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The Algeria Football Federation has called for a replay of their World Cup play-off clash against Cameroon and lodged a complaint to FIFA over the refereeing, claiming the officiating "distorted the result".
Karl Toko Ekambi delivered the decisive strike in the 124th minute in Blida to condemn Algeria to a 2-1 aggregate loss on away goals, with Cameroon qualifying for Qatar 2022.
Islam Slimani saw two goals ruled out, the first in the second half and again in extra time, with referee Bakary Gassama initially allowing the latter finish to stand before using the pitch-side monitor to deem the Algeria striker had handled the ball.
Charaf-Eddine Amara has resigned as president of FAF following Algeria's exit from World Cup qualifying, while the federation has lodged an appeal to world governing body FIFA.
"The Algerian Football Federation (FAF) has lodged an appeal with the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) against the scandalous arbitration which distorted the result of the Algeria-Cameroon play-off," the statement read.
"The FAF is determined to use all legally permitted means to have its rights restored and to replay the match under conditions guaranteeing the honesty and partiality of the arbitration.
"The FAF also requests the opening of an investigation by FIFA bodies to shed light on the arbitration of the Algeria-Cameroon match."
The draw for the group stage of the World Cup is set to take place on Friday.
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Shares of Weibo Corp.
WB,
-0.69%
rose 1.1% in premarket trading Thursday, after the China-based social media company announced a $500 million American depositary share (ADS) repurchase program. The program, which will expire on March 31, 2023, represents 8.3% of Weibo's market capitalization of $6.04 billion as of Wednesday's stock closing price of $24.68. The company said it will fund the program with existing cash on hand. The stock has tumbled 20.3% year to date through Wednesday, while the iShares MSCI China ETF
MCHI,
-3.56%
has dropped 12.6% and the S&P 500
SPX,
-1.57%
has slipped 3.4%.
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| 2022-04-01T00:22:37Z
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1. The Utah Legislature’s House Bill 11 has been hotly debated over the last several weeks, and Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed the bill before his veto was overridden by two-thirds of the legislature, voting to instate the bill anyway. What law does HB11 put into place?
A. It bans nonbinary-identifying students from participating in school sports
B. It allows schools to decide on their own if transgender students should be allowed to play on sport teams
C. It bans transgender girls from playing in girls’ high school sports
D. It bans transgender boys from playing in boys’ high school sports
2. A California man was recently charged with one count of conspiracy, nine counts of smuggling goods into the United States and two counts of trafficking. What was the man smuggling?
A. Drugs
B. Liquor
C. Dogs
D. Reptiles
3. Stephen Wilhite, a true innovator of the internet, passed away recently at the age of 74. What did Wilhite create for today’s internet users?
A. He created the GIF
B. He invented LTE
C. He invented emojis for iPhone
D. He created YouTube
4. Which Utah Jazz player had foot and ankle surgery, which will bench him for the remainder of the season?
A. Rudy Gobert
B. Bojan Bogdanovic
C. Rudy Gay
D. Udoka Azubuike
5. China Eastern 737-800 crashed into a mountainous and wooded area near the Southeastern coast on March 21, and no crew or passengers survived. How many total passengers were on the flight?
A. 121
B. 306
C. 254
D. 132
Answers:
1. The answer is C, This bill would ban transgender girls from participating on girls’ high school sport teams. According to The Standard Examiner, Utah lawmakers overrode Gov. Spencer Cox’s veto 56-18 in the Utah House of Representatives. The Utah House and Senate also approved a budget of $500,000 to cover legal costs in the event of a court challenge.
2. The answer is D, Reptiles. According to CNN, the man smuggled more than a thousand reptiles into the U.S. Some of the reptiles were captured in Mexico, while others were imported all the way from Hong Kong. The man, Jose Manuel Perez, smuggled in more than 1,700 animals, with a value of more than $739,000. Perez could face up to a 190-year sentence if indicted.
3. The answer is A, He created the GIF. According to USA Today’s podcast, Talking Tech, Wilhite created the GIF when he was a computer programmer at CompuServe. GIFs originated as a way to display images on slow internet access. In an interview from 2013, Wilhite said that GIF is supposed to be pronounced with a soft G, similar to a J.
4. The answer is D, Udoka Azubuike. According to KSL, the player had surgery to repair ankle and foot ligaments. Azubuike has had three different ankle injuries in the past 13 months, with his last injury on March 10 taking him out of recent games.
5. The answer is D, 132 people. According to The New York Times, all 132 passengers have been pronounced dead. Investigators have been able to identify 120 of the passengers using DNA samples. The cause of the crash is still unknown.
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Russia redeploying thousands of troops from Georgia after massive losses in Ukraine, UK says
Russian forces are regrouping rather than withdrawing from most parts of Ukraine, Nato said
Russia is redeploying thousands of its troops in Georgia to boost its flagging forces in Ukraine, according to the British government.
Between 1,200 and 2,000 of the soldiers are to be organised into three battalion tactical groups, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
It is “highly unlikely” that Vladimir Putin’s regime would make such a move unless it was forced to take desperate measures as a result of “unexpected losses” it sustained during its invasion of Ukraine, the department claimed.
Britain and its allies have agreed to send more weapons – such as longer range artillery, ammunition, and anti-aircraft weapons – to Ukraine, defence minister Ben Wallace said.
He told reporters on Thursday: “There’ll be more lethal aid going into Ukraine as a result of today. A number of countries have come forward either with new ideas or indeed more pledges of money.”
It comes days after Russia claimed it would scale-back its military operations to focus on the pro-Moscow separatist-controlled region of Donbas in eastern Ukraine.
But Nato general secretary Jens Stoltenberg said that Russian forces are regrouping and not withdrawing.
He told reporters in Brussels: “According to our intelligence, Russian units are not withdrawing but repositioning. Russia is trying to regroup, resupply and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas region.
“At the same time, Russia maintains pressure on Kyiv and other cities. So we can expect additional offensive actions, bringing even more suffering.”
The situation remained “very difficult” in the south of Ukraine and in the Donbas region, Volodymyr Zelensky said.
The Ukrainian president reiterated that Russia was building up forces near the besieged Black Sea port city of Mariupol.
“There will be battles ahead. We still need to go down a very difficult path to get everything we want,” Mr Zelensky said in a late-night video address to officials in Brussels.
A “humanitarian catastrophe” has been inflicted on Mariupol that has seen thousands of people killed, he added.
A total of 148 children have been killed by Russian forces’ shelling and airstrikes since the start of the invasion, Ukraine’s defence ministry said.
More than 10 million Ukrainians have fled their homes, it said in a statement. Reuters said it could not independently verify the claim.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-1-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
(four, one, nine, one; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-1-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
(four, one, nine, one; FIREBALL: one)
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-1-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
(four, one, nine, one; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-1-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
(four, one, nine, one; FIREBALL: one)
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US, Australia criticize India over Russia talks as Lavrov visits Delhi
The US and Australia criticized India for contemplating a Russian proposal that will undermine sanctions imposed by America and its allies, displaying a deepening rift between the rising safety companions as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov traveled to Delhi for talks.
“Now is the time to stand on the right side of history, and to stand with the United States and dozens of other countries, standing up for freedom, democracy and sovereignty with the Ukrainian people, and not funding and fueling and aiding President Putin’s war,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo advised reporters in Washington on Wednesday. She referred to as studies of the association “deeply disappointing,” whereas including that she hadn’t seen particulars.
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Dan Tehan, Australia’s commerce minister who additionally spoke on the briefing, stated it was vital for democracies to work collectively “to keep the rules-based approach that we’ve had since the second world war.”
The feedback mirror rising unease with India amongst fellow members of the Quad, a gaggle of democracies in search of to counter China’s assertiveness within the Asia-Pacific area that additionally contains the US, Australia and Japan. India is the world’s largest purchaser of Russian weapons, and has additionally sought to purchase low-cost oil as gasoline costs surge.
While India has supported requires a cease-fire and a diplomatic resolution, it abstained on the United Nations on votes for draft resolutions condemning Russia’s invasion that had been finally vetoed by Moscow.
Bloomberg reported Wednesday that India is weighing a plan to make rupee-ruble-denominated funds utilizing an alternative choice to SWIFT after the US and European Union lower off seven Russian banks from utilizing the Belgium-based cross-border fee system operator.
The Russian plan entails rupee-ruble-denominated funds utilizing the nation’s messaging system SPFS and central financial institution officers from Moscow are prone to go to subsequent week to debate the main points. No closing determination has been taken.
India’s middle-ground place on the struggle has left to a raft of diplomacy prior to now few weeks, with China’s overseas minister visiting for the primary time since 2019 and now Lavrov in search of to shore up assist. At the identical time, the US and its allies are additionally stepping up engagement in a bid to affect Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Delhi earlier this month, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison additionally held a video summit with Modi. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a name along with his counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, to debate “the worsening humanitarian situation in Ukraine among other issues.”
During Lavrov’s journey, India can also be internet hosting US Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics Daleep Singh and UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. Her workplace stated she “will point to the importance of all countries reducing strategic dependency on Russia at this time of heightened global insecurity.”
India has pushed again towards US considerations by noting that it wants Russian arms to counter China, notably after border clashes in 2020, and alternate options are too costly. The strategic relationship between India and Russia dates again to the Cold War and stays sturdy, at the same time as Modi has shifted the nation extra towards the US orbit in recent times.
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VANCOUVER, BC, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sandstorm Gold Ltd. ("Sandstorm Gold Royalties", "Sandstorm" or the "Company") (NYSE: SAND) (TSX: SSL) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has declared the Company's second quarterly cash dividend for 2022 in the amount of C$0.02 per common share to shareholders of record as of the close of business on April 19, 2022. The dividend will be paid on April 29, 2022. The dividend qualifies as an "eligible dividend" as defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada).
The declaration, timing, amount, and payment of future dividends will be subject to the discretion and approval of the Board of Directors. The Company will review the dividend program on an ongoing basis and may amend it at any time depending on the Company's then current financial position, capital allocation framework, profitability, cash flow, debt covenant compliance, legal requirements and other factors considered relevant. As such, no assurances can be made that any future dividends will be declared and/or paid. Dividends paid to shareholders outside Canada (non-resident investors) will be subject to Canadian non-resident withholding taxes.
Sandstorm filed its Form 40-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 with the Securities and Exchange Commission and it is available on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar. The Company's 2021 Audited Financial Statements, along with its Form 40-F, are both available on the Company's website at www.sandstormgold.com.
Shareholders may also receive copies of these documents, without charge, upon request to Sandstorm's Investor Relations Department, Suite 1400, 400 Burrard St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 3A6 Canada or to info@sandstormgold.com.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information about Sandstorm Gold Royalties, please visit our website at www.sandstormgold.com or email us at info@sandstormgold.com.
ABOUT SANDSTORM GOLD ROYALTIES
Sandstorm is a gold royalty company that provides upfront financing to gold mining companies that are looking for capital and in return, receives the right to a percentage of the gold produced from a mine, for the life of the mine. Sandstorm has acquired a portfolio of 230 royalties, of which 29 of the underlying mines are producing. Sandstorm plans to grow and diversify its low cost production profile through the acquisition of additional gold royalties. For more information visit: www.sandstormgold.com.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS TO U.S. SECURITYHOLDERS
The financial information included or incorporated by reference in this press release or the documents referenced herein has been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, which differs from US generally accepted accounting principles ("US GAAP") in certain material respects, and thus are not directly comparable to financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP.
The disclosure and information contained or referenced herein uses mineral reserve and mineral resource classification terms that comply with reporting standards in Canada, and mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates are made in accordance with Canadian NI 43-101 and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum — CIM Definition Standards on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, adopted by the CIM Council, as amended (the "CIM Definition Standards"). These standards differ significantly from the mineral reserve disclosure requirements of the United States Securities Exchange Commission (the "SEC") set forth in Industry Guide 7. Consequently, information regarding mineralization contained or referenced herein is not comparable to similar information that would generally be disclosed by U.S. companies under Industry Guide 7 in accordance with the rules of the SEC. Further, the SEC has adopted amendments to its disclosure rules to modernize the mineral property disclosure requirements for issuers whose securities are registered with the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act"). These amendments became effective February 25, 2019 (the "SEC Modernization Rules") and, commencing for registrants with their first fiscal year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, the SEC Modernization Rules replaced the historical property disclosure requirements included in SEC Industry Guide 7. As a foreign private issuer that files its annual report on Form 40-F with the SEC pursuant to the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system, the Company is not required to provide disclosure on its mineral properties under the SEC Modernization Rules and will continue to provide disclosure under NI 43-101 and the CIM Definition Standards. The SEC Modernization Rules include the adoption of terms describing mineral reserves and mineral resources that are "substantially similar" to the corresponding terms under the CIM Definition, but there are differences in the definitions under the SEC Modernization Rules and the CIM Definition Standards. Accordingly, there is no assurance any mineral reserves or mineral resources that the Company may report as "proven mineral reserves", "probable mineral reserves", "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources" under NI 43-101 would be the same had the Company prepared the mineral reserve or mineral resource estimates under the standards adopted under the SEC Modernization Rules. U.S. investors are also cautioned that while the SEC recognizes "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources" under the Modernization Rules, investors should not assume that any part or all of the mineralization in these categories will ever be converted into a higher category of mineral resources or into mineral reserves. Mineralization described using these terms has a greater amount of uncertainty as to its existence and feasibility than mineralization that has been characterized as reserves. Accordingly, investors are cautioned not to assume that any measured mineral resources, indicated mineral resources, or inferred mineral resources that the Company reports are or will be economically or legally mineable. Further, "inferred mineral resources" have a greater amount of uncertainty as to their existence and as to whether they can be mined legally or economically. Therefore, U.S. investors are also cautioned not to assume that all or any part of the "inferred mineral resources" exist. Under Canadian securities laws, estimates of "inferred mineral resources" may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, except in rare cases. For the above reasons, information contained or referenced herein regarding descriptions of our mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates is not comparable to similar information made public by U.S. companies subject to reporting and disclosure requirements of the SEC under either Industry Guide 7 or SEC Modernization Rules.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
This press release contains "forward-looking statements", within the meaning of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, concerning the business, operations and financial performance and condition of Sandstorm Gold Royalties. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the payment of the dividend and declaration of future dividends, including the timing and amount thereof, the future price of gold, silver, copper, iron ore and other metals, the estimation of mineral reserves and resources, realization of mineral reserve estimates, the timing and amount of estimated future production. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "plans", or similar terminology.
Forward-looking statements are made based upon certain assumptions and other important factors that, if untrue, could cause the actual results, performances or achievements of Sandstorm Gold Royalties to be materially different from future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies and the environment in which Sandstorm Gold Royalties will operate in the future, including the receipt of all required approvals, the price of gold and copper and anticipated costs. Certain important factors that could cause actual results, performances or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, amongst others, failure to receive necessary approvals, changes in business plans and strategies, market conditions, share price, best use of available cash, gold and other commodity price volatility, discrepancies between actual and estimated production, mineral reserves and resources and metallurgical recoveries, mining operational and development risks relating to the parties which produce the gold or other commodity the Company will purchase, regulatory restrictions, activities by governmental authorities (including changes in taxation), currency fluctuations, the global economic climate, dilution, share price volatility and competition.
Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: the impact of general business and economic conditions, the absence of control over mining operations from which the Company will purchase gold, other commodities or receive royalties from, and risks related to those mining operations, including risks related to international operations, government and environmental regulation, actual results of current exploration activities, conclusions of economic evaluations and changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, risks in the marketability of minerals, fluctuations in the price of gold and other commodities, fluctuation in foreign exchange rates and interest rates, stock market volatility, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled "Risks to Sandstorm" in the Company's annual report for the financial year ended December 31, 2021 and the section entitled "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's annual information form dated March 31, 2022 available at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are contained or incorporated by reference, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The post origination story, as Villanova coach Jay Wright recalls, began with Ryan Arcidiacono.
The 6-foot-3 point guard had a knack for posting up defenders, even bigger ones, so Wright started calling plays for him in the paint.
Josh Hart was next. Jalen Brunson took it to another level. Now Collin Gillespie is carrying the guard low-post torch into the Final Four.
“We get a lot of credit for that,” Wright said Thursday. “It's part of what we do. We can be successful without it, but it's something we like to use.”
What has become a staple of the Wildcats' offense may be their equalizer against a talented Kansas team in Saturday's national semifinals.
Wright has played a limited rotation all season and Justin Moore's torn Achilles tendon in the Elite Eight leaves them even more shorthanded. Kansas also has a size advantage inside, anchored by 6-10, 250-pound David McCormack.
One of Villanova's counters will be to get the ball to guards in the post — namely Gillespie, who learned from one of the best.
Brunson was a menace for opposing teams with a strong lower body and a craftiness with his back to the basket. He had the strength to overpower smaller guards and an ability to find open shooters when defenses inevitably sent double teams his way.
Gillespie's learning curve in the low post began when he arrived on campus in 2017 and Brunson began brutalizing him in practice. Forced to adapt or continue being overwhelmed, Gillespie found a way to stand his ground, learning the nuances of post play along the way.
The 6-3 guard honed his post-up skills over the next five seasons and has turned himself into one of the nation's best low-post guards.
“I've been put in that situation a lot now and it's kind of become natural for me,” Gillespie said. It's “just learning from the guys who came before me, having to defend it has helped me on offense as well because I know what it takes."
The Villanova guards' comfort with posting up leaves opposing guards uneasy.
Backcourt players aren't used to defending in the post, particularly in today's four- and five-out game, so they're not always sure what to do when Villanova's guards start backing down.
During guard post-ups, the Wildcats will often send their big men to the perimeter, taking rim protectors farther away from what they're trying to defend. And send a double team, Villanova's guards have the ability to pass or dribble out and find open shooters.
Not many teams take the Wildcats' approach to posting up guards, complicating game planning how to stop them.
“It’s definitely unique when your best post player is 6-2," Kansas coach Bill Self said.
Hard to question the results.
Villanova's 2016 national championship team had three guards who could post up: Arcidiacono, Hart and Brunson.
Brunson was also on the 2018 title team and had refined his post-up skills even more. Gillespie was a freshman on the 2018 team and has honed his post-up skills after those early lessons from Brunson.
All part of Wright's plan.
Since those first post-ups with Arcidiacono, he's sought guards with lower-body strength who can, or a least learn to, play in the post. Once they arrive at Villanova, Wright and his staff instill the fundamentals of playing in the post, from footwork to leverage to pump fakes.
“Over the years, we've found some guys aren't that good at it and it's OK,” Wright said. “But we'd still do drills to try to teach every one of them to be good at it.”
Through years of honing and torch passing, the Wildcats have become one of the best at posting up guards. They hope it will give them an edge in trying to take down Kansas.
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The stock market may get most of the media attention but action in the bond market has also been fast and furious.
Interest rates have been rising steadily as inflation rages unabated. The Federal Reserve Board raised the short-term Federal funds rate by 0.25% getting the rate off the zero bound for the first time since April 2020. Interest rates not controlled by the Fed rose sooner, faster and further.
The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond doubled from 1.27% in 2020 to 2.56% at this writing. The yield on 10-year Treasury bonds nearly doubled from 1.35% last December to 2.5% today. The yield on two-year Treasury notes increased ten-fold from .23% to 2.35% in six months!
As rates on government bonds go, so go rates on other issues. The average interest rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose from 3.1% at the start of 2022 to 4.4%. High-yield or “junk” bond rates have gone from 4% to 6% in the space of six months.
Interest rates and the market value of bonds move like a see-saw. When interest rates go down, market prices go up. When interest rates go up, market prices go down.
The reason for this is simple: If a newly issued bond pays 2%, no one will pay face value for an old bond paying 1%. If a newly issued bond is paying 1%, no one will sell an old bond paying 2% at face value.
This premium or discount to face value widens as the maturity or “due date” of the bond lengthens. As interest rates rise or fall, the price of a 30-year bond moves much more than the price of a two-year note.
For example, the Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Bond index fund lost 21% of its value over the past 19 months. This loss is much more severe than the 3% loss recorded by the Vanguard Short-Term Treasury index fund even though the change in two-year yield was greater.
With inflation running at nearly 8%, today’s interest income does not come close to preserving purchasing power for today’s bond investors. Ironically, further increases in interest rates would make the situation worse by causing additional losses in value. It will take a significant decline in interest rates, inflation or both to keep purchasing power intact.
On that score, expert opinion is mixed. “Team Transitory” sees current inflation as the temporary result of COVID-19 and war. Once supply and demand rebalance, inflation will fall back toward 2%.
“Team Permanent” believes a wage-price spiral is underway. Companies are raising prices to offset raw materials shortages, supply chain snarls and higher wages. Workers are demanding higher pay to offset the higher cost of living.
At this point, Team Transitory is in control. Treasury bond interest rates from two years to 30 years are almost flat at 2.5%. If investors were expecting permanently higher inflation, interest rates would be higher in general and 30-year rates would be well-above two-year rates.
Therein lies the risk and the reward. If Team Permanent is correct, bond investors have more to lose. If Team Transitory is correct, investors have ground to regain.
Jeffrey Scharf is the Founder of Act Two Investors LLC, a registered investment adviser. Contact him at jeffrey@acttwoinvestors.com.
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General Motors will cancel production at Lansing Grand River Assembly next week due to a temporary parts shortage, spokesman Dan Flores told Automotive News.
Flores did not disclose the nature of the parts shortage, but he said it was not related to microchips.
GM expects to resume production at the Michigan plant, which builds the Cadillac CT4 and CT5 and the Chevrolet Camaro, on April 11.
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Warning: This post contains spoilers from Wednesday’s episode of Survivor.
Future Survivor players: Be careful who you call your No. 1, because when he or she tells your other No. 1 that you’re trying to oust your other-other No. 1, it’s probably all gonna blow up in your face.
Sound messy? It was. And after sharing a bit too much information with her (sorry) No. 1 Tori, Swati Goel lost the trust of her tribe and was ultimately sent packing for Ponderosa. Once again, the Shot in the Dark was deemed just as eyeroll-worthy as the Medallion of Power. (Read our full recap here.)
But as Goel confirms to TVLine, she was playing the same game and making the same promises as the rest of her Ika tribe. But what didn’t we see in the episode, and would she actually have tried to pull the trigger on the Drea plan? Below, the Ivy league student breaks down all of the chaos that led to her demise.
TVLINE | How are you feeling about how Tribal went down in last night’s episode?
SWATI GOEL | I’m feeling good! I thought the way they edited it was super funny. It was cool to watch. I watched it with a bunch of college students in this [dorm] room and it was a fun experience.
TVLINE | I want to ask you about your tweet. It’s a picture of Tori and you wrote: “Gaslight. Gatekeep. Girlboss.” Did that stem from respecting her game or were you trying to throw shade?
This is so funny. The words that are being said are words that I said, so I didn’t mean to throw shade at her. I had a math piece that was due, so I didn’t want to spend my entire life trying to find the right GIF. I didn’t mean anything by it!
TVLINE | OK, cool. I read into that a little too much then.
I think everybody did. [Laughs] Maybe I should change that.
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TVLINE | Was Tori truly your No. 1 out on the island? Did you have any doubts with her prior to losing that immunity challenge?
Yeah, so me and Tori had a little bit more tension even before the immunity challenge. I would say I got a lot closer with Rocks, especially after the first few days. But I was definitely working most closely with one of those two, and those were the two people I really wanted to work with moving forward. Unfortunately, they didn’t get along! [Laughs]
TVLINE | How much of your Drea plan was about making a big move in the game, and how much of it was about trying to save Tori? What was the thinking behind it?
It was partially about trying to save my ally — and it’s definitely not a move I would make again. I think it would’ve been far better to keep my head down and let things happen. I was also more contemplating making the move more than I was actually like, “I should do this.”
I think the mistake I made was telling Tori too soon. The idea came into my head and I told her, and there was really no reason to say it right then. It wasn’t about wanting to make a big move. I realized rewatching, Drea and Romeo were actually wanting to work with me, but the way it appeared to me was that Drea was sort of flip-flopping between who she wanted out. She would say she wanted Tori out, then she would say she wanted Rocksroy out, and then she would talk to me about me, her and Tori doing an all-girls alliance. So I think she just felt very in control of the tribe, and kept changing her mind of who she wanted to work with outside of Romeo. If we lose again after Tori gets voted out, then I’m pretty freakin’ confident it’s gonna be me, and there will be nothing I can do about it at that point. So I had the conversation with Tori to sow the seeds if I wanted to [vote out Drea] in the future, and I think I said just a little bit too much and precipitated a little bit more… a lot more than I wanted to.
TVLINE | Now, had you not drummed up the idea of blindsiding Drea, would the group have rallied around voting Tori out?
I’m not sure. I’m really not sure. To be honest, I can very easily see an outcome where Rocks gets voted out. There was this sense on Ika of, “We’re losing, we’re losing, why are we losing?” So I think me getting voted out in hindsight was probably not a likely outcome, but in the moment it felt like it would’ve been a likely outcome.
TVLINE | We saw you tell everybody out there that they were your No. 1. Did you even think about the possibility of everyone comparing notes?
OK, in my defense though, a lot of the people who I told they were my No. 1… it was in response to them saying the same thing to me. Rocksroy had been telling me I was his No. 1 since Day 1. I think Drea had literally just said something like, “You’re my No. 1,” right before that clip that was shown. In no way am I bitter about the editing. I thought it was super funny and was super accurate to how I was playing, but it was also how everybody else was playing… or [at least] how three-fifths of the tribe was playing.
TVLINE | Was there much talk in your tribe about “Goliath” Jonathan? Specifically, was there any talk about trying to get him out ASAP come the merge?
It was like, “Yeah, at the merge, we’re going to vote for Jonathan.” There was definitely a sense of like, “Who is this guy?” and very much a sense of injustice and ill will towards this man. [Laughs]
TVLINE | Did you think Taku was going to win every challenge from there on out?
No, no, no. We hadn’t given up in that sense. At every challenge, we were like, “No, we’re going to get this. We’re going to turn this around. They have Jonathan, but we have all of us!” So, I don’t think there was a sense of giving up, but every time we lost we talked about why.
TVLINE | Now, we’ve seen Maryanne blab on about bunnies in mailboxes or whatever. What was your tribe’s reaction to her secret phrase and did you think that nonsense meant anything?
We literally didn’t even register it. It wasn’t even a conversation. We hadn’t seen Season 41, so there was no reason to think, “Oh my gosh, this is somebody talking about the idol,” you know what I mean?
TVLINE | How about the fact that she repeated the same thing at two different challenges. Zero red flags?
No. Not at all. I did not register this. At. All. [Laughs]
TVLINE | Rocksroy said some kind words at Tribal Council about you coming out of your shell. How has the Survivor experience changed your life and what have you taken away from it that you’ll carry forward with you?
I think it’s affected my life positively. I had this huge dream and I knew that I wanted to apply to be on Survivor, and I got so lucky that it worked out before I even turned 20. I learned a lot about myself in the process. There are so few times where you see yourself under that much of a microscope and under that set of intense circumstances, and I feel like it was a very valuable opportunity to learn and grow. That’s a nice silver lining, because people had mentioned that that would maybe happen, but I didn’t really take them seriously. It was all about trying to win, you know? So it’s nice that it happened.
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https://tvline.com/2022/03/31/survivor-season-42-episode-4-swati-goel-eliminated-interview/
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SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. — Shelby County leaders are hoping a new facility stops juvenile violence.
“We need to expand the number of supports that are available for our teenagers in town,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said. “We know that one of the major drivers of crime is from the youth and young adults. We know the recidivism rate in respect to youth and young adults is higher in respect to others.”
He says more must be done to get youth on the right path. It’s why Harris and his team opened a youth and family resource center for 13- to 17-year-olds in the former Raleigh library.
“We assumed this property late last summer and began to transform it into what you see today,” said Cedrick Gray, the county’s education and opportunity director and is one of the brains behind the center.
“Almost like a lighthouse on top of a hill, right? A place to go that’s a new option where you literally can get some support,” he said.
Support will be specific to the teen and could include behavioral health treatment, trauma counseling or services that address underlying issues in the home.
“It could be anything from rent and utility assistance to job training to mentoring programs,” he said.
Gray told us the building is ready to go. The rooms are set up and starting next week, they will begin accepting self-referrals meaning the teen or teen’s family can voluntarily sign up.
“They would make an appointment to see us, and we would then screen and assess them and build a behavioral plan,” he said.
They are also working to get Memphis police officers trained to identify teens who would benefit from the center. They’ll start with officers in precincts in Raleigh and Hickory Hill.
Basically, the officers will take a closer look at teens who get in trouble for these offenses.
- Assault Simple T.C.A. 39-13-101
- Criminal Trespass T.C.A. 39-14-405
- Disorderly Conduct T.C.A. 39-17-305
- Gambling T.C.A. 39-17-502
- Minor Possession of Tobacco T.C.A. 39-17-1505
- Minor Possession of Alcohol T.C.A. 57-3-412
- Simple Possession of Casual Exchange T.C.A. 39-17-418
- Possession of Drug Paraphernalia T.C.A. 39-17-425
- Possession without Lawful Prescription (Legend Drug) T.C.A. 53-10-105
- Theft of Property/Shoplifting T.C.A. 39-14-103
- Unlawful Possession of Controlled Substance T.C.A. 39-14-418
- Vandalism T.C.A. 39-14-408
“Maybe the police officer says what you’re doing is serious, but not so serious that we could maybe find a way to keep you from getting into trouble from going forward,” Gray said.
The teen would then be given the option to get help at the center instead of going to juvenile court.
Data shows that last year there was a slight decrease in juveniles charged with serious crimes like murder, aggravated robbery, aggravated assaults and carjacking.
But even so, the crime commission reports 593 serious juvenile charges, 607 in 2020 and 898 in 2019.
Research shows diverting youth from the judicial system can save taxpayers money, courts would become less crowded, and it reduces delinquency.
But most importantly, it helps the community and the youth.
“The goal is like with everything is to get to the root causes of crime and to make sure those in need of help get the help they need,” Harris said.
You can sign up for self referral at ShelbyYouthAndFamilyResourceCenter.com or by calling 901-222-4320.
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https://wreg.com/news/investigations/county-hopes-new-youth-center-in-raleigh-can-curb-juvenile-violence/
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Given its central role in utilizing light energy, photoinduced electron transfer (PET) from an excited molecule has been widely studied1,2,3,4,5,6. However, even though microscopic photocurrent measurement methods7,8,9,10,11 have made it possible to correlate the efficiency of the process with local features, spatial resolution has been insufficient to resolve it at the molecular level. Recent work has, however, shown that single molecules can be efficiently excited and probed when combining a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) with localized plasmon fields driven by a tunable laser12,13. Here we use that approach to directly visualize with atomic-scale resolution the photocurrent channels through the molecular orbitals of a single free-base phthalocyanine (FBPc) molecule, by detecting electrons from its first excited state tunnelling through the STM tip. We find that the direction and the spatial distribution of the photocurrent depend sensitively on the bias voltage, and detect counter-flowing photocurrent channels even at a voltage where the averaged photocurrent is near zero. Moreover, we see evidence of competition between PET and photoluminescence12, and find that we can control whether the excited molecule primarily relaxes through PET or photoluminescence by positioning the STM tip with three-dimensional, atomic precision. These observations suggest that specific photocurrent channels can be promoted or suppressed by tuning the coupling to excited-state molecular orbitals, and thus provide new perspectives for improving energy-conversion efficiencies by atomic-scale electronic and geometric engineering of molecular interfaces.
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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556450488577/cattaneo-christov-heat-flow-model-for-copper-water-nanofluid-heat-transfer-under-marangoni-convection-and-slip-conditions
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YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Thursday he will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels next week to lay the groundwork for peace talks to end the decades-long conflict over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The two leaders will meet in Brussels on April 6 with European Council President Charles Michel.
There have been recent clashes that have raised concerns about the stability of a cease-fire that ended the 2020 war over the separatist region.
“I hope to discuss at this meeting with the president of Azerbaijan and agree on all issues related to the start of negotiations on a peace agreement,” Pashinyan told a government meeting Thursday. He said Armenia “is ready for the immediate start of peace negotiations.”
Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces reignited in Nagorno-Karabakh this month, and three soldiers in the breakaway region were killed last week.
More than 6,600 people were killed in the six-week war in 2020 that ended with Azerbaijan reclaiming control over large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas that the Armenia-backed separatists controlled.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a decades-old dispute over the separatist region, which lies within Azerbaijan but was under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.
The cease-fire in 2020 was mediated by Russia, which then sent some 2,000 troops it called peacekeepers to the region.
Tensions on the two nations’ shared border have been building since May, when Armenia protested what it described as an incursion by Azerbaijani troops into its territory. Azerbaijan has insisted that its soldiers were deployed to what it considers its territory in areas where the border has yet to be demarcated.
Clashes have been reported ever since, and they intensified this month as Russia became increasingly bogged down in its invasion of Ukraine.
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https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/armenia-azerbaijan-leaders-to-meet-amid-recent-fighting/
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Delta: Passersby Rescue 15yr-Old Maid Locked Outside In Midnight By Her Boss
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-A 15-year-old girl identified as Blessing was on Wednesday rescued by commuters after she was locked outside to sleep on the road by her employers in Asaba, Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State.
The victim was found stranded outside the gate of her employer’s house at No 7 Gladys Adolor Street, Asaba at about 12: 18 am on Wednesday by passersby.
It was gathered that the concerned commuters; a male and female who dropped a colleague around the area stopped by to ask the young lady why she was standing out inside.
The victim then revealed that her boss, Mrs Nancy Nwaka locked her outside the house intentionally after returning from errands.
It was further learnt that the commuters knocked the gate on several occasions which drew the attention of the Mr Gabriel Nwaka, husband of the woman whom allegedly locked her housemaid out of the house.
According to him, ” I came back from my journey to Abuja and I asked about blessing but she did not answer me. I know once I am not around she would maltreat the girl”
I would not mind handing my wife to the police because she has been maltreating our maid.
I have told her to take the girl back to her people but she refused. I have sent my wife out more than three times due to the way she threats this girl”.
When contacted Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), DSP Bright Edafe said the case has not been reported to the police.
Daily Independent
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http://urhobotoday.com/delta-passersby-rescue-15yr-old-maid-locked-outside-in-midnight-by-her-boss/
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Russia’s blocking of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and its bombing of medical facilities should be the subjects of an international war crimes investigation, says Canada’s international development minister.
Harjit Sajjan offered that view as a half dozen extra RCMP investigators head to The Hague to assist in the International Criminal Court investigation of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
“I have worked enough conflict areas and war zones to understand what international humanitarian law is. This is something that does need to be investigated. Civilians are not supposed to be harmed. That also includes when civilians need medical support, food support,” Sajjan said in an interview.
Sajjan, a former defence minister and Canadian Armed Forces veteran of the war in Afghanistan, was speaking ahead of the International Committee of the Red Cross announcement Thursday that it would be ready to start evacuating citizens from the besieged port city of Mariupol on Friday.
“For logistics and security reasons, we’ll be ready to lead the safe passage operation tomorrow, Friday, provided all the parties agree to the exact terms, including the route, the start time, and the duration,” the ICRC said in a statement on Thursday.
“It’s desperately important that this operation takes place. The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it.”
Relentless Russian attacks on Mariupol have reduced massive sections of the city to rubble and have blocked efforts to get food, water and medicine to its estimated 430,000 residents, amid reports that some may have been abducted by invading troops.
Canada’s Parliament and others recognize as a genocide the acts perpetrated by Joseph Stalin that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s, a tragic chapter of which Sajjan is mindful.
“The Ukrainians already have seen another Holocaust in their past with the Holodomor where the population was starved to death,” he said.
“This is just another time now, Russians using kind of a different tactic here. So, I hope that everything will be investigated thoroughly in this regard.”
Sajjan said carving out the corridors needed to get humanitarian supplies into Ukraine has been a difficult undertaking. Even when routes have been cleared, convoys have had to deal with booby traps and other hazards, he said.
“Every time you try and co-ordinate something, it’s been used for the Russians to start targeting folks in the corridor itself.”
Sajjan has travelled throughout eastern Europe to liaise with Canadian allies and international agencies, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Food Program. The food program reported recently it had helped feed its one millionth displaced Ukrainian.
An estimated 10 million Ukrainians have been forced out of their homes, while almost four million have sought asylum as refugees in the worst humanitarian disaster in Europe since the Second World War.
In a separate interview, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the RCMP officers dispatched to assist the prosecutor’s office of the ICC — joining Mounties already deployed there on various investigations — will be seized with documenting the atrocities that are “continuing to occur in real time” in Ukraine.
Mendicino said he expected them to focus on digitally recording the destruction while eventually gathering testimony from the Ukrainians who have fled attacks.
“They are all living witnesses to what’s happened in Ukraine,” said Mendicino.
“Even while we continue to provide military aid and impose economic sanctions and (create) humanitarian corridors to allow those who are fleeing those atrocities to survive, we have to preserve the record.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Russia should be kicked out of the G20, the group of leading nations charged with steering the world economy, echoing U.S. President Joe Biden’s call last week.
Trudeau said the G20, which also includes China, might include different countries with different approaches and “political structures” but its main function is to “manage and encourage economic growth.”
“Russia, right now, has with its illegal invasion of Ukraine upended economic growth for everyone around the world and can’t possibly be a constructive partner in how we manage in part the crisis created by Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine,” he said.
“The bottom line is it can’t be business as usual to have Vladimir Putin just sitting around the table pretending that everything is OK, because it’s not OK and it’s his fault.”
Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland welcomed a delegation of five Ukrainian MPs for further discussions on what Canada can do to help Ukraine’s democratically elected government survive the Russian invasion.
“We want to be a symbol of victory, for democratic growth, for democratic values,” said Lesia Zaburanna, the delegation chair. She said it was a difficult decision “for us to leave our home, our people … but we have to because it’s our duty.”
—Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
RELATED: $128 million raised for war-stricken people in Ukraine through Red Cross donations
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https://www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/news/canadian-federal-ministers-cite-need-for-international-war-crimes-probe-of-russia/
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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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https://www.mrt.com/business/article/UPS-AND-DOWNS-17049660.php
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File Pic: Housing Minister Darragh O' Brien TD, Fianna Fáil
Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien has admitted that retirees in Carlow and across Ireland will have to dip into their pensions in order to pay rent in the future.
The Fianna Fáil (FF) politician made the comments in a memo that was reported on yesterday by The Irish Independent.
The memo, which was brought before Cabinet on Tuesday, said the government's new auto-enrolment pension scheme will be 'particularly important' as home ownership rates decline.
"An increasing number of older people will need sufficient income to meet rental costs during their retirement years," the memo read.
When asked for comment, Minister O'Brien responded that people 'can interpret what was in the memo in whichever way they wish.'
"The idea that this is framed in a way that is simply looking at increasing pension coverage so that people can pay their rent into the future is not correct," he added.
When he was asked if the government is worried that an ageing population will have to use their pensions to pay rents, Minister O' Brien said that 'of course' the government would have to look at it.
Minister O' Brien isn't the only FF politician facing questions: An Taoiseach Micheál Martin came under fire during Leader’s Questions in the Dáil from Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy, who claimed that people will be 'forced to raid their pension funds' to pay rent in their 60s.
Ms Murphy asked: "If anyone thinks the answer to the housing crisis of 2022 is modest pensions that will accrue to people in 20 or 30 or 40 years from now, is it any wonder we’re in the mess we’re in?"
In related news, Minister O' Brien has said that emergency powers may have to be used to provide as many as 35,000 extra homes for Ukrainian refugees.
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https://www.waterfordlive.ie/news/local-news/779598/retirees-in-waterford-may-have-to-use-pensions-to-pay-rent-in-the-future-says-housing-minister.html
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Which iPad case is best?
When you purchase something with a high price tag like a tablet, you want to be sure it’s protected from falls, spills and other mishaps. Beyond protection, many users also purchase iPad cases that offer additional benefits like stands, keyboards, trackpads and storage solutions. Depending on your priorities, you may prefer one type of case to the next, though most buyers can find one to accommodate their needs, preferences and budgets.
The Logitech Combo Touch for iPad offers a keyboard and adjustable stand, making it a great pick for most buyers.
What to know before you buy an iPad case
Your iPad
Determining what iPad cases work for you depends mostly on the type of iPad you have, as well as how you usually use it. You can find iPad cases for all of Apple’s iPad models, though they range in size depending on which iPad version you have. Cases also vary in the features and styles they offer, so you’ll want to choose one based on how you use your iPad.
Types of iPad cases
There are different types of iPad cases that offer varying benefits.
- Protective shell: For the utmost protection, protective shells wrap around the sides and back of an iPad to protect the screen from drops and falls. Shell cases come in a range of materials, though they don’t typically cover the screen.
- Sleeve: Sleeves for iPads are great for backpack and bag transportation, preventing scratches and boasting a lightweight design. A sleeve is less protective than a shell case from drop and fall damage.
- Folio: Folio cases fold over an iPad’s screen, not unlike a book cover. These offer a balance of protection from falls and from scratches. High-end folio cases may also include extra features such as keyboards and trackpads.
Material
You can find iPad cases in a wide range of materials that vary in protectiveness, weight and style. The most common materials for cases include hard plastic and polyurethane, though you can find several others. Plastic and polyurethane cases are known for their durability and protective qualities, while other materials may offer more stylish looks.
What to look for in a quality iPad case
Compatibility
Apple’s iPads are made in different sizes, so it’s important to choose a case compatible with your generation. The standard iPad has remained the same size since the iPad 2, so as long as you have a newer generation than that, it will fit with a range of cases. Apple’s iPad Pro, Air and Mini models differ in size from each other and older generations, so it’s important to check what version and generation your case is designed for.
Adjustable stand
Most iPad cases include a stand, while premium cases include multiple positions to adjust the stand to. Most buyers prefer a case with an adjustable stand because they let users customize the tablet’s angle to work best, no matter where they are.
Features
Other features to look out for include tools such as keyboards and trackpads. These are great tools for professionals on the go, or others who often use a keyboard and trackpad. Another common feature found on iPad cases is storage for the Apple Pencil, which can be useful if you have the tool.
How much you can expect to spend on an iPad case
For most iPad cases, you can expect to spend around $20. You can buy cheap iPad cases for as low as $12, while high-end cases can cost over $150.
iPad case FAQ
Can iPad cases fit all iPads?
A. Cases for iPads aren’t universal. To choose the right case, you’ll need to measure your iPad, or base your purchase on the model of iPad you have — whether it’s the standard iPad, iPad Pro, iPad Air or iPad Mini. Standard iPads are the same size for generations 2, 3 and 4, while the newest generations of the iPad Air, iPad Pro and iPad Mini are all sized differently than their predecessors.
Are iPad cases compatible with the Magic Keyboard?
A. Most iPad cases are not compatible with the Magic Keyboard. Magic Keyboards act as cases themselves, though some buyers want something more protective to go along with the combination case. You can find a few products claiming to work with Apple’s Magic Keyboard, though the reviews reveal issues that you may or may not be able to put up with.
What’s the best iPad case to buy?
Top iPad case
What you need to know: This premium case includes a backlit keyboard and a trackpad, as well as four use modes using the adjustable kickstand.
What you’ll love: This ergonomic case is protective and the keyboard and trackpad are more responsive than others. In addition to its many standing positions, this iPad case includes an Apple Pencil storage slot.
What you should consider: Some found that the keyboard comes off a bit too easily.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top iPad case for the money
Fintie Faux Leather Rotating Case and Stand For iPad
What you need to know: This simple rotating case features an elegant faux leather material and lets users stand the iPad either vertically or horizontally.
What you’ll love: This case includes two landscape viewing angles and one portrait angle, as well as an Apple Pencil holder. It also includes an easy rotation mechanism for switching between orientations. This iPad case is available in 33 colors and designs.
What you should consider: This case is heavier than most others, and it doesn’t include a keyboard.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Otterbox Symmetry Series Clear Shell Case for iPad
What you need to know: This offers one of the more protective case designs, and its transparency makes it perfect for those wanting to see the iPad’s natural beauty.
What you’ll love: This case is about as protective as they come, and it includes a useful loop for storing the Apple Pencil. This works great with magnetic covers like the Smart Folio because of its removable spine and lack of screen coverage.
What you should consider: This case doesn’t cover the tablet’s screen, and it’s a lot thicker than other cases.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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https://www.kget.com/reviews/br/electronics-br/tablets-accessories-br/best-ipad-case/
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Michigan State makes 'Top 12' for four-star linebacker Phil Picciotti
Perkasie (PA.) Pennridge 2023 linebacker Phil Picciotti recently narrowed down his list of schools to 12 which he will focus on this spring and summer before making a commitment.
Of the 12 schools, Michigan State, Penn State and Oklahoma are among the early favorites for Picciotti. Although Michigan, USC, South Carolina, Auburn, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Northwestern, Illinois and Virginia Tech rounded out the 'Top 12' for Picciotti.
Picciotti recently visited Michigan State just two weekends ago as well as in-state rival, Michigan. Picciotti is being recruited by not only linebacker coach Ross Els but also defensive coordinator Scottie Hazelton.
The Spartans remain a top option for Picciotti moving forward with no linebackers yet committed in the 2023 class, the Spartans are narrowing in and targeting the talented prospect.
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Moving forward, the Spartans are hoping to get one of the official visits for Picciotti this summer. He plans on visiting Oklahoma this weekend.
Picciotti is ranked as the 361st player overall in the class of 2023 as well as the 33rd ranked linebacker and the 8th player in the state of Pennsylvania.
Penn State is considered the favorite as of right now, with two crystal ball projections to the Nittany Lions according to 247sports.com.
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https://www.si.com/college/michiganstate/msu-recruiting/michigan-state-makes-top-12-for-four-star-linebacker-phil-picciotti-mel-tucker-scottie-hazelton-ross-els
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Equities analysts forecast that Franklin Street Properties Corp. (NYSE:FSP – Get Rating) will announce $0.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the current fiscal quarter, according to Zacks Investment Research. Two analysts have provided estimates for Franklin Street Properties’ earnings. Franklin Street Properties posted earnings of $0.17 per share in the same quarter last year, which suggests a negative year-over-year growth rate of 29.4%. The business is scheduled to report its next quarterly earnings results on Monday, January 1st.
On average, analysts expect that Franklin Street Properties will report full year earnings of $0.41 per share for the current fiscal year. For the next fiscal year, analysts forecast that the business will report earnings of $0.42 per share. Zacks Investment Research’s earnings per share averages are an average based on a survey of sell-side research analysts that cover Franklin Street Properties.
Separately, StockNews.com started coverage on shares of Franklin Street Properties in a research note on Thursday. They issued a “buy” rating on the stock.
Franklin Street Properties Company Profile (Get Rating)
Franklin Street Properties Corp., based in Wakefield, Massachusetts, is focused on infill and central business district (CBD) office properties in the U.S. Sunbelt and Mountain West, as well as select opportunistic markets. FSP seeks value-oriented investments with an eye towards long-term growth and appreciation, as well as current income.
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Ukraine president calls for international trade embargo on Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday pressed for more international sanctions against Russia including boycotting Russian oil and halting exports to the country.
“If the invasion continues and Russia has not abandoned its plans against Ukraine, then a new sanctions package is needed … for the sake of peace,” Zelensky said, according to Reuters.
“Boycott imports to Russia — if they do not adhere to civilized rules, then they should not receive goods and services from civilization. Let the war feed them,” said the president, who has widely been praised as a wartime hero.
Western sanctions including barring transactions with Russia’s central bank, closing airspace to Russian aircraft and kicking certain banks out of the international SWIFT system have already begun to isolate Russia.
However, Zelensky has urged more action from the West — particularly a no-fly zone over Ukraine and harsher measures against Russia’s energy sector.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a letter on Sunday that the House would explore options to “ban the import of Russian oil and energy products into the United States, repeal normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, and take the first step to deny Russia access to the World Trade Organization.”
A bipartisan bill to ban Russian oil imports was also introduced in the Senate last week.
“The United States cannot continue to purchase millions of barrels of oil while Putin wages an unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine,” said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who said on Saturday that he would support that bill.
But while a Russian oil ban appears to be gaining steam on Capitol Hill, lawmakers and the White House continue to say that a no-fly zone is a non-starter due to the risks of direct confrontation with Russia.
The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter.
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https://thehill.com/policy/international/597131-ukraine-president-calls-for-international-trade-embargo-on-russia/
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Rhyan Grant hopes his record-breaking appearance for Sydney FC won't be as forgettable as his first.
"My debut was against Perth (in 2008) and I think I got 15 minutes and we lost 4-1," he told AAP.
Grant will on Saturday surpass Alex Brosque and become the holder of Sydney's appearance record in his 268th game for the club.
The 31-year-old defender has enjoyed plenty of success with the Sky Blues but any hope of silverware this season is fading as Sydney's campaign continues to splutter.
On Saturday they host an A-League Men derby against Western Sydney, who are enjoying a revival under Mark Rudan.
Sydney currently sit outside the finals spots and the Wanderers, who won the last meeting, have two games in hand and can make ground on their rivals with a win.
Steve Corica's side, who have faced a huge backlog of games and an injury toll, have won just two league games in the last six weeks and are in danger of missing the finals for the first time since the 2015-16 season.
"If we knew the answer as to why we would be able to turn it around," Grant said.
"Inconsistencies have cost us and at times we have played some good footy and got some good results.
"Then other times we've been a bit lacklustre and a bit sloppy and we've only got ourselves to blame.
"We've had way too many draws and many losses for what we're used to here at Sydney and for what we expect.
"We've only got six games remaining so we need to get as many wins as possible to make sure we secure a top-six finish."
Grant had offers to go overseas earlier in his career but for one reason or another never took the jump to play abroad.
It's a career-path which has yielded Socceroos selection and he hopes a trip to Qatar for the World Cup later this year.
Grant is aware Australia have underperformed in qualification under Graham Arnold but says that has little to do with the fact that so few Australians are playing in top leagues abroad.
"You're always a chance of a look-in (for the Socceroos) if you do make the move overseas," he said.
"At the same time, I know there's a lot of players that have probably gone overseas and I wouldn't say got lost, but went under the radar in that sense.
"Being here you can be under the national team coach's nose and it's worked out quite well for me.
"We still have a chance to get to a World Cup and match ourselves against those top nations."
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https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/soccer/grant-to-claim-sydney-fc-games-record-c-6283413
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By Adriano Marchese
WELL Health Technologies Corp. shares rose in early trading Thursday after the company reported an adjusted profit and soaring revenue in its fourth quarter, better than analysts anticipated.
At 9:42 a.m. ET, shares were up 9.6% at C$5.39.
The Canadian health-technology company said revenue rose to 115.7 million Canadian dollars, the equivalent of US$92.7 million, compared with C$17.2 million a year ago.
On an adjusted basis, the company reported earnings of C$0.03 a share, while analysts polled on FactSet expected a loss of C$0.01 a share.
The company said that for 2022, it expects revenue to exceed C$500 million, and said it expects to be profitable on an adjusted net income basis.
Revenue in 2021 was C$302.3 million.
Write to Adriano Marchese at adriano.marchese@wsj.com
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-0-6-8
(three, zero, six, eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-0-6-8
(three, zero, six, eight)
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-0-6-8
(three, zero, six, eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-0-6-8
(three, zero, six, eight)
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https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17049788.php
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Many students want to go to college, but often just as many students find themselves without the financial means to do so. To try and close the gap between the two, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid allows students to apply for federal aid and helps colleges determine the financial need of students.
The FAFSA is available to all students, regardless of race, gender or financial status, and many collegiate scholarships require students to fill it out.
“Everyone wants to go to college,” Jody Perkins, an access and research specialist, said. “But students don’t have all the resources at their disposal. Our job is to educate them on that so that they’re ready when it’s time to go.”
On Weber State University’s campus, a group called Advocates for FAFSA, headed by Perkins, can help students fill out the form, which can often involve complicated situations.
Advocates for FAFSA is a relatively new program that originated from the Student-to-Student program, a program that recruits from different high schools in the area. Individuals such as Perkins would travel to the various schools in the area, educating students on how FAFSA works and what resources are available to students.
Although Advocates for FAFSA has evolved from the Student-to-Student program, it still retains a lot of those earlier pieces of the program. Advocates for FAFSA will still recruit from time to time, but now both potential WSU students and current students can meet with Perkins or student advocates one-on-one.
The student advocates are able to help students as they enter the college atmosphere and can help them adjust once they are there.
“Everyone needs their ‘why,’” Perkins said. “You are not mandated to go to college like you are in high school. Yes, getting students here is important. More importantly is getting them to stay here.”
Helping students stay in college is a key goal for Perkins, and it is vital for students to be successful in college. In fact, current students credit Perkins and his FAFSA program as being a key part of being successful in college.
For Perkins, the biggest key to the success of students in the college atmosphere is a family matter. He himself graduated with his bachelor’s degree at WSU. He currently has three children, soon to be four, attending WSU.
“Every family wants to create that college-going culture,” Perkins said. “I have. Everyone wants that.”
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US girls’ dance to Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna’s Saami Saami goes viral. Watch
This video that has gone viral on Instagram reveals the best way to ladies from the United States of America dance to Allu Arjun and Rashmika Mandanna’s Saami Saami.
If you’re accustomed to Instagram and all kinds of trending music in India then this viral dance video won’t come as a shock to you. The Saami Saami music development had lots of people leaping onto it by dancing and acing the hook steps. This music was sung by Mounika Yadav and featured within the film Pushpa: The Rise that launched in 2021.
This explicit music was picturised on actors Allu Arjun and Rashmika Mandanna and went every kind of viral throughout social media. This video reveals two ladies named Radhapriyanka and Raju Gari Ammayi, who keep in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis within the United States of America, respectively. The duo may be seen dancing to the viral Saami Saami music.
This dance video that has now gone viral was uploaded on Instagram with a caption that reads, “Saami obsession.” It was accompanied with the smiling face with an open mouth and chilly sweat emoji. The caption was full with a couple of hashtags like #telugusongs, #dance, #saamisaami, #telugu, #trending, #saami and #reelitfeelit.
Watch the video proper right here:
The video has been posted on Instagram on March 23 and since then, has garnered a number of feedback from individuals who could not cease praising these ladies’ dance abilities and the way they’ve stayed in contact with their roots. It has additionally acquired greater than 7.3 lakh views to date.
An Instagram consumer wrote, “Very nice song, lovely expression miss.” “Very cute, lovely performance,” reads one other remark. A 3rd remark reads, “Fantastic and awesome.”
What are your ideas on this viral dance video?
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NEW YORK, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Randolph Bancorp, Inc. ("Randolph" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: RNDB), in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company by Hometown Financial Group, Inc. ("Hometown"). Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $27.00 in cash for each share of Randolph common stock owned. The transaction is valued at approximately $146.5 million.
If you own Randolph shares and wish to discuss this investigation or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, visit our website:
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Weiss Law is investigating whether (i) Randolph's board of directors acted in the best interests of Company shareholders in agreeing to the proposed transaction, (ii) the $27.00 per-share merger consideration adequately compensates Randolph's shareholders, and (iii) all information regarding the sales process and valuation of the transaction will be fully and fairly disclosed.
Weiss Law has litigated hundreds of stockholder class and derivative actions for violations of corporate and fiduciary duties. We have recovered over a billion dollars for defrauded clients and obtained important corporate governance relief in many of these cases. If you have information or would like legal advice concerning possible corporate wrongdoing (including insider trading, waste of corporate assets, accounting fraud, or materially misleading information), consumer fraud (including false advertising, defective products, or other deceptive business practices), or anti-trust violations, please email us at stockinfo@weisslawllp.com
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Looking ahead several months, water management is something to bring to our attention consistently. More often during the summer, California is headlining the news, dramatically showing our red sooty skies and parched earth during the vacation season. If we plan it well, summer can be a time of great peaceful gatherings and vibrant gardens. Water conservation is not an emergency behavior, it is an obvious habit to learn.
Remember, historic California is, at its roots, a land mostly consisting of hot valleys and desert. Our forests are relatively hot ones that endure a rise in temperature in the summer.
Somewhere inside us we know this, as we let the water run forever until it warms up on the tap. We say water is precious, but we can do more than just philosophize, when it comes to our homes and gardens.
Our backstory. When rainwater comes to us in California, we behave superstitiously, claiming good fortune and abundance. We always need it yet have trouble relying on its delivery. It all runs away from us, or so we think. We simply remain cozy because the tap still runs, yet it must be imported at an environmental cost to some other geographic location. Historical peoples were migratory for this reason; California has always been water-challenged since the first inhabitants. In modern times, we tend to stay in one place. Simple and high-end technology could help us cope with the worst case scenario. According to Aaron Fukuda, the manager of the Tulare Irrigation District in the San Joaquin Valley, groundwater recharge is becoming the solution. As an individual homeowner, this can be done on a smaller scale.
Depending on your lifestyle, some water saving technology can be a help or a challenge. Some require ongoing maintenance or higher funding to implement. Either way, the means exists to keep us in our comfort zone. Here are a few ideas to consider this year.
Rain barrel technology continues to evolve. Connecting or aligning one to your gutter has become less complicated with well-rated collapsible or recycled polyurethane barrels under $100. The other option is to create your own via kits or do your own plans. If aesthetically they are unappealing, one can go to a home improvement shop to find planter-disguised rain barrels to adorn your water collection efforts.
Something a homeowner can consider is graywater diversion systems. Typically, water from the clothes washer or shower is diverted to the garden, as needed. Looking at a YouTube video “How to Install a Graywater System” by This Old House, looks simple enough. A household would need to avoid using bleach products and stick to biodegradable detergents to avoid harming soil and plants. Hiring a plumber will help to adhere to building codes for plumbing. For either rain barrel capture or graywater systems, there are Bay Area rebates depending on your city or county. A good reference is greywaterlandscapedesign.com/rebates.
Very low tech. Personally, I use clay ollas and clay stakes to help manage a large lot. Clay ollas and stakes bring water closer to the roots of plants gradually, without evaporation on the surface. While drip irrigation or sprinkler systems are convenient, they can result in water loss through evaporation, leaks or not regulating water on timers. Outdoor planters dehydrate the quickest, using glass water globes work in a similar way as ollas and can take this issue off your hands. Plus they are attractive. With this system, you will not have to buy timers and tubing, unglazed clay ollas/stakes and glass globes react to a change in moisture pressure and releases water through its pores/opening, as the surrounding soil becomes dehydrated. A low cost option.
Then there is the obvious. Grow native plants. Native California plants are built to survive long spells without water. Many native grasses come in low bunches or tall and flowing, creating green all year long. Growing a conventional commercial lawn contrasts ecosystems. Unless we plan to eat our lawn for lunch, it only serves as water-guzzling endeavor. Plus, commercial lawns deplete our aquifers, invite the use of pesticides, and are high maintenance. To help the backyard, plant trees that provide shade to reduce watering times, as well. A percentage of native and nonnative plants can be a solution.
California homeowners can, collectively, protect the aquifers across the state. It’s a matter of adopting actual concern and taking new steps to help our communities. In the United States, California is the top producer of food with about 77,100 farms across the state. Now more than ever, ingenuity can reach every Californian household and business, with either low tech or high tech solutions. It’s not a crisis, it’s a reality. Adaptation is an intelligent response.
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https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/03/31/d-lopez-this-week-in-the-garden-water-tap-into-technology/
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Tim Anderson calls it a “focus moment” when he is standing near the on-deck circle.
“I work on my timing, see how the pitcher is delivering the baseball,” the Chicago White Sox shortstop told the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday. “But it’s also a good time to prepare. And also a good time to get excited to set the tone of the game.
“I get to bat first, the fans are into it, everybody is paying attention, it’s a moment for me to focus. I know everybody is locked in. It’s the first pitch. I’ve got to be locked in as well. It helps me refocus and understand what pitchers are trying to do because I pay attention and I do my homework.”
Anderson hit five leadoff homers in 2021 and ranks second on the team’s all-time list with 13, trailing Ray Durham (20).
The Sox will be without that jolt for two games after his appeal of a three-game suspension handed down in the final week of last season was reduced by one game, Anderson said.
“I’m suspended two games and I got fined $10K,” he told the Tribune.
When asked if it was the first two games, Anderson said, “Yeah, I think so, the first two.” Major League Baseball hasn’t publicly disclosed a ruling.
MLB announced a three-game suspension Sept. 29, saying Anderson made contact with umpire Tim Timmons during a Sept. 27 benches-clearing incident with the Detroit Tigers.
Sox first baseman José Abreu was hit by a pitch in the ninth inning of the game at Comerica Park, the 21st time he was hit by a pitch last season. Moments later, Abreu attempted to advance to second on a wild pitch. The Tigers took issue with his slide, and the benches cleared.
Explaining the situation to reporters on Oct. 1, Anderson said: “(Timmons) was pushing me. I didn’t realize who he was because he was so close to pushing me. What’s your reaction when someone pushes you? To push him off of you. So I pushed him off of me and I realized it was him, but at that point it’s too late. But yeah, I pushed him. But he started it. He initiated it. I just pushed him back. I pushed him off of me. Because he was in my space, a little too close.”
Anderson appealed, pushing any suspension to 2022.
“It’ll be all right,” Anderson said. “It’s part of what I did, so I understand. I’m not complaining. I get to watch for two. But I’ll be ready (to go), I’ll be excited.”
The star’s big moments last season included hitting the game-winning home run in the Field of Dreams game against the New York Yankees on Aug. 12 in Dyersville, Iowa.
Anderson finished fourth in the American League in 2021 with a .309 average during an All-Star season. It was his third straight year placing in the top four in the AL in the category. He led the majors in hitting in 2019 and was second in the AL in 2020.
“He’s a .300 hitter, and he can get to all pitches — right, left,” Sox manager Tony La Russa said Wednesday when asked the benefits of having Anderson at the top of the lineup. “And he’s got those dynamite legs so when he gets on, what he can make happen. And he’s also been a factor when you turn the lineup around, drive in a big run.
“He’s Rickey (Henderson)-like in many ways. If his legs are healthy all year long, he would steal a lot of bases. The wear and tear of shortstop sometimes, you red-light him. He’s a guy you trust. How do you feel? If he feels good, you give him the green light.”
And part of the success starts before he steps into the box, noticing little things while preparing on deck.
“That way I have a little bit of an advantage on him” Anderson said. “And if I put that with the video I’ve been watching, then I’m two steps ahead of him a little bit. It puts me in a good spot.”
When Anderson isn’t available, versatile veteran Leury García is the likely candidate to play shortstop. The Sox plan to start García at the position in Cactus League games Friday and Saturday, with Anderson as the designated hitter Friday and likely off Saturday.
After the delayed spring training because of the owners lockout, Anderson is looking forward to the regular season.
“Everything has been pushed back anyways (because of the lockout), so we’re excited to get going,” he said. “It’s going to be fun. We’ve just got to finish up strong here and keep everybody healthy. That way we can attack the season.”
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — From downed trees to power outages, people across Shelby County are still trying to get back to normal following the latest round of severe weather on Wednesday.
Bartlett residents said it all felt too familiar.
“I came out and said ‘Aw crap. Not again,’” Robert Reed said.
Reed is now in the process of cleaning up his front yard on Greenleaf street after strong winds pulled a tree down. He says no one was hurt since the tree fell away from his home.
“Then I heard another extended crack, and then the crack kept going,” Reed said.
He says this is the second time he’s had to deal with a downed tree. Reed says another tree near his home fell during February’s ice storm, damaging his neighbor’s house.
Reed says just a few hours after the storm, MLGW crews came out, repaired the power lines and restored his power.
However, those like Lynn Zent spent the night in the dark, although they live just three minutes away.
“Of course, the neighbors across the street all have power,” Spent said.
WREG found Zent sitting in her car with her 1-year-old son, trying to charge her phone and keep warm. She says to her knowledge no one in her neighborhood suffered any damage.
“It was literally very calm and peaceful, and then you know it sounded like a gunshot in the backyard, and there it goes,” Zent said.
Zent says this is at least the second time this year she’s gone without power due to a major weather event. She says during the ice storm, she was without power for a week. She says a blown transformer is to blame.
“I know maybe burying the lines at this point is a little far-fetched, but I just wish that they’d work on something because this happens multiple times every single year,” Zent said.
If you’re still without power, call MLGW at 901-544-6500 to make a report.
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That’s a wrap on The Walking Dead.
AMC announced on Thursday that the seminal zombie series has finished filmingthe remaining episodes of its 11th and final season.
“That’s a wrap. 11 seasons 12 years. Never been so beat up and it was an absolute blast. Thank you to all of you that took this ride with us, and what a ride it was,” star Norman Reedus tweeted.
In the below photo, the cast and crew gathered to commemorate the final day of filming.
11 seasons, 12 years, 177 episodes, 1 amazing fan base. Thank you, #TWDFamily for joining us on this journey. pic.twitter.com/YrZDnDVOcE
— The Walking Dead on AMC (@WalkingDead_AMC) March 31, 2022
The finale for “Part 2” of The Walking Dead‘s supersized farewell run will air on AMC Sunday, April 10. “Part 3” will arrive after Fear the Walking Dead finishes airing Season 7; the spinoff’s midseason premiere is set for April 17 on AMC/AMC+.
TVLine hears that The Walking Dead’s series finale is thus on track to hit your screens “late in the year.”
After debuting to 5.4 million total viewers on Halloween Night 2010, The Walking Dead hit its apex with the Season 5 premiere, which drew north of 17 million viewers. (That season as a whole averaged 14.4 million.)
Of course, the end of The Walking Dead is far from the end of the series’ extended universe. Fear TWD is already renewed for Season 8, and at least three other spinoffs are looming.
Premiering in 2023, AMC’s Isle of the Dead will follow the unlikely pair of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan and Lauren Cohan’s Maggie into “a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. “The crumbling city,” the synopsis previews, “is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty and terror.”
Also on the horizon are the Tales of the Walking Dead anthology and the aforementioned and as-yet-untitled Daryl/Carol spinoff. There is also a movie trilogy starring TWD alum Andrew Lincoln that will “continue the story of Rick Grimes.” That was announced three-and-a-half years ago, and a brief teaser dropped at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con.
Want scoop on The Walking Dead, or for any other show? Email InsideLine@tvline.com and your question may be answered via Matt’s Inside Line.
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https://tvline.com/2022/03/31/the-walking-dead-series-finale-airdate-late-2022/
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Mount Polley Mining Corporation (MPMC) is looking to fill hundreds of jobs as it aims for a spring start up.
The gold and copper mine located northeast of Williams Lake and is situated near the community of Likely.
MPMC has been relying on contractors for the pit operations underway already and will be hiring staff to take over as they increase to full production.
No set date has been determined, but Don Parsons, chief operation officer and interim general manager for the mine, said the hope is to have the mine recommissioned by late April.
MPMC is looking to fill approximately 130 roles in pit operations and then will be looking for more people once they begin mill operations for a total of 355 employees to become fully staffed.
Jobs needing to be filled include everything from truck drivers to information technology support, mechanics, millwrights, electricians and supervisors. There were only about 16 MPMC employees at the mine in mid-March, the rest of the workers on the site were contractors and an average of about 110 people are on site each day.
MPMC is expected to have about eight to 10 years of mine life left based on current reserves and Parsons said this could be extended with further exploration.
The mine has been in care and maintenance with minimal staff since May of 2019 which owner Imperial Metals attributed to declining copper prices.
In August of 2014 a dam breach at the mine’s tailing’s facilities spilled an estimated 17 million cubic metres of tailings water and eight million cubic metres of tailings materials into Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel Lake, according to the Province of B.C.’s website.
The mine continues to release tailings water into Quesnel Lake “to manage on-site water inventory and support permitted operations,” according to a community meeting notice and has applied to extend the permit which allows them to do so.
The permit would run out in December of 2022, but the mine has applied to extend this until June 30, 2025.
A community engagement meeting was held in Likely at the Likely Community Hall on March 28 to discuss the permit and proposed amendment as well as provide information on the mine restarting and job opportunities and included representatives from the Ministry of Environment.
Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars said WLFN and MPMC are close to signing a cooperation agreement and he is viewing the mine restarting as providing local career opportunities which allow community members to support their families.
He said WLFN is looking forward to what reopening the mine could do for the local economy.
Read more: Mount Polley mine expected to open by fall 2021: Imperial Metals
Read more: Regulator fines engineers 8 years after Mount Polley disaster in B.C.
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Given its central role in utilizing light energy, photoinduced electron transfer (PET) from an excited molecule has been widely studied1,2,3,4,5,6. However, even though microscopic photocurrent measurement methods7,8,9,10,11 have made it possible to correlate the efficiency of the process with local features, spatial resolution has been insufficient to resolve it at the molecular level. Recent work has, however, shown that single molecules can be efficiently excited and probed when combining a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) with localized plasmon fields driven by a tunable laser12,13. Here we use that approach to directly visualize with atomic-scale resolution the photocurrent channels through the molecular orbitals of a single free-base phthalocyanine (FBPc) molecule, by detecting electrons from its first excited state tunnelling through the STM tip. We find that the direction and the spatial distribution of the photocurrent depend sensitively on the bias voltage, and detect counter-flowing photocurrent channels even at a voltage where the averaged photocurrent is near zero. Moreover, we see evidence of competition between PET and photoluminescence12, and find that we can control whether the excited molecule primarily relaxes through PET or photoluminescence by positioning the STM tip with three-dimensional, atomic precision. These observations suggest that specific photocurrent channels can be promoted or suppressed by tuning the coupling to excited-state molecular orbitals, and thus provide new perspectives for improving energy-conversion efficiencies by atomic-scale electronic and geometric engineering of molecular interfaces.
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Eight Feared Killed In Warri-Eku Express Road Auto-Crash
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than eight persons were feared dead in a motor accident involving a Picnic commercial vehicle and a Lexus, yesterday, on the Warri-Eku express road, Delta State.
An eyewitness, who simply identified himself as Mr Eguono, said the driver of the Picnic bus and some of his passengers died on the spot.
He said: “I cannot say who was at fault now. But it was a close to Oha part of the road. I don’t think anybody survived in the Picnic vehicle.
“The driver of the Picnic shuttles between Warri and Abraka. He wears eyeglasses. He is a regular face on the road.“
In a related incident, two members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, were crushed to death by a trailer in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Investigations, however, revealed that one of the victims, Afolabi Tunde, who was an APC youth leader in the town, was a delegate from the state in the just concluded convention of the party. He is survived by his widow, two children and aged parents.
It was further gathered that Tunde, fondly called Tunde Aluta, celebrated his 49th birthday on Monday, after returning from the convention in Abuja.
Sources said Tunde Aluta and another party member, Alawuye Sabitu, were on a motorcycle, on Tuesday afternoon, when the truck rammed into the bike and crushed them.
An eye witness said Aluta died on the spot while Sabitu, who sustained an internal injury, died later, and Sabitu was buried according to Islamic rites immediately.
An unconfirmed report said the duo left a bar around Idi Abebe for Agric area to get their commission on a land sold when the accident occurred.
While confirming the incident to our correspondent, the party secretary, Mr Alabi said: “Tunde Afolabi and his friend died on a bike around the caretaker area. They were going to meet somebody for something very crucial.
“He was not a youth leader, but a committed and well-known party supporter. A core loyalist of Shina Peller, currently representing Iseyin at the House of Representatives.”
At press time, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, did not respond to a text message sent to him for confirmation.
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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russia’s tech workers are looking for safer and more secure professional pastures.
By one estimate, up to 70,000 computer specialists, spooked by a sudden frost in the business and political climate, have bolted the country since Russia invaded Ukraine five weeks ago. Many more are expected to follow.
For some countries, Russia’s loss is being seen as their potential gain and an opportunity to bring fresh expertise to their own high-tech industries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has noticed the brain drain even in the throes of a war that, according to the U.N. refugee agency, has caused more than 4 million people to flee Ukraine and displaced millions more within the country.
This week, Putin reacted to the exodus of tech professionals by approving legislation to eliminate income taxes between now and 2024 for individuals who work for information technology companies.
Some people in the vast new pool of high-tech exiles say they are in no rush to return home. An elite crowd furnished with European Union visas has relocated to Poland or the Baltic nations of Latvia and Lithuania.
A larger contingent has fallen back on countries where Russians do not need visas: Armenia, Georgia and the former Soviet republics in Central Asia. In normal times, millions of less-skilled laborers emigrate from those economically shaky countries to comparatively more prosperous Russia.
Anastasia, a 24-year-old freelance computer systems analyst from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, chose Kyrgyzstan, where her husband has family.
“When we heard about the war on (Feb. 24), we thought it was probably time to leave, but that we might wait and see. On February 25, we bought our tickets and left,” Anastasia said. “There wasn’t much thinking to do.”
Like all the Russian workers contacted for this story, Anastasia asked to remain anonymous. Moscow was cracking down on dissent even before the invasion of Ukraine, and people living outside Russia still fear reprisals.
“As long as I can remember, there has always been fear around expressing one’s own views in Russia,” Anastasia said, adding that the war and “the background noise of patriotism” made the environment even more forbidding. “I left one day before they began searching and interrogating people at the border.”
The scale of the apparent brain drain was laid bare last week by Sergei Plugotarenko, the head of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications, an industry lobbying group.
“The first wave – 50,000-70,000 people – has already left,” Plugotarenko told a parliamentary committee.
Only the high cost of flights out of the country prevented an even larger mass exit. Another 100,000 tech workers nevertheless might leave Russia in April, Plugotarenko predicted.
Konstantin Siniushin, a managing partner at Untitled Ventures, a tech-focused venture capital fund based in Latvia, said that Russian tech firms with international customers had no choice but to move since many foreign companies are hastily distancing themselves from anything Russia-related.
“They had to leave the country so their business could survive, or, in the case of research and development workers, they were relocated by HQs,” Siniushin wrote in emailed remarks.
Untitled Ventures is helping in the migration; the firm charted two flights to Armenia carrying 300 tech workers from Russia, Siniushin said.
Some nearby countries are eager to reap the dividends.
Russian talent is primed for poaching. A 2020 Global Skills Index report published by Coursera, a leading provider of open online courses, found that people from Russia scored highest for skill proficiency in technology and data science.
As soon as the war started in Ukraine, the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan radically streamlined the process for obtaining work visas and residence permits for IT specialists.
Anton Filippov, a mobile app programmer from St. Petersburg, and the team of freelancers with whom he works made the move to Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, where he grew up, even before those incentives were made public.
“On February 24, it was like we had woken up to this different terrible reality,” Filippov said. “We’re all young, less than 27 years old, and so we were afraid we might be called up to take part in this war.”
As in-demand tech workers explore their options, their diaspora resembles a roaming caravan. Some countries, like Uzbekistan, are picked as stepping stones because Russian citizens do not need visas for short-term stays. But young professionals like Filippov do not plan to necessarily stay where they first landed.
“If the conditions they find differ from the ones they were promised, they will simply move on,” he said.
In many cases, entire companies are looking to relocate to avoid the fallout from international sanctions. A senior diplomat from another Russian neighbor, Kazakhstan, made a naked appeal this week for fleeing foreign enterprises to come to his country.
Kazakhstan is eyeing high-tech investors with particular interest as the country tries to diversify its economy, which relies on oil exports. In 2017, the government set up a technology park in the capital, Nur-Sultan, and offered tax breaks, preferential loans, and grants to anybody prepared to set up shop there.
The uptake has been moderate so far, but the hope is that the Russian brain drain will give this initiative a major shot in the arm.
“The accounts of Russian companies are being frozen, and their transactions do not go through. They are trying to keep customers, and one available opportunity is to go to Kazakhstan,” said Arman Abdrasilov, chairman of Zerde Holding, an investment fund in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s business hub.
Not all countries are so eager, though.
“Russian companies or startups cannot move to Lithuania,” said Inga Simanonyte, an adviser to the Baltic nation’s Economy and Innovation Minister. “We do not work with any Russian company with their possible relocation to Lithuania, and the ministry has suspended all applications for startup visas since February 24.”
Security concerns and suspicion that Russians might spy or engage in cyber mischief abroad make some governments wary about welcoming the country’s economic refugees.
“The IT sector in Russia is very closely connected to the security services. The problem is that without an extremely strong vetting process, we risk importing parts of the criminal system of Russia,” Lithuanian political analyst Marius Laurinavicius told The Associated Press.
Siniushin, the managing partner at Untitled Ventures, is urging Western nations to throw open their doors so their employers can take advantage of the unusual hiring opportunity the war created.
“The more talent that Europe or the United States can take away from Russia today, the more benefits these new innovators, whose potential will be fully realized abroad, will bring to other countries,” he said.
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Northwestern baseball to face Indiana in Big Ten opener
Northwestern baseball will open Big Ten Conference play in Bloomington, Ind. on Friday with a three-game series against the Indiana University Hoosiers. After a 2-10 start, the Wildcats have since won seven of eight games, including taking three games of a four-game, three-way series against SIU and Butler last weekend. The Wildcats went 15-21 in Big Ten action last season and finished 10th in the conference.
The Opponent
Indiana (10-13) enters the series with Northwestern on a two-game win streak, beating Evansville twice last weekend to secure a series victory. The Hoosiers, who finished 4th in the Big Ten a season ago with a 26-18 record, were predicted to finish 6th in the conference’s 2022 Preseason Coaches Poll.
IU has played its best baseball at home this year, compiling a 7-4 record in Bloomington while posting a 3-9 mark on the road. The Hoosiers competed in the Karbach Round Rock Classic in February, falling to perennial powerhouses Arkansas and Stanford and beating Louisiana-Lafayette. The Wildcats and Hoosiers have faced two common opponents: IU won against Cincinnati, who bested NU in a weekend series, and both Indiana and Northwestern own series wins over Evansville.
On offense, Bobby Whalen leads Indiana in hits (31), batting average (.348), on-base percentage (.438) and steals (13). Redshirt junior catcher Matthew Ellis has hit 11 home runs this season, which ranks 6th in NCAA Division I.
Indiana’s pitching staff ranks last in the Big Ten Conference in earned run average (6.70) and has issued the most walks in the conference this year. Jack Perkins has emerged as IU’s Friday starter with 39 strikeouts in 30 innings this season. Right-hander Bradley Brehmer won the Big Ten Pitcher of the Week award with his six-inning, one-hit performance against Evansville last weekend. Oak Park, Ill. native Grant Holderfield is the team leader in saves (2) and has appeared in 10 games out of the bullpen.
Last year, Indiana won two of three games at Rocky and Berenice Miller Park in Evanston, improving its all-time record against Northwestern to 114-74-3.
Coach’s Corner
Wildcats Daily spoke with Northwestern baseball interim head coach Josh Reynolds this week to get his thoughts on the upcoming series and his team’s recent hot streak:
“They’re a good team, and they have good arms. I don’t know if they’ve played the best baseball that they’ve wanted to play this year…but they have a solid team,” Reynolds said about the series with Indiana this weekend.
“We came there to win a series, and we accomplished that,” Reynolds said on the team’s 3-1 weekend in Carbondale, Ill. last week. “We were right there (to get a sweep), but when you give up nine runs in the second and third innings, you put yourself at a disadvantage.”
“We challenged the guys to play their brand of baseball, the brand that we need to play, and I think we’ve seen that here lately, with guys competing in the box, two-strike hits, two-out hits, setting up the home run and not just trying to swing for the home run.” Reynolds said when asked about Northwestern’s turnaround after a slow start. “We’ve played solid defense, the guys have pitched it pretty well, and the offense has been competing in the box.”
The Schedule
The three-game series will begin on Friday night, with single games scheduled through the weekend:
Game 1: Friday, April 1, 5 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. CT
Game 2: Saturday, April 2, 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. CT
Game 3: Sunday, April 3, 1 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. CT
Projected Starting Pitchers
Game 1:
Northwestern – LHP Sean Sullivan: 6 GS, 31 IP, 2.61 ERA, 43 SO, 8 BB
Northwestern baseball to face Indiana in Big Ten opener
The Wildcats and Hoosiers will play a three-game set at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington, Ind. this weekend as both teams look for strong starts in the Big Ten Conference.
Northwestern comes up short late, coughs up series finale against Butler, 11-10
The 'Cats were one strike away from an eighth straight victory before the Bulldogs notched a double and a home run to steal away a victory from Northwestern.
O’Donnell powers Northwestern baseball to 15-6 defeat of SIU
The Wildcats exploded for 13 runs in the final three innings to beat the Salukis and extend the team’s win streak to seven games.
Indiana – RHP Jack Perkins: 6 GS, 30 IP, 4.20 ERA, 39 SO, 19 BB
Game 2:
Northwestern – RHP Michael Farinelli: 5 GS (6 APP), 33.1 IP, 4.32 ERA, 30 SO, 13 BB
Indiana – RHP Bradley Bremer: 4 GS (7 APP), 26.2 IP, 5.74 ERA, 22 SO, 14 BB
Game 3:
Northwestern – TBD
Indiana – TBD
How to Watch
Multiple ‘Cats Earn Honors
Northwestern’s Ethan O’Donnell and Jay Beshears were named National Players of the Week by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. O’Donnell hit four home runs and slugged 1.895 in four games against SIU and Butler last week, and Beshears collected 13 RBI and four homers of his own.
The Big Ten Conference honored O’Donnell as the conference’s Player of the Week. The sophomore became the first Wildcat to win the award since Shawn Goosenberg in April of 2021.
D1Baseball.com also placed O’Donnell on its Top 100 Outfielders list, slotting the Highlands Ranch, Colo. native at #71.
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Oklahoma Announces Details for Baker Mayfield Statue Reveal
Mystery solved.
Oklahoma on Thursday finalized details for the reveal of Baker Mayfield’s Heisman statue on April 23.
It was previously announced that Mayfield’s bronze visage would join his Heisman forebears in Heisman Park across Jenkins Avenue during the annual Red/White Game festivities.
On Monday, head coach Brent Venables revealed the statue would be unveiled at halftime of the spring game. And Thursday, the final detail came forth: the statue unveiling will be at Heisman Park across the street, and the ceremony will be on Owen Field. The reveal will be shown on the stadium’s video boards.
Fans will not be allowed to leave the stadium and re-enter, but there will be photo ops available after the game.
“I can't think of a better way to celebrate this tremendous honor than alongside my family, teammates and Sooner Nation,” Mayfield said in a statement. “It took all of us, so to be back on Owen Field and have this statue unveiled there is incredible. See you at the Spring Game!”
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Mayfield in 2017 became the Sooners’ sixth Heisman winner, joining Billy Vessels (1952), Steve Owens (1969), Billy Sims (1978), Jason White (2003) and Sam Bradford (2008). A year later, Kyler Murray joined the elite club.
Mayfield passed for 4,627 yards and 43 touchdowns and led OU to a 12-2 record, a third straight Big 12 championship and a return to the College Football Playoff.
“I’m a Sooner for life and incredibly grateful for all of the success my teammates and I had at OU,” said Mayfield, who was a two-time first-team All-American. “It's humbling and surreal to think about having a statue in iconic Heisman Park. I can't wait to be back in Norman and reunite with the most passionate fans in college football.”
Spring game tickets for OU football season ticket holders and Sooner Club members cost $10 each. Season ticket holders and Sooner Club members must log in to their online account to order.
MidFirst Bank East Club, Valero South Champions Club and Santee Lounge season ticket holders will have access to purchase general admission tickets within their respective club(s) for $10 each. Suite and loge box holders will be able to reserve their complimentary suite and loge box tickets via a separate RSVP process that will be outlined by email in the coming days.
Tickets for the general public are $15 for general admission bowl seating and $25 for any remaining general admission Club or general admission Santee Lounge seating.
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Blinken: NATO looking at more permanent troop deployments in Baltic region
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday said NATO is looking at more permanent troop deployments in the Baltic region as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine.
Asked if the U.S. will send troops to the Baltic region permanently to protect NATO countries, Blinken told reporters that the alliance is “looking at questions of more permanent deployments.”
“We’re continuously reviewing within NATO our defense posture, including looking at questions of extending the deployment of forces, looking at questions of more permanent deployments,” Blinken said during a joint press conference with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis in Lithuania.
“All of that is under regular review, and we’re engaged with NATO Allies in doing just that,” he added.
The secretary emphasized that “When it comes to NATO, the line is very clear,” pointing to article five of the North Atlantic Treaty.
“If there is any aggression anywhere on NATO territory, on NATO countries, we the United States, all of our allies and partners, will take action to defend every inch of NATO territory,” Blinken said. “It’s as clear and direct as that.”
The U.S. moved six fighter jets to the Baltic region and the Black Sea late last month to support NATO’s defensive stance after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a military operation in Ukraine, which set Moscow’s invasion in motion.
Additionally, the U.S. deployed thousands of troops to Poland, Germany and Romania as fears were rising of a potential Russian invasion.
Blinken’s comments come on the twelfth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The secretary is currently traveling through Europe to meet with NATO allies and other European partners amid the conflict.
The trip itinerary includes stops in Belgium, Poland, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
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Which Microsoft Surface tablet is best?
Microsoft Surface tablets are often overlooked in favor of other traditional tablets, but they’re perfect for anyone who wants a lightweight device that can function as a laptop.
Microsoft Surface tablets are high-powered and excellent for all kinds of computing tasks. There are several models, but Microsoft Surface Pro 8 is the best of them all, thanks to its dazzling display and ultra-fast processor.
What to know before you buy a Microsoft Surface tablet
Screen size
Although they’re marketed as two-in-one devices, Microsoft Surface tablets primarily function as tablets. They’re designed to be sleek, lightweight and portable, so they don’t have the screen sizes you typically see on laptops.
The average tablet screen size is 9-13 inches, but Surface tablets are only available in 10-inch and 13-inch models. A larger screen is better for working or streaming movies and TV shows, but it’s not as lightweight or thin as a small screen.
Software
Microsoft Surface tablets all come with the Windows 11 operating system preinstalled. It allows them to function similarly to traditional PCs and is usually the preferred software for those who use their device for work or intensive school projects.
If you’re used to using a different operating system, you might find it challenging to transition to Windows 11, as there’s somewhat of a learning curve for anyone unfamiliar with it.
Battery life
Tablets are meant to be used from viable power sources, so they should last a long time in standby mode. It depends on the duration and type of usage, but a quality tablet lasts around 8 hours on a full charge. Applications vary in power consumption, so naturally, programs that require more will drain a tablet’s battery faster.
What to look for in a quality Microsoft Surface tablet
Storage
While many laptops use hard disk drives for storage, all Surface tablets use solid-state drives. Accessing files on an SSD is faster, making them ideal for tablets.
If you plan to use your tablet for simple tasks like browsing or streaming content, you can opt for a tablet with 64 or 128 gigabytes of storage. However, if you want to use your tablet for work or school, the more storage you have to work with, the better, making models with 256GB or higher more suitable.
Once your tablet’s SSD storage capacity is full, you’ll have to delete or move files if you want to store other data.
Processor
A fast central processing unit is crucial for running applications that require lots of power. You don’t need to worry about this if you plan to use your tablet for light tasks, but it’s an important consideration for anybody looking to use their device for running high-powered programs. However, be advised that the more powerful a tablet’s processor, the more expensive it is.
Random access memory
The more random access memory a device has, the more applications you can run simultaneously without noticing a performance decrease. 4GB of RAM is sufficient for simple browsing and running light applications, but high-powered computing tasks require a minimum of 8GB of RAM to run efficiently.
How much you can expect to spend on a Microsoft Surface tablet
Because of the many different specs that can be customized, the price of a Surface tablet can vary greatly. The entry-level model of the Surface Go 3 is the cheapest at $400, while the Surface Pro 8 with the most high-end specs goes for $1,999.
Microsoft Surface tablet FAQ
Can Surface tablets connect to LTE networks?
A. All models can connect to the internet through Wi-Fi, but some also have cellular/LTE network capabilities for using the internet while on the go. However, you’ll have to contact a network carrier and purchase a data plan if you wish to do so.
Is the Surface Pen accessory necessary?
A. It’s not necessary whatsoever, but it makes games and tasks such as note-taking and drawing on your tablet much more accessible.
What’s the best Microsoft Surface tablet to buy?
Top Microsoft Surface tablet
What you need to know: It’s hands-down the best Surface tablet, as it boasts the best battery life, graphics and delivers superior performance for all kinds of tasks.
What you’ll love: The base model of this tablet comes equipped with 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD and an Intel Core i5 processor. It has a stunning 13-inch touchscreen display, a kickstand, offers a 120Hz frame refresh rate and supports Fast Charging.
What you should consider: Some find the 8GB of RAM on the base model insufficient for an expensive, high-end tablet.
Where to buy: Sold by Staples and Amazon
Top Microsoft Surface tablet for the money
What you need to know: If you don’t mind sacrificing a bit of processing power, this tablet is an excellent budget-friendly alternative to the Pro 8.
What you’ll love: The base model of this tablet has 4GB of RAM, 64GB SSD and an Intel Core i3 processor. It lasts 8.5 hours on a full charge and has a 10.5-inch touchscreen display, making it lightweight and suitable for traveling.
What you should consider: The screen size is great for streaming media but not as good for those looking for a fully functional computing device.
Where to buy: Sold by Staples and Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: It’s an excellent mid-level tablet with less processing power than the Pro 8 but with similar specs in most other areas.
What you’ll love: The entry-level Pro X model comes with 8GB of RAM, 128GB SSD and a Microsoft SQ1 processor. It’s fast enough for effective multitasking, and although it has a 13-inch display, it’s lightweight, thanks to a 7.3-millimeter thickness design.
What you should consider: Some complained it’s not compatible with many popular programs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The Ross River virus that causes fatigue, joint pain and rashes has been detected in Sydney mosquitoes after the NSW floods.
The virus was detected on Monday at the popular Narrabeen Lagoon on the Northern Beaches, through a mosquito trap surveillance program that uses honey to collect mosquito saliva.
The Northern Rivers Local Health District said heavy rain and strong winds triggered the “perfect” breeding ground for mosquito-borne viruses.
The virus can be transmitted to humans through a bloodsucking bite.
There are no vaccines against the virus, with symptoms occurring between three and 11 days after being bitten.
In some incidents, recovery can take up to six months.
The warning comes amid Australia detecting cases of deadly Japanese encephalitis, which is also transmitted by mosquitoes.
The deadly virus was detected around the time of last month’s floods.
The virus is spread through the bite of an infected mosquito to people and animals.
In animals, it mostly occurs in pigs and horses.
Clinicians across Australia have been urged to watch out for the virus in people presenting with brain swelling or similar symptoms.
Most human infections cause mild symptoms but someone with severe disease may present with inflammation of the brain, characterised by sudden onset of vomiting, high fever and chills, sensitivity to light and neck stiffness.
Authorities have urged residents to avoid going outside during dawn and dusk when the insects are most active.
Residents are encouraged to wear long-sleeved clothing and wear mosquito repellent as a preventive as flood clean up begins.
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https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/code-red-warning-for-debilitating-mosquito-virus-in-new-south-wales-c-6283793
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert said investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men's college basketball programs — including 2022 Final Four participant Kansas — have taken “way too long.”
What solutions might be on the table to speed it up, Emmert did not say, but there appears to be increasing acknowledgement that the current process is broken.
“It’s just been really slow in getting through that new independent process that’s wound up reinvestigating the entire case,” Emmert said, referring to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
The IARP was created out of proposals from the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform the sport. It began looking into allegations against Kansas, Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State on the heels of a federal investigation into corruption in college sports that resulted in convictions of shoe company executives, a middle man who worked with them and some assistant college coaches.
Of those FBI cases nearly five years ago, only one -- North Carolina State, tied to its recruitment of one-and-done star Dennis Smith Jr. -- has actually gone through the IARP system to completion and received a ruling that resulted in probation for one year, some vacated victories and penalties for previous coaches.
The four other cases are still pending in the IARP structure, while Auburn went through the more traditional process and received four years of probation in December from an NCAA infractions committee panel.
In the meantime, this year's NCAA Tournament could be tainted should Kansas win the national championship and subsequently have an unfavorable decision come down in a now half-decade-old investigation.
Created to handle complex cases, the IARP includes independent investigators and decision-makers with no direct ties to NCAA member schools, and rulings cannot be appealed.
Emmert said NCAA institutions need to come up with a process that has “got to be fair. It’s got to be swift. And it’s got to not punish the innocent. ... That’s where the membership’s got to be in all of this, as they shape a new process or rebuild the one that’s in place.”
The Kansas case hinges on whether Adidas representatives were considered boosters — the school contends they were not — when two of them arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas does not dispute the payments. Kansas asked for referral to the IARP instead of having the NCAA's infractions committee handle the matter.
While the lengthy IARP process has been going on, Self agreed to a new contract on April 2, 2021, that will keep him with the school until he retires.
The five-year deal adds one additional year after the conclusion of each season — in effect, making it a lifetime contract. It guarantees him $5.41 million per year with a base salary of $225,000, professional services contract of $2.75 million and an annual $2.435 million retention bonus.
The contact also includes a clause that says the school cannot terminate him for cause “due to any current infractions matter that involves conduct that occurred on or prior to” the signing of the new contract. Instead, he would forfeit half of his base salary and professional services pay while serving any Big 12 or NCAA suspension.
Emmert declined to weigh on on Kansas' decision to double down on Self.
“I’ll leave it to the school to make decisions about their coaches’ contracts,” said Emmert, who also spoke at the women's Final Four on Wednesday. “That’s their business, obviously. They can do that as they see fit.”
The infractions process has also come up with the Division I Transformation Committee, which is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies.
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, who chairs the committee along with Ohio athletics director Julie Cromer, said the group is looking at both the overall infractions process and the IARP structure as part of its work.
“I don’t know fully what was envisioned and what wasn’t envisioned,” said Sankey, who has served on the NCAA infractions committee. “But we have to have timely outcomes, both for those accused and for those competing against those who are accused. That has to be a point of emphasis.”
Later, Sankey added: “I was on an implementation working group, and I disagreed with elements of the approach. So I think some of these problems were foreseeable. We have an opportunity to correct and enhance the process. That doesn’t mean everybody will like the process.”
Among other topics Emmert addressed:
NATIONAL NIL RULES
Emmert offered an urgent plea to Congress to craft what he said was needed, uniform national legislation governing financial endorsements for athletes know known as name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
“This tournament’s put on full display the beauty of college sport,” Emmert said. "People love it and enjoy it, and we’ve got to work with the schools and with Congress to make sure we can continue that.
“We’ve got again a relatively short window of time — in my estimate, one and two years,” Emmert continued. “These decisions have to be made because of the dynamics that are underway right now that are far beyond the control of schools, coaches, (athletic directors) or presidents.”
Currently, more than 30 states have been working on their own NIL laws.
TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION
With a number of states considering or passing legislation restricting participation of transgender athletes, Emmert was asked whether the NCAA would bar those states from hosting championship events.
The NCAA has largely followed the Olympic model that allows transgender athletes to compete if they've had certain biomedical treatments, including hormone therapies, meant to promote fairness.
Emmert said the NCAA currently requires communities which wish to host events “to explain how it is that they’re going to make sure that the participants in that sport will be allowed to do that in a nondiscriminatory way. ... If they can do that, then we’ll be in those states."
TRANFER RULES
Emmert said the current transfer rules continue to draw a lot of scrutiny and complaints from coaches and could be adjusted over time.
“The only thing that I can say right now is that it’s clear that students are getting more opportunities to play. They’re getting more freedom of movement in some respects,” Emmert said.
But he added that officials are keeping an eye on how the rules affect “students being able to finish their degrees in a timely fashion and go on and lead productive lives, because we know how few of them will be professional basketball players. It’s a constant point of discussion. I don’t anticipate it going away too soon.”
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AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dave Skretta and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
02-06-11-25-32
(two, six, eleven, twenty-five, thirty-two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
02-06-11-25-32
(two, six, eleven, twenty-five, thirty-two)
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
02-06-11-25-32
(two, six, eleven, twenty-five, thirty-two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
02-06-11-25-32
(two, six, eleven, twenty-five, thirty-two)
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Shares of Wells Fargo & Co.
WFC,
-3.29%
shed 3.29% to $48.46 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around grim 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 fourth consecutive day of losses. Wells Fargo & Co. closed $11.84 short of its 52-week high ($60.30), which the company reached on February 10th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPM,
-3.00%
fell 3.00% to $136.32, Bank of America Corp.
BAC,
-4.14%
fell 4.14% to $41.22, and Citigroup Inc.
C,
-2.86%
fell 2.86% to $53.40. Trading volume (31.2 M) remained 1.3 million below its 50-day average volume of 32.5 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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Title IX has been a passionate subject for Candace Parker ever since she learned of its impact while doing a paper on it in the eighth grade.
So, it is no surprise her first documentary as an executive producer is about the landmark legislation. On Saturday, “Title IX: 37 Words That Changed America,” will open coverage of the men’s Final Four on TBS at 1 p.m. EDT.
“I sit here because of Title IX. Although we have so many wins, we have so much further to go. That’s why we went with having the Title IX story told through my eyes so that you can see if Title IX didn’t exist, I wouldn’t exist,” Parker said.
Parker considers herself a first-generation benefactor of Title IX, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Parker’s mother, Sara, attended Iowa before Title IX became law. Candace’s 12-year old daughter, Lailaa Nicole Williams, will have more opportunities.
“It means a lot to be able to have my mom and my daughter be a part of this,” Parker said. “I have inspiration from my mom and her story. And then as well for my daughter, I want to continue to open up doors, and I don’t want her to see limitations.”
The documentary also comes as inequities between the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are coming under intense scrutiny.
“Something as simple as March Madness, right? Like, now women can use that. That’s unbelievable. It’s 2022,” Parker said. “But things are changing. But it still doesn’t take away that we still have so much farther to go. I think that’s the whole point of doing this documentary is if you invest, it’s not a charity, it’s an investment. And it’s an honest investment of trying to make it work. And I think for so long, we just existed; women’s sports existed as something that had to be there. And now we look at it as an investment, and then I think we can start moving things forward."
Parker won a pair of NCAA championships at Tennessee while being coached by one of the pioneers of Title IX, the late Pat Summitt. Parker has parlayed that experience into a successful career as a two-time WNBA champion and MVP and two gold medals in the Olympics.
Parker is also an accomplished analyst for Turner Sports on its NBA and NCAA Tournament coverage since 2018. During discussions about a contract extension at Turner, Parker and her representatives first pitched the idea of a documentary. It got the green light for production last November.
The documentary includes interviews with Billie Jean King, Peyton Manning, Lisa Leslie, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
“There’s a number of influential voices that I think I have to pinch myself to realize that they’re a part of it,” Parker said. “To have Billie Jean King, like the 10-year-old girl that did a biography project on her, I just think it’s just so special.
“Title IX doesn’t just impact women. To watch Peyton Manning talk about how Pat really influenced his life, as a competitor and just as an individual. To see somebody that is an icon to say that I think speaks to how valuable women in leadership positions are.”
Having the documentary tip-off Turner’s Final Four coverage on Saturday should give it a broader audience. “The Arena” will air following the documentary and focus on the impact of Title IX on sports and society.
This is also the first project for Parker’s production company — Baby Hair Productions — and was also produced with Scout Productions.
“Having a diverse audience, that’s not just the women and girls, we want everyone to see how impactful and powerful women are in society,” Parker said. “To have this be something that we talk about, especially after with ‘The Arena' show, I think it speaks to just how important it is.”
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US man dances to AR Rahman’s track DaFa Kar from Tiger Shroff’s Heropanti 2
The video of the US man dancing to AR Rahman’s observe DaFa Kar from Tiger Shroff’s Heropanti 2 was posted on Instagram.
If you’re a daily consumer of the Internet and love seeing dance movies, chances are high you already observe Ricky Pond on Instagram. Hailing from the US, he has created a particular house amongst Indian followers together with his varied dance movies. From Hindi to Bengali to Tamil, he shares movies showcasing his superb performances to numerous hit songs. In his newest share, he’s seen grooving to AR Rahman’s observe DaFa Kar from Tiger Shroff’s movie Heropanti 2.
“Heropanti 2 looks like an awesome movie. How was the first one?” he wrote whereas sharing the video. The video opens to point out him standing in what seems to be a backyard. He is seen displaying completely different strikes whereas dancing to the music.
Take a take a look at the video:
The video has been posted about 23 hours in the past. Since being shared, the clip has amassed greater than 1,700 likes and the numbers are solely growing. The share has additionally prompted individuals to publish varied feedback.
“Wow that’s really awesome,” wrote an Instagram consumer. “Super awesome,” posted one other. “You always make me happy,” shared a 3rd. “Energetic performance,” commented a fourth.
What are your ideas on the video?
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Weber State University’s softball team has had a historic run; sitting at a 22–7 overall, the Wildcats’ longest losing streak lasted only two games. They have beat opponents like Texas A&M University and the University of Utah, and this squad has captured the attention of the NCAA.
Although led by seniors and dominant veterans, some young players have shown their potential, including freshman catcher Mika Chong.
An only child from Foster City, California, Chong attended Hillsdale High School. Growing up, Chong was interested in multiple sports including volleyball, soccer and swimming. However, she was most passionate about softball. During her senior year, Chong batted .574 and hit 10 home runs in 20 games.
“College is way more competitive than high school,” Chong said. “I think that the hardest thing for me was adapting to that competitiveness and changing my mindset to be that competitive.”
Looking for an opportunity to play at a university level, Chong decided to tour Weber State, where she was impressed with coach Mary Kay Amicone’s program.
“Coach Kay made it feel like a home atmosphere for me,” Chong said. “I wanted to be a part of the family atmosphere that they’re building here.”
Moving from California to Utah, Chong has noticed how different Ogden is from her hometown, especially when it comes to the availability of coffee and the weather.
“One thing I wanted to experience was to live in snow for the first time,” Chong said. “I’m pretty much over it now, though.”
After a clutch performance against UNLV and a 3–3 batting night against the University of San Diego, Chong has proven her effectiveness as a hitter and become Amicone’s secret weapon. When she’s in the bullpen, however, Chong likes to be a source of encouragement for her teammates.
“I’m pretty loud at the games,” Chong said. “When I cheer and support all my teammates, I would say that’s the best part of my game.”
Many of the Wildcats’ star players are reaching the end of their tenure. However, freshmen like Chong and sophomores like 2021’s Big Sky Freshman of the Year Mia Rushton are the foundation for the team to continue to build on the success they’ve had in the past years. Coming off a historic pre-season run, the Wildcats look to capture a ninth Big Sky Conference title and success in the post-season.
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Equities analysts expect Weber Inc (NYSE:WEBR – Get Rating) to report earnings of $0.18 per share for the current quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Two analysts have provided estimates for Weber’s earnings, with estimates ranging from $0.14 to $0.21. The business is scheduled to report its next earnings report on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Weber will report full year earnings of $0.44 per share for the current year, with EPS estimates ranging from $0.42 to $0.45. For the next year, analysts anticipate that the firm will post earnings of $0.57 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $0.52 to $0.60. Zacks’ EPS averages are a mean average based on a survey of sell-side research analysts that that provide coverage for Weber.
Weber (NYSE:WEBR – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Sunday, February 13th. The company reported ($0.16) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.08) by ($0.08). The business had revenue of $283.10 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $310.78 million. The company’s revenue for the quarter was down 8.4% compared to the same quarter last year.
Shares of WEBR traded down $0.44 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $9.83. 522,720 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 522,624. Weber has a fifty-two week low of $8.56 and a fifty-two week high of $20.44. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $10.76 and its 200 day moving average is $12.95.
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, March 18th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 8th were paid a $0.04 dividend. This represents a $0.16 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.63%. The ex-dividend date was Monday, March 7th.
In other Weber news, Director Susan T. Congalton acquired 10,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, February 17th. The shares were purchased at an average price of $10.59 per share, for a total transaction of $105,900.00. The acquisition was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Chris M. Scherzinger acquired 20,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, February 22nd. The shares were acquired at an average price of $9.96 per share, for a total transaction of $199,200.00. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. 0.36% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of WEBR. Kestra Advisory Services LLC bought a new stake in shares of Weber in the 3rd quarter worth $1,282,000. Investors Financial Group LLC bought a new stake in shares of Weber in the 3rd quarter worth $3,670,000. Strs Ohio purchased a new stake in Weber during the third quarter worth about $68,000. Investment Advisory Services Inc. TX ADV purchased a new stake in Weber during the third quarter worth about $983,000. Finally, Commonwealth Equity Services LLC bought a new stake in Weber in the third quarter worth about $313,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 12.50% of the company’s stock.
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Monterey Bay Dahlia Society holds annual sale
The Monterey Bay Dahlia Society will hold the annual tuber sale from 9-11 a.m. Saturday at Deer Park Shopping Center outside the Red Apple Cafe. The sale runs rain or shine. For more information about the club and the sale, visit mbdahlias.org.
SANTA CRUZ
California Native Plant Society holds sale
The annual California Native Plant Society Santa Cruz County Chapter’s Spring Plant Sale will be held in person April 9 at the UCSC Arboretum. CNPS members only are 10-11 a.m. and general public 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be a large selection of California natives lined up for this sale featuring plants from the local area and the central coast region. Featured are more than 100 species of native plants, many of which are new offerings for our Chapter including several Ceanothus, Ribes, and Arctostaphylos cultivars. Also offered is a selection of spring flowering bulbs and annual wildflowers providing instant garden color and diversity for pollinators, as well as lots of plants in our most popular genera: Iris, Erigeron, Diplacus, Artemisia, Achillea, and Grindelia.
For more information and to become a member, visit www.cruzcnps.org for plant selections, and full list of offerings.
SANTA CRUZ
Gardeners Club holds in-person meeting
Join the Gardeners’ Club of Santa Cruz County for the first in-person meeting since the pandemic. The Gardeners’ Club consists of gardeners living in Santa Cruz County. They share a love of plants and their nurture. Plants at bargain prices are featured at the monthly plant sale. Gardeners of all skill levels and from all areas are welcome. Refreshments are served at the monthly meetings except at the spring and fall plant exchange. Visitors are welcome. The meeting place is handicapped accessible. The Gardeners’ Club meeting is at 7 p.m. April 14 at the Aptos Grange, 2555 Mar Vista, Aptos. For more information, visit thegardenersclub.org or call 831-475-0991.
SCOTTS VALLEY
Love Apple Farms holds spring classes
Love Apple Farms still has openings for some of the April classes including summer vegetables, vegetable garden design, culinary herbs, and drip irrigation. All classes are held rain or shine and require pre-registration. For pricing and registration, visit growbetterveggies.com.
SANTA CRUZ
UC Master Gardeners announces upcoming events
UC Master Gardeners have announced two highly anticipated gardening events. The Spring Plant Sale starts April 18 and the Garden Tour of Santa Cruz County will be held on June 11. For more information and to sign up for their newsletter, visit mbmg.ucanr.edu.
SANTA CRUZ
Volunteers needed at Common Roots Farm
The farm, at 310 Golf Club Drive, Santa Cruz, is an urban, organic farm where people with and without disabilities grow healthy food and build community. For information on volunteering, visit commonrootsfarm.org or email volunteer@commonrootsfarm.org.
The Garden Digest is compiled by Susan Salinger. To submit items for the calendar including events, meetings, resources, or anything garden related, email sentinelhomeandgarden@gmail.com.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The National Weather Service said after Wednesday’s storms the tornado that touched down in Panola county reached EF-1 status.
A survey team with the Memphis-based section of the National Weather Service investigated the site and found preliminary EF-1 tornado damage in southern Panola County.
Details are still coming in and WREG will update as they become available.
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Alleghany Corporation (NYSE: Y)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Alleghany Corporation (NYSE: Y) in connection with the proposed acquisition of Y by Berkshire Hathaway. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Y shareholders will receive $848.02 in cash for each share of Y common stock owned. If you own Y shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/y
Anaplan, Inc. (NYSE: PLAN)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Anaplan, Inc. (NYSE: PLAN), in connection with the proposed acquisition of PLAN by Thoma Bravo. Under the terms of the merger agreement, PLAN shareholders will receive $66.00 in cash for each share of PLAN common stock owned. If you own PLAN shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/plan
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis is ready to turn pro after delivering a superb sophomore season.
Davis announced Thursday that he’s entering the NBA draft and hiring an agent. The 6-foot-5 guard is regarded as a likely lottery selection and could be Wisconsin’s first top-10 overall pick since the Charlotte Hornets took Frank Kaminsky ninth overall in 2015.
The only other Badgers to be selected in the top 10 of an NBA draft are Don Rehfeldt (second in 1950) and Devin Harris (fifth in 2004).
Davis made his announcement on ESPN's “NBA Today” and later posted on social media.
"It has always been a dream of mine, as long as I can remember, to play in the NBA,” Davis said in a video he posted. He added that he “cannot wait to represent Wisconsin at the highest level.”
The draft is June 23.
Davis is an Associated Press All-America first-team selection and the Big Ten player of the year. He is a finalist for the Naismith Trophy and Wooden Award, both given annually to the nation’s top player.
Kansas’ Ochai Agbaji, Iowa’s Keegan Murray and Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe join Davis as Naismith finalists. Those four along with Gonzaga’s Drew Timme join Davis as Wooden finalists.
Davis also was one of the nation’s most improved players. After averaging 7 points, 4.1 rebounds and 24.4 minutes in a bench role as a freshman, he had 19.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per game this season while helping Wisconsin (25-8) win a share of the Big Ten regular-season title and earn a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Although an ankle injury knocked Davis out of Wisconsin's regular-season finale, he returned to play in the Big Ten Tournament and NCAAA Tournament.
“What he was able to accomplish during his career was phenomenal,” Wisconsin coach Greg Gard said in a statement. "Not just the stats and the championships, but as coaches, we couldn't have asked for anything more as a player, a teammate and a member of our community.
“We always knew Johnny was tough and he showed that all season long, never more than down the stretch. We knew he was hurting, but he laid it all on the line for his teammates. That's a toughness that will translate at any level.”
Davis scored Wisconsin’s last 14 points and finished with 25 in a 67-60 NCAA Tournament first-round victory over Colgate before shooting 4 of 16 and recording 17 points in a 54-49 second-round loss to Iowa State.
“It has meant absolutely everything to be able to play here at the University of Wisconsin, especially growing up in the state of Wisconsin, in the city of La Crosse,” Davis said. “Taking that jersey off for the last time hurt a lot, but I'll just know that no matter what, this will always be home for me.” ___
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A national 24-hour Indian Residential School Crisis Line is available to support survivors and those affected. You can access emotional and crisis support referral services by calling 1-866-925-4419.
The Nadleh Whut’en First Nation in northern B.C. outlined priorities such as an apology from Pope Francis amid discussions at the Vatican in a statement to the press on Wednesday (March 30).
Nadleh Whut’en representatives are part of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) delegation to the Vatican alongside more than 100 First Nations people from across Canada including residential school survivors, elders, youth and support staff.
Nadleh Whut’en is calling on the Pope to visit the site of the former Lejac Indian Residential School to “further discuss reparations and a better path forward” as part of an apology for the role the Catholic Church played in the residential school system in Canada.
The school was operated by the Catholic Church under contract with the Canadian government from when it opened in 1922 until 1976. First Nations say hundreds of their children were forced to attend Lejac, many never to return home.
Nadleh Whut’en Chief Larry Nooski said the Catholic Church “has yet to apologize, compensate or meaningfully support reconciliation” with Nadleh Whut’en and more than 70 B.C. First Nation communities that had their children taken to Lejac.
“This meeting with Pope Francis, to witness an apology, is a historic moment for Nadleh Whut’en and other First Nations from across Canada,” Nooski wrote.
“Many survivors of the Lejac Indian Residential School carry pain and suffering as a result of abuse from priests and nuns at the school.”
Nadleh Whut’en delegates Eleanor Nooski and Tanya Stump said they will prioritize the return of stolen artifacts and access to Vatican archives.
READ MORE: Nadleh Whut’en delegates prepare for Vatican visit to push for residential school archives
The First Nation is also seeking for Rose Prince to be officially recognized as a saint. Prince died in 1949 of tuberculosis. Since 1990, the devout have held pilgrimages to her grave at Lejac where Father Joules Goulet’s prayers and anointments are said to heal the chronically injured.
The First Nation said discussions with the Catholic Church must also include the “rejection and retraction” of the “doctrine of discovery.” Papal laws gave license to explorers to claim terra nullius [vacant land] in the name of their sovereign and defined “vacant” as not populated by Christians.
Nadleh Whut’en Chief and Council offered prayers and support for all delegates to the Vatican saying the First Nation continue will continue to seek justice, restitution and apology for the harms committed by the Catholic Church to their children.
READ MORE: Nadleh Whut’en First Nation plans for unmarked grave search at Lejac residential school site
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Shares of Welltower Inc.
WELL,
-1.76%
slipped 1.76% to $96.14 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. Welltower Inc. closed $2.33 below its 52-week high ($98.47), which the company achieved on March 29th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Ventas Inc.
VTR,
-0.99%
fell 0.99% to $61.76, Healthpeak Properties Inc.
PEAK,
-1.44%
fell 1.44% to $34.33, and Healthcare Trust of America Inc.
HTA,
-1.10%
fell 1.10% to $31.34. Trading volume (2.7 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 2.5 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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A late burst of selling left stocks broadly lower on Wall Street Thursday, as the market closed out its worst quarter since the pandemic broke out two years ago.
Despite posting a 3.6% gain for March, a dismal January and February left U.S. indexes lower for the year to date. The S&P 500 ended the day 1.6% lower, bringing its loss since the beginning of the year to 4.9%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.6%, while the Nasdaq composite fell 1.5%. Both indexes also notched gains for March, thanks largely to a market rally in the two weeks heading into this week.
Oil prices fell as President Joe Biden ordered the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve. The move to pump more oil into the market is part of an effort to control energy prices, which are up nearly 40% globally this year.
Wall Street’s downbeat finish to March comes as investors try to navigate the market risks amid surging inflation, geopolitical instability and uncertainty over how aggressively the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates to quash inflation.
“Yesterday’s weakness and some weakness today may be in response to sentiment that’s a little more cautious given the recent strength in the last two weeks and the ongoing uncertainty related to inflation and earnings,” said Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.
The S&P 500 fell 72.04 points to 4,530.41. The Dow fell 550.46 points to 34,678.35, and the Nasdaq slid 221.76 points to 14,220.52.
Smaller company stocks also fell. The Russell 2000 index dropped 20.94 points, or 1%, to 2,070.13.
About 85% of stocks in the benchmark S&P 500 fell. Much of the movement seemed like a “consolidation” for investors, said Scott Wren, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
“This is a little give back today just from the big run that we had, but we’re hanging in here pretty well,” Wren said. Major indexes fell on Wednesday to end a four-day winning streak.
Technology and communications stocks were among the biggest weights on the market. Many of the companies in those sectors have pricey stock values that tend to give the broader market a more forceful push either up or down. Chipmaker Intel fell 3.6%, while Facebook parent Meta Platforms slid 2.4%.
Banks also fell along with bond yields, which forces interest rates on loans lower, making lending less profitable for banks. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slipped to 2.34% from 2.36% late Wednesday. Bank of America fell 4.1%.
U.S. crude oil prices fell 7% and Brent, the international standard, fell 4.9%. The pullback slightly trimmed what have been soaring oil prices amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The conflict has elevated concerns that tightened supplies will only worsen persistently rising inflation that threatens businesses and consumers globally.
An inflation gauge that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, marking the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
Energy prices have been a key factor in pushing inflation higher and Biden’s plan to release more oil into the system comes as little relief is expected from the oil cartel OPEC. The cartel and its allied oil producers including Russia are sticking to a modest increase in the amount of crude they pump to the world, a step that supports higher prices.
Higher prices for everything from energy to food has been a key concern of central banks globally, which are moving to raise interest rates to help temper the impact. Investors have been trying to measure how the economy and companies will fare amid rising inflation, higher interest rates, the war in Ukraine and other factors. That has made for a rocky start to the year.
Investors received a lukewarm update on the job market on Thursday. More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain at historic lows. Wall Street will get a fuller report on Friday when the Labor Department releases employment data for March.
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Crop growth monitoring and yield estimate information can be obtained via appropriate metrics such as the leaf area index (LAI) and biomass. Such information is crucial for guiding agricultural production, ensuring food security, and maintaining sustainable agricultural development. Traditional methods of field measurement and monitoring typically have low efficiency and can only give limited untimely information. Alternatively, methods based on remote sensing technologies are fast, objective, and nondestructive. Indeed, remote sensing data assimilation and crop growth modeling represent an important trend in crop growth monitoring and yield estimation. In this study, we assimilate the leaf area index retrieved from Sentinel-2 remote sensing data for crop growth model of the simple algorithm for yield estimation (SAFY) in wheat. The SP-UCI optimization algorithm is used for fine-tuning for several SAFY parameters, namely the emergence date (D0), the effective light energy utilization rate (ELUE), and the senescence temperature threshold (STT) which is indicative of biological aging. These three sensitive parameters are set in order to attain the global minimum of an error function between the SAFY model predicted values and the LAI inversion values. This assimilation of remote sensing data into the crop growth model facilitates the LAI, biomass, and yield estimation. The estimation results were validated using data collected from 48 experimental plots during 2014 and 2015. For the 2014 data, the results showed coefficients of determination (R2) of the LAI, biomass and yield of 0.73, 0.83 and 0.49, respectively, with corresponding root-mean-squared error (RMSE) values of 0.72, 1.13Â t/ha and 1.14Â t/ha, respectively. For the 2015 data, the estimated R2 values of the LAI, biomass, and yield were 0.700, 0.85, and 0.61, respectively, with respective RMSE values of 0.83, 1.22Â t/ha, and 1.39Â t/ha, respectively. The estimated values were found to be in good agreement with the measured ones. This shows high applicability of the proposed data assimilation scheme in crop monitoring and yield estimation. As well, this scheme provides a reference for the assimilation of remote sensing data into crop growth models for regional crop monitoring and yield estimation.
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Aggies Lead Xavier 2nd Half, NIT Championship: Live Game Updates
The Texas A&M (27-12) men's basketball team takes on Xavier (22-13) on Thursday at 6 p.m. CT from the famed Madison Square Garden in New York City with an opportunity to win its first tournament title in more than 30 seasons.
The mid-season eight-game losing streak seems like a distant memory as the Aggies have gone 12-2 since. That skid probably cost them an NCAA tournament berth, but they have stormed through the NIT and have earned the chance to win it all.
In the semifinals Tuesday in New York, the Aggies thoroughly dominated Washington State in a 72-56 victory. Texas A&M scored 58 points in the paint – more points than the Cougars scored as a team – shot 48.5 percent, including 58.1 percent in the second half.
Xavier, out of the Big East, advanced to the finals after beating St. Bonaventure 84-77. Jack Nunge averages a team-high 13.4 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. Paul Scruggs adds 11.7 points, while Colby Jones averages 11.4 points and a team-high 7.4 rebounds.
Xavier won the tip
Wade Taylor IV made Jumper 0-2
Dwon Odom made Jumper 2-2
Colby Jones made Layup 4-2
Foul on Colby Jones
Manny Obaseki made Free Throw 4-3
Manny Obaseki made Free Throw 4-4
Jack Nunge made Layup. Assisted by Adam Kunkel 6-4
Dwon Odom made Dunk. Assisted by Jack Nunge 8-4
Tyrece Radford made Jumper 8-6
Foul on Ethan Henderson
Jack Nunge made Free Throw 9-6
Jack Nunge made Free Throw 10-6
Colby Jones made Layup 12-6
15:57 First Half: Musketeers 12, Aggies 6
Colby Jones made Three Point Jumper 15-6
Foul on Zach Freemantle
Manny Obaseki made Layup 15-8
Foul on Nate Johnson
Quenton Jackson made Layup. Assisted by Hassan Diarra 15-10
Dwon Odom made Jumper 17-10
Foul on Adam Kunkel
11:54 First Half: Musketeers 17, Aggies 10
Foul on Jack Nunge
Quenton Jackson made Free Throw 17-11
Henry Coleman III made Layup. Assisted by Hassan Diarra 17-13
Foul on Adam Kunkel
Quenton Jackson made Free Throw 17-14
Quenton Jackson made Free Throw 17-15
Foul on Hassan Diarra
Colby Jones made Layup 19-15
Quenton Jackson made Layup 19-17
Hassan Diarra made Three Point Jumper 19-20
Jack Nunge made Two Point Tip Shot 21-20
Aggies Lead Xavier 2nd Half, NIT Championship: Live Game Updates
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Hassan Diarra made Layup 21-22
Colby Jones made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Nate Johnson 24-22
5:59 First Half: Musketeers 24, Aggies 22
Hassan Diarra made Layup 24-24
Dwon Odom made Jumper. Assisted by Nate Johnson 26-24
Manny Obaseki made Layup 26-26
Foul on Adam Kunkel
Wade Taylor IV made Free Throw 26-27
Wade Taylor IV made Free Throw 26-28
Hassan Diarra made Three Point Jumper 26-31
Dwon Odom made Layup. Assisted by Colby Jones 28-31
Foul on Hassan Diarra
3:11 First Half: Musketeers 28, Aggies 31
Tyrece Radford made Layup 28-33
Jerome Hunter made Dunk. Assisted by Colby Jones 30-33
Foul on Jerome Hunter
Quenton Jackson made Three Point Jumper 30-36
Texas A&M Timeout at 0:58
Foul on Dwon Odom
Quenton Jackson made Free Throw 30-37
Quenton Jackson made Free Throw 30-38
Tyrece Radford made Two Point Tip Shot 30-40
Colby Jones made Layup 32-40
HALFTIME: Musketeers 32, Aggies 40
Jack Nunge made Layup. Assisted by Zach Freemantle 34-40
Foul on Jack Nunge
Henry Coleman III made Free Throw 34-41
Henry Coleman III made Layup. Assisted by Wade Taylor IV 34-43
Foul on Quenton Jackson
Zach Freemantle made Free Throw 35-43
Nate Johnson made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Jack Nunge 38-43
Foul on Colby Jones
Quenton Jackson made Free Throw 38-44
Quenton Jackson made Free Throw 38-45
Foul on Henry Coleman III
Foul on Wade Taylor IV
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US officials circle globe to keep pressure on Putin as ruble rises
Senior US officers fanned out all over the world this week to press different leaders to affix or continue to pressure on Moscow because the battle in Ukraine enters its fifth week, and the preliminary financial shock to Russia appears to be ebbing.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo met with senior officers in London, Brussels and Paris, and can end the week in Berlin; the deputy nationwide safety adviser for worldwide economics, Daleep Singh, pressed Indian officers in New Delhi, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned the Ukraine battle with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Morocco.
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The effort comes because the preliminary influence of unexpectedly robust sanctions on Russian banks, oligarchs and corporations begins to put on off considerably, and the United States considers its subsequent financial steps to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Within days of slicing off key Russian banks from the worldwide SWIFT monetary transactions community and immobilizing the majority of the Russian central financial institution’s $630 billion overseas alternate battle chest, the ruble misplaced half its worth, prompting US officers to declare that Moscow was battling a monetary disaster.
But a month later, the ruble has largely recovered to its stage simply earlier than the invasion, propped up partly by Russian capital controls, authorities orders for export companies to promote overseas foreign money and corporations gathering funds to make quarter-end tax funds. Shares on Russia’s inventory market are buying and selling once more, though they’ve dropped in worth.
Russian financial institution VTB, a principal sanctions goal, stays open for enterprise in Europe, the place it has gathered billions of euros in deposits, primarily from German savers. Other Russian banks are contemplating China’s UnionPay bank card system after Visa and Mastercard suspended Russian operations.
And the sanctions so far have left Russia’s largest financial lifeline untouched — power gross sales to Europe, which could possibly be as much as 500 million euros ($555 million) a day at present costs. Russia is demanding funds in rubles for fuel beginning on Friday, which might enhance the foreign money additional.
The Biden administration is ensuring European allies are firmly aligned on punishing Putin, and hoping to sway leaders who’ve sat on the sidelines because the battle stretches on, officers say.
“We’ve got to continue to raise pressure on Russia and increase our support for Ukraine,” one senior US official stated, talking on situation of anonymity. “This is a challenge that is facing the free world and all democratic nations. And we need to be prepared for it to last a long time.”
Countering China, warning India
The visits observe carefully on the heels of Biden’s go to to Europe final week and are available as Russia and China — the world’s second largest financial system — draw ever nearer collectively, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi assembly his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday and reaffirming Beijing’s plans to proceed bilateral ties and enhance cooperation.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Adeyemo’s discussions together with his European counterparts centered on sanctions, the influence of India and China on Russia’s potential sanctions evasion efforts, and methods to assist international locations like Germany cowl their power wants within the occasion of a Russian embargo, stated one European official.
Russia’s demand that overseas consumers pay for his or her Russian fuel imports in rubles beginning Friday or face cutoffs in provide was a key matter, the official stated. European capitals have rejected the demand, and the German authorities stated it amounted to “blackmail.”
It is crucial the United States hold tending its relationships with allies, stated Catherine Novelli, a former senior US commerce official and diplomat. It is “very hard” to take care of the momentum of sanctions and different punitive measures after the preliminary outrage wanes, she stated.
In India, Deputy National Security Adviser Singh advised officers that the US wouldn’t set any purple strains about buying oil, however warned in opposition to fast acceleration of purchases.
India has a army depending on Russian expertise and {hardware} and has tried to stability its long-standing ties with Russia and the West. Unlike different members of the Quad group of nations — the United States, Japan, Australia — it has not imposed sanctions on Russia.
Singh spoke forward of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s arrival within the Indian capital for a two-day journey.
Read extra: Russia bringing in reinforcements from Georgia, prioritizing the Donbas: Pentagon
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China praises ties to Russia, sending aid to Ukraine
China’s foreign minister on Monday referred to Russia as Beijing’s “most important strategic partner” despite growing casualties amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Wang Yi specifically referred to China’s ties with Russia as “one of the most crucial bilateral relationships in the world,” The Associated Press reported.
As the U.S., the European Union and much of the rest of the world which has imposed sanctions against Russia in response to the invasion, China has refused to condemn Russia’s actions throughout the attack in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, China claims that sanctions create other issues and jeopardize a political solution to the crisis.
“No matter how perilous the international landscape, we will maintain our strategic focus and promote the development of a comprehensive China-Russia partnership in the new era,” Wang said.
Wang also had a call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday, during which he said China did not want to “add fuel to the flames” in Ukraine. Instead, he called for negotiations to resolve the crisis, the AP added.
Reuters noted that Wang also said China’s Red Cross would provide aid to Ukraine “as soon as possible,” marking the first announcement of such help from Beijing in the crisis. Wang did not provide further details of what that aid would entail.
Russia’s attack on Ukraine has prompted comparisons to China and Taiwan. But Wang said Taiwan was a “fundamentally different” issue from Ukraine because the island is “an inalienable part of China’s territory,” according to the wire service.
Last month, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Beijing. Following that meeting, the leaders issued a joint statement, saying they had “strong mutual support for the protection of their core interests.”
Russia has voiced support of Taiwan as “inalienable part of China, and opposes any forms of independence of Taiwan,” and China had supported Russia’s opposition to enlarging NATO.
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Three men have been charged by police after allegedly claiming more than $1.3m in fraudulent pandemic payments from the NSW government.
Strike Force Sainsbery, which was established to investigate fraudulent applications made against the state government’s financial relief schemes, uncovered an alleged criminal syndicate as part of their investigations.
On Thursday morning, police executed three search warrants at homes in the Sydney suburbs of Auburn, Chester Hill and Carramar.
Three men were arrested, while police also seized cash, electronic devices, and documentation.
A 48-year-old man, who police will allege co-ordinated the syndicate by instructing others to submit fraudulent claims and received a majority share of the payments, has been charged with 22 offences.
They include knowingly direct activities of criminal group, deal with identity info to commit indictable offence (x7), and dishonestly obtain financial advantage etc by deception (x14).
A 34-year-old man was charged with 17 offences, including participate criminal group contribute criminal activity, possess prohibited drug, deal with identity info to commit indictable offence (x3), and dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception (x12).
A 30-year-old man was charged with 18 offences, including participate criminal group contribute criminal activity, deal with identity info to commit indictable offence (x6), and dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception (x11).
It will be alleged the duo sourced personal identity information and bank details for the purpose of submitting fraudulent claims against the Covid-19 microbusiness grant and the small business fees and charges rebate.
Financial crimes squad commander Detective Superintendent Linda Howlett said the arrests should serve as a lesson to other fraudsters.
“The opportunistic way this syndicate operated makes their behaviour even more egregious, and they will now face the prospect of languishing in prison for these frauds,” she said.
Service NSW executive director of risk, strategy and performance Catherine Ellis also said they would continue to stop fraud.
“It is incredibly disappointing that deliberate, co-ordinated fraudsters have undermined the systems put in place to support the businesses of NSW in one of the most challenging times we have faced,” she said.
All three men were refused bail to appear at Bankstown Local Court on Friday.
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Which protein shake is best: Premier or Fairlife?
A protein shake after an exhausting workout can be highly beneficial. Protein is the most critical macronutrient required for efficient muscle recovery, so getting enough of it is crucial if you exercise or lift weights often.
If you’re trying to decide which protein shake is right for you, Premier and Fairlife are two popular brands you should consider. Both supplements contain significant amounts of protein and other vitamins and nutrients, but the right one for you depends on your body and fitness goals.
Premier protein shake
Premier protein shakes are a great way to supplement your post-workout diet and boost the muscle recovery process, letting you get more out of your workouts and potentially see results faster.
Premier incorporates plenty of protein and other vital nutrients and vitamins in their products, making them an excellent snack or post-workout recovery supplement.
Premier protein shake pros
One serving of a Premier protein shake contains 160 calories and 30 grams of protein, which is more than even most whey isolate protein powders, which usually have 20-28 grams per serving. There are also many essential amino acids, including 6.6 grams of branched-chain amino acids, which are vital for significant muscle recovery and growth.
They have just 1 gram of sugar per serving and are available in 12 low-fat flavors. From chocolate to vanilla to coffee, every flavor is gluten-free, soy-free and appropriate for keto, bariatric and kosher diets. It’s also worth noting that the coffee flavor contains caffeine and that a handful of flavors can substitute for coffee cream.
Premier protein shakes come in ready-made bottle-size servings as well as in a protein powder for mixing at your leisure. It’s up to your preference, but it’s important to note that the premixed drinks contain more sugar per serving than the powder.
Premier protein shake cons
Although Premier shakes contain 24 vitamins and minerals, they don’t have enough nutrients to serve as viable meal replacements. They’re suitable as snacks in between meals and as post-workout supplements only.
Premier shakes also contain a high amount of protein, which can be unnecessary and even harmful if you’re already getting enough of it from your regular diet in the form of healthy whole foods. Also, they contain artificial sweeteners, and if you’re lactose-intolerant, you’re going to want to steer clear of Premier protein shakes.
Fairlife protein shake
Fairlife protein shakes are an excellent workout supplement for those looking to boost muscle recovery following rigorous exercise. They’re light, so you won’t feel too full after drinking one, making them an acceptable snack as well.
Fairlife protein shake pros
The original Fairlife Nutrition Plan shakes have the same protein as Premier shakes at 30 grams per serving. It contains just 150 calories per serving, so it’s 10 fewer than the ready-made Premier protein shakes. In terms of nutrients, it has nine essential amino acids and several vitamins and minerals such as vitamin D, calcium and potassium.
These shakes have plenty of protein, and their low-carb formula makes them an excellent supplement for those seeking to lose weight while maintaining a solid muscle frame. They’re made with ultra-filtered milk, giving them a smooth, creamy texture that’s delicious.
Also, unlike Premier protein shakes, Fairlife shakes are suitable for anybody who’s lactose-intolerant.
Fairlife protein shake cons
They only come in seven flavors, but some users argue that it doesn’t taste as good as other comparable shakes. They’re also pricey, so you might get more bang for your buck with Premier shakes. Also, there isn’t as much diversity in terms of products as with Premier protein products.
Should you get Premier or Fairlife protein shakes?
Both Premier and Fairlife protein shakes work well as workout supplements since they both have plenty of protein and amino acids necessary for muscle recovery. They both also have vitamins and minerals that make them suitable as meal supplements or daytime snacks.
Fairlife shakes are easier on the stomach since they’re lactose-free, so while Premier shakes are also light, Fairlife is arguably the better choice for those following strict diets. However, Premier shakes are available in more unique flavors, so you can try different ones until you find one you like.
Ultimately, both shakes will give you a protein boost sufficient enough to aid in the muscle recovery process, especially if you exercise or lift weights consistently. Although Fairlife shakes have more calories and protein per serving, making them slightly better for those with muscle-building goals, Premier shakes are low in fat, so they’re excellent for anyone looking to lose weight.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
06-09-28-29-30
(six, nine, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
06-09-28-29-30
(six, nine, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty)
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https://www.thehour.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17049785.php
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
06-09-28-29-30
(six, nine, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
06-09-28-29-30
(six, nine, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty)
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https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17049785.php
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New O’Neill Sea Odyssey Executive Director Tracey Weiss enjoys some fresh sea air alongside skipper Tim O’Neill on Thursday as the non-profit marine education organization restarted post-pandemic in-person trips aboard the Team O’Neill catamaran. Fourth graders from Main Street School sailed on Thursday and the vessel and its staff of educators will welcome students from Mintie White School in Watsonville on Friday. The Sea Odyssey program, founded by Santa Cruz surf icon Jack O’Neill in 1996, educates fourth through sixth graders that hail from Santa Cruz, Monterey, Santa Clara and San Benito counties during ocean sails. Weiss, who served on California’s Environmental Literacy Taskforce and helped created an accreditation for environmental educators known as the Environmental Education Certificate program was Administrative Director of the Elkhorn Slough Foundation before taking the position with O’Neill. “Tracey was the ideal choice, given her deep personal interest in environmental issues,” said Bridget O’Neill, board chair for O’Neill Sea Odyssey. For more photos of the Main Street School students’ sail look at next Thursday’s Photographer’s Eye feature in the Sentinel. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)
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MEMPHIS, Tenn.– A man is dead after a shooting in Parkway Village Thursday afternoon, police say.
Memphis Police responded to the shooting in the 3400 block of Wingood Circle just after 5 p.m.
There is no suspect information at this time.
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Life and school can get hard, and students struggle with daily stressors, academic stress and other mental health issues. Having someone to talk to can help relieve some of that stress. The Counseling & Psychological Services Center at Weber State University has tools and resources to help students with their mental health.
The counseling center is open for anyone in need of help, whether it’s with depression, anxiety or stress from school. Appointments can be virtual or in person.
The counseling center also has therapy groups where students who have similar thoughts, backgrounds or questions can meet together and receive support from one another.
Talking to a counselor or participating in counseling groups can help ease the stress life can bring. Bottling up stress or other feelings can be harmful, so talking to someone and knowing they care can help.
Melinda Russell-Stamp, an assistant clinical psychology professor, said having someone to talk to gives people emotional support, knowing they’re being heard and listened to.
There are also online and self-help options on the counseling center’s website, such as SafeUT, Therapy Assistance Online and Togetherall, to help students through mental health struggles.
On the counseling center’s page, people can take a mental health screener to evaluate their mental health and point them to the help they may need.
The website has tabs for many mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression, addiction, self-esteem and stress. Each page explains the issue and the feelings one might experience with it and provides tools to help. At the bottom of each page are links to TAO, where a self-guided module will take one through some of those tools mentioned on the page.
There are also resources for parents whose children are starting college, faculty and staff to help themselves and their students. There are also local recommendations.
The counseling center is a resource to be used, whether it be using resources on their website or meeting with a counselor. If self-help is the best option, finding someone to talk to can ease some of that weight that might be there.
“Don’t be afraid to ask questions,” Russell-Stamp said.” If you’re having difficulty with something, it doesn’t have to be mental health-related. It could be stress or has to do with academics or finances or something else. Just ask.”
There are resources to help ease the stress of life. The counseling center is the main resource with the most tools to help through the struggles.
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Water Law 101 Episode 3
The following article is a transcript from the podcast "Water Law 101." Listen to the original audio.
Intro: This is water law 101. I’m back with Mike Gallagher Southwest Regional manager for Ecology’s Water Resources program. Water Law 101 is meant to be an introductory level discussion of water law in Washington State. But even at the simplest level, managing water rights can be very complicated. Mike, at the heart of your job is really a resource management job. This is really kind of an amazing balancing act that you have to do in order to manage this shared resource throughout the state. Can you kind of give me some details on what it takes to manage our water resources?
Mike: Sure, thanks Jimmy. As I’ve mentioned, water is managed, in the state of Washington, under the prior appropriation doctrine: “first in time first in right”. When we get a water right application we have to balance that application with the existing use of water already in that particular watershed or from that particular aquifer, balanced with, maybe an instream flow regulation, other water uses, the amount of annual rainfall, the amount of flow in that stream that’s based on snowpack or not snowpack and the demand for the water. Primarily our demand and our need for water is highest in the summertime, when the supply is at its lowest. So there’s that balance as well. We have to, when we allocate new water rights, or transfer water rights, look at change applications, we have to balance the public interest with that and not just the public interest, but the environmental balance of that particular watershed. At the same time, our first priority is to protect senior water rights. We have to ensure that those that already have water rights, are going to be protected or that supply is going to be protected in perpetuity. We all share this pie of water, whether it’s us, the fish, the farmers, us the homeowners or people that, you know, live in a house and rely on water for domestic purposes or we come to work and use the water for domestic purposes and you know and personal needs at work, the stores we shop at, you know, to clean out the produce section, you know, that takes water. All of that is a shared resource and that pie doesn’t get bigger. We can’t make the water supply bigger.
All of this takes, as you mentioned Jimmy, it’s a balancing act. Protection of senior water rights, meeting the public interest, meeting the desire of the applicant—and many cases, what can help is ways of conservation, you know, water use efficiency, water reuse, metering that water reuse, mitigating for that water use by returning back to the stream or a water source — what is impaired as a result of that new use, and we have to then, kind of as a sidewinder into that is, our reliance on the sciences of hydrogeology and fish biology. Fish are an essential part of our culture, a part of our livelihood, a part of our resources here in Washington, and our aquifer conditions, you know, knowing the depth of the groundwater, the direction of groundwater flow, the ability of that aquifer to produce water, the intertie of groundwater and surface water, that requires the input of qualified hydrogeologists to help make these decisions to achieve this balancing act of managing water resources in the state.
Q: I noticed another part of this balancing act is that Ecology and Water Resources in particular, aren’t the only ones trying to weigh in on these decisions, I mean you’ve got conservancy boards. You’ve got different sorts of industrial interest, agricultural interest, community interest, tribes. Is part of your job being a lot like a diplomat?
A: Absolutely it’s like being a diplomat. There are competing interests about this water. There are parties that are wanting to protect what we have in the stream. There are parties, especially our Native American tribes here in Washington, that have treaty rights for fish from usual accustomed fishing areas, well those asual custom areas. They need streams full of water so that the fish can move up those streams to spawn and produce new fish that come back to be harvested later on and to continue that fish cycle. Those are protected by treaty rights and they, in terms of prior appropriation doctrine, those rights, even though they’re not quantified, they are senior to everything else, because the tribes have been reliant on those water supplies and unquantified rights since time immemorial.
We have a lot of senior water rights for older agricultural enterprises and farms from the early 1900s that have been in continuous operation both in eastern Washington and western Washington that also rely on that water supply. And so that has to be protected.
And competing with that we have new demands on water here in Washington. We have people moving into Washington. In the course of my career in Ecology, Washington State has gone from being the twentieth most populated state in America, to being the thirteenth. People want to move here for a variety of reasons. Whether it’s economic opportunity, a nice climate, beautiful recreational opportunities of varied geography and topography. All of these play into reasons why people move here. And with that, people are desiring to move here, all of us whether we’re natives or have come from somewhere else, need water. And that trend is going to likely continue for the foreseeable future and we all have to balance that with this pie that we share.
Q: Water pie.
A: Maybe that’s a better way of saying it.
Q: Alright, so tell me about some of the challenges that come with this balancing act.
A: Well, look at our state and we always talk about that there’s an eastern Washington and a western Washington and that’s primarily climate driven. Western Washington is generally wetter and eastern Washington is generally drier. We have two different climates, we have west of the Cascade’s this marine west coast maritime climate. East of the cascades, we have this continental generally semi-arid climate. So that has to be balanced with the water needs, the growing water needs on both sides of the state.
In addition, we have very varied geology, geological conditions. We have this from the last ice age or the last series of ice ages 15,000 years ago and prior, we have this tremendous sandbox, sand and gravel box full of groundwater, in Puget Sound, of aquifers, sand and gravel aquifers that have robust physical supplies of groundwater that have been used and will continue to be used for years. And that’s a wonderful supply of water.
In Eastern Washington we have very vesicular layers of basalt formations that extend for several miles that can result in having very productive wells that when you drive across eastern Washington between Vantage and Spokane on Interstate 90, you see those large crop circle irrigation sprinklers. They’re pumping hundreds, in cases, a few thousand gallons a minute out of the ground to feed the water for that crop circle. That comes from a several hundred feet deep vesicular layer of basalt that’s just full of groundwater. So you have that differing geological condition, but you have other geological conditions, I’ll pick an example here locally in the Olympia area just west of Olympia, there’s a lake that’s called Summit Lake. You used to be able to apply for a water right to take water out of the lake for your domestic supply. One can’t do that anymore. But you pretty much needed a piece of property on the lake to do that. If your property was across the lake or away from the lake where you had to drill a well, there are few cases where there are six-hundred foot dry holes. It’s a very tight, dense bedrock material in the Black Hills and it doesn’t yield a lot of groundwater. And so, over a matter of miles you know a little about more than maybe eight to ten miles west of downtown Olympia which is glacially deposited sand and gravel material where you have some very productive water wells in the Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater area, go eight miles west of Summit Lake, you have a six-hundred foot dry hole, so geology is very important.
And then a third factor is, we have these watersheds, water resource inventory areas, we have 62 of them that are kind of listed statewide, starting with the Nooksack as WRIA one and I believe it’s the Pend Oreille as WRIA 62, and everything in between. But I’ll focus on a of couple examples, one being the WRIA 18, which is the Elwha-Dungeness watershed.
And so the Elwha River, west of Port Angeles, you know, drains the interior of Olympic National Park, is a very robust river. Recently two dams were removed of that river to allow wild salmon to swim upstream and then spawn and that’s a great success story. And even though not a lot of people live along the lower Elwha, there are aquifers kind of in connectivity with the Elwha River that are very productive aquifers for perhaps future growth someday.
Move 15 miles to the east, Dugeness watershed, again comes from near the interior of the Olympics, is a pretty robust river. The Sequim area is a nice plain, flat area with lots of agriculture, but it’s an exceptionally, compared to most of Western Washington, a pretty dry climate. Roughly 15 inches of rain a year. Is the driest spot in, at least, Western Washington. In fact, the farming up in Sequim relies on surface water irrigation from the Dungeness River from water rights from the early 1900s to provide that water. But that river is especially tenuous to flows. It can be flowing as high as three, four-hundred, five-hundred cubic feet per second during the spring snowmelt runoff of April, May and early June. But this time of year, in August and September, it can be between sixty to a hundred cubic feet per second, and the fish, trying to move upstream to the hatchery where they were hatched from, or the wild salmon that move upstream to spawn naturally are struggling to get up a stream when the flows are that low. So, that’s one watershed with two different rivers, two different stories, which I can extrapolate to 62 watersheds, 62 different stories. Each of these watersheds that we have has a different story in terms of water availability.
So, I’ve touched on different geology, a different precipitation pattern, wet west, dry east, sixty-two different watersheds, and then the final part of this balancing act of trying to make these decisions, these policy decisions, these regulatory decisions, these water right application decisions, are our state laws and regulations. I’ve touched on already, the state surface water and groundwater code of RCW 90.03 for surface water 90.44 for groundwater, but there are other state laws, and each, many of these sixty-two watersheds have their own separate instream flow regulations where they set aside minimum flows for these streams and tributaries in their river, or in their watershed, which is part of a water right in and of itself, or it might have further restrictions for water use. But, they’re different for each watershed.
So, you have these legal, physical availability geologically, physical availability based on annual precipitation, and physical availability based on the watershed, the supply of water, surface water and aquifer conditions in each of these different watersheds that really make water availability, physical water availability a challenge to achieve in some areas.
That’s all the time we have for this month’s episode of Water Law 101. Join us next month as we continue to explore water rights issues in our state.
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shell Trinidad and Tobago (through BG International, a subsidiary of Shell plc), today announces that production has started on Block 22 and NCMA-4 in the North Coast Marine Area (NCMA) in Trinidad and Tobago.
The start-up of Colibri follows the amendment to the Block 6 Production Sharing Contract for the Manatee field, marking yet another significant milestone in Shell's growth strategy in country. This will allow for the delivery of gas both domestically and internationally through Atlantic LNG.
"I am proud of the team in Trinidad and Tobago for their commitment to safely delivering this project on time." said Wael Sawan, Director of Integrated Gas, Renewable and Energy Solutions. "This reinforces the delivery of Shell's Powering Progress strategy in country, as we seek to provide more and cleaner energy solutions, globally. Colibri, along with other development projects, will see natural gas going into both the domestic petrochemical markets and into LNG exports, in line with the energy ambitions of Trinidad and Tobago."
Project Colibri is a backfill project that is expected to add approximately 30,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) (174 mmscf/d) of sustained near-term gas production with peak production expected to be approximately 43,000 boe/d (250 mmscf/d) through a series of four subsea gas wells, tied back to the existing Poinsettia Platform located in the NCMA acreage.
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- First gas at Colibri was reached on March 30, 2022, and the estimated production for Colibri represents 100% total gross figures.
- The Shell-operated Colibri development is co-owned with the Trinidad and Tobago national oil company Heritage Petroleum Company Limited which has a working interest of 10% and 20% respectively in Block 22 and NCMA-4 in the North Coast Marine Area (NCMA).
- Colibri, when combined with Barracuda and existing developments, will deliver more gas to the Trinidad and Tobago domestic market and the LNG export markets.
- Shell is a major shareholder in Atlantic LNG, a significant global producer of LNG. Our equity in the Atlantic plant ranges from 46% to 57.5% in each of the four trains at the facility.
- Shell announced Final Investment Decision for Project Colibri in March 2020
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The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is expected to release guidance on fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccine in early April as public health indicators tick up across Canada.
That’s set to come amid growing concerns about hospital capacity as the country enters what some are characterizing as a sixth wave.
A spokeswoman for the Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday that the agency expects to publish NACI’s advice on fourth doses in the coming days.
“NACI has been asked for advice on the potential use of second booster doses in elderly populations at higher risk of severe disease. PHAC is expected to publish NACI advice on this in early April,” Anna Maddison said in an email.
NACI previously recommended that people who are “moderately to severely immunocompromised” receive a fourth dose of the vaccine six months after getting their third shot. Earlier this week, U.S. regulators approved a fourth dose for Americans 50 and older if it’s been at least four months since their last vaccination.
The question of extra boosters has become more pressing to some due to concerning public health indicators.
Hospitalizations have started rising in some regions and wastewater trends suggest cases are too, after many provinces ditched their vaccine passports and mask mandates this month.
Some – including officials in Quebec – say the nation is on the precipice of a sixth wave of the pandemic that could once again see hospitals stretched thin.
“At some point we’re going to have to stop putting numbers to (the waves),” said Dr. Susy Hota, an infectious disease specialist and hospital epidemiologist at the University Health Network in Toronto.
“A reality that we’re going to have to get used to is that cases will go up and down. The real question is, what are we willing to do to try and keep them from rising at a pace where we can’t keep up?”
Hota said some COVID-19 patients have been unable to leave the hospital system after developing complications, adding strain to the system that’s not captured in the publicly reported numbers.
“And when you combine all of it with the need to catch up on surgeries and delayed and deferred care of a variety of natures, it’s just a lot for the health-care system to be handling,” she said.
Colin Furness, an epidemiologist and professor at the University of Toronto, said burnout in the health-care field and staff absences due to COVID-19 have made the issue even more challenging.
“We’re hearing really quiet but urgent SOSes from the front line saying, ‘We don’t have this capacity that the government has been saying we have,’” he said.
He urged people to continue wearing masks and take other precautions to safeguard not only their personal health, but also the hospital system.
“‘Everyone take off your mask, and we’ll have a hospital bed when you need it’ is a really bad idea,” Furness said. “First of all, because COVID is not a disease you want. But more importantly, I don’t know if that bed is going to be there.”
The Ontario Hospital Association has noted that hospitalizations are trending upward, with the province reporting 807 patients in hospital with COVID-19 on Thursday, compared to 661 a week earlier.
Farther east, Nova Scotia is reporting strain on its health-care system.
As of Thursday, 786 health workers in that province were off the job because they either have tested positive for COVID-19, are awaiting test results or were exposed to a member of their household who tested positive.
Nova Scotia also reported 53 new hospital admissions for COVID-19 in the past week, with 16 patients discharged and 11 patients in intensive care.
Quebec – which started offering fourth doses to seniors over 80, immunocompromised people and residents of long-term care homes this week – saw 1,238 people hospitalized with the virus Thursday.
Health Minister Christian Dubé said outlying regions in Quebec that were spared when the highly contagious Omicron variant tore through the country are now being hit hard by what he characterized as the pandemic’s sixth wave.
Montreal, for instance, has about 208 cases per 100,000 people. In contrast, Côte-Nord has 750 cases per 100,000 people.
Nonetheless, Dubé said the province doesn’t plan to delay lifting its mask mandate – a move currently set for mid-April – or reintroduce other public health measures.
“There is no reason at the moment … to change the strategy we have, because people have to learn to live with the virus, to continue to protect themselves,” he said.
In Ontario, Health Minister Christine Elliott also said there was no current plan to bring back any COVID-19 measures that were lifted earlier this month despite rising virus trends.
“If we need to take any further measure we will, but so far it doesn’t appear that we need to do that,” she said.
Ontario lifted indoor masking rules in most spaces earlier this month, along with a majority of other measures aimed at limiting spread, like proof-of-vaccination rules and crowd capacity limits.
—Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
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(three, six, twelve, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-four)
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Dear Quentin,
Several years before my father’s death, he offered me and my two siblings each an early “cash gift” from his estate in the amount of whatever the maximum non-taxable amount was at the time. He was an active investor and offered the gift in the form of the stock instead of cash. My siblings took the cash and I decided to take it in stock valued the same as the cash amount.
Fast forward five years: My father just passed away and my siblings bought expensive toys and luxury automobiles with their cash, while my stock is worth many times what it was when it was given to me. His will states that the three of us should share in equal parts of his estate, but my siblings are arguing that my now very valuable stock should be included as an asset to be split among the estate.
Legally, they have no leg to stand on, but both are insistent that I’m taking money that is morally theirs. There’s no changing their mind and I’m convinced that we’re headed for a family feud. I’m not sure what I should do. Had the stock value gone to zero in that time, they wouldn’t be arguing that I should get extra to compensate for my “bad gamble.”
The Other Brother
Dear Other Brother,
Them’s the breaks — in this case, the sudden screeching of car brakes.
Your siblings could have chosen stocks over cash, but they wanted immediate gratification. That was their decision, and they are going to have to take ownership of their choice and live with it. Buying stocks are more likely to pay off if you hold on to them over the long term. You did just that. Instead of buying a Ferrari or a Tesla
TSLA,
Show the same certainty now, and don’t cave to your siblings’ demands. Don’t allow them to bully you into selling.
Investing is all about delaying your gratification — the ability to live for today and save for a more comfortable tomorrow, as opposed to having everything today and to hell with tomorrow. The gamification of stock trading with apps such as Robinhood
HOOD,
This dispute is about choice. If you had taken the cash, those stocks would still be part of your father’s estate, but you made the choice to take the stock. Your siblings had the same option and chose not to exercise it. Tell them, “I know it must be frustrating for you, but we all had the same opportunity. I took it. You took the cash.”
There is only one reason they missed out — and if they look in the rearview mirror of their respective luxury cars, they will see that reason staring right back at them.
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Longhorns Courtney Ramey Enters NBA Draft and NCAA Transfer Portal
The Texas Longhorns were forced to say goodbye to one of their most intense competitors on Thursday when senior guard Courtney Ramey announced his entrance into both the NBA Draft and the NCAA Transfer Portal.
"Longhorn Nation, I want to thank you for welcoming me into the program," Ramey said in a statement. "I am forever grateful. I also want to thank the coaches for giving me the opportunity to play. I will always remember the relationships I have formed with my teammates. To my family, I want to thank you for supporting me every step of the way."
"After careful consideration, I have decided to declare for the 2022 NBA Draft while retaining my collegiate eligibility. I have also decided to enter the transfer portal in an effort to explore all of my options. Thank you Longhorn Nation!"
Ramey was once one of the few holdovers from Shaka Smart's 2020-21 roster that elected to stay with Chris Beard and was a critical part of the Longhorns' success last season.
Ramey finished fourth on the team in scoring, averaging 9.4 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game. Ramey also hit 39.7 percent from the floor and 35 percent from three in his final season in Austin.
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More than that, however, Ramey was arguably the best on-ball defender in the Big 12 conference and was one of the key cogs in the Longhorns' elite defense all season long.
Ramey was also extremely durable for the Horns, playing in all 34 games, and starting 32 of those games alongside Andrew Jones, Marcus Carr, Timmy Allen and Christian Bishop.
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The worldwide seafood industry is steeling itself for price hikes, supply disruptions and potential job losses as new rounds of economic sanctions on Russia make key species such as cod and crab harder to come by.
The latest round of U.S. attempts to punish Russia for the invasion of Ukraine includes bans on imports of seafood, alcohol and diamonds. The U.S. is also stripping “most favored nation status” from Russia. Nations around the world are taking similar steps.
Russia is one of the largest producers of seafood in the world, and was the fifth-largest producer of wild-caught fish, according to a 2020 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Russia is not one of the biggest exporters of seafood to the U.S., but it’s a world leader in exports of cod (the preference for fish and chips in the U.S.). It’s also a major supplier of crabs and Alaska pollock, widely used in fast-food sandwiches and processed products like fish sticks.
The impact is likely to be felt globally, as well as in places with working waterfronts. One of those is Maine, where more than $50 million in seafood products from Russia passed through Portland in 2021, according to federal statistics.
“If you’re getting cod from Russia, it’s going to be a problem,” said Glen Libby, an owner of Port Clyde Fresh Catch, a seafood market in Tenants Harbor, Maine. “That’s quite a mess. We’ll see how it turns out.”
Russia exported more than 28 million pounds (12.7 million kilograms) of cod to the U.S. from Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan. 31, 2022, according to census data.
The European Union and United Kingdom are both deeply dependent on Russian seafood. And prices of seafood are already spiking in Japan, a major seafood consumer that is limiting its trade with Russia.
In the U.K., where fish and chips are a cultural marker, shop owners and consumers alike are bracing for price surges. British fish and chip shops were already facing a squeeze because of soaring energy costs and rising food prices.
Andrew Crook, head of the National Federation of Fish Friers, said earlier this month that — even before the war — he expected a third of Britain’s fish and chip shops to go out of business. If fish prices shoot up even higher, “we are in real dire straits,” he said.
In mid-March, the U.K. slapped a 35% tariff hike on Russian whitefish, including chip-shop staples cod and haddock.
“We’re a massive part of U.K. culture and it would be a shame to see that go,” he told broadcaster ITV.
U.S. consumers are most likely to notice the impact of sanctions via price and availability of fish, said Kanae Tokunaga, who runs the Coastal and Marine Economics Lab at Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland.
“Because seafood is a global commodity, even if they are not harvested in Russia, you will notice the price hike,” Tokunaga said.
In the U.S., the dependence on foreign cod stems to the loss of its own once-robust Atlantic cod fishery that cratered in the face of overfishing and environmental changes. U.S. fishermen, based mostly in New England, brought more than 100 million pounds (45.4 million kilograms) of cod to the docks per year in the early 1980s, but the 2020 catch was less than 2 million pounds (900,000 kilograms).
Regulators have tried to save the fishery with management measures such as very low fishing quotas, and many fishermen targeting other East Coast groundfish species such as haddock and flounder now avoid cod altogether.
Seafood processors in Massachusetts are concerned about job losses due to loss of Russian products, Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, who does support sanctions on Russia, said.
“I have heard from seafood processors in my home state with concerns about potential sudden effects of a new, immediate ban on imports on their workforce, including hundreds of union workers in the seafood processing industry,” he said on the Senate floor in February.
For U.S. producers of seafood staples such as fish and chips, the lack of Russian cod could mean pivoting to other foreign sources, said Walt Golet, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences.
“We might be able to bring in more from Norway, a little more from Canadian fisheries,” Golet said. “It really is driven by the price of those imports.”
As an alternative, producers and consumers could try underutilized fish species caught domestically, such as Atlantic pollock and redfish, said Ben Martens, executive director of Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association.
“Maybe this is a time to use haddock or hake or maybe monkfish, something different,” Martens said. “If it’s going to disrupt supply chains it does present an opportunity for other species to fill that void.”
—Patrick Whittle, The Associated Press
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INDIANAPOLIS — An apartment building fire that sent more than a dozen people to the hospital Wednesday morning included two units with four people in them that are deaf or hard of hearing.
The Indianapolis Fire Department said those apartments didn't have alarms or bed shakers suitable for the deaf community. IFD wants the community to know they can help people install such an alarm system.
Smoke alarms are loud, but only if you can hear them. A bed shaker is a fire safety device for the deaf or hard of hearing that is placed under the pillow or mattress and vibrates when the smoke alarm goes off, helping to wake someone who cannot hear the alarm.
"I think it's imperative if you're hearing impaired, just to have that extra comfort of being able to be alarmed when the smoke alarm goes off,” said IFD fire marshal Chief Mike Beard.
When smoke triggers the special alarm, a wireless signal goes to the bedroom receiver, which flashes a bright light. The bed shaker is wired to the receiver and vibrates when activated.
IFD will provide the system free of charge to people in need who have people who are deaf or hard of hearing in their household. IFD installs the system.
"We just want to verify that it's installed properly, they understand how the system works and that it goes where it needs to go,” said Beard.
Smoke alarms for the deaf or hard of hearing may be requested through a form on the IFD indy.gov website.
No one suffered serious injuries in Wednesday's fire at the Pangea Apartments on the eastside of Indianapolis. Twelve units were impacted by the fire and 13 residents (10 children and three adults) were transported to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. One of the patients transported was a 21-day old infant. One of the juvenile patients jumped from the second-story window.
"Smoke detectors are there for you,” said Beard. “They're not to stop fires. They help you get out in time where you can save your life and the life of the people that live in your home, your family. If an alarm is going off, it's there to notify you."
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Live coverage – Ukraine rips Russian proposal for evacuation routes
Ukraine on Monday dismissed evacuation routes proposed by Moscow that led mostly to Russia and its ally, Belarus.
The development comes as fierce fighting raged in some parts of Ukraine and Russian forces extended their rocket attacks on cities.
Read The Hill’s live coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine below:
Coinbase blocks 25K wallets linked to Russia
4:48 p.m.
Coinbase revealed on Monday that it has blocked more than 25,000 addresses connected to “Russian individuals or entities we believe to be engaging in illicit activity.”
“Today, Coinbase blocks over 25,000 addresses related to Russian individuals or entities we believe to be engaging in illicit activity, many of which we have identified through our own proactive investigations,” Coinbase CEO Paul Grewal wrote in a blog post titled “Using Crypto Tech to Promote Sanctions Compliance.”
“Once we identified these addresses, we shared them with the government to further support sanctions enforcement,” he added.
Grewal said the cryptocurrency company “fully supports” sanctions imposed by governments across the globe in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
After the Biden administration imposed sanctions on Russia, it reportedly asked crypto exchanges to help monitor the targets of the penalties to ensure that they were not using virtual currencies to evade the punitive action, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg.
— Mychael Schnell
Macron: Negotiated settlement weeks away, at least
3:43 p.m.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said he does not believe Russia and Ukraine will reach a settlement to the current conflict for weeks, at least.
He said he has informed Russian President Vladimir Putin that a cease-fire will be needed before the two sides can engage in real talks, but his counterpart has refused, which has made their regular discussions “difficult.”
“I don’t think that in the days and weeks to come there will be a true negotiated solution,” Macron said while campaigning for reelection in Poissy, a suburb of Paris, according to The Associated Press.
Macron said Putin was committing a “historic fault” by engaging in conflict against Ukrainians, and emphasized that people of all countries must be respected, according to the AP. He said it is important to “ensure that no nation, no people be humiliated.”
And he said Russia must receive that respect as well.
“There is no durable peace if Russia is not [part of] a … grand architecture of peace on our continent. Because History and geography are stubborn,” he added, according to the AP.
–MYCHAEL SCHNELL
3:10 p.m.
The ruble is continuing to fall against the U.S. dollar amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and as the U.S. and its allies consider additional sanctions against Moscow.
CNN noted that 155 rubles are currently worth $1. Before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, about 70 to 80 rubles were worth $1.
As of Monday, the value of the Russian ruble had dropped by 90 percent against the U.S. dollar since the beginning of 2022.
The U.S. and its allies have already imposed sweeping sanctions on large Russian banks and top officials, including President Vladimir Putin. The Biden administration is now looking at reducing U.S. imports of Russian oil.
–MYCHAEL SCHNELL
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Israeli counterpart on Monday to be briefed on Israeli talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discuss efforts to end Moscow’s assault against Ukraine.
Blinken, who is traveling in Europe, met with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Riga, Latvia, and expressed appreciation for Israel’s efforts to mediate between Moscow and Kyiv.
“[We] very much appreciate all of your engagements in the effort to stop this Russian aggression in Ukraine,” the secretary said ahead of the meeting, adding the discussion would include efforts to find a diplomatic solution.
“I look forward to hearing your ideas, hearing about some of the engagements that Israel has had, but we appreciate all efforts by friends and allies to look for a diplomatic resolution.”
Blinken and Lapid also were expected to talk about U.S. efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which Israel opposes and is under pressure amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine. Moscow is one of the participants to the nuclear deal and is a key facilitator of months-long talks to revive the agreement that are taking place in Vienna.
— LAURA KELLY
Mariupol deputy mayor: District where parents live ‘looks like Aleppo’
2:44 p.m.
Mariupol Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov on Monday said the district in Ukraine where his parents live “looks like Aleppo.”
Asked during an interview on CNN if Orlov has been able to get in touch with his family since Saturday, when he initially told the network he was unable to reach them, the deputy mayor said no.
“Unfortunately, no. I have no opportunity to communicate in any way and I know that the district where my parents live is look like Aleppo at the moment,” Orlov said. “I have a lot of confirmation and photo from there.”
The city of Aleppo was the scene of fighting between the Syrian government and opposition. Bashar al-Assad’s forces ultimately seized control of Aleppo in 2016.
–MYCHAEL SCHNELL
German chancellor says he opposes barring Russian energy imports
1:07 p.m.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday said he is opposed to the European Union barring Russian energy imports.
Russian oil and gas supplies are of “essential importance” to the European economy, Scholz said, adding that finding alternative suppliers “won’t happen overnight.”
“It’s therefore a conscious decision on our part to continue the activities of business enterprises in the area of energy supply with Russia,” Scholz said on behalf of Germany.
Bloomberg reports that Germany is reliant on Russian imports for over half of its gas and coal and over a third of its oil.
— CHLOE FOLMAR
Lithuanian president warns Putin may not stop with Ukraine
12:56 p.m.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda warned Monday before a conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Russian Vladimir Putin may “not stop” in Ukraine.
“Frankly, deterrence is no longer enough and we need forward defense here in place because otherwise it will be too late,” said Nauseda, according to the Washington Post. “Putin will not stop in Ukraine if he will not be stopped.”
Blinken visited Vilnius, Lithuania for a stop on a tour of Europe aimed at demonstrating Western solidarity with Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
— Chloe Folmar
Biden speaks with European leaders
12:51 p.m.
President Biden on Monday spent over an hour on a teleconference with the leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom to discuss the latest developments in Ukraine.
Biden spoke for 79 minutes with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the White House said.
The group convened after a weekend that saw Russian escalate its attacks on Ukraine, with civilians caught in the middle in many instances.
The U.S. has been coordinating with its European allies on sanctions on Russia, including on major Russian banks and key sectors of the economy. But one area of apparent disagreement is whether to ban imports of Russian oil in an attempt to cripple Russia’s energy sector.
While the White House is considering such a move under pressure from lawmakers, Scholz has said Germany is not looking to take such a step. Europe is more reliant on Russia for energy imports, and outlawing Russian oil could severely disrupt energy flow and global markets.
WHO confirms 14 attacks on Ukrainian health care facilities
12:26 p.m.
At least 14 health care facilities in Ukraine have been attacked since Russia invaded the country, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) cited by The Washington Post.
At least nine people have died and 16 others were injured.
“WHO strongly condemns these attacks,” the agency said in a statement, according to the Post. “Attacks on health care violate international law and endanger lives. Even in times of conflict, we must protect the sanctity and safety of health care, a fundamental human right.”
The WHO said Ukraine’s health system is “undergoing an unimaginable stress test, dealing with three simultaneous crises,” pointing to the COVID-19 pandemic, polio outbreak and humanitarian situation, the newspaper reported.
— MYCHAEL SCHNELL
UN: More than 1.7 million refugees have left Ukraine; 406 civilian deaths
12:15 p.m.
More than 1.7 million refugees have left Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion late last month, according to the United Nations refugee agency.
The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights also said in a statement Monday that 406 civilians have been killed and 801 others have been injured since the start of the war on Feb. 24.
Neighboring Poland has thus far received the most refugees, with more than 1 million individuals relocating to the European country. Others have traveled to Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova and Romania.
–MYCHAEL SCHNELL
Last Big Four accounting firm cuts ties with Russia
11:44 a.m.
The four largest accounting firms have cut ties with Russia following the nation’s invasion of Ukraine, further isolating Russian businesses from the international economy.
Deloitte on Monday said it would pull out of the country, joining the other Big Four accounting firms in doing so. Ernst & Young announced its exit earlier on Monday, while PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG said Sunday they would leave Russia.
The accounting firms are leaving behind thousands of employees in Russia. Deloitte will also sever ties with Russia’s ally Belarus, from which Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched attacks on the neighboring Ukraine.
“While we know this is the right decision, it will have an impact on Deloitte’s 3,000 professionals located in Russia and Belarus,” Deloitte CEO Punit Renjen said in a statement.
The exodus of multinational companies from Russia is driven in part by crippling sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies that greatly complicate companies’ ability to do business in the country.
— KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM
Ukrainian, Russian foreign ministers to meet in Turkey this week
11:24 a.m.
Ukraine and Russia’s foreign ministers are scheduled to meet at a forum in Turkey on Thursday.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced the scheduled meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in a tweet on Monday.
“Upon President [Erdogan]’s initiatives & our intensive diplomatic efforts, Foreign Ministers Sergei Lavrov of #Russia & Dmytro Kuleba of #Ukraine have decided to meet with my participation on the margins of [Antalya Diplomacy Forum]. Hope this step will lead to peace and stability,” Cavusoglu wrote on Twitter.
If the talks go ahead as planned, they will mark the fourth time Russian and Ukrainian leaders have engaged in discussions since Moscow launched the invasion. Officials are scheduled to meet for a third round of talks on Monday, according to Reuters. The previous discussions, however, have not led to any major breakthroughs.
–MYCHAEL SCHNELL
Russia says it’s ready to halt military operations ‘in a moment’ if demands are met
11:00 a.m.
Nearly two weeks after starting an unprovoked and violent siege of Ukraine, Russia has told Kyiv it is ready to quickly halt military operations if certain lofty demands are met, according to a Kremlin spokesman.
Those demands include requesting that Ukraine must stop all military action, change its constitution to reject any intention to enter any bloc such as NATO or the European Union, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory and recognize the two breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states, Dmitry Peskov said Monday, as reported by Reuters.
“We really are finishing the demilitarization of Ukraine. We will finish it. But the main thing is that Ukraine ceases its military action. They should stop their military action and then no one will shoot,” Peskov told Reuters.
–ELLEN MITCHELL
Protesters post sign renaming street outside DC Russian embassy ‘President Zelensky Way’
10:39 a.m.
Protesters in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., have posted a sign unofficially renaming the street “President Zelensky Way” to show their support for Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Photos of the new sign located outside the Embassy of Russia on Wisconsin Avenue in D.C. were shared on Twitter by political activist Claude Taylor on Sunday and have since gone viral.
–SARAKSHI RAI
China praises ties to Russia, sending aid to Ukraine
10:33 a.m.
China’s foreign minister on Monday referred to Russia as Beijing’s “most important strategic partner” despite growing casualties amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Wang Yi specifically referred to China’s ties with Russia as “one of the most crucial bilateral relationships in the world,” The Associated Press reported.
–MONIQUE BEALS
Blinken: NATO looking at more permanent troop deployments in Baltic region
10:14 a.m.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday said NATO is looking at more permanent troop deployments in the Baltic region as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine.
Asked if the U.S. will send troops to the Baltic region permanently to protect NATO countries, Blinken told reporters that the alliance is “looking at questions of more permanent deployments.”
“We’re continuously reviewing within NATO our defense posture, including looking at questions of extending the deployment of forces, looking at questions of more permanent deployments,” Blinken said during a joint press conference with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis in Lithuania.
–MYCHAEL SCHNELL
Russian representatives skip UN court hearing on Ukraine
9:57 a.m.
Russian representatives on Monday skipped a hearing at the United Nations’ top court that focused on allegations of genocide in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin used as a pretext to launch an invasion of the country.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) held the first of two public hearings on Monday in the case regarding “Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation),” according to Reuters.
–MYCHAEL SCHNELL
Blinken on WNBA star detained in Russia: US will ‘provide every possible assistance’
9:42 a.m.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said that the United States will “provide every possible assistance” to citizens who are being held in foreign countries when asked about WNBA star Brittney Griner who has been detained in Russia.
Blinken refused to share specifics regarding Griner’s case when asked by reporters in Moldova and said “With regard to the individual you mentioned, there’s only so much I can say given the privacy considerations at this point.”
He added that whenever an American is detained anywhere in the world, “we, of course, stand ready to provide every possible assistance, and that includes in Russia.”
–SARAKSHI RAI
Ukrainian mayor wounded during evacuation, officials say
9:08 a.m.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Monday said that eight people were killed and others were wounded including the mayor, while attempting to evacuate a northwest suburb of Kyiv.
Anatoliy Fedoruk, the mayor of Bucha, was wounded in the evacuation efforts, which were still ongoing as of noon on Monday, according to the ministry.
While Russia had agreed to allow civilians from some cities to safely evacuate, officials say that Russian troops have violated those cease-fire promises.
–MONIQUE BEALS
Ukraine: Moscow’s humanitarian corridors to Russia, Belarus ‘unacceptable’
7:38 a.m.
Moscow on Monday announced new humanitarian corridors for civilians to flee from Ukraine to neighboring Russia and Belarus, a proposal that Kyiv is labeling as “unacceptable.”
The majority of the routes proposed by Moscow led to Russia or Belarus, which has close ties with Russia, according to Reuters. One of the pathways would bring civilians from Kyiv to Belarus, and another would transport individuals from Kharkiv to Russia, Reuters noted, citing maps published by the RIA news agency.
Moscow would also airlift individuals from Kyiv to Russia, the news service reported, citing the Russian defense ministry.
–MYCHAEL SCHNELL
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Hospital Reduces Visitor Restrictions
Salina Regional Health Center is modifying its COVID-19 visitor guidelines due to improving numbers of COVID-19 infection in the community. Effective Wednesday, all hospital inpatients and outpatients will be able to have two visitors age 12 and older with them in the facility at the same time. Visitors can alternate in...
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US Senate passes the Ethiopia Peace and Stabilisation Act | News24
- The Ethiopia Peace and Stabilisation Act of 2022 was permitted by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week.
- The Act gives instruments to carry all events in battle accountable for atrocities and the humanitarian disaster.
- The Ethiopian authorities has opened airspace over Tigray and a highway into the area for humanitarian help.
The mini truce in Ethiopia has been welcomed by the worldwide group, but it surely was not sufficient to cease the United States Senate from passing the Ethiopia Peace and Stabilisation Act of 2022.
Earlier this week, with the assist of the Foreign Relations Committee, the invoice sailed by means of the US Senate.
US Senator Jim Risch mentioned: “The conflict in Ethiopia has shifted since we first introduced this important bill, but the core issues remain the same. This bill provides the tools to hold all parties to this conflict accountable for the many atrocities committed and a deadly humanitarian crisis. This legislation also focuses on the role of disinformation and foreign actors in this war, which have increased its lethality and persistence.”
EXPLAINER | A truce in Ethiopia – does it make peace more likely?
Risch careworn that whereas there was slight progress made in direction of a peace settlement, there was an extended approach to go and the laws would come in useful.
“Not all parties to the conflict have signed on to the ceasefire or agreed to come to the negotiating table, and the road to national reconciliation for Ethiopia is long. This legislation sends a strong message that Congress is still serious about accountability and resolving the conflict,” he mentioned.
The Ethiopian authorities, because of a world outcry, opened up its airspace in addition to a highway resulting in Tigray for the supply of help for per week.
In an announcement, the Government Communication Services (GCS) mentioned the regime allowed, “a full week of air transportation to several international humanitarian aid organisations, accordingly, “prescription drugs, medical gear, cash, and diet dietary supplements”.
The aid should be transported, “as a lot as potential,” since the cut-off region faced a severe humanitarian crisis after almost 17 months of the war, with the United Nations estimating five million people were in need of urgent aid.
READ | Multibillion-rand plan to reconstruct insurgency-hit Cabo Delgado
The Ethiopian government also said the World Food Programme (WFP) was allowed to transport 43 trucks carrying food aid through Abala Road.
However, there were claims that the passage of the trucks was delayed by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPFL) militants out of mistrust.
While America had put in place sanctions, China sent its newly appointed envoy to the Horn of Africa, Xue Bing, to meet regional leaders.
On his week-long visit to the Horn of Africa in March, he engaged Ethiopia on peace and stability issues and Ethiopian authorities agreed to host a Chinese-backed first peace conference.
Xue Bing told journalists that the conference was a chance for African countries to resolve its issues without external interference from the West.
Chinese state-owned Global Times quoted Xue Bing as saying China’s approach toward the region was to find peace through economic development.
“The Horn of Africa sits on an essential location, with a big inhabitants and big improvement potential. Regional peace and stability are of nice significance to its peace, stability, improvement, and prosperity,” he mentioned.
The News24 Africa Desk is supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation. The tales produced by means of the Africa Desk and the opinions and statements that could be contained herein don’t replicate these of the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
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KFC has entered the world of fine dining, with a new 11-course degustation restaurant in Sydney that includes a Zinger fish dish.
The sliced kingfish, which is crumbed with Zinger flavour on top of yoghurt slaw with lobster, is one of several classics from the global fast-food chain that have been given a fresh twist.
The eternally popular popcorn chicken now comes with celeriac soup, mushroom gnocchi, basil and an edible floral garnish.
The classic potato and gravy is now presented in the form of a “gravy candle”, while there is a “la di da” original recipe drumstick dusted with quinoa and gold.
The man behind the madness is the executive chef and owner of Sydney restaurant nel., Nelly Robinson.
“As a lifelong fan of KFC, creating an 11-course degustation with their most-loved menu items and elevating them to new heights has been a dream come true,” Mr Robinson said.
“For the menu, I’ve taken 11 KFC dishes and reimagined how the flavours and textures come to life using my expertise in degustation menus to truly blow fans away.”
The restaurant was launched on Thursday, with reality TV stars Sophie Tieman and Tina Provis and MasterChef’s Reynold Poernomo, Sarah Tiong and Pete Campbell among the guests in attendance.
The restaurant has a limited three-day run from Friday to Sunday, but good luck trying to get a seat, with more than 20,000 people registering for the waitlist when it was first announced.
One hundred per cent of the profits are going to The Black Dog Institute, ReachOut Australia and Whitelion.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for six months, a bid to control energy prices that have spiked after the United States and allies imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
The president said it was not known how much gasoline prices could decline as a result of his move, but he suggested it might be “anything from 10 cents to 35 cents a gallon.” Gas is averaging about $4.23 a gallon, compared with $2.87 a year ago, according to AAA.
“The bottom line is if we want lower gas prices we need to have more oil supply right now,” Biden said. “This is a moment of consequence and peril for the world, and pain at the pump for American families.”
The president also wants Congress to impose financial penalties on oil and gas companies that lease public lands but are not producing. He said he will invoke the Defense Production Act to encourage the mining of critical minerals for batteries in electric vehicles, part of a broader push to shift toward cleaner energy sources and reduce the use of fossil fuels.
The actions show that oil remains a vulnerability for the U.S. Higher prices have hurt Biden’s approval domestically and added billions of oil-export dollars to the Russian government as it wages war on Ukraine.
Tapping the stockpile would create pressures that could reduce oil prices, though Biden has twice ordered releases from the reserves without causing a meaningful shift in oil markets. Biden said Thursday he expects gasoline prices could drop “fairly significantly.”
Part of Biden’s concern is that high prices have not so far coaxed a meaningful jump in oil production. The planned release is a way to increase supplies as a bridge until oil companies ramp up their own production, with administration officials estimating that domestic production will grow by 1 million barrels daily this year and an additional 700,000 barrels daily in 2023.
The markets reacted quickly with crude oil prices dropping about 6% in Thursday trading to roughly $101 a barrel. Still, oil is up from roughly $60 a year ago, with supplies failing to keep up with demand as the world economy has begun to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic. That inflationary problem was compounded by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which created new uncertainties about oil and natural gas supplies and led to retaliatory sanctions from the U.S. and its allies.
Stewart Glickman, an oil analyst for CFRA Research, said the release would bring short-term relief on prices and would be akin to “taking some Advil for a headache.” But markets would ultimately look to see whether, after the releases stop, the underlying problems that led to Biden’s decisions remain.
“The root cause of the headache is probably still going to be there after the medicine wears off,” Glickman said.
Biden has been in talks with allies and partners to join in additional releases of oil, such that the world market will get more than the 180 million barrels total being pledged by the U.S.
Americans on average use about 21 million barrels of oil daily, with about 40% of that devoted to gasoline, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That total accounts for about one-fifth of total global consumption of oil.
Domestic oil production is equal to more than half of U.S. usage, but high prices have not led companies to return to their pre-pandemic levels of output. The U.S. is producing on average 11.7 million barrels daily, down from 13 million barrels in early 2020.
Republican lawmakers have said the problem results from the administration being hostile to oil permits and the construction of new pipelines such as the Keystone XL. Democrats say the country needs to move to renewable energy such as wind and solar that could reduce the dependence on fossil fuels and Putin’s leverage.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., blasted Biden’s action to tap the reserve without first taking steps to increase American energy production, calling it “a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.″
Daines called Biden’s actions “desperate moves″ that avoid what he called the real solution: ”investing in American energy production,″ and getting “oil and gas leases going again.”
The administration says increasing oil output is a gradual process and the release would provide time to ramp up production. It also wants to incentivize greater production by putting fees on unused leases on government lands, something that would require congressional approval.
Oil producers have been more focused on meeting the needs of investors than consumers, according to a survey released last week by the Dallas Federal Reserve. About 59% of the executives surveyed said investor pressure to preserve “capital discipline” amid high prices was the reason they weren’t pumping more, while fewer than 10% blamed government regulation.
In his remarks Thursday, Biden tried to shame oil companies that he said are focused on profits instead of putting out more barrels, saying that adding to the oil supply was a patriotic obligation.
“This is not the time to sit on record profits: It’s time to step up for the good of your country,” the president said.
The steady release from the reserves would be a meaningful sum and come near to closing the domestic production gap relative to February 2020, before the coronavirus caused a steep decline in oil output.
Still, the politics of oil are complicated with industry advocates and environmentalists both criticizing the planned release. Groups such as the American Petroleum Institute want to make drilling easier, while environmental organizations say energy companies should be forced to pay a special tax on windfall profits instead.
The administration in November announced the release of 50 million barrels from the strategic reserve in coordination with other countries. And after the Russia-Ukraine war began, the U.S. and 30 other countries agreed to an additional release of 60 million barrels from reserves, with half of the total coming from the U.S.
According to the Department of Energy, which manages it, more than 568 million barrels of oil were held in the reserve as of March 25. After the release, the government would begin to replenish the reserve once prices have sufficiently fallen.
News of the administration’s planning was first reported by Bloomberg.
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Associated Press writers Alex Veiga, Darlene Superville, Matthew Daly and Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
16-18-26-28-30-32-35-40-43-45-48-49-50-57-59-62-64-66-67-74-76-80
(sixteen, eighteen, twenty-six, twenty-eight, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-five, forty, forty-three, forty-five, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-seven, fifty-nine, sixty-two, sixty-four, sixty-six, sixty-seven, seventy-four, seventy-six, eighty)
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Wall Street analysts expect IronNet, Inc. (NYSE:IRNT – Get Rating) to announce earnings of ($0.19) per share for the current quarter, according to Zacks Investment Research. Two analysts have made estimates for IronNet’s earnings. The business is expected to announce its next earnings report after the market closes on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that IronNet will report full year earnings of ($1.02) per share for the current fiscal year. For the next fiscal year, analysts expect that the firm will post earnings of ($0.82) per share. Zacks’ EPS calculations are an average based on a survey of sell-side research firms that that provide coverage for IronNet.
A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on IRNT. Needham & Company LLC cut shares of IronNet from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 16th. Jefferies Financial Group reduced their price objective on shares of IronNet from $6.00 to $4.25 in a research note on Thursday, January 6th. Guggenheim started coverage on shares of IronNet in a report on Tuesday, January 11th. They issued a “neutral” rating on the stock. Finally, Zacks Investment Research raised shares of IronNet from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 15th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $16.63.
Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of IRNT. KPCB DGF II Associates LLC acquired a new position in shares of IronNet in the 3rd quarter valued at about $102,334,000. Phoenix Holdings Ltd. acquired a new position in IronNet during the third quarter worth $17,050,000. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. purchased a new position in IronNet in the third quarter valued at $90,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. purchased a new position in shares of IronNet during the third quarter worth about $491,000. Finally, Edmond DE Rothschild Holding S.A. acquired a new stake in shares of IronNet during the third quarter worth about $65,000. 27.91% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Shares of IRNT traded down $0.18 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $3.80. 1,635,840 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 5,415,471. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $3.99 and a two-hundred day moving average of $8.73. IronNet has a twelve month low of $2.65 and a twelve month high of $47.50.
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IronNet, Inc designs and develops solutions for cyber-attacks. It offers IronDefense, a network traffic analysis platform that delivers scalable behavioral analysis and integrated packet-level cyber hunt to detect advanced threats; and IronDome, a collective defense solution that delivers machine-speed visibility of potential threat campaigns targeting participant industry peers.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
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(sixteen, eighteen, twenty-six, twenty-eight, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-five, forty, forty-three, forty-five, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-seven, fifty-nine, sixty-two, sixty-four, sixty-six, sixty-seven, seventy-four, seventy-six, eighty)
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Which natural testosterone boosters are best?
Testosterone is a naturally occurring hormone that aids in the development of both male and female secondary sex characteristics. But in addition to these actions, testosterone also plays a role in the development of bone and muscle mass, as well as promoting fat loss and increasing overall health and well-being. For people who struggle with low testosterone levels, a natural testosterone booster can help.
Force Factor Test X180 Ignite Total Testosterone Booster is specifically formulated to increase energy levels while recovering from injury or illness. It’s a good place to start to treat low T.
What to know before you buy a natural testosterone booster
Dose
Testosterone boosters gradually improve the symptoms of low T over 30 to 60 days, but you’ll need to get the correct dose.
It’s important to talk to your doctor before you begin supplementation to make sure it’s a good choice for you. In general, follow the dosing guidelines on your supplement. Each will be different depending on the ingredients and the focus of the supplement.
Symptoms
Natural testosterone boosters utilize different formulations designed to address specific symptoms of low testosterone.
These might include:
- Insecurity and low self-esteem
- Depression
- Weight gain
- Thinning bones
- Decreased muscle mass
- Changes in mood
- Insomnia
- Sexual dysfunction
- Decreased libido
- Infertility
Because testosterone production naturally decreases by as much as 1% per year every year after age 30, some of these symptoms can start to appear in younger people. Look for natural testosterone boosters that specifically address the symptoms you are experiencing.
What to look for in a quality natural testosterone booster
Active ingredients
Look for active ingredients that are proven to increase testosterone production and relieve symptoms of low T.
These include:
- Ginger: Among other actions, ginger reduces oxidative stress and boosts production of testosterone. Ginger is also anti-inflammatory and may aid in recovery after injury.
- Rhodiola: Rhodiola suppresses cortisol production and can relieve mood disorders (i.e., anxiety and depression) linked to low T.
- Tongkat ali: Also known as tung saw, longifolia, pasak bumi, eurycoma and longjack, this herb can boost testosterone levels and relieve symptoms of aging.
- Horny goat weed: Chinese medicine refers to horny goat weed as yin yang huo. It’s used to increase blood flow to the genitals. Women may also take it but phytoestrogens in the plant can lead to bone loss and should be used with caution.
- Ashwagandha: This powerful adaptogen has been shown in double-blind trials to relieve fatigue, increase vigor and promote sexual and psychological well-being in men with the symptoms of low T.
- Fenugreek seed: Clinical reviews of fenugreek seed and its effect of testosterone found that it dramatically increased testosterone production and improved libido.
- Tribulus terrestris: Tribulus terrestris is best used with other plants to boost testosterone production. It is important to note that some supplements of this plant have been found to be contaminated with steroids.
No fillers
Look for supplements that contain no fillers or binders. Some of these substances are relatively harmless, like starches, but others come with long chemical names and compositions that can affect the performance of other active ingredients.
Non-GMO
Non-GMO active ingredients are chemical-free and the best choice for a natural testosterone booster. They are also preservative-free and have no toxins that can be harmful with long-term use.
Third-party tested
Because supplements are not regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, it’s important that whichever one you choose has been third-party tested for best practices in manufacturing, processing and packaging.
No allergens
At a minimum, your supplements should be free of common allergens like corn, gluten, dairy or soy. If you are limiting or restricting animal products, look for a vegan or vegetarian label.
How much you can expect to spend on a natural testosterone booster
A month’s supply will cost $9-$50, depending on the potency of the booster.
Natural testosterone booster FAQ
How long does it take to see results?
A. Improving your health with natural supplements is good for your body, but it may take a while to see results. When starting with natural testosterone boosters, allow yourself at least 30 to 60 days on the supplement to see if there are any changes.
If you don’t see any changes, you may need to try another supplement or increase the dose. Talk to your doctor if you have any concerns.
Are natural testosterone boosters safe?
A. Whenever you add a supplement to your diet, it’s important to talk to your doctor. They can help you determine what supplement might work best for your symptoms and verify that there will be no drug potential interactions.
That said, although natural testosterone boosters are generally recognized as safe, the risk of side effects is always present.
These might include:
- Increased aggression
- Acne
- Digestive upset
- Hair loss
- Abdominal pain
- Allergies to active ingredients
- Development of breasts
Severe side effects are rare and vary depending on the active ingredients.
What’s the best natural testosterone booster to buy?
Top natural testosterone booster
Force Factor Test X180 Ignite Total Testosterone Booster
What you need to know: This option uses fenugreek seed and green tea extract to increase energy and libido.
What you’ll love: This includes a wide variety of trusted and tested ingredients to naturally increase testosterone levels, including green coffee beans, oat straw and horny goat weed. Two capsules provide the recommended serving of 400 milligrams.
What you should consider: For best results, you’ll need to pair this with a protein supplement.
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Top natural testosterone booster for the money
Bull Blood Ultimate Natural Testosterone Booster
What you need to know: It’s a high-potency supplement that’s great for those new to testosterone supplementation and long-time users.
What you’ll love: This focuses on increasing stamina, size and performance. It includes horny goat weed, L-arginine, maca root and other natural ingredients. It’s made from non-GMO ingredients and is manufactured in a cGMP-compliant facility.
What you should consider: Some people experience disrupted sleep.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
LifeSeasons Masculini-T Testosterone Support for Men
What you need to know: These provide some immediate relief from the effects of low T.
What you’ll love: It contains tribulus, longjax, muira puama, maca and fenugreek to support increased testosterone production naturally. It’s focused on increasing stamina, relieving brain fog, and boosting energy.
What you should consider: You’ll need to take one capsule three times a day.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Colorful and evocative pysanky eggs are placed in the safety of an egg carton before being brought to Curated By The Sea gallery in downtown Santa Cruz to be sold to raise money for Ukrainian refugees. Twenty local artists created 91 of the eggs to fundraise for World Central Kitchen’s Chefs For Ukraine as the non-profit provides millions of meals to families in Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Romania and Hungary. Pysanky are Ukrainian Easter eggs, decorated with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method. The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty, “to write” or “to inscribe,” as the designs are not painted on, but written with beeswax. These eggs, created through an initiative of ARRT (Artists Respond and Resist Together), will be sold from 6-8 p.m. April 1 at First Friday at Curated By The Sea, which is located on Front Street across from Trader Joes in downtown Santa Cruz. All sales will be sent directly and immediately to World Central Kitchen. As the World Central Kitchen’s founder José Andrés said, “You’d be amazed at the power of a plate of food. It can change the world, and so can you.” (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)
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COMO, Miss. — Recovery is underway in Panola County, Mississippi, after storms rolled through the area, destroying homes and businesses.
Winds reached up to 40 miles an hour Wednesday, sending residents like Dorthy Robertson scrambling and into a state of panic.
“It was bad, it was bad,” Robertson said. “It was really like a whole lot of rain, and all of sudden, it got black. It shook our little house. I was just over there where he was, I got scared.”
Twenty-four hours later, the damage is widespread, from downed power lines to uprooted trees. It’s a sight city leaders have not seen in over a decade.
“We haven’t this big, this my first time really,” said Everett Hill, mayor of Como. “It always be around us, so this time we actually took the hit.”
The storm impacted hundreds of residents, including Hill. A tree fell in his back yard, crushing several vehicles and landing inches away from his roof.
“I think I’m blessed, cause if you look, it’s almost at my back door,” Hill said. “God could have turned this tree and came straight over my house, so I feel great.”
Despite the damage, there are no reports of injuries. However, assistance is coming from various agencies to help rebuild, which Hill says embodies what the region is all about.
“Panola County is kind of a county that always come together when when we need one another one, so that’s good,” Hill said.
Hill estimates nearly half of the town lost power yesterday. Right now, about 100 people are still waiting for their power to be restored.
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Kohl's (KSS) Stock Moves -1.56%: What You Should Know
Kohl's (KSS) closed at $60.46 in the latest trading session, marking a -1.56% move from the prior day. This change was narrower than the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 0.09%.
Coming into today, shares of the department store operator had gained 4.12% in the past month. In that same time, the Retail-Wholesale sector gained 4.28%, while the S&P 500 gained 5.37%.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from Kohl's as it approaches its next earnings report date. On that day, Kohl's is projected to report earnings of $0.79 per share, which would represent a year-over-year decline of 24.76%. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $3.96 billion, up 1.83% from the prior-year quarter.
KSS's full-year Zacks Consensus Estimates are calling for earnings of $7.16 per share and revenue of $19.92 billion. These results would represent year-over-year changes of -2.32% and +2.51%, respectively.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Kohl's. Recent revisions tend to reflect the latest near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection has moved 8.66% higher. Kohl's currently has a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Investors should also note Kohl's's current valuation metrics, including its Forward P/E ratio of 8.58. Its industry sports an average Forward P/E of 8.58, so we one might conclude that Kohl's is trading at a no noticeable deviation comparatively.
It is also worth noting that KSS currently has a PEG ratio of 1.07. This popular metric is similar to the widely-known P/E ratio, with the difference being that the PEG ratio also takes into account the company's expected earnings growth rate. KSS's industry had an average PEG ratio of 1.06 as of yesterday's close.
The Retail - Regional Department Stores industry is part of the Retail-Wholesale sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 57, which puts it in the top 23% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Make sure to utilize Zacks.com to follow all of these stock-moving metrics, and more, in the coming trading sessions.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
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RCMP investigators believe a 13-year-old Ladysmith girl missing for two weeks is with someone known to her father. Her father is currently in custody for refusing to say anything about her possible whereabouts.
Payton MacDonald was last seen March 15 on Harbour View Road in Ladysmith. The next day, Ladysmith RCMP received a request from the Ministry of Children and Family Development to conduct a wellness check on the girl.
Police say the ministry possessed a court order directing the girl’s father to disclose her whereabouts, but he would not and was arrested.
At a press conference Thursday (March 31) in Victoria, the RCMP called on the public to contact them with any information about the girl or her whereabouts so they can verify her safety.
Staff-Sgt. Darrell Sandback of the RCMP’s Island investigation section said police don’t have any indication MacDonald is in imminent danger.
“What we do know is that the longer she goes missing, the more our concern grows as far as her well-being,” he said.
READ: Ladysmith girl missing, father arrested for failing to disclose daughter’s location
Officers also said recent posts on social media have claimed MacDonald is safe and is just on spring break. Investigators have determined those claims are not true, police said. They’re also in the process of authenticating a video sent to some media outlets of a girl claiming to be MacDonald.
Investigators had limited information about the case, but police said they’re following any potential leads that could help locate the girl.
MacDonald’s father, who has full parental custody according to police, was released after a March 18 bail hearing, but was arrested again March 23 for continuing to disobey the court order. He remains in police custody.
RCMP deferred questions on the wording of the court order and why a wellness check was requested by the ministry. The ministry said it can’t comment due to confidentiality, but said certain circumstances involve working with police to ensure a child’s safety.
Anyone with information is asked to contact their local police or the Ladysmith RCMP at 250-245-2215.
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Weber State students can expect construction cones and detours around campus for the foreseeable future. Students can and should continue to expect changes in the shuttle system and what travel to and from campus will look like in the next several semesters.
For the past year, construction for the new Ogden Express or OGX line has been ever-present on campus, with new bus stops and routes springing up and taking shape since early 2020.
According to the current construction timeline, the OGX should be up and running and ready to transport students from the Dee Events Center to the Browning Center by the start of the fall 2022 semester.
The OGX system is a Bus Rapid Transit system, also known as a BRT, which combines the speed and efficiency of a TRAX system and the capacity of a city bus. This also allows for the new system to be emission free with fully electric buses.
This system will replace the current Wildcat Shuttle system at WSU that currently runs from the Dee Events Center down to the Stewart Library. The new shuttle will pick up at the Dee Events Center, make a stop at student housing on Village Drive and then drop off in front of the Browning Center.
Four buses will run back and forth between the three stations every 10-15 minutes in the spring and fall semesters and every 15–20 minutes in the summer.
As of February 2022, the OGX website updates show the Dee Events Center stop is 75% complete, WSU Village Drive stop is 50% complete and WSU Central campus is about 80% complete.
WSU Central stop, or the Browning Center construction zone, is nearly completed, with just station art and glass to be installed. There will be two stations at the Browning Center, with one at the entrance and the other on the opposite side of the bus circle. Each of the stops on and off campus will feature artwork that highlights the culture and history of Ogden.
The artists who are contributing work include Cole Eisenhour, Chuck Landvatter, Ann Tarantino, Benjamin Zack, Priscilia DeCarvalho, Monika Bravo, Don Rimx, Jhonattan Arango, Alicia N. Hall, Hillary H. Wallace and Erica Lyon.
The intermodal hub that will connect Weber’s campus to all of Ogden is the same as the Dee Event Center hub that will pick up students and transport them to students. Current students familiar with the stop won’t notice much of a change as the hub is just west of the current pickup spot.
The buses will also get Transit Signal Priority to keep them running on time. TSP uses sensors to detect approaching vehicles and manipulates the stoplights according to need. It has capabilities such as extending a green light or shortening a red light.
Perhaps the biggest change with the OGX route is that parking at the Dee Events Center will be free come fall semester.
“We’re highly encouraging students, faculty and staff to park at the Dee Events Center,” James Larson, public relations specialist at UTA, said. “That will help reduce people having a hard time finding parking, it will reduce the cost of parking for the students…we think that will really help reduce the amount of congestion.”
Students, faculty and staff will need to use their UTA EdPass to ride the updated shuttle system. This pass is free and available on the eWeber portal. All students need to do is click on the EdPass link and accept the terms and conditions. From there, they can pick up their pass at the Shepherd Union Information Desk.
This pass can be used any time for the FrontRunner, TRAX train, S-Line Streetcar, bus routes and UTA OnDemand Rideshare. The Transit app provides an up-to-date schedule of all UTA routes.
The current bus route that runs from the FrontRunner station to Weber’s campus, route 603, will continue to run as usual until late 2023, when the OGX route is expected to be completed. At that point, the 603 will be discontinued and replaced by the OGX.
“A lot of these ideas came from Dallas. Dallas is very big on BRT systems, and we went and studied them quite extensively before looking at putting in BRTs in Utah,” Larsen said. “It seems as we talk to cities, it’s the way of the future for transportation.”
Students will have the option to choose between the route that stays on campus and the route that goes off campus into downtown Ogden.
“There’s always construction in the works or going on right now, but we try to do our construction in the summer so we don’t impact students too much,” Chad Downs, project manager for Campus Planning and Construction, said.
While there is still much construction to do throughout Ogden, the on-campus construction should be mostly completed before fall semester begins.
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