indictment that was made public on Wednesday that accused the group of traveling to Washington, blocking access to the reproductive health center and streaming it on Facebook.
The station, which first reported the discovery, said Handy told a reporter that “people will freak out when they hear” what detectives found inside her house. Handy did not respond to a message sent to her Facebook profile seeking comment.
Police said the five fetuses were collected by Washington’s medical examiner and the investigation is ongoing.
In the indictment, prosecutors said Handy had called the clinic pretending to be a prospective patient and scheduling an appointment. Once there, on Oct. 22, 2020, eight of the suspects pushed their way inside and began blocking the doors, according to the indictment. Five of them chained themselves together on chairs to block the treatment area as others blocked the employee entrance to stop other patients from coming inside, the indictment alleges. Another suspect blocked people from coming into the waiting room, prosecutors charge.
Handy and the eight others were charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The federal law, more commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services.
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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.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17049955.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:38Z |
Chandigarh, March 31
Panjab University is planning to merge small departments and centres ahead of a visit of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), said sources.
Members of the council are schedule to carry out an assessment at the university in June. At a recent meeting of the Senate, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Raj Kumar, had raised concern over less interest of students in language departments, which was affecting the university scores in the NAAC criteria.
During its last visit to the PU in 2015, the council had given the varsity Grade A with 3.35 marks, out of four. Sources, meanwhile, claimed the university authorities had initiated the process and the Dean, University Instructions (DUI), has been appointed head of a committee which would deliberate on the matter and make recommendations.
The council had earlier recommended the consolidation of small cognate departments for effective and efficient teaching, learning and research.
PUTA writes to VC
The Panjab University Teachers Association (PUTA) has condemned the university’s move with regard to the merger and allocation of space to certain centres/departments without involving the chairpersons or coordinators concerned. The PUTA representatives has submitted that the university authorities have recently, without any written/official instructions, initiated the move to merge certain centres/departments. “Moreover, as per the DoPT guidelines issued by the Cernre from time to time, verbal orders are no orders. The Vice-Chancellor is urged to immediately take action to put an end to such illegal and unfair means in running the administration.” — TNS
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A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed in Brooklyn Thursday evening — an unintended victim after a group of men opened fire, police officials said.
The boy was in a minivan parked near East 56th Street and Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush just before 8 p.m., according to two senior NYPD officials with direct knowledge of the incident, when men exited a sedan and started shooting.
It is believed that the child, who was struck in the head and chest, was not the intended target of the shooting. The boy was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to senior police officials.
A 20-year-old woman was also shot in the cheek on her right side, chest and upper left leg. She is expected to survive, senior police officials said.
The five suspects took off on Linden Boulevard in a black Infiniti sedan with Connecticut license plates, as well as another black sedan.
An investigation is ongoing.
This is a developing story. Please check back with updates. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/boy-12-shot-and-killed-in-brooklyn-while-in-parked-vehicle-police-officials/3625743/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:38Z |
Everything You Need to Know About Crawling in Babies
Whether you're pushing your baby in a stroller, toting her in a carrier, or holding her as she straddles your hip, her only means of transportation so far has been you and others. Soon, though, she'll learn how to crawl and will be able to make it from point A to point B on her own. "Crawling is a huge milestone for babies because it's the first step toward independent mobility," says Rallie McAllister, M.D., co-author of The Mommy MD Guide to Your Baby's First Year.
Getting around by herself gives your baby a great sense of power and accomplishment, which is a huge boost to her self-esteem. It also opens up her world to new discoveries and leads the way to more complex movements, such as pulling up to stand, walking, and eventually running. Here's more information about when babies begin to crawl, with tips for helping your child achieve solitary movement.
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Crawling and Physical Development
Crawling is a tough job. It requires a baby to use both mind and body, says Dr. McAllister, and it relies on gross motor, visual-spatial, and cognitive skills.
First, the muscles in your child's back, neck, shoulders, arms, and core must be strong enough to support her weight and help her maintain balance. Her vision also plays an important role. When babies crawl, they use what's known as binocular vision, relying on both eyes together to focus on one target. They go back and forth between looking off into the distance and looking at their hands, which helps build depth perception.
Your baby's mental muscles will get a workout as well. "Crawling babies develop navigation skills and memorize facts," Dr. McAllister says. "For instance, they'll learn that they have to go around the coffee table and beyond the recliner to get to the basket of toys," she says.
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When Do Babies Start Crawling?
Babies typically begin to crawl between 6 and 10 months, although some may skip the crawling phase altogether and go straight to pulling up, cruising, and walking.
Help your baby get ready for his crawling debut by giving him lots of supervised tummy time. This allows him to lift his head to look around, which builds strength in the neck, shoulders, arms, and trunk. When he kicks his feet while on his tummy, it strengthens his hips and legs. Some babies don't like being on their tummy, so make it interesting. Place a favorite toy just out of his grasp, lie down in front of him to engage his attention, or place him tummy-side down on your chest and play with him.
You'll know your little guy is almost ready to crawl when he starts doing mini push-ups, lifting or propping himself up on his arms. From there, he'll learn to lift himself up on both arms and knees. Then he'll begin to rock forward and backward. Eventually he'll realize that if he pushes off with his knees, he can move on his own!
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Remember, some babies skip crawling altogether. But if your baby hasn't shown any progress in becoming mobile (whether it's bum scooting, rolling to her destination, or crawling) by 12 months or by the time she's a year old, or if she tends to drag one side of her body while crawling, it's best to consult the pediatrician.
Types of Crawling Styles
When your baby starts to crawl, he might rely on one of these crawling styles.
- Classic crawl: Moving one arm and the opposite leg together at the same time to push forward
- Scoot: Dragging the bottom across the floor
- Crab crawl: Moving with one knee bent and the other extended, either forward or sideways
- Commando crawl: Lying flat on the tummy and using the arms to move forward
- Backward crawl: Moving in a backward direction while crawling
Fortunately, odd crawling methods usually don't mean anything is wrong. "The crucial thing is that the baby is engaged in self-locomotion," says David Elkind, Ph.D., author of Parenting on the Go: Birth to Six, A to Z. Try getting down on all fours and showing him how classic crawling is done, and your baby may just pick up on the traditional technique.
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How to Help Your Crawling Baby
Once your baby is in motion, expect her to explore anything and everything within her reach. Although you already did the whole baby-proofing thing, it's important to do a second, more thorough, round before she makes a move. If you don't have carpet, purchase a few non-slip rugs or colorful floor mats so your baby's little knees get a break from the hard surfaces. If your home has wood floors, make sure there aren't any uncovered nails or loose splinters that could hurt your baby.
As your cutie makes his way through the house, expect him to go through a range of emotions: excitement when he discovers something, disappointment if you remove it or take it away, and confusion or frustration when an obstacle blocks his path. You can look forward to engaging in a near-constant game of "follow the leader." Anywhere you go, he'll be right on your heels!
- RELATED: When Do Babies Walk?
With more crawling practice, he'll begin to pick up the pace (and try to beat you the next time he spies a goodie) and he'll start climbing up and over things, like pillows, sofa cushions, and stairs. Always keep an eye on him, and put up a safety gate for the stairs. | https://www.parents.com/baby/development/crawling/when-do-babies-crawl/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:37Z |
Re-freeze leads to pileup involving more than a dozen vehicles on I-94 in Maplewood, Minnesota
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MAPLEWOOD, Minnesota (WCCO) — It doesn’t take much to create dangerous driving conditions.
Wet weather and cooler temperatures can cause chaos. Add in rush hour traffic, and you get what happened Thursday morning on Interstate 94 in Maplewood.
MnDOT traffic cameras captured more than a dozen vehicles spinning and crashing into guard rails and each other. The reason? A re-freeze on metro roads.
“Anytime we have temps around 32 degrees and a little precipitation or moisture, those bridge decks will freeze up right away and cause for some slippery conditions,” said Sgt. Troy Christianson with the Minnesota State Patrol.
Losing control on the road is unnerving, but the state patrol says what you do next could save your life. If you’re in a crash, pull over onto the shoulder or an exit ramp — and do not get out of your vehicle.
“We see it quite often where you get out of your vehicle and people are actually struck by the other cars that lose control. So we want to make sure you get your vehicle out of the lane of traffic, stay in your vehicle with your seat belt on, and wait for law enforcement to arrive and make the scene safe,” Christianson said.
As Minnesota continues to thaw out, the best strategy is to plan ahead for you commute. Allow for extra time, more space between you and the car in front of you and go slow. Also, make note of any bridges you might be crossing. Law enforcement says those are the first to get slippery when conditions are right.
The state patrol says to call 911 if you get in a crash. They will ask you a few questions, like if there are any injuries and your location. Then it’s a waiting game until help arrives.
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Once an organization has been breached, the overwhelming majority of critical assets are just a few attack techniques away from being compromised, according to a new study.
The report by breach and attack simulation (BAS) vendor XM Cyber noted that 63% of critical assets are just a single “hop” away from initial breach to compromise; 81% of critical assets are no more than two attack techniques away from disaster; and 94% of critical assets can be compromised in four or fewer moves by a hacker after the initial attack vector.
For the report, the XM Research team used the company’s Attack Path Management platform to examine a year of data and nearly 2 million “entities” – an endpoint, file, folder or cloud resource that a hacker can use in an attack path as they move toward critical resources.
Other key findings include:
- 73% of the top attack techniques involve mismanaged or stolen credentials.
- On average, 75% of an organization’s critical assets can be compromised in their current security state.
- 78% of businesses are open to compromise every time a new Remote Code Execution (RCE) technique is found – just yesterday, a zero-day RCE vulnerability was revealed in the Spring Java framework (CVE-2022-22963) – and combining RCE and cloud techniques could compromise 90% of organizations.
- 95% of organizational users have long-term access keys attached to them that can be exposed.
- The main attack vectors in the cloud are misconfigurations and overly permissive access.
“It is not enough that you are just monitoring the threats and alerts,” the report said. “It’s about understanding the context of these vulnerabilities within your environment and the attack paths that these vulnerabilities offer to an attacker looking to breach your critical assets.”
Breach and attack simulation tools can help by simulating attacks to find those vulnerabilities and attack paths and prioritize fixes, something like a continuous, automated pentesting tool. XM Cyber claims it goes further than other BAS tools by “checking everything” instead of just one step.
Attack techniques and vectors can be combined in different ways, XM Cyber noted, resulting in many possible combinations. Here’s one possible combination given in the report:
See the Top Breach and Attack Simulation Solutions
Credentials are the ‘Achilles Heel of the Cloud’
Cloud access configurations are complex, the report noted, and it can be easier to take shortcuts like setting permissions by a whole group, resulting in overly permissive access. The top attack techniques used a combination of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and mismanaged or stolen credentials:
With strong patch management programs and operating system security features like user authentication, “we can prevent lots of attack vectors that abuse the different credential issues,” the report noted, but cautioned: “it is a misconception to believe patching CVEs will fix everything and stop lateral movement. The research shows that nearly 30% of an attacker’s techniques abuse misconfigurations and credentials to compromise and breach the organization.”
Hybrid clouds leave 28% of all organizations vulnerable to a cross-platform attack, creating a need for security solutions that protect critical assets regardless of where they’re located. The researchers gave the example of an on-premises desktop as the starting point for an Active Directory breach via Azure:
Reducing Threats
Solutions like XM Cyber can help organizations reduce threats by 80% by knowing where to disrupt attack paths, the report said.
“Modern organizations are investing in more and more platforms, apps and other tech tools to accelerate their business, but they too often fail to realize that the interconnection between all these technologies poses a significant risk,” stated Zur Ulianitzky, Head of Research at XM Cyber. “When siloed teams are responsible for different components of security within the network, nobody sees the full picture. One team may ignore a seemingly small risk, not realizing that in the big picture, it’s a stepping stone in a hidden attack path to a critical asset. To keep pace with today’s technology and business demands, attack path remediation must be prioritized.”
The XM Cyber report can be found here. | https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/a-few-clicks-from-data-disaster-enterprise-security/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:37Z |
From Aamir Khan to Ajay Devgn: Meet Bollywood's biggest pranksters
From Aamir Khan to Ajay Devgn: Meet Bollywood's biggest pranksters
It's April fool's day 2022 and Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn and other actors are known for making a fool out of their costars and crew members. | https://www.bollywoodlife.com/photos/april-fools-day-from-aamir-khan-to-ajay-devgn-meet-bollywoods-biggest-pranksters-entertainment-news-2039286/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:38Z |
Gallery: Ukraine - Russia crisis, April 1st, 2022
12 ImagesClaims of a Russian pullback are not trusted as Ukraine forces re-take positions outside Kyiv.
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Doctor convicted for prescribing over $1M in opioid pills, ‘Las Vegas cocktail’ of drugs
(Gray News) - A physician in Texas was recently convicted for wrongly prescribing more than $1 million worth of opioid hydrocodone pills.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 52-year-old James Pierre, a Houston doctor, unlawfully prescribed controlled substances from June 2015 through July 2016 to individuals posing as patients at a West Parker Medical Clinic, a pill-mill clinic located in Houston.
Trial evidence showed Pierre and his physician assistant issued hundreds of unlawful prescriptions for hydrocodone and carisoprodol, a combination of controlled substances known as the “Las Vegas Cocktail,” to hundreds of individuals posing as patients each week.
According to the Justice Department, “runners” brought numerous people to pose as patients at the clinic and paid about $220 to $500 per visit in exchange for the prescriptions.
Throughout the scheme, West Parker made about $1.75 million from prescriptions, and over $300,000 went to Pierre, according to investigators.
The Department of Justice reports Pierre was convicted of one count of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute and dispense controlled substances and seven counts of unlawfully distributing and dispensing controlled substances.
The 52-year-old is currently scheduled to be sentenced on June 27 and faces up to 20 years in prison for each count.
Officials said that one co-conspirator has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances unlawfully.
DEA Houston investigated the case, according to the Department of Justice.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.azfamily.com/2022/04/01/doctor-convicted-prescribing-over-1m-opioid-pills-las-vegas-cocktail-drugs/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:39Z |
Sportlight-April 1
By The Associated Press=
April 1
1938 – Joe Louis knocks out Harry Thomas in the fifth round in Chicago to retain his world heavyweight title.
1940 – Governor Herbert Lehman of New York signs the Dunnigal bill, which legalizes pari-mutuel wagering and outlaws bookmakers at the state’s racetracks.
1972 – The first collective player’s strike in major league history begins at 12:01 a.m. The strike lasts 12 days and cancels 86 games.
1973 – Boston’s John Havlicek connects on 24 field goals and finishes with 54 points the Celtics defeat Atlanta, 134-109, in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
1984 – Southern Cal beats Tennessee 72-61 for the NCAA women’s basketball title.
1985 – Villanova shocks Georgetown with a 66-64 victory to win the NCAA basketball title. The Wildcats, led by Dwayne McClain’s 17 points, shot 79 percent from the field, making 22 of 28 shots, and added 22 of 27 free throws.
1989 – Jim McAllister of Glassboro State hits four home runs and drives in nine runs in four at-bats in a 21-5 five-inning rout of Delaware State.
1990 – Betsy King holds on for a two-stroke victory over Kathy Postlewait to win the LPGA Dinah Shore tournament.
1991 – Duke ends years of frustration with a 72-65 victory over Kansas for its first national title in five championship game appearances and nine trips to the Final Four.
1992 – A week before the Stanley Cup playoffs are set to begin, the NHL players strike for the first time in the league’s 75-year history. The strike lasts 10 days.
1996 – Kentucky wins its first national title in 18 years with a 76-67 victory over Syracuse.
2000 – Michelle Kwan wins her third World Figure Skating title by pushing through all seven triple jumps. The triple toe-triple toe lifts Kwan above Russians Irina Slutskaya and last year’s champion, Maria Butyrskaya.
2002 – With Juan Dixon and Lonny Baxter leading the way, Maryland wins its first national championship with a 64-52 victory over Indiana.
2007 – Morgan Pressel becomes the youngest major champion in LPGA Tour history with a game well beyond her 18 years, closing with a 3-under 69 at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Pressel plays her final 25 holes over Mission Hills without a bogey as Suzann Pettersen blew a four-shot lead with four holes to play.
2011 – Jarome Iginla scores his second goal of the game with 5:03 left to reach 1,000 points and help Calgary rally to beat St. Louis 3-2.
2018 – Arike Ogunbowale hits a 3-pointer with a tenth of a second left to give Notre Dame a 61-58 win over Mississippi State and its first women’s national championship since 2001. Notre Dame, trailing 30-17 at halftime, pulls off the biggest comeback in title game history, rallying from a 15-point deficit in the third quarter and a five-point deficit in the final 1:58.
— | https://www.ketk.com/sports/ap-sportlight-517/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:38Z |
Was Tigers vs Titans the worst game in the history of the NRL? Fans and past greats lash out at 79 minutes of diabolical footy before shattering try saw Wests lose fourth straight match
- Wests Tigers lost again, this time in a heartbreaking 8-6 loss on the Gold Coast
- They were leading 6-2 heading into the final minute of the match
- No tries were scored until the 80th minute when AJ Brimson broke Tiger hearts
- It was poised to be the first tryless rugby league match in Australia since 1993
Incredulous footy fans have blasted Thursday night's clash between the struggling Wests Tigers and Gold Coast Titans as one of the worst games in the history of the competition.
The match was on course to be the first tryless result in NRL history before a horror West Tigers blunder in their in-goal - the team's 13th error of the night - allowed the Titans to come from behind and record an 8-6 victory.
The Titans celebrate AJ Brimson's last-gasp try that came off a Wests Tigers error. It cruelly robbed the Tigers of their first win of 2022 in what was an incredibly dull contest
The last tryless professional rugby league match in Australia came in 1993, when North Sydney beat the Illawarra Steelers 7-2 and St George 9-2.
The Queensland Maroons also won game one of the 1995 series 2-0 in a match where neither team got the ball across the line.
In perfect conditions for rugby league on a pristine field, both sides traded penalty goals and the Tigers looked primed for their first win of the season at 6-2 until disaster struck.
Even the Blue Wiggle himself Anthony Field could sense what was coming next.
'It can be a cruel game,' Tigers coach Michael Maguire mustered in the aftermath.
However, whoever is operating the Titans Twitter account was pretty chuffed at what played out.
Some Wests fans didn't see the humour, though.
'Bit of credit and humility wouldn’t go a stray… a club on there knees… how about 'tough game' - Tigers kept us honest?’ Something along those lines. Just another kick in the guys. Cheers,' one disgruntled fan posted in response.
'Congratulations for winning the worse game of footy I've seen in my life. No way you can celebrate that crap,' posted another.
Blue Wiggle Field was there to provide emotional support for heartbroken former Tigers enforcer Keith Galloway.
There, there. Formers Wests Tigers forward Keith Galloway was heartbroken by the loss but luckily The Wiggles' Anthony Field lent him a shoulder to cry on
Shockingly, this isn't the first time the Tigers have lost a low-quality match in this fashion.
In 2015, Wests came up against their 2005 NRL grand final rivals the North Queensland Cowboys at Campbelltown Stadium. The match was played in the heart of the State of Origin period, which meant the likes of Johnathan Thurston and Robbie Farah were nowhere to be seen.
Terrible weather compounded the matter, but still 8000 diehard Tigers fans turned out hoping for an important NRL win.
History repeats? Antonio Winterstein of the Cowboys broke Tigers hearts in a similar fashion in a terrible clash between Wests and North Queensland back in 2015
It was a shocking match, with an Ethan Lowe penalty goal in the 29th minute the only points for the majority of the contest.
It seemed destined to be a no-try victory until Antonio Winterstein finally put the Tigers to sleep with a 77th minute try and the Cowboys took away the most forgettable 8-0 win since their inception in 1995.
Flashback to 2006 and a clash between St George Illawarra and the Parramatta Eels also seemed destined to be a no-try stalemate. Again, weather played its part in this match with sleet blanketing Kogarah Oval at times.
The two sides traded field goals with Ben Hornby putting the Dragons ahead 2-1 in the 79th minute, before Origin and Kangaroos centre Matt Cooper finally crashed over in the 80th minute to give the Dragons an 8-1 win.
James Tamou tries to break the Titans' defensive line. Many of the fans who tuned in to the match wished they hadn't bothered
Former Tigers skipper and NRL premiership winner James Tamou urged supporters to keep the faith.
'There's 22 rounds to go,' he said.
'For us to keep going we've got to follow that path. We can't let it go.
'The footy gods, they praise effort. The boys put a lot of effort out there [on Thursday] and I'm proud of them.'
Tamou also rallied around his under-siege coach.
'If Madge could, mate, he'd strap up and he'd get out there with you,' Tamou said.
'Around everything that he talks about, you can just feel the passion and you want to play for him because you can feel it.
'He gets you up, mate, he really does.'
NRL legend Andrew Johns also backed Maguire and said sacking the coach was not the answer.
'Well then you are just wall-papering over the cracks,' Johns said on Channel Nine's Thursday Night Knock Off.
'A new coach comes in, there might be a reaction the first couple of weeks, but then the problems are still there.
'The solution is the model which Penrith did six or seven years ago - brought in all their local juniors, identified their juniors, coached the hell out of them a certain way, they all came through together, and it means something to them.
'They come through from the age of 14 or 15 and it means something to them.
'At the moment, I don't see an identity or a DNA to the Tigers.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nrl/article-10674253/Was-Tigers-vs-Titans-worst-game-history-NRL-Fans-lash-match-nearly-went-try-less.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:39Z |
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve legislation that would limit cost-sharing for insulin under private health insurance and Medicare. The vote was 232-193, with 12 Republican members joining their Democratic colleagues to pass the measure.
The Affordable Insulin Now Act would cap insulin prices at either $35 a month or 25% of an insurance plan's negotiated price — whichever is lower. The legislation aims to take effect in 2023 but its fate in the Senate remains unclear.
"This is a kitchen table issue, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said to reporters ahead of the bill's passage on Thursday.
"One in four Americans is forced to skip or ration doses of insulin and that's life-threatening," she said, noting the legislation "paves the way" for further action on negotiating lower drug prices beyond insulin.
Advocates of the legislation point to data from the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent nonprofit that studies health care prices, which shows prices for insulin doubled between 2012 and 2016.
"No one should have to choose between taking their medication as prescribed and putting food on the table or a roof over their head," said Rep. Dan Kildee, one of three Democratic lawmakers who sponsored the legislation.
"As a father of a type 1 diabetic, I have seen firsthand how the high price of prescription drugs like insulin can harm patients and harm families," the Michigan Democrat said during debate on the House floor. "When my daughter turned 26 and got her own health insurance, there were months where she spent a third of her take home pay because she's diabetic on staying alive."
Critics of the bill argue the cap alone doesn't do enough to solve the underlying problem of rising prescription drug prices.
"We want lower prices for drugs, particularly for insulin," said Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga, during debate. "But instead of fixing a broken system, this bill aims to control it," he adding, calling the bill a "socialist plan."
House Democrats passed legislation in November as part of a broader spending package that would have enabled Medicare to negotiate lower prices for various prescription drugs.
Because that package remains stalled in the Senate, Democrats are working to more narrowly tackle making common drugs like insulin more affordable.
There is a similar bipartisan effort under way in the Senate but its path is unclear as Republicans have traditionally been opposed to price caps.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2022-03-31/house-passes-bill-to-cap-insulin-prices | 2022-04-01T02:07:41Z |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
0-8-8
(zero, eight, eight)
¶ Ticket-holders with all three 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.mysanantonio.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17049954.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:41Z |
'The Bubble' review: Movie about troubled movie runs short on laughs
The latest from Judd Apatow attempts to skewer Hollywood but mostly spins its wheels.
The COVID-19 health crisis may one day yield a great film, but it's not "The Bubble," a tepid, unfunny, overlong inside-Hollywood comedy about making a movie during the global pandemic.
The "Bubble" of the title is the designated space in which a cluster of people can safely work and congregate. It also refers to the Hollywood bubble, and the level of treatment to which stars are accustomed and the pampering that goes along with it.
Judd Apatow, in his biggest misfire yet as a director (he also co-wrote the screenplay with "South Park's" Pam Brady), skewers that Hollywood bubble and the ego-tripping of actors and filmmakers. But simply calling it out doesn't make it funny or insightful, and there's little here to recommend to those outside of Hollywood's ruling class.
The pandemic is surging but the cast of "Cliff Beasts" is summonsed to England to film the sixth installment of the hugely popular and thoroughly dopey dinosaur franchise. They include Dustin Mulray (David Duchovny), Lauren Van Chance (Leslie Mann), Sean Knox (Keegan-Michael Key) and Carol Cobb ("Jumanji's" Karen Gillan), all of whom are kooky, self-obsessed or some kind of combination of the two. (To complicate matters further, Dustin and Lauren are on-again, off-again lovers with an adopted adult son together.)
They're joined by veteran actor Dieter Bravo (Pedro Pascal), who is enlisting in the series anew, and TikTokker Krystal Kris (Iris Apatow), sent to add some youth appeal to the series (and allow an excuse to break up the film with several TikTok sequences). Fred Armisen plays the film's director, and Kate McKinnon is the studio boss steering things forward from afar.
Predictably, the production immediately goes off the rails for any number of reasons including, yes, the pandemic. We get plenty of jokes about COVID protocols, quarantining, human contact and even washing groceries, which make the film seem like a period piece dated approximately 24 months ago.
The film within a film goes on and on, its own kind of in-joke about troubled franchise productions, while "The Bubble" itself aimlessly drags on. If ever Apatow made a film that could have crossed the finish line at a lean 88 minutes, this is it, but it overstays its welcome and balloons past the two-hour mark.
Bizarre choices (the use of a Miley Cyrus cover of "Heart of Glass" rather than the real thing, a cameo from Beck?) pile up as "The Bubble" marches onward with no real insight or direction. It's understandable why Apatow, faced with the shutdown of his industry, wanted to make something during his sudden downtime. But "The Bubble" already feels like an artifact from a time we'd rather forget.
agraham@detroitnews.com
@grahamorama
'The Bubble'
GRADE: D
Rated R: for language throughout, sexual content, drug use and some violence
Running time: 127 minutes
On Netflix | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/04/01/the-bubble-review-movie-troubled-movie-runs-short-laughs/7222532001/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:41Z |
CHAMPAIGN (WCIA) — New Illinois women’s head basketball coach Shauna Green announced Ryan Gensler as a new addition to her staff. Gensler worked with Green at Dayton for the last five seasons.
During his time at the University of Dayton, the Flyers won four Atlantic 10 regular season titles and one tournament championship. | https://www.wcia.com/news/champaign-county/illinois-womens-basketball-announces-new-addition-to-coaching-staff/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:41Z |
*Jon Batiste goes into THE 64TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS® on Sunday with 11 nominations, more than any artist this year. But for Batiste, who is also the bandleader and a producer on CBS’ THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT, success is not without challenges.
Batiste and Suleika Jaouad, whom he calls the love of his life, talk about his music, her battle with leukemia and more, in an emotional and revealing interview with Jim Axelrod for CBS SUNDAY MORNING, to be broadcast Sunday, April 3 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network and streaming on Paramount+.
Batiste and Jaouad, who wrote the bestseller Between Two Kingdoms, a meditation on being a leukemia survivor, learned that her illness was back just eight days before the GRAMMY nominations were announced.
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“One thing that I’ve learned from this time is … it can all go away,” Batiste says. “Things can change very quickly. From one day to the next, your world can be turned upside down.”
Jaouad had her first chemo treatment the day Batiste learned of his nominations. Together, they’ve found a way to balance the good and the bad.
“It’s holding the absolutely, you know, gutting, heartbreaking, painful things, and … the beautiful soulful things in the same palm of one hand,” Jaouad says. “And it’s hard to do that, you have to do that – because otherwise, the grief takes over.”
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This “Sunday Morning,” @JimAxelrod talks with singer, songwriter, musician, bandleader, and television personality @JonBatiste about becoming the most nominated musician of the 2022 GRAMMY Awards, what that means to him, and why he never takes his career for granted pic.twitter.com/Pt9evi5ACD
— CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 (@CBSSunday) March 31, 2022
Jaouad disagrees with the notion that when someone is sick it’s all tears and sadness. On the contrary, she says she and Batiste have laughed together more than ever before.
The spread of the omicron variant made it impossible for anyone to be with Jaouad during parts of her treatment. To help her overcome the moments of isolation in the hospital, Batiste turned to music, writing lullabies for her.
“Utter isolation. And I expressed that effect to Jon. And next thing I know, I see him hunched over his computer. And a half an hour later … he starts playing this lullaby,” Jaouad says. “And every single day after that, he wrote me a new lullaby. … And it felt like he was right there … sleeping by my bedside.”
“They had a healing property to the music,” Batiste says.
“That you wrote just for her to provide support and strength?” Axelrod asks.
“Yes, absolutely,” Batiste says. “And, and to fill the room with these healing properties and … for me, that’s my way. Everybody will have their way, you know, but seek that. Meditate on that. Focus on those things. Find those things.”
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source: Richard Huff – CBSNews.com | https://eurweb.com/2022/03/31/jon-batiste-and-suleika-jaouad-talk-about-music-her-cancer-on-cbs-sunday-morning-videopreview/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:41Z |
DBEDT News Release: VISITOR INDUSTRY CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT IN FEBRUARY
HONOLULU – According to preliminary visitor statistics released by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total spending by visitors who came to the islands in February 2022 was $1.31 billion, compared to $397.1 million (+229.9%) spent in February 2021.
Prior to the global COVID-19 pandemic and Hawai‘i’s quarantine requirements for travelers, the State of Hawai‘i achieved record-level visitor expenditures and arrivals in 2019 through February 2020. February 2022 visitor spending was lower than the $1.46 billion (-10.4%) spent in February 2020 and $1.39 billion (-5.6%) reported for February 2019.
A total of 630,647 visitors came in February 2022, with 623,691 visitors arriving by air service, mainly from the U.S. West and U.S. East. Additionally, 6,956 visitors arrived by cruise ships. In February 2021, 235,283 visitors (+168.0%) arrived by air only and there were no cruise ship activities. In comparison, 823,910 visitors (-23.5%) came by air and by cruise ships in February 2020, and 780,827 visitors (-19.2%) arrived by air and by cruise ships in February 2019.
In February 2022, domestic passengers who arrived in Hawai‘i by air could bypass the State’s mandatory five-day self-quarantine if they were fully vaccinated in the United States or with a valid negative COVID-19 NAAT test result from a Trusted Testing Partner prior to their departure through the Safe Travels program. Passengers arriving on direct international flights were subject to federal U.S. entry requirements which included proof of a negative COVID-19 test result taken within 24 hours of travel or documentation of having recovered from COVID-19 in the past 90 days, prior to their flight. Cruise ships that came to Hawaiʻi in February 2022 were required to follow strict health and safety protocols under the Hawai‘i’s Safe Travels program including vaccination, COVID-19 testing, and have dedicated medical staff on board, cabins for isolation, and a contingency plan with local hospitals to handle any COVID issues.
The average daily census[1] was 211,147 visitors in February 2022, compared to 90,776 visitors (+132.6%) in February 2021, 248,097 visitors (-14.9%) in February 2020, and 246,741 visitors (-14.4%) in February 2019.
In February 2022, 376,761 visitors arrived by air from the U.S. West, compared to 164,861 visitors (+128.5%) in February 2021, 352,707 visitors (+6.8%) in February 2020, and 312,235 visitors (+20.7%) in February 2019. U.S. West visitors spent $728.3 million in February 2022, compared to $264.6 million (+175.3%) in February 2021, $573.1 million (+27.1%) in February 2020, and $499.7 million (+45.7%) in February 2019. Daily spending by U.S. West visitors in February 2022 ($227 per person) was much higher compared to February 2021 ($157 per person, +44.7%), February 2020 ($189 per person, +19.9%), and February 2019 ($184 per person, +23.2%).
There were 186,758 visitors from the U.S. East in February 2022, compared to 63,899 visitors (+192.3%) in February 2021, 194,113 visitors (-3.8%) in February 2020, and 176,777 visitors (+5.6%) in February 2019. U.S. East visitors spent $437.1 million in February 2022, compared to $116.1 million (+276.6%) in February 2021, $419.5 million (+4.2%) in February 2020, and $371.6 million (+17.6%) in February 2019. Daily spending by U.S. East visitors in February 2022 ($234 per person) increased compared to February 2021
($154 per person, +52.3%), February 2020 ($220 per person, +6.3%), and February 2019 ($209 per person, +11.8%).
There were 2,181 visitors from Japan in February 2022, compared to 695 visitors (+214.0%) in February 2021, 124,122 visitors (-98.2%) in February 2020, and 120,653 visitors
(-98.2%) in February 2019. Visitors from Japan spent $8.1 million in February 2022, compared to $2.4 million (+234.8%) in February 2021, $168.5 million (-95.2%) in February 2020, and $165.5 million (-95.1%) in February 2019. Daily spending by Japanese visitors in February 2022 ($202 per person) was slightly higher compared to February 2021 ($200 per person, +0.7%), but decreased compared to February 2020 ($243 per person, -16.9%), and February 2019 ($242 per person, -16.8%).
In February 2022, 29,046 visitors arrived from Canada, compared to 493 visitors (+5,796.1%) in February 2021, 65,352 visitors (-55.6%) in February 2020, and 66,590 visitors (-56.4%) in February 2019. Visitors from Canada spent $78.7 million in February 2022, compared to $2.3 million (+3,386.8%) in February 2021, $148.2 million (-46.9%) in February 2020, and $153.0 million (-48.6%) in February 2019. Daily spending by Canadian visitors in February 2022 ($178 per person) increased compared to February 2021 ($165 per person, +7.9%), but declined compared to February 2020 ($184 per person, -3.4%), and February 2019 ($184 per person, -3.0%).
There were 28,945 visitors from All Other International Markets in February 2022. These visitors were from Europe, Oceania, Other Asia, Latin America, Guam, Philippines, and the Pacific Islands. In comparison, there were 5,336 visitors (+442.5%) from All Other International Markets in February 2021, 72,530 visitors (-60.1%) in February 2020, and 88,258 visitors (-67.2%) in February 2019.
In February 2022, a total of 4,484 trans-Pacific flights with 938,360 seats serviced the Hawaiian Islands, compared to 2,556 flights with 532,220 seats in February 2021, 4,989 flights with 1,107,405 seats in February 2020, and 4,611 flights with 1,010,961 seats in February 2019.
Year-to-Date 2022
Through the first two months of 2022, total visitor spending was $2.71 billion, up significantly from $795.0 million (+240.6%) in the first two months of 2021. Total visitor spending decreased compared to $3.19 billion (-15.1%) in the first two months of 2020, and $3.01 billion (-9.9%) in the first two months of 2019.
A total of 1,204,830 visitors (+195.8%) arrived in the first two months of 2022, nearly triple the number of visitors from the same period last year (407,259). Total arrivals were down compared to 1,680,976 visitors (-28.3%) in the first two months of 2020, and 1,598,428 visitors (-24.6%) in the first two months of 2019.
Statement by DBEDT Director Mike McCartney:
Visitors spent $1.3 billion in February which was 10% more per person, per day than in 2019, even though statewide we saw less visitor arrivals. We expect Hawai‘i to continue with this forward momentum, especially into Spring then into Summer, because of the arrival of Japanese visitors and other international markets.
With the lifting of the Safe Travels program, Hawai‘i will need to prepare for hosting a different mix of visitors. There will be demand by local businesses; from restaurants, transportation, retail, activities and lodging, to attract and retain a quality workforce for Hawai‘i which will bring more certainty to the economy. There is now an opportunity for Hawai‘i’s small businesses to attract and retain quality workers and employees.
As HTA refines and implements their Destination Management Plans, it will take a collaboration with the counties to find the balance and ensure that the community is an integral part of the process as we all move towards a regenerative visitor industry.
There is still a need to continue to be vigilant and remember that public health is the key for a healthy economy. Even though the formal Safe Travels program has ended we hope that everyone takes responsibility to keep Hawai‘i safe.
We learned how to live with the virus and need to remember that it is not yet over.
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[1] Average daily census measures the number of visitors present on any given day. | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/567183765/dbedt-news-release-visitor-industry-continued-improvement-in-february | 2022-04-01T02:07:41Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don’t have an answer for how that’s going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that’s a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs.” Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?” Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden’s social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden’s agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven’t abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden’s economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they’d help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That’s done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she’s looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control. It’s an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don’t reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can’t afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a “total disaster” for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
“This will make private insurance for people with diabetes a much more attractive proposition,” said Glied. | https://www.wcia.com/news/house-passes-35-a-month-insulin-cap/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:42Z |
State expands lead services to all Benton Harbor homes
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is expanding its lead abatement services to all homes in Benton Harbor, state officials announced Thursday.
“Our goal is to assess every home in Benton Harbor for the presence of lead hazards in not only drinking water, but paint, dust and soil to ensure those homes are lead-safe for families through abatement services,” said state health department Director Elizabeth Hertel.
Home lead services are offered to any housing unit, rental or owner-occupied, connected to the Benton Harbor water supply, regardless of age.
There are no household income requirements, and the services are available to single and multi-family residences. Owners of rental properties are required to participate in cost-sharing for services, state officials said in a statement.
“This is important and much-needed progress for the people of Benton Harbor,” Mayor Marcus Muhammad said. “The additional funding from the state and the program expansion help us do even more to protect the health and safety of every Benton Harbor resident.”
Free lead abatement services were previously available to pre-1978 homes occupied by a child under age 19, a pregnant resident enrolled in Medicaid, homes occupied by a child under age 6 or a pregnant resident whose household income was low/moderate.
The funding for the program is part of $36 million in supplemental funding in a deal reached between Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state Legislature in December, the health department said.
In-home lead investigation services can include environmental investigations to identify lead in paint, dust, soil and drinking water hazards. Sequential water sampling to identify lead in drinking water and testing of non-household components such as toys, dishes, furniture will be offered, according to the release.
Lead abatement services include full abatement services for lead in paint, dust, soil and drinking water hazards.
Pre-2014 bathroom and kitchen faucets used for potable water will be replaced regardless of water sampling results, state officials said.
City of Benton Harbor residents can apply by filling out and mailing an application available online or by calling 866-691-5323.
The Environmental Protection Agency recommended in February that state officials continue to keep Benton Harbor residents on bottled water as it is in the process of removing all lead service lines in the city.
Whitmer said she wants the pipe removal finished by spring 2023. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/03/31/benton-harbor-lead-abatement-services-expanded-all-homes/7239131001/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:42Z |
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol interviewed its first Trump family member and the highest-ranking official from the previous administration by meeting with Jared Kushner on Thursday for more than six hours, a source inside the room told NBC News.
The panel met virtually with Kushner — Donald Trump's son-in-law and a former top White House adviser — after he voluntarily agreed to speak with the committee Trump has accused of conducting a "witch hunt."
The source described Kushner as being cooperative and friendly.
For more on this story, go to NBC News. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/jared-kushner-interviewed-by-jan-6-committee-for-over-6-hours/3194594/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:41Z |
Gardening: Hardy, flowering geraniums can be easy to grow
When it comes to flowering plants at the OPC senior center display garden in Rochester, we depend mostly on annuals to keep the color coming throughout the season. However, shrubs that flower and/or produce interesting leaf color and texture are also part of the mix. And some perennials have also made the cut. Easy care and long bloom time are musts for any of these characters to be included.
This year, I’ve chosen the hardy geranium “Rozanne” to fill the bill in an area that doesn’t get a lot of attention.
If given the right conditions, the hardy, flowering geraniums, also known as cranesbills, are considered to be easy to grow. They are not picky about soil. Soggy, poorly drained, however, is the kiss of death. Depending on the variety, hardy geraniums prefer part sun (four to six hours) to full sun (six hours plus) but baking hot afternoon sun may be an issue. If you’re a true shade gardener, there are a few varieties that will grow in the dark.
Of the hundreds of species and hybrids available, for me, the award -winning G. ‘Rozanne’ stands out for its large flower size and blue-purple color, an extended bloom time and attractive foliage.
Rarely troubled by diseases, the best news is they are said to be deer and rabbit resistant. That’s a must.
Winner of the Perennial Plant Association plant of the year of 2011, it continues to be a top seller with landscapers as well as home gardeners.
Be aware that ‘Rozanne’ needs her space, as she as she can reach 24 inches or more in height and up to 4 feet in width, so be sure to give her some room to grow
“Rozanne’ is a sterile variety so to propagate it, it must be divided. If it does get leggy or there is a lag in bloom about midsummer, shear it back to about 4 inches to whip it into shape. To attract pollinators to the area, I’ll include some flowering annuals in the same bed.
If you think ‘Rozanne' is not popular check her personal website: https://www.geraniumrozanne.com/about-geranium-rozanne/growing-rozanne/ You can also find her on Instagram and sign up on her blog.
By the way, if you’re a new gardener, don’t confuse the hardy geranium with the tender plants grown as annuals whose Latin name is Pelargonium, but is commonly called geranium. You won’t find hardy cranesbills in the annual department of your garden shop.
Nancy Szerlag is a master gardener and a Metro Detroit freelance writer. Her column appears Fridays in Homestyle. To ask her a question go to Yardener.com and click on Ask Nancy. You can also read her previous columns at detroitnews.com/homestyle. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-szerlag/2022/04/01/gardening-hardy-flowering-geraniums-can-easy-grow/7196177001/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:42Z |
EDINBURGH, Ind. (WXIN) – Scientists believe the loud boom that was heard across several counties in South Central Indiana recently was caused by a meteor explosion.
Scientists at Purdue watched surveillance videos that captured the noise and believe the boom can be attributed to an “air burst.”
“Essentially when a meteor is entering the atmosphere it will essentially explode in the atmosphere and they can make a loud boom,” Purdue planetary scientist Brandon Johnson said.
Johnson said it’s likely similar to the “air burst” that happened in the skies over Chelyabinsk in Russia back in 2013. That incident lit up the sky and caused major damage on the ground.
“If it was big enough to make that loud an explosion it should’ve been seen but it was a pretty cloudy day,” Johnson said. “If there was enough cloud cover it’s possible that no one saw it but it still did occur above the clouds.”
The boom was large enough to show up on seismic scales at Indiana University.
“There was a significant pulse of seismic energy recorded on our instruments at 12:44 p.m. yesterday,” geophysics professor Michael Hamburger said. “If this coincides with the timing of the reports, it is likely the result of the sonic disturbance experienced by local residents.”
The American Meteor Society said it took two reports of meteor sightings yesterday afternoon. One of those reports came in from Columbus, the other from Bloomington.
Based on those reports the society was able to triangulate the impacted location and said it was likely a “fireball meteor.”
Johnson said it’s a good reminder that a lot happens out in space.
“It’s a reminder that we need to stay vigilant and know how to protect ourselves and detect these before they happen,” Johnson said.
Johnson said that if it was a meteor then it’s likely that parts of it made it to the ground.
He said they’ll likely be small rocks with a black coating on them.
The American Meteor Society is encouraging anyone who saw anything to report it to them. You can report those at amsmeteors.org. | https://www.wcia.com/news/loud-boom-caught-on-camera-in-indiana-believed-to-be-meteor-explosion/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:42Z |
MORGAN CITY, La., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conrad Industries, Inc. (OTC Pink: CNRD) today announced its 2021 results and backlog.
The Company had net income of $6.5 million and earnings per diluted share of $1.29 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2021 compared to net loss of $4.0 million and loss per diluted share of $0.80 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2020. Net income for 2021 includes other income related to Payment Protection Plan loan forgiveness and Employee Retention Credit. The Company's financial reports are available at www.otcmarkets.com.
Our backlog as of December 31, 2021 was $148.5 million, compared to $183.7 million at December 31, 2020, and $79.2 million at December 31, 2019.
Johnny Conrad, Chairman and CEO stated, "Our results for 2021 reflect a continued challenging operating environment. The improving but uneven pace of pandemic recovery in 2021 was accompanied by sharp increases in steel prices, inflationary price increases in other materials and equipment, supply chain disruptions and a tight labor market."
Mr. Conrad continued, "Although we face substantial uncertainties in our markets, we believe we are well-positioned to take advantage of opportunities when market fundamentals improve. We believe customers have delayed orders due to high steel prices and pandemic uncertainties, and that some of these orders will move forward when steel prices decline or our customers' business opportunities or fleet replacement needs require the vessels. We have seen a continued strong market for dredging and other infrastructure-related vessels, which we expect may continue, supported by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act enacted in 2021. We are also optimistic about opportunities in our repair and conversions segment."
Mr. Conrad concluded, "We are optimistic about our long-term prospects including the recent award of a contract by the U.S. Navy for the design and construction of a Yard, Repair, Berthing and Messing ("YRBM") barge, with options for an additional seven barges. This contract along with the infrastructure and repair markets are encouraging signs for the future of our business."
Conrad Industries, Inc., established in 1948 and headquartered in Morgan City, Louisiana, designs, builds and overhauls tugboats, ferries, liftboats, barges, offshore supply vessels and other steel products for both the commercial and government markets. The company provides both repair and new construction services at its five shipyards located in southern Louisiana and Texas.
Cautionary statement: This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are all statements other than those of historical facts, and reflect our expectations as of the date of this press release about future events. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including risks and uncertainties related to the COVID-19 pandemic, current high steel prices and constrained availability, competition, our reliance on cyclical industries, ability to perform contracts at costs consistent with estimated costs utilized in bidding, and ability to replenish our backlog and compete in changing markets. These and other risks are discussed in more detail in our Annual Report and subsequent reports available on www.otcmarkets.com. Should one or more of these risks materialize, achievement of anticipated results may differ materially from those anticipated. We do not intend to update these forward-looking statements, other than through our regular quarterly and annual reports.
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Cecil A. Hernandez (985) 702-0195
CAHernandez@ConradIndustries.com
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As web security improves, email security has become a bigger problem than ever. The overwhelming majority of malware attacks now come from email — as high as 89 percent, according to HP Wolf Security research. And with many employees getting multiple emails per day, it’s easy for spam emails to slip their notice.
Approximately 83 percent of organizations said they faced a successful phishing attempt in 2021, up from 57 percent in 2020. As phishing attacks become more prevalent and more successful, often serving as a gateway for further attacks like ransomware and advanced persistent threats (APTs), businesses need to prioritize protections against them. But in order to do so effectively, companies need to know more about the threat they’re facing. This guide breaks down the different types of phishing attacks and provides examples to help organizations better prepare their staff to deal with them.
What is Phishing?
Phishing is a type of social engineering attack in which bad actors pose as a trustworthy entity via phone, email, or text message in order to steal personal information from the recipient. Attackers may try to get their victims to reveal their date of birth, social security number, credit card information, or account passwords. They may also try to trick the recipient into clicking on a malicious link that would download malware onto their computer, giving them access to sensitive information.
Types of Phishing Attacks & Their Defenses
There are several types of phishing attacks that businesses should be prepared for: spear phishing, whaling, clone phishing, vishing, and smishing.
Also read: What are Common Types of Social Engineering Attacks?
Spear Phishing
Spear phishing attempts are targeted toward specific individuals or groups of individuals. They may include the recipient’s name, position, company, or other information that would set the potential victim at ease. The attacker may even claim they’re the recipient’s boss with an urgent request.
Messages like this tell the attacker whether an email address is active and if the recipient is likely to accept this initial email as legitimate. Notice the email address ends in @mail.ru instead of @eku.edu like a real university email address would. The attacker has taken all of the elements of the real Laurence’s email and spoofed it for their own purposes. If the attacker gets a response, they can execute the second part of their plan, whether it be to get additional information or deliver a malicious link.
Spear Phishing Defenses
Email security software can block many of these emails, but some will still slip through. Double-check the email address these emails come from as well as the reply address. If you’re on your computer, hover your mouse over any links to see where they’ll take you before clicking on them. With some mobile phones, you can hold down your finger on a link to see where it goes, although this is riskier than checking it from a computer. Never open any attachments without making sure the message is legitimate.
In addition to verifying the email address, check for grammatical errors that may indicate an attacker is looking for easy targets. While everyone makes mistakes in their emails occasionally, phishing attempts will have a higher number of errors than usual because they want to capture people that won’t question the attacker’s further actions.
If you can’t tell whether the message is real or not, contact the alleged sender through a different channel. Don’t reply to the email if it’s fraudulent or you’re unsure.
Also read: Zero-Click Attacks a Growing Threat
Whaling
Whaling is similar to spear phishing, except that it targets high-level employees, like executives or directors. They typically have access to the most valuable information in a company, making them appealing targets for attackers. Bad actors can either sell the information they’re able to gather or hold it for ransom. Additionally, they may be able to manipulate these high-level employees into wiring large amounts of money into the attacker’s account.
Whaling Defenses
Whaling protections are similar to those of spear phishing. Email protection software can help, but you’ll still need to know what to look for in the few that slip through. Slight changes in the email address, a different reply-to address, or a large number of grammatical errors can all indicate phishing.
Clone Phishing
Clone phishing, like spear phishing, is typically targeted at a small group of people because the attacker duplicates an email that the recipients have already received. For example, if the organization sends out an invitation to a company-wide event, the attacker might follow that up with an email that includes a “registration link” which really includes malware. Because the initial email was genuine, employees are more likely to lower their guard when they get the second email.
Clone Phishing Defenses
Clone phishing emails will attempt to spoof the email address of the initial sender, but there will either be slight differences or a different reply-to address. Before clicking on links in an email that you’re not completely certain is legitimate, hold your mouse over them to see the web address and double-check the sender name and email address and compare it against what you have in your contact list. If you’re still not sure, you can always contact the person via a channel other than email, like Slack or phone, to ask them about it. Do not reply to the email if it’s fraudulent.
Smishing
Smishing is the text message version of phishing attacks. They may be targeted, like spear phishing, but they may also be more general, appearing to come from their bank or Amazon, for example. The SMS text message will prompt users to call a fraudulent number and provide sensitive information or click on a link that will download malware onto their device.
Words like “urgent” prompt recipients into fast action, so they’re more likely to make a mistake. But note the link here. Actual requests from the USPS would likely include usps.com in the link, but this one is just a string of letters and numbers, marking it as fraudulent.
As people become more familiar with phishing and smishing attempts, attackers get better about disguising their links. Nowadays, instead of the random string of letters and numbers pictured above, you’re more likely to get smishing attempts that include links to ama.zon.com or vvalmart.com (note the double v in place of a w).
Smishing Defenses
The best way to guard against phishing attacks is to examine the message carefully before taking action. And if you’re not sure whether it’s legitimate, call the company using the number from their actual website or on the back of your credit or debit card in the case of bank-related smishing attempts. If you determine the text message is illegitimate, just delete it and block the number. Don’t reply to it, as you’ll confirm the number is active and will likely get more like it.
Vishing
Vishing is phishing that is executed via telephone, often coming from spoofed phone numbers. The attacker typically pretends to be someone from a legitimate business, like a bank or retailer, in an attempt to get personally identifiable information from the recipient.
Vishing Defenses
Many wireless phone providers have introduced spam protections to keep their customers from falling victim to vishing scams. While some will not even allow the phone to ring, lowering the chances that the recipient will actually answer the call, others will simply mark the call as potential spam, leaving the choice in the hands of the recipient.
You can also register your number on the federal Do Not Call list, but it doesn’t seem to have any actual effect on the number of scam calls received. Overall, unless you’re expecting a call from someone whose number you don’t have saved, it’s best to ignore calls from numbers you don’t know, trusting that callers with important information will leave a voicemail. If the caller does turn out to be spam, block the number, so they can’t use it to contact you again.
Common Examples of Phishing Attacks
Here are a few real-life examples of phishing attacks that you might run into.
Amazon Phishing Email
Millions of people use Amazon regularly, so it’s no surprise that attackers use their name and logo for phishing attempts. In the above example, the attacker uses the Amazon logo to legitimize the request.
However, notice how the sender uses a comma instead of a period at the end of the first sentence and includes an extra space between “in” and “your.” These grammatical errors serve to identify the easiest targets because if the email recipient doesn’t question those, they’re less likely to question any other mistakes the attacker makes. And if you were able to hover over either of the links, chances are you wouldn’t see an actual Amazon address. Other large vendors, like Walmart and Target, may have their email addresses spoofed as well.
Also read: Salesforce Email Service Used for Phishing Campaign
Chase Phishing Text Message
Many attackers use phishing attempts that appear to be from the recipient’s bank because they’re more likely to respond quickly when money is involved. The above example tells the customer their account has been locked, so they’ll call the number to fix the problem. If that happens, they can then get the recipient to provide the information they want.
Some indicators that this is fake is the lack of spaces between “Chase” and “bank” and after the period. Additionally, there is a zero in the word “LOCKED” instead of a capital O. Chase users aren’t the only targets of this type of attack. Most banks and even Paypal face similar spoofing occurrences.
Car Warranty Phishing Phone Call
Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t gotten a spam call from a recorded voice telling them their car warranty is expired or about to expire. This is a common phishing attack that attempts to manipulate people into giving over sensitive information like their credit card number, name, address, and social security number. Additionally, if the recipient answers the call, the attacker knows it’s active and they can sell it to other attackers.
Similar examples of this scam are calls about student loan debt, saying that the IRS has put a warrant out for your arrest, or that there has been fraud on your credit card account. The tells are different for each of these, but typically, they won’t provide any specific information that would verify that the call is actually for you.
What Can Help to Protect You from Phishing?
Attention to detail will help you the most when protecting yourself and your business against phishing attempts, but there are other things you can do to lessen the number of attacks you’re subjected to.
Email Security Software
Email security software can block known malicious domains that other users have marked as spam in the past. Some also use AI and ML to identify patterns that suggest spam or phishing attempts. With these tools in place, you’re less likely to get general phishing emails, meaning you can pay more attention to spear phishing attempts. Some of the top email protection tools include:
- Mimecast Secure Email Gateway
- Barracuda Spam Firewall
- Proofpoint Enterprise Protection
- ClearSwift Secure Email Gateway
Get the full list of our recommendations for the Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions.
Cybersecurity Awareness Training
Employees have to know what to look for before they can spot a phishing attempt, so providing cybersecurity awareness training is the best way to protect your business from a data breach. But it can’t just be a one-time thing. New threats are always emerging, so you need to hold regular training sessions to keep your employees up to date and the training fresh in their minds. Some of the best cybersecurity awareness programs come from:
- Ninjio
- SANS Institute
- KnowBe4
- ESET
Get the full list of the Best Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees to find the program that’s right for your business.
Phishing Simulators
If your training program doesn’t include phishing simulators, you should consider it as an add-on. Phishing simulators give employees a safe space to test their knowledge of phishing attacks without risking personal or company information. They also send test emails to employees to see how well they can spot the signs of phishing. It also provides companies with an idea of their risk profile, showing them how many of their employees engaged in risky behaviors with the fake phishing attempt.
Some companies that offer phishing simulators include:
- Infosec IQ
- Gophish
- Lucy
- Simple Phishing Toolkit
Phishing Protection Doubles as Malware and Ransomware Protection
Phishing attempts are big problems on their own, but they can also serve as a gateway for attackers to introduce malware and ransomware, costing businesses thousands of dollars in remediation. If businesses can effectively block phishing attempts, they also protect themselves against further attacks, especially because it means your employees know what to look out for. Investing time and money in phishing protection can help organizations save both in the long run.
Read next: QR Codes: A Growing Security Problem | https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/phishing-attacks/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:41Z |
Can Utah cure the incivility sparked by COVID-19?
Yvonne Francis thought she was helping other Utahns understand the vulnerability of children too young to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by sharing the story of her toddler son lying sedated and intubated in a Primary Children’s Hospital bed for nearly two weeks earlier this year after contracting the...
www.deseret.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556272478001/can-utah-cure-the-incivility-sparked-by-covid-19 | 2022-04-01T02:07:43Z |
Doctor convicted for prescribing over $1M in opioid pills, ‘Las Vegas cocktail’ of drugs
(Gray News) - A physician in Texas was recently convicted for wrongly prescribing more than $1 million worth of opioid hydrocodone pills.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 52-year-old James Pierre, a Houston doctor, unlawfully prescribed controlled substances from June 2015 through July 2016 to individuals posing as patients at a West Parker Medical Clinic, a pill-mill clinic located in Houston.
Trial evidence showed Pierre and his physician assistant issued hundreds of unlawful prescriptions for hydrocodone and carisoprodol, a combination of controlled substances known as the “Las Vegas Cocktail,” to hundreds of individuals posing as patients each week.
According to the Justice Department, “runners” brought numerous people to pose as patients at the clinic and paid about $220 to $500 per visit in exchange for the prescriptions.
Throughout the scheme, West Parker made about $1.75 million from prescriptions, and over $300,000 went to Pierre, according to investigators.
The Department of Justice reports Pierre was convicted of one count of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute and dispense controlled substances and seven counts of unlawfully distributing and dispensing controlled substances.
The 52-year-old is currently scheduled to be sentenced on June 27 and faces up to 20 years in prison for each count.
Officials said that one co-conspirator has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances unlawfully.
DEA Houston investigated the case, according to the Department of Justice.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Anna Davis was little more than a silhouette from right of the ninth green as darkness fell quickly at the end of a long day at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. The only light came from a video board and headlights from carts making their way in.
Not the least bit rattled, the 16-year-old from San Diego pitched with perfect pace to 2 feet to save par and post a 4-over 76 at Champions Retreat, one of only nine players to finish the second round.
What started as lingering thunderstorms turned into a heavy rain that delayed the start of the second round for for seven-and-a-half hours. That led to what should be a longer day, but far more fun on Friday.
Fifty-one players will finish the second round in the morning — some with only one hole to play, others with nine holes — before heading over to Augusta National for a practice round.
It starts with an elite competition. It ends for so many of them with a dream come true.
Of the nine players who finished, Davis was at 2-over 146 and in a tie for eighth, virtually assured of being among the 30 players from a field of 60 who advance to the final round at the home of the Masters.
No one was under par.
Beatrice Wallin of Sweden was 1 under for the round through 16 holes and even par for the tournament, tied with Amari Avery, who also was 1 under for the day through 16.
Joining them at even par was Hailey Borjas, the Californian who plays at Michigan. Her day ended on a sour note with consecutive bogeys. Even so, she was excited for Friday.
She was at Augusta National earlier in the week, driving down Magnolia Lane and having a group dinner hosted by the club chairman.
“Seeing Augusta for the first time, it was like a dream come true,” Borjas said.
She was more excited about her first chance to play it than her position in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, in its third year but already considered elite among amateur events because of where it’s at.
“I don’t really like to think about golf when I’m playing golf, if that makes any sense,“ Borjas said. “I like to talk about other things, like shoes. So to think about Augusta National tomorrow will keep me going.”
U.S. Women’s Amateur champion Jensen Castle had the best round going at 2 under through 16 holes, leaving her one shot out of the lead.
The course was just as difficult as the opening round, when strong wind allowed only five players to break par. The wind subsided after the rain, though it left the course soggy and longer, even as the greens were slightly more receptive.
Rose Zhang, the No. 1 amateur in the world, made progress by not really going anywhere. She put together one bogey and 13 pars and improved from a tie for 39th to a tie for 26th.
Rachel Heck of Stanford, the No. 3 player in women’s amateur golf who won six times in one semester last year as a freshman, was going the other direction. Heck had a pair of double bogeys in her opening four holes and was 5 over through 10 holes, leaving her outside the projected cut line at 6 over.
The cut is a hard 30. Any ties lead to a sudden-death playoff to see who advances, although everyone gets to play a practice round at Augusta National on Friday.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.thestar.com/sports/golf/2022/03/31/rain-slows-augusta-womens-amateur-as-no-one-left-under-par.html | 2022-04-01T02:07:44Z |
Opinion
Why the excellence of trans athletes raises difficult questions
Darren Kane
Sports ColumnistThe making of laws, or sporting regulations, isn’t easy. There isn’t a rule book for writing the rule book.
We may aim for fairness, equity and integrity but what often happens instead is we establish an entirely new paradigm, which in reality eschews each of those ideals.
This is why important policies must be enacted only once there’s a proper, reasoned and sound basis for doing so. Educated guesstimating is akin to conducting brain surgery blindfolded - it is an insufficient method of solving complex issues. It’s also dangerous.
Crudely crafted rules can have drastic, detrimental, unforeseen outcomes for particular classes of athletes.
Given that, what should the precise rules be regarding binary male and female competition classes across all sports in circumstances where gender itself is not binary? Such rules affect the right of certain people to freely participate in sport at all, which means great care and consideration is demanded.
The British cyclist, Emily Bridges, was due to compete in the British National Omnium Championships this weekend. Now she isn’t allowed to because the sport’s international federation, the Union Cycliste Internationale, has determined she isn’t eligible. Emily Bridges is a trans female athlete and her right to compete has been squashed.
In 2022, organising elite athletes into either the “male” box or the “female” box, as elite sports invariably do, is a borderline impossible task to complete well. The potential for damage to be caused to athletes, like Emily Bridges, is clear.
These questions can’t be considered inside a vacuum-excluding emotion. Yet that’s exactly how such questions perhaps must be examined, even if not answered.
Improperly considered and non-comprehensive schemes of regulation will definitely generate outcomes such as the material distortion of the competitive balance across a spectrum of competitors of the same gender.
Conversely, a severity of regulation disproportionate to any legitimate concern might result in a subset of female athletes being indefinitely banned from all competition, a fate that is worse than that which befalls all but the most wicked of dopers and cheats.
The objectively excellent performances by Penn State athlete Lia Thomas during the recently completed US college swimming titles must be applauded for being exactly that: excellent performances. Thomas’ results and achievements must, however, bring into question the credibility of the very competitions in which she excelled.
Lia Thomas’ achievement in winning the NCAA 500-yard freestyle raises issues that need to be confronted, by aquatic sports and indeed sport generally.
Thomas is a transgender female athlete, studying and competing in elite US college sports. Her collegiate swimming career results, achieved before she began transitioning from male to female, were altogether humdrum.
Swimming at the just-completed NCAA championships, though, Thomas won an NCAA title. In achieving that result, she defeated two cisgender female athletes – Emma Weyant and Erica Sullivan – each of whom won silver medals at the Tokyo Olympics.
And it’s at this point that one must at least question whether the participation of the archetypal Lia Thomas – a transgender athlete participating in a single-sex sporting competition – distorts the Utopian “level playing field” to the degree it challenges the concept of fair and equal competition.
Not everyone who validly questions the participation of a Lia Thomas in an elite female sporting competition deserves to be tarnished a “transphobe”. These are not questions about only the rights of trans peoplebut are rather questions about fairness in competition and the rights and interests of all athletes and the consequences of upturning that finely balanced table.
Again, the issue is one of trying to fit a whole kaleidoscope of gender into either the box labelled XX or the one labelled XY.
Certain sports, obviously, lend themselves to competitions in which men and women can compete on an even basis, where gender isn’t a factor. Horse racing, motor racing and darts are perfect examples, and implementing regulations permitting unhindered participation rights for transgender athletes is a comparatively straightforward process.
But some other sports are inherently more difficult to organise so that transgender athletes have the same rights as cisgender athletes while simultaneously maintaining fairness for all athletes. The relative importance of strength, stamina and physical size in sports such as rugby league, boxing and wrestling means that those sports don’t offer up obvious ways in which a trans female athlete might be permitted to participate in female competition.
It must, however, be observed, that the reaction to the participation of the trans female Kiwi weightlifter Laurel Hubbard in the men’s program at the last Olympics was unwarranted based on her results alone.
Moreover, although most people wouldn’t quibble at the concept of a trans male athlete competing in a heavyweight wrestling competition against a cisgender male opponent, such a scenario actually presents its own conundrums in terms of athlete safety, specifically that of the transgender athlete.
Which means that although questions as to how the binary nature of elite male/female sports competitions should, and can, be adapted are confused, they are also compulsory.
A core failing is there exists no overarching guidance, at least not at any detailed level. In late 2021, the International Olympic Committee released its Framework on Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sex Variations. Good, you would think.
Disappointingly, but unsurprisingly, the IOC’s framework comprises six pages of high-falutin’ principles and waffle that any lawyer could drive a bus through. In one section, the IOC says the starting point is that an athlete should be allowed to compete in the category that best aligns with their self-determined gender identity.
In the following section, the IOC qualifies this ideal by stating that where sports organisations elect to organise competitions into men’s and women’s categories (and very few don’t), those organisations should do so with a view to ensuring that no athlete within a category has an unfair and disproportionate competitive advantage.
Now, back to Thomas. This isn’t at all about Thomas, but in another way this must be about Thomas.
How can it be fairly put that a trans female athlete in the position of Thomas, who was ranked so far down the pecking order as a NCAA male athlete that nobody ever uttered her name, now could be said to have no unfair and disproportionate competitive advantage?
But if Thomas does have a disproportionate athletic and competitive advantage, how can her sport offer her the opportunities there she should rightfully be afforded? Therein lies the conundrum.
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Blue Springs man facing several child sex crimes
BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. (WCBI) – A Blue Springs man is facing several child sex crimes.
Lee County investigators believe he may have even given children drugs.
39-year-old Charles Bishop is charged with three counts of sexual battery, one count of fondling, two counts of child abuse/drug endangerment, and one count of aggravated domestic violence.
Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson says the investigation first started over an allegation that Bishop provided a child illegal narcotics.
The U.S. Marshals arrested Bishop.
More charges are possible in this case. | https://www.wcbi.com/blue-springs-man-facing-several-child-sex-crimes/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:44Z |
OLYMPIA, Wash — A $64.1 billion supplemental state budget that spends on statewide programs ranging from homelessness and behavioral health to the ongoing COVID-19 response was signed Thursday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
The supplemental plan builds off of the $59 billion, two-year spending plan adopted by the Legislature last year, and benefited from the significant influx of revenues the state has seen over the past year. Additionally, lawmakers used more than $1 billion in remaining pandemic-related federal relief funds in the budget.
More than $800 million is allocated for homelessness and housing, including $50 million to transition unhoused people from unsanctioned camps to housing.
Inslee specifically called out the efforts on addressing homelessness, saying that lawmakers “gave us relief that is big, that is bold, and that is fast.”
While there are no general tax increases in the plan, there are also no across-the-board tax cuts, something Republicans had argued for throughout the legislative session that ended March 10.
A small business tax credit was included that would affect about 125,000 small businesses in the state, and was among the bills signed by Inslee Thursday.
Starting in January, businesses making less than $125,000 a year would pay no state business taxes, and those making up to $250,000 a year, business taxes will be cut in half.
The supplemental operating budget also spends state or federal money on things like adding more social supports like nurses and counselors for students, increasing rates to vendors providing services to people with developmental disabilities or long-term care needs and shoring up the state’s paid family leave program, which officials warned was nearing a deficit.
It also allots funding for raises for state workers. According to the Office of Financial Management, about 63,800 general government employees will get a 3.25% general wage increase, about 6,700 state corrections workers will get a 4% general wage increase and about 1,200 state patrol officers will get a 10% general wage increase. The last general wage increase for represented employees was July 1, 2020.
The operating budget also transfers more than $2 billion to the nearly $17 billion, 16-year transportation revenue package that Inslee signed last week. The plan leaves about $3 billion in total reserves.
Inslee had several full or partial vetoes of bills, including a section of a bill that would have expanded the state’s existing warehouse sales and use tax to include smaller warehouses of at least 100,000 square feet. In his veto notice, Inslee said that while he understood the importance of manufacturing and warehousing to rural economies, he said the tax incentives in the bill were overly broad.
Inslee on Thursday also signed a $1.5 billion state construction budget that spends on areas ranging from housing, homelessness, behavioral health facilities, and seismic upgrades at public schools. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/inslee-signs-supplemental-budget/281-402815b2-e8f0-461d-bbae-abec8be48d85 | 2022-04-01T02:07:44Z |
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Doctor convicted for prescribing over $1M in opioid pills, ‘Las Vegas cocktail’ of drugs
(Gray News) - A physician in Texas was recently convicted for wrongly prescribing more than $1 million worth of opioid hydrocodone pills.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 52-year-old James Pierre, a Houston doctor, unlawfully prescribed controlled substances from June 2015 through July 2016 to individuals posing as patients at a West Parker Medical Clinic, a pill-mill clinic located in Houston.
Trial evidence showed Pierre and his physician assistant issued hundreds of unlawful prescriptions for hydrocodone and carisoprodol, a combination of controlled substances known as the “Las Vegas Cocktail,” to hundreds of individuals posing as patients each week.
According to the Justice Department, “runners” brought numerous people to pose as patients at the clinic and paid about $220 to $500 per visit in exchange for the prescriptions.
Throughout the scheme, West Parker made about $1.75 million from prescriptions, and over $300,000 went to Pierre, according to investigators.
The Department of Justice reports Pierre was convicted of one count of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute and dispense controlled substances and seven counts of unlawfully distributing and dispensing controlled substances.
The 52-year-old is currently scheduled to be sentenced on June 27 and faces up to 20 years in prison for each count.
Officials said that one co-conspirator has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances unlawfully.
DEA Houston investigated the case, according to the Department of Justice.
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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.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Derby-game-17049956.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:44Z |
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol interviewed its first Trump family member and the highest-ranking official from the previous administration by meeting with Jared Kushner on Thursday for more than six hours, a source inside the room told NBC News.
The panel met virtually with Kushner — Donald Trump's son-in-law and a former top White House adviser — after he voluntarily agreed to speak with the committee Trump has accused of conducting a "witch hunt."
The source described Kushner as being cooperative and friendly.
For more on this story, go to NBC News. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/jared-kushner-interviewed-by-jan-6-committee-for-over-6-hours/3625707/ | 2022-04-01T02:07:45Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
“The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. “Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical.”
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
“But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards,” said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He said the compound is in “the top tier of problematic chemicals in our water.”
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing facilities in Henderson, Nevada, were the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites in the state between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in data provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites, where severe perchlorate contamination is generated from the burning of hazardous byproducts from weapons manufacturing and munitions. One such site is in Colfax, Louisiana, where environmentalists have long advocated for reform.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what's needed.
“Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water," said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
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AP reporter Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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The Associated Press receives support from the Walton Family Foundation for coverage of water and environmental policy. The AP is solely responsible for all content. For all of AP’s environmental coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/environment | https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/EPA-upholds-Trump-era-decision-not-to-regulate-17049862.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:45Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the “best available peer reviewed science.” The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was “applying the right tools to support public health protections.”
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
“The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. “Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical.”
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
“But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards,” said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He said the compound is in “the top tier of problematic chemicals in our water.”
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing facilities in Henderson, Nevada, were the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites in the state between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in data provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites, where severe perchlorate contamination is generated from the burning of hazardous byproducts from weapons manufacturing and munitions. One such site is in Colfax, Louisiana, where environmentalists have long advocated for reform.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what's needed.
“Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water," said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
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AP reporter Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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The Associated Press receives support from the Walton Family Foundation for coverage of water and environmental policy. The AP is solely responsible for all content. For all of AP’s environmental coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/environment | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/EPA-upholds-Trump-era-decision-not-to-regulate-17049862.php | 2022-04-01T02:07:45Z |
After vaccinating thousands against Covid-19, this CNN Hero is fighting inequity in the medical system
By Kathleen Toner, CNN
As Covid-19 infection rates and restrictions are waning in some places and a variant is surging in others, it’s difficult to understand where we are in the pandemic.
But two years ago, the situation was clear: for many people, coronavirus had brought the world to a stop. That’s when pediatric surgeon Dr. Ala Stanford sprang into action, bringing Covid-19 testing to Black and Brown communities in Philadelphia that were hard hit by the virus.
In the months that followed, Stanford brought testing and vaccines to more than 75,000 people through her nonprofit Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium. And as she worked to help underresourced communities weather the pandemic, she diagnosed an even greater problem.
“We were seeing folks that hadn’t seen a doctor in a decade,” said Stanford, who was honored as a Top 10 CNN Hero last year. “We were just literally putting a Band-Aid to a much bigger problem with health inequities and health disparities.”
It’s well-documented that Black and Brown communities have suffered greater hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19 for a host of reasons, including higher risk factors for exposure and a higher risk of severe disease.
But lack of accessible and affordable health care is a key factor that leads to worse health outcomes for people of color. In particular, lack of outpatient care, like annual checkups and doctor’s visits, can play a critical role in preventing health issues.
This larger, systemic issue is what Stanford is trying to remedy.
In November, she began seeing patients at the Dr. Ala Stanford Center for Health Equity, her new facility in north Philadelphia. This multi-disciplinary clinic offers services ranging from primary care and mental health, diagnostic testing like EKGs and mammograms and, of course, Covid testing and vaccinations.
“We take care of newborns through grandma and grandpa,” she said. “And that is the next step … wanting to not just save lives, but really impact an entire lifetime with people.”
Located on the grounds of Deliverance Evangelistic Church, in an area that once housed a day care center, the space underwent a massive renovation. The center now includes exam rooms, consultation areas, a children’s play space, even a fish tank. Most importantly, it provides care to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay.
“If you have insurance, we run it,” Stanford said. “If you don’t have insurance, we help you get (it). And if you don’t have anything, you’re not going to be turned away.”
This fall, as the coronavirus seemed to recede into the background, Stanford was excited to switch gears to focus on this broader health mission. But the Omicron variant of the virus changed her plans.
“After Christmas, there were so many people sick, literally wrapped around this building to get Covid tested. The positivity rate was 45%” she said. “So, we had to stop primary care and just focus on testing and vaccination.”
Yet, she and her team still figured out a way to provide brief wellness checks with each vaccination.
“You come in for a shot and you see your vital signs are out of whack — you might say ‘Did you know you have high blood pressure?’ or ‘Did you take your medication today?'” Stanford said.
And in early January, when Stanford realized that Covid rates were rising in children and young people, she added another approach.
“In a public health crisis, you go to the people. And the kids are primarily in school, so that’s what I pushed for,” she said.
Since then, Stanford’s team has worked with FEMA to hold nearly 20 vaccination clinics at schools in and around Philadelphia. She says in some of them, they have doubled the vaccination rates among students. Her group also still offers vaccinations and testing throughout the community at police departments and mass transit SEPTA stations.
Two years later, Stanford’s surgical practice is still on hold. While she admits to missing the operating room at times, she knows that the work she is doing now is making a difference on a much larger scale.
“What we’ve done has touched over 100,000 lives. And that refuels me,” she said. “The need here right now is so great. I feel that this is where I’m supposed to be.”
Want to get involved? Check out the Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium website and see how to help.
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‘The future has arrived’: Scientists complete human genome sequencing
By Joel Achenbach
Washington: An important detail went largely unnoticed amid the celebrations two decades ago of the mapping of the human genome: the job wasn’t really done. The historic sequencing of the roughly 3 billion letters that represent the blueprint of humans was only about 92 per cent complete.
Scientists had done all they could do with the technology of the day, and soon after the turn of the century, they published their final map. But sections of the genome remained obtuse, with repeated letters that ran on and on like a needle skipping on a scratched record album. The mapping of those sections was kicked down the road, to some future era when new technologies would complete the job.
That future has arrived. In a paper published in the journal Science, a massive collaboration of researchers from government, academic and private organisations, called the Telomere-to-Telomere consortium, produced the first full, “gapless” human genome.
“Hallelujah, we finally finished one human genome,” Evan Eichler, a University of Washington geneticist and one of the leaders of the project, said in a news briefing on Thursday, US time.
A raft of other papers in Science and in the journals Nature and Genome Research expanded on the significance of the milestone and its potential applications.
“If there’s any blueprint on this planet we should want to know from one end to another, it’s humans,” Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, said.
The feat opens up new territories for researchers and could have practical applications in the realm of personalised medicine. The newly sequenced sections of the genome contain genes that are consequential in some diseases, scientists said.
The full human genome will serve as a reference guide to genetic variations seen in human beings, particularly as more genomes from diverse populations across the planet are fully sequenced and build out the library of blueprints. That will also provide a better understanding of the tree of life because many species of plants and animals have genomic sections similar to the hard-to-map parts of the human genome, said Karen Miga, a geneticist at the University of California at Santa Cruz and co-founder of the T2T consortium.
Moreover, these newly mapped sections – the previously sidestepped 8 per cent of the genome – could provide insights into the mechanisms of ageing, Miga said.
“There are these incredibly large and persisting gaps that have been in our genome for decades and they represent really important parts of our genome,” she said. “If we didn’t have these regions, we wouldn’t have life as we know it.”
The scientists do not claim that this is “the” human genome. It is “a” human genome. That raises the obvious question of whose genome it is, and there the story is complicated. It is not any one person’s genome.
People have two of copies of chromosomes, one from each parent. But this research was performed on a cell line developed decades ago that originated with a rare type of tumour – called a “complete hydatidiform mole” – that formed at the union of a single sperm and an ovum that, in a biological quirk, lacked the woman’s DNA. According to NIH, the donors are not known.
“This is a unique cell line that represents no person that ever lived,” said Adam Phillippy, a co-founder of the consortium and head of the Genome Informatics Section at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Green, the NIH official, worked on the earlier Human Genome Project, the decade-long US government effort that at the turn of the century found itself in a sharp-elbowed race with a private venture, Celera Genomics, headed by J Craig Ventre. The race ended in a sort of truce, with both efforts publishing their initial sequences in the journals Science and Nature in February 2001, with more precise versions coming two years later.
But the genome still had gaps. These were sections with redundancies that made their mapping impossible. The same letters would appear again and again, at great length. The repeated sections were like jigsaw puzzle pieces with no features at all – like a section of the puzzle showing only blue sky. What went where? The scientists essentially decided they would do the sky section of the jigsaw puzzle later.
Some of the gaps were on telomeres, the caps at the ends of chromosomes that have often been compared to the aglets that protect the ends of shoelaces. There were also gaps on centromeres, a constricted region that separates two arms of the chromosome.
“There were parts of the human genome that contained DNA that were so repetitive, and so rugged and so difficult, that any of the methods that were available at that time, they just choked, they couldn’t do it,” Green said.
The improved map was made possible by new technologies for reading very long sections of the genome. Back to the jigsaw puzzle analogy: puzzles with bigger pieces are easier to put together.
Those technologies also improved the accuracy of the sequencing. If these tools could be reduced in cost, the researchers said, that could help doctors know exactly who they’re dealing with at the genetic level, a leap forward in “individualised medicine.”
Deanna Church, a genome scientist at Inscripta, who was not part of the new research, said she thought this breakthrough in sequencing was just the start of a new era in genome analysis.
“We want genomes from a lot of different people, from all over the world,” Church said.
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