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Summary:
- 470 new cases
- No new deaths, 2 deaths added to system
- 12,790 total deaths;
- 180 hospitalized patients, 31 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Thursday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 470 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 360 new cases per day in the last week.
On this day last year, there were 638 new cases, and a 7-day average of 567 cases per day. In 2020, 196 cases were recorded, with a 7-day average of 137 cases per day.
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
There were no new deaths, and two deaths added to the Department of Health Services system, putting the total Wisconsin death toll at 12,790. A lag in death reporting statewide has affected these numbers.
In Milwaukee County, there were 92 new confirmed cases reported and have been 268,171 total cases in the county since the pandemic began. The 7-day average in the county is 65 cases per day. One of the deaths added to the system were attributed to Milwaukee County, putting the county death toll at 2,274 since the beginning of the pandemic.
If you are looking for COVID-19 testing or vaccination, consult the Wisconsin Department of Health Services website.
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Wall Street analysts expect Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ:CATY – Get Rating) to post earnings per share (EPS) of $0.93 for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks reports. Three analysts have issued estimates for Cathay General Bancorp’s earnings, with the lowest EPS estimate coming in at $0.89 and the highest estimate coming in at $0.97. Cathay General Bancorp posted earnings per share of $0.92 during the same quarter last year, which indicates a positive year-over-year growth rate of 1.1%. The company is expected to issue its next quarterly earnings report on Monday, January 1st.
On average, analysts expect that Cathay General Bancorp will report full year earnings of $4.09 per share for the current financial year, with EPS estimates ranging from $4.03 to $4.15. For the next fiscal year, analysts forecast that the company will post earnings of $4.71 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $4.27 to $5.35. Zacks Investment Research’s earnings per share averages are an average based on a survey of research firms that follow Cathay General Bancorp.
Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ:CATY – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Thursday, January 27th. The bank reported $0.98 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.94 by $0.04. Cathay General Bancorp had a return on equity of 12.15% and a net margin of 41.37%. The firm had revenue of $175.26 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $166.02 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.89 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 15.9% on a year-over-year basis.
A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of CATY. Jefferies Group LLC purchased a new stake in Cathay General Bancorp in the third quarter valued at $240,000. Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd increased its stake in shares of Cathay General Bancorp by 196.2% during the third quarter. Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd now owns 19,550 shares of the bank’s stock worth $809,000 after acquiring an additional 12,950 shares during the period. Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of Cathay General Bancorp by 18.2% during the third quarter. Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC now owns 59,100 shares of the bank’s stock worth $2,446,000 after acquiring an additional 9,100 shares during the period. Stonnington Group LLC increased its stake in shares of Cathay General Bancorp by 600.0% during the fourth quarter. Stonnington Group LLC now owns 84,000 shares of the bank’s stock worth $3,909,000 after acquiring an additional 72,000 shares during the period. Finally, Wealthspire Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Cathay General Bancorp during the third quarter worth about $1,165,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 68.62% of the company’s stock.
Cathay General Bancorp stock traded down $0.63 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $44.75. 360,840 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 346,143. Cathay General Bancorp has a 12-month low of $35.51 and a 12-month high of $48.88. The business has a fifty day moving average of $46.22 and a 200 day moving average of $44.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a quick ratio of 1.04 and a current ratio of 1.04. The firm has a market cap of $3.37 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.78 and a beta of 1.26.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, March 7th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 25th were given a dividend of $0.34 per share. This represents a $1.36 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.04%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, February 24th. Cathay General Bancorp’s payout ratio is presently 35.79%.
Cathay General Bancorp Company Profile (Get Rating)
Cathay General Bancorp operates as the holding company for Cathay Bank that offers various commercial banking products and services to individuals, professionals, and small to medium-sized businesses in the United States. The company offers various deposit products, including passbook accounts, checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, and public funds deposits.
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DELANO, Calif. (AP) — The death of an inmate at a central California prison is being investigated as a homicide, officials said Thursday.
Juan E. Mendoza, 26, was found unresponsive in his cell at Kern Valley State Prison shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
He had visible injuries and died a short time later despite life-saving efforts.
Mendoza shared his cell with another man, Jorge L. Mendoza, who was removed from the cell and placed in segregation while the death is investigated, authorities said.
Juan E. Mendoza went to prison in 2020 after receiving a six-year sentence in San Bernardino County for second-degree attempted murder and personal use of a dangerous weapon, officials said.
Jorge L. Mendoza was admitted from Monterey County in 2018 and was serving a sentence of life with the chance of parole for second-degree murder with the use of a firearm by a second-striker.
Kern Valley State Prison is located in Delano, northwest of Bakersfield. It has more than 3,200 inmates.
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MINNETONKA, Minn., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Electro-Sensors, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELSE), a leading global provider of machine monitoring sensors and hazard monitoring systems, today announced financial results for the year ended December 31, 2021.
- Record net sales of $8.6 million, up 12.9% over prior year
- Gross Margin of 54.3%
- Cash and investments of $9.8 million
"We are pleased to report we achieved record annual revenue during 2021," said David L. Klenk, Electro-Sensors' president. "Growth during the year was driven by customers moving forward with capacity expansions and facility modernizations."
Klenk continued, "Following a very difficult period brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, business conditions are steadily improving, and we are excited to once again be able to travel and meet face to face with our customers."
A full analysis of results for the year ended December 31, 2021 is available in the Company's Form 10-K, which is available on the Company's website at www.electro-sensors.com or through the Securities and Exchange Commission's Edgar database at www.sec.gov.
2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
Our Annual Meeting will be held via live webcast on April 20, 2022 at 2:00 PM Central Time at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/ELSE2022. Please retain a copy of the 16 digit Control Number that is printed on your proxy card as you will need it to enter the Annual Meeting as a verified shareholder. Shareholders will be able to ask questions and vote in this virtual meeting as if they were attending an in-person meeting.
About Electro-Sensors
Electro-Sensors, Inc. is an industry leading designer and manufacturer of rugged and reliable machine monitoring sensors and wireless/wired hazard monitoring systems applied across multiple industries and applications. These products improve processes by protecting people, safeguarding systems, reducing downtime, and preventing waste. Most standard products ship within one to two days and have an industry-leading 5-year warranty. Electro-Sensors is proud to be an ISO9001:2015 quality certified company and is committed to providing excellent customer service and technical support. Founded in 1968 and located in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Electro-Sensors provides its loyal customers with reliable products that improve safety and help plants operate with greater efficiency, productivity and control.
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For more information please visit our website at: www.electro-sensors.com. Also look us up on:
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DELANO, Calif. (AP) — The death of an inmate at a central California prison is being investigated as a homicide, officials said Thursday.
Juan E. Mendoza, 26, was found unresponsive in his cell at Kern Valley State Prison shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
He had visible injuries and died a short time later despite life-saving efforts.
Mendoza shared his cell with another man, Jorge L. Mendoza, who was removed from the cell and placed in segregation while the death is investigated, authorities said.
Juan E. Mendoza went to prison in 2020 after receiving a six-year sentence in San Bernardino County for second-degree attempted murder and personal use of a dangerous weapon, officials said.
Jorge L. Mendoza was admitted from Monterey County in 2018 and was serving a sentence of life with the chance of parole for second-degree murder with the use of a firearm by a second-striker.
Kern Valley State Prison is located in Delano, northwest of Bakersfield. It has more than 3,200 inmates.
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https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/California-prison-inmate-death-investigated-as-a-17049814.php
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GOODYEAR, Arizona (AP) — Shane Bieber will throw the first pitch for the Cleveland Guardians.
As expected, Bieber will start the season opener on April 7 at the Kansas City Royals. Manager Terry Francona made the formal announcement Thursday after speaking to the right-hander, who missed three months last season with a shoulder strain.
Bieber will be the 12th pitcher in franchise history to make three consecutive opening-day starts.
The 26-year-old went 7-4 with a 3.17 ERA last season, but made only 16 starts because of the shoulder injury. He's back to 100% now, but Francona wanted to double check Bieber was set given the accelerated, abbreviated spring training due to the lockout.
“We just wanted to make sure that he was ready and if we needed to alter it, because the way we’re coming into the season isn’t the way guys pitched,” Francona said. “It’s just because it’s a short spring and we need to give them the best chance to be as ready as they can be.”
Bieber has split his two previous opening-day starts. He struck out 14 in a win over the Royals in 2020 on his way to winning the Cy Young. Last year, he struck out 12 in a loss to the Detroit Tigers.
Francona hasn't set his rotation for the season's first week.
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Parking safety symptomatic of housing crisis in Oshawa: Councillor
'Our downtown is under siege'
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Oshawa Councillor Brian Nicholson recently posted on social media about gender-specific parking spots — spots painted pink and reserved for women.
His post on the Downtown Oshawa Facebook page about this explained the spots are well-lit and located to improve safety.
Nicholson wrote: “Is this something that Oshawa should consider in its public parking lots and garages, especially in the downtown where many women feel anxious when exiting or travelling to their vehicles from work, shopping, etc?
“I would be interested in your thoughts.”
Nicholson got plenty of responses, pro and con.
Someone pointed out that designating spots like this might actually make the situation worse — it would be easier to target women that way.
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And for that reason, Nicholson said Thursday, it’s an idea that won’t fly in Oshawa. They’ll look at things like better lighting instead.
“There are a couple of locations downtown where people are being accosted — just walking from their car into the office, and it’s also a shopping area. And they expressed concern,” he said.
So what’s happening in downtown Oshawa that’s left people afraid to leave their cars?
“It’s due to the increased homeless population. Our downtown is under siege,” Nicholson said. “The vast majority don’t cause problems, but some have mental health issues and they have had an impact on the area.”
The parking fix came up because “people are being approached for money when they exit their cars, and some of the approaches are very aggressive.
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“It’s causing problems for a lot of women working downtown. And people living downtown,” Nicholson said.
He is quick to note that Oshawa is not alone — many Ontario cities have the same problem.
It’s a medical issue, he said, but there aren’t enough psych beds or treatments and not much police can do.
“The amount people receive in benefits every month is just completely removed from the reality of costs — especially housing,” Nicholson said.
The shelters in Oshawa are run by volunteers, and offer free food and clothing, the councillor said. And the hospital is there. People flock to his city.
Once there, some are offered housing but won’t take it, said Nicholson, who expresses both compassion and frustration.
“We’re spending a lot of money and we’re just spinning our wheels,” he said.
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The province, he said, has to do more for local municipalities.
“These are provincial issues, housing and mental health costs. It’s all controlled by the province. We’ve got families out there now. We’ve got seniors,” he said.
“We’ve got two and three families sharing a unit in apartment buildings. There seems to be no help from the province.”
Oshawa has already invested a million dollars to beef up security in the downtown core and there’s nothing in the budget to accomplish much more.
“We want to help these people, but we’ve become a dumping ground. We’ve got seniors coming to soup kitchens. We can’t shut the door because of a few people with mental health issues.”
The parking issue is one of many. People were using an area outside the legion hall as a toilet.
“So put a port-a-potty in! Everyone’s looking for a miracle fix, but we have to deal with the symptoms first, every day. We need enough to clean up the sidewalks, to give the residents a break.
“This housing crisis has to be addressed.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have revoked the license of a Nevada-based gun manufacturer that was accused of illegally selling guns and went bankrupt but then rebranded itself.
The revocation comes after a lawsuit that alleged the Justice Department didn’t conduct proper oversight before issuing the license.
The decision to revoke the license of JA Industries was spelled out in a court filing late Wednesday as part of the lawsuit brought by Illinois; Kansas City, Missouri; and gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
The lawsuit alleged that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a law enforcement agency in the Justice Department, awarded the license to JA Industries, renamed from Jimenez Arms, after it violated federal firearms law. The suit also alleged that the company’s guns were contributing to rising violent crime rates in Chicago and Kansas City.
Kansas City and Everytown had sued Jimenez Arms and several gun dealers previously, alleging they contributed to surging gun violence in the Kansas City region by ignoring evidence that guns were being sold illegally in the area. Jimenez Arms filed for bankruptcy about a month after the suit was filed.
That suit contended that Jimenez Arms every year made tens of thousands of cheap handguns that turned up at crime scenes in Kansas City and Chicago “at a rate disproportionate to the company’s market share.”
The plaintiffs alleged in their suit against the ATF that the company’s owner, Paul Jimenez, applied for a new license under the name JA Industries and that it took the ATF less than a month to award the license. The suit alleged that company officials had made false statements to the ATF and had unlawfully shipped guns to a firearms trafficker, which should’ve made the company and its officials ineligible for holding a federal firearms license.
A message seeking comment from JA Industries on Thursday was not immediately returned.
Everytown for Gun Safety heralded the decision to revoke the company’s license.
“We can only hope this decision marks the beginning of a new era at ATF, one that is consistent with President Biden’s commitment to holding rogue and reckless members of the gun industry accountable for breaking the law and putting lives in danger,” said John Feinblatt, Everytown’s president.
In a statement, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said it was a “bold action to stop the flow of illegal firearms into Kansas City.”
An ATF spokesperson, Erik Longnecker, declined to comment specifically, citing the ongoing case. But he said the agency “revokes Federal firearms licensees who are found to have committed willful violations of the Gun Control Act and have an adverse impact on public safety.”
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DeSantis broaches repeal of Disney World’s special self-governing status in Florida
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Florida‘s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis addressed on Thursday the suggestion of repealing a 55-year-old state law that allows Disney to effectively govern itself on the grounds of Walt Disney World, following the company’s public opposition to a controversial parental rights law in Florida.
“What I would say as a matter of first principle is I don’t support special privileges in law just because a company is powerful and they’ve been able to wield a lot of power,” DeSantis said during a press conference in West Palm Beach, Florida on Thursday.
‘SILENT MAJORITY’ OF DISNEY EMPLOYEES SUPPORT FLORIDA LAW, DISNEY EMPLOYEE RUNNING FOR CONGRESS SAYS
Disney has been engaged in a war of words with Republicans in Florida leading up to Monday’s signing of the controversial bill, which prohibits classroom instruction on “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” with children in third grade or younger “or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
DeSantis referenced a bill reining in big tech that Republicans were working through the legislature last year when Disney added a “carve out” at the “11th hour” for theme parks.
“I’m thinking to myself, ‘This is ridiculous,'” DeSantis said. “Honestly, it was embarrassing.”
DeSantis continued, “I think what has happened is there’s a lot of these special privileges that are not justifiable, but because Disney had held so much sway, they were able to sustain a lot of special treatment over the years.”
DeSantis said that Disney has “lost a lot of the pull that they used to have” over the company’s reaction to the parental rights law and said he thinks that’s a “good thing for our state because the state should be governed by the best interest of the people.”
DISNEY HAS BETRAYED THE VERY VALUES THAT WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS SUCCESS, ORTHODOX RABBIS WARN
“I would say any special privileges that are in law I would like to get rid of generally,” DeSantis added. “I think in this particular case with Disney, I just don’t think you have very many people in the legislature anymore who are going to be able to defend a lot of what has been done over many years to really have them almost govern themselves in some of these things. That was probably never appropriate to start, but is certainly not appropriate now at this point.”
DeSantis’s comments comes after Florida State Rep. Spencer Roach tweeted that he has met with legislators to discuss repealing the self-governing law in response to Disney’s recent actions.
“Yesterday was the 2nd meeting in a week w/fellow legislators to discuss a repeal of the 1967 Reedy Creek Improvement Act, which allows Disney to act as its own government,” Roach tweeted. “If Disney wants to embrace woke ideology, it seems fitting that they should be regulated by Orange County.”
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After DeSantis signed the school-related bill this week, Disney released a statement slamming the legislation.
“Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law,” Disney said. “Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country.”
The bill has been dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by Democrats and media outlets, though it does not ban mention of the word.
DeSantis responded to Disney’s Monday criticism and said the company “crossed the line.”
“This state is governed by the interest of the people of the state of Florida. It is not based on the demands of California corporate executives,” DeSantis said. “They do not run this state. They do not control this state.”
Recent polling has shown that the bill is popular among Florida voters, including 52% of likely voters in the Democratic primary who say that they oppose the kind of teaching that the bill prohibits.
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Single-serve coffee makers (sans fancy espresso machines) often get a bad rap for making a rushed, weak, and cheap cup of coffee. But after scavenging the internet and sifting through hundreds of reviews, we're here to tell you that's not the case. We've rounded up the best single-serve coffee makers — from classic Keurigs to high-end Nespressos — that the internet has to offer.
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The Mr. MTR Toy Ride will return to area roads in June after a two-year absence.
by Stephen Dafoe
It has been almost five years since Morinville business owner and motorcycle enthusiast Marty Robillard passed away at the age of 54, but the fundraising motorcycle ride he helped to hit the road will continue this year in his memory.
The Mr. MTR (Marty Robillard Memorial Toy Run) will take place June 4, departing from Morinville Legion Br 176 and making its way around the region.
Proceeds will go to Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Fund and all toys will go to the Midstream Support Society’s Santa Store to bring joy to children at Christmas time.
Technical Automotives owner Deborah Robillard said her late husband loved to ride a motorcycle and particularly loved this scenic two-and-half-hour ride.
“This event was one way in which Marty could give back to the community, to help those in need as the community had given to him when he opened Technical Automotives back in 1998,” Robillard told Morinville Online. “The community supported his efforts to operate a business in Morinville and a way to support his family.”
As popular as the event has been, the bikes have not hit the road the past two summers due to COVID. Robillard believes it will be good to put up the kickstands once again.
“We all know what COVID has done to us in the last 2 years, whether it be an emotional or financial strain, not being able to be with the people we love and do the things we have always enjoyed,” she said. “The opportunity to get some type of normalcy back is huge for all of us and hosting Mr. Mtr after two years will give those participating and volunteering a sense of freedom and involvement once again.”
Pre-registration for the ride is now open at a cost of $25 per participant and $15 per passenger. Those interested in riding can register at Technical Automotives Inc. (9802 – 90 Ave, Morinville) or by calling 780-939-3976 or 780-970-8139.
Those wishing to register the day of the ride will pay $30 per ride and $20 per passenger at the Legion. Registration will be from 8 a.m. until 9:45 a.m. and kickstands will go up at 10 a.m. sharp.
A barbecue will follow the event, and there will be a 50/50 draw, poker run and door prizes.
“We encourage everyone to come out and support the event, whether it is to stop by and say hi, get some fresh air, be around others, have some laughs, see the motorcycles, purchase burgers, 50/50 or poker run tickets,” Robillard said.
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by Em Moore
A new Sex Pistols compilation album has been announced. The album is called The Original Recordings and features 20 tracks that were recorded between 1976-78. It will be out May 27 via Universal Music Group and is a companion piece to the upcoming Danny Boyle directed Pistol mini-series (based on Steve Jones' autobiography Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol) that will air May 31 on Hulu and Disney+. Unsurprisingly, John Lydon does not approve of the compilation album. He released a statement via Twitter that reads,
Universal Music Group have announced the release of a new Sex Pistols compilation entitled ‘The Original Recordings’. For the avoidance of any doubt, John Lydon has not approved this compilation and does not endorse or support it. He has not approved the artwork or tracklisting. He and his team were not involved in producing this compilation and consider it substandard compared to previous Universal releases since 2012.
John Lydon, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook recently had a legal fight about the use of Sex Pistols songs in the series which Jones and Cook won.
- Pretty Vacant
- God Save The Queen
- Bodies
- No Feelings
- I Wanna Be Me
- Anarchy In The UK
- Submission
- No Fun
- (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
- Holidays In The Sun
- New York
- Problems
- Lonely Boy
- Silly Thing
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Row over plans to erect 10ft statue of anti-woke warrior Piers Morgan in Trafalgar Square
A ROW broke out last night over plans to erect a 10ft statue of anti-woke warrior Piers Morgan in Trafalgar Square.
The sculpture of the larger-than-life Sun columnist will sit on the Fourth Plinth, opposite Nelson’s Column.
Organisers said it was intended to provoke a debate on free speech.
Piers, 57, said: “The world’s best columnist will now be standing alongside the world’s most famous column. And like Admiral Lord Nelson, I’m always on the right side of history.
“Just be grateful that, unlike Michelangelo’s David, I’m not totally naked.”
Obscure US artist Joseph Kerr spent two years creating the bronze statue.
He said: “Piers may not be everyone’s cup of tea but he speaks for British values of freedom, truth and the ability to say and do what you really think.”
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But the plans have infuriated the woke brigade Piers regularly targets.
Leftie art critic Pria Lloof said: “I urge millennials like me everywhere to come together and pull down this tribute to white male privilege.”
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Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth has been home to a string of controversial artworks — including a giant French blue cockerel.
Tim Harper, 50, of Essex — visiting the London landmark yesterday — said: “If we can have a big blue cock on the Fourth Plinth, then I guess having Piers up there isn’t much of a leap.”
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People won’t be able to flaunt their firearms within 100 feet of a polling place under a law signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday.
House Bill 1086, dubbed the Vote Without Fear Act, makes it a misdemeanor to openly carry firearms near ballot drop boxes, buildings with polling locations or vote counting facilities during elections. The open carry of firearms is otherwise legal in much of Colorado. The law still allows for permitted Coloradans to carry concealed firearms, and exempts on-duty law enforcement officers and people who open carry on property they own that’s within the buffer zone.
Polis, a Democrat, at the bill signing ceremony called voting “one of our most sacred rights as Americans,” and said this law will help keep Coloradans from feeling intimidated when they vote. He noted that Colorado already limits other rights, such as prohibiting people from advertising on behalf of a candidate, within that 100-foot area.
Sponsor Rep. Jennifer Bacon, D-Denver, recounted how armed mobs would greet voters in the Jim Crow South less than 100 years ago. She called it “heartbreaking” to run this bill in 2021.
“Unfortunately, we have a legacy in what openly carrying guns really means by way of intimidation,” Bacon said at the ceremony. “We just wanted to put our foot down and say this is what this is.”
Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who has faced threats over the 2020 election and her pursuit of alleged voting machine tampering by Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, said rhetoric around elections has only grown more heated.
The bill passed the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and Senate largely along party lines — no Republican voted for it, and Rep. Donald Valdez, of D-La Jara, is the only Democrat to say nay.
Republicans argued it would be an infringement of the Second Amendment right to bear arms, unfairly penalize people who accidentally enter the 100-foot zone with otherwise legal firearms on their hips, and questioned why it doesn’t apply to other weapons, such as clubs being brandished.
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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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The Daily Orange apologizes for hateful column
Emily Steinberger | Editor-in-Chief
Dear readers,
Last night, The Daily Orange published a column about Syracuse University being inundated with sexualized activity and inappropriateness. This was a mistake to publish, and we realized that too late.
We apologize for publishing a piece that hurt and disrespected others. The Opinion section should be a space to have conversations and discussions, not to invite hateful discourse.
We realize our mistake in publishing this, and we know there is no way to correct this wrong. We have decided to keep the column up so that we do not shy away from our mistakes, as doing so would be an additional injustice to our readers and our community.
We apologize to our readers for failing to hold this column to the same standards as our other content. We will strengthen our vetting process for columns to ensure this doesn’t occur in the future.
If you would like to talk about this issue further, please reach out to [email protected].
Sincerely,
Emily Steinberger, editor-in-chief 2021-22
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The Last Bus: All the Somerset locations where new Netflix thriller is filmed
There will be plenty of pointing at the screen and shouting "wait, that's...!"
It is shaping up to be the next big Netflix hit - a cross between Stranger Things, Doctor Who and the Day of the Triffids, but with West Country kids on their school bus left as survivors of an apocalypse.
And Netflix’s The Last Bus, which hits screens today (Friday, April 1), was filmed all over Somerset, Bristol and the wider West Country during the autumn and winter of 2020 and in 2021, with a host of iconic locations that will have people from this part of the world pointing at the screen in recognition.
The bulk of the action was shot at the Bottleyard Studios’ big sound stages in Hengrove, South Bristol, but all the outside bits, from stately homes and caves to dystopian leisure parks and schools, were shot in and around Somerset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Cornwall.
Read more: First trailer drops for Somerset's epic new Netflix series The Last Bus
The Netflix series promises to be one of those ones for kids and adults alike - a sci-fi end-of-the-world adventure that also teaches us all about the importance of friends and family.
The story is an ensemble piece with a group of teenagers in the lead roles. They go on a school trip to see for themselves the launch of a new robot drone that its inventor - a kind of Elon Musk figure, but far darker - promises he’s invented to clean up the environment.
But he’s programmed the robots to learn and evolve and they quickly realise humans are the real destroyer of the planet, so they start taking out everybody, and they mean everybody. Our little group of schoolkids, each with their own issues, problems and back stories, manage to escape on the school bus, but return to their homes in Bristol to find no one left and everything changed.
So for everyone who spots somewhere as they are watching The Last Bus, and recognises it - scroll down for all the locations the programme-makers Wildseed used, when they ventured out into the West Country from their base at Bottleyard.
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Atlanta plays the Cleveland Cavaliers after Trae Young scored 41 points in the Atlanta Hawks' 136-118 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Hawks are 23-24 in conference play. Atlanta is second in the NBA shooting 37.3% from downtown, led by Gorgui Dieng shooting 45.2% from 3-point range.
The Cavaliers are 25-21 in Eastern Conference play. Cleveland scores 107.2 points and has outscored opponents by 2.4 points per game.
The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Hawks won 124-116 in the last matchup on Feb. 16. Young led the Hawks with 41 points, and Darius Garland led the Cavaliers with 30 points.
TOP PERFORMERS: Young is scoring 28.1 points per game with 3.8 rebounds and 9.6 assists for the Hawks. Bogdan Bogdanovic is averaging 19.9 points and 3.3 rebounds while shooting 43.5% over the past 10 games for Atlanta.
Garland is averaging 21.6 points and 8.7 assists for the Cavaliers. Lauri Markkanen is averaging 17.1 points over the last 10 games for Cleveland.
LAST 10 GAMES: Hawks: 7-3, averaging 119.8 points, 41.8 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 9.4 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.3 points per game.
Cavaliers: 4-6, averaging 109.4 points, 41.8 rebounds, 25.1 assists, 7.3 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.2 points.
INJURIES: Hawks: Jalen Johnson: out (concussion), John Collins: out (finger/foot), Danilo Gallinari: out (elbow), Skylar Mays: out (illness).
Cavaliers: Jarrett Allen: out (finger), Collin Sexton: out for season (knee), Rajon Rondo: out (ankle), Dean Wade: out for season (knee), Evan Mobley: out (ankle).
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Avocado toast has become the favored breakfast of the healthy and fit, and now new research suggests their choice may protect their hearts.
Avocado toast has become the favored breakfast of the healthy and fit, and now new research suggests their choice may protect their hearts.
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Illinois Toll Worker's Bias, Retaliation Suit Falls Short
By Abby Wargo · March 31, 2022, 4:48 PM EDT
The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority defeated a former toll collector's disability bias and retaliation lawsuit claiming she was fired for participating in a sexual harassment investigation and requesting an extended...
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Remarks conveyed by Russian state media, RIA, comments from a foreign ministry official:
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INDIANAPOLIS — A judge says restorative justice was successfully used for one of the first times in Indiana to remediate a confrontation in which a Black man said a group of white men assaulted him and threatened to “get a noose” while at a southern Indiana lake more than a year ago.
The alleged assault gained national attention in July 2020 when Vauhxx Booker, a local civil rights activist and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, said he called 911 after five men assaulted him and pinned him to a tree at Lake Monroe, just south of Bloomington. He said the men accused him of trespassing on private property and, after he tried to apologize, the situation got physical.
Booker himself faced criminal charges more than a year after the confrontation that earlier led to charges against two of the alleged attackers. The charges against Booker, filed by a special prosecutor in Monroe Circuit Court, were the same recommended by Indiana Department of Natural Resources investigators following the incident.
All charges against all parties in the case were dropped after a restorative justice process concluded earlier this month, according to court records. In the restorative justice model, the offender and victim in a case come together in a conference to discuss what happened, and the offender has the opportunity to apologize.
Judge Lance Hamner, who presided over the case, said it was the first time he’s seen a criminal case resolved through restorative justice. The Center for Community Justice, based in Elkhart, Indiana, facilitated the mediating discussion about the incident between Booker and those he accused of attacking him.
“It’s kind of a grown-up way of just handling a case and taking it out of the court system,” Hamner told WISH TV.
“They explained it to me as a new and innovative way to resolve cases that achieve all the goals of the criminal justice system, but it doesn’t have to go through the full judicial process.”
Booker initially declined to enter into the restorative justice process. Court records indicate he decided to re-enter the process in December.
“When people start to get mad, their reasoning starts to go down. That’s the source of a lot of conflict,” Hamner said. “After it’s all had a chance to cool down and people had a chance to think about it, reasoning starts to go back up, and that’s when your restorative justice can kick in because then people can start thinking with their minds instead of with their emotions.”
Hamner, who said he was “really impressed” by the remediation process, added that it also spares the state justice system on expenses and resources. The judge, who is currently running for Johnson County prosecutor, said “that’s something I want to look into even more” should he get elected.
Neither Booker nor his legal counsel immediately replied to requests for comment.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources, which responded to the reported assault, recommended charges against everyone involved.
Monroe County prosecutors originally charged two white men. Sean Purdy faced charges of felony criminal confinement, battery resulting in moderate bodily injury and intimidation. Jerry Cox II was charged with felony criminal confinement and battery resulting in moderate bodily injury, as well as two misdemeanors.
Last August, Booker was additionally charged with misdemeanor trespass and felony battery for his involvement.
Booker said the men threatened to break his arms and said, “get a noose,” while telling his friends to leave the area. He said one of the men wore a hat decorated with a Confederate flag and that the men made statements about “white power.”
Witnesses who were with Booker that day said they heard racial slurs being shouted and that someone said “get a noose” and “leave the boy here, we will take care of him.” Cellphone video posted on Facebook that showed part of the altercation was viewed millions of times online.
Cox and Purdy claimed Booker was trespassing and denied the allegations regarding a noose. Both maintained that Booker threatened them first, and their lawyers said after the altercation that the two men were victims of a “smear campaign.”
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With the capacity to produce approximately 15 million COVID-19 Home Tests per month, the flagship facility furthers the company's commitment to supporting America's pandemic response.
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FREDERICK, Md., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital diagnostics company Ellume, a producer of at-home COVID-19 test kits, today officially opened its new, 215,000 square foot production facility in Frederick, Maryland. Joined by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, Ellume Founder and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Sean Parsons inaugurated the new facility, which has the capacity to produce approximately 15 million COVID-19 Home Tests per month and will create hundreds of new jobs.
"From the very onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ellume has been committed to supporting the U.S. government's response. With this new facility, we now have the capacity to substantially scale production to meet any future surge in demand for home tests, while also accelerating innovation in developing solutions for the public health needs of today and tomorrow," said Dr. Sean Parsons, Ellume Founder and CEO. "We are grateful for the support of the US Department of Defense, US Department of Health and Human Services, our partnerships with the State of Maryland, the Governor's office and Frederick County, as well as the highly skilled workforce in Maryland's Biotech Corridor who have helped make this facility a reality."
"Maryland truly is open for business, and we are seeing further proof of that here today as Ellume, a respected, global digital diagnostics company opens its very first U.S.-based facility right here in Frederick County," said Governor Larry Hogan. "I want to congratulate the entire team at Ellume, and thank you for investing in the future of our state and helping to build on the already strong mateship between our two great nations."
"The pandemic and the economic disruptions it has caused underscore the need to improve our supply chains and make more in America – especially critical medical equipment," said Senator Chris Van Hollen. "With a federal investment of more than $230 million, Ellume is joining us in our efforts to bring more American manufacturing jobs to our state as they produce the tests we need to stay on top of the ongoing fight against COVID-19. This investment in Western Maryland will strengthen the region and its economy."
"I am delighted to welcome Ellume's flagship facility to Frederick County," said Congressman Jamie Raskin. "Keeping the COVID-19 pandemic at bay requires sustained investment in our public health infrastructure. I am proud that Maryland's Eighth District continues to serve as an economic and public health engine for our nation."
Ellume's COVID-19 Home Test, the first over-the-counter (OTC) rapid antigen test to receive emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is a best-in-class product that Americans count on to keep their families safe. One of the most reliable at-home antigen tests on the market, it is also the only at-home antigen test to use fluorescent detection technology – usually reserved for healthcare professionals and clinical laboratories – and one of the only tests to incorporate sample quality controls to support accurate results. Ellume COVID-19 Home Tests are currently available through a variety of major retailers and in partnership with Federal and local governments.
Test assembly operations were initiated at the Frederick facility in February 2022. The facility will initially bring 200 jobs to the community and up to 1,500 when operating at full capacity.
An innovator in infectious disease digital diagnostics and global health preparedness, Ellume continues to work with the U.S. government to respond to COVID-19 and prepare for and mitigate future pandemics.
About Ellume
Ellume is a digital diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and commercializes high-performance, connected products for healthcare professionals and consumers. It is at the forefront of accurate, rapid and accessible testing that is integral to today's COVID-19 response and will help ensure the world is prepared for the next infectious disease pandemic. Ellume's key focus is on the detection of common infectious diseases which affect the global population across all diagnostic settings; at-home, point-of-care and in-laboratory. Ellume has a global COVID-19 and TB partnership with QIAGEN, and a range of professional products under its ellume·lab brand. Ellume is committed to developing high-quality digital diagnostics that the world can rely on in a health crisis.
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A new Harry Styles era is officially upon us. The pop singer has shared “As It Was,” the first single from his forthcoming album, Harry’s House.
Styles goes new wave for “As It Was,” where he grieves a broken relationship over a gentle, reverberating synth line. “Nothing to say/ And everything gets in the way/ Seems you cannot be replaced,” he sings in an understated croon, before repeating, “You know it’s not the same as it was.”
In keeping with the song’s shimmering aesthetic, in the song’s accompanying music video, Styles does a moody interpretative dance in a red sequin jumpsuit, while his heartsick love interest dances in a blue costume of her own. Check out the clip, helmed by Ukrainian GRAMMY Award-nominated director Tanu Muino, below.
“Directing a Harry Styles video was a bucket list dream come true for me as he’s my favorite performer,” Muino said in a statement. “Shooting him was bittersweet as it was one of the happiest days of my life, but on the second day of the shoot, my country Ukraine was invaded so you can imagine the insane emotions we had while shooting. Me and my team from Ukraine poured so much love into this video and you can see it on screen. It will be a music video I will never forget and now I can happily retire.”
Harry’s House arrives in full on May 20th. The 13-track album marks Styles’ third solo LP, following 2019’s Fine Line. Since his One Direction days, Styles has shown an appreciation for the rock and folk of decades past. The new record grabs its name from the Joni Mitchell song “Harry’s House,” from her 1975 album The Hissing of Summer Lawns — an unsurprising homage, since Styles previously said he “was in a pretty big Joni hole” when recording Fine Line. At least Mitchell approves.
Ahead of Harry’s House, Styles is set to perform at Coachella this April and tour the UK and Europe this summer, including dates with Mitski and Wolf Alice. Grab tickets to all of his upcoming dates at Ticketmaster.
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TTC chair backs CEO's big pay day
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The TTC commission is defending a large increase in take home pay handed out to CEO Rick Leary last year.
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Leary took home $438,496 with $16,500 in taxable benefits in 2021, up from $361,338 plus $16,452 in taxable benefits the previous year, according to the Sunshine List.
TTC Chair Jaye Robinson said the $77,158 annual bump, an over 21% increase, was not the result of a massive pay hike.
Instead, Robinson said his base salary went down slightly between 2019-2000, and his 2021 salary would have been about $410,000 if the increases were awarded annually.
“The CEO’s salary increase represents back pay from 2018-2021 — it is not a single-year increase,” Robinson said in a statement Thursday. “As a part of his contract negotiated under the previous TTC Board, the CEO took a pay reduction from his predecessor in exchange for annual increases.”
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Leary’s salary was reached after an “industry scan of comparators” to ensure compensation was competitive, she said.
“Since then, a comprehensive third-party review of the CEO’s compensation has been undertaken and found that the TTC is lagging the market,” she said. “With over 15,000 employees, the TTC is the largest transit system in Canada and the third largest in North America.”
The TTC suffered a massive revenue crunch over the past two years — leaving the City of Toronto’s budget with a big hole — because pandemic lockdowns forced most workers to stay home.
The amount paid to Leary in 2021 equals just under 140,000 full adult TTC fares.
Toronto Mayor John Tory said he thinks Leary has done an excellent job at the TTC, especially keeping public transit running for essential workers throughout the pandemic.
Based on the TTC commission’s explanation, Tory said it’s possible that Leary’s compensation could decrease next year.
“Some of this is variable compensation of one kind or another but I think it’s incumbent upon (the TTC commissioners) to explain it so that we can maintain public confidence in their activities as a board and just so (the public will) understand what has happened here,” Tory said, noting the mayor does not make this decision. “There is a board there and it’s a responsible board.”
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GOP lawmakers demand Hunter Biden’s communications with Obama White House
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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent letters to the White House and the National Archives Thursday asking for records regarding Hunter Biden‘s communications with the White House during the Obama administration, when his father served as vice president.
“Hunter Biden’s connections throughout the Russian sphere of influence have now become especially relevant in the fast-moving and developing Russian war in Ukraine,” the 14 GOP members wrote.
The letters, first obtained by the New York Post, were addressed to Dana Remus, who serves as counsel to President Biden, and David Ferriero, who is the head archivist at the National Archives.
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“If the Russian government is attempting to influence American policy in Ukraine by exploiting Hunter Biden’s connection with his father — the President of the United States — the American people deserve to know it,” they continued.
The members pointed out how the Russian government recently slapped sanctions on Hunter Biden but none of the other Biden children, which they said “raises questions about his connections to Russia.”
“The payment of $3.5 million to Hunter Biden or a company associated with him by Elena Baturina, a Russian businesswoman and former wife of former Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, has raised the attention of the United States Senate and demonstrates Hunter Biden’s previous dealings with the Russian political class,” they added.
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The members of Congress raised questions regarding whether Hunter Biden is profiting from his father’s position as president and potentially endangering the United States by opening Biden’s family up to exploitation.
Hunter Biden remains under federal investigation for potential violations of tax, money laundering and foreign lobbying laws through his business relationships abroad. He has yet to be charged with a crime related to the investigation and has denied any wrongdoing.
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Fox News’ Jessica Chasmar contributed to this report.
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There are many things that I have trained my eye to look out for while scrolling through Instagram. They include wobbly lines around celebrities' waists (obviously photoshopped) and sneaky lash inserts in mascara ads (misleading to say the least). Lately, one of the main secret subtleties I've found myself scouring each photo for is face tape.
For those who don't spend their time playing detective on the internet, face tape is the beauty industry's latest and arguably most popular makeup tool. Two sticky pads are attached to the side of each eye and the tape is connected via an elastic band at the back of the head. It is typically used to create a taut, pulled-back eye look.
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It sounds like a bizarre practice but over the last few years, the use of face tape has grown among makeup artists, models and beauty enthusiasts in every corner of the internet. Designed to remain unseen on photoshoots and red carpets, the clear sticky pads work to create an illusion of naturally rubber-band-tight skin. Its popularity can also be attributed to the tape's propensity for creating clean eyeshadow lines, a wrinkle-free eye area and lending a 'snatched' look. Although face tape is mainly used by celebrity makeup artists on social media, the effect of seeing subtly enhanced faces like these is rarely discussed, particularly in regard to our self-esteem.
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The use of face tape emphasises the falsehood that there is only one type of face to aspire to, which can only have a detrimental effect on self-esteem.
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Teamed with bright ring lights and flash photography, face tape is often undetectable unless you know how to look for it. This is especially insidious. When photos and videos make use of well-placed hair around the face — and oftentimes post-production photoshopping — it's easy to be fooled into thinking that tight, unwrinkled faces like these are natural, normal and beautiful.
Bella Hadid is arguably the most famous poster girl for the snatched face look. In a recent Vogue interview, she revealed that her notorious pulled-back brows have nothing to do with filler or Botox, like her fans and followers suspected. Rather, she stated that the results are thanks to tape, even calling the makeup technique "the oldest trick in the book". Many have questioned the veracity of Hadid's claims, with some people on Twitter comparing the revelation to Kylie Jenner's infamous lip filler denial (she maintained that her plump pout was simply the result of over-lining her lips using lip liner). Hadid's quotes emphasise that face tape is widely used and accepted in the fashion, beauty and entertainment industries — and that it has us all fooled.
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At the time of writing, #foxeyemakeup has 36.7 million views on TikTok and the hashtag produces never-ending pages of makeup tutorials and references. Tagged videos such as this one with 12 million views show how face tape can be used to pull back the skin around the eyes. Whether you have a TikTok account or not, you've probably spotted @chloewaterz's viral video (7.5 million views and counting), which shows her enlisting tape for a face transformation which had people questioning whether she had used a skin ageing filter. Another video, which has amassed 12.4 million views, shows the same TikToker taping her "jowls" – this time, it seems, without a filter.
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More and more women are seeking surgical treatment such as face lifts and PDO threads to permanently achieve the taut face look.
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According to oculoplastic surgeon Dr Elizabeth Hawkes, more and more women are seeking surgical treatment such as face lifts and PDO threads to permanently achieve the taut face look. Perhaps this is a result of seeing the trend online. Dr Hawkes reports: "The fox eye trend changes the natural shape of the eyebrow so that the outer one third of the brow extends upwards. This creates an unnatural look of the eyes with the eyebrows sitting too high. Patients are asking for 'fox eye' lifts or filler to try and emulate the look of celebrities such as Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner." Dr Hawkes adds: "Fox eye face lifts are billed as a pain-free 'tweakment’, however, this is certainly not the case." She says that a large proportion of people don't actually realise that the distinctive fox eye look has often been achieved by using face tape.
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Dr Hawkes explains that the procedure is risky and best not practised due to complications such as puckering of the skin (which may affect all areas of the face where threads are applied), proximity to the eye itself and how difficult it is to reverse if you don't like the result. Worryingly, Dr Hawkes says that an increasing number of face lifting treatments are going wrong. She has seen a handful of patients who need extensive cosmetic surgery to rectify the effects. "The national register of accredited practitioners, who provide non-surgical cosmetic treatments, have seen an incredible 400% uplift in thread lift complaints since 2019," she says. "This demonstrates just how dangerous procedures such as these are and how important it is to consult a qualified and experienced medical practitioner."
While the majority of internet users don't go to such extreme measures to achieve the look, regularly seeing an impossibly lifted face still has the potential to cause harm. In particular, it may exacerbate self-esteem issues like body dysmorphia. According to the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Foundation, the highest rates of body dysmorphia are among adolescent girls. The foundation reports that the proliferation of unrealistic images being viewed by this age group is causing harm. Face tape has very little stick IRL – it is mostly used for short periods of time and in non-active situations – but our brains are accepting these images as achievable looks. Outside of an industry setting, the average person would struggle to come anywhere close to replicating the effect.
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Celebrity makeup artists such as @patrickta and TikTok beauty enthusiasts like @dafineneziri regularly present clients with taped faces to their online communities of millions. One of the main issues? The people in the photos and videos are young, impossibly beautiful models. They are paid for having Instagram-worthy natural bone structure; with the use of tape, their faces become even further removed from the average person's. Much like Photoshop, the use of face tape has the potential to heighten comparison culture. It emphasises the falsehood that there is only one type of face to aspire to, which can only have a detrimental effect on self-esteem.
This hit home most recently when I decided to watch late '90s teen drama Dawson's Creek for the first time in my mid 20s. As I watched Katie Holmes and Michelle Williams graduate from teens to young adults, I became unhealthily obsessed with the movement in their faces. The lines on their foreheads were visible and the sun squint lines around their eyes were there for all to see. I was amazed at these very basic human features and came to realise that I felt this way because of the warped images and identical snatched faces I see online every day.
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I notice how much I have internalised these unattainable beauty standards of smooth, youthful skin when I find myself panicking over forgetting my sunglasses or my eye cream.
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I turned 26 last month and it's not lost on me that every item on my birthday wish list happened to be skincare-related. I wanted these products for no other reason than to quell my paralysing fear surrounding skin laxity and ageing. I notice how much I have internalised these unattainable beauty standards of smooth, youthful skin when I find myself panicking over forgetting my sunglasses or my eye cream on a weekend away. This anxiety is indicative of the era we are living in. How can it be that in my mid 20s I regularly feel provoked when I spot taping around the eyes of a model who is even younger than I am?
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As you might imagine, this does nothing for my confidence and I'm certainly not alone. A poll of Refinery29 UK's Instagram followers revealed that wrinkles, crow's feet and the face "not being tight and lifted like in filters" are real concerns when it comes to ageing. Others pinpointed sagging skin and "feeling droopy" as things they worry about in regard to their appearance.
Our suffocating obsession with youthfulness is only the tip of the iceberg. The fox eye look has also been widely criticised for its blatant co-opting of East Asian features. The aforementioned TikTok hashtags serve up photos and videos of mainly white models and the comment sections emphasise the trend's fetishisation of Asian features. Underneath one video, a TikToker wrote: "I can't wait for this racially stimulated trend to go away, especially since I have slanted eyes naturally." In a Refinery29 article that touched on the fox eye look, photographer and podcast host Natalie Lam said: "It's insulting that Westerners can pick and choose things which are out of our control and just drop the 'trend' when the next one appears."
On the surface, face taping could be seen as a precision tool that helps to create intricate editorial beauty looks. Yet in a society that praises plump, youthful faces to a dizzying degree, it's no exaggeration to say that face tape is contributing to plummeting levels of self-esteem among many young people when confronted by the reality of ageing. In a world where the difference between a perfectly normal and an unnaturally snatched face is an £8.99 tape, it's no wonder many of us are accepting these images as truthful representations of faces rather than special effects makeup. It is both alarming and depressing.
There may be light at the end of the tunnel. Plenty of influencers such as Joanna Kenny, Charlotte Rose Hyatt-Willis and Rikki Sandhu are pursuing a more real approach to makeup and industry kingpins are following suit. The likes of MAC Cosmetics and Fenty Beauty are filling Instagram feeds with images of real skin texture, scarring and wrinkles in the hope that we can break down unrealistic beauty ideals.
Happily, it seems possible that our fixation with tight, frozen faces may lose traction eventually. It's high time we work to replace it with the individual, unique looks we see in everyday life, not on social media — for the sake of the next generation, if nothing else.
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https://www.refinery29.com/en-au/face-taping-trend
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Safety Dean Marlowe, who set a career high with 67 tackles while starting nine games for Detroit in 2021, has signed a one-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons.
The Falcons announced the signing on Thursday.
Marlowe, 29, began his career by playing three seasons with Carolina before two seasons with Buffalo.
Marlowe may compete with second-year player Richie Grant, a second-round draft pick in 2021, for a starting job.
Marlowe had two interceptions with Buffalo in 2020. He had a fumble recovery and two passes defensed with the Lions last season.
The Falcons have made their secondary a focus in free agency. They also signed former Raiders cornerback Casey Hayward and former Chicago cornerback Teez Tabor.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand man on Thursday was sentenced to one year in prison for threatening to kill Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Prosecutors said Michael Cruickshank, 56, sent 88 lengthy emails to government officials in 2019 and 2020, calling them criminals, slave-traders and state-sanctioned terrorists. But it was two emails that he sent in January 2020 that crossed a line by threatening violence.
In one email, Cruickshank threatened to blow Ardern’s head off and in another said he would “personally wipe you off this f—— planet,” The New Zealand Herald reported. He copied one of the emails to lawmaker Andrew Little, who is now the health minister.
“You have kids who want to see you grow old, as do I,” Cruickshank wrote. “I suggest you place that into proper perspective.”
Cruickshank wore all black and rocked back and forth on his feet during the sentencing hearing at the Auckland District Court, the Herald reported.
Judge Brooke Gibson said Cruickshank wouldn’t be a good candidate for home detention. The judge cited reports prepared for the sentencing hearing which indicated Cruickshank had been angry for decades with agencies after suffering an accident in 1995 and being unsatisfied with the subsequent support he got.
“You have a complete lack of insight. You have a high sense of entitlement,” the judge said, citing the reports, according to the Herald. “You simply don’t recognize acceptable boundaries.”
The judge said Cruickshank’s anger had manifested itself in “a relentless campaign of emails.”
He was already known to a staffer at the prime minister’s office who vetted correspondence and first came across his “usually angry but not threatening” emails during the tenure of Helen Clark, who was prime minister from 1999 until 2008.
The judge also noted Cruickshank’s claim at his trial that he was drunk and had no memory of writing the two emails. Intoxication was not a defense, the judge said.
Ardern was first elected prime minister in 2017 and won a second term in 2020 in a landslide of historic proportions, thanks to her government’s success at the time in battling the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, her popularity has faded somewhat but she still remains the preferred leader in most opinion polls.
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https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/new-zealand-man-sentenced-for-threatening-to-kill-pm-ardern/
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Tourist impaled in neck by foot-long needlefish while swimming in Thailand in freak attack
AN unlucky tourist was left in a serious condition after a foot-long needlefish impaled him in the neck while he was swimming in Thailand.
Gruesome pictures show the man lying in a hospital bed with the pointy fish sticking out of him by its snout.
At the time, he was apparently swimming with friends at Ao Tan Khu beach in the southeastern Thai region of Trat, famous for its white sands and coral reefs wedged between the Gulf of Thailand and Cambodia.
The freak accident took place on Thursday at around 1pm local time, the Bangkok Post reports.
Eyewitnesses claim they heard the victim, Noppadol Sringam, screaming for help from the water before a passerby swam out and dragged him to shore.
He was then given first aid before being rushed to Trat Hospital.
Needlefish are commonly found in shallow coastal seas and can make short jumps out of the water, local official Suchart Jitmungmanotham said.
Also known as 'long toms', they are found in oceans around the world and are known to leap out of the water.
However, Sringam's neck piercing was unusual, as this is the first time one has been seen in Ao Tan Khu, a resort popular with tourists.
Suchart urged visitors to take extra caution while swimming in the area and said officers will be provided to ensure their safety.
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Trat's governor Chamnanwit Terat also said he had contacted local officials to ask for more details about the incident.
Although needlefish attacks are rare, they have been known to impale humans before after leaping out of the water.
Only three people are known to have died directly from the fish.
In 1977, a 10-year-old boy in Hawaii died when a needlefish pierced his eye while out fishing with his dad.
A 16-year-old Vietnamese boy was killed in similar circumstances in 2007.
WHAT ARE NEEDLEFISH?
The freaky-looking fish have been responsible for several grisly deaths and injuries
Needlefish are known for their distinctive long, narrow jaws filled with sharp teeth which they use to catch smaller fish.
They swim near the surface and are capable of making short leaps out of the water at up to 40 mph.
They often jump over boats rather than swim around them - meaning some fishermen rate them more dangerous than sharks.
There have been several recorded deaths caused by needlefish and many other gory injuries.
In 1977, a ten-year-old Hawaiian boy died when a needlefish pierced his eye while on a nighttime fishing trip with his dad.
In 2013, a young Saudi man bled to death after being hit by a needlefish on the left side of his neck.
In 2018, Thai navy cadet Kriangsak Pengpanich, 22, was killed when he was speared during a training exercise.
While in 2020 a teenager in Indonesia was lucky to survive after a needlefish impaled his neck and pierced the back of his skull while he was fishing.
While in December 2018, a Thai navy cadet was speared in the neck by a needlefish during a training exercise, also in the Trat region of Thailand.
Kriangsak Pengpanich, 22, later died of his injuries after his underwater torch is believed to have spooked the three-foot fish.
It swam directly at him, reaching speeds of up to 40mph, before stabbing the young soldier.
The bodies of both Kriangsak and the fish were found by soldiers a few moments after the death floating on the surface of the water.
Blood was found around the long needle-shaped mouth of the fish.
Kriangsak's body was taken ashore where paramedics performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead at the nearby Laem Ngop Hospital.
In a similar incident in 2020, a young angler was lucky to survive after a fish leapt out of the water and impaled his neck while he was fishing in southern Indonesia.
Muhammad Idul, 16, was fishing with his mum and dad near his home in Sulawesi when the sea creature darted into his neck, piercing the back of his skull.
Miraculously, he was able to make it home, with the fish still embedded in him, before being rushed to hospital to have it removed.
Local media reported that the needlefish shot toward Muhammad at such speed that it knocked him off his boat.
He was able to swim to the surface before somehow walking home.
Staff at a nearby hospital in the city of Baubau didn't want to remove the fish because the surgery would need specialist equipment.
The teenager was therefore transferred to another hospital in the city of Makassar, where doctors operated for over an hour to save his life.
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Superchunk have released a video for their song "Wild Loneliness". The video was directed, produced and edited by Spence Kelly. The song is off their album of the same name that is out now via Merge Records. Superchunk will be touring this April. Check out the video below.
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https://www.punknews.org/article/77052/videos-superchunk-wild-loneliness
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BSCPAD (BSCPAD) traded 4.6% lower against the dollar during the 1 day period ending at 19:00 PM E.T. on March 31st. BSCPAD has a total market cap of $57.00 million and approximately $1.96 million worth of BSCPAD was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. Over the last seven days, BSCPAD has traded 5% higher against the dollar. One BSCPAD coin can now be purchased for $0.72 or 0.00001572 BTC on major exchanges.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Elias Diaz looked lost and confounded.
On May 12 a year ago, the Rockies catcher went 0-for-3 in the second game of a doubleheader against San Diego, dropping his average to .109. At that point, he had two doubles and zero home runs. In fact, he didn’t hit his first ball over the wall until June 16.
And still, the Rockies believed. Manager Bud Black and bench coach/catching coach Mike Redmond believed most of all.
“The talent was always in there, but he started digging a hole for himself,” Black recalled Thursday. “It just got to the point that he was trying so hard. But then he finally got a couple of base hits and hit the ball out of the park. When that happens you relax, and then the confidence starts to return.”
Colorado’s patience paid off, for the club and the 31-year-old catcher. Diaz ended up hitting 18 home runs, the most by a Rockies catcher since Wilin Rosario’s 21 in 2013. His average climbed to .246 and he finished with an OPS+ of 96.
He was rewarded with a three-year, $14.5 million contract that covered his final season of arbitration eligibility and two years of free agency in 2023-24.
Diaz did not make a significant mechanical adjustment at the plate when he was slumping. It was more about his mindset, not gripping the bat so tight, and becoming a more selective hitter. He stopped chasing so many breaking balls and stopped trying to pull the ball all of the time.
“It was pretty simple. My mentality and confidence changed once I started hitting,” Diaz said. “I started telling myself to keep it simple.”
Diaz has made strides behind the plate, too, particularly with his pitch blocking and game-calling.
Ironically, it was in that May 12 game against the Padres, when his offense hit its lowest point, that Diaz made a play that sparked the Rockies’ defense. In the seventh inning of Colorado’s 3-2 victory, Diaz threw out Trent Grisham attempting to steal third base.
“That was a big spot in that game,” Black said. “That sort of jump-started him, too.”
Black believes that Diaz has perhaps the strongest arm of any catcher in the majors, and last season Diaz threw out 42.1% of runners trying to steal. Only Kansas City all-star Salvador Perez’s 43.8% was better for catchers with at least 60 attempts against them.
And, after such an ice-cold start, Diaz ended up making some Rockies history. He launched grand slams on Aug. 3 vs. the Cubs at Coors Field on Sept. 10 at Philadelphia, becoming the first Rockies catcher to have multiple grand slams in a season since Chris Iannetta hit two in 2009. From June 28-July 2, he homered in four consecutive games, the longest home run streak by a Rockies catcher in a single season in franchise history.
So what does he do for an encore?
“My goal is to be healthy for a full year and try to do my best every day to help the team win,” Diaz said.
Roster moves. The Rockies continued to whittle their roster toward the opening-day number of 28. On Thursday, they optioned left-hander Ben Bowden and right-hander Jordan Sheffield to Triple-A Albuquerque.
The moves almost certainly open a spot for left-hander Ty Blach, the Regis Jesuit graduate, for a role in the bullpen as a long reliever or as a spot starter.
Colorado has 34 players remaining in big-league camp, including three non-roster players — catchers Carlos Perez and Brian Serven, as well as Blach. The Rockies currently have a full 40-man roster.
Changing back. Left-handed starter Kyle Freeland’s experiment with a new, three-fingered changeup grip is over.
“I wanted to give it a try but I never got comfortable enough with it,” he said. “So I’m going back to my old grip, my old changeup. I think I throw it pretty well, so that’s what I’m going with.”
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https://www.fortmorgantimes.com/2022/03/31/elias-diaz-rockies-power-hitting-catcher/
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Since launching in 2020, Alberta Blue Cross says it has awarded $262,000 to 59 projects in rural and remote communities across Alberta.
Applications for the 2022 COVID Community Roots Programs open on April 4, offering grants of up to $3,000 for grassroots, community-led initiatives.
Eligible organizations include non-profits, charities, municipalities, First Nations communities and Métis Settlements. Unregistered organizations may also apply with a partner organization.
“These projects are helping to support the social, mental, emotional and physical well-being of people and communities across Alberta through the pandemic,” said Alberta Blue Cross Vice President of Corporate Relations Brian Geislinger in a media release on the program. “We’ve received incredible feedback on the difference this program has made in supporting our communities through this challenging time.”
The program is funded through the Alberta Blue Cross community foundation and administered in partnerships with the Alberta Recreation and Parks Association and Communities Choosewell, who help promote the program and review applications.
The 2022 COVID Community Roots Program opens on April 4.
Interested organizations can find more information and apply online at ab.bluecross.ca/aboutus/community-roots.
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https://morinvillenews.com/2022/03/30/alberta-blue-cross-offering-up-to-3000-grants-for-community-led-initiatives/
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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/2556476393065/an-improved-daily-standardized-precipitation-index-dataset-for-mainland-china-from-1961-to-2018
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AKRON, Ohio — St. Vincent-St. Mary has one of the most impressive trophy cases you’ll ever see.
“We’ve got an ongoing story here, that they’re part of a legacy that’s bigger than them,” said Dru Joyce, St. Vincent-St. Mary Head Coach
As the legacy grows, space to display St. Vincent-St. Mary’s many championships dwindles.
Spring cleaning is a necessity with another trophy to show off incoming.
The Fighting Irish of Akron – St. Vincent-St. Mary’s recently clinched its second straight basketball title, the school’s 10th overall.
In the process, they caught the eye of their most famous alum — Lebron James.
“I was just hoping we’d have a good game,” said St. Vincent-St. Mary guard Sencire Harris. “I wanted to go out my senior year with a big win.“
Sencire, a senior, was a major part of St. Mary-St. Vincent’s latest title run. He led the Irish with 17 points, seven assists, four rebounds and two steals in the championship game.
“We Just opened it up real big, and it was just fun playing with the last of my guys,” Sencire said.
To add to the state title, Joyce won OHSAA’s Coach of the Year Award and Sencire won co-player of the year in the state.
“Just being here for these three years has been great,” he said. “Coach Dru helped me to become the player I am, and also to my pops and my family helped me out. Pushed me to be great.”
“He’d be the first one to tell you, the thing he can improve on is his shot, but beyond that offensively there’s not much else,” Joyce said.
Taking what he learned at the basketball powerhouse, he’s now off to Big Ten power Illinois to play for the Fighting Illini.
“They got to show me amazing stuff, what they’d do to me to help me get better and build my body,” Sencire said. “They showed me some stuff and I pulled them to the side and I’m like, ‘I’m ready to commit now.’“
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https://www.news5cleveland.com/sports/local-sports/student-athlete-of-the-week/student-athlete-of-the-week-sencire-harris-helps-bring-home-st-vincent-st-marys-10th-title
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KFC Escapes Young Worker's Sex Harassment Suit
By Patrick Hoff · March 31, 2022, 6:01 PM EDT
A Chicago federal judge let Kentucky Fried Chicken out of a lawsuit brought by a former fast-food worker who said she was sexually harassed and assaulted by a supervisor, saying a...
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https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/1479272/kfc-escapes-young-worker-s-sex-harassment-suit
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Demand for labour in the UK has been skyrocketing. This survery result from REC is being read as a sign of some stabilisation in the market though.
- new job postings fell by 25% in the last week of March from a week earlier
- returning to the kind of increase seen in mid-January
- "The jobs market has been super-heated in the first few months of this year, and was always likely to stabilise in the spring. We may be seeing the first signs of that now," REC chief executive Neil Carberry
Info via Reuters
GBP update, not a lot of movement in Asia time so far. Looks like some swings but check out the scale:
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https://www.forexlive.com/news/uk-data-survey-shows-job-ads-fell-in-final-week-of-march-20220331/
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JEFFERSONVILLE — If you don’t count his birth announcement, John Vissing’s start with the News and Tribune came because of Indiana’s state high school basketball tournament.
Vissing received a call from former Circulation Manager Marge Staton on March 16, 1974. Instead of working, an employee had decided he would attend the state tournament scheduled for the upcoming week, and Staton offered the 17-year-old Vissing a job delivering newspaper bundles to carriers.
That Monday, March 18, 1974, Vissing showed up for work at what was then The Evening News. Aside from his paid time off, Vissing has been at work every day since. But his over 48-year-streak comes to an end Friday, as the News and Tribune’s pressroom supervisor is retiring.
“I’ve worked with a lot of great people here. It’s really what’s kept me here,” Vissing said.
Vissing quickly advanced in the newspaper business due to his skills and ability to take on additional duties. He was promoted to mailroom supervisor at The Evening News, which later merged with The Tribune to form the News and Tribune, after only about a year with the business.
Vissing learned how to help with the press, and that put him on a path that would define his career.
Vissing worked under former Evening News Press Foreman Max Ruddell for about 15 years. After Ruddell retired in the 1980s, former Publisher Don Newton promoted Vissing to press supervisor.
The printing industry has changed considerably during Vissing’s career. From using hot lead and stopping the presses regularly to line up the print to the implementation of plates to streamline the process, Vissing said technology has made a substantial difference in the process.
But what hasn’t changed in decades in Southern Indiana is Vissing’s watchful eye. He smiled as he referenced how press operators may not receive credit when they catch an error, but they certainly will hear about it if they print a newspaper with a glaring mistake.
“We are the last line of defense,” Vissing said.
Known by his co-workers for his calm nature and steady presence, Vissing has guided the printing of Southern Indiana’s newspaper of record with professionalism that his peers and supervisors said is second to none.
During a retirement ceremony at the News and Tribune on Thursday, Publisher Bill Hanson read a performance review from 2010 in which he hailed Vissing’s aptitude to lead the press department.
“I would put John up against any press supervisor I’ve worked with in my career,” Hanson wrote in that review.
He emphasized Thursday that nothing had changed in a dozen years.
“I could have written that today, and it would still be true,” Hanson said.
Donna Barrett, CEO of the News and Tribune’s parent company, CNHI, first met Vissing when they were both employees at The Evening News about 35 years ago.
“From the start, I have always had the highest respect and admiration for you and your excellent work,” Barrett said in a letter written to Vissing in recognition of his retirement. “Simply put, our newspaper always looked better than other newspapers because of your skill and commitment.”
Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore signed a proclamation declaring March 31, 2022 as John Vissing Day. A sign labeling the alley adjoining the News and Tribune’s Jeffersonville office as John Vissing Way was unveiled Thursday. The alley serves as the pickup spot for delivery drivers for the newspapers that have been printed under Vissing’s watchful eye for decades.
Hanson said that Vissing is one of the most talented people he’s worked with during his career.
“His calm demeanor and his love for this newspaper and this community is evident by his devotion to both,” Hanson said. “To spend 48 years at one job is incredible no matter who you are. John has the skill to work in almost any printing facility. He chose to exhibit those skills here. Our staff and readers have benefited greatly from that commitment.”
Vissing met his wife, Michelle, while working at the newspaper. She’s a former graphic designer and was employed at the Jeffersonville office for about five years. The couple will celebrate 22 years of marriage in May.
In an industry where minutes matter, Vissing has dedicated long hours to serving the industry and the public through his profession. He acknowledged that while he’s proud of his career, working until the early hours of the morning meant missing some important family time. In the coming months, Vissing said he’s looking forward to catching up on some of those events such as watching his grandchildren play sports.
It’s the newspaper that carried his birth announcement, and Vissing said it will hopefully last to print his obituary. But he stressed that the public can’t take local journalism for granted.
“Make sure you support your local newspaper, because once it’s gone, you have no accountability left,” he said.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has granted a request from a northern Virginia school system to continue using a challenged admissions policy at a highly selective high school while it appeals a ruling that found the policy discriminates against Asian American students.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling Thursday that Fairfax County Public Schools can continue to use its new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton rejected the new policy in a February ruling, saying that impermissible “racial balancing” was at its core. Commonly known as “TJ,” the prestigious school near the nation’s capital is often ranked as one of the best public high schools in the country.
Earlier this month, Hilton also rejected a request from the school system to delay the implementation of his ruling. But the 4th Circuit, in a 3-2 ruling, said the school board had met the legal requirements for a suspension of Hilton's order while its appeal is pending.
The 4th Circuit panel agreed with school officials who argued that because the selection process for the incoming freshman class is well underway, implementing Hilton's ruling now would throw the process into chaos.
Judge Toby Heytens wrote that he has “grave doubts” about Hilton's conclusions "regarding both disparate impact and discriminatory purpose” of the new admissions policy.
“In my view, appellant Fairfax County School Board is likely to succeed in its appeal,” Heytens wrote.
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Allison Jones Rushing said putting Hilton's ruling on hold while the school board appeals his decision is not in the public interest. Jones said any logistical difficulties or inconvenience associated with changing the admissions policy at this late date “simply do not outweigh the infringement of constitutional rights.”
“And everyone — even temporarily frustrated applicants and their families — ultimately benefits from a public-school admissions process not tainted by unconstitutional discrimination,” Rushing wrote.
The case has been closely watched as courts continue to evaluate the role that racial considerations can play when deciding who should be admitted to a particular school. Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a similar case alleging that Harvard University discriminates against Asian Americans in its admissions process.
Fairfield County Public Schools said the order from the 4th Circuit allows the school board to continue with the current application process to select the Class of 2026 this spring.
“For the 2,500+ students in this application pool, this means the race blind process set out by the School Board in October 2020 will remain in place as an appeal challenging the February court decision plays out,” the board said in a news release.
The parents’ group Coalition for TJ, which filed the lawsuit, said the 4th Circuit judges have made a “grave error” in allowing the school system to continue to use its new admissions process.
“If the judges’ decision stands, we would see Fairfax County Public Schools usher in a second class of students to America’s No. 1 public high school through an unconstitutional race-based admissions process,” the coalition said in a statement.
For decades, Black and Hispanic students have been woefully underrepresented in the student body. After criticism over its lack of diversity, the school board scrapped a standardized test that had been at the heart of the admissions process and opted instead for a process that sets aside slots at each of the county’s middle schools. It also includes “experience factors” like socioeconomic background.
The parents’ group argued in its lawsuit that Asian Americans, who constituted more than 70% of the student body, were unfairly targeted in the new policy.
The school’s current freshman class, which was admitted under the new policy, saw a significantly different racial makeup. Black students increased from 1% to 7%; Hispanic representation increased from 3% to 11%. Asian American representation decreased from 73% to 54%.
The school system has insisted that its new policies are race neutral, and the panel evaluating applicants is not even aware of applicants’ race as it conducts its reviews.
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https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Disputed-school-admissions-policy-OK-d-pending-17049659.php
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has granted a request from a northern Virginia school system to continue using a challenged admissions policy at a highly selective high school while it appeals a ruling that found the policy discriminates against Asian American students.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling Thursday that Fairfax County Public Schools can continue to use its new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton rejected the new policy in a February ruling, saying that impermissible “racial balancing” was at its core. Commonly known as “TJ,” the prestigious school near the nation’s capital is often ranked as one of the best public high schools in the country.
Earlier this month, Hilton also rejected a request from the school system to delay the implementation of his ruling. But the 4th Circuit, in a 3-2 ruling, said the school board had met the legal requirements for a suspension of Hilton's order while its appeal is pending.
The 4th Circuit panel agreed with school officials who argued that because the selection process for the incoming freshman class is well underway, implementing Hilton's ruling now would throw the process into chaos.
Judge Toby Heytens wrote that he has “grave doubts” about Hilton's conclusions "regarding both disparate impact and discriminatory purpose” of the new admissions policy.
“In my view, appellant Fairfax County School Board is likely to succeed in its appeal,” Heytens wrote.
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Allison Jones Rushing said putting Hilton's ruling on hold while the school board appeals his decision is not in the public interest. Jones said any logistical difficulties or inconvenience associated with changing the admissions policy at this late date “simply do not outweigh the infringement of constitutional rights.”
“And everyone — even temporarily frustrated applicants and their families — ultimately benefits from a public-school admissions process not tainted by unconstitutional discrimination,” Rushing wrote.
The case has been closely watched as courts continue to evaluate the role that racial considerations can play when deciding who should be admitted to a particular school. Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a similar case alleging that Harvard University discriminates against Asian Americans in its admissions process.
Fairfield County Public Schools said the order from the 4th Circuit allows the school board to continue with the current application process to select the Class of 2026 this spring.
“For the 2,500+ students in this application pool, this means the race blind process set out by the School Board in October 2020 will remain in place as an appeal challenging the February court decision plays out,” the board said in a news release.
The parents’ group Coalition for TJ, which filed the lawsuit, said the 4th Circuit judges have made a “grave error” in allowing the school system to continue to use its new admissions process.
“If the judges’ decision stands, we would see Fairfax County Public Schools usher in a second class of students to America’s No. 1 public high school through an unconstitutional race-based admissions process,” the coalition said in a statement.
For decades, Black and Hispanic students have been woefully underrepresented in the student body. After criticism over its lack of diversity, the school board scrapped a standardized test that had been at the heart of the admissions process and opted instead for a process that sets aside slots at each of the county’s middle schools. It also includes “experience factors” like socioeconomic background.
The parents’ group argued in its lawsuit that Asian Americans, who constituted more than 70% of the student body, were unfairly targeted in the new policy.
The school’s current freshman class, which was admitted under the new policy, saw a significantly different racial makeup. Black students increased from 1% to 7%; Hispanic representation increased from 3% to 11%. Asian American representation decreased from 73% to 54%.
The school system has insisted that its new policies are race neutral, and the panel evaluating applicants is not even aware of applicants’ race as it conducts its reviews.
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https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Disputed-school-admissions-policy-OK-d-pending-17049659.php
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A new Pantera beer boasts the clever name Vulgar Display of Lager, and like the album that inspired its name, it packs a punch in both its design and its 5.9% alcohol by volume (ABV).
The new brew, which starts shipping on April 5th, takes the iconic artwork of the dude getting punched in the face from Pantera’s classic 1992 album Vulgar Display of Power, and displays it on the can, making it an instant collectible. In fact, it’s being released in partnership with Knucklebonz, a company known for its collectible statues of rock bands.
As for what’s inside the can, an official description describes the beer as having a “complex flavor profile that is cold fermented for the crisp and refreshing experience you’d expect from a world class German Lager.”
“We’ve been privileged to work on few different collectible projects with Pantera over the years and we get excited about being able to find new ways to honor the legends that have inspired so many of us,” said KnuckleBonz CEO/creative director Tony Simerman in a press release. “This beer was specifically crafted as a nod to something we think perhaps the band might choose when they ruled the metal world from Cowboys From Hell to Reinventing the Steel.”
Vulgar Display of Lager — which is being brewed at Great South Bay Brewery in Long Island, New York — is not the first beer tied to the legendary metal band’s name, as it follows the 2020 release of Pantera Golden Ale (brewed by Texas Ale Project).
For those looking to get their hands on the new beer, its available in a 4-pack ($19.99); 12-pack ($59.99); and a case of 24 ($118.49) from the distributor Half Time Beverage. The first 500 orders will come with a bonus 12″x15″ commemorative poster (see below).
The album Vulgar Display of Power, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, is one of the greatest metal LPs of all time, featuring such classics as “Walk,” “Mouth for War,” and “A New Level.” Read our retrospective on the iconic release here.
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https://consequence.net/2022/03/pantera-new-vulgar-display-of-lager/
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WARMINGTON: Sir John A Macdonald's memory erased in a day by Peel District School Board
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BRAMPTON — It didn’t take long for the Peel District School Board to erase Sir John A. Macdonald and 200 years of Canadian history.
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Until Wednesday, a Brampton school had been named after Canada’s first Prime Minister for decades.
Not anymore.
Just hours after the board renamed the school, the Sir John A. Macdonald sign was taken down and replaced.
“Welcome to Nibi Emosaawdang Public School,” the sign out front of the Centre St. N. school read Thursday.
Even the school’s logo was removed from the gym’s floor and walls, and social media accounts were deactivated.
“The name Nibi Akik was offered as a way of honouring Josephine Mandamin and all water walkers,” says the board. “The name lends itself to environmental activism (especially when led by female community members as is customary in Indigenous culture as Josephine Mandamin modeled), a focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and centers the themes of reconciliation, equity and social justice, which are aligned to the Peel District School board’s commitments to anti-colonialism, anti-racism, anti-oppression.”
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But it also banishes the memory of Macdonald. It’s madness and people from all political backgrounds should end such insanity.
The board’s “Equity Audit” policy requires “the Peel District School Board (PDSB) to review all practices, policies, and procedures, and ensure they are developed and implemented using anti-racist, anti-oppressive and anti-colonial principles” and this includes “evaluating books, media, and other resources currently being used in schools for teaching and learning English, History and Social Sciences to ensure that they are inclusive and culturally responsive, relevant, and reflective.”
But while doing so, this ridiculous re-writing of history scrubs the achievements of the man who oversaw the birth of the nation in 1867. It also sends a message that anybody can be cancelled once judged through a 2022 lens from a time before Canada even had electricity. It’s not fair to apply today’s standards to a different time.
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“I don’t support erasing Canadian history,” Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown told the Toronto Sun. “John A. Macdonald was our founding Prime Minister and we should be proud of the country he gave birth to, not trying to erase it from the history books our founding fathers.”
Brown, currently vying to be Canada’s next Conservative party leader and next prime minister, said while he thinks it’s a “beautiful” tribute to honour Nibi Emosaawdang, it “can be done at a new school to be built in Canada’s fastest growing city.”
But in a statement the board said, “consideration to change the name of the school, mascot or symbol, has occurred through a fair and inclusive process rooted in an understanding of settler colonization, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and its impact on First Nations, Metis and Inuit Peoples,” and that The Mississaugas of the Credit, The Credit River Metis, The Peel Indigenous Network of Employee, the Indigenous Network and the Credit River Metis Council were consulted.
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One parent, who did not want to be named for fear of blowback being thrust upon his children who attend the school, said he’s opposed to this.
“We came from a country where history was changed and we don’t like to see it happening here,” the parents said.
From Macdonald to McGill to Ryerson, cancelling trailblazing historical leaders is a mission statement for today’s woke crowd. Macdonald statues have been removed in Victoria, B.C., Montreal, Que., and even in his home town of Kingston. The one at Queen’s Park has been boarded up for two years.
What makes this one in Brampton even more dubious is that Peel school board trustees had no vote.
“The Peel District School Board is currently under Ministry of Education supervision. Governance roles for the Board of Trustees have changed while they are currently under Ministry of Education supervision. During supervision, Trustees do not have formal governing powers. As such, they cannot put motions forward, vote on any board actions, make any financial decisions, or change or approve policies,” said board spokesperson Malon Edwards.
“Peel District School Board Supervisor, Bruce Rodrigues, considers recommendations like the renaming of Sir John A. Macdonald Sr. Public School. at board meetings,” Edwards added.
That happened March 30th and by March 31, the history of Sir John A. Macdonald in Brampton was history.
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https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-sir-john-a-macdonalds-memory-erased-in-a-day-by-peel-district-school-board
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Gates Suggests ‘Wealthy’ Nations Switch to Synthetic Beef; Cattlemen Respond
This op-ed by NCBA CEO Colin Woodall is offered as a response to recent comments by tech mogul Bill Gates, suggesting that consumers in wealthy nations should switch to “synthetic beef” as an alternative to real beef products.
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association CEO Colin Woodall
Tech billionaire Bill Gates continues to tout the consumption of “synthetic beef” in “rich countries” as a solution to climate change. That’s nice for the billionaires of the world, but his recommendation ignores reality. Beef production in the United States is sustainable and becoming increasingly so over time. Today, just 2 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from beef cattle production. That’s far less than sectors such as energy production or transportation, which produce a combined 54 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
If Gates were truly interested in altering the path of climate change, one might think he would focus his time and limitless wealth on reducing emissions from the energy or transport sectors, but he is not. Instead, Gates chooses to focus on beef production because, in truth, he is heavily invested in the same fake meat companies he’s promoting. So, it’s not surprising he continues to push an agenda that would replace real beef with protein alternatives in “rich countries.” He has even gone so far as to claim that perhaps a government mandate is the best way to get consumers to eat their dose of fake meat.
What Gates fails to disclose is that the reality of fake meat is far different from the utopian fantasy he is selling. Even in “rich countries” like the United States, there is a vast disparity between people like Gates, and everyone else. In every community across the nation, there are people facing economic hardship, many of whom don’t get enough to eat and often lack access to affordable sources of protein. Limiting their options or mandating expensive fake meat, as Gates suggests, is typical of his elitist thinking.
Worse yet, the fake meat that Gates promotes is heavily processed, high in sodium and more expensive than real beef. It solves none of the nutritional problems facing consumers. Fake meat also fails on the environmental front. Recent studies show the true impact of fake meat production is far greater than Gates might be willing to admit. It requires massive amounts of electricity to incubate the product in the lab and these same companies that claim to be bettering the planet are often sending large quantities of plastic and other materials to landfills as a by-product of the manufacturing process.
In contrast to the fake meat factories that Gates and other tech moguls are funding, real beef is produced on more than 800,000 farms and ranches in communities across the United States. More than 90 percent of those farms and ranches are family-owned and operated. These family farms and ranches offer real benefits that are helping to mitigate climate change. Farms and ranches provide wildlife habitat on grasslands that remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil. Those same grasslands also help lower global temperatures because they act as a heat sink, absorbing heat, in contrast to cities that reflect heat back into the atmosphere from glass, steel and asphalt surfaces. Concrete jungles will ultimately replace open space if Gates successfully replaces beef with fake meat, either through marketing or by mandate.
The companies that manufacture fake meat products want you to believe they have solutions when what they truly offer is an empty sales pitch and an inferior product. Fake meat, and those who sell it, aren’t interested in solving climate problems. Instead, Gates and the companies that promote fake meat are simply another group of corporate interests chasing profitability. The next time you hear Bill Gates or his disciples recommend an expensive imitation of beef, ask yourself who benefits most from such suggestions.
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Nine dreadful parking attempts seen in Somerset over the years
"Someone get this driver a taxi, a taxi to the kerb!"
We've all parked a bit skew-whif from time to time, but most of us don't park in a way that causes any outward inconvenience. Most of us, but not all, picture this:
It's 9pm and you're in a rush to pick up something from the supermarket. You pull waywardly into a disabled space thinking you'll be fine as "you won't be long". Or you're visiting a friend and don't fancy parallel parking on a residential street, so instead you park on the pavement and end up blocking pushchairs and wheelchair users from the dropped kerb.
Little do you know, someone walks past and snaps a pic, only for it to be posted online. That's what has happened to these offenders across the TA postcode area, as found on the 'Parking like an idiot in Taunton & TA Postcodes' Facebook group.
READ MORE: Town's residents face 45 minute hospital trip as minor injury unit closes overnight
Let's take a look at some of the best (or worst) examples of parking across Taunton and west Somerset that range from the simply selfish, to the downright bizarre:
The 'Classic Offender'
The 'Classic Offender 2.0'
The 'Local Vigilante'
The 'Dump and Run'
The 'Local Nuisance'
The Terrible Twosome
The 'Simply Unacceptable'
The 'Ton 80'
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https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/gallery/nine-dreadful-parking-attempts-seen-6883024
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We’re constantly told that periods shouldn’t stop us from getting on with our everyday lives. Aside from the widespread misinformation surrounding menstruation and PMS (no, guys, it’s not just a tummy ache), tampon commercials regularly feature women dancing in pristine white dresses, biking up mountains and even jumping out of airplanes (which is great, if that’s the sort of thing you usually do). But the one activity yet to be acknowledged by advertising and indeed the mainstream narrative is — whisper it — period sex.
It’s a weirdly divisive topic, given how absolutely natural both sex and periods are — but as with many things, it’s a matter of personal preference. According to one survey, 45% of people queried said it was at least "kinda gross," while just edging in with the majority were the 55% of people who said it was "natural or awesome."
Obviously, period sex can be totally awesome. Some women report stronger orgasms when they’re on, and there’s evidence to suggest orgasms can help cure cramps. Plus, you’ve got a bit of extra lube to help things along. But if you’re part of the pro-period sex camp, you’ll know that it brings with it a few additional considerations. These are usually completely manageable, but as these stories demonstrate, sometimes things can get a bit… out of hand.
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https://www.refinery29.com/en-au/period-sex-stories
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by Aubin Paul Videos
Tim Kasher, frontman for Cursive and The Good Life, today shared his new video for "Forever of the Living Dead." The song, which features Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) and Jeff Rosenstock - as well as Kasher’s nine-year-old niece - is the second single from his new solo album Middling Age. Due out digitally April 15th, with vinyl to follow in late Spring, via 15 Passenger Records.
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https://www.punknews.org/article/77053/videos-tim-kasher-forever-of-the-living-dead
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A driver who engaged Buffalo police in a lengthy gunfight, striking and injuring three officers during a haphazard chase that spanned the city, pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder.
Kente Bell, 28, was arraigned from his hospital room, where he is recovering from several gunshot wounds sustained during Tuesday's chase and a final hail of gunfire as it ended in front of a police station at a Buffalo intersection.
Bell was shot in his neck, arm, leg and hand and underwent surgery at Erie County Medical Center, where he appeared before a judge after regaining consciousness, said Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, who offered dramatic new details of the events.
“You have a high-speed chase... you've got a guy firing out the driver's side window. You've got blockades, you've got speed on highways, a girl jumping out of the car,” he said at a news conference.
Bell is accused of fleeing two police officers who approached his parked vehicle after noticing its tinted windows around 6 p.m. Tuesday, Flynn said. He cooperated at first but did not get out of the car because he was partially paralyzed in a 2012 shooting and uses medical equipment to walk, the prosecutor said.
When it appeared there was an issue with his registration, Bell drove off. Armed with an illegal handgun with an extended magazine of ammunition, he fired on police as they pursued him through city neighborhoods and on highways for more than 20 minutes, Flynn said.
Early in the chase, before shots were fired, the passenger exited the moving vehicle.
“He was making a turn and had slowed down at some point. She opened the front passenger door and jumped out of the car while it was moving and ended up rolling on the ground and hit up against a pole of some kind,” he said, “like right out of a movie.”
“She was obviously freaking out probably, to say the least, and wanted to have nothing to do with this," Flynn said.
In the minutes that followed, Bell drove through a police barricade, entered and exited highways and drove wildly through several Buffalo neighborhoods, briefly entering the suburb of Cheektowaga, before turning back toward Buffalo with police officers radioing his route to each other and warning of the danger.
“They’re still shooting. Multiple officers hit!” an officer is heard shouting in a transmission captured by Broadcastify.com.
Three police officers were struck in separate vehicles. All are recovering.
By the time it was over, nine police vehicles were damaged by gunfire, Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.
Investigators have yet to determine how many shots were fired by Bell, or how many officers fired their weapons, Flynn said.
Bell is due to appear before a county judge at the hospital Friday for an alleged probation violation related to a 2020 illegal firearms charge in the town of Amherst. While on probation, he was prohibited from carrying a weapon.
The attorney who represented Bell at Thursday's arraignment did not return a call seeking comment on his behalf.
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https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4493106
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Ballots for Log Lane Village’s upcoming municipal election will be mailed to residents and must be submitted before 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5.
Meet the three mayoral candidates below.
Melissa Smith
Melissa Smith, a Fort Morgan native, has lived in Log Lane Village since July 2020. Her husband’s family grew up in Log Lane and have been residents for decades, so after her husband’s retirement from the U.S> Army, they moved back to Morgan County and “ended up calling Log Lane ‘home.’”
In July 2021, Smith joined the Log Lane Board of Trustees to finish up someone else’s term. When election time came around, she decided to step up and run for mayor instead of running to seek a new term as a trustee.
Prior to moving back home, Smith worked as the Executive Director for Boys & Girls Clubs. Now, she is the Director of the Morgan County Interagency Oversight Group (IOG) where she frequently works closely with the Morgan County Re-3 School District, the police departments, the judicial system and the Morgan County Department of Human Services. She has over 10 years of experience leading nonprofits and is passionate about youth and being involved in the community.
“If elected, I would really like to continue the momentum of events and things they do in Log Lane right now. I’d like to see even more things done for the kiddos there because (there are) a lot of low-income families that live there,” said Smith, who mentioned she would love to use her experience in grant writing to write a grant for the addition of a splash pad at Sunshine Park.
Smith would also like to see more activities for senior citizens and suggests they will have a space for those events once the new Town Hall building is completed in the next couple of months.
“I think there can also be more opportunities given to the seniors in Log Lane. I don’t think that a lot of services are offered to them. I would love to see (the old Town Hall building) refurbished and be available more for senior nights, maybe bingo or maybe some exercise equipment being put over there to really engage our senior community more,” she said.
Smith recently spent three weekends campaigning door-to-door in Log Lane to make sure the community knew who she was before seeing her name on a ballot.
“I’m very transparent, so I really want to let the community know that I want to hear their voice. I’ve heard a lot of individuals saying that they don’t really feel like they can speak up, and I really want to ensure that everyone in the community has a voice. I want to hear what thoughts and ideas they have. I’m very much a team player,” said Smith.
Smith has been given support from the IOG Board to run for the mayoral position and wants everyone to know that her work schedule is flexible.
“At the end of the day, we all have our regular full-time paying jobs and families that we have to look out for as well, but I’m very committed. And if I commit to something, I am full-heartedly in it,” said Smith.
Bill Thoresdale
Bill Thoresdale has lived in Log Lane Village for the past four years. He and his wife were drawn to Morgan County initially for the quality medical care located in Brush. After looking at houses in Sterling and Fort Morgan, they discovered Log Lane and knew that was the perfect place for them to retire.
Thoresdale’s parents had instilled in him the importance of civic duty, so he immediately wanted to get involved in his new town.
“I started going to Town Hall meetings and watching what was going on. I saw things I didn’t care for, and I know that the only way to make change is to work hard for it. The only way for me to effect change properly is to run for mayor,” he said.
In addition to hiring a qualified candidate to run the police department, Thoresdale said one issue he is running on is the price of utilities.
“Something that effects all the Log Lane residents is the utility bill. The first thousand gallons is approximately $60. With each ensuing thousand gallons, about $3. We really need to use the town money wiser to lower the first thousand-gallon charge to everyone’s utility bill. And another thing… we’re not doing enough for seniors. To own a house in Log Lane, the minimum utility bill is $137.98, (on) which the seniors get a $10 discount. That’s only 7%. The economy is only going to be driving costs up, so I really think we need to do more for seniors,” said Thoresdale, who noted the water bill was raised in 2009 and has not been lowered since that time even though Log Lane has more funding now to lower the costs.
Thoresdale plans to reach out to residents to hear their opinions on pressing issues and what direction Log Lane should move towards in the future. He also plans to work closely with his Board of Trustees, taking all opinions into consideration.
Though he doesn’t technically have any governmental experience to date, Thoresdale does have a lot of life and management experience. He raised his daughter as a single dad and was committed to only two full-time jobs in his life, working in one for 10 years and one for 35 years. He rose to management in both, running departments that have the same size budget as the town of Log Lane and having nearly 20 people under his direct guidance. And now that he is retired, Thoresdale is available to dedicate his time to a new management role like mayor.
“Both of my opponents are very qualified people. They are raising families and have jobs. My family is raised and in Illinois,” he said. “I have plenty of time and plenty of experience. If there’s a problem during the day, I would be there. If there’s a problem during the night, I would be there.”
Naomi Zuniga
Naomi Zuniga’s family moved to Log Lane Village when she was 14 years old. She has stayed in Log Lane for the past 25 years to stay close to her family and has even been raising a family of her own.
“I just felt it was home. It’s very quiet. I felt very comfortable allowing my kids to walk from my house to grandma’s house. I just felt it was very safe,” she said.
Zuniga has served as a member of the Board of Trustees since 2016 and has seen the town’s progress firsthand.
“All of this was fairly new, but I’ve come to learn quite a bit,” she said of her experience on the Board. “I grew up in Log Lane but didn’t know much of our town ordinances, so I’ve come to learn of quite a few ordinances, issues that we have in town. I’ve been able to do quite a few new things bringing me out of my comfort zone, such as our events that we do (where) we get to go out and mingle with some of the citizens. (I’ve learned) the work that goes into preparing for the events… how to come together (as a Board) to make decisions regarding our budget.”
With many new trustees being elected this year, she wanted to make sure the plans past trustees had committed to were accomplished. She highlighted one of the main areas of concern as recruiting for and maintaining the police department. Zuniga hopes that they will find some officers who will stay committed to Log Lane for a long period of time and continue to provide the residents of Log Lane with that feeling of safety.
Zuniga is the oldest of her siblings and says leadership and good communication skills have always come naturally for her. She also is bilingual and hopes to interact more with the Hispanic residents of Log Lane.
“I am a very humble, honest, hardworking person. I’m a good listener. I listen to the concerns that others have; I’m not just going to put them off. I’m very caring, so I want people to feel open to communicating with me so that I can be their advocate. And being Spanish speaking, I hope that (others in the Hispanic community) will feel a little bit more comfortable to come and interact, be part of our events and our town meetings,” said Zuniga. “One thing that I can promise is that whatever choices we make, I’ll do my best to make sure they are in the best interests of our town.”
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TORRANCE, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. (OTCQX: EMMA), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company and leader in the treatment of sickle cell disease, today reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2021 and an update on recent activities.
Recent Highlights
- March 2022: Announced that the Florida Medicaid Pharmaceutical & Therapeutics Committee has added Endari® to the Florida Medicaid Preferred Drug List, effective April 1, 2022, eliminating the need for prior authorization for Medicaid patients.
- March 2022: Received full marketing authorization for Endari from the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) Ministry of Health after a five-month review of the company's marketing authorization application.
- December 2021: Presented positive transfusion data from a post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 clinical study of Endari, the company's prescription L-glutamine oral powder, in patients with sickle cell disease, at the 63rd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting. Data confirmed that Endari meaningfully reduces both pain crises and hospitalizations.
- November 2021: Announced collaboration with UpScript to offer telehealth solutions to sickle cell disease patients, expanding access to Endari. The partnership allows patients to see a doctor remotely and receive same-day physician authorization and prescriptions for Endari, which will be delivered directly to their home within just a few days.
- November 2021: Entered into an agreement with Asembia to provide expanded patient and provider support services to simplify access to Endari. Asembia provides a single point of contact for benefits investigation and financial and co-pay assistance, as well as patient and provider education.
- October 2021: Signed an agreement with Kainos Medicine, Inc., granting Emmaus an exclusive license to patent rights, know-how and other intellectual property relating to Kainos' novel IRAK4 inhibitor (KM10544) for the treatment of cancers, including leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumors.
"Recently, we have made substantial progress in expanding access to Endari for sickle cell disease patients in need," stated Yutaka Niihara, M.D., M.P.H., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Emmaus. "Although our financial results for 2021 were below our expectations, we anticipate that the full roll-out of our new telehealth solution in the coming weeks will improve patient access and efficiency in the delivery of Endari to sickle cell patients throughout the United States. Internationally, we are pleased to have recently received marketing approval of Endari in the U.A.E. and our first major order from our exclusive distributor there. We are actively pursuing additional marketing approvals of Endari to treat the approximately 225,000 sickle cell disease patients throughout the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region and we expect this expanded distribution, along with our telehealth solution, to help generate increased sales of Endari during 2022."
Dr. Niihara continued, "In addition to our focus on increasing patient access to Endari, we have expanded our clinical pipeline. In particular, we have seen promising results from our ongoing preclinical studies of the IRAK4 inhibitor licensed from Kainos Medicine, Inc. in October 2021, which may prove to be a novel, potential treatment option for hard-to-treat lymphomas such as Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia with MYD88 mutation. We also eagerly anticipate results from an additional proof-of-concept study of Endari as a treatment for diverticulosis, expected in mid-2022. If positive, we should be able to move directly into a registration trial. The current year is shaping up to be an exciting one for Emmaus and we look forward to providing updates throughout the year."
Net Revenues. Net revenues for the year ended December 31, 2021 were $20.6 million, compared to $23.2 million for 2020. Although sales volume as measured by number of boxes of Endari sold held steady compared to 2020, net revenues were adversely affected by somewhat higher and more frequent discounts afforded distributors on bulk pre-orders in 2021 compared to 2020.
Operating Expenses. Total operating expenses for the year were $23.4 million, compared with $21.0 million for 2020. Of the increased expenses, $1.7 million was attributable to increased research and development expenses primarily related to license fees paid to Kainos Medicine, Inc. relating to Kainos' novel IRAK4 inhibitor in research and development expenses associated with the company's pilot/phase 1 diverticulosis sub-study in which enrollment was completed in December 2021. The company also incurred a $1.0 million increase in selling expenses resulting from more frequent travel associated with the lifting of COVID-19 related travel restrictions in the U.S. and foreign countries.
Operating Income (Loss). Operating loss for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $6.1 million, compared with operating loss of $32,000 in 2020.
Other Income (Expense). Other expense increased by $10.8 million, or 1,074%, to $9.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to other income of $1.0 million in 2020, which included a $7.7 million gain from sale of marketable securities. The company did not realize a similar gain in 2021. The increase in other expense in 2021 included a $3.5 million increase in foreign exchange loss and a $2.0 million increase in change in fair value of conversion feature derivatives, partially offset by a $2.9 million decrease in interest expense.
Net Income (Loss). For the year, the company reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $15.9 million, or $0.32 per share, based on approximately 49.3 million weighted average basic and diluted common shares. This compares to net income of $1.4 million, or $0.03 per share, based on approximately 49.0 million weighted average basic and diluted common shares, for 2020. The increased net loss was primarily attributable to the operating loss for the year and increase in other expense discussed above.
Liquidity and Capital Resources. At December 31, 2021, the company had cash and cash equivalents of $2.3 million, compared with $2.5 million at December 31, 2020.
About Emmaus Life Sciences
Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company and leader in the treatment of sickle cell disease. The company currently markets U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Endari® (L-glutamine oral powder), indicated to reduce the acute complications of sickle cell disease in adults and children 5 years and older. The company is also engaged in the discovery and development of innovative treatments and therapies for certain rare and orphan diseases as well as those affecting larger populations, such as diverticulosis. For more information, please visit www.emmausmedical.com.
About Endari® (prescription grade L-glutamine oral powder)
Endari®, Emmaus' prescription grade L-glutamine oral powder, was approved by the FDA in July 2017 for treating sickle cell disease in adult and pediatric patients five years of age and older. Sales of Endari® began in the United States in 2018.
Indication
Endari® is indicated to reduce the acute complications of sickle cell disease in adult and pediatric patients five years of age and older.
Important Safety Information
The most common adverse reactions (incidence >10 percent) in clinical studies were constipation, nausea, headache, abdominal pain, cough, pain in extremities, back pain, and chest pain.
Adverse reactions leading to treatment discontinuation included one case each of hypersplenism, abdominal pain, dyspepsia, burning sensation, and hot flash.
The safety and efficacy of Endari in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease younger than five years of age has not been established.
For more information, please see full Prescribing Information of Endari at: www.ENDARIrx.com/PI.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including statements regarding possible increased access to Endari in the U.S. through telemedicine and potential increased sales of Endari following full marketing authorization for Endari in the U.A.E. and, possibly, other countries in the Middle East North Africa region. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties which change over time, including uncertainties related to the company's working capital and ability to carry on its existing operations and obtain needed financing, risks inherent in the commercialization of Endari in the U.S. and abroad, and other factors disclosed in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2021 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2022, and actual results may differ materially. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Emmaus assumes no duty to update them, except as may be required by law.
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LONDON (AP) —
The pharmaceutical developer Novavax says it has asked the European Medicines Agency to extend the authorization of its coronavirus vaccine to children aged 12 to 17 amid a surge of disease across the continent.
In a statement on Thursday, Novavax said its request is based on data from research in more than 2,200 adolescents aged 12 to 17 in the U.S., which found its vaccine to be about 80% effective against COVID-19. The study was done when the delta variant was the predominant virus in the U.S. The main side effects reported were pain at the injection site, headache and tiredness.
The EU drug regulator gave Novavax’s two-dose COVID-19 vaccine for adults the green light in December; the shot has also been cleared by Indonesia, Australia and the World Health Organization, among others. The EMA has previously OK’ed vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna for use in children from age 6.
The Novavax vaccine relies on an older technology that’s been used for years to make shots for diseases like influenza and pertussis. The Maryland-based Novavax drugmaker uses genetic engineering to grow harmless copies of the coronavirus spike protein in insect cells. Scientists then extract and purify the protein and then mix in an immune-boosting chemical.
Novavax has run into repeated production problems and mainly relies on other factories to make its vaccine. It has delayed delivery of its shots to numerous countries in Europe and despite pledges to make 250 million doses available to COVAX, not a single vaccine has been shared with the U.N.-backed effort to distribute shots to poorer countries.
According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, more than half of adolescents in the EU have not yet been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Numerous countries across the continent have recently seen a jump in coronavirus cases, due largely to the spread of the hugely infectious omicron subvariant BA.2 and the relaxation of nearly all COVID-19 protocols.
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NYC Hotel Must Comply With Arbitration Award Over Layoffs
By Beverly Banks · March 31, 2022, 6:50 PM EDT
A New York City hotel lost its bid to vacate an arbitration award requiring the company to rehire union-represented employees it laid off due to the pandemic, a federal judge ruled,...
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How bacterial chemotaxis is performed is much better understood than why. Traditionally, chemotaxis has been understood as a foraging strategy by which bacteria enhance their uptake of nutrients and energy, yet it has remained puzzling why certain less nutritious compounds are strong chemoattractants and vice versa. Recently, we have gained increased understanding of alternative ecological roles of chemotaxis, such as navigational guidance in colony expansion, localization of hosts or symbiotic partners and contribution to microbial diversity by the generation of spatial segregation in bacterial communities. Although bacterial chemotaxis has been observed in a wide range of environmental settings, insights into the phenomenon are mostly based on laboratory studies of model organisms. In this Review, we highlight how observing individual and collective migratory behaviour of bacteria in different settings informs the quantification of trade-offs, including between chemotaxis and growth. We argue that systematically mapping when and where bacteria are motile, in particular by transgenerational bacterial tracking in dynamic environments and in situ approaches from guts to oceans, will open the door to understanding the rich interplay between metabolism and growth and the contribution of chemotaxis to microbial life.
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| 2022-04-01T00:28:01Z
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The Juliana Theory have posted their new video for "Playback '99 (Burn the Cassette Deck)." The track is from Still the Same Kids, their first new release since 2005's Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat. It's due out May 6th on Equal Vision Records and is the first of three EP’s via the label in 2022 and 2023.
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https://www.punknews.org/article/77054/videos-the-juliana-theory-playback-99-burn-the-cassette-deck
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(NC) When it comes to recipes, some classics are ripe for reinvention. Take this fresh twist on the traditional chicken salad sandwich, which boasts more fibre, protein and other nutrients – in addition to a great taste.
The naturally fermented bread brings this sandwich to the next level, adding the perfect texture and aroma to set off the flavours.
According to registered dietitian Abbey Sharp, “Fermentation provides probiotics or ‘good’ bacteria, which are great for supporting our immune systems and for regulating digestion. Fermentation is also known to bring out rich and delicious flavours.”
Sharp recommends pairing the sandwich with a fresh bottle of ginger kombucha to add a unique and appealing tang.
Curry Apple Chicken Salad
Prep time: 5-10 minutes
Cook time: N/A *rotisserie chicken is store-bought
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup (175 ml) full fat Greek yogurt
- 1 1/2 tsp (7.5 ml) curry powder
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 2 cups (500 ml) rotisserie chicken, shredded
- 1 large green apple, diced
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) golden raisins
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) halved red grapes
- 3 tbsp (45 ml) minced shallots
- 2 stalks celery, finely diced
- 1 tbsp (15 ml) fresh chives, minced
- 1 loaf (12 slices) Stonemill Bakehouse Sprouted 3 Grains bread
Directions:
- In a large bowl, mix together the Greek yogurt, curry powder, salt and pepper.
- Into the bowl, add the chicken, apple, raisins, grapes, shallots, celery, and chives. Toss until everything is well coated in the dressing.
- Divide mixture between 6 slices of bread and top each with the corresponding slice.
Find more information at stonemillbakehouse.ca.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A driver who engaged Buffalo police in a lengthy gunfight, striking and injuring three officers during a haphazard chase that spanned the city, pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder.
Kente Bell, 28, was arraigned from his hospital room, where he is recovering from several gunshot wounds sustained during Tuesday's chase and a final hail of gunfire as it ended in front of a police station at a Buffalo intersection.
Bell was shot in his neck, arm, leg and hand and underwent surgery at Erie County Medical Center, where he appeared before a judge after regaining consciousness, said Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, who offered dramatic new details of the events.
“You have a high-speed chase... you've got a guy firing out the driver's side window. You've got blockades, you've got speed on highways, a girl jumping out of the car,” he said at a news conference.
Bell is accused of fleeing two police officers who approached his parked vehicle after noticing its tinted windows around 6 p.m. Tuesday, Flynn said. He cooperated at first but did not get out of the car because he was partially paralyzed in a 2012 shooting and uses medical equipment to walk, the prosecutor said.
When it appeared there was an issue with his registration, Bell drove off. Armed with an illegal handgun with an extended magazine of ammunition, he fired on police as they pursued him through city neighborhoods and on highways for more than 20 minutes, Flynn said.
Early in the chase, before shots were fired, the passenger exited the moving vehicle.
“He was making a turn and had slowed down at some point. She opened the front passenger door and jumped out of the car while it was moving and ended up rolling on the ground and hit up against a pole of some kind,” he said, “like right out of a movie.”
“She was obviously freaking out probably, to say the least, and wanted to have nothing to do with this," Flynn said.
In the minutes that followed, Bell drove through a police barricade, entered and exited highways and drove wildly through several Buffalo neighborhoods, briefly entering the suburb of Cheektowaga, before turning back toward Buffalo with police officers radioing his route to each other and warning of the danger.
“They’re still shooting. Multiple officers hit!” an officer is heard shouting in a transmission captured by Broadcastify.com.
Three police officers were struck in separate vehicles. All are recovering.
By the time it was over, nine police vehicles were damaged by gunfire, Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.
Investigators have yet to determine how many shots were fired by Bell, or how many officers fired their weapons, Flynn said.
Bell is due to appear before a county judge at the hospital Friday for an alleged probation violation related to a 2020 illegal firearms charge in the town of Amherst. While on probation, he was prohibited from carrying a weapon.
The attorney who represented Bell at Thursday's arraignment did not return a call seeking comment on his behalf.
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CaixaPay (CXP) traded flat against the US dollar during the 1 day period ending at 19:00 PM ET on March 31st. One CaixaPay coin can now be purchased for about $0.10 or 0.00000268 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. CaixaPay has a total market capitalization of $7.89 million and $26.00 worth of CaixaPay was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last week, CaixaPay has traded flat against the US dollar.
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| 2022-04-01T00:28:04Z
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A driver who engaged Buffalo police in a lengthy gunfight, striking and injuring three officers during a haphazard chase that spanned the city, pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder.
Kente Bell, 28, was arraigned from his hospital room, where he is recovering from several gunshot wounds sustained during Tuesday's chase and a final hail of gunfire as it ended in front of a police station at a Buffalo intersection.
Bell was shot in his neck, arm, leg and hand and underwent surgery at Erie County Medical Center, where he appeared before a judge after regaining consciousness, said Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, who offered dramatic new details of the events.
“You have a high-speed chase... you've got a guy firing out the driver's side window. You've got blockades, you've got speed on highways, a girl jumping out of the car,” he said at a news conference.
Bell is accused of fleeing two police officers who approached his parked vehicle after noticing its tinted windows around 6 p.m. Tuesday, Flynn said. He cooperated at first but did not get out of the car because he was partially paralyzed in a 2012 shooting and uses medical equipment to walk, the prosecutor said.
When it appeared there was an issue with his registration, Bell drove off. Armed with an illegal handgun with an extended magazine of ammunition, he fired on police as they pursued him through city neighborhoods and on highways for more than 20 minutes, Flynn said.
Early in the chase, before shots were fired, the passenger exited the moving vehicle.
“He was making a turn and had slowed down at some point. She opened the front passenger door and jumped out of the car while it was moving and ended up rolling on the ground and hit up against a pole of some kind,” he said, “like right out of a movie.”
“She was obviously freaking out probably, to say the least, and wanted to have nothing to do with this," Flynn said.
In the minutes that followed, Bell drove through a police barricade, entered and exited highways and drove wildly through several Buffalo neighborhoods, briefly entering the suburb of Cheektowaga, before turning back toward Buffalo with police officers radioing his route to each other and warning of the danger.
“They’re still shooting. Multiple officers hit!” an officer is heard shouting in a transmission captured by Broadcastify.com.
Three police officers were struck in separate vehicles. All are recovering.
By the time it was over, nine police vehicles were damaged by gunfire, Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.
Investigators have yet to determine how many shots were fired by Bell, or how many officers fired their weapons, Flynn said.
Bell is due to appear before a county judge at the hospital Friday for an alleged probation violation related to a 2020 illegal firearms charge in the town of Amherst. While on probation, he was prohibited from carrying a weapon.
The attorney who represented Bell at Thursday's arraignment did not return a call seeking comment on his behalf.
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Letters to the Editor, April 1, 2022
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HEY WILL, GO TO UKRAINE
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Re “Will the Academy rescind Will Smith’s Oscar?” (Jerry Agar, March 29): Here are the facts: Will Smith laughed heartily at Chris Rock’s joke about his wife’s shaved head. Jada Pinkett Smith rolled her eyes and did not laugh. Will Smith then strode up on stage and gave Chris Rock a heavy slap across the face. Smith then returned to his seat and shouted, twice, at Rock, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth!” Smith was not removed from the venue by security. Indeed, after being consoled by, among others, Denzel Washington, he, shortly after the assault and battery, strode up on stage from his front-row seat to accept an Oscar. He told the audience love made him do it and that he was a vessel of love. Not only was he not booed by the audience, they cheered loudly with many standing to do so. His son tweeted, “And that’s how we do it.” Later, Will Smith was seen dancing happily to his own music at an after-party. It that’s how we do it — if that sequence of facts and events represents the morals of America, or even just the influential Hollywood segment of it — then we should go much further than just rescinding Smith’s Oscar. We should send the lot of them to Ukraine to see what being a victim really is and when violence in defence of yourself or your family is warranted. Once Will Smith slaps around a few Russian generals, all will be forgiven.
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Rudy Buller
Toronto
(Could you imagine that for a moment? They would run away at the site of enemy forces)
PAY TO PLAY
To all those celebrating the $10-per-day daycare program recently announced, remember that this is no different than our ‘free’ health care. Remember that fact every year when you file your tax return. Also remember it when the federal government cuts their portion of the funding, dumping the majority of the cost on the province, just like they did with our ‘free’ health care. Further, remember how great you think $10-per-day daycare is when taxes increase to continue to fund this program, while Ontario, already the most indebted sub-sovereign entity, sinks further into debt, a debt that is currently manageable due to historically low interest rates. Lastly, remember it when interest rates go up, putting further strain on governments in servicing that debt, that we will either see even higher taxes, or reduced government services. That’s something that even Canadian socialist icon Tommy Douglas understood.
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Bruce Forsyth
Barrie
(It has to be paid for somehow)
A LIBERAL REMINDER
Steven Del Duca says the Liberal Party has a plan that moves beyond just undoing the damage Ford has caused working families in Ontario (“Grits ready to get to work,” March 27). Does Del Duca have a plan that will undo all the damage that the Liberals did to this province for over ten years? Maybe we should let the current government continue to repair that damage and keep the Liberals where they are with no party status.
G. Mann
Bracebridge
(After the next election, we think there will be a shift in opposition and the Liberals will be back to party status)
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Prospective Planting Report Shows Less Corn, More Soybeans in Indiana and US
Indiana farmers intend to plant less corn and more soybeans compared to last year, according to Nathanial Warenski, State Statistician with USDA NASS’ Indiana Field Office.
Warenski projects Indiana’s corn acres at 5.1 million acres, down 6% from last year. He says Hoosier producers intend to plant 5.9 million acres of soybeans, up 4% from a year ago. The winter wheat acreage seeded last fall for harvest in 2022 is estimated at 310,000 acres, down 9% from the crop seeded in 2020. Hay acres intended for dry hay harvest is unchanged from last year at 540,000 acres.
Nationally, USDA says farmers intend to plant 89.5 million acres, down four percent or 3.87 million acres from last year. Soybean planted area is estimated at a record 91 million acres, four percent higher than in 2021.
The all-wheat planted area this year will be 47.4 million acres, one percent higher than last year. If realized, this would be the fifth-lowest all-wheat planted area since records began in 1919.
USDA also released their quarterly grain stocks report on Thursday. According to Warenski, Indiana corn stocks totaled 548 million bushels, 6 percent above a year earlier. About 57 percent of the corn was stored on farms. The second quarter disappearance was 336 million bushels, compared with 313 million bushels a year earlier. Soybean stocks on March 1, 2022, were 165 million bushels. That was 16 percent higher than stocks a year earlier. Farm stocks of soybeans were 70 million bushels. The second quarter indicated disappearance was 107 million bushels, compared with 106 million bushels during the same period last year. Wheat stocks on March 1 were 18.2 million bushels, 57 percent above a year ago. Third quarter indicated disappearance was 4.06 million bushels, compared with 5.62 million bushels last year.
Nationally, corn stocks in all positions on March 1 totaled 7.875 billion bushels, two percent higher than March 1, 2021. Soybeans in all positions on March 1 totaled 1.93 billion bushels, 24 percent higher than the same time last year. All wheat in stored positions totaled 1.02 billion bushels, down 22 percent from last year.
Sources: USDA NASS Indiana Field Office and NAFB News Service
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Picture this: You've psyched yourself up for a Zoom interview and you're sitting directly across from a hiring manager you just met. Things are going great — the conversation is easy, the wifi connection is clear and you've prepared enough that you're able to confidently recount all of the reasons why you're perfectly qualified for the role. But then she suddenly asks you a situational question that completely trips you up.
You might know the kind of question I'm referring to: The type that asks you to tell the story of a time you messed up — without sounding incompetent.
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Situational interview questions are designed to be a challenge, demonstrating that a candidate knows how to think on their feet and respond to curveballs, while also giving them a chance to display a slew of positive attributes, such as honesty, empathy, and humility. The only problem is: Situational interview questions can be hard to prep for.
For this reason, we chatted with a few experts — from hiring managers to recruiters to career coaches — who shed light on how best to face these types of challenging questions. Ultimately, acing a situational interview question is less about addressing a specific scenario and more about seeing the question underneath and demonstrating that you know how to handle yourself in a variety of circumstances.
Ahead, five career and hiring experts share their toughest situational interview questions and how candidates should best answer.
Q: Tell us about a time when you failed.
"It’s a touchy subject for a lot of us and difficult to admit; it can bring up a lot of insecurities, so it’s challenging to think about how to frame this in an honest, candid, and open way without giving a fake answer, but also not making yourself sound bad.
"This could be a proxy for other tough questions. Thinking about it ahead of time and confronting that in the privacy of your own head beforehand is key. Try to identify something that is an actual point of weakness for you, and then share what you’ve done since then to hedge against that happening again, what you might do differently if you encounter it again.
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"Inevitably, we’ll fail and fail again, so it's not just about lessons learned but demonstrating how you have and will modify behaviour in the future."
— Cynthia Pong, Career Coach, Embrace Change
Q: Describe a situation where you had to work with a difficult manager or client and persuade that person to accept your point of view or convince them to change something they were doing.
"To answer this type of question, the best approach is to follow the acronym STAR, which stands for Situation, Task, Action, Result. The best candidates will clearly and concisely explain the background of the situation, without including negative sentiment toward their managers or clients. This shows that they are mature and organised in their thought process.
"Candidates should then discuss the task or the problem that they were trying to change, followed by the action they took to improve the situation at hand. This further illustrates their thought process and gives the hiring manager insight into a candidate’s people skills and critical-thinking abilities. Sharing the result last will naturally close out the story, and top candidates can also explain their key takeaways here, as well as what they have learned and how they might act in the future."
— Michelle Armer, Chief People Officer, CareerBuilder
Q: Tell us about a situation when you realised a colleague or higher-up was doing something incorrectly or needed assistance that maybe didn't seem obvious, and how did you realise it and what did you do?
"We utilise situational questions in interviews [that are] tailored to the specific job role. We usually look for someone who is able to approach a conflict situation that’s uncomfortable for them and the other person with humility and an open mindset.
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"[The question is about] being able to put themselves in the other person’s shoes and figure out how they would want a situation like this to go over. We do a lot of recruiting for entry-level, so people may not have the experience in an office setting. [It's about] being able to take a step back and think of different scenarios that may not be exactly the same, maybe with a classmate or a friend, and apply it.
"[It's also about] being able to stop and think about the question instead of trying to think of what’s the best answer right away. It can be tempting to rush through it, but recruiters appreciate when someone puts thought into their answer and takes a second to really think through things. It's important to pull from a wide variety of experiences."
— Samara Green, Recruitment Operations Lead, Bench Accounting
Q: You're working on a project with a difficult colleague, and the project does not go as planned. How would you communicate with both your colleague and boss when debriefing the project, when it comes to discussing how you can be more successful in the future?
"When answering situational questions, it's important to think back to the skills needed to thrive in the role you're applying for. In this situation, you need to show how you communicate with people who aren't your workplace bestie when things aren't going your way. It's important to show that you can be diplomatic and communicate effectively during the good and bad.
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"In other situations, you may need to show that you prioritise tasks effectively or that you can juggle multiple projects while pushing them forward, and keeping multiple teams involved informed on where the project is and what's stopping it from moving forward.
"This is where you fall back on your understanding of the role by highlighting the relevant skills needed to find success in your new position and the challenges you may face in this role."
— Destiny Lalane, Recruiter at DrChrono
Q: When have you made a potentially career-ending mistake, and what did you learn from it?
"It seems like a simple question, but what I am looking for is if someone has been in charge of a project, or if they've been on a team, to even have the opportunity to make a big mistake.
"Beyond that, I want someone who can be comfortable with mistakes and learning. It shows humility and forward-thinking to be able to learn. I also want to find out if the person is willing to admit mistakes, as I want someone who can admit mistakes rather than hide them under the rug. It's quicker to correct an issue when we find it right away, rather than someone who wants to be perfect and hide mistakes until the situation becomes untenable.
"I don't ever want to trick interviewees or make an interview difficult for no good reason, as they are nerve-racking enough, but this question can reveal any 'career-ending' mistakes that are potentially unethical or problematic."
— Jessie Salsbury, MAHR, SHRM-CP
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NAPLES, Fla., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Enveric Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ: ENVB) ("Enveric" or the "Company"), a neuroscience-focused biotechnology company developing next-generation, psychedelic-inspired mental health medicines, today reported its financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2021, and provided a business update.
"2021 was a foundational year that set the stage for Enveric to execute on its strategy in the future," said Dr. Joseph Tucker, Enveric's Chief Executive Officer. "With the acquisition of MagicMed in September 2021, we immediately began moving forward with the clinical development strategy of our next-generation treatments and therapies for mental health. We find ourselves strategically positioned with an experienced team of industry professionals, collaborative partners including the University of Calgary, a growing intellectual property portfolio, and a robust Central Nervous System pipeline of promising drug candidates. As we build upon the three core pillars of our success, Drug Development, Drug Discovery, and Intellectual Property, we are focused on creating effective mental health medicines."
Corporate Updates During and Subsequent to the Fourth Quarter 2021:
Clinical Trials
- Announced collaboration with the University of Calgary on a groundbreaking clinical trial for EVM-201 in cancer-related distress. A clinical trial, expected to launch in 2023, of EVM-201, a second-generation psychedelic treatment, for Cancer Related Distress will be led by HBI researcher, Dr. Valerie Taylor, Head of the Department of Psychiatry, in Calgary, Canada.
- Announced positive preclinical data for EV102 radiodermatitis drug candidate. EV102 has demonstrated a significant and meaningful reduction in dermatitis severity, skin redness, and duration in a preclinical rodent model.
- PsyAITM, an artificial intelligence platform, successfully identified viable psychedelic molecules for further drug discovery from Enveric's initial list of 500 psychedelic molecular compounds within its "Psybrary." We believe it is a first of its kind to employ this machine-learning technology against an extensive psychedelic molecule library to evaluate higher-likelihood molecules that treat conditions that include cancer-related distress, PTSD, and other central nervous system (CNS) indications.
IP Portfolio
- Filed and published four patent applications for psychedelic-inspired drug candidates by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The four patent applications are focused on the tryptamine family of novel molecules.
- Filed its 10th Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application directed to tryptamine-based derivative molecules, completing the Company's broad series of PCT applications covering this family of compounds.
- Successfully synthesized and filed a provisional patent for EV104, the Company's cannabinoid, and celecoxib conjugate. EV104a and EV104b are the Company's new molecular conjugates for Osteoarthritis ("OA") and other pain indications.
- Filed an additional provisional patent application based on new discoveries by the company. The patent application and claimed drug candidates fall into the Company's EVM201 second-generation, psychedelic-derived drug development program.
Leadership Team
- Appointed Bob Dagher, MD, as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Dagher is a Board-certified neurology and psychiatry physician, bringing over 15 years of clinical experience and extensive therapeutic knowledge in the neuroscience space.
Capital Markets
- Closed a $10 million public offering. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital and to fund other general corporate purposes.
- Included in the new AdvisorShares Psychedelics ETF, trading under the ticker symbol "PSIL" on the NYSE Arca exchange. PSIL is an ETF that focuses on investments in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life sciences companies that are leading the nascent but advancing psychedelic industry.
Financial Results for the Full Year Ended December 31, 2021:
Comprehensive net loss was $48.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, including $36.3 million in net non-cash expenses, with basic and diluted loss per share of $2.07, as compared to a comprehensive net loss of $7.0 million with basic and diluted loss per share of $1.19 per share for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Net cash used in operations for the year ended December 31, 2021, was $11.5 million consisting of the net loss, adjusted by a net of $36.3 million in non-cash expenses and changes in asset and liability balances of $1.2 million.
As of December 31, 2021, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of $17.4 million and working capital of $15.3 million. Subsequent to December 31, 2021, the Company raised an additional $10 million and expects to use the funds to help advance its new drug discovery platform, robust IP portfolio, and a growing pipeline of promising drug candidates.
About Enveric Biosciences
Enveric Biosciences (NASDAQ: ENVB) is a neuroscience company developing next-generation psychedelic-inspired mental health medicines. Enveric's robust pipeline supports drug development from the clinic to commercialization for millions of patients in need around the world suffering from conditions that include cancer-related distress, PTSD, and more. For more information, please visit www.enveric.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. These statements relate to future events or future performance. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements or information. Generally, forward-looking statements and information may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", " expects" or "does not expect", "proposed", "is expected", "budgets", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases, or by the use of words or phrases which state that certain actions, events or results may, could, would, or might occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements consist of statements that are not purely historical, including any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations, or intentions regarding the future. Such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, the ability to achieve the value creation contemplated by technical developments; the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on Enveric's ongoing and planned clinical trials; the geographic, social and economic impact of COVID-19 on Enveric's ability to conduct its business and raise capital in the future when needed; delays in planned clinical trials; the ability to establish that potential products are efficacious or safe in preclinical or clinical trials; the ability to establish or maintain collaborations on the development of therapeutic candidates; the ability to obtain appropriate or necessary governmental approvals to market potential products; the ability to obtain future funding for developmental products and working capital and to obtain such funding on commercially reasonable terms; Enveric's ability to manufacture product candidates on a commercial scale or in collaborations with third parties; changes in the size and nature of competitors; the ability to retain key executives and scientists; and the ability to secure and enforce legal rights related to Enveric's products, including patent protection. A discussion of these and other factors, including risks and uncertainties with respect to Enveric, is set forth in Enveric's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Enveric disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Todd Bowles earned his way in the NFL on the defensive side of the ball.
He’s not afraid to talk offense.
The new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won’t be shy about sharing his ideas with offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich and quarterback Tom Brady.
“I’m the head coach. I get to do whatever I want,” Bowles said Thursday, a day after taking over because Bruce Arians moved into a front-office role. “I’m not going to call plays. I understand that. But I have input on how defenses are trying to attack them. I have input on certain situations going into the half, two-minute or third downs or going for it or not going for it and those types of things. That’s my job and I have the freedom to do that. At the same time, I understand and respect Byron and Tom a great deal and they know that. I think we’re off to a good start from a communication standpoint and we just have to keep building.”
Bowles gets a second opportunity after going 24-40 in four seasons with the New York Jets from 2015 through 2018. He also was an interim head coach in Miami for three games in 2011. He becomes only the 12th minority to get a second head coaching opportunity since 1963, according to data in the NFL’s 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Report.
“When I first started in New York, you try to do things the right way and you don’t do it your way, you end up having regret. So I’m going to do it my way,” Bowles said.
Arians joined Bowles at his introductory news conference and learned the Buccaneers will induct him into the team’s Ring of Honor this season. Brady also was in attendance.
Arians, who turns 70 this year, said his decision to step down as coach was about “succession” and making sure he turned the team over to Bowles with an opportunity to succeed. When Brady unretired on March 13, Arians realized the time was right.
“Succession is way important to me,” Arians said. “This has been my dream for a long time. Guys that know me, they knew I wanted one of my guys to take over.”
Arians dismissed reports of friction with Brady, saying it “couldn’t be further from the truth.”
Bowles and Arians have a relationship that dates more than 40 years. Bowles played safety for Arians at Temple in the 1980s and was defensive coordinator on Arians’ staff in Arizona before joining him in Tampa.
“He is the most influential coaching figure and father figure that I have ever had in this league,” Bowles said, adding that it was a bittersweet feeling when he got the news from Arians.
Bowles made it clear he has a different personality than Arians.
“The only thing we have in common is our bald heads,” Bowles said. “He smokes, I don’t. He drinks, I don’t. So, we never got in each other’s way.”
Arians led the Buccaneers to their second Super Bowl title in 2020 and an NFC South title in 2021. With Brady back, Bowles takes over a team that has championship aspirations.
“Good players make good coaches so you always want to have good players,” Bowles said. “I’m not going to apologize for inheriting a talented team. I’ve had less success with a team. It’s different to the fact that I don’t think I can go into this trying to be Bruce. I would fail miserably if I tried. ... I can be me.
"I understand a lot of things I’ve learned from my coaching experience, especially from him so I’m going to take that approach. The one thing I know is I know I can coach football players regardless if you’re an All-Pro or a rookie. All of your players want to be coached and help them get better. I can help people get better and I’m going to use my approach.”
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Tommy La Stella still says being ready to play on Opening Day is up in the air for him.
“I wouldn’t say there’s a change in that yet,” La Stella said.
But through two games of spring action so far, he’s making quite the case for himself.
As he comes back from Achilles surgery, La Stella had another action-packed outing even though he only played three innings, going 2-for-2 with a homer and playing second base for the first time in the spring.
“He swung the bat really well, obviously — Tommy-style at-bats,” Kapler said.
After going 1-for-2 with a well-hit flyout, a three-run double and a walk on Tuesday, La Stella started off Thursday by pulling a homer to right, just coming a few feet short of hitting the Charro Lodge. He added a single in the first and advanced station-to-station to score a run in the second, the fifth run in the Giants’ 13-2 win over the Rockies at Scottsdale Stadium on Thursday.
Playing at second base for the first time in a spring game, La Stella got tested in every which way in the third inning alone: running in to track a pop up, going to his left for a ground ball (that just went under his glove) and going to his right to snag a grounder on the run (though his throw back across his body to first was not in time for an out).
“Didn’t get cheated on defensively,” La Stella quipped before adding, “It was good to be out there and go side-to-side. And be able to rebound and come back on the next play. Whenever I am ready, that’s the stuff I’ve got to be able to do.”
Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford added, “I think he’d probably be the first one to say he probably wasn’t at his quickest out there, but just to get him moving around, that’s great.”
But Kapler said he was actually impressed in how La Stella — and other Giants veterans, too — has been able to not push himself and try to do too much, saying La Stella “was measured on both defense and on the bases, by design.”
“One of the things that I find really impressive is when a player is able to put a governor on [themselves],” Kapler said. “It makes us trust that, in that sort of situation in the regular season, we can understand that he’s not going to be beating out a ground ball, he’s not going to make a diving play up the middle or to his right and get up and throw a runner out. But then we’re going to get the high-quality at-bats.
If we need to do something like replace them on the bases or on defense, we’re willing to do that to have his bat around in shorter periods of time. He’s plenty capable of playing good defense, running the bases well, all of those things. But I think it’s worth noting that there are ways that we can protect him and we have protected him in the past.”
Even with those breaks in place, the swings are still looking sharp, which doesn’t come as a surprise to Crawford.
“He’s always had a pretty simple swing, so it’s probably not going to take him a whole lot of time in spring to get going,” Crawford said. “He has great eye-hand coordination and can handle the bat and is a great contact guy. To have him in the lineup is definitely a good thing for us.”
And as for the roster spot on Opening Day? “Nothing’s off the table,” Kapler said. “We keep everything on the table.”
Crawford’s tweaks at plate give instant pay-off
Right after La Stella’s first inning homer, Crawford stepped up next and added one of his own with a shot to right-center — even though he joked he wouldn’t have cared if it went out or not, given the time of year.
“I don’t really want to waste them in spring,” Crawford said.
But this particular one was a welcomed sight for Crawford, who entered Thursday 0-for-the-spring in 10 at-bats with six strikeouts. He finished the day with a .214 batting average after going 3-for-4 with the first inning homer, an RBI single in the second and an RBI double in the seventh.
Crawford said he worked on his swing on Wednesday and started feeling better during a live batting practice session right after. Seeing the tweaks carry over into the game was welcomed.
“Even if I hit a few balls hard and got out, honestly, I would have felt a lot better about where my swing is at, as far as timing and approach and swinging at the right pitches,” Crawford said. “Obviously, anything I’ll take a hit, but I prefer to hit the ball hard and feel good about my swing, confident about my swing.”
Wood welcomes the traffic in third spring outing
It’s only Logan Webb and Alex Wood who have made three starts in games this spring, and Wood’s Thursday outing came with the rapid pace he’s become known for.
But while the Giants offense was working the Rockies for five runs, six hits and four walks in the first two innings, Wood was anxiously waiting to get back out on the mound, reaching the rubber seemingly seconds after the final out of the bottom-half of the innings were recorded.
He finished the day throwing around 65 pitches in 4.1 innings, allowing two runs on five hits and a walk and striking out four. He gave up both runs and all but one of his hits in the third, but he actually was just fine with having to deal with the traffic on the bases, a good check on his mechanics — and his rhythm — out of the stretch.
“I’ve made a conscious effort the last two seasons to make sure I’m looking at runners, whether they’re there or not,” Wood said. “I felt pretty comfortable with guys on, but it was definitely nice to have a little traffic out there and have to work a little bit harder than you would in a clean inning.”
But yet Wood was still able to get through the trouble and into the fifth and helped push the spring game’s time to under three hours, something that aligns with the Giants’ pitching philosophy of working fast and throwing strikes.
“Funny how that tends to correlate,” Kapler quipped postgame.
And why is Wood so quick to the plate?
“It’s probably my personality,” Wood said with a smile. “To be honest, I don’t like to wait around. I’m not a very patient person. That’s one of my faults as a human being.”
But what can be considered a fault in some aspects of life is a strength in others, and defenders absolutely love playing behind Wood, with La Stella saying Wood’s quickness is “on another level” compared to any other pitchers he’s played behind.
Wood is set to make one more start in Arizona before the season begins, aiming to get to around 80 pitches. But Wood wasn’t sure if he’d face the A’s on Tuesday, as the schedule currently lines him up to do.
Meanwhile, with Alex Cobb set to start on Friday, the rotation would typically indicate that Logan Webb would start Saturday, when the Giants have their lone spring game against the Dodgers.
But even with the abbreviated spring making the in-game repetitions more valued, there will be no rematch on Saturday. Kervin Castro was officially listed as the starter, with Webb instead pitching a simulated game. It’s a bit of gamesmanship that Kapler hinted was possible.
“I think there’s still time to play around with that a little bit, I just don’t think it can be the number one priority at this point,” Kapler said on Wednesday. “Number one priority is getting our pitchers the innings they need to be ready to go as deep into games as possible and to handle as many pitches as possible.
“Doesn’t mean that the competition element or the gamesmanship element goes out the window, but I think we just stay focused on the other side of that right now.”
The Giants didn’t shy away from starting Wood against the Rockies or Carlós Rodon against the Padres on Tuesday. But after their season-long battle last year, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Giants are treating the Dodgers differently.
Giants keep focus on mental health ahead of season opener
The Giants organization has continued its focus on mental health, designating Thursday as Mental Health Day in camp. It’s something that the manager strongly believes in.
“This is important because we believe that everybody in our player population is suffering with something,” Kapler said. “It could be something that’s going on at home, a family rift, it could be anxiety issues, it could be depressing issues. And those are elevated at different times for different players. And frankly, it’s not just our players – it’s also our staff, it’s also our front office.
“It’s every member of our organization.”
The team wore shirts with “Strength isn’t always mental” on the front and #EndTheStigma as part of their efforts to increase mental health awareness, and Drew Robinson and Dr. Shana Alexander both addressed the team earlier in the morning, reiterating that “everyone is suffering” message.
“It takes the edge off for the people that are listening,” Kapler said. “Because whatever it is that you’re dealing with from a mental health perspective, oftentimes you feel like you’re the only person — and especially in a historically competition-driven environment, showing any sort of weakness has always been seen as a lack of strength. In reality, we believe it is the direct opposite of that. It’s an indication of strength.”
Robinson, the former minor leaguer who lost an eye from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2020, is now in his capacity as a mental health advocate and Alexander — a clinical psychologist — as the Giants’ employee assistance program director. The Giants also have had Kellen Lee on staff since January 2020 as a minor league mental skills coach.
Kapler feels that the focus on mental health gives the Giants a leg up on the competition, but it’s one he’s happy to share with others.
“I think it’s definitely a competitive advantage, but also something we have to share because it’s the right thing to do,” Kapler said. “People are suffering, we can help them suffer less. There are some things that we want to keep quite proprietary. This is not one of them.”
Alexander was the one in charge of the t-shirts, which were initially just made for the team. But Kapler would be happy if the Giants decided to sell them: “No reason we wouldn’t want a lot of people wearing these shirts.”
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British Airways isn't worthy of customers - service is horrifying, says ESTHER MCVEY
WHILE it has been reported that British Airways suffered an IT meltdown this week, trust me it's nothing to the meltdown the passengers suffered. I was one of them.
The thought of boarding a plane and flying abroad – the first time in three years – had left me giddy and making my way to the airport, I could hardly contain my excitement. I arrived early and bounded cheerily to the check-in desk where queues, confusion and delays greeted me.
Despite there being far fewer passengers than before Covid, BA had managed to create long queues which moved painfully slowly – so slowly that just as you thought you were getting close to the front of the queue, passengers on slightly earlier flights were ushered in front so they could board, while the rest of us were pushed even further back down the line.
After eventually checking in, Heathrow added to the flight distress with further excessive and painfully slow queues at security.
While the pain was apparent for everyone going through check-in and security checks, there was clearly a bigger pain being suffered by shop owners at the terminals waiting to sell to passengers. The length of time it took to check-in and get through security meant that there was barely any time to browse the shops.
If I were one of those shop owners, paying huge rents, I would be demanding a refund from Heathrow bosses until they manage to get people to the departure side more efficiently.
To add salt to the wound, BA suffered another of their technical issues, meaning the night before I was set to fly home a text message arrived from them to say they had cancelled my flight – but not to worry as they would put me on a later plane in economy class (instead of the premium economy I had booked) at no extra cost! How good of them.
In my experience, BA is an embarrassment as our supposedly national flagship airline.
My advice is to avoid flying with BA at all costs, and from Heathrow if at all possible.
Their customer service levels mean they don’t deserve any customers at all.
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Caitlyn Jenner has joined Fox News Media as a contributor, the network announced on Thursday.
Suzanne Scott, the news network's CEO, said via a news release that the former Olympic great and one-time California gubernatorial candidate will offer commentary and analysis across Fox News Channel programming and its various media platforms.
"Caitlyn's story is an inspiration to us all," Scott said in the statement. "She is a trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community and her illustrious career spans a variety of fields that will be a tremendous asset for our audience."
Jenner said she was "humbled by this unique opportunity to speak directly to Fox News Media's millions of viewers about a range of issues that are important to the American people." Jenner is set to make her first appearance in her new role at the 9 p.m. ET hour on Thursday.
Jenner transitioned from Bruce Jenner in 2015 and publicly came out as transgender in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer. She documented her journey as a trans woman on her reality TV show, I Am Cait.
During a recent interview with ET while talking about daughter Kylie Jenner changing her son's name, Jenner said that when it came to her own name, after changing her name from Bruce, she "struggled with it for years."
"When you have a little child, you know the little baby comes out and you think of what it should be, but then you get them in your arms and you play with them and spend time with them and say, ‘I don’t know if that name fits, maybe it’s another name,'" Jenner explained. "That’s Kylie’s decision. When she officially announces it, but honestly, I think this is very good."
Last year, Jenner was among a long list of GOP candidates to run for California governor, but she garnered only one percent of the vote in the second recall election in the state's history.
Jenner earned renewed fame after appearing on Keeping Up With the Kardashians when it debuted on E! in 2007 until its end last year. Earlier this month, the 72-year-old said she had no hard feelings about not being included in the Kardashian-Jenner family's new Hulu reality series, The Kardashians.
She retweeted a Variety story, writing, "I was there when this started from day one. I watched it grow. And doing the show for almost 20 seasons was one of the highlights of my life. To be able to work with my family for all those years, connect with the fans, it was incredible. Happy that it continues for my family."
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A baby teether rattle, Bluetooth speaker, drug lockbox and a combination smoke and carbon monoxide alarm are the latest products under recall, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday.
Kid O Hudson Glow Rattle
PlayMonster has recalled its Kid O Hudson Glow Rattle, a motion-activated rattle shaped like a puppy that makes a soft rattling sound when shaken. The puppy is white with spots that can glow in red or green, and its legs are textured soft plastic for teething children.
The company received three reports of the rattle’s legs breaking off. This poses a choking hazard, but no injuries have been reported.
Consumers should immediately take the recalled rattles away and contact PlayMonster for instructions on receiving a $25 refund. PlayMonster will provide a prepaid shipping label to return the product.
For more information, visit the PlayMonster website, email hudsonglowrattlerecall@playmonster.com or call 1-800-469-7506.
Universal Security Instruments smoke & CO alarm
Universal Security Instruments has recalled its combination photoelectric smoke and carbon monoxide alarms because it can fail to alert consumers to the presence of a hazardous level of CO, which poses a risk of CO poisoning or death. CO is an odorless, colorless, poisonous gas.
Consumers should immediately contact Universal Security Instruments for a free replacement alarm but should keep using the recalled alarms until they install replacement alarms.
The recall is for models MPC322S with a manufacture date of June 9, 2017, and MPC122S with a manufacture date of June 2, 2017.
Consumers can visit the Universal Security Instruments website or call 1-800-220-0046 for more information.
Soundboks Bluetooth Speakers with Lithium-Ion batteries
Soundboks is recalling Bluetooth speakers with lithium-ion batteries because the speaker battery can overheat, posting a fire hazard.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled speakers, remove the battery and contact the company to receive a new battery. Soundboks will provide free replacement lithium-ion batteries and a $100 credit toward purchases at Soundboks web shop, as well as instructions for properly disposing of lithium-ion batteries according to federal and state regulations.
Soundboks has notified all known users, but for more information consumers can visit their website or call 1-866-761-9472.
Helix Metal Lockable Drug Chests
Maped Helix USA has recalled its metal lockable drug chests because the locking mechanism can fail.
The failed mechanism allows access to the contents inside the chest, which could pose a risk of poisoning.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled chests until repaired and should contact Maped Helix USA for a free consumer-installable repair kit.
For more information, visit the Maped Helix USA website, email contact@maped-helixusa.com or call 1-800-645-1421.
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A National Security Agency employee has been charged with emailing classified national security information to somebody who wasn’t authorized to receive it, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
Mark Robert Unkenholz, 60, of Hanover, Maryland, was arrested Thursday but ordered released after his initial court appearance in Baltimore.
Unkenholz held “top secret” security clearance, giving him access to the information, according to a 26-count indictment. He worked for an NSA office responsible for the agency’s engagement with private industry.
The indictment accuses Unkenholz of using his personal email address to send information classified as “secret” and “top secret” to somebody else’s private company email addresses on several occasions between February 2018 and June 2020.
The recipient held “top secret” clearance from April 2016 until approximately June 2019, while employed at a company that isn’t named in the indictment. However, from July 2019 until approximately January 2021, the person worked for a different company and wasn’t authorized to access or receive classified information, the indictment says.
A grand jury indicted Unkenholz on Tuesday on 13 counts of willfully transmitting national defense information and 13 counts of willfully retaining national defense informaton. Each count carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. Federal sentencing guidelines typically recommend sentences far below the maximum.
Unkenholz pleaded not guilty to all 26 counts at his initial court appearance. U.S. Magistrate Judge Beth Gesner ordered him released after the hearing, court records show.
Gesner appointed the federal public defender’s office to represent Unkenholz. Federal Public Defender James Wyda declined to comment.
The FBI is investigating.
The case against Unkenholz is the latest prosecution from federal authorities in Maryland, home to some of the most secretive government agencies, alleging mishandling or improper storage of classified materials.
One of the more prominent federal cases involved Harold Martin, a former NSA contractor who was charged in 2016 with storing reams of classified records in his Maryland home, car and shed. The information spanned from the mid-1990s to the present and included personal details of government employees and “top secret” email chains, handwritten notes describing the NSA’s classified computer infrastructure, and descriptions of classified technical operations. He was sentenced in 2019 to nine years in prison.
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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker contributed from Washington, D.C.
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An added sunset ceremony performance brings new light to the 159th Victoria Highland Games and Celtic Festival as it returns to its roots at Topaz Park.
The festival kicks off May 14, when the Tartan Parade leaves Centennial Square at 11 a.m. and makes its way to the Legislature grounds for a short ceremony.
The bulk of the excitement fills Topaz Park May 21 and 22 including the sunset ceremony.
Saturday night the Strathcona Mounted Troop performs, then returns to close the Games late Sunday afternoon, while the Naden Band and Scottish regiment pipe bands provide musical performances.
The Strathcona Mounted Troop are soldiers of Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) based in Edmonton. Members volunteer for one or two years to serve similar to their peers would have in the 1920s – on horseback. Their daily schedule concentrates on the care of their mounts and equipment, and in cavalry drills and training. The members also remain ready for active military duty and participate in trade specific training.
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The team is also expected to participate in the Victoria Day Parade May 23.
The Victoria Highland Games and Celtic Festival returns to Topaz Park following two years of smaller events at Craigflower Manor, explained Jim Maxwell, president of the Victoria Highland Games Association.
“Prior to the pandemic, the Victoria Highland Games was a premier destination in North America for people looking for the best festivals of Scottish and Celtic music, dance, sport and heritage,” he said. More than 25,000 people are expected to participate in the festival activities.
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Due to construction at Topaz Park, some venue layout changes are expected, but activities remain the same. The event is a family-focused weekend of Scottish and Celtic arts and culture, including pipe band competitions, Scottish Highland and Irish dancing competitions, heavy events such as caber toss and hammer throw, haggis hurling, tug of war, Scottish country dancing, fiddling performances, folk music and genealogy booths and displays, historic military demonstrations and displays, Scottish/Celtic food and merchandise vendors. As a bonus, 17th and 18th century re-enactors add to the cultural experience.
For adults 19 and over there is a single malt whisky school and a wine tasting school. For the younger set there is a free children’s entertainment area.
Visit victoriahighlandgames.com for ticket prices and availability as well as the full schedule expected later this month.
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Georgia responds to South Ossetia's intention to legally join Russia
Tbilisi’s reaction to South Ossetia’s intention to join Russia
On the evening of March 30, de facto president of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, announced that the republic would begin legal procedures to join Russia and eventually “return to its historical homeland.”
A plan of doing this was also specified: the first step is a referendum which will be held shortly after the April 10 presidential elections.
This is not the first time Tskhinvali has been asking to join Russia. Bibilov had repeatedly made similar statements in the past.
However, the most important factors in this case are the context, timing and Moscow’s reaction. Until now, the Kremlin did not want to annex South Ossetia, but today Moscow has welcomed this proposal. The Kremlin said it welcomed the initiative and noted that “Tskhinval should not pay attention to Georgia’s outrage”.
On the evening of March 30, after the announcement of the referendum, festivities took place in de facto South Ossetia. The youth also marched through the streets of Tskhinvali and waved Russian flags.
What is behind Bibilov’s statement, how did Tbilisi react to it, and how, according to experts, will events develop?
Statement by Anatoly Bibilov
De facto President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov issued a statement on March 30.
“In 2014, when Crimea returned to its home, Russia, we also had the opportunity to realize our centuries-old dream, but we missed our opportunity then. We cannot repeat this mistake”, Bibilov said.
- President and king under democracy conditions
- Russia is using South Ossetia to finance self-proclaimed republics in Eastern Ukraine
- Film about an Ossetian artist living in a Georgian village in the conflict zone
Presidential elections in South Ossetia are scheduled for April 10. Bibilov has made similar statements more than once before, but the difference is that this time in Moscow, these statements were immediately followed by supportive comments.
“The people of Russia will support the decision of South Ossetia to join the Russian Federation. For us, this is a very important moment, because in 2008 Russia openly began to resist the pressure of the united West. Of course, this is a historic event”, said Artem Turov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Tbilisi’s reaction to Bibilov’s statement
In response to Anatoly Bibilov’s statement, the Georgian Foreign Ministry stated that “Georgia will not succumb to provocations”:
“Under the conditions of occupation, no referendum will have legal force. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of our citizens have been expelled from their homes and, as a result of ethnic cleansing, do not have the opportunity to return. We also have very strong support from the international community and our friends… We are committed to this path and declare that we will not use force to restore territorial integrity. This is our legal obligation, which is very clearly supported by the international community”, Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said.
Bibilov’s statement is also regarded as provocation by the ruling Georgian Dream party. Beka Davituliani, a member of the parliamentary majority, says Russia’s reaction to Bibilov’s statement will be a signal to Georgia.
“We have to wait and see how Russia reacts to this. Russia’s position will be an additional message for Georgia. We must act in the national interest with all the resources at our disposal. At the same time, we must take into account the high security risks and act as carefully as possible to get the country out of this difficult situation in the region, and not cause even more damage”, Davituliani told reporters.
Imprisoned Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says the borderization, to which the Georgian government did not respond, was a pretext for the annexation of Tskhinvali:
“They thought that if they hide, then Russia will not do it. With one speech, Bibilov brought to naught their many years of propaganda. Consequently, we are left practically without allies, marginalized in the face of this great danger. Maybe now they will come to their senses and take steps towards unity and work with the international community”, Saakashvili wrote on his Facebook page.
Giga Bokeria, leader of the opposition European Georgia Party, said Bibilov’s statement was more than a provocation. According to him, the enemy will complete the annexation:
“I do not blame our government for this step, I blame the government for not acting or acting against our national interests all these years. The only thing it thinks about is how to use Putin’s threat and people’s fear of war to maintain its power by sabotage methods”.
Expert commentary
A similar referendum was held twice in South Ossetia under Presidents Shevardnadze and Saakashvili, says Paata Zakareishvili, a conflictologist and former minister for reintegration of Georgia. But then Russia declared that it was not interested in raising these issues. Now the context is different:
“It hung over Georgia like a sword of Damocles – it seemed that Russia would use it when needed. I think now is the time. It was not an accident that Bibilov raised this issue amid the war in Ukraine”.
Zakareishvili considers two versions. In his opinion, this is either another game to intimidate the Georgian state and strengthen the ruling Georgian Dream party, or Russia is really going to do it.
“If this is a game, the following happens: this is a deal between Tskhinvali, Tbilisi and Moscow – Tskhinvali will say that it wants to join, Moscow will say that it can hold a referendum and then Russia will think about it. A referendum will be held, a decision will be made which suits Russia, and then Moscow will say that now is not the time and Tskhinvali will have to wait. This will be considered a success of the Georgian Dream. You see, we have saved the situation, our cautious policy has brought results, they will say, this will strengthen the Georgian Dream.
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Zakareishvili considers the second option more dangerous – if Russia thinks that the world is already against it and it should grab everything it can:
“Then it will really hold a referendum and annex it based on it. That is, it will appoint the head of the region, not the president”.
Zakareishvili believes that this imperialist intention makes more sense for Russia because it is punishing the West:
“Russia is going for annexation. It does not care about the cautious policy of the Georgian Dream and the statehood of Georgia in the future. Therefore, it is better to take what it can and while it can. Abkhazia will be the next stage. Abkhazia is against annexation, so Russia will work differently there. Unlike us, unlike Tbilisi, Russia knows the difference between Abkhazia and South Ossetia, knows the difference between Ukraine and Georgia, and knows where to wage war”.
Zakareishvili says that this is not Bibilov’s initiative, but an instruction from Moscow, so Georgian Dream should act as follows today:
“They should say out loud – it is strange that our efforts to build good relations with Russia have such an effect. This leaves us no choice but to be more principled, more active and involved in general Western activities.
Bibilov gave Georgia a chance to reconsider its policy and propose it to Russia?! We have been doing everything we could for so long, we are dealing with this terrible opposition, attacks from the civilian sector and criticism from the West, in order to save the territorial integrity of Georgia and peace in Georgia together, and what is your satellite Bibilov doing?
Georgia must formulate its policy towards Russia.
It must unequivocally and clearly deny any favors towards Russia and directly participate in European, American and Western politics against Russia, because now Russia has given it a chance”, says Zakareshvili.
When asked if Georgia can rely on the West despite of its position related to the war in Ukraine, Zakareishvili replied:
“If we are left alone, it will be completely fair and deserved, but the West will not do this. For the West, values are above all, and it knows that it must not leave Georgia. The West will be more principled than Georgia. People should also protest against the pro-Russian policy of the Georgian Dream. They must respond to Bibilov’s statements. The West needs to see this mood”.
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By Basil Fernando –
By way of illustration, let us engage in a thought experiment.
Suppose some powerful but small group of people emerges tomorrow and imposes the following rules.
Power over life and death of all those who are outside their group, that is all those who are considered as kulaheenas, not only on an individual’s life but also the life of entire families, if one of them transgresses any of the rules imposed.
That the power over land is with them and that there could be no challenge to this position.
That every aspect of the life of the kulaheenas will have to be lived according to the strict rules imposed by the kulinas: that is what dress that they are allowed to wear, that any kind of ornament is forbidden to be worn by any of them, and that they are not allowed to sleep on beds but only on mats.
That any form of social mobility from the place given to the kulaheenas would be a transgression of the highest magnitude and therefore will be punished in the same manner.
That the bargaining over anything between the kulinas and the kulaheenas is forbidden as the value and price of things will be entirely decided by the kulinas.
That all these could be enforced by way of the application of the principle of disproportionate punishment meaning that even the least amount of transgression by the kulaheenas could be punished with the highest possible punishment not only for themselves but also for their entire families. On the other hand, whatever wrong that a kulina does to a kulaheena will not be followed by any form of punishment.
The thought experiment is how long do we think it will take to have these rules enforced to an extent that everybody that belongs to the kulaheenas accepts them as normal rules of living? That these rules will be imparted to their young by the kulaheenas themselves so that everyone will clearly know what they can do and they cannot do and what they will be punished for and how they will be punished if such transgressions take place.
Thinking of today, it is not even possible for us to imagine whether such a situation could be brought about at all. It is beyond the imagination of people who have acquired a certain degree of the ideas of the individual, of personal freedoms, of just laws and of institutions that are meant to protect these just laws.
It is from that point of view that we have to look back and ask how was it possible that in Sri Lanka from at least around 800 Anno Domini (AD) to the 19th Century, there was such a world. All those rules that were mentioned above were the rules by which that society was ruled during the entirety of those 10 centuries.
The question that will arise is how long would it have taken to get this situation grounded in a manner that it will remain the social order of the day without any questioning. Whatever disagreement, anger or frustration or despair that the people who suffered from those rules had, had to be kept without being expressed in any way. Any expression of such feelings of disagreement or protest would only lead to the punishment of death or other punishment not only for the individual but for the whole of that family or even the number of families who are related to each other.
We are talking no longer about an imaginary situation but about history. The way the country kept a social order on strict conditions of compliance and obedience and without any form of public space for protest or even the expression of frustration or despair.
That in short explains the manner in which the kulinas dominated and ruled Sri Lanka in every village, in every corner of the country whether it be among the Sinhalese, among whom there was this distinction of kulina and kulaheena and also among the Tamils where they had classifications which were different but where the social order was based on the same principles.
That kind of social order remained for a much longer time in India, maybe for even 3,000 or 4,000 years or more. In places like Nepal, these rules which were imposed in a distant period probably with the influence of India, remained in a more draconian way that may give a feature of what Sri Lanka was like between 8th Century AD to the 19th Century. In the 19th Century, particularly with the development of the British administrative system, there was a huge conflict between the way the social order remained earlier and the new social order that has been engineered by this new administration. The principle on which the new administration was based was different and in fact the opposite of the principles of the old social order. Equality before the law, at least from a theoretical point of view, was the foundation of the new administration. The notion of social immobility and the prohibitions against mobility were abolished at the beginning at least in theoretical terms. Personal freedoms for dress as in any way they like, to wear ornaments that they could afford and liked, and at least theoretically, the choice of marriages and personal relationships were part of the new principles of the new social order. Above all, the idea of punishment of entire families for the transgressions of one person was completely abolished. The transgressions that could be punished were well defined and at the same time, these punishments had to be carried out through processes that themselves have also been laid down by way of laws and rules.
This undermined the old order. The new order progressed to some extent though the coming century. By way of practical imposition of the law and also by methods of education particularly within the civil administration, these rules were spread into the society.
However, even up to date, this is an incomplete revolution. The old order and the new order clashed. The new order was legally recognized and became the legal order. However, the old order had its influence in the psychology, in the behaviour patterns, in the thought patterns, and in the value systems of the country. While there was compliance externally with the new order at least for some time, the new order was all the time undermined by systems of values that belonged to the old order. For example, the old order did not have a principle against corruption as far as the kulinas were concerned. The kulinas were not bound by any ethical principles. The kulinas were not subjected to any kind of discipline even in terms of financial or any other social matters. That old order did not have any concept of accountability or transparency.
In that old social order, the new principles were uneasy, but so long as the colonial influence remained, they were enforced by law enforcement means and thereby a certain degree of the new principles prevailed in the society in the civil administration, in governance and also in personal relationships. However, this uneasy existence was disturbed after Independence when gradually, the habits of the old order began to shake off what was imposed from outside by the new order that was established through the British administration. So gradually, whatever achievements that had been made in terms of creating a system based on the rule of law which is founded on the principle of equality before the law and the principles of transparency and accountability were lost gradually and then drastically. The arbitrary behaviour which was the privilege of the kulinas once again came back to the rulers of the county.
Thus, in order to understand what happened to Sri Lanka to bring it to the kind of crisis that it is facing, it is essential to go deeper to understand what the social order was from the 8th Century AD to the establishment of the British administrative system.
*This article is linked to the earlier article publish in Colombo Telegraph –
The Need For A Pedagogy For Former Kulinas & Kulahinas Who Are Not Yet Free Men/Women
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Welcome to Money Diaries, where we tackle the ever-present taboo that is money. We ask real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we track every last dollar.
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Today: a writer who makes $65,000 a year and spends some of her money this week on Clementine Ford's new book, 'How We Love'.
Occupation: Writer
Industry: Media
Age: 27
Location: Surry Hills, Sydney
Salary: $65,000
Net Worth: $15,000 in super. I don't have any savings or investments.
Debt: $50,800 ($45,000 on my HECS debt, $800 debt on ZipPay, and $5,000 on a credit card that I got just for emergencies, but then proceeded to live like a gorgeous heiress!)
Paycheque Amount (Weekly): $950
Pronouns: She/Her
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Today: a writer who makes $65,000 a year and spends some of her money this week on Clementine Ford's new book, 'How We Love'.
Occupation: Writer
Industry: Media
Age: 27
Location: Surry Hills, Sydney
Salary: $65,000
Net Worth: $15,000 in super. I don't have any savings or investments.
Debt: $50,800 ($45,000 on my HECS debt, $800 debt on ZipPay, and $5,000 on a credit card that I got just for emergencies, but then proceeded to live like a gorgeous heiress!)
Paycheque Amount (Weekly): $950
Pronouns: She/Her
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Monthly Expenses
Rent: $2,280, split 50/50 with my partner. We rent a tiny terrace in inner city Sydney.
Credit Card Repayments: $100
Streaming Services (Including Netflix, Disney+ and Stan): $30
Yoga: $200
Home and Contents Insurance: $30
Savings Contributions: I don't really save, but I'm trying to work on it.
Anything else to add?: My partner and I split pretty much everything as our incomes are quite similar, plus we both like to be generous when we can. However, he's a better saver than me and is much better with money (though that isn't hard). His savings are often used as a backup if anything unexpected pops up! He also owns a property, but we live in a different one that we rent together.
Credit Card Repayments: $100
Streaming Services (Including Netflix, Disney+ and Stan): $30
Yoga: $200
Home and Contents Insurance: $30
Savings Contributions: I don't really save, but I'm trying to work on it.
Anything else to add?: My partner and I split pretty much everything as our incomes are quite similar, plus we both like to be generous when we can. However, he's a better saver than me and is much better with money (though that isn't hard). His savings are often used as a backup if anything unexpected pops up! He also owns a property, but we live in a different one that we rent together.
Did you participate in any form of higher education? If yes, how did you pay for it?
Yes, through HECS! I have a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in journalism. I paid for my day-to-day expenses with a part-time job that I juggled during uni. Which meant I spent four years pretty poor and struggling. But it's a rite of passage, right?
Growing up, what kind of conversations did you have about money? Did your parent/guardian(s) educate you about finances?
I didn't worry about money growing up, but it also wasn't discussed, which I think is part of the problem. My dad is a business owner and Mum's a teacher, so they've always had stable incomes. I grew up in a house with holidays every year, plenty of treats, and even the odd lamb cutlet for dinner! I live like I'm about to inherit a big sum of money (spoiler: I'm not!). I think my parents didn't ever want me to be nervous or worried about money as they come from working-class backgrounds. In reality, I think it's made money really mysterious. I wish I did have more education around it.
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What was your first job and why did you get it?
My first job was at a video shop. I loved everything about it — the independence, the money, and the co-worker drama! I never earned enough to save, though. I got it because I wanted to seem more mature and worldly — money was hardly a factor. That might have actually been the beginning of my problems with money.
Did you worry about money growing up?
No. My parents didn’t ever burden us and Mum always used to emphasise that everyone spent money differently. She never said we couldn’t afford something. As an adult, she told me that she kept this attitude because she didn't want us to grow up with the same money anxiety that she did. It's sweet, but I also think it means that I haven't always had a realistic view of money. Maybe my parents shielded me a little too well?
Do you worry about money now?
Yes, all the time! It’s because I overspend and then feel guilty. I also moved out at 19, so having no money was normal for a while. But as my wage has increased, I think I've kept some bad habits. I live paycheque-to-paycheque and don't worry about savings. I'm very much a 'live in the moment' type of person. Which is okay, but often leads to me worrying about money, especially if something pops up unexpectedly. I’d really like to start saving but living in one of the most expensive cities in the world isn’t easy.
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At what age did you become financially responsible for yourself and do you have a financial safety net?
Probably when I moved out at 19. That being said, my parents would always help me if I needed it, I know that I could turn to them in a pinch. My boyfriend is also better at saving than me, so he's a good backup for unexpected expensive things, like a big electricity bill! I think I’m lucky in the sense that I have partner who is super generous, along with parents that can always afford to help. But I’ve been paying rent since I was 19 and that does take its toll! It’s hard to get ahead when you're paying big rent.
Do you or have you ever received passive or inherited income? If yes, please explain.
My parents paid half of my rent while I was at university. Other than that, it's just been me and what I make.
Day 1
8:15am — Mondays are not my thing. So I treat myself to a vanilla soy latte before I head into work. While I’m waiting for my coffee, I run into one of my favourite co-workers and end up shouting her a long black with a dash of soy, coming to $9.80 for the both of us. It’s a nice way to start the day and we gossip about our weekends. She also reminds me that The Iconic has a huge sale this week. I check if Dr Martens are on sale, but sadly they aren't. $9.80
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8:30am — I get to the office and check my bank account, realising that I need to make my credit card bill repayment. I transfer $45 (covered in my monthly expenses) and see that my account has been overdrafted from an UberEats order I forgot was coming out. My love of Thai food will someday send me broke! Now, I have to pay a $15 banking fee. Annoying. $15
12:30pm — A couple of girls from the office and I head out to get Mexican food. It's $12 margaritas and $5 tacos! I use this as an excuse and treat myself to three tacos and one margarita ($27) — I figure I deserve it because it's a Monday! Mexican is also always a winner for me — spicy, but fresh! We tend to go out for a lot of work lunches which is great, but also expensive. $27
5:15pm — My boyfriend picks me up from work today and we head to his mum's house for dinner. We chat about how the world feels like it's falling apart — between all these floods and the war, things feel grim. We have a homemade pie and peas, which are really wholesome and delicious.
9:00pm — We get home and I do a bit of online shopping, buying a pair of pants ($200). I'm trying to shop ethically this year which is hurting my wallet, but the pants are ZEBRA PRINT. $200
Daily Total: $251.80
Day 2
7:00am — I get up early today and head to yoga. A class usually costs $25, but I pay upfront for two for the week. I’m not a morning person but it does help with my anxiety and It’s only down the road. If I can get in some yoga time, it makes me a better person to be around. $50
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8:00am — I promise myself that I'm going to spend less money today. Luckily, my boss ends up shouting my morning coffee — vanilla soy again, please!
12:00pm — I already feel starving, so I head down to the local sandwich place and get a chicken and mayo situation and a bottle of water ($17). I know it's silly to buy water when I could just fill up a glass in the office, but it's not as cold and I have my needs! $17
3:00pm — I spend the afternoon doing heaps of admin work that I've been putting off. It makes me grumpy. I’m not a detailed person — I'm more of a big picture girl. While I enjoy my work which is writing and creating content, I hate the tediousness of a never-ending email chain. So I end up buying an extra coffee (a vanilla soy latte, of course) to give me some fuel — $4.50.
5:30pm — On my way home, I stop and buy dinner at the local Woolies. I get a two-for-one steak and a salad ($30). I also pick up some dog food for the love of my life, my Chihuahua cross, Frank ($30). $60
6:00pm — I'm thrilled when I get home because my boyfriend has bought wine. I have a glass and flick through my bank account. I realise my Netflix bill has come out ($10), as well as my home insurance ($30) — both covered under my monthly expenses. My boyfriend cooks dinner while I work on some freelance writing. We eat and get stuck into bingeing Inventing Anna on Netflix.
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7:30pm — We discuss getting Frank desexed, but it's going to cost around $500, so we decide to put it off for a few months. I’m trying to work towards havings some kind of savings, but it feels like there’s always something coming up. Last week, I had to go to the gyno, setting me back $350. I also know that I have an upcoming appointment to get my ingrown toenail sorted, which is also going to cost money. Living in such an expensive city, whilst also trying to be social and proactive about my health is really hard and constantly leaves me broke. I don't want to feel so anxious about money, so I really need to find a way to save.
8:30pm — After dinner, my boyfriend heads off to the pub to catch up with mates and I get back to writing some freelance work. I'm currently writing about fatphobia.
8:30pm — After dinner, my boyfriend heads off to the pub to catch up with mates and I get back to writing some freelance work. I'm currently writing about fatphobia.
Daily Total: $131.50
Day 3
7:00am — My boyfriend and I alternate paying our rent each fortnight. This week, it's my turn, so I transfer $570 to our real estate — ouch. Unlike me, he's really good with money. He saves every month, while I spend, spend, spend. I think it's partly because he has a better history with money, usually having a decent job. Whereas when I moved out, I struggled with being poor.
8:00am — I get to work and treat myself to a banana smoothie as there's no bread to make toast ($9.50). It's super yummy, but I'm sadly already off to a bad start on the spend less game. $9.50
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11:00am — I pop downstairs to get a coffee ($4.50). Partly because I want a caffeine hit, partly because I'm desperate to get away from my desk. I have too many emails to reply to and not enough hours in the day. $4.50
1:00pm — I head off to lunch with two of the girls I work with. I deliberately pick one of the cheaper items on the menu — avocado on toast and a coffee ($19). Is this self-growth? $19
4:00pm — I finish work early today and head to the doctor's. I'm getting an IUD put in. The doctor is really lovely, explaining everything, and suggests I get a routine STI check too. Even though I'm in a monogamous relationship, I've heard enough stories to always get tested. You never know! The experience isn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I can already feel my cramps kicking off, making me feel grumpy and vulnerable. I head to the counter and see the bill — $200. It's pretty steep and is just another tax we have to pay as women. I complain to my boyfriend and he immediately offers to go halves, sending me $100. We're both invested in me not getting pregnant! $100
7:00pm — My boyfriend gets home late from work and I'm in pain from my IUD. He mentions we do have some food in the fridge to cook, but neither of us can be bothered. Plus, I’m in pain! We order chicken and chips from Chargrill Charlies with extra Perri Perri sauce instead ($50). $50
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10:00pm — I go to bed and scroll through my bank account feeling depressed. I get paid tomorrow, but I'm down to my last $200.
Daily Total: $183
Day 4
8:00am — I get paid tonight, but my mission today is to spend barely any money as I'm down to my last few hundred dollars. I still get my morning coffee though — I’m trying to save money not deprive myself! $4.50
12:30pm — For lunch, I dig around in the work fridge. I find some bread and peanut butter, so I make myself some toast. It’s delicious and free — I really should do this more often and not just when I’m down to my last cents!
2:00pm — While I stuff my face, there's an office birthday going on. Hip hip, hooray! I scroll through my phone and am offended to realise that both my Stan and Amazon's monthly amounts have come out — $30 (covered in my monthly expenses). I keep meaning to cancel all my streaming services and only have one, but there’s always a new show out that’s exclusive on one or another — so I just end up signing back up.
7:00pm — For dinner, we have leftovers that my boyfriend scored off his mum. It's a delicious curry, and I’m pretty stoked it’s free! Today has made me realise that I could live a lot cheaper if I really tried. My boyfriend and I chat about how we need to take Frank for more walks. He goes off to play video games, and I catch up on some freelance work again. I shouldn’t accept so much, but I’m always hustling. I want to keep growing my profile and I figure if I work myself to the bone now it’ll pay off later.
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9:00pm — I'm relieved to see I've been paid!
10:00pm — I mindlessly scroll online. Whenever I get paid, I have this overpowering need to treat myself! After almost checking out my cart on ASOS, I end up just buying a pair of ModiBodi period pants ($22). At least they are practical and I’ll wear them! $22
Daily Total: $26.50
Day 5
7:00am — To continue celebrating being paid, I treat myself to a coffee and a toasted sandwich ($15). I’m up early as I’ve got some freelance work I want to complete before work starts. I’m want to try and hustle more this year — I’m hoping that I can save all the money I make from my freelance work and live off my main income. $15
12:30pm — The girls at work and I head to the pub for lunch. I guess we are all celebrating! I get the $10 steak option and a cider ($19.50). It's nice to be out socialising again regularly. Lockdown was really isolating. $19.50
2:00pm — I can no longer concentrate on work. I message a designer in Melbourne that I love. I want to commission her to make me a dress for an upcoming wedding. My best friend is getting married and I really want to have a special moment. I ask if I can do a payment plan as the dress is $400. She emails me back straight away and says yes, so I pay a deposit of $150. I figure it's worth it — it's made locally and I love the idea of supporting a one-woman business. $150
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6:00pm — I have a dinner planned with my girlfriends tonight. I clock off work at 5:30pm and go to meet them at a bar. It's one of my favourites in the inner city because it's cute, but never crowded. Plus, the lighting is nice for photos — vain, but true!
7:00pm — I order two cocktails and we get a share platter and complain about our jobs ($85). We all thought we'd be earning more money by now — it sucks because we all work really hard, but it’s depressing to realise all our boyfriends earn more then us. $85
10:00pm — We say our goodbyes. Because I live so centrally, I just walk home. At least my transport costs are pretty much always zero!
10:15pm — I spot a block of chocolate from the corner store near me. I have a craving, so I take the plunge ($6.40). I know, I'm wild. $6.40
Daily Total: $275.90
Day 6
10:00am — It's a Saturday, so my boyfriend and I wake up late. We spend far too much time scrolling on our phones.
11:00am — I take Frank to the fancy dog store near us to buy some new treats. He gets so excited when we go there! I end up spending $70 on treats, but his happiness is priceless. Plus, don’t lamb puffs just sound yummy? $70
11:30am — My boyfriend and I go for brunch nearby. Living in the city means we rarely get public transport. Plus we like to take Frank! We go to this cute place around the corner that makes the best coffee. My boyfriend orders some fancy egg situation and I go for the big breakfast, with some lattes for both of us on the side. We grab the bill — $55. I offer to pay as my boyfriend has his rego due this week. $55
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12:00pm — On the way back from breakfast, I head into a book store and buy the new Clementine Ford book, How We Love ($33). I’m trying to make an effort to support local businesses and not chains, but it does hurt to know I could have picked up this book for a cool $20 at Kmart! $33
6:00pm — I spend the rest of the day pottering around the house and doing my washing. We don't have a dryer, so I have to plan in advance. We end up going to the pub for dinner with my boyfriend's mates. I have three ciders and a chicken burger, trying my best not to overspend ($60). It's like I live like a king for a week, then struggle for the rest of the month. $60
11:00pm — We walk home. I jump into bed and scroll through my bank account. The $5,000 debt feels like it's mocking me tonight, so I transfer $20 over to pay some of it off. I hate seeing the debt number stare at me.
Daily Total: $218
Day 7
8:00am — On Sundays, we tend to get up early and take Frank to the dog park. We get coffees on the way, but my boyfriend pays. We give Frank a big run around and I scroll through Gumtree on my phone. We're thinking about getting a friend for Frank, but all the puppies currently are at least $2,000 so we need to save!
11:00am — We go home and have some toast for breakfast. I get ready to go out as I'm meeting up with my best mate. We go to the markets together, and I promise myself that I'm not going to buy anything. I end up caving and buying some love heart-shaped earrings ($45) and a strawberry milkshake ($8.50). They are both too cute (and delicious!) to ignore. $53.50
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12:00pm — We part ways and I walk home. My boyfriend is on the way to the pub, but I decide to stay home, have a nap and hangout with Frank. Getting a dog has been more expensive than I thought but the joy is unlimited.
5:00pm — I text my boyfriend to see if he's coming home for dinner. He says he's going to get Thai and asks if I want to come. I decide to go and meet up with him and his friends, and share some yummy Thair food. My boyfriend pays for me, but I transfer him $30 on the way home. $30
9:00pm — We take a pitstop at Messina. I get a cheesecake ice cream flavour which is so good. My boyfriend gets a chocolate flavour. I pay for both of us — $18.50. When we get home, we watch Yellowjackets and I check my emails. I decide to put more towards my dress I’m getting made, and transfer across another $100. I look at my credit card debt, and transfer over $10 out of guilt. $118.50
Daily Total: $202
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Frank Turner has released a live video for his song "Punches". The song is off his newest album FTHC that was released earlier this year. Frank Turner will be touring the UK in spring and the US in the summer. Check out the video below.
Frank Turner has released a live video for his song "Punches". The song is off his newest album FTHC that was released earlier this year. Frank Turner will be touring the UK in spring and the US in the summer. Check out the video below.
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Tropical origins of the record-breaking 2020 summer rainfall extremes in East Asia
The East Asian countries have experienced heavy rainfalls in boreal summer 2020. Here, we investigate the dynamical processes driving the rainfall extremes in East Asia during July and August. The Indian Ocean basin warming in June can be responsible for the anticyclonic anomalies in the western North Pacific (WNP), which modulate...
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri nonprofit that was at the center of a corruption probe that involved several legislators is paying more than $8 million to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under an agreement with prosecutors announced Thursday.
Federal prosecutors announced the non-prosecution agreement with Preferred Family Healthcare, which agreed to forfeit more than $6.9 million to the federal government and pay more than $1.1 million in restitution to Arkansas.
The Missouri-based mental health care provider operated 50 clinics throughout Arkansas until October 2018 and no longer operates in the state. Prosecutors on Thursday said under the agreement, PFH admitted that its former officers and employees conspired to embezzle funds from the charity and bribe Arkansas legislators.
Several former executives from the charity, former Arkansas legislators and other have pleaded guilty in federal court as part of the corruption probe.
A lobbyist pleaded guilty in 2019 to bribing three Arkansas lawmakers, including the governor’s nephew, to benefit PFH. The lobbyist, Rusty Cranford, was sentenced to seven years in prison and in August was released to serve the remainder of his sentence from home.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in 2020 announced the firm had reached $6.5 million in federal and state settlements following an investigation by Rutledge's office into false Medicaid claims made by former PFH employees.
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Police forces have announced that they intend to use hot air balloons to help uncover people breaking the law. As fuel prices soar and pressure to help the environment increases, new alternatives are already being considered.
Trials for the scheme are expected to start in Somerset in July this year, and if they are met with success they will expand across the whole of the south west region. Somerset ballooning company Fly Away Ballooning, has been tasked with teaching officers how to fly and maintain hot-air balloons, with lessons having started in earnest this spring.
Hugo Hall, founder of the company, is a "third-generation balloonist" and is keen to see the scheme succeed. He said: "I think it's a fantastic alternative, we use LPG to fly the balloons which is one of the cleanest alternative fuels you can use. Also it's far more cost-effective than diesel or petrol due to special fuel rates we have for balloons.
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"Police helicopters are far more expensive to run, and it's also an awful lot easier to teach people to fly balloons rather than helicopters. Also, unlike with drones, balloons lend a lovely charm to the skyline which can surely only be a good thing."
With the new Highway Code rulings coming into force, it is hoped that by using balloons in conjunction with ANPR technology - which has been developed by camera manufacturing firm Loof Lirpa Tech - the police will be able to catch all manner of criminals who may be on their phones whilst driving or driving uninsured.
Another reason for the initiative is due to the region's many country lanes which are difficult for police to patrol, especially given that many residents driving along them possess a far more intimate knowledge and can escape with relative ease.
The trials will take place primarily around the Quantocks and Exmoor National Park as the balloons can easily cover the remote countryside as well as the towns of Minehead and Bridgwater, where the two main police stations for the area are located.
Mr Hall, who flew the Bristol Channel in 2020, says he never saw this coming, "If you'd have told me last year I'd be training police officers to fly balloons I'd have thrown you out the basket myself. But here we are, it's exciting times for the West Country and it's great to be at the forefront of - what will hopefully be - a nationwide initiative."
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SEOUL, South Korea — When North Korea conducted its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile test to date last week, it said it launched the Hwasong-17, its newest and biggest ICBM. In a propaganda blitz, the country’s state media released a Hollywood-style video of its leader, Kim Jong Un, personally guiding the test launch in a sleek leather jacket and sunglasses at Pyongyang International Airport.
South Korea now says it may have been a ruse.
In a report to the National Assembly on Tuesday, the South Korean Defense Ministry endorsed what some analysts had already suspected: North Korea actually fired its older Hwasong-15 ICBM — which was tested in 2017 — and exaggerated Kim’s weapons achievements by falsely claiming a successful Hwasong-17 launch.
Kim badly needs to strengthen his diplomatic leverage with the United States and South Korea, and a successful new launch may have helped. But more importantly, South Korean officials said, Kim used the launch and a crude, fake presentation of video and photos to demonstrate his infallible leadership to the long-suffering people of North Korea.
The country will celebrate the 110th birthday of Kim Il Sung, Kim’s grandfather and North Korea’s founder, in April. With his economy hobbled by international sanctions and the pandemic, Kim has often used such occasions to focus on his growing nuclear capabilities and to show off his power.
“We suspect the latest launch had more to do with domestic considerations,” the Defense Ministry said in its parliamentary report.
When North Korea first unveiled the Hwasong-17 during a military parade in October 2020, it appeared to be the largest mobile-launcher ICBM the world had ever seen. Some analysts suspected that, unlike the Hwasong-15, which is built to carry a single warhead, the Hwasong-17 appeared to be designed to carry multiple nuclear warheads. A successful launch would have marked a significant milestone in North Korea’s ICBM program.
North Korea began testing the Hwasong-17 this year. On Feb. 27 and March 5, it tested the missile’s first-stage booster rocket and other components, but not at full range. In its third test, conducted on March 16, something went wrong, and the rocket exploded in the sky near Pyongyang, the capital, shortly after liftoff.
“The explosion was visible to the naked eye, as its debris rained down through the sky over Pyongyang,” Ha Tae-keung, a South Korean lawmaker, told reporters this week. “Pyongyang citizens were shocked, and it could even have led to some instability.” South Korean officials said Kim likely used the successful test flight of the Hwasong-15 disguised as the Hwasong-17 on March 24 as damage control.
“Now that Pyongyang citizens had witnessed the failure, they needed to send a message of success and do so quickly in order to prevent rumors from spreading and to ensure regime stability,” the Defense Ministry said in its parliamentary report. “So they launched a Hwasong-15 model whose reliability had been confirmed through a test in 2017.”
The Hwasong-17 is bigger and longer than the Hwasong-15. Its first-stage booster rocket has four nozzles, while the Hwasong-15 has only two. But Kim’s propagandists edited and combined video footage and photos from the earlier Hwasong-17 tests with those from the Hwasong-15 on March 24, creating the illusion of a successful Hwasong-17 launch, South Korean officials said.
While unsuspecting North Koreans may have been fooled, the alleged fakery did not escape the scrutiny of South Korean defense officials and private analysts.
The weather around Pyongyang on March 24 was overcast, but some photos of the test released by North Korean media showed a fine and clear day. The test took place in the afternoon, but in some photos and video footage, the shadow of Kim at the test site suggests that he was inspecting a test in the morning. (All three previous Hwasong-17 tests, including the one that failed, took place in the morning.)
The engine burn time and trajectory data from the test also hinted at a Hwasong-15 rather than the Hwasong-17, South Korean officials said. And lastly, satellite and other data indicated that the missile had two nozzles, not four, officials said.
With no free news media allowed in North Korea, it is extremely difficult to verify official claims independently. When North Korea conducts a weapons test like the one March 24, outside analysts have few sources of information other than North Korean state media and a small amount of data released from Seoul or Tokyo. And in North Korea, propaganda routinely trumps the truth.
Still, it is unusual for the South Korean military to dispute a North Korean claim so publicly and with so much detail. Some analysts say the South Korean military has a history of downplaying the power of its northern rival.
The South Korean military may also have been particularly upset by the launch because it came in the middle of a rocky presidential transition in Seoul: President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol told the Defense Ministry to move out of its current location so he could use it for his presidential office after his inauguration May 10.
Hwasong-17 or not, the North’s latest missile launch still violated U.N. resolutions and the country’s self-imposed moratorium on ICBM tests. It also demonstrated significant technological advances. The missile soared 3,852 miles into space, compared with an altitude of 2,796 miles that the Hwasong-15 achieved in its last test in November 2017.
The main question appears to be whether the weapon was an improved and more powerful version of the Hwasong-15 or the same Hwasong-15 equipped with more fuel and a lighter payload, allowing it to fly higher.
“We should not pay too much attention to whether this was a Hwasong-15 or 17,” said Kim Dong-yup, an expert on the North Korean military at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. “I don’t think you can generate such flight data by just reducing the payload or using a little more fuel. This clearly marks a technological advance.”
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Jason Boutilier receives a commendation in this submitted photo. All charges were withdrawn against the Sturgeon County man in relation to a 2021 hit and run and assault investigation.
It has been a rough year for former Canadian Soldier Jason Boutilier. The Sturgeon County resident was charged a year ago with four counts related to a hit and run and assault investigation in the county.
Almost a year later, all four charges were withdrawn.
On Feb. 14, 2021, Morinville RCMP responded to a call for service involving an incident on Highway 2 and Township Road 552 in Sturgeon County. A call from a concerned citizen and the victim himself reported a red-coloured older Ford truck that had rammed the victim’s car at high speeds off the highway into an adjacent ditch. The suspect then rammed the victim’s car several times before fleeing the scene.
After a two-month investigation by the Morinville RCMP, K Division Auto Theft Unit, K Division Forensic Identification Section, Parkland RCMP, and the K Division Interview Assistance Team, Boutilier was charged with Assault with a Weapon, Dangerous Operation of a Motor Vehicle, Failure to Remain at the Scene of an Accident, and Committing Mischief to Property Endangering Life.
Eleven months later, the Crown withdrew all charges when the matter went before the court on Mar. 15. The last of Boutilier’s four charges was initially removed, and then the remaining three.
In an interview with Jason Boutilier on Mar. 28, the former soldier told Morinville Online that prosecutors found insufficient evidence against him.
Boutilier said the trial, initially set for November, was delayed and dragged on, he feels, because the RCMP and Crown did not have what they needed.
“I would call it emotional trauma, to be honest with you,” Boutilier said of the delay in having his day in court. “Stress was through the roof. Imagine being called a rapist, and you didn’t rape anybody.”
The Sturgeon County man said he experienced a loss of income and a loss of reputation within the community. “It was broadcasted all over the news,” he said, adding that social media commentary often makes an accused guilty until proven innocent instead of the other way around. “Realistically, I didn’t have to prove myself innocent. They didn’t have enough evidence.”
While being vindicated of wrongdoing is a relief for the former Canadian soldier, he says it is hard to put the stress of the past year behind him.
“I’m just trying to fall back into my life that I lived before and act like it didn’t happen,” Boutilier said, adding he wants to see his name cleared in the community and still finds the matter stressful. “My intentions are just to fall back into my normal life routine and carry on.”
Boutilier served almost a decade in the Canadian Armed Forces and was deployed to assist in B.C. flood relief efforts in 2018. He was awarded a Joint Task Force Pacific Commendation for his actions there.
In the past two weeks since the Crown withdrew the charges in court, RCMP has not indicated to the media that the investigation into the Feb. 14, 2021 incident is ongoing.
article compiled by Stephen Dafoe
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri nonprofit that was at the center of a corruption probe that involved several legislators is paying more than $8 million to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under an agreement with prosecutors announced Thursday.
Federal prosecutors announced the non-prosecution agreement with Preferred Family Healthcare, which agreed to forfeit more than $6.9 million to the federal government and pay more than $1.1 million in restitution to Arkansas.
The Missouri-based mental health care provider operated 50 clinics throughout Arkansas until October 2018 and no longer operates in the state. Prosecutors on Thursday said under the agreement, PFH admitted that its former officers and employees conspired to embezzle funds from the charity and bribe Arkansas legislators.
Several former executives from the charity, former Arkansas legislators and other have pleaded guilty in federal court as part of the corruption probe.
A lobbyist pleaded guilty in 2019 to bribing three Arkansas lawmakers, including the governor’s nephew, to benefit PFH. The lobbyist, Rusty Cranford, was sentenced to seven years in prison and in August was released to serve the remainder of his sentence from home.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in 2020 announced the firm had reached $6.5 million in federal and state settlements following an investigation by Rutledge's office into false Medicaid claims made by former PFH employees.
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https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Firm-paying-8M-to-Arkansas-feds-over-corruption-17049727.php
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American Airlines Can't Escape Worker's Bias Suit Over Firing
By Emily Brill · March 31, 2022, 4:28 PM EDT
American Airlines can't shake a lawsuit alleging that bias against a longtime employee's race and disability status contributed to its decision to fire her, with a Pennsylvania federal judge refusing to...
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Toronto Raptors' Fred VanVleet is finding his way back
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Six games to go with a two-game lead on seventh-place is a pretty good position to be in for a team that began the year roundly considered a play-in team at best.
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But that wasn’t the best thing to come out of Wednesday night’s win over a Minnesota team that plays really hard and has some real high-end young talent.
Browse through the box score of the game and the likely stopping points are Pascal Siakam’s triple-double, Gary Trent Jr.’s game-high 29 points which included a 6-for-8 night from distance.
Next up was likely OG Anunoby and his 4-for-4 night from three suggesting that finger is becoming less and less a concern.
All of those are great signs for a team likely headed on the road to face a higher seed in the first round of the playoffs.
But we can’t stress this enough. That playoff run is only going to get extended if the Raptors have all that plus an on-the-mend or mostly-mended Fred VanVleet.
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Siakam making the Timberwolves pay for collapsing all five defenders on every drive from about the second quarter on was pivotal in this game and big for Siakam’s ever-improving game.
But while a healthy Siakam playing at the top of his game puts the Raptors on solid ground heading into the playoffs, it’s likely not enough even with the contributions from the likes of Anunoby and Trent Jr and Barnes and Achiuwa to realistically knock off deeper and more experienced teams like the Miami’s and Milwaukee’s and Boston’s and Philadelphia’s of the world.
Somewhere in that group is the Raptors first-round opponent and all four have an edge in depth and overall experience.
What the Raptors are going to have to do if they hope to knock off one of those four is rely heavily on their starting five.
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And without their floor general at or near his best, an upset of any of them seems unlikely.
And that is why VanVleet’s night, moreso than any of his teammates on Thursday, was the big takeaway despite some pretty average numbers.
Head coach Nick Nurse was asked about his starting point guard and Nurse lit up.
“Thought he was unbelievable defensively tonight, man,” Nurse gushed. “He was needed. Two things. One, I thought that was as fast as Fred’s moved and in a few games. He was really, I thought, by people and into the paint, darting around, which was a great sign and his hands were unbelievable tonight.
“I don’t know how many steals he got credited for or how many deflections … It seemed like it was a stretch where he was the one pulling it out of there time and time again, and, yeah, he was incredible defensively tonight.”
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VanVleet was credited with just five steals and one block , but also five deflections and recovered two loose balls defensively. Offensively he had 12 points and eight assists with just one turnover.
Whatever is going on in that knee of his, and no, VanVleet refuses to talk about it, had taken some of that pep out of VanVleet’s step, but it was obviously back last night.
Seeing him comfortable enough with that knee to get back to his speed game, is the kind of sign six games from the end of the regular season that just might change the way things fall a few weeks from now.
COMING INTO HIS OWN
From the moment he put on his first Raptors’ jersey, Precious Achiuwa has shown glimpses of what he can become for this team.
But since the all-star break, a break that included Achiuwa taking part in the Rising Stars portion of the mid-season all-star festivities, he has been a much more consistent player.
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It started with his decision making. Gone was the crippling hesitation that led to so many of his first-half gaffes. Since the break he has been definitive. If the shot is open, he takes it. If not, he swings it or he puts it on the floor and he drives to the hoop.
All indecision is gone.
And now not only is he decisive in taking the shot, he’s fully expecting every one of them to hit the mark.
“He’s crossed over some kind of psychological thing where he really believes he can make ‘em,” Nurse said of Achiuwa. “He’s taking them with conviction, he’s been doing that here for about a month, when it comes to him it’s just going up. I think that’s the biggest thing, he’s got a lot of confidence in it right now and he’s willing to take ‘em and I think that helps when you think you’re going to make ‘em, that’s a good start.”
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Trent Jr. has seen the same thing.
“Early on in the year everyone is finding themselves, finding out what they can do, how they can contribute to a new team being a young player,” Trent Jr said of Achiuwa’s development. “Like you said, he came here now and he was ready, he’s been showing improvement like I said about Pascal, same thing, he’s been working. Every day he comes in and he’s working on his three, this is not just he woke up one day and magically started hitting threes. It’s been a process of getting with the team, listening to the coaches, working on your craft, so, happy for him to see everything come full circle.”
TIPOFF
Tonight, Toronto Raptors (44-32) at Orlando Magic (20-57), 7 p.m., Amway Center, Orlando; TV: SNET; RADIO: FAN590
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SCOUTING REPORT: The Magic have lost four in a row and play four of their remaining five games at home including this matchup with the Raptors. Having started the year with the youngest starting lineup in league history, the Magic will add another lottery pick to their mostly under 24 roster this summer. Injuries have obviously played a role in this tough season for the Magic.
MARQUEE MATCHUP: Fred VanVleet vs. Cole Anthony
Anthony and Jalen Suggs each had 15 in Orlando’s upset of Toronto on March 4, but Anthony also had 12 rebounds in that game making him a double threat. VanVleet appears to have found a routine that allows him to play at or near speed despite a frustrating and presumably painful knee issue.
DID YOU KNOW: At 22-21, Amway Arena is one of the few spots away from home where the Raptors have an all-time winning mark … It will be exactly one day shy of 14 months since VanVleet set his career high for points in a game at this arena. He scored 54 in a win here early last February.
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https://torontosun.com/sports/basketball/nba/toronto-raptors/toronto-raptors-fred-vanvleet-is-finding-his-way-back
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Soybean Competition Encourages Non-Ag Students to Consider Ag Profession
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Soy-based coffee filters, dry erase ink using 60% high oleic soybean oil, a soy-based circuit board, and even a fungicide that uses soy that targets the fungus responsible for Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome-those were some of the innovative products on display Wednesday evening at the Student Soybean Innovation Competition sponsored by the Indiana Soybean Alliance and Purdue University.
The contest introduces Purdue students to the multi-faceted uses and vast potential of soybeans while drawing on students’ creativity to develop products that utilize soy.
The winner of the event, taking home the $20,000 grand prize, was Team Smulch.
“We developed a soy-based rubber mulch that can be used in gardens or on playgrounds,” says Purdue freshman Libby Plassard who is majoring in business management and finance from West Lafayette. “We also developed a second prototype that was like a playground surfacing kind of thing, the squishy playground that you’d see for kids. If they fall, they’re not going to hurt themselves.”
Her teammates were Ethan Miller, a freshman studying biochemistry from Lafayette and Zuhal Cakir, a student working on her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Bursa, Turkey.
Plassard noted that none of them have a background in agriculture. They just heard about the contest and thought it sounded like fun. Now, she’s considering a future in agriculture.
“I just didn’t fully understand how big the agricultural industry is. Even though I’ve lived in Indiana my whole life, I drive by soybean fields every day, you’d think I would know, but until this competition I didn’t really fully understand that. Honestly, this competition has made me interested in the agriculture business, possibly pursuing an ag business degree or an ag business minor. Just getting to meet all these farmers and getting to meet the people that that do this work, it’s been a really cool experience to just kind of see how the whole industry works because it’s huge.”
Plassard says an internship is available this summer that would allow them to continue to fulfill their product. After the contest, the Indiana Soybean Alliance works to develop the products submitted and evaluates their long-term feasibility and commercial viability.
There were more prizes awarded Wednesday night at the Purdue Memorial Union. Read more on the event here.
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Methanex (MEOH) Stock Moves -1.41%: What You Should Know
Methanex (MEOH) closed the most recent trading day at $54.56, moving -1.41% from the previous trading session. This change was narrower than the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the methanol supplier had gained 5.39% over the past month, lagging the Basic Materials sector's gain of 9.98% and outpacing the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Investors will be hoping for strength from Methanex as it approaches its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of $2.05, up 91.59% from the prior-year quarter. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $1.17 billion, up 15.22% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $5.61 per share and revenue of $4.22 billion, which would represent changes of -6.97% and -4.52%, respectively, from the prior year.
It is also important to note the recent changes to analyst estimates for Methanex. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
The Zacks Rank system, which ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 5.15% higher. Methanex is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
In terms of valuation, Methanex is currently trading at a Forward P/E ratio of 9.86. Its industry sports an average Forward P/E of 12.26, so we one might conclude that Methanex is trading at a discount comparatively.
The Chemical - Diversified industry is part of the Basic Materials sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 167, putting it in the bottom 35% of all 250+ industries.
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