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Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Arizona Luminaria on palabra, the digital news site by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
By Beatriz Limón with photo and video by Arizona Luminaria and Daniel Méndez
Where are you from?
It’s a question that Franchela Ulises hears often in Arizona when she speaks in Spanish. In her native language.
She is used to the question. But she’ll never get used to the strange looks from others when she’s in public. She’s seen that look at the grocery store or at the park when she’s with her kids and they’re all talking in Spanish.
Sometimes she laughs it off. Other times, she lets her frustration flow.
Franchela was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Her parents are from the Dominican Republic.
In the country of her parents, Franchela doesn’t attract attention. Here in Arizona, in a desert state on the border with Mexico, a Black woman who speaks Spanish is watched with curiosity and sometimes reveals the prejudice toward people who share her heritage.
Facing discrimination. Not feeling recognized, included or accepted as an Afro-Latina. It’s exhausting, she says.
Franchela channeled her frustration into creating “Mujeres of all Shades.” The organization helps women of all races and cultural and ethnic backgrounds champion their own style, their own identities, their own expressions of beauty and brilliance.
Franchela works as a model, fashion stylist, and social media influencer to empower Afro-Latinas and unite women of all skin colors.
She’s cultivating a collective of women who are changing the fashion industry to be more inclusive of what women want and how they want to be seen and heard.
Together, they fight for confidence and self-esteem and against stereotypes about beauty, race and gender. For Franchela, it is a movement.
She has three daughters. She wants them to see more Afro-Latinas represented on television and other media.
On a cool day in downtown Phoenix, Franchela is posing for photos and speaking in Spanish and English. She explains what life is like for Afro-Latinas in Arizona.
She fixes her hair and adjusts her jacket with splashes of vibrant colors from lime green to indigo blue. She crosses her legs and sets aside her Gucci bag.
Looking at the camera with the confidence of a Hollywood star on stage, a model on the runway or mama with three babies, she smiles and says: “I’m Afro-Latina.”
She releases a mischievous laugh adding, “I’m a little bit of everything.”
Franchela is 30 years old. She tries to explain how she defines herself, shows her identities in simple, straightforward ways that still seem so complicated in the eyes of people who do not know her cultural mix and her roots.
“Look, my parents are Dominican, but I was born in the Virgin Islands, where there are many Dominicans,” she says. “But this is the United States. So, I am African American.”
“But sometimes I’m not Black enough for people here. I’m also not Latino enough in this country. In the end, I think we can all be a little bit of everything.”
Franchela is proud to wear her Afro-Latina identity in Arizona, where laws have been passed to stigmatize race, culture and language. And where some people mistakenly think that all Latinos in Arizona are from México.
Franchela is an American citizen who champions Latino/a/x immigrants like her parents. Francisco Ulises and Elcilia Mercado taught her to love her culture and her language.
“My parents are amazing. They are both Dominican and traveled to St. Thomas, which is the gateway island to the Virgin Islands, before I was born,” she says. “They are a blessing. They always instilled in me our Dominican culture and appreciation for speaking Spanish very well.”
Dominicans represent the fourth largest group of Latino immigrants in the United States, after Mexicans, Salvadorans and Cubans, according to the Migration Policy Institute, or MPI.
MPI data shows that the number of Dominican immigrants in the U.S. increased 33% from 2010 to 2019. Those 1.2 million Dominicans represent approximately 3% of the immigrant population in the U.S., which is about 44.9 million people.
Latinos in the U.S. with Caribbean roots are more likely to identify as Afro-Latinos or Afro-Caribbeans than Latinos with roots in other regions (34% vs. 22%, respectively), according to a Pew Research Center survey. Those who identify as Afro-Latino are more concentrated on the East Coast and in the South compared to other Latinos. An estimated 65% of Afro-Latino immigrants live in these regions versus 48% of other Latino immigrants.
Franchela moved to Arizona 10 years ago to study criminal justice. She arrived with a heart full of dreams, but she found herself rejected. Some people, upon hearing her speak Spanish, looked at her strangely and whispered behind her back.
She felt like she couldn’t escape all the sideways glances.
“People are always shocked when they see me. They’re literally frozen when they hear me,” she says. “They ask me, in surprise, where I learned to speak Spanish.”
It hurts, she says, to know that her Afro-Latino culture is not appreciated enough in her country.
“We’re Latinos, we just look a little bit different,” she says firmly.
She remembers her life and traditions in moments. Living with her grandparents in the Dominican Republic, eating rice and beans and playing with her cousins, speaking in the language they grew up with.
Women of all shades
Franchela faced culture shock when she moved to Arizona. She took that pain and channeled it into creating “Mujeres of all Shades.”
For her, it means everything for every woman to feel confident about her ancestral roots, the texture of her hair, the color of her skin color, her voice and her shape. Franchela feels confident wearing red lipstick and fierce colors. It’s a medicine for a fashion guru to feel beautiful, brave and bold.
Not everyone looks the same just because they’re from the same country or culture, she says.
“We have to change the stereotypes (in the U.S.),” she says. “It’s the same in Mexico, where there are blonde people with green eyes. We must accept that we come in all colors.”
Through her organization, the model offers a series of tutorials for women to feel comfortable in their own skin. She covers personal styling, fashion events, wardrobe checks, outfit planning, shopping plans, fashion consultations, and even a fashionista photo shoot.
She doesn’t only focus on fashion, style and the beauty of women. Franchela seeks to educate Latino and non-Latino communities about cultural, racial, ethnic representation, equality and diversity. She wants Latino communities to recognize and celebrate Afro-Latino cultures.
She hopes people don’t think that observing Black History Month in February is enough. Rather, she wants an inclusive conversation about respecting people of color and people from these communities who speak different languages.
“We are not well represented in the United States. We’re lacking space on television, where our stories are told, so people get to know us,” Franchela says. “We have to focus on the Black and Afro-Latino community every day, not just one month, because the problems we face happen all year long.”
And to begin to make a change, the style consultant and mom has educated her daughters Yoelianny, 9, Alianny, 7, and Leilianny, 2, to feel proud of their Latina roots, the color of their skin and of being bilingual.
“I instill the Latino culture in them,” Franchela says. “We speak Spanish. I explain to them where I come from, where their father Juan Franco, who is Dominican, comes from. I tell them that they are beautiful and that they are also Latinas.”
Franchela Ulises says “not everyone looks the same just because they’re from the same country or culture.” Photo by Arizona Fashion Photographer
‘When people speak to me in English …’
Franchela is active on her personal and business social media networks. The entrepreneur shares her bold fashion sense and stories about her experiences as an Afro-Latina woman.
She often hears back from other Afro-Latinas who feel seen and heard. She hears from people who love her style and culture. But there’s hate, too. Like a recent racist comment on Tik Tok.
“They told me that I was too dark to be Dominican,” she says.
She faced the same old stereotypes. But she saw it as an opportunity to change the way people perceive Afro-Latinas like her.
“I get those comments a lot,” she says. “I use them to educate, because if that person was thinking it, I’m sure there are a hundred others who are thinking it too.”
Franchela uploaded a video with audio from the popular “Caso Cerrado” television show to her social media, using humor and language to talk about being Afro-Latina and proudly speaking Spanish.
She posted it with a banner in black and white: “When people speak to me in English, because they think I don’t speak Spanish.”
“Buenas tardes! No ‘afternoon’ or ‘hello’ here. Spanish is spoken here because this is a program in Spanish”, Franchela says with authority, a head tilt and a hard stare.
The Afro-Latina says there’s been progress over the years in education and action against racism. But there is still rampant “racism that gets swept under the rug.”
“The aggression that people of color [face] is not always so direct anymore, but it is indirect and it is racism all the same,” Franchela says. “It hurts, frustrates and makes you feel bad. It (racism) hasn’t gone away. But it could go away. It’s a matter of people with privilege not thinking they can just recognize our culture for just one month – these issues should be regularly exposed.”
Franchela has also dedicated herself to educating those who think that Afro-Latinos are not Latinos, so people learn to embrace the diversity of our (Latino) community.
Fighting for people’s rights and what she believes in is not new for Franchela. She studied criminology to help young people trapped in the U.S. justice system. She knows that the key to supporting people is to motivate and empower them so they don’t feel defeated.
That’s what Franchela is: A motivator who wants people to feel joyful about their identity and their culture.
A powerful leader who empowers others.
A woman who loves bold colors. All colors. A woman who loves her American and her Latina roots.
She’s Afro-Latina.
She’s ... a little bit of everything.
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Beatriz Limón is an independent journalist who served as a correspondent in Arizona and New Mexico for the international news agency EFE. She has a bachelor’s degree in communication science, is a professional photographer and a columnist for the newspaper El Imparcial.
Daniel Méndez is an award-winning editor/producer with more than 15 years of experience covering news in English and Spanish. He has worked with Telemundo and 12 News. His professional experience contributed to a better understanding of fair and comprehensive coverage of Latino communities, including collaborating on the production of bilingual stories that spawned 12 News en Español.
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By Jaime Llinares Taboada
Tirupati Graphite PLC said Thursday that the expansion of its Sahamamy graphite project in Madagascar remains on track, with the second module expected to enter production in the second half of 2022.
The graphite and graphene company said the module will increase its flake graphite capacity in Madagascar to around 30,000 metric tons per year.
Shares at 0749 GMT were up 6.9% at 70.0 pence.
Write to Jaime Llinares Taboada at jaime.llinares@wsj.com; @JaimeLlinaresT
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He said it is an important bilateral relationship within the region that deserved attention and respect and is significant unlike other bilateral visits.
“Indonesia and Australia are our closest bilateral partners. While I have made important strides in the PNG Australia relationship, I hope to strengthen the PNG Indonesian relationship, and this visit is timely,” said Prime Minister Marape.
Apart from the usual discussions on traditional issues relating to border management and combating cross-border crime, drug smuggling, and terrorism, the talks will focus on other strategic opportunities for the two countries.
“The traditional issues are important but these are the traditional bilateral issues which are recurring in nature. There is a place for those, but it is vitally important that we use the opportunity to canvass other issues which are of strategic importance to us as a country."
The visit is more strategic and will focus on business, trade, and investment opportunities and capacity building of human resources, among other practical and meaningful outcomes to complement our development aspirations here in PNG.
“There is a lot to draw from our nearest neighbour in enhancing our socio-economic development by providing market access for our natural products to enter the huge Indonesian market. It is now timely to exploit and pursue these opportunities with a renewed vigor and optimism to utilize the vast economic, trade and investment potential that currently exists between our two countries,” said Prime Minister Marape.
The delegation returns to the country tomorrow.
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Cotton argues Trump, Reagan share common roots in GOP
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in a new interview said former Presidents Trump and Reagan have similar roots in the Republican Party.
“Reagan understood what all Republicans should: We are elected to protect the American people and their prosperity and their freedom,” Cotton, widely seen as a potential future GOP candidate for president, told The Wall Street Journal in an interview.
“Both President Reagan and President Trump, who many people say represent these polar opposites between which we must choose, stood in that tradition,” he added.
Cotton spoke to the Journal before he is set to deliver remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California as part of a speaker series that explores the future of the GOP after Trump lost the election in 2020. He is scheduled to speak at the facility Monday night.
While Trump and Reagan did have a number of similarities — they both worked in the entertainment industry before politics, were members of the Democratic Party before switching to the GOP and secured the Republican nomination after rising above some internal opposition — their stances on trade and immigration differed, the Journal noted. Additionally, Reagan was optimistic while Trump at times describes the country as split and on the wrong path.
Cotton linked GOP’s Trump-Reagan roots to former President Andrew Jackson, who was known for being a populist, according to the Journal. Some advisers reportedly said Jackson was a role model of Trump’s.
“It is the heart of the Republican Party today,” Cotton said. “Republicans are the party of the common man. We stand for law and order, military strength, good jobs, high wages and sanity in our culture wars.”
Cotton has been among the Republican names floated as potential candidates for the 2024 presidential election. He has been a frequent guest on Fox News, criticizing President Biden and his policies, and has also met with Republican leaders in key election states like Iowa and New Hampshire.
Asked about a potential run in the next presidential cycle, Cotton told the Journal “When I turn my attention down the road towards elections, it will indeed first be to 2022.”
“Once that election is over, we can move on to the next election,” he added.
In Monday’s remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, Cotton is expected to criticize Biden for the unfolding Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan incentivized Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to excerpts provided to the Journal.
He is expected to say that Putin “wagered that if the American president wouldn’t stand up to a depraved gang of seventh-century savages in Afghanistan, there was no way he would stand up to Russia.”
“After all, Joe Biden had signaled weakness, conciliation and appeasement to Putin from the very beginning,” he will add.
During the interview with the Journal, Cotton criticized Putin when asked if he agreed with Trump’s judgment of the Russian president as “smart.”
“He’s a ruthless dictator and he always has been, and he is responsible for this naked, unprovoked war of aggression,” Cotton told the newspaper.
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Miranda Lambert is heading to Sin City. The reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year just announced her very first Las Vegas Residency, Velvet Rodeo, which will take place at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino’s Zappos Theater. I truly don’t think there’s anything she can’t do at this point, from owning her own clothing line to being the only female artist with a bar on Broadway in Nashville, this Vegas residency is another massive milestone for Miranda in her career. The […]
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Rate of school dropouts tripled in SA due to Covid-19 – Unicef report | News24
A Unicef report has painted a grim image of SA’s training.
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- Out-of-school youngsters in South Africa tripled from 250 000 to 750 000 in a yr due to Covid-19.
- Countries in sub-Sahara Africa are probably the most affected by dropouts.
- Twenty nations are but to totally open colleges and round 405 million schoolchildren are affected.
The variety of out-of-school youngsters in South Africa tripled from 250 000 to 750 000 between March 2020 and July 2021, a brand new Unicef report says.
The report added in Malawi, the dropout charge amongst women in secondary training elevated by 48%.
In Kenya, of a pooled pattern of 4 000 adolescents aged 10 to 19 years, 16% of women and eight% of boys didn’t return when colleges reopened after Covid-19 lockdowns.
In Liberia, 43% of pupils didn’t return to high school, whereas in Uganda, 10% in each main and secondary faculty dropped out.
As such, the report mentioned, academic good points have been reversed in most sub-Saharan nations attributable to lockdowns, and, “the current pace of learning is so slow that it would take an average of seven years for most schoolchildren to learn foundational reading skills that should have been grasped in two years, and 11 years to learn foundational numeracy skills”.
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Commenting on the report’s findings, Catherine Russell, Unicef’s government director, mentioned unequal entry to training was a possible battle driver as a result of out-of-school youngsters had been a number of the most susceptible and marginalised in society.
“This rising inequality in access to learning means that education risks becoming the greatest divider, not the greatest equaliser. When the world fails to educate its children, we all suffer,” she added.
Russell mentioned: “The pandemic’s impact on education has also widened disparities and deepened inequity. Children from the poorest households, those involved in child labour, children with disabilities, and other marginalised groups are falling even further behind their peers in their learning.”
The report additionally famous youthful pupils in grades 1 to three had been probably the most affected and the ripple impact could be felt later of their studying lives.
“… younger children are at risk for more substantial and sustained learning loss than older children. A child currently enrolled in Grade 1 could suffer a 27 percentage point reduction in reading mastery by Grade 9,” it learn.
The report recommends that governments ought to account for each kid’s academic wants by ensuring they had been again at school.
According to Unicef 23 nations had been but to totally reopen colleges and round 405 million schoolchildren had been affected.
– The News24 Africa Desk is supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation. The tales produced via the Africa Desk and the opinions and statements that could be contained herein don’t mirror these of the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
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How to watch LSU vs. Auburn baseball on TV, live stream plus game times for SEC matchup
Conference matchups continue as LSU baseball faces Auburn in a weekend series that starts on Thursday.
LSU (18-7, 3-3 SEC) is riding a three-game winning streak into the matchup including Tuesday's 15-4 win against Louisiana-Monroe and two games against the Florida Gators last weekend.
Auburn (17-8, 3-3 SEC) most recently lost to Jacksonville State 5-2 on Tuesday.
How to watch LSU baseball vs. Auburn on TV, live stream plus game times
Location: Alex Box Stadium, Baton Rouge, La.
Online sports: LSU Sports Radio
Game 1
Game time: 6 p.m. CT on Thursday, March 31
TV channel: SEC Network
On DirecTV, SEC Network is channel 611. On Dish, SEC Network is channel 404 or 408, depending on the receiver.
Live stream: ESPN.com/watch
Game 2
Game time: 6:30 p.m. CT, Friday, April 1
Live stream: ESPN.com/watch via SEC Network+
Game 3
Game time: 1 p.m. CT, Saturday, April 2
Live stream: ESPN.com/watch via SEC Network+
Read more LSU baseball news:
- WIN STREAK:How LSU baseball turned four losses in five games into a three-game winning streak
- REVERSING COURSE:How LSU baseball reversed course by winning two out of three at Florida
- FLAWS:How LSU baseball's 12th-inning loss to Louisiana Tech further exposed Tigers' flaws
- SEC LOSSES:What to know about LSU baseball after losing two of three in first SEC series
- COLLEGE CLASSIC HIGHLIGHTS:No. 7 LSU vs. No. 1 Texas Longhorns baseball video highlights, score in College Classic
Jay Johnson is the head coach for LSU baseball. Butch Thompson is the head coach for Auburn baseball.
Trisha Easto is a digital producer for the USA Today Network. You can find her on Twitter @trishaanicole
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Beauty influencer AJ Crimson has died at the age of 27.
His cause of death has not yet been confirmed.
The star, who had a following of more than 110,000 on Instagram and his own brand of makeup, had last posted on social media six days ago.
Crimson’s family confirmed his death in a statement obtained by People, stating: ‘AJ Crimson was a makeup industry leader that set a standard of beauty that was elevated, beautiful, and accessible to people of all colour. We as a family are heartbroken and devastated by his passing, but thankful for the lessons that he laid on each of us with his truth, directness, and leadership.
‘We thank you all for your kind words, tweets, and posts, as AJ was an inspiration to us as much as he was a bright light to the rest of the world. There are no words that can sum up his whole. Until we meet again.’
A spokesperson for the CEO of AJ Crimson Beauty also said: ‘Our entire team mourns this tragic loss, and our thoughts and prayers are with AJ’s family. Our deepest sympathies go out to them. We absolutely loved AJ, truly one of the sweetest, most humble people we have ever had the pleasure of working with. We are all devastated.’
Tributes from friends and fans have filled the comments, with Black Panther star Letitia Wright sharing three broken-heart emojis.
X Factor star Alexandra Burke added: ‘Heartbroken 💔,’ while US convention The Makeup Show posted: ‘A bright light has gone out. We just spoke today about his keynote for @themakeupshow NYC. AJ Crimson you made this makeup family, industry and world a better place with your talent and authenticity. It will never be the same.’
Crimson’s website describes him as a ‘beauty industry rock star, entrepreneur, a self-taught celebrity makeup artist, and beauty & lifestyle expert.’
During his career, the star, who hails from Detroit, Michigan, has worked with the likes of Fergie, Hilary Duff, Missy Elliott, and Angela Bassett.
He added on the site: ‘I’ve also had the honor of developing unmatched beauty techniques under the tutelage of makeup magnates Joanne Gair and Mathu Andersen and working side-by-side with top names in the beauty industry, including Pat McGrath for Paris Fashion Week.’
Crimson went on to say: ‘I’ve devoted my life to providing women with the tools and products they need to reclaim their confidence and fall in love with themselves again – all by rediscovering their true beauty.’
The influencer most often used his Instagram to promote his makeup and share tips, but a few weeks ago he shared a selfie, simply writing in the caption: ‘Feeling Excellent! Hope you are too!’
He went on to quote Oprah Winfrey, adding: ‘Be Excellent, people notice. Let Excellence be your brand.’
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ Ellomay Capital Ltd. (ELLO) on Thursday reported a loss of $15.7 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based company said it had a loss of 75 cents.
The renewable energy provider posted revenue of $13.6 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $22.9 million, or $1.39 per share. Revenue was reported as $50.7 million.
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On the morning of International Transgender Day of Visibility — an occasion to celebrate trans people and acknowledge the discrimination many face — staff of the local outreach organization Baltimore Safe Haven arrived at work to discover a hateful, threatening message scrawled across their office door with purple spray paint.
“[Expletive] pride DIE,” was written in large, messy letters.
Baltimore police are investigating the vandalism as a potential hate crime, officials said. Officers responded to the North Charles Street building Thursday morning after organization staff called law enforcement.
Founded in 2018, Baltimore Safe Haven provides support services, including transitional housing and food distribution, for members of the trans community, particularly Black trans women.
The group recently announced plans for a 2022 trans-focused Pride celebration this spring. Organization leaders believe the vandalism was a reaction to that announcement.
“We’re devastated, afraid and traumatized,” said Safe Haven founder and executive director Iya Dammons. “But we are not going to cancel Pride. We’re going to stay vigilant and fight like hell. This is one of those moments.”
As a trans woman whose lived experience includes hardships like poverty and discrimination that are all too common within this vulnerable population, Dammons said, she has a clear message for anyone who doubts her resolve: “Every breath that a trans person takes is an act of revolution, both here in Baltimore and across the country. We’re here, and we’re not going anywhere.”
Nicole Wells, a caseworker for Baltimore Safe Haven, found the graffiti when she arrived at the office Thursday morning.
“I just started shaking. It was shocking,” she said. Wells alerted the rest of the team, and they briefly considered staying home Thursday for safety reasons. But ultimately, they decided to show up.
When reached by phone at their office that afternoon, organization leaders spoke out about the crime.
“Our community deals with violence on a regular basis, but our movement is much greater than the hate,” said Jamie Grace, policy coordinator for FreeState Justice, a statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization.
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She described the challenge of distinguishing between empty threats and real danger — a question that members of the trans community face regularly.
In a statement posted on Facebook Thursday, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby called the vandalism “doubly heartbreaking” because it was committed on International Transgender Day of Visibility.
“I am disgusted to learn about the transphobic and homophobic graffiti that was painted on the property of Baltimore Safe Haven,” she said. “Hate has no home in our city, and we will work with our partners to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.”
Hours before the Baltimore trans community awoke to news of the vandalism, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation Wednesday evening officially recognizing the March 31 holiday and pledging more protections for transgender Americans. He also pointed to violence, harassment and persistent discrimination facing the community.
“Transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know, and our Nation and the world are stronger, more vibrant, and more prosperous because of them,” the proclamation reads. “To transgender Americans of all ages, I want you to know that you are so brave. You belong. I have your back.”
Leaders of Baltimore Safe Haven said they plan to remove the graffiti and proceed with their plans for the upcoming Pride celebration. The organization refers to the TLGBQ community, a symbolic rearranging of letters to emphasize their focus on the experience of trans people.
Their Trans Pride event, which includes a grand march and block party, will take place June 4 at Charles and North 23rd streets.
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Skippy Foods, LLC has recalled more than 9,000 cases of peanut butter "due to the possibility that a limited number of jars may contain a small fragment of stainless steel from a piece of manufacturing equipment," the company said in an announcement Thursday.
The specific Skippy brands included Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread, Skippy Reduced Fat Chunky Peanut Butter Spread and Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter Blended With Plant Protein all with "best if used by dates" of early May 2023. Those dates are located at the top of the lid.
The company said there have been no consumer complaints related to this issue and the recall is voluntary.
All retailers that received these particular products have been notified, the company said.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A driver who engaged Buffalo police in a lengthy gunfight, striking and injuring three officers during a haphazard chase that spanned the city, pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder.
Kente Bell, 28, was arraigned from his hospital room, where he is recovering from several gunshot wounds sustained during Tuesday's chase and a final hail of gunfire as it ended in front of a police station at a Buffalo intersection.
Bell was shot in his neck, arm, leg and hand and underwent surgery at Erie County Medical Center, where he appeared before a judge after regaining consciousness, said Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, who offered dramatic new details of the events.
“You have a high-speed chase... you've got a guy firing out the driver's side window. You've got blockades, you've got speed on highways, a girl jumping out of the car,” he said at a news conference.
Bell is accused of fleeing two police officers who approached his parked vehicle after noticing its tinted windows around 6 p.m. Tuesday, Flynn said. He cooperated at first but did not get out of the car because he was partially paralyzed in a 2012 shooting and uses medical equipment to walk, the prosecutor said.
When it appeared there was an issue with his registration, Bell drove off. Armed with an illegal handgun with an extended magazine of ammunition, he fired on police as they pursued him through city neighborhoods and on highways for more than 20 minutes, Flynn said.
Early in the chase, before shots were fired, the passenger exited the moving vehicle.
“He was making a turn and had slowed down at some point. She opened the front passenger door and jumped out of the car while it was moving and ended up rolling on the ground and hit up against a pole of some kind,” he said, “like right out of a movie.”
“She was obviously freaking out probably, to say the least, and wanted to have nothing to do with this," Flynn said.
In the minutes that followed, Bell drove through a police barricade, entered and exited highways and drove wildly through several Buffalo neighborhoods, briefly entering the suburb of Cheektowaga, before turning back toward Buffalo with police officers radioing his route to each other and warning of the danger.
“They’re still shooting. Multiple officers hit!” an officer is heard shouting in a transmission captured by Broadcastify.com.
Three police officers were struck in separate vehicles. All are recovering.
By the time it was over, nine police vehicles were damaged by gunfire, Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.
Investigators have yet to determine how many shots were fired by Bell, or how many officers fired their weapons, Flynn said.
Bell is due to appear before a county judge at the hospital Friday for an alleged probation violation related to a 2020 illegal firearms charge in the town of Amherst. While on probation, he was prohibited from carrying a weapon.
The attorney who represented Bell at Thursday's arraignment did not return a call seeking comment on his behalf.
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Dike Ruan Celebrates Shang-Chi, Ms. Marvel, and More in New AAPI Heritage Covers
See all six AAPI Heritage Variant Covers, on sale this May.
This May, Marvel Comics is proud to honor Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with variant covers highlighting some of its most prominent Asian and AAPI characters!
The AAPI Heritage Variant Covers will be drawn by acclaimed artist Dike Ruan, known for his incredible work on SHANG-CHI, and colored by artist Neeraj Menon. Adorning the covers of Marvel’s hottest ongoing series, these stunning pieces are bursting with energy, showcasing Shang-Chi, Ms. Marvel, and more iconic heroes using their extraordinary gifts in stunning circular portraits! Here are the six heroes getting the spotlight in this year’s celebration:
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Check them out below and collect all six AAPI Heritage Variant Covers throughout May!
You can grab these comics and more digitally or at your favorite local comic book shop. Be sure to ask your local shop about their current business policies to observe social distancing or other services they may offer, including holding or creating pull lists, curbside pick-ups, special deliveries, and other options to accommodate. Find and support your local comic book shop at ComicShopLocator.com or by visiting Marvel.com/LoveComicShops.
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https://www.marvel.com/amp/articles/comics/aapi-heritage-covers-dike-ruan-shang-chi-ms-marvel-more
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Sabrent's huge 8TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe SSD now for sale, costs $1499
Sabrent's new 8TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe Gen4 SSD is now on Amazon, 8TB with 7.1GB/sec reads and 6.6GB/sec writes will cost you $1499.
Sabrent has officially unleashed its super-fast, and super-huge 8TB variant of its Rocket 4 Plus NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD.
The new Sabrent 8TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe M.2 SSD has its absolutely gigantic 8TB of capacity, joined by a super-fast 7.1GB/sec (7100MB/sec) reads and equally large 6.6GB/sec (6600MB/sec) writes. You'll need a Gen4-capable motherboard of course, but you already knew that.
You can use the Sabrent 8TB Rocket 4 Plus SSD on your Gen3-based motherboard, but you'll only hit max reads of 3.4GB/sec (3400MB/sec) and writes of 3GB/sec (3000MB/sec). It wouldn't be worth it at that point, but for those with Gen4-capable motherboards (X570, Z690, etc) then you've just got the green light from Sabrent for your next storage-related purchase.
Sabrent explains: "The Sabrent 8TB Rocket 4 PLUS NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD Extreme Performance Solid State Drive (SB-RKT4P-8TB) delivers all the advantages of flash disk technology with PCIe Gen4.0 x4 interface".
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- NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4 Interface.
- PCIe 4.0 Compliant / NVMe 1.3 Compliant.
- Power Management Support for APST / ASPM / L1.2.
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- Supports ONFi 2.3, ONFi 3.0, ONFi 3.2 and ONFi 4.0 interface.
- Advanced Wear Leveling, Bad Block Management, Error Correction Code, and Over-Provision.
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Review: BARBARIANS, Modestly Engaging Horror
Iwan Rheon and Catalina Sandino Moreno star in a thriller, directed by Charles Dorfman.
Not to be confused with Barbarians (the Netflix series), Barbarians at the Gate (Wall Street robber barons), or even Waiting for the Barbarians (the already forgotten adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee’s novel), the latest film with the word “Barbarians” in the title, simply called Barbarians, marks the feature-length debut of producer-turned-writer-director Charles Dorfman.
The latest addition in the apparently burgeoning “dinner party from hell” sub-genre, Barbarians takes broad, nuance-free satirical swipes at white privilege, capitalistic excess, and, of course, toxic masculinity and its discontents with just enough verve, style, and thorny plot turns to keep the average horror fan modestly engaged.
Broken up into chapters announced by black-and-white title cards, Barbarians initially focuses on Adam Davies (Iwan Rheon, Game of Thrones), a TV writer with visions of grandeur, a beta-male personality, and a marriage-ready relationship with Eve Velasquez (Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace), an ultra-successful, high-profile artist of fairly high repute.
With Adam unenthusiastically celebrating a thirty-something birthday, an intimate dinner party is in order with their close and personal friend, Lucas (Tom Cullen), a real-estate developer with a narcissistic streak and a penchant for belittling and ridiculing Adam at every opportunity (all in “good, well-intentioned fun”), and Lucas's longtime girlfriend, Chloe (Ines Spirodonov), an art school graduate and wannabe artist who all but worships Eve.
The second chapter briefly focuses on Lucas and Chloe as they venture out to a Stonehenge-like site for a video/photo op. Not surprisingly, the local pagans aren’t particularly happy with Lucas and Chloe trespassing on their rituals, but their presence there doesn’t last long before they jump in their car and head to Adam and Eve’s current abode, a model home in Lucas’s development project, a semi-gated community set aside for the wealthy and status hungry located outside of London.
As we learn early on, Lucas has a cloud hanging over his head due to a lawsuit instituted by his now ex-partner. Given Lucas’s smug, self-satisfied personality, selfishness, and a near delusional belief in his own awesomeness, it’s no surprise his aggressive, take-charge style leads to one conflict after another.
By the time the dinner party proper starts, the fault-lines between and among the four characters are fairly obvious, a credit to Dorfman’s skill as a writer-director, giving just enough backstory and detail to each character to give them dimension and depth, in turn making the rising tensions, inevitable conflicts, and revelations all the more persuasive and convincing.
And that’s all before Barbarians takes an unexpected turn into entirely different genre territory, though like any good storyteller Dorfman drops enough clues and hints, plus one or two classic misdirection plays typical of the mystery genre, to make any story developments both surprising and just as importantly, believable to the average audience member.
With essentially a four-person cast, Barbarians succeeds or fails primarily on and through the efforts of its actors. Playing against type, though far from the heroic type, Rheon adds shading and depth to a borderline unlikeable character.
Cullen’s egotistical character veers deep far into unlikeable territory early on and never ventures back. It’s a testament to Cullen’s skills as a performer that he doesn’t try to make Lucas any more likable or relatable. He’s a full-on a-hole from the first moment we meet him through the last time he rages on screen.
Moreno and Spirodonov have trickier, less showy roles than their counterparts. Eve and Chloe might be superficially passive, but they’re also keen observers of the destructive dynamic between mates, the dynamic between Adam and Lucas, and the toxic sludge that emanates from that dynamic.
Originally published during Fantastic Fest in October 2021. The film opens Friday, April 1, in select theaters, digital platforms and VOD, via IFC Midnight. Visit the official site for more information.
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https://screenanarchy.com/2022/03/review-barbarians-modestly-engaging-horror.html
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Liquity (LQTY) traded down 4% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 19:00 PM E.T. on March 31st. Liquity has a total market capitalization of $51.95 million and $1.44 million worth of Liquity was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Liquity coin can currently be purchased for about $2.85 or 0.00006257 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. During the last seven days, Liquity has traded up 7.7% against the U.S. dollar.
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- Polkadot (DOT) traded 5.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $21.31 or 0.00046768 BTC.
- Shiba Inu (SHIB) traded 5.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
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- Lido stETH (STETH) traded down 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $3,256.36 or 0.07147683 BTC.
- EarnX (EARNX) traded 396,248.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0008 or 0.00000002 BTC.
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When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock over an Oscars ceremony punchline, other comedians felt the sting.
“I know Chris and I know what it’s like to be on a stage in front of an audience that doesn’t like your material,” said stand-up comedian Judy Gold. “But to be physically assaulted, that’s a whole other thing. It felt like every comedian was smacked across the face. It really felt like that.”
Smith’s act comes during a stressful time for comedy. While boundaries for humor constantly shift — think George Carlin’s 1972 monologue on seven so-called “dirty words” banned by TV — comics say they have felt increased pushback from audiences and society. Comedy great Dave Chappelle drew sharpcriticism last year for what some deemed anti-transgender humor in his Netflix special “The Closer.” Kathy Griffin’s careerwas derailed in 2017 when she was photographed holding a mock-up of former President Donald Trump’s head.
Some comedians expressed concern that Smith’s behavior might embolden other displeased audience members.
“No one went up to Chris Rock and said, ‘Are you OK?’” Sheryl Underwood, co-host of “The Talk,” said on the show Tuesday. “I’m going to say this as a comic, I am afraid now to get on a stage, because in my third show, when everyone’s been drinking, if you don’t like my joke, do you now believe that you can get up and slap me? There’s got to be accountability quicker.”
Griffin tweeted that “now we all have to worry about who wants to be the next Will Smith in comedy clubs and theaters.”
“Which is the worst crime here?” veteran comedian Gilbert Gottfried said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Chris Rock being physically assaulted? Or Chris Rock making a joke? That’s it, pure and simple. He made a joke.”
Dean Obeidallah, a lawyer and stand-up comic who hosts a show on the SiriusXM Progress channel, said there is never “a place for a violent response to a joke” but doubted there would be copycat behavior. In his time in comedy clubs, he’s seen yelling, screaming and, once, a glass thrown at somebody. But he’s never seen a punch thrown, nor a comedian slapped.
“If someone were to strike a comedian, they’re going to be prosecuted criminally. They don’t have the privilege that Will Smith has,” Obeidallah said.
The Los Angeles Police Department said Sunday that it was aware of the incident, but Rock had declined to file a police report. Smith stayed through the rest of the ceremony Sunday and received the best-actor Oscar.
Gold said she’s been confronted but never struck, and she knows other female comedians have faced difficult circumstances. “People have been getting on stage, people have thrown things,” she said.
Comedian-actor Yamaneika Saunders calls Smith’s behavior upsetting and Sunday a sad day for ”two beloved Black men in entertainment.” She also views what happened through the lens of a “Black woman in comedy.”
“I’m constantly being threatened….by some man who doesn’t like some (expletive) I said about being a woman, some white guy who doesn’t like some (expletive) I said about being Black,” she said.
Insult humor isn’t new to high-profile ceremonies, which call on comics to liven up what can be tedious events. Ricky Gervais made a meal of celebrities at successive Golden Globe ceremonies, and they grin — or grimace — and bear it. The most famous bad sport: Trump at the 2011 White House correspondents’ dinner, where he sat stone-faced during then-President Barack Obama’s extended ribbing of him.
Rock wasn’t the first to tweak Smith or wife Jada Pinkett Smith at Sunday’s Oscars. Ceremony co-host Regina Hall made what appeared to be a veiled joke about their marriage in trying, unsuccessfully, to draw Smith into a comedy bit.
Rock’s wisecrack was targeted at Pinkett Smith. “Jada, I love you. ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it,” the comedian said to Pinkett Smith, whose close-shaven head looked similar to Demi Moore’s in the 1997 movie. Whether Rock was aware that she has a hair-loss condition, alopecia, is unknown, but Smith reacted with the smack and an angry warning to “keep my wife’s name out your (expletive) mouth!”
A tearful Smith later accepted the top acting award for “King Richard,” his somewhat remorseful speech eliciting a standing ovation from the Dolby Theatre crowd. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has since condemned Smith’s attack and said it’s reviewing the matter.
Whatever the result, his actions indelibly marred the ceremony and ignited discussions about violence, toxic masculinity and the advantages of fame. Smith, who’d conspicuously left Rock out of his remarks Sunday, apologized to the comic and decried “violence in all of its forms” in a statement the next day issued by his publicist and posted on Instagram.
Pinkett Smith’s first public comment came in an Instagram post in which she said, “This is a season for healing and I’m here for it.”Rock referred briefly to the slap at a comedy show Wednesday in Boston, saying he was “still kind of processing what happened.” He appeared to become emotional as the audience gave him several standing ovations.
Whatever pushback comedians may encounter on stage, verbal or physical, they have to guard against censoring themselves to avoid it — and they will, said Obeidallah: “They shouldn’t change, and there’s nothing about this that tells me that they will change.”
They can’t because their role goes beyond providing laughs, as comedians see it.
“We are the truth tellers. We speak truth to power,” said Gold, author of the 2020 book, “Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble.”
Gottfried cites a favorite Carlin quote — “It’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately” — and can’t resist serving up a punchline.
“If Will Smith is reading this, dear God, please don’t come to my shows,” he said.
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AP Television Writer Lynn Elber reported from Los Angeles, AP Media Writer David Bauder from New York.
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https://www.kget.com/entertainment-news/will-smiths-oscars-slap-felt-by-comedians-beyond-chris-rock/
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Mortgages rates keep climbing, and that poses a major challenge for families looking to score a deal during the busy spring home-buying season.
The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.67% for the week ending March 31, according to data released by Freddie Mac
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on Thursday. That represents a one-fourth percentage point increase from the previous week.
This marks the highest level for mortgage rates since the end of 2018. Comparatively, at this time a year ago, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged just 3.18%.
The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage rose 20 basis points from the previous week to an average of 3.83%, and the 5-year Treasury-indexed adjustable-rate mortgage climbed 14 basis points to an average of 3.5%. One basis point is equal to one hundredth of a percentage point, or 1% of 1%.
“We’re at rates that we thought we might see at the end of the year, and here we are, at end of March, already seeing that that kind of a jump,” said Michael Fratantoni, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association.
To a large extent, the surge in mortgage rates over the last few weeks has mirrored movements in long-term bonds, including the 10-year Treasury
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Those increases have come amid expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue to hike short-term interest rates throughout the rest of this year as it attempts to curb high levels of inflation.
The speed at which mortgage rates have increased though, Fratantoni said, could be indicative of the market’s volatility. And home buyers shouldn’t necessarily assume that rates will only be moving upward from here on out.
“Given the speed of the increase we’re still not quite settled on whether this is volatility and you will see rates moving in both directions, or whether this is just a level shift and we will stay here at the higher level,” he said.
“‘There’s a lot of capacity in the mortgage industry.’”
In the coming weeks, the Fed will release the minutes of the March meeting of the committee that sets its interest-rate policy, and those notes will provide more clarity of the central bank’s intentions.
The good news for the housing market is that so far, home-buyer demand has held up in the face of skyrocketing mortgage rates, Frantantoni said. Data on mortgage applications from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows that the number of applications for loans used to purchase homes has only slightly declined, as compared with a major downturn in the number of refinancing applications.
That’s a major shift for the mortgage industry. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, lenders were able to rely on a steady stream of refinances to keep their business afloat.
“Refinancing is now at a three-year low,” said Tendayi Kapfidze, chief economist at U.S. Bank
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“What that means is that there’s a lot of capacity in the mortgage industry.”
Many lenders are going to be looking to make up for the lost refinancing business. That provides them with “some impetus” not to raise rates as quickly as they might otherwise choose to, Kapfidze said.
It also underscores the importance for comparison shopping. “If you’re a borrower, you want to be very diligent in terms of comparing rates to see where you might find that advantage from a lender who maybe is trying to reduce the speed at which their business is shrinking,” Kapfidze said.
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https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/mortgage-rates-zoom-past-4-5-heres-what-home-buyers-need-to-know/130442/
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It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some industrial cities reached their peak populations before Americans started moving to the suburbs.
Starting Friday, genealogists and historians can get a microscopic look at those sweeping historical trends when individual records on 151 million people from the 1950 census are released.
Researchers view the records as a gold mine, and amateur genealogists see it as a way to fill gaps in family trees, a field of research that has seen dramatic growth in recent years through the popularity of home DNA testing kits.
“This is genealogy heaven when a census is rolled out,” said Matt Menashes, executive director of the National Genealogical Society. “People are waiting anxiously. It’s hard to overstate.”
For privacy reasons, records identifying people by name can’t be made public until 72 years after they are gathered during the once-a-decade U.S. head count. The 1940 records were released a decade ago.
For Wendy Kalman, an amateur genealogist in Atlanta, the 1950 records will help her solidify details about her parents and grandparents and their relatives. She has traced her father’s side of the family back to 18th century Ukraine, and her research has put her in touch with previously unknown third and fourth cousins in the U.S. whom she talks to regularly.
“It’s an interesting journey to find out where you are from and the census records help you find information that isn’t always available,” said Kalman, 55. “Family stories aren’t always passed down and the census records give you a snapshot in time. It helps put together a picture.”
Ronnie Willis’ relatives from both sides of his grandparents’ families were itinerant farmers who traveled through Texas and Oklahoma as a blended group throughout the 1930s and 1940s. But they broke into nuclear family units after World War II. Willis hopes the 1950 census records help him piece together what happened to those relatives who settled in other states.
“That will help get me 10 years closer to putting the puzzle together, a little bit,” said Willis, 53, a software company executive who lives in Greenville, South Carolina.
The records released by the National Archives and Records Administration will be indexed into a searchable website. The digitized, handwritten forms have information about household members’ names, race, sex, age, address, occupations, hours worked in the previous week, salaries, education levels, marital status and the country in which their parents were born. The website will include a tool allowing users to fix any incorrect names or add missing names.
Claire Kluskens, a digital projects archivist at the National Archives, acknowledged that what will be on the website starting Friday is “a first draft,” in which specific people are most likely to be found initially only by searching for whoever was listed as the head of their household.
Two outside genealogical groups, Ancestry and FamilySearch, a division of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have teamed up to serve as a quality check on the records by creating their own index separate from the National Archives.
At Ancestry, scores of workers will be ready at 12:01 a.m. EDT Friday to start downloading the more than 6.5 million digital images of the census files. The Utah-based company will scan the millions of surveys, using artificial intelligence to decipher sloppy handwriting and converting the information into readable database form.
“We are so excited to dive into the census,” said Crista Cowan, corporate genealogist at Ancestry.
Anywhere from 400,000 to 800,000 volunteers across the U.S., under the coordination of FamilySearch, will then double-check the entries with the actual digital images. If the digital record of the 1950 census form says “Wilhelmina” but has been entered as “William” in the index, that will be corrected, said David Rencher, director of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and FamilySearch’s chief genealogy officer.
The effort could take six to nine months, he said.
“We believe we will get better accuracy because we are having humans look at it,” Rencher said.
The new data will flesh out the contours of a dramatically different world.
In 1950, the U.S. had less than half of the 332 million residents it has today. Households were larger, with an average of 3.5 people, compared with 2.6 people per household in 2019. Just 9% of households had someone living alone in 1950, compared with 28% in 2019. Adults were also more likely to be married, with more than two-thirds of adult men and women being married in 1950 compared with less than half of men and women in 2019, said Marc Perry, a senior demographer at the Census Bureau.
Elaine Powell is excited because this is the first release in which she will see herself in the census records. The president of the Central Florida Genealogical Society was born in 1946 and grew up in the St. Louis area.
“It’s just exciting. I remember the first time I found my parents in the census, you could hear me whooping and hollering in the library,” Powell said. “It verifies what you have been told by your parents and grandparents.”
It can also correct the record left by family lore. After all, as Powell noted, “genealogy, without documentation, is mythology.”
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https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/gold-mine-1950-census-records-to-be-released-could-fill-gaps-in-family-trees/
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OAKLAND, Calif. and TORONTO, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Harborside Inc. ("Harborside", or the "Company") (CSE: HBOR) (OTCQX: HBORF), a California-focused, vertically-integrated cannabis enterprise, is pleased to announce that it has completed the mandatory conversion of all of its issued and outstanding multiple voting shares (the "MVS") to subordinate voting shares (the "SVS") (the "Mandatory Conversion"). The Mandatory Conversion will result in each holder of MVS being entitled to 100 SVS for each MVS it holds. In addition, all warrants previously exercisable into MVS are now exercisable into SVS. The Mandatory Conversion was approved at the Special Meeting of Shareholders held February 22, 2022.
"The completion of the Mandatory Conversion represents an important milestone for the Company, as we prepare to relaunch as StateHouse Holdings," said Ed Schmults, CEO of Harborside. "Our shareholders strongly indicated their views that the Company should have only one class of shares outstanding and we are pleased to have accomplished this objective, which is also expected to increase trading liquidity and make our shares increasingly attractive to the investment community."
As a result of the Mandatory Conversion, the Company will no longer meet the definition of "foreign private issuer" under U.S. securities laws and will be required to register under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Accordingly, the Company will eventually be subject to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's ("SEC") reporting requirements applicable to U.S. domestic companies. The SEC's reporting requirements require, among other things, Harborside's financial statements and financial data to be presented under U.S. GAAP.
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Harborside Inc., a vertically integrated enterprise with cannabis licenses covering retail, major brands, distribution, cultivation, nursery and manufacturing, is one of the oldest and most respected cannabis companies in California. Founded in 2006, Harborside was awarded one of the first six medical cannabis licenses granted in the United States. Today, the company operates eleven major dispensaries covering Northern and Southern California and one in Oregon, as well as a manufacturing facility in Oakland, California, distribution facilities in San Jose and Los Angeles, California and an integrated cultivation/production facility in Salinas, California. Harborside is a publicly listed company, trading on the CSE under the ticker symbol "HBOR" and the OTCQX under the ticker symbol "HBORF". The Company continues to play an instrumental role in making cannabis safe and accessible to a broad and diverse community of California and Oregon consumers. Additional information regarding Harborside is available under Harborside's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
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This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates, and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements relating to increased trading liquidity due to the Mandatory Conversion, and the impact of the Mandatory Conversion on the Company's reporting requirements under U.S. securities laws.
These forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to materially differ from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors, among other things, include: whether the Company will receive additional voting support agreements for matters to be considered by shareholders at the Meeting; implications of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's operations; fluctuations in general macroeconomic conditions; fluctuations in securities markets; expectations regarding the size of the cannabis markets where the Company operates; changing consumer habits; the ability of the Company to successfully achieve its business objectives; plans for expansion and acquisitions; political and social uncertainties; inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; employee relations; the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on cultivation, production, distribution, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-related products in the markets where the Company operates; and the risk factors set out in the Company's management discussion and analysis for the period ended September 30, 2021 and the Company's listing statement dated May 30, 2019, which are available under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based upon what management of the Company believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure shareholders that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
The Company, through several of its subsidiaries, is indirectly involved in the manufacture, possession, use, sale, and distribution of cannabis in the recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace in the United States. Local state laws where the Company operates permit such activities however, investors should note that there are significant legal restrictions and regulations that govern the cannabis industry in the United States. Cannabis remains a Schedule I drug under the US Controlled Substances Act, making it illegal under federal law in the United States to, among other things, cultivate, distribute or possess cannabis in the United States. Financial transactions involving proceeds generated by, or intended to promote, cannabis-related business activities in the United States may form the basis for prosecution under applicable United States federal money laundering legislation.
While the approach to enforcement of such laws by the federal government in the United States has trended toward non-enforcement against individuals and businesses that comply with recreational and medicinal cannabis programs in states where such programs are legal, strict compliance with state laws with respect to cannabis will neither absolve the Company of liability under United States federal law, nor will it provide a defense to any federal proceeding which may be brought against the Company. The enforcement of federal laws in the United States is a significant risk to the business of the Company and any proceedings brought against the Company thereunder may adversely affect the Company's operations and financial performance.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities in the United States. The Company's securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
The CSE has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release. Neither the CSE nor its Market Regulator (as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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- CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday predicted that Wall Street will price in a bottom soon and the market will be set for a "tremendous rally."
- "We price in this negativity far more quickly than you'd think. Maybe it takes a month, maybe only a few weeks. But it will happen, and once it does, we'll be poised for one incredible, tremendous rally," the "Mad Money" host said.
CNBC's Jim Cramer on Thursday predicted that Wall Street will price in a bottom soon and the market will be set for a "tremendous rally."
"Suddenly, the conventional wisdom says there's too much of everything, so prices are going to come down. Stock prices are anticipating that. And that's why the only sectors that sustained rallies in the first quarter were the oils, because they've cut back, and the utilities, which really act well only when there's going to be a heavy recession," the "Mad Money" host said.
"We price in this negativity far more quickly than you'd think. Maybe it takes a month, maybe only a few weeks. But it will happen and once it does, we'll be poised for one incredible, tremendous rally," he later added.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.56% on Thursday, the last trading day of March. The S&P 500 declined 1.57%, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 1.54%. The Dow finished the quarter down 4.6%, the S&P 500 lost 4.9%, and the Nasdaq dropped 9%.
"While we still have an inflation problem, today's action is predicting a crash in sales for pretty much everything. … I say, for now, just let it keep coming down. Accept that there will be plenty of stories about, say, how AMD will have too many chips, or GM too many cars, Lennar too many homes, Home Depot too much inventory," Cramer said, listing some of the companies whose stocks slid during Thursday's session.
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"The [Federal Reserve] will definitely raise interest rates, maybe many times, declines will accelerate and inflation will definitely be tamed. Most importantly, the market will have anticipated all of this and will bottom well ahead of everything I've just described," he added.
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Delta Air Lines (DAL) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
Delta Air Lines (DAL) closed at $39.57 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.61% move from the prior day. The stock outpaced the S&P 500's daily loss of 1.57%. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the airline had gained 3.39% over the past month, lagging the Transportation sector's gain of 6.72% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from Delta Air Lines as it approaches its next earnings report date. On that day, Delta Air Lines is projected to report earnings of -$1.34 per share, which would represent year-over-year growth of 62.25%. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $8.78 billion, up 111.51% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $1.54 per share and revenue of $43.29 billion. These totals would mark changes of +137.75% and +44.78%, respectively, from last year.
It is also important to note the recent changes to analyst estimates for Delta Air Lines. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. With this in mind, we can consider positive estimate revisions a sign of optimism about the company's business outlook.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 20.45% lower within the past month. Delta Air Lines is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Valuation is also important, so investors should note that Delta Air Lines has a Forward P/E ratio of 25.59 right now. Its industry sports an average Forward P/E of 23.1, so we one might conclude that Delta Air Lines is trading at a premium comparatively.
The Transportation - Airline industry is part of the Transportation sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 197, putting it in the bottom 23% of all 250+ industries.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A driver who engaged Buffalo police in a lengthy gunfight, striking and injuring three officers during a haphazard chase that spanned the city, pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder.
Kente Bell, 28, was arraigned from his hospital room, where he is recovering from several gunshot wounds sustained during Tuesday's chase and a final hail of gunfire as it ended in front of a police station at a Buffalo intersection.
Bell was shot in his neck, arm, leg and hand and underwent surgery at Erie County Medical Center, where he appeared before a judge after regaining consciousness, said Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, who offered dramatic new details of the events.
“You have a high-speed chase... you've got a guy firing out the driver's side window. You've got blockades, you've got speed on highways, a girl jumping out of the car,” he said at a news conference.
Bell is accused of fleeing two police officers who approached his parked vehicle after noticing its tinted windows around 6 p.m. Tuesday, Flynn said. He cooperated at first but did not get out of the car because he was partially paralyzed in a 2012 shooting and uses medical equipment to walk, the prosecutor said.
When it appeared there was an issue with his registration, Bell drove off. Armed with an illegal handgun with an extended magazine of ammunition, he fired on police as they pursued him through city neighborhoods and on highways for more than 20 minutes, Flynn said.
Early in the chase, before shots were fired, the passenger exited the moving vehicle.
“He was making a turn and had slowed down at some point. She opened the front passenger door and jumped out of the car while it was moving and ended up rolling on the ground and hit up against a pole of some kind,” he said, “like right out of a movie.”
“She was obviously freaking out probably, to say the least, and wanted to have nothing to do with this," Flynn said.
In the minutes that followed, Bell drove through a police barricade, entered and exited highways and drove wildly through several Buffalo neighborhoods, briefly entering the suburb of Cheektowaga, before turning back toward Buffalo with police officers radioing his route to each other and warning of the danger.
“They’re still shooting. Multiple officers hit!” an officer is heard shouting in a transmission captured by Broadcastify.com.
Three police officers were struck in separate vehicles. All are recovering.
By the time it was over, nine police vehicles were damaged by gunfire, Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.
Investigators have yet to determine how many shots were fired by Bell, or how many officers fired their weapons, Flynn said.
Bell is due to appear before a county judge at the hospital Friday for an alleged probation violation related to a 2020 illegal firearms charge in the town of Amherst. While on probation, he was prohibited from carrying a weapon.
The attorney who represented Bell at Thursday's arraignment did not return a call seeking comment on his behalf.
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Facepalm: It looked like ray tracing was finally coming to Minecraft, until Mojang Studios pulled the rug out from under Insiders. Developers had evidently left "prototype" RT code in the latest preview build of the game on accident. "False start. Microsoft. Five-year penalty. Second down."
Earlier this week, Xbox Insiders reported they were testing an "optimized" Minecraft build with ray tracing options. The inclusion indicated that Mojang would have RT support ready in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.
On Thursday, developers announced that ray tracing in the Xbox Series X|S version of Minecraft is not imminent. What insiders saw this week was an early prototype that was accidentally left in the preview build. They have since removed the code from the preview without indicating when we would see it again.
The previous Minecraft Preview build available to Xbox Insiders inadvertently included prototype code for raytracing support on Xbox consoles. This early prototype code has been removed from Preview and doesn't signal near future plans to bring raytracing support to consoles.
— Minecraft (@Minecraft) March 31, 2022
Microsoft promised that Minecraft ray tracing was coming to the PC version in 2019, and it delivered. Around the same time, it hinted that Xbox Series consoles were capable of RT in Minecraft and had screenshots to prove it. Today's tweet indicates that it's not coming any time soon.
"This early prototype code has been removed from Preview and doesn't signal near future plans to bring raytracing support to consoles," the developers tweeted from the official Minecraft account.
Tom Warren got to test the prototype before its removal, and it clearly needed work. For one, it required a workaround to get ray tracing enabled. Plus, without FSR support for upscaling, it was not that impressive.
Sorry for the false alarm. This one needs more time to simmer.
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Whitbread plc (OTCMKTS:WTBDY – Get Rating) has been given a consensus rating of “Buy” by the seven analysts that are covering the firm, Marketbeat reports. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and four have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 1 year price target among brokerages that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $4,000.00.
A number of brokerages have recently commented on WTBDY. Sanford C. Bernstein raised Whitbread from an “underperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a report on Thursday, March 17th. Berenberg Bank raised their target price on Whitbread from GBX 3,600 ($47.16) to GBX 4,000 ($52.40) and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, January 19th.
Shares of OTCMKTS WTBDY traded down $0.13 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $9.72. 37,216 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 26,635. The company’s fifty day moving average is $9.86 and its two-hundred day moving average is $10.40. Whitbread has a fifty-two week low of $8.00 and a fifty-two week high of $12.69.
Whitbread Plc engages in the operation of a chain of hotels, restaurants, and coffee shops. It operates through the following segments: UK & Ireland, Germany, and Central & Other. Its brands include Premier Inn, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table, Bar + Block Steakhouse, Cookhouse & Pub, and Thyme.
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5 fetuses found in D.C. home after indictment in clinic blockade
Five fetuses were removed on Wednesday from a Washington, D.C. home reportedly tied to a woman indicted for obstructing access to an abortion clinic with eight others.
Driving the news: Police raided the home on a quiet block of Capitol Hill row houses after a tip about bio-hazardous material in a basement. The fetuses were collected by the D.C. Medical Examiner on 6th Street SE, police say.
- Lauren Handy, the founder of an anti-abortion rights group who is among the nine indicted, was staying at the home where the fetuses were found, WUSA9 and the Washington Post reported.
- D.C. police are investigating the fetuses, while federal law enforcement are leading the separate case against the nine defendants.
Details: Federal prosecutors allege Handy and eight others worked together in 2020 to “injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate patients and employees” at a clinic in the District.
- On Oct. 22, 2020, the defendants — most of whom traveled from Massachusetts, New York, and other places — forced entry into the clinic, tripping a nurse and spraining her ankle, prosecutors say.
- They blocked doors using their bodies and with the help of furniture, chains and ropes, according to the indictment.
- Jonathan Darnel, 40, of Arlington, Virginia then live-streamed the blockade on Facebook, according to prosecutors.
- Handy and Darnel could not be reached for comment.
The FBI is investigating the case. Defendants each face up to 11 years of prison time and a fine of up to $350,000.
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After taking some time to re-evaluate his Rutgers pledge and examine other schools, Union City (N.J.) four-star offensive lineman JaSire Peterson is a Scarlet Knight ... again, the junior told NJ Advance Media on Thursday.
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Shares of TJX Cos.
TJX,
-2.29%
slid 2.29% to $60.58 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-1.57%
falling 1.57% to 4,530.41 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-1.56%
falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. TJX Cos. closed $16.77 short of its 52-week high ($77.35), which the company reached on January 4th.
Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Thursday, as Target Corp.
TGT,
-4.39%
fell 4.39% to $212.22, Ross Stores Inc.
ROST,
-2.32%
fell 2.32% to $90.46, and Gap Inc.
GPS,
-3.89%
fell 3.89% to $14.08.true Trading volume (10.3 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 7.6 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.
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Murder mystery adaptation set to make its world premier at the South West’s Weld Theatre
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Twelfth House Republican fined for not wearing mask
The House Ethics Committee on Monday disclosed that Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) has been fined $500 for not wearing a mask on the House floor, making him the 12th House Republican facing monetary sanction for defying the requirement before it was rescinded last week.
Lawmakers have 30 days to challenge the fines before the House Ethics Committee, but Weber did not file an appeal, according to the panel.
The Ethics Committee said that it received notice of the fine issued to Weber by the House sergeant-at-arms on Nov. 30.
The Capitol physician announced last week — two days before President Biden’s State of the Union address — that masks were no longer mandatory.
The change came days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated guidance that masks should be optional in localities with what it considers “low” or “medium” community level of COVID-19.
Eleven other House Republicans have been fined for not wearing a mask in the House chamber in the last year: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa), Bob Good (Va.), Mary Miller (Ill.), Chip Roy (Texas), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Brian Mast (Fla.), Beth Van Duyne (Texas) and Thomas Massie (Ky.).
Only three of those Republicans have been repeat offenders. Miller-Meeks has been fined twice, while Greene and Clyde have both been fined dozens of times.
The mask mandate in the House chamber and in surrounding office buildings first went into effect in July 2020, after several Republicans refused to wear masks. House Democrats established fines starting at $500 — and $2,500 for subsequent offenses — in January 2021 after they were angered by several Republicans who refused to wear masks while lawmakers were crowded in a secure space during the attack on the Capitol.
Greene said last month that she is “well over $100,000” in mask fines, while Clyde has been fined at least $68,000.
The Senate, meanwhile, has never had a mask mandate since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.
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LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey wins AP Coach of the Year
LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey was named the Associated Press Coach of the Year on Thursday.
In her first season at LSU, Mulkey led the Tigers to a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament after they posted a 9-13 record in 2020-21. It was LSU's first tournament appearance since 2018.
She becomes the third coach in college women's basketball history to win AP Coach of the Year at least three times, joining UConn coach Geno Auriemma and former Notre Dame coach Muffett McGraw.
"This award is not about me, it's about the people that are surrounded around me," Mulkey said in her acceptance speech on Thursday. "It's about a group of young ladies that I inherited. It's about a group of young ladies that believed in me. It's about a group of young ladies that stayed there and allowed me to coach them."
Mulkey led LSU to a 26-6 record this season, the most wins the program has had since 2007-08. The Tigers finished No. 9 in the final AP poll.
“One of my most enjoyable years ever in my career,” Mulkey said after LSU’s second round loss in the NCAA Tournament to Ohio State. “I personally judge good coaches based on the talent they have on that floor and are they overachieving. Did we beat some people this year we should not have beaten? You bet we did. We beat a lot of ’em. We beat ranked teams. We didn’t start this baby ranked. We came from nowhere and just built it.”
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Mulkey won three national championships at Baylor, winning 23 combined Big 12 regular season and tournament titles. She is the only person in college basketball history to have won a national championship as a player, assistant coach and coach.
"Less than a year ago I took the job at LSU because I wanted to be a positive figure in my state," Mulkey said. "That is my home. I got tired of reading about the negative. I wanted to do something positive."
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Mulkey was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last May.
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Ashley Cole is set for married life again after getting engaged to his longtime girlfriend Sharon Canu.
The former Arsenal footballer appeared to pop the question on Thursday evening and shared the joyful news via Instagram.
In a short video, Ashley, 41, is seen sharing a kiss with Sharon in a dimly-lit room surrounded by bouquets of flowers.
It was clearly a special occasion as the ex-football star looked smart in a white shirt and grey trousers, while Sharon wore a beige figure-hugging dress.
She captioned the clip: ‘The easiest “Yes” I’ve ever said.’
Ashley and Sharon are believed to have started dating after meeting when he joined Italian club AS Roma in 2014.
They have since kept their relationship out of the spotlight, including Sharon’s pregnancies when she was expecting their children; son Jaxon, six, and daughter Grace, four.
However, he shared a rare insight into his life as a family man in 2019, telling the Daily Telegraph: ‘These are the things I focus on now – my kids and my girlfriend.
‘It’s a different me. I’m more of a family man now. You won’t see me in nightclubs anymore, you’ll see me at a park pushing my kids.’
He added: ‘I was a young, angry kid at the time, and now I’ve grown up and understand the things I did is life, it happens.
‘Not just me, but with certain situations, loads of other people have done [the same]. I’ve learnt from it, it’s made me a better person. It’s made me a great dad.’
Ashley was famously married to Girls Aloud singer Cheryl, with the pair tying the knot in 2006. However, they separated in 2010 and eventually divorced.
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TORONTO (AP) _ Loncor Gold Inc. (LONCF) on Thursday reported a loss of $1.6 million in its fourth quarter.
The Toronto-based company said it had a loss of 1 cent per share.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $3.7 million, or 3 cents per share.
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https://www.theheraldreview.com/business/article/Loncor-Gold-Q4-Earnings-Snapshot-17049651.php
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Members of the HackerNoon team -- located in different parts of the world-- worked in unison to deliver over a thousand individualized awards to our internet family for Valentine's Day. Below is what it looks like in the final few moments (hours) before a remote team finalizes two large internet campaigns. This part of the initiative consisted of our developers deploying scripts to create individual awards and tech pages, updating the messaging on the websites, our designer making any final tweaks if needed, properly compiling/auditing email lists and CSVs, and making sure marketing copy for emails and blog posts reflected any and all final changes. It further included a last-minute audit, to make sure thousands of newly created worked as intended. Plus somehow it seems Linh managed to get a meeting in between there. Shook. The below thread has been edited to a more reader-friendly size, initially, we had about 103 replies.
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The Tangled Web of Black Widow
Writer Kelly Thompson details the drama of Marvel’s top superspy and how she has thrived against adversity in her ongoing series!
Since inheriting the reins of Black Widow with the launch of her latest series BLACK WIDOW (2020), writer Kelly Thompson has been unafraid to put Natasha Romanoff through the wringer, physically as well as emotionally. While it’s been a rough fifteen issues for one of Marvel’s most lethal ladies, the stories produced by Thompson in concert with interior artist Elena Casagrande and colorist Jordie Bellaire have proven a bounty for fans of the character.
With the conclusion of the four-part “Die by the Blade” arc in BLACK WIDOW #15, it seemed as opportune a time as any to take Thompson to task. On the red ledger: Items including the loss of Nat’s idyllic family and the new makeshift group that may have taken its place, as well as her expanding rogues gallery and what to expect in upcoming stories.
What were your goals for Black Widow when you took on this assignment?
KELLY THOMPSON: I wanted to tell a story that would fundamentally change Natasha as a person, without permanently changing her exterior circumstances—i.e. she still needed to be an active spy and Super Hero with a complicated, thrilling, dangerous life. I felt the best way to do that was giving her an emotional experience that she didn’t expect but that was real for her—that would change how she viewed both herself and the world.
Why was it important to give Natasha this vulnerability of a lost family?
KELLY THOMPSON: I think it just changes the way she sees things and how she wants to connect to things. After losing them, I think a different Natasha would have gone on a personal revenge rampage—and been totally justified in doing that. But knowing she has a son still living somewhere in this world, instead she wanted to make a different choice—she wanted to make the world better and save more people from tragic ends.
As long as you’re writing the character, will James and Stevie continue to weigh on Natasha in some way?
KELLY THOMPSON: I mean, I hope that her connection to them and how she feels about it all will continue to organically evolve—it will get easier for her and she’ll get used to the loss, but it will always be a small piece of her that’s missing—that she regrets losing, but doesn’t regret having, even if it was painful.
Why build a support team around Natasha? Do you feel like this still allows her to shine as a lead character?
KELLY THOMPSON: As anyone that reads my work knows, I like to build a strong supporting cast around a headlining character—but in Natasha’s case, after her loss, she was literally trying to build herself a new family. She didn’t do it consciously, but it is what she did, especially in how she tried to protect Lucy from her dangerous world and give her some choices that a younger Natasha didn’t have. But Nat was conscious of needing to not go all lone wolf after what happened to her. When Yelena Belova decided to stay beside her in issue #5—that was huge for Nat. Yelena knew Nat needed her but it was basically left unsaid between them. I love that.
How did you select the characters who have become part of the extended cast?
KELLY THOMPSON: Yelena is the long-lost “sister,” so you don’t get much more family than that when it comes to Nat—she was a given. Lucy was the new face in her life, and in a way, a stand-in for Stevie—someone for Nat to protect and guide. Anya Corazon was partly because we needed a bit of levity and partly because I loved the way Kelly Sue DeConnick and Warren Ellis wrote Nat and Anya together in [2012’s AVENGERS ASSEMBLE]. The chemistry there was magical, so capturing even a little bit of that was great—and I thought Anya would be an excellent “sister” for Lucy. When the boys (Hawkeye: Clint Barton and Winter Soldier) joined back up for our third arc, it honestly just felt perfect.
What is your favorite element that Yelena brings to the book?
KELLY THOMPSON: Everything! I love Yelena. It’s always fun to write a character that says whatever they think and feels fine about it. Brutal truth. It doesn’t work for every character but the ones it does work for, are very fun to write. Anything can happen in a scene with someone like that!
What added dimension does it give Natasha to have two exes as part of her circle?
KELLY THOMPSON: I love that Winter Soldier and Hawkeye draw different things out of Natasha. It’s hard for me to pair her off with either of them romantically because I value the depth of their bonds together—all of them—that level of friendship and devotion even feels more intense to me than just “romantic love.” In the end, Natasha needs both of these men, and I think they need her. But there’s no easy answer to pairing anyone off in this scenario... which makes for good stories, but I know as a fan can also be frustrating.
Why was it important to build a new rogues' gallery for Black Widow with additions like Apogee, the Host, and the Twins?
KELLY THOMPSON: Rogues’ galleries make or break a character long term, so I’m always looking to build those up and make them stronger with any character I work on—usually by both creating new villains with good potential and picking up old ones and giving them fresh new stories. In the case of Natasha I used and highlighted a lot of old foes in the first arc, but wanted to push forward into new territory for our next two arcs, since she was literally in “new” territory with San Francisco.
Specifically, where did the idea for the Living Blade come from? He’s such a neat idea.
KELLY THOMPSON: I think it was mostly two things. First, I wanted someone that Natasha was really genuinely afraid of—and in order to do that, I felt it had to have begun for her long ago—which is how we ended up doing that whole flashback issue to establish him. I think it was a really fun way to do the arc and I think it set issue #14 up to be incredibly tense—even before that shocking last page! Secondly, in action movies, the “Big Bad” is rarely the “great fighter”—it’s almost always the “right hand man” that gives the better fight scene, and I wanted to play with that idea. We still had a “Big Bad” in the Host, but she’s dealt with fairly easily and the Living Blade ends up being the immediate danger for our heroes.
Where did the impetus to break up this arc with a flashback introducing the Living Blade emerge from?
KELLY THOMPSON: The idea was that it was an unconventional and unexpected way to introduce a villain—to do a whole issue flashback in the middle of an arc—and doing something new is exciting and we were all really into it! But the idea originally just came from a practical issue, which was that we knew Elena would not be able to do all four issues in the arc. She hadn’t had enough of a head-start from the last arc. So it was a practical problem in need of an elegant solution... and I love that editor Sarah Brunstad trusted us enough to try it. Very happy with how it all turned out!
Elena Casagrande and Jordie Bellaire make for an absolutely badass art team. What are the best parts of working with them?
KELLY THOMPSON: They’re incredible. The best thing about working with them, other than the fact that they’re lovely and easy to work with, is that I just never have to worry about what they’re going to do. I know what they do will be brilliant and beautiful and make my work so much better than it otherwise would have been.
How does your creative process on BLACK WIDOW differ from other books you’ve worked on?
KELLY THOMPSON: I think it’s pretty similar, except that our team on BLACK WIDOW was a little more consistent. On CAPTAIN MARVEL we tend to have to rotate between artists for arcs—and we’ve been very lucky to get amazing artists there—but it’s not the same as working with the same people over fifteen issues.
What did Rafael Pimentel bring to the table for the Madripoor flashback issue?
KELLY THOMPSON: We knew we needed someone who could bring a different look and style to the book for the flashback issue—and who could really deliver awesome energy for what we knew would be almost entirely one long fight scene—and Rafael was so up to the challenge! When you add the fantastically powerful “period” coloring that Jordie did on the issue, I think it’s truly a special issue—definitely not the kind of comic you see every day.
Finally, how important are Adam Hughes’ gorgeous covers for this book?
KELLY THOMPSON: It’s everything! Adam has so embraced us; it’s been such a gift. To have Adam’s stunning work as the image we present to the world is honestly like winning the comic book lottery—and for him to get so into the book that he’s really paying attention to the story we’re telling, and the way he’s integrating text into the covers—it’s all so next level.
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Review: THE CONTRACTOR Goes By the Book
Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Kiefer Sutherland star in an action thriller.
The Contractor, a competently made, if politically muddled, action-thriller, reunites Chris Pine and Ben Foster, who played financially strapped brothers turned bank robbers in Hell or High Water.
That Oscar-nominated, politically-charged modern Western justifiably received plaudits for Pine, Foster, and Jeff Bridges's top-tier performances, David Mckenzie’s restrained direction, and Tyler Sheridan’s (Yellowstone, Wind River, Sicario) complex, multi-layered screenplay more than five years ago. Following up the lauded Hell or High Water, however, was always going to be a difficult, if not impossible, challenge, a challenge that The Contractor, despite the near-Herculean efforts of Pine, Foster, and director Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident, Tommy, Metropia), among others on both sides of the camera, ultimately fail to meet.
In an efficiently directed and edited montage, Saleh and screenwriter J.P. Davis (The Neighbor, Fighting Tommy Riley) connects the U.S. military to a political ideology centered on Christianity, nationalism, and imperialism. We encounter Pine’s pious, religiously devout family man, Special Forces Sergeant James Harper, during a seemingly routine 24-48-hour period as he rehabs from a serious, potentially career-ending knee injury, training alone away from his wife, Brianne (Gillian Jacobs), and preteen son, Jack (Sander Thomas), and attending Sunday church services. The barely seen pastor delivers the usual religious platitudes and calls for spiritual protection from his deity for the active service members from nearby Fort Bragg sitting in the pews.
Once the montage gives way to more straightforward storytelling, everything goes sideways for Harper. Despite years of decorated service, Harper’s decision to use unsanctioned drugs to aid his rehab efforts leads to an honorable discharge without benefits or pension.
Cast adrift by the military and a bank account running on empty, Harper turns to an old military friend, Mike (Foster). Mike’s post-military career naturally led to well-paid work as a “private contractor” (mercenary) for Rusty Jennings (Kiefer Sutherland), the bearded, tattooed head of a private company that provides the U.S. government with off-book, black ops supposedly serving vaguely defined “national security.” Jennings overcomes Harper’s reluctance with the offer of a routine gig in Berlin and a $50K check to help Harper’s family while he’s on-mission overseas.
The routine gig is anything but, of course. Leveraging Harper’s order-following nature and unexamined biases and prejudices, Jennings tasks Harper with surveilling Salim Mohamed Mohsin (Fares Fares), a Syrian-born, U.S.-educated virologist working in Berlin for a foundation with presumed ties to Al-Qaida.
With the word “bioterrorism” floating in his head, Harper, Mike, and several other private contractors embark on a search-and-recovery mission that goes sideways almost immediately, separating Mike and Harper, and forcing Harper to find his way back to a safe house and the U.S. before the Berlin police and another covert ops team finds him.
Closely following the Bourne template, Saleh avoids images and locations typically associated with Bourne’s globe-trotting predecessor (James Bond), emphasizing the grit and grime of Berlin’s lesser-known, economically depressed areas. With Harper forced to rely on his training, skills, and an old-school analog map, the nondescript, interchangeable locations add a layer of claustrophobia and paranoia to Harper’s journey back home.
Add to that several stunt-heavy set pieces (well-choreographed, if too few and far between) and The Contractor offers mostly satisfying action scenes amidst beat-for-beat familiarity and a thematic approach to Harper’s actions and the role of private contractors in the real world that can be only described as muddled.
Saleh and Davis obviously want the audience to sympathize, even empathize, with Harper’s choices (e.g., financial desperation, abandoned by the military) justified by his financial desperation and, as Jennings describes in a long-winded, on-the-nose monologue that plays directly into Harper’s contradictory feelings, the sense of abandonment and failure that followed the latter's involuntary detachment from the military. Saleh and Davis, however, refuse to fully acknowledge the thorny, ethical, and moral issues associated with Harper’s mission or the immediate aftermath.
Instead, The Contractor expects the audience to set aside any doubts and remain on Harper’s side until the final fadeout. That screenwriting-based decision places the burden on Pine’s relatability and likability to slip past any moral or ethical quandary Harper finds himself in.
The Contractor will be available in movie theaters and via various digital and VOD platforms on Friday, April 1.
The Contractor
Director(s)
- Tarik Saleh
Writer(s)
- J.P. Davis
Cast
- Chris Pine
- Gillian Jacobs
- Ben Foster
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https://screenanarchy.com/2022/03/review-the-contractor-goes-by-the-book.html
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers filed a motion Thursday with the state Supreme Court urging the justices to affirm his legislative district boundary map that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected.
The state Supreme Court adopted Evers’ map in March, choosing his plan over Republican lawmakers’ proposal. But the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Evers’ map on March 23 after the GOP complained it increased the number of Assembly districts with a majority of Black and Hispanic voters from six to seven in Milwaukee in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act. The federal justices kicked the case back to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Evers argued in his motion Thursday that the state justices should affirm their earlier decision. He maintained that seven minority districts are justified because six would improperly dilute their votes under the Voting Rights Act. He included with the motion a report from Lisa Handley, an elections consultant who has served in a number of redistricting and voting rights cases, backing up his claim.
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Evers-urges-Wisconsin-justices-to-affirm-17049648.php
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TAMPA — To triumph at the news conference, he first had to admit defeat. In that sense, Todd Bowles nailed it, with candor and conciseness.
“I blew it,” the new Bucs head coach said Thursday.
Know this about 58-year-old Todd Robert Bowles: While different in myriad ways from predecessor Bruce Arians, both share the blunt gene. It’s a trait generally appreciated by a fan base, a refreshing alternative to rehearsed rhetoric.
Which is why the married dad of three boys likely won points his first day on the job by readily acknowledging the failure of the Bucs’ final defensive play of the 2021 season, in the NFC division playoff.
Instead of dancing around or dodging the question of why he called for a Cover-Zero, all-out blitz of Matthew Stafford — resulting in the Rams quarterback finding NFL Offensive Player of the Year Cooper Kupp isolated downfield for a 44-yard completion — this former NFL safety safety tackled it helmet first.
“We were trying to win,” said Bowles, whose strategy resulted in Matt Gay kicking a 30-yard field goal as time expired to lift Los Angeles to a 30-27 triumph.
“I will never apologize for trying to win. If I didn’t call zone and (Stafford) got the play off, you’ll say I should’ve blitzed. ‘We blitz all the time, how come we didn’t blitz?’ That’s part of football, that’s coaching. You have to learn to make peace and live with it.”
In a way, Bowles’ introduction as the franchise’s 13th head coach — and its fourth Black head coach — simply perpetuated the most surreal offseason in team history. Less than 24 hours before, he remained the convenient scapegoat for one of the most excruciating losses this town had experienced.
On Thursday, he still was processing the fact that he had been afforded a rare second act as an NFL head coach, with a five-year contract to boot.
“A lot of people had to be in agreement for this to happen. It’s not a one-man show,” Bowles said of the succession plan allowing Arians to pass the torch to the New Jersey native he has known since 1983, when Arians first coached him at Temple.
“I feel very humble, I feel very honored, I feel very excited. I’m ready to go and we’ll try to get this thing rolling.”
If nothing else, Bowles will roll his own way.
Unlike Arians, who made ‘Win or lose, we booze’ a half-serious mantra on his watch, Bowles doesn’t drink or do cigars. And whereas Arians’ practice reprimands were laced with profanities, Bowles is more likely to point out player deficiencies with dry sarcasm.
“I think if I tried to put on a kangol hat and came in here and grew my goatee (both Arians trademarks), you guys would look at me like I’m crazy,” Bowles said. “‘Look at this clown, he’s mini-Bruce.’ I can’t do that, and I’m not going to. I’m not going to try.”
Similarly, Arians didn’t orchestrate this succession plan — which Bowles didn’t learn about until Monday — to replace himself with a clone. To the contrary, he knew Bowles’ own unique style, combined with his football intuition and the lessons he learned in his first head coaching gig with the Jets from 2015-2018 (when he went 24-40), gave him every chance to succeed.
The Bucs’ offseason developments, namely Tom Brady’s un-retirement and the subsequent re-signing of several key free agents, optimized those chances.
“He’s been probably the brightest guy I’ve ever coached,” Arians said. “And I think he, as a player-coach, (offensive coordinator) Byron (Leftwich) as a player-coach, they just had it. You knew they had it.”
By all accounts, that ‘it’ factor is endearing.
“He’s a phenomenal person, great family man, talks about his family all the time,” general manager Jason Licht said.
“He’s a mentor to a lot of people in this building. Not just the players, but other coaches, staff members. You often find people in his office, just him offering advice on how to just be a better person.”
Because he now must answer for the Bucs offense and monitor it in practice, Bowles said defensive line coach Kacy Rodgers and outside linebackers coach Larry Foote will serve as co-coordinators, though Bowles still will call things on Sundays.
And while he won’t disrupt the dynamic fostered by Leftwich and Tom Brady, he’ll interject where he sees fit, thank you very much.
“I’m the head coach,” Bowles said. “I get to do whatever I want.”
The blunt gene at work.
“My way is not rocket science. It’s like every other coach: You coach hard, you understand players, you try to put them in the best position to play football,” he added.
“So I’m not trying to change the program, but you try to say you’ve got to be yourself. You try to imitate somebody else, it doesn’t go well.”
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BEIJING (AP) — Residents of eastern Shanghai hoping to emerge from a four-day lockdown got some bad news Thursday night: Some will be confined to their homes for at least 10 more days.
It was the latest wrinkle in the lockdown of China’s largest city as it struggles to eliminate an omicron-driven coronavirus outbreak under China’s zero-COVID policy. Shanghai’s 26 million residents were initially told the eastern part of the city would be locked down for mass testing over four days, followed by a similar exercise in the west.
The city announced new restrictions nine hours before the lockdown of the east was scheduled to end at 5 a.m. Friday. It was unclear how many people would have to stay in their homes beyond that. Meanwhile, the four-day lockdown of the western part of Shanghai was set to start at 3 a.m.
There was a bit of good news elsewhere in China in the country’s largest COVID-19 outbreak since the initial one in early 2020 that devastated the city of Wuhan and other parts of Hubei province. Authorities announced the lifting of a citywide lockdown in the province that has been hardest hit.
Residents of Jilin will be able to move about freely starting Friday for the first time in more than three weeks, state broadcaster CCTV said, citing a city notice. They will be required to wear masks and, when indoors, stay 1 meter (3 feet) apart. Public gatherings in parks and squares are prohibited.
The spread of COVID-19 has been brought under control in Jilin but not in the rest of Jilin province, officials said at a news conference. Some progress has been made in Changchun, the provincial capital and an auto manufacturing hub that has been locked down since March 11.
By far, most of the cases in the ongoing outbreak have been in Jilin province, which borders North Korea in China’s industrial northeast. Smaller outbreaks have popped up across the country, including Shanghai, the country’s financial capital.
Ma Chunlei, a senior Shanghai official, acknowledged shortcomings in the city’s response. Authorities have rushed to bolster food deliveries to the city after panic buying stripped store shelves of necessities.
“We didn’t prepare sufficiently enough,” Ma said. “We sincerely accept the criticisms from the public and are making efforts to improve it.”
He spoke before the new rules for Pudong, the half of Shanghai on the east side of the Huangpu River, were announced Thursday night. People living in a building where a positive case had been found will be required to stay home for 10 more days. Residents of other buildings in the same residential compound will be confined for three more days.
People living in the surrounding neighborhood of a positive case will face less restrictive limits. They may be allowed out to shop for necessities, but only for a limited time on certain days.
The two-phase lockdown of Shanghai, being carried out over eight days, has shaken global markets worried about the possible economic impact. China’s manufacturing activity fell to a five-month low in March, a monthly survey showed Thursday, as lockdowns and other restrictions forced factories to suspend production.
German automaker BMW’s plants in Shenyang, a northeastern city in Liaoning province, have been closed for more than a week because of pandemic controls.
About 16 million people will be tested during the lockdown in Puxi on the west side of the river in Shanghai. Residents are not allowed to leave their neighborhoods or housing compounds during the four-day period, with groceries or meals delivered to their complexes.
China on Thursday reported 8,559 new cases in the previous 24-hour period, of which 6,720 had no symptoms. The proportion of asymptomatic cases has been higher than in previous outbreaks, particularly in Shanghai. About 100 of the new cases were imported ones among people who had recently arrived from abroad.
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Associated Press researchers Chen Si in Shanghai and Yu Bing in Beijing contributed.
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https://www.kget.com/health/china-reopens-one-city-as-shanghai-lockdown-enters-2nd-phase/
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said.
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https://www.wric.com/washington-dc/bill-seeks-to-put-cap-on-overdraft-fees/
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RCB vs KKR: What Yuzvendra Chahal Tweeted After RCB Leg-Spinner Stole The Show vs KKR | Cricket News
For a number of years, Yuzvendra Chahal was the strike bowler for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), selecting key wickets and doing so in heaps. However, he was launched by the franchise forward of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 and never purchased again within the Mega Auction, with the workforce opting to spend large on Sri Lankan leg-spinning all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga. Chahal was purchased by Rajasthan Royals within the public sale, and he had a superb debut for them, selecting three wickets in opposition to SunRisers Hyderabad. However, his ties together with his outdated franchise stay robust as was displayed throughout RCB’s match in opposition to KKR on Wednesday.
Hasaranga was in good type in Navi Mumbai, as he picked 4 wickets to assist RCB bowl KKR out for 128.
He received the massive wicket of KKR skipper Shreyas Iyer and adopted it up with sending Sunil Narine and Sheldon Jackson again to the pavillion in back-to-back deliveries. He then dismissed Tim Southee to finish his four-wicket haul.
When the Sri Lankan received his third wicket, Chahal took to Twitter to put in writing: “Wanindu Hasaranga champion.”
Wanindu Hasaranga champion #RCBvKKR
— Yuzvendra Chahal (@yuzi_chahal) March 30, 2022
Chahal appreciating the participant who basically changed him in RCB went on to point out that he nonetheless had robust emotions for his former workforce.
The tweet received over 30,000 ‘likes’ and a pair of,000 retweets.
Apart from Hasaranga, Harshal Patel and Akash Deep have been additionally key for RCB with the ball.
Harshal Patel returned figures of two/11, with two back-to-back wicket maidens that noticed him ultimately dismiss the harmful Andre Russell.
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Akash Deep in the meantime was costly, however picked three wickets for his workforce.
RCB had an early wobble however a powerful middle-order efficiency noticed them chase down the entire with three wicket to spare within the remaining over and register their first win of the season.
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https://thewall.fyi/rcb-vs-kkr-what-yuzvendra-chahal-tweeted-after-rcb-leg-spinner-stole-the-show-vs-kkr-cricket-news/
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers filed a motion Thursday with the state Supreme Court urging the justices to affirm his legislative district boundary map that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected.
The state Supreme Court adopted Evers’ map in March, choosing his plan over Republican lawmakers’ proposal. But the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Evers’ map on March 23 after the GOP complained it increased the number of Assembly districts with a majority of Black and Hispanic voters from six to seven in Milwaukee in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act. The federal justices kicked the case back to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Evers argued in his motion Thursday that the state justices should affirm their earlier decision. He maintained that seven minority districts are justified because six would improperly dilute their votes under the Voting Rights Act. He included with the motion a report from Lisa Handley, an elections consultant who has served in a number of redistricting and voting rights cases, backing up his claim.
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| 2022-04-01T00:14:37Z
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BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado couple face felony charges in connection with the fentanyl death of their 1-year-old child, whom prosecutors say died after ingesting enough of the extremely lethal drug to kill an adult.
Alonzo Montoya, 31, and Nicole Casias, 30, of the Denver suburb of Brighton were charged with child abuse resulting in death and distribution of a controlled substance in connection with the girl's death on Jan. 2, the 17th Judicial District's Office said in a statement Thursday.
It said the Adams County Coroner had determined that the child died after ingesting fentanyl and that Montoya and Casias “participated in illicit drug activity” in the child's presence at home before and after her death.
Montoya was being held on $250,000 bail at the Adams County Jail. Bail was set at $100,000 for Casias. A status hearing for both was set for Monday.
Telephone and email messages seeking comment from Casias' attorney, Rachel Lanzen, were not immediately returned. Montoya was being represented by the public defender's office, which doesn't comment on pending cases.
Court records that would provide details on the accusations weren't immediately available from the county district court. Christopher Hopper, a district attorney's spokesman, said he could not provide additional information.
Fentanyl is an unpredictable and powerful synthetic painkiller blamed for driving an increase in fatal drug overdoses. It’s 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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| 2022-04-01T00:14:37Z
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Police Minister William Onglo said the security team deployed on Tuesday includes a squad from Mendi and a mobile unit in Hagen.
The deployment follows a meeting by the National Executive Council, which endorsed for early security operations in the entire Highlands region leading up to 2022 National General Elections.
Minister Onglo said the security team comprising of both Police and Military personnel would patrol the region including Tari to help contain the situation before things gets out of hand. He also noted that some mobile squad units from other centres were on their way to Tari in light of the incident.
“We (Government) had a quick cabinet meeting today and I asked for an early call out operation to include the Military and its approved," said the Minister.
“All the security forces are being mobilised as we speak to patrol the entire highlands region" added the Minister
“We want to see investigations and arrests, we want law breakers and warlords to be dealt with the full force of the law. We must contain the lawlessness.”
The Minister added that with the NEC approval for a call out, both the Police and Military will work hand in hand to curb lawlessness and gear up for the security operations for the National Elections under the Election Security Operations Budget.
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https://www.looppng.com/png-news/security-forces-deployed-highlands-111108
| 2022-04-01T00:14:37Z
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CHICAGO , March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), the nation's largest customer-owned health insurer, announced today several changes to its senior leadership team.
The leadership transitions reflect a thoughtful and strategic approach to long-term growth and succession planning for the company.
Dr. Opella Ernest, chief operating officer, takes on a new role effective immediately as executive vice president, HCSC Commercial Markets, succeeding Jeff Tikkanen, who announced he will retire from HCSC in March 2023. Mike Frank, senior vice president, Pharmacy and Ancillary Business, will become senior vice president, chief operating officer. Dr. Ernest and Frank will report to Maurice Smith, president and CEO of HCSC.
Jeff Tikkanen, executive vice president, Commercial Markets, will transition to an advisory role focused on market initiatives including national account strategy and key client relationships until his retirement in March 2023.
"As our strategic priorities evolve, so does our organizational structure," said Maurice Smith president and CEO of HCSC. "Our continued focus on building our leadership bench strength allows us to continue to execute on our strategy -- to expand health care access, to deepen relationships in our communities and to advance our mission and commitments to remain the health coverage partner of choice for our stakeholders. HCSC has an action-oriented leadership team that is a result of a long-standing focus on attracting and growing top talent."
Dr. Opella Ernest will take on her new role, effective immediately, as executive vice president, HCSC Commercial Markets. As our former chief operating officer, Dr. Ernest helped reshaped our customer and provider experience through advancements in technology and innovation. In her new role, Dr. Ernest assumes responsibility for the company's five BCBS health plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas as well as national account growth, clinical and pharmacy operations and analytics. She joined HCSC in 2012 and has had increasing responsibility leading the company's clinical strategy and operation as Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer. She also served as Divisional Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. A board-certified family physician, she has a degree in medicine from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan
Mike Frank, senior vice president Pharmacy and Ancillary Business, will become senior vice president, chief operating officer, reporting to Dr. Ernest. In his new role, Mike will lead HCSC's IT and Customer Service organizations. Frank joined HCSC in 2013 when BCBSMT became part of the company. Since that time as SVP, Tri-State plans, he provided strategic oversight on how HCSC served members in our Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans in Montana, New Mexico and Oklahoma as well as expanding our pharmacy solutions and better understanding of our customer service needs. Previously Frank was president of the Montana plan. Other roles at the plan included chief legal and operations officer, chief administrative officer, vice president of Corporate Integrity and Human Resources, and vice president of Compliance and Ethics. He earned his Bachelor of Science in psychology from Montana State University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Montana.
"These leadership changes will position the company for continued growth and demonstrate the strength of the HCSC management bench," said Smith. "Opella and Mike's leadership has been instrumental in both advancing and driving HCSC strategy over the last few years. In their new roles, we will see them have even greater impact on the company's success in the future."
About Health Care Service Corporation
Health Care Service Corporation is the country's largest customer-owned health insurer, with more than 17 million members in its health plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. A Mutual Legal Reserve Company, HCSC is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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| 2022-04-01T00:14:36Z
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Scoop: New clue on Trump gap
On Jan. 6, 2021, during an apparent seven-hour gap in White House call logs that the House select committee investigating the attack is now trying to piece together, then-President Trump's executive assistant, Molly Michael, was absent for most of the day, three sources with direct knowledge tell Axios.
Why it matters: Though sources said the Trump White House's already spotty record-keeping operation had virtually collapsed by the final weeks of his presidency, Michael's absence is a previously unreported detail that may play a role in explaining the incomplete records for a key stretch of time.
- Her absence — coupled with the already shambolic state of record-keeping in the Outer Oval — also could complicate efforts to piece those details back together 14 months after that fateful day.
What we're hearing: Keeping handwritten notes on Trump's unscheduled meetings and calls was part of Michael's duties when she took over as executive assistant from her predecessor, Madeleine Westerhout.
- While Trump was in the Oval Office, the dining room adjoining it or the White House residence, he preferred to use the landlines — though also used his personal cell or received calls on the cells of his close aides, according to sources who witnessed this.
- He would frequently yell out, "Molly!," to get her to call whoever he wanted to talk to on a whim.
But Michael, who sat just outside the Oval Office, was out of the morning of Jan. 6 for personal reasons.
- She arrived at the White House in the late afternoon that day, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
- In her absence, the two staffers there during the critical hours of the Capitol siege were Nick Luna, the head of Oval Office Operations, who served as Trump's body man, and Austin Ferrer, a young staffer who assisted Michael in her administrative duties.
- By the time Michael arrived, late that afternoon, the White House was a "sh-tshow" in the words of one official who was there. Michael, through an intermediary, declined to comment for this story.
Between the lines: Trump's constant attachment to his phone was legendary. But, as the Washington Post and CBS News first reported, White House call logs provided to the Jan. 6 committee show a gap of more than seven hours in presidential communications.
- During the riot, Trump spent much of his time in the private dining room adjoining the Oval Office watching television, according to witnesses.
- Aides were walking in and out as the staff scrambled to try to pressure the president to issue a statement condemning the Capitol rioters.
- Trump had several known phone conversations that are not captured in the logs provided to the Jan. 6 committee, first published by the Washington Post. This included calls of intense interest to the committee, including with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
How it worked: Typically, each morning, the office of the Staff Secretary would leave in the Outer Oval a folder containing the president's briefing materials and also a printed private schedule of his planned day. But Trump would frenetically and repeatedly break his schedule.
- In fact he had such frequent departures — with the Oval Office at times resembling a rush-hour train station — that even during the most functional periods of his presidency his executive assistants were routinely missing meetings and calls.
- For at least a few years, Westerhout — and, later, Michael — did their best to capture the president's spontaneous meetings and calls as they popped up throughout the day, according to their colleagues who watched them do so.
- They would jot down, in handwritten notes on top of the printed private schedule, who the president had spoken with that day in addition to his previously scheduled meetings.
The intrigue: Trump reserved some of his more sensitive calls for when he was in the White House residence.
For instance, one source with direct knowledge of his practices said Trump would not call Steve Bannon when he was in the Oval Office.
Instead, the source said, Trump's conversations with his controversial former chief strategist — captured in the call logs published by the Post — were from the residence.
At the end of each day, Trump's assistants in the Outer Oval would take the president's private schedule that day — along with their handwritten notes — to the Staff Secretary's office.
- These notes were then sent for official records preservation — part of the White House staff's obligation under the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
- The presidential records-keeping law is considered to be expansive, and include preserving emails, text messages and phone records regardless of the device used, presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky told the Associated Press.
But, but, but: The law largely depends on good faith from presidents and their staff.
No president has ever been punished for violating the Presidential Records Act.
- "The implementation of that act is really important, because there is no real mechanism for enforcement," Martha Kumar, co-founder and director for the White House Transition Project, told Axios.
- "It depends on the goodwill of the president; if the president wants to avoid record-keeping, then there's a way of doing it."
Trump tested that good faith more than any president in recent memory.
He frequently tore up documents, leaving career staff to stick them back together to meet record-keeping laws.
Papers were even found clogging the toilets in the White House residence, as the New York Times' Maggie Haberman first reported.
- In early 2020, when COVID-19 hit the United States and the wheels started falling off of Trump's re-election bid, his White House was consumed even more than usual by chaos.
- The already casual record-keeping fell away.
Sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Axios Michael began taking fewer and fewer records of the president's off-schedule meetings and calls.
- Staff began questioning the value of doing this type of record-keeping at all.
- Two former officials said Outer Oval staff were poorly served by their superiors and never properly briefed on crucial obligations of their jobs.
- At least once, during the first year of Trump's presidency, the White House Counsel's Office issued a stern warning about their obligation to preserve a wide and detailed account of the president's movements, actions and communications, according to a source with direct knowledge.
The bottom line: One of the biggest challenges to the legal requirements was the President’s habitual use of his own or aides' cell phones to place and receive calls.
- Thus far, such calls on Jan 6 have remained outside public record keeping.
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'Morbius' Star Jared Leto Tests Popular Blood Stain Removal Methods
See the film exclusively in theaters April 1!
Ever find yourself stuck with some unruly blood stains on your favorite shirt?
Morbius star Jared Leto has certainly been there, as well as his character Morbius the Living Vampire. Just your average normal occurrence that even Marvel Legends have to deal with, obvs.
Doing the good work, in the video above, Leto goes above and beyond to test out a few popular stain removal methods to find the best one—lemon, stain remover pens, white vinegar, dish soap, etc.
See Leto embody the latest Marvel Legend starting tomorrow with Morbius exclusively in theaters!
One of the most compelling and conflicted characters in Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters comes to the big screen as Oscar winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic anti-hero Dr. Michael Morbius in the upcoming theatrical release of Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil – or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges?
Interested in learn more about Morbius, discover the Morbius Character Close-Up reading list on Marvel Unlimited below!
The final trailer arrives Monday. See Morbius in theaters April 1.
Want to stay on top of everything in the Marvel Universe? Follow Marvel on social media—Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram—and keep watching Marvel.com for more news!
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By Chris Wack
TMC the metals company Inc. shares were up 10% to $2.39 after the company said it successfully completed its North Sea drive test program for the robotic polymetallic nodule collector vehicle designed by the company's strategic partner and shareholder, Allseas Group S.A.
The company said that during the drive test program performed in the Dutch Sector of the North Sea, the Allseas-designed collector vehicle underwent extensive testing of critical mobility and all systems were shown to be functional.
The collector vehicle covered a distance of 4,533 meters, being driven forward and backward at various speeds, and in different directions. Tests also were undertaken to raise and lower the vehicle's adjustable collector heads.
Earlier this month, TMC and Allseas announced the successful wet-testing of the polymetallic nodule collector vehicle and, with this latest round of system tests now complete, Allseas engineers will begin preparations for full pilot nodule collection trials over an 8-square-kilometer section of the NORI-D contract area in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean later this year.
Write to Chris Wack at chris.wack@wsj.com
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tmc-shares-rise-10-after-successful-test-for-collector-vehicle-271648746279
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A good quality toothbrush is essential in having a nice smile and fighting cavities.
There are tons out there, though, making endlessly scrolling through options tough.
That’s why we’ve rounded up some highly recommended electric toothbrushes on the market.
The list includes popular brands, such as Oral-B and Colgate.
Here are some of the best electric toothbrushes, according to five product review websites:
- Hum by Colgate: “Buzzes every 30 seconds to let you know when to move on to another quadrant of your mouth,” CNET says.
- Oral-B Pro 1000: “Fully charged, it lasts for at least a week of twice-daily two-minute brushing sessions before needing a recharge,” Wirecutter says.
- Burst Sonic Toothbrush: “The most gentle electric toothbrush I’ve used (and I’ve tried them all),” New York Post says.
- Oral-B iO Series 9: “Effectively removes sticky plaque while gliding from one tooth to the next, and its valuable real-time feedback that encourages you to improve your brushing technique, whether you use the Oral-B Bluetooth app on your smartphone or not,” Tech Radar says.
- Quip Electric Toothbrush: “Pleasurable, as its vibrations are just powerful enough to get my mouth sparkling clean without feeling too intense, though the thin neck feels precarious when I was really scrubbing away,” Wired says.
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MojoCoin (MOJO) traded down 2.8% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 19:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. One MojoCoin coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.0096 or 0.00000021 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. MojoCoin has a total market capitalization of $117,992.77 and $12.00 worth of MojoCoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last week, MojoCoin has traded up 4.1% against the dollar.
Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- WINk (WIN) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0013 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- Kleros (PNK) traded 3.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0949 or 0.00000207 BTC.
- Validity (VAL) traded down 4% against the dollar and now trades at $3.98 or 0.00008699 BTC.
- Global Coin Research (GCR) traded 0.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $3.66 or 0.00007991 BTC.
- Particl (PART) traded 15.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.96 or 0.00002094 BTC.
- Wagerr (WGR) traded 2.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0234 or 0.00000051 BTC.
- Team Finance (TEAM) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $2.58 or 0.00008136 BTC.
- Dev Protocol (DEV) traded down 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $1.03 or 0.00002245 BTC.
- OtterClam (New) (CLAM) traded down 3.4% against the dollar and now trades at $7.98 or 0.00018964 BTC.
- OtterClam Finance (CLAM) traded 0.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $4.56 or 0.00009964 BTC.
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LSU basketball loses starting center Efton Reid to the transfer portal | Report
LSU basketball center Efton Reid entered the transfer portal, according to 247Sports.
Reid, a freshman, was the only player to start in every game for the Tigers this season. He averaged 6.3 points and 4.3 rebounds while playing 19.6 minutes per contest.
At 7-foot and 238 pounds, Reid was a five-star recruit out of IMG Academy. He was the No. 3 center and No. 27 prospect in the nation, according to 247Sports.
Reid is the eighth LSU player to enter the transfer portal since the season ended for the Tigers, joining forward Shareef O'Neal, guard Brandon Murray, guard Xavier Pinson, guard Justice Williams, forward Bradley Ezewiro, center Jerrell Colbert and guard Adam Miller. Senior forward Darius Days and sophomore forward Tari Eason have declared for the NBA Draft.
LSU BASKETBALL PORTAL TRACKER:LSU basketball transfer portal tracker: who's out, who's in for Matt McMahon, Tigers
LSU ADDS NORTHWESTERN STATE CENTER:LSU basketball adds Northwestern State center Kendal Coleman from the transfer portal
The transfer portal activity surrounding the program comes after LSU hired Murray State coach Matt McMahon on March 24 after Will Wade was fired by LSU 12 days earlier. The university received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA just days prior to Wade's firing.
LSU BASKETBALL ADDS A GUARD, LOSES ANOTHER:LSU basketball adds transfer guard from Murray State, has lost seven players to portal
LSU has also added two players from the portal since McMahon's hiring, bringing in Northwestern State center Kendal Coleman and Murray State guard Justice Hill.
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| 2022-04-01T00:14:40Z
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Machine Gun Kelly has shared his final memories with Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins just days before he died.
The rapper, 31, opened up about meeting Hawkins during the South American leg of the band’s tour just two days before his death at the age of 50.
MGK told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show that the Foo Fighters had planned to watch him and his band at the Estereo Picnic festival, which had been cancelled due to extreme weather conditions.
The Mainstream Sellout star said Hawkins told them he had been ‘super bummed’ not to have been able to see them perform, but they spent time together at a party that evening instead.
MGK explained: ‘Taylor went up to every single one of us and gave us each our moment. Every single one of us, man, down to my assistant.
‘He’s such a beautiful soul, man. The last thing he said was, “I’m just so bummed I didn’t get to see you guys play”.’
The musician hopes he can tell Hawkins’ children about how much the moment meant to him, adding: ‘I really want to thank him and let his kids know that he made us feel — in a time where the outside world, outside of the fans, and the outside world was really coming in hard on us — he made us feel so confident in ourselves and loved.’
He added: ‘Your father is a great, great man and we were all lucky to know him and we all appreciate that night more than anyone will know.’
Hawkins was found dead in his hotel room in Colombia just two days later, after suddenly falling ill.
The drummer had been part of the Foo Fighters for 25 years, alongside Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett and Rami Jaffee.
He’d joined the band in 1997 after previously touring with Alanis Morissette and news of his death sparked an outpouring of tributes from fellow musicians around the world.
The Foo Fighters also announced that they were cancelling all of their planned tour dates ‘in light of the staggering loss’, and had also been scheduled to perform at the Grammys on April 3.
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Dike Ruan Celebrates Shang-Chi, Ms. Marvel, and More in New AAPI Heritage Covers
See all six AAPI Heritage Variant Covers, on sale this May.
This May, Marvel Comics is proud to honor Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with variant covers highlighting some of its most prominent Asian and AAPI characters!
The AAPI Heritage Variant Covers will be drawn by acclaimed artist Dike Ruan, known for his incredible work on SHANG-CHI, and colored by artist Neeraj Menon. Adorning the covers of Marvel’s hottest ongoing series, these stunning pieces are bursting with energy, showcasing Shang-Chi, Ms. Marvel, and more iconic heroes using their extraordinary gifts in stunning circular portraits! Here are the six heroes getting the spotlight in this year’s celebration:
On Sale 5/4
SHANG-CHI #12 AAPI HERITAGE VARIANT COVER by DIKE RUAN & NEERAJ MENON
MOON KNIGHT #11 AAPI HERITAGE VARIANT COVER by DIKE RUAN & NEERAJ MENON
On Sale 5/11
BLACK PANTHER #6 AAPI HERITAGE VARIANT COVER by DIKE RUAN & NEERAJ MENON
X-MEN RED #3 AAPI HERITAGE VARIANT COVER by DIKE RUAN & NEERAJ MENON
On Sale 5/25
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4 AAPI HERITAGE VARIANT COVER by DIKE RUAN & NEERAJ MENON
IMMORTAL X-MEN #3 AAPI HERITAGE VARIANT COVER by DIKE RUAN & NEERAJ MENON
Check them out below and collect all six AAPI Heritage Variant Covers throughout May!
You can grab these comics and more digitally or at your favorite local comic book shop. Be sure to ask your local shop about their current business policies to observe social distancing or other services they may offer, including holding or creating pull lists, curbside pick-ups, special deliveries, and other options to accommodate. Find and support your local comic book shop at ComicShopLocator.com or by visiting Marvel.com/LoveComicShops.
For digital comics, all purchases in the Marvel Comics app can be read on iPhone®, iPad® and select Android™ devices! Our smart-paneling feature provides an intuitive reader experience, ideal for all types of mobile device and tablet users! Download the app on iOS and Android now!
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Northern VirginiaNews4's Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey has been covering this side of the state since joining NBC4 in 1992. She's joined by reporter Drew Wilder.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ SuperCom Ltd. (SPCB) on Thursday reported a loss of $5.4 million in its fourth quarter.
The Tel Aviv, Israel-based company said it had a loss of 32 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 1 cent per share.
The traditional and digital identity solutions provider posted revenue of $3 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $10.1 million, or 38 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $12.3 million.
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Noongar Wadandi artist Sandra Hill to open ‘extremely personal’ and educational exhibit
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Review: YOU WON'T BE ALONE, Extraordinary Terror
Sara Klimoska, Anamaria Marinca and Noomi Rapace star in a stunningly-realized horror drama, directed by Goran Stolevski.
If you need any more evidence that the horror genre not only contains multitudes, but also remains incredibly malleable, look no further than writer-director Goran Stolevski’s stunningly realized feature-length debut, You Won’t Be Alone.
A supernaturally-themed horror film with a distinctly Malickian flavor, You Won’t Be Alone filters a surprisingly touching, poignant exploration of the shifting nature of identity, gender (and fluidity thereof), and humanity itself through the singularly conceived and thrillingly executed point-of-view of a rebelliously inquisitive witch, the proverbial outsider, pariah, and exile from the patriarchal social order, across several decades in pre-industrial Macedonia. It’s also a story of abuse, of escaping the physical and emotional abuse of failed mothers and failed mother figures and finding unconditional love in partnership and family.
You Won’t Be Alone opens sometime in the early 19th century, long before the industrial revolution or machinery of any kind remade agriculture into a commercial venture operated for capitalistic profit. The unnamed characters we initially meet have no names, just identities circumscribed by their limited experiences as farmer, field worker, wife, or mother.
For one woman, seemingly alone after giving birth (she immediately returns to work), motherhood comes at an extraordinary cost: A centuries-old, shape-shifting witch, Old Maid Maria (Anamaria Marinca), selects the woman’s infant daughter as her successor and companion. The woman desperately attempts to bargain with the witch, arguing for and receiving a 16-year extension, hoping to save her daughter somehow in the intervening years.
She fails, of course, but her decision, born out of desperation and love, leaves her daughter, Nevena (Sara Klimoska), in a nearly feral state. Raised inside a literal mountain, protected by Christian icons painted on the walls, Nevena grows up without any contact beyond her fearful, abusive mother. When, inevitably, the witch reappears to claim Nevena as her own, Nevena leaves the mountain with a new, far more abusive maternal figure.
Defined by her envy, jealousy, and hatred of the humans who not only exiled her from their company, but also attempted to burn her to death, the witch treats Nevena less like a daughter and more like the cattle she hunts for sustenance. Nevena’s natural wide-eyed innocence and naïveté gives her a kind of protective barrier or shield from her false mother’s abusive imprecations.
Inevitably, they part ways, but the witch, despite her contempt for the faux-daughter who rejected her, hovers perpetually nearby, ready at a moment’s notice to interfere or interrupt Nevena’s emotional or persona growth. Inheriting her faux-mother’s ability to shape-change — a gnarly, viscera-filled transformation that involves the death, intentional or inadvertent, of the individual Nevena hopes to imitate — gives her temporary cover from her faux-mother’s destructive urges.
It’s there, in the skins she wears and the organs she consumes, that Nevena begins to live one life after another, sometimes female (Noomi Rapace initially, Alice Englert eventually), sometimes male, sometimes (almost) old, sometimes young, learning the pleasures and pains, the gains and losses, the joys and grief inherent in the human condition.
Stolevski consciously adopts a Malickian minimalism — ruminative, stream-of-consciousness, interior dialogue, a spiritual approach to nature and man (or woman’s) place in it — to tell Nevena’s extraordinary story over several unbroken decades that’s both universal in its specificity and singular in its particularity. Stolevski also ties Nevena’s journey closely to the changing seasons, the rhythms and rituals of daily Macedonian life.
Not surprisingly, the focus on those rhythms and rituals means that You Won’t Be Alone doesn’t follow conventional, plot-focused storytelling. It’s both looser and more focused than that, suggesting, like so much of Malick’s better work (A Hidden Life, The Tree of Life), that true, long-lasting meaning involves finding a form of transcendence in the everyday.
Review originally published during the Sundance Film Festival in January 2022. The film opens in the U.S. Friday, April 1, only in movie theaters, via Focus Features. Visit the official site for locations and showtimes, and to purchase tickets.
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https://screenanarchy.com/2022/03/review-you-wont-be-alone-extraordinary-terror.html
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Hoyer: House eying vote this week to ban Russian oil imports
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Monday that Democratic leaders could stage a vote within days on legislation to ban oil imports from Russia, whose invasion of Ukraine has sparked a global backlash.
“I think we could see it on the floor this week,” he told reporters in the Capitol.
Negotiators in both chambers announced earlier Monday that they’ve reached an agreement on a proposal to apply a series of new trade restrictions on both Russia and Belarus, including a ban on Russian fuel imports.
As recently as last week, President Biden was opposed to such a ban, with the White House concerned about its effect on domestic gas prices, which are already soaring as part of a larger inflationary trend. Yet the administration has softened that position since then, and there’s growing pressure from Capitol Hill — including from close allies such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — for the president to get on board.
Hoyer’s timeline to vote on the oil ban is actually even shorter than it sounds because House Democrats are leaving Washington on Wednesday for a three-day retreat in Philadelphia.
Additionally, lawmakers in both chambers are scrambling to seal a deal on a much larger government spending package, to which Democrats want to attach two major provisions: at least $10 billion in new aid to Ukraine and roughly twice that much to combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
A failure of Congress to act would lead to large portions of the federal government shutting down at the end of the day on Friday.
Hoyer said he expects the full package to be formally introduced on Tuesday, with the Rules Committee meeting the same day to send it to the floor. The vote, Hoyer added, can be “no later than Wednesday” because of the Democrats’ retreat.
With little time left, some lawmakers have suggested that Congress may have to pass another short-term funding patch, known as a continuing resolution, or CR, to prevent a shutdown on Friday. Hoyer said negotiators are racing to avoid that scenario.
“I certainly hope there’s no need for a CR,” he said.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri nonprofit that was at the center of a corruption probe that involved several legislators is paying more than $8 million to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under an agreement with prosecutors announced Thursday.
Federal prosecutors announced the non-prosecution agreement with Preferred Family Healthcare, which agreed to forfeit more than $6.9 million to the federal government and pay more than $1.1 million in restitution to Arkansas.
The Missouri-based mental health care provider operated 50 clinics throughout Arkansas until October 2018 and no longer operates in the state. Prosecutors on Thursday said under the agreement, PFH admitted that its former officers and employees conspired to embezzle funds from the charity and bribe Arkansas legislators.
Several former executives from the charity, former Arkansas legislators and other have pleaded guilty in federal court as part of the corruption probe.
A lobbyist pleaded guilty in 2019 to bribing three Arkansas lawmakers, including the governor’s nephew, to benefit PFH. The lobbyist, Rusty Cranford, was sentenced to seven years in prison and in August was released to serve the remainder of his sentence from home.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in 2020 announced the firm had reached $6.5 million in federal and state settlements following an investigation by Rutledge's office into false Medicaid claims made by former PFH employees.
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Firm-paying-8M-to-Arkansas-feds-over-corruption-17049727.php
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Afghan women traveling alone boarding flights despite Taliban ban
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan women unaccompanied by a male guardian have been allowed to board aircraft in the capital of Kabul since Saturday, airport officials said Tuesday, despite a Taliban order banning them from flying. There has been no official reversal of the order by the hard-liners in...
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Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle nearly completed two decades ago.
An international team described the first-ever sequencing of a complete human genome – the set of instructions to build and sustain a human being – in research published Thursday in the journal Science. The previous effort, celebrated across the world, was incomplete because DNA sequencing technologies of the day weren’t able to read certain parts of it. Even after updates, it was missing about 8% of the genome.
“Some of the genes that make us uniquely human were actually in this ‘dark matter of the genome’ and they were totally missed,” said Evan Eichler, a University of Washington researcher who participated in the current effort and the original Human Genome Project. “It took 20-plus years, but we finally got it done.”
Many — including Eichler’s own students — thought it had been finished already. “I was teaching them, and they said, ’Wait a minute. Isn’t this like the sixth time you guys have declared victory? I said, ’No, this time we really, really did it!”
Scientists said this full picture of the genome will give humanity a greater understanding of our evolution and biology while also opening the door to medical discoveries in areas like aging, neurodegenerative conditions, cancer and heart disease.
“We’re just broadening our opportunities to understand human disease,” said Karen Miga, an author of one of the six studies published Thursday.
The research caps off decades of work. The first draft of the human genome was announced in a White House ceremony in 2000 by leaders of two competing entities: an international publicly funded project led by an agency of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and a private company, Maryland-based Celera Genomics.
The human genome is made up of about 3.1 billion DNA subunits, pairs of chemical bases known by the letters A, C, G and T. Genes are strings of these lettered pairs that contain instructions for making proteins, the building blocks of life. Humans have about 30,000 genes, organized in 23 groups called chromosomes that are found in the nucleus of every cell.
Before now, there were “large and persistent gaps that have been in our map, and these gaps fall in pretty important regions,” Miga said.
Miga, a genomics researcher at the University of California-Santa Cruz, worked with Adam Phillippy of the National Human Genome Research Institute to organize the team of scientists to start from scratch with a new genome with the aim of sequencing all of it, including previously missing pieces. The group, named after the sections at the very ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, is known as the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium.
Their work adds new genetic information to the human genome, corrects previous errors and reveals long stretches of DNA known to play important roles in both evolution and disease. A version of the research was published last year before being reviewed by scientific peers.
“This is a major improvement, I would say, of the Human Genome Project,” doubling its impact, said geneticist Ting Wang of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who was not involved in the research.
Eichler said some scientists used to think unknown areas contained “junk.” Not him. “Some of us always believed there was gold in those hills,” he said. Eichler is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press’s health and science department.
Turns out that gold includes many important genes, he said, such as ones integral to making a person’s brain bigger than a chimp’s, with more neurons and connections.
To find such genes, scientists needed new ways to read life’s cryptic genetic language.
Reading genes requires cutting the strands of DNA into pieces hundreds to thousands of letters long. Sequencing machines read the letters in each piece and scientists try to put the pieces in the right order. That’s especially tough in areas where letters repeat.
Scientists said some areas were illegible before improvements in gene sequencing machines that now allow them to, for example, accurately read a million letters of DNA at a time. That allows scientists to see genes with repeated areas as longer strings instead of snippets that they had to later piece together.
Researchers also had to overcome another challenge: Most cells contain genomes from both mother and father, confusing attempts to assemble the pieces correctly. T2T researchers got around this by using a cell line from one “complete hydatidiform mole,” an abnormal fertilized egg containing no fetal tissue that has two copies of the father’s DNA and none of the mother’s.
The next step? Mapping more genomes, including ones that include collections of genes from both parents. This effort did not map one of the 23 chromosomes that is found in males, called the Y chromosome, because the mole contained only an X.
Wang said he’s working with the T2T group on the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, which is trying to generate “reference,” or template, genomes for 350 people representing the breadth of human diversity.
“Now we’ve gotten one genome right and we have to do many, many more,” Eichler said. “This is the beginning of something really fantastic for the field of human genetics.”
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https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/scientists-finally-finish-decoding-entire-human-genome/130455/
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Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE – Get Rating)‘s stock had its “outperform” rating reissued by analysts at William Blair in a research note issued to investors on Thursday, RTT News reports.
Several other brokerages also recently commented on BRZE. started coverage on shares of Braze in a report on Monday, December 13th. They set a “buy” rating and a $85.00 target price for the company. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Braze from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, February 21st. Piper Sandler reduced their target price on shares of Braze from $85.00 to $65.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Thursday. Barclays started coverage on shares of Braze in a report on Monday, December 13th. They set an “overweight” rating and a $95.00 target price for the company. Finally, Canaccord Genuity Group reduced their target price on shares of Braze from $85.00 to $60.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and fourteen have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Braze presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $74.23.
Shares of NASDAQ:BRZE traded down $2.11 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $41.47. The stock had a trading volume of 857,018 shares, compared to its average volume of 483,661. Braze has a 12 month low of $30.76 and a 12 month high of $98.78. The business has a 50-day moving average of $46.57.
In other news, General Counsel Susan Wiseman sold 4,785 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, January 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $67.24, for a total transaction of $321,743.40. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website.
A number of hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in BRZE. WINTON GROUP Ltd acquired a new position in Braze during the 4th quarter worth approximately $206,000. Renaissance Capital LLC acquired a new position in Braze during the 4th quarter worth approximately $277,000. Millennium Management LLC acquired a new position in Braze during the 4th quarter worth approximately $324,000. Geode Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in Braze during the 4th quarter worth approximately $328,000. Finally, BlackRock Inc. acquired a new position in Braze during the 4th quarter worth approximately $396,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 1.92% of the company’s stock.
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Record Pakistan run chase overshadows McDermott century
“The dew does play a little bit of a factor here. We saw a couple of our bowlers slip a bit and I actually slipped in the outfield and missed a couple of runs. We might need to change there.
“But credit where credit’s due, they batted beautifully tonight.”
The third and deciding one-day match can be in Lahore beginning on Saturday night time, with a Twenty20 sport on Wednesday morning Australian time ending the historic tour.
Australia had been at all times underneath strain defending their highest rating in Pakistan after Imam Ul Haq scored his second century in as many matches, 106 from simply 97 balls.
The huge distinction from Australia’s outstanding 88-run win two days earlier with a depleted facet was the best way Pakistan handled Australia’s main white ball spinner Adam Zampa.
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His 2-71 from 10 overs was a distinction to the 4-38 Zampa claimed within the opening match.
Captain Aaron Finch shuffled by seven bowlers with none making an influence on the flat floor.
Considered primarily a Twenty20 participant, McDermott, who scored 55 in sport one, has given himself an opportunity of being within the combine for subsequent yr’s 50-over World Cup.
Travis Head has additionally made probably the most of his recall to the one-day group after a four-year absence, coming shut to creating a second successive century.
Head adopted his 101 off 72 balls within the first match with 89 off 70 balls.
McDermott wasn’t even in Australia’s beginning line-up on this tour till Steve Smith was a late withdrawal with an elbow harm, Mitch Marsh suffered a hip harm and Josh Inglis and Ashton Agar had been dominated out on account of COVID-19.
Marnus Labuschagne (59 off 49 balls) and Marcus Stoinis (49 off 33 balls) additionally made important contributions.
After taking 12 balls to attain his first run, McDermott’s century got here 32 years after his father Craig McDermott claimed 5-44 on the identical floor.
Finch’s first ball duck to an inswinging full toss from Shaheen Afridi ended a productive sequence of 14 ODIs, going again to January 2020, during which he scored not less than double figures every time with two centuries, making 696 runs at 53.54.
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https://thewall.fyi/record-pakistan-run-chase-overshadows-mcdermott-century/
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LONDON (AP) — The British government is ending the supply of free rapid coronavirus tests to most of the population even though COVID-19 infections remain at record levels, and health officials warn the pandemic could still have nasty surprises in store.
More than 1.7 billion test kits have been handed out in workplaces, pharmacies and by mail over the past year, the government says, under a policy that encouraged people to test themselves regularly as a way to stamp out new outbreaks.
But starting Friday, most people in England will have to buy lateral flow tests from pharmacies or online suppliers.
Lateral flow tests use throat or nose swabs and give results in minutes, but are less accurate than the PCR swab tests used to officially confirm cases of COVID-19.
Tests will remain free for staff in high-risk settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and prisons, but under the government’s “Living with COVID” plan most other people in England will now have to pay. Some free testing will continue for several weeks in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Lawmaker Daisy Cooper, health spokeswoman for the opposition Liberal Democrats, said scrapping free tests would be another expense for people already coping with surging food and energy prices.
“It is a tax on caring for all those who want to do the right thing and get tested before visiting elderly or vulnerable relatives,” she said.
Critics also argue that the move comes at a dangerous time, with an estimated 1 in 16 people in England infected with the virus, according to the Office for National Statistics. There were 15,632 people in hospital in England with COVID-19 as of Wednesday, the highest number for more than three months.
The number of COVID-19 patients on ventilators remains low, however, and deaths are far below the peaks of previous waves in 2020 and 2021.
Britain has recorded more than 165,000 coronavirus deaths, the highest toll in Europe after Russia. The government lifted all remaining restrictions for England — including mask mandates, mandatory self-isolation for the infectious and testing for international travelers — earlier this year, even as omicron, the most transmissible variant yet, swept in.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is relying largely on vaccination and new treatments to keep the virus in check. Almost 92% of people age 12 and up in the U.K. have had two doses of a vaccine, and more than two-thirds have had a third, booster shot. Fourth doses are being given to the vulnerable and those aged 75 and over.
Jenny Harries, chief executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency, said the pandemic would “remain unpredictable to a large extent for the next, say, 18 months to two years.”
“We will have to be continuously alert to monitor those rates and to respond appropriately to any new variants,” she said. “But as with other respiratory viruses such as flu… at some point we have to come to terms with that.”
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https://www.kget.com/health/england-ends-free-virus-tests-under-living-with-covid-plan/
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri nonprofit that was at the center of a corruption probe that involved several legislators is paying more than $8 million to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under an agreement with prosecutors announced Thursday.
Federal prosecutors announced the non-prosecution agreement with Preferred Family Healthcare, which agreed to forfeit more than $6.9 million to the federal government and pay more than $1.1 million in restitution to Arkansas.
The Missouri-based mental health care provider operated 50 clinics throughout Arkansas until October 2018 and no longer operates in the state. Prosecutors on Thursday said under the agreement, PFH admitted that its former officers and employees conspired to embezzle funds from the charity and bribe Arkansas legislators.
Several former executives from the charity, former Arkansas legislators and other have pleaded guilty in federal court as part of the corruption probe.
A lobbyist pleaded guilty in 2019 to bribing three Arkansas lawmakers, including the governor’s nephew, to benefit PFH. The lobbyist, Rusty Cranford, was sentenced to seven years in prison and in August was released to serve the remainder of his sentence from home.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in 2020 announced the firm had reached $6.5 million in federal and state settlements following an investigation by Rutledge's office into false Medicaid claims made by former PFH employees.
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https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Firm-paying-8M-to-Arkansas-feds-over-corruption-17049727.php
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has granted a request from a northern Virginia school system to continue using a challenged admissions policy at a highly selective high school while it appeals a ruling that found the policy discriminates against Asian American students.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling Thursday that Fairfax County Public Schools can continue to use its new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton rejected the new policy in a February ruling, saying that impermissible “racial balancing” was at its core. Commonly known as “TJ,” the prestigious school near the nation’s capital is often ranked as one of the best public high schools in the country.
Earlier this month, Hilton also rejected a request from the school system to delay the implementation of his ruling. But the 4th Circuit, in a 3-2 ruling, said the school board had met the legal requirements for a suspension of Hilton's order while its appeal is pending.
The 4th Circuit panel agreed with school officials who argued that because the selection process for the incoming freshman class is well underway, implementing Hilton's ruling now would throw the process into chaos.
Judge Toby Heytens wrote that he has “grave doubts” about Hilton's conclusions "regarding both disparate impact and discriminatory purpose” of the new admissions policy.
“In my view, appellant Fairfax County School Board is likely to succeed in its appeal,” Heytens wrote.
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Allison Jones Rushing said putting Hilton's ruling on hold while the school board appeals his decision is not in the public interest. Jones said any logistical difficulties or inconvenience associated with changing the admissions policy at this late date “simply do not outweigh the infringement of constitutional rights.”
“And everyone — even temporarily frustrated applicants and their families — ultimately benefits from a public-school admissions process not tainted by unconstitutional discrimination,” Rushing wrote.
The case has been closely watched as courts continue to evaluate the role that racial considerations can play when deciding who should be admitted to a particular school. Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a similar case alleging that Harvard University discriminates against Asian Americans in its admissions process.
Fairfield County Public Schools said the order from the 4th Circuit allows the school board to continue with the current application process to select the Class of 2026 this spring.
“For the 2,500+ students in this application pool, this means the race blind process set out by the School Board in October 2020 will remain in place as an appeal challenging the February court decision plays out,” the board said in a news release.
The parents’ group Coalition for TJ, which filed the lawsuit, said the 4th Circuit judges have made a “grave error” in allowing the school system to continue to use its new admissions process.
“If the judges’ decision stands, we would see Fairfax County Public Schools usher in a second class of students to America’s No. 1 public high school through an unconstitutional race-based admissions process,” the coalition said in a statement.
For decades, Black and Hispanic students have been woefully underrepresented in the student body. After criticism over its lack of diversity, the school board scrapped a standardized test that had been at the heart of the admissions process and opted instead for a process that sets aside slots at each of the county’s middle schools. It also includes “experience factors” like socioeconomic background.
The parents’ group argued in its lawsuit that Asian Americans, who constituted more than 70% of the student body, were unfairly targeted in the new policy.
The school’s current freshman class, which was admitted under the new policy, saw a significantly different racial makeup. Black students increased from 1% to 7%; Hispanic representation increased from 3% to 11%. Asian American representation decreased from 73% to 54%.
The school system has insisted that its new policies are race neutral, and the panel evaluating applicants is not even aware of applicants’ race as it conducts its reviews.
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Disputed-school-admissions-policy-OK-d-pending-17049659.php
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Samurai Legends: GameFi in Feudal Japan
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Cape Coral, Florida–(Newsfile Corp. – March 31, 2022) – GameFi is the dynamic combination of gaming and decentralised finance. This innovation in the cryptocurrency space has given rise to an array of projects seeking to raise the bar for players and investors alike. Chain Pixel Labs, a newfound GameFi studio, has set out on a quest to build Samurai Legends-a first of its kind GameFi project with ambitious ideas.
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Despite being fresh to the GameFi scene, Chain Pixel Labs has an existing play-to-earn ecosystem in Samurai Rising. This straightforward yet fast-paced and competitive card game will be transformed into a persistent player-owned world full of strategy, warfare and even political intrigue.
Chain Pixel Labs has released an ambitious roadmap, introducing many concepts new to GameFi. While players can already experiment with ruling their own digital land, future updates will make the game revolutionary in its own right.
This transformation began to unfold on March 16th, when the project’s cryptocurrency, $SMG, started to launch across various platforms.
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Samurai Legends was born from several key strategic partnerships-notably Crypto Gaming United (CGU). The billion-dollar crypto gaming platform has committed to onboarding 25,000 new players, potentially making Samurai Legends one of the biggest GameFi projects in town.
In addition, CGU will be investing $2,000,000 into the project, giving Chain Pixel Labs everything they need to focus on their ambitious roadmap full-time. With financial backing, a massive player base and exciting ideas, Samurai Legends has everything it needs not just to survive-but thrive well into the future.
David, the new CEO of Chain Pixel Labs, has joined the expanding number of tech engineers who have left prestigious FAANG professions for a once-in-a-generation opportunity to develop the future of finance. A project that was previously constrained by time restrictions and economic realities now has everything it requires to not just function-but thrive.
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https://www.thewhig.com/newsfile/118856-samurai-legends-gamefi-in-feudal-japan
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Guess Q3 2021 Earnings Preview
- Guess (NYSE:GES) is scheduled to announce Q3 earnings results on Wednesday, December 2nd, after market close.
- The consensus EPS Estimate is $0.05 (-77.3% Y/Y) and the consensus Revenue Estimate is $515.58M (-16.3% Y/Y).
- Over the last 2 years, GES has beaten EPS estimates 63% of the time and has beaten revenue estimates 50% of the time.
- Over the last 3 months, EPS estimates have seen 3 upward revisions and 2 downward. Revenue estimates have seen 0 upward revisions and 5 downward.
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https://seekingalpha.com/news/3640445-guess-q3-2021-earnings-preview
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By Anthony O. Goriainoff
Shares in Toople PLC rose on Thursday after the company said that its performance in the first half of fiscal 2022 was positive, and that it expects its revenue and gross profit will increase as the U.K. economy learns to live with Covid-19 and returns to normal.
Shares at 0710 GMT were up 0.01 pence, or 27%, at 0.03 pence.
The London-listed provider of telecom services to U.K. businesses said that revenue in the first quarter of the year ending Sept. 30 rose by 9% when compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2021, as the overall demand for its services remained strong. The company said this translated into gross profit growth of 17%, and a 19% improvement in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization from 4Q to 1Q.
This momentum has carried on into the second quarter of 2022, and orders in March were particularly strong, the company said.
Toople said it was experiencing an increase in high-bandwidth leased-line orders, and that this had significantly higher values and greater margins than its core broadband orders.
It added that it was growing the business without substantially increasing the cost of customer acquisition, and that its fixed operating costs remained stable.
"We are well-positioned to capitalize on new opportunities that are presenting themselves in light of the more positive business environment," the company said.
Write to Anthony O. Goriainoff at anthony.orunagoriainoff@dowjones.com
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3 men accused in 2015 robbery, killing of UK student plead guilty in case
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Three men, accused of killing a UK student during a “robbery gone wrong” pleaded guilty in the case Thursday morning.
According to Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, Justin Smith, Roman Gonzalez and Efrain Diaz Jr. pleaded guilty in connection with the robbery and shooting of Jonathan Krueger back in 2015.
The 22-year-old was a journalism student at UK. He and a friend were walking near campus when investigators say Smith, Gonzalez and Diaz approached them. Krueger’s friend was able to get away during the robbery, but Jonathan was shot.
Gonzalez pleaded guilty to murder and two counts of robbery. Smith pleaded guilty to manslaughter, robbery and evading police. Diaz pleaded guilty to robbery.
The trial for all three had been on hold while an appeal over the death penalty played out with the state Supreme Court.
A judge had taken the death penalty off the table in the case because of how old Diaz and Smith were at the time of the murder. Diaz was 20 and Smith was 18.
Defense attorneys argued their brains were not fully developed at the time. The Commonwealth challenged that ruling, but prosecutors eventually decided they would no longer seek the death penalty.
The sentencing hearing has been scheduled for April 28.
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OLYMPIA, Wash., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Financial Corporation ("Company" or "Heritage") (Nasdaq: HFWA) anticipates issuing its first quarter earnings release on Thursday, April 21, 2022 before the market opens. The Company has scheduled a telephone conference call to discuss the first quarter on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time (2:00 p.m. Eastern time).
To access the conference call, call the numbers listed below:
The conference call will be recorded and will be available following the live conference call for replay twenty-four hours a day ending April 28, 2022. Questions regarding the conference call may be directed to Kaylene Lahn at 360-943-1500.
About Heritage Financial
Heritage Financial Corporation is an Olympia-based bank holding company with Heritage Bank, a full-service commercial bank, as its sole wholly-owned banking subsidiary. Heritage Bank has a branching network of 49 banking offices in Washington and Oregon. Heritage Bank also does business under the Whidbey Island Bank name on Whidbey Island. Heritage's stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "HFWA". More information about Heritage Financial Corporation can be found on its website at www.hf-wa.com and more information about Heritage Bank can be found on its website at www.heritagebanknw.com.
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Shortly after noon Thursday, all 15 Saint Peter’s men’s basketball players squeezed into two vans and rode 12 miles west to Seton Hall’s campus, where they entered through a side door to Walsh Gymnasium. Shaheen Holloway, who led them to an Elite Eight appearance four days earlier, was no longer their coach, but they took him up on the invitation to visit his new home.
When the Peacocks entered, the general public stood and cheered. To start his speech, Holloway called attention to his former team again. He encouraged applause but demanded that Seton Hall supporters raise the tribute a few decibels.
“Pirate Nation, you can do better than that!” he said.
Holloway, 45, wasted no time getting back to coaching in a gym he knew well. He was joined by his wife, Kim, who he met as an undergraduate, and his nine-year-old son, Xavier, who is named after the dormitory where Shaheen met Kim. When the formal part of the ceremony was over, Xavier and his brother, Tyson, 2, rushed the stage to celebrate with their father. Holloway, who played at Seton Hall from 1996-2000 and coached another eight seasons on campus, turned his attention to the 10 Pirates seated in the front two rows.
“I hope you guys are ready to work,” he said. “No shortcuts, no nothing.”
Saint Peter’s senior forward KC Ndefo nodded as he listened to the familiar words. The message was the same Holloway had shared with him four years earlier, when Ndefo was part of Holloway’s first recruiting class. Holloway had gathered his Peacocks together for one last team meeting at 3 p.m. Wednesday. After he informed them that he would be departing for Seton Hall, they recalled hard lessons, light moments and lampooned Holloway’s coaching quirks from a four-year journey that started in a dank gymnasium and concluded in the national spotlight.
In the last month, the Peacocks’ historic run as the first No. 15 seed to reach the Elite Eight elevated Holloway from a MAAC coach with a 54-54 record in four seasons to the coach that won a MAAC Championship and beat Kentucky, Murray State and Purdue in the NCAA Tournament. The 20-point defeat to North Carolina in the East regional final did not detract from the team’s appreciation of what they had accomplished. In the era of the transfer portal, he encouraged the Peacocks, who can return five juniors who were key to this season’s success, to “stick together because they have some more history to be made.”
“When I talked to the team and I told them I was coming here, they made it so easy because they understood why I was making the decision,” Holloway said. “Those guys changed my life, and I appreciate it.”
Rachelle Paul, the current athletic director at Saint Peter’s, also worked at Seton Hall previously, and was on hand for Holloway’s introduction. She noted that she will be conducting a national search that is “wide open” as she begins to gather candidates.
Four years ago, Holloway was an associate coach to Kevin Willard when Bryan Felt, then the Saint Peter’s athletics director who had worked in the Seton Hall athletics department, brought him to the small Jesuit university in Jersey City. Felt, who was in the second year at Saint Peter’s, had lost John Dunne, who coached Saint Peter’s to the NCAA Tournament in 2011 and worked at the school for 12 years, to Marist, a MAAC rival. Dunne’s replacement was Felt’s first big hire, and he interviewed 16 candidates in seven days while performing due diligence. Felt met with Holloway six times, several of those conversations coming at Starbucks in between a campus visit in the surrounding area.
Holloway and Felt worked together for one year before Felt left Saint Peter’s to become Seton Hall’s athletic director. When it came time to replace Willard, who left for Maryland on March 21 after 12 seasons at Seton Hall, Felt focused on one candidate. Recognizing the heightened profile Holloway enjoyed in light of the NCAA Tournament success, Felt invited Holloway to his house to close the contract negotiations.
“This time around I couldn’t go to a Starbucks with him because he was too damn famous,” Felt said. “I was like, we can’t go anywhere, just come to my house, you’re all Hollywood now.”
Holloway keeps an even keel and tight inner circle. His brother, Deshawn, was present for his Seton Hall arrival, and it had been an emotional week for the family. On Sunday, their maternal grandmother, Dorothy, died from lung cancer. She had raised Holloway and his two siblings in the South Jamaica section of Queens, and grew so enamored with the Pirates’ royal blue uniforms during Holloway’s career at Seton Hall that she wore a royal blue nightgown that she called “Shaheen Blue.” He learned of her death a few hours before tipoff of the North Carolina game. She asked to be buried in blue as one of her last requests.
“I can’t be happy right now like I want to be because of that,” he said. “She was the closest thing to God to me.”
Holloway pivoted quickly. On Wednesday night, Felt walked into Walsh Gymnasium and noted that Holloway was in his office around 9 p.m.
“To tell you the truth, I’m exhausted,” Holloway said. “I’m drained, emotionally drained, physically drained. I’ve got to lay my grandmother to rest. That’s all I’m worried about right now.”
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FOLLOWING months of talks between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the New York-based World Trade Centre Association (WTCA), and Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), Guyana will be the host of the first World Trade Centre (WTC) in the Caribbean, according to a release from DDL’s spokesperson.
“DDL recently secured a license to establish a World Trade Center in Guyana and will transform its building in High Street Kingston into the centre which will provide a range of opportunities for local businesses and organizations to enhance their networking capabilities globally,” the release on Thursday said, adding: “Work on the interior redesign of the building has already begun.”
Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Oneidge Walrond will attend the official virtual announcement and handing over of the license next Tuesday, the release further added. Georgetown Mayor, Ubraj Narine; WTCA Chairman, John Drew; and DDL Executive Chairman, Komal Samaroo will be among the speakers at the event.
There are over 320 World Trade Centers in more than 100 countries on every continent globally, the DDL spokesperson said.
“The World Trade Centers Association (WTCA) stimulates trade and investment opportunities for commercial property developers, economic development agencies, and international businesses looking to connect globally and prosper locally.
“The association serves as an ‘international ecosystem’ of global connections, iconic properties, and integrated trade services under the umbrella of a prestigious brand.
The exclusive ‘World Trade Center’ and ‘WTC’ branded properties and trade service organizations are located in more than 100 countries and supported by 15,000 WTC professionals that deliver integrated, reciprocal resources to meet the needs of small, medium and large enterprises,” the release further said.
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LSU basketball guard Eric Gaines enters the transfer portal | Report
LSU basketball guard Eric Gaines has entered the transfer portal, according to On3 Sports.
Gaines, a sophomore, averaged 9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 34 games for LSU this past season. The year before, he played in all 29 games and averaged 2.5 points.
At 6-foot-2 and 150 pounds, Gaines was a four-star recruit and the No. 102 recruit in the nation out of high school, attending Lithonia in Georgia.
Gaines is the ninth LSU player to enter the transfer portal this offseason, joining forward Shareef O'Neal, guard Xavier Pinson, guard Brandon Murray, center Efton Reid, forward Bradley Ezewiro, guard Adam Miller, center Jerrell Colbert and guard Justice Williams. Senior forward Darius Days and sophomore forward Tari Eason have also declared for the NBA Draft.
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The transfer portal activity surrounding LSU's program comes in light of the Tigers hiring Murray State coach Matt McMahon. McMahon was hired 12 days after LSU fired coach Will Wade just days after the university received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA.
LSU has also added two players from the portal in Northwestern State center Kendal Coleman and Murray State guard Justice Hill.
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The sunglasses Paul Walker had been wearing when he died in a car crash are set to be returned to his family.
The Maui Jim shades belonged to the Fast and Furious star, who died at the age of 40 in 2013 after a car he was in crashed into a lamppost and two trees in California.
The sunglasses are currently in the possession of Zak Bagans, who owns The Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, after a fan tried to flog them a year after the star died.
Fans had been left furious after a bystander discovered the sunglasses near to where Walker died and tried to auction them for $15,000 (£11,400), but the item never sold.
Bagans purchased the sunglasses earlier this year and wants to return them to Walker’s family for free, but the paranormal enthusiast will ask for permission to display them in his museum if the family do not want them back, TMZ reports.
The museum attraction contains 30 themed rooms containing objects including Charles Manson’s bone fragments and The Conjuring 3 movie’s real-life devil’s rocking chair.
Walker died in November 2013 after getting in a Porsche driven by friend Roger Rodas to head to a charity event.
The pair were both killed in the single-vehicle collision after the car hit a lamppost, with the speed – between 80 and 93mph – and the age of the tyres being ruled as the primary reasons for the crash.
The car burst into flames after the collision, killing both men, with Walker’s death being ruled as a combined result of the trauma and burns.
Walker was cremated and his ashes were buried in a non-denominational ceremony at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
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The Tangled Web of Black Widow
Writer Kelly Thompson details the drama of Marvel’s top superspy and how she has thrived against adversity in her ongoing series!
Since inheriting the reins of Black Widow with the launch of her latest series BLACK WIDOW (2020), writer Kelly Thompson has been unafraid to put Natasha Romanoff through the wringer, physically as well as emotionally. While it’s been a rough fifteen issues for one of Marvel’s most lethal ladies, the stories produced by Thompson in concert with interior artist Elena Casagrande and colorist Jordie Bellaire have proven a bounty for fans of the character.
With the conclusion of the four-part “Die by the Blade” arc in BLACK WIDOW #15, it seemed as opportune a time as any to take Thompson to task. On the red ledger: Items including the loss of Nat’s idyllic family and the new makeshift group that may have taken its place, as well as her expanding rogues gallery and what to expect in upcoming stories.
What were your goals for Black Widow when you took on this assignment?
KELLY THOMPSON: I wanted to tell a story that would fundamentally change Natasha as a person, without permanently changing her exterior circumstances—i.e. she still needed to be an active spy and Super Hero with a complicated, thrilling, dangerous life. I felt the best way to do that was giving her an emotional experience that she didn’t expect but that was real for her—that would change how she viewed both herself and the world.
Why was it important to give Natasha this vulnerability of a lost family?
KELLY THOMPSON: I think it just changes the way she sees things and how she wants to connect to things. After losing them, I think a different Natasha would have gone on a personal revenge rampage—and been totally justified in doing that. But knowing she has a son still living somewhere in this world, instead she wanted to make a different choice—she wanted to make the world better and save more people from tragic ends.
As long as you’re writing the character, will James and Stevie continue to weigh on Natasha in some way?
KELLY THOMPSON: I mean, I hope that her connection to them and how she feels about it all will continue to organically evolve—it will get easier for her and she’ll get used to the loss, but it will always be a small piece of her that’s missing—that she regrets losing, but doesn’t regret having, even if it was painful.
Why build a support team around Natasha? Do you feel like this still allows her to shine as a lead character?
KELLY THOMPSON: As anyone that reads my work knows, I like to build a strong supporting cast around a headlining character—but in Natasha’s case, after her loss, she was literally trying to build herself a new family. She didn’t do it consciously, but it is what she did, especially in how she tried to protect Lucy from her dangerous world and give her some choices that a younger Natasha didn’t have. But Nat was conscious of needing to not go all lone wolf after what happened to her. When Yelena Belova decided to stay beside her in issue #5—that was huge for Nat. Yelena knew Nat needed her but it was basically left unsaid between them. I love that.
How did you select the characters who have become part of the extended cast?
KELLY THOMPSON: Yelena is the long-lost “sister,” so you don’t get much more family than that when it comes to Nat—she was a given. Lucy was the new face in her life, and in a way, a stand-in for Stevie—someone for Nat to protect and guide. Anya Corazon was partly because we needed a bit of levity and partly because I loved the way Kelly Sue DeConnick and Warren Ellis wrote Nat and Anya together in [2012’s AVENGERS ASSEMBLE]. The chemistry there was magical, so capturing even a little bit of that was great—and I thought Anya would be an excellent “sister” for Lucy. When the boys (Hawkeye: Clint Barton and Winter Soldier) joined back up for our third arc, it honestly just felt perfect.
What is your favorite element that Yelena brings to the book?
KELLY THOMPSON: Everything! I love Yelena. It’s always fun to write a character that says whatever they think and feels fine about it. Brutal truth. It doesn’t work for every character but the ones it does work for, are very fun to write. Anything can happen in a scene with someone like that!
What added dimension does it give Natasha to have two exes as part of her circle?
KELLY THOMPSON: I love that Winter Soldier and Hawkeye draw different things out of Natasha. It’s hard for me to pair her off with either of them romantically because I value the depth of their bonds together—all of them—that level of friendship and devotion even feels more intense to me than just “romantic love.” In the end, Natasha needs both of these men, and I think they need her. But there’s no easy answer to pairing anyone off in this scenario... which makes for good stories, but I know as a fan can also be frustrating.
Why was it important to build a new rogues' gallery for Black Widow with additions like Apogee, the Host, and the Twins?
KELLY THOMPSON: Rogues’ galleries make or break a character long term, so I’m always looking to build those up and make them stronger with any character I work on—usually by both creating new villains with good potential and picking up old ones and giving them fresh new stories. In the case of Natasha I used and highlighted a lot of old foes in the first arc, but wanted to push forward into new territory for our next two arcs, since she was literally in “new” territory with San Francisco.
Specifically, where did the idea for the Living Blade come from? He’s such a neat idea.
KELLY THOMPSON: I think it was mostly two things. First, I wanted someone that Natasha was really genuinely afraid of—and in order to do that, I felt it had to have begun for her long ago—which is how we ended up doing that whole flashback issue to establish him. I think it was a really fun way to do the arc and I think it set issue #14 up to be incredibly tense—even before that shocking last page! Secondly, in action movies, the “Big Bad” is rarely the “great fighter”—it’s almost always the “right hand man” that gives the better fight scene, and I wanted to play with that idea. We still had a “Big Bad” in the Host, but she’s dealt with fairly easily and the Living Blade ends up being the immediate danger for our heroes.
Where did the impetus to break up this arc with a flashback introducing the Living Blade emerge from?
KELLY THOMPSON: The idea was that it was an unconventional and unexpected way to introduce a villain—to do a whole issue flashback in the middle of an arc—and doing something new is exciting and we were all really into it! But the idea originally just came from a practical issue, which was that we knew Elena would not be able to do all four issues in the arc. She hadn’t had enough of a head-start from the last arc. So it was a practical problem in need of an elegant solution... and I love that editor Sarah Brunstad trusted us enough to try it. Very happy with how it all turned out!
Elena Casagrande and Jordie Bellaire make for an absolutely badass art team. What are the best parts of working with them?
KELLY THOMPSON: They’re incredible. The best thing about working with them, other than the fact that they’re lovely and easy to work with, is that I just never have to worry about what they’re going to do. I know what they do will be brilliant and beautiful and make my work so much better than it otherwise would have been.
How does your creative process on BLACK WIDOW differ from other books you’ve worked on?
KELLY THOMPSON: I think it’s pretty similar, except that our team on BLACK WIDOW was a little more consistent. On CAPTAIN MARVEL we tend to have to rotate between artists for arcs—and we’ve been very lucky to get amazing artists there—but it’s not the same as working with the same people over fifteen issues.
What did Rafael Pimentel bring to the table for the Madripoor flashback issue?
KELLY THOMPSON: We knew we needed someone who could bring a different look and style to the book for the flashback issue—and who could really deliver awesome energy for what we knew would be almost entirely one long fight scene—and Rafael was so up to the challenge! When you add the fantastically powerful “period” coloring that Jordie did on the issue, I think it’s truly a special issue—definitely not the kind of comic you see every day.
Finally, how important are Adam Hughes’ gorgeous covers for this book?
KELLY THOMPSON: It’s everything! Adam has so embraced us; it’s been such a gift. To have Adam’s stunning work as the image we present to the world is honestly like winning the comic book lottery—and for him to get so into the book that he’s really paying attention to the story we’re telling, and the way he’s integrating text into the covers—it’s all so next level.
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For years from late fall to spring, hordes of crows roost at Shirlington Village, leaving behind a very messy, unsanitary situation, but the company that manages the area is trying something new to move them along.
During the day, the crows around Shirlington Village are scattered about, but from dusk until dawn hundreds gather in the trees, coating restaurant tables, streets and sidewalks with crow drippings. Resident Adele Crump said she can’t use her balcony anymore.
“Oh my God, it’s to the point now I don’t even try to clean it, because it’s just too much,” she said.
It’s also too much for businesses there to deal with.
The real estate company that manages the area hired a wildlife removal company with a track record of encouraging crows and other birds to move on.
This week at sunset the company is fogging areas where the crows congregate. The food grade chemical being sprayed smells like grape Kool-Aid, and crows hate it.
“We’re just hoping that for this small area that we will be able to persuade them to go elsewhere,” Shirlington Civic Association President Edie Wilson said.
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The company in charge of the fogging says the goal is to passively and humanely deter the birds. It’s been hired to clear out birds at FBI headquarters and Dulles International Airport.
Crow lovers worry about the impact on their feathered friends.
“For crows and all birds, it acts on their nervous system,” said Sam Sparks of Diva Crows, a wildlife rehabilitation group. “So, it’s an irritant in their eyes, their beaks and their throats.”
She also said the timing is bad as some birds are already starting to nest.
A Shirlington artist weighed in with a painting to show sympathy for the crows.
“This is saying, you know, where are they going to go?” Micky Stack said. “Where are we going to go people?”
Even without the fogging, the crows will be migrating soon, leaving Shirlington behind. Businesses there hope the crows will remember the foul smell of the grape fog and find a new roost in the fall.
The owners of the company doing the fogging stress the chemical has no impact on humans.
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NEW YORK (AP) —The following list shows the Nasdaq stocks that have gone up the most and down the most based on percent of change for 2021. No securities trading below 1000 shares are included. Net and percentage change are the difference be- tween last year's closing price and this year's closing. Changes for issues added during the year are calcu- lated from closing prices on the first trading day. UPS Name PEHighLowLastChg.Pct. 1CiscoSys 19 46.74 44.15 46.25 +1.38 + 3.1 2AppleIncs 33 128.72 117.57 121.42 +.16 + .1 3Intel 12 63.14 57.91 60.74 — .04 — .1 4Microsoft 37 237.47 224.26 231.60 — .78 — .3 DOWNS Name PEHighLowLastChg.Pct. 1Microsoft 37 237.47 224.26 231.60 — .78 — .3 2Intel 12 63.14 57.91 60.74 — .04 — .1 3AppleIncs 33 128.72 117.57 121.42 +.16 + .1 4CiscoSys 19 46.74 44.15 46.25 +1.38 + 3.1 —————————
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THE CONTRACTOR Digital Code Giveaway
Chris Pine stars in the action-packed thriller as Special Forces Sergeant James Harper, who is involuntarily discharged from the Army and cut-off from his pension. In debt, out of options and desperate to provide for his family, Harper contracts with a private underground military force. When the very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him. Also starring Kiefer Sutherland, Ben Foster, Gillian Jacobs and Eddie Marsan.
Tarik Saleh's action flick, The Contractor starring Chris Pine, arrives in theaters, on digital and ON DEMAND, tomorrow April 1st. While weekend box office numbers are terrific and all, if you can hold off for a couple days you could win a Paramount Movies digital code in our giveaway.
We have two (2) Paramount Movies digital codes to give away this weekend. To enter is simple. Find the answer our fact finding question below and email us here with the answer. This giveaway is open to resident of the U.S. and limited to one per household. Ready?
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HONOLULU (AP) — A man accused with his wife of trafficking a mother and teenaged girl to Hawaii from Guam pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Kevin Robert pleaded not guilty to labor trafficking charges, according to his attorney, Tim Rakieten. His wife, Pomerrine Robert, pleaded not guilty last week. Kevin Robert's arraignment was postponed then because he requested a Chuukese interpreter.
“I need sufficient time to review the case, and review with him, before I can comment any further,” Rakieten said.
State Public Defender James Tabe, whose office represents Pomerrine Robert, has previously declined to comment.
Police alleged in court documents that when the 15-year-old girl and her mother arrived in Honolulu, the Roberts took away their passports, forced them to work and beat them.
Court documents don't specify the country of the passports.
The girl and her mother lived in the couple's apartment, while the teen enrolled at a high school and the woman got a job at a deli where Pomerrine Robert also worked, the documents said.
The documents said Robert took away the mother’s money, the girl was expected to clean the apartment and Robert beat the girl and mother.
The couple locked the girl in a bedroom for several days and she reported it to a school counselor after she was let out, according to the documents.
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Husband-pleads-not-guilty-in-Hawaii-Guam-17049732.php
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Of the 53 members of Texas’ 2019 recruiting class, over 30 of those players have transferred to another program or medically retired.
Steve Sarkisian was aware of the mass exodus from Tom Herman’s recruiting class prior to accepting the Texas job, and the Longhorns clearly lacked leadership and experience last season due to it.
The latest member of Texas’ 2019 recruiting class to leave the program is former four-star offensive lineman Tyler Johnson. On3’s Matt Zenitz announced on Thursday that Johnson has entered the NCAA transfer portal.
Johnson redshirted his freshman season, appeared in one game as a sophomore in the Valero Alamo Bowl against Colorado, and did not play last season under Sarkisian’s staff.
The Conroe native was rated the No. 8 offensive tackle in the country and the No. 9 overall prospect in the state of Texas for the 2019 recruiting class, according to 247Sports.
The Longhorns brought in one of the top offensive line hauls in program history for the 2022 class, likely pushing Johnson further down the depth chart.
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OpenPose is an open-source multi-person detection system supporting the body, hand, foot, and facial key points. The method used in the paper uses a nonparametric representation called Part Affinity Fields (PAF) This approach uses the location and orientation of body parts to encode unstructured pairwise relationships between the body parts of...
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Trump rips Barr in letter to NBC’s Lester Holt
Former President Trump ridiculed his former attorney general, William Barr, in a letter to NBC News anchor Lester Holt over the weekend.
“I made many great appointments during my Administration, and we accomplished more than most Administrations could even dream of, but Bill Barr was not one of my better picks,” Trump wrote. “He crumbled under the pressure, and bowed to the Radical Left—And that is not acceptable. Now he is groveling for the media, hoping to gain acceptance that he doesn’t deserve.”
The former president’s comments come days after Barr granted an extensive interview to Holt and NBC. Trump’s letter, sent to the anchor at the network’s studios in Manhattan, was first obtained by Axios.
Holt and the NBC News team had apparently asked Trump and his representatives for comment on a number of the statements Barr made during his sit-down interview with the anchor, which comes as the former head of the Justice Department promotes a new book about his time spent in Trump’s administration.
“With respect to prosecuting political rivals, it was just the opposite,” Trump said in one of his responses. “Despite the many crimes committed by the Biden family, I did not push Barr to go after them. While the things done were legendarily corrupt, I thought it would be inappropriate for me to get personally involved.”
During an interview on NBC’s “Today” show Monday morning, Barr called Trump’s letter “par for the course.”
“The president is a man who, when he is told something, he doesn’t want to hear, he immediately throws a tantrum,” Barr added.
Last week, Barr told Holt said he believes Trump was responsible “in a broad sense” for the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when the former president’s supporters stormed the Capitol.
“I think the whole idea was to intimidate Congress, and I think that that was wrong,” Barr said.
After portions of the interview aired late last week, Trump lashed out at Barr, calling him “weak” and “ineffective.”
“Former Attorney General Bill Barr wouldn’t know voter fraud if it was staring him in the face – and it was,” Trump said.
— Updated at 7:55 a.m.
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Red Cross confirms strike on Mariupol warehouse, unable to deliver aid since March 15
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that its warehouse in Ukraine’s Mariupol was certainly targeted in a Russian strike on Wednesday and revealed that it has not been capable of ship help as a consequence of “the intensity of the fighting” within the besieged metropolis.
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“We can confirm that an image being circulated online shows damage to the ICRC warehouse in Mariupol,” the ICRC stated in an e-mail addressed to the media late Wednesday because of the excessive quantity of enquiries on the matter.
“We do not have a team on the ground there, so have no other information on potential casualties or the extent of the damage.”
The Red Cross stated that it distributed all of the provides from that warehouse, which included medical provides for hospitals and aid provides for folks in shelters, earlier this month, including that no ICRC workers have been within the warehouse since March 15.
“No ICRC staff have been at the warehouse since 15 March, and we don’t know how it’s been used since,” the assertion learn, revealing that the worldwide help group has been unable to ship help because of the “intensity of the fighting and the absence of functional agreement between the parties [Ukraine and Russia] to allow for safe passage of humanitarian assistance.”
Images are circulating of our warehouse broken in #Mariupol.
We do not need firsthand data of what occurred.
But proper now, tens of 1000’s are trapped within the metropolis and need assistance.
They urgently want a protected passage out. We want to have the ability to safely carry them help.
— ICRC (@ICRC) March 30, 2022
The ICRC facility in the besieged and destroyed port city of Mariupol was struck on Wednesday, AFP reported, the place officers have warned of an unfolding humanitarian disaster.
Russian forces have encircled the strategic southern metropolis and their shelling has killed at the least 5,000 folks, officers say, estimating complete deaths may very well be as many as 10,000.
A service member of pro-Russian troops walks close to an condominium constructing destroyed in the middle of Ukraine-Russia battle within the besieged southern port metropolis of Mariupol, Ukraine March 28, 2022. (Reuters)
“Under international humanitarian law, objects used for humanitarian relief operations must be respected and protected at all times. We are concerned that even a building with a red cross on it can be seriously damaged. Civilian infrastructure, hospitals and medical personnel cannot be targeted. The parties must do everything in their power to avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas and protect civilians against the effects of attacks,” the ICRC stated.
“But what we are most outraged by is the overall humanitarian situation in Mariupol and the relentless suffering inflicted on civilians living there. People are trapped with no safe way out of the city, and they are running out of the very basics needed for their survival. This must change.”
Aid teams have repeatedly referred to as for entry to Mariupol as situations proceed to deteriorate and Ukrainian authorities officers have accused Russian forces of forcibly deporting the town’s residents to Russia, AFP reported on Wednesday.
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nCino (NASDAQ:NCNO – Get Rating) updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $-0.320-$-0.310 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $-0.100. The company issued revenue guidance of $398 million-$400 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $336.36 million.nCino also updated its Q1 2023 guidance to $-0.080-$-0.070 EPS.
Several equities analysts have weighed in on the company. Barclays lowered their target price on nCino from $70.00 to $58.00 and set an equal weight rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, January 11th. Truist Financial lowered their target price on nCino from $100.00 to $90.00 and set a buy rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, December 2nd. Zacks Investment Research upgraded nCino from a sell rating to a hold rating in a report on Saturday, March 5th. Piper Sandler reduced their price target on nCino from $97.00 to $80.00 and set an overweight rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, January 12th. Finally, KeyCorp reduced their price target on nCino from $75.00 to $60.00 and set an overweight rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 25th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, nCino currently has an average rating of Buy and a consensus price target of $73.85.
Shares of NCNO traded down $2.02 on Thursday, reaching $40.98. 1,485,807 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 961,098. The firm has a market cap of $3.96 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -73.18 and a beta of 1.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08, a current ratio of 3.62 and a quick ratio of 3.62. nCino has a 12 month low of $37.65 and a 12 month high of $79.43. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $44.86 and its 200-day moving average price is $57.21.
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nCino, Inc, a software-as-a-service company, provides cloud-based software applications for financial institutions in the United States and internationally. Its nCino Bank Operating System, a tenant cloud platform, which digitizes, automates, and streamlines complex processes and workflow; and utilizes data analytics and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to enable financial institutions to onboard new clients, make loans and manage the entire loan life cycle, open deposit and other accounts, and manage regulatory compliance.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A man accused with his wife of trafficking a mother and teenaged girl to Hawaii from Guam pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Kevin Robert pleaded not guilty to labor trafficking charges, according to his attorney, Tim Rakieten. His wife, Pomerrine Robert, pleaded not guilty last week. Kevin Robert's arraignment was postponed then because he requested a Chuukese interpreter.
“I need sufficient time to review the case, and review with him, before I can comment any further,” Rakieten said.
State Public Defender James Tabe, whose office represents Pomerrine Robert, has previously declined to comment.
Police alleged in court documents that when the 15-year-old girl and her mother arrived in Honolulu, the Roberts took away their passports, forced them to work and beat them.
Court documents don't specify the country of the passports.
The girl and her mother lived in the couple's apartment, while the teen enrolled at a high school and the woman got a job at a deli where Pomerrine Robert also worked, the documents said.
The documents said Robert took away the mother’s money, the girl was expected to clean the apartment and Robert beat the girl and mother.
The couple locked the girl in a bedroom for several days and she reported it to a school counselor after she was let out, according to the documents.
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https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Husband-pleads-not-guilty-in-Hawaii-Guam-17049732.php
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s independent vaccination advisory panel is recommending a booster shot with a messenger RNA vaccine for people who have had a full course of four Chinese, Indian and Russian COVID-19 vaccines that aren’t currently approved for use in the European Union.
In a draft recommendation Thursday, the panel, known by its German acronym STIKO, said the advice applies to people given a full course and also a booster of the Chinese Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines, the Indian-made Covaxin and Russia’s Sputnik V.
It said that the new booster shot should be administered at least three months after the previous vaccination.
The German panel said that people who have received only a single shot of the four vaccines should start a new vaccination series.
And it added that recipients of other vaccines not cleared by the EU should in general start a new series with a vaccine European authorities have approved.
Scientists believe that mixing and matching vaccines prompts a better immune response.
The BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines have been the mainstay of Germany’s vaccination program. Three other vaccines using different technologies have been cleared for use in the 27-nation EU — the AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax products.
The mRNA vaccines have shown to be better than others at protecting against newer variants like omicron.
Separately, efforts to find a majority in the German parliament for a bill that would require all adults to be vaccinated against COVID-19 have reportedly stalled.
German publications Bild and Der Spiegel reported that talks between parties haven’t resulted in the necessary support, and lawmakers may now focus on a vaccine mandate for residents age 50 and over.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz declined Thursday to comment on the reports but said he continues to back the idea of a vaccine mandate for all adults.
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'Morbius' Star Jared Leto Tests Popular Blood Stain Removal Methods
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Ever find yourself stuck with some unruly blood stains on your favorite shirt?
Morbius star Jared Leto has certainly been there, as well as his character Morbius the Living Vampire. Just your average normal occurrence that even Marvel Legends have to deal with, obvs.
Doing the good work, in the video above, Leto goes above and beyond to test out a few popular stain removal methods to find the best one—lemon, stain remover pens, white vinegar, dish soap, etc.
See Leto embody the latest Marvel Legend starting tomorrow with Morbius exclusively in theaters!
One of the most compelling and conflicted characters in Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters comes to the big screen as Oscar winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic anti-hero Dr. Michael Morbius in the upcoming theatrical release of Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil – or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges?
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A driver who engaged Buffalo police in a lengthy gunfight, striking and injuring three officers during a haphazard chase that spanned the city, pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder.
Kente Bell, 28, was arraigned from his hospital room, where he is recovering from several gunshot wounds sustained during Tuesday's chase and a final hail of gunfire as it ended in front of a police station at a Buffalo intersection.
Bell was shot in his neck, arm, leg and hand and underwent surgery at Erie County Medical Center, where he appeared before a judge after regaining consciousness, said Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, who offered dramatic new details of the events.
“You have a high-speed chase... you've got a guy firing out the driver's side window. You've got blockades, you've got speed on highways, a girl jumping out of the car,” he said at a news conference.
Bell is accused of fleeing two police officers who approached his parked vehicle after noticing its tinted windows around 6 p.m. Tuesday, Flynn said. He cooperated at first but did not get out of the car because he was partially paralyzed in a 2012 shooting and uses medical equipment to walk, the prosecutor said.
When it appeared there was an issue with his registration, Bell drove off. Armed with an illegal handgun with an extended magazine of ammunition, he fired on police as they pursued him through city neighborhoods and on highways for more than 20 minutes, Flynn said.
Early in the chase, before shots were fired, the passenger exited the moving vehicle.
“He was making a turn and had slowed down at some point. She opened the front passenger door and jumped out of the car while it was moving and ended up rolling on the ground and hit up against a pole of some kind,” he said, “like right out of a movie.”
“She was obviously freaking out probably, to say the least, and wanted to have nothing to do with this," Flynn said.
In the minutes that followed, Bell drove through a police barricade, entered and exited highways and drove wildly through several Buffalo neighborhoods, briefly entering the suburb of Cheektowaga, before turning back toward Buffalo with police officers radioing his route to each other and warning of the danger.
“They’re still shooting. Multiple officers hit!” an officer is heard shouting in a transmission captured by Broadcastify.com.
Three police officers were struck in separate vehicles. All are recovering.
By the time it was over, nine police vehicles were damaged by gunfire, Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.
Investigators have yet to determine how many shots were fired by Bell, or how many officers fired their weapons, Flynn said.
Bell is due to appear before a county judge at the hospital Friday for an alleged probation violation related to a 2020 illegal firearms charge in the town of Amherst. While on probation, he was prohibited from carrying a weapon.
The attorney who represented Bell at Thursday's arraignment did not return a call seeking comment on his behalf.
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Driver-in-shoot-out-chase-with-Buffalo-police-17049652.php
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By Adriano Marchese
Topaz Energy Corp. has agreed to acquire the outstanding common shares of Keystone Royalty Corp. for 85 million Canadian dollars, the equivalent of US$68.1 million, in company shares.
The Canadian royalty and energy infrastructure company said Thursday it would issue 4.2 million of its own shares to satisfy the transaction.
The company said the deal adds a large and diversified Western Canadian royalty portfolio consisting of over 480,000 gross acres of royalty lands.
Topaz said it expects to generate around C$17 million of annualized royalty revenue this year from the assets.
The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of the year.
Write to Adriano Marchese at adriano.marchese@wsj.com
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/topaz-energy-acquires-keystone-royalty-for-c-85m-271648725697
| 2022-04-01T00:14:50Z
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Splunk Q3 2021 Earnings Preview
- Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK) is scheduled to announce Q3 earnings results on Wednesday, December 2nd, after market close.
- The consensus EPS Estimate is $0.09 (-84.5% Y/Y) and the consensus Revenue Estimate is $613.83M (-2.0% Y/Y).
- Analysts expects Non-GAAP operating margin rate of 3.2% vs. guidance of 2%-5%.
- Over the last 2 years, SPLK has beaten EPS estimates 88% of the time and has beaten revenue estimates 75% of the time.
- Over the last 3 months, EPS estimates have seen 3 upward revisions and 5 downward. Revenue estimates have seen 4 upward revisions and 3 downward.
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https://seekingalpha.com/news/3640456-splunk-q3-2021-earnings-preview
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