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BOSTON (AP) — After a 15-year career in which he etched his name on the Stanley Cup and the Vezina Trophy, Tuukka Rask is focusing now on avoiding the rink.
“Don’t even go there. Not yet,” the retired Bruins goalie said Thursday night when asked if his daughters had taken up hockey. “They’re into dance and whatnot. If I have to go and spend my days at hockey rinks, so be it. But not really at the top of my list.”
A two-time All-Star, and the winner of the 2014 Vezina as the NHL’s top goalie, Rask announced his retirement last month after a setback in his attempt to come back from a torn labrum in his hip. The Bruins invited him back to drop the ceremonial first puck before Thursday night’s game against the New Jersey Devils, and again – perhaps for the last time – the chants of “Tuuuuk!” echoed through the TD Garden.
Rask took the ice with his wife, and their three daughters dressed for a ballet class. He bumped fists with the players on the Bruins bench while both teams tapped their sticks on the ice to salute him.
“I don’t know what the future holds,” Rask told reporters beforehand, saying that he would be showing up at games and golf outings as a team ambassador. “Maybe I’ll get into coaching. Maybe not, but for now, I’ll be hanging out with sponsors.”
The franchise’s all-time leader in wins, Rask helped the Bruins allow the fewest goals in the NHL in the pandemic-interrupted 2019-20 season, when Boston finished with the most points in the league. He injured his hip during the 2021 playoffs and worked his way back to the team midway through this season.
But after just four starts, he aggravated his injury on Jan. 24 against the Anaheim Ducks. Two weeks later, he announced he was through.
“It was kind of time to be honest with yourself,” he said. “I just figured it was better for everybody to call it. I had a great career. No regrets.”
While his hip still has some good days, Rask said no one could talk him out of retirement. His immediate future will involve as much golf as he can squeeze in between shuttling his daughters to dance class and school.
He may need a hip replacement at some point.
“It was at a point where it affected my everyday life,” Rask said. “I’m a guy who makes pretty quick decisions, anyway. So I wasn’t dwelling on it too long.”
Rask was 308-165-66 with a 2.28 goals-against average and .921 save percentage in a franchise-leading 564 games. He was the backup goalie for the Bruins team that won it all in 2011, and he led the team to Stanley Cup Final appearances in 2013 and ’19.
Although coaching is not in his plans, Rask said he would be available if Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman wants him.
“I told him right after I retired: Tell me if you need anything,” Rask said. “Just make sure you don’t get too high or too low.”
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WOOD RIVER - Tim Berkley has announced that he will be a Republican candidate for circuit judge in the 2022 election.
Berkley will run to fill the vacancy created by the upcoming retirement of Chief Circuit Judge Bill Mudge. Due to recent legislation, he will appear on the ballot only for voters living in the areas of the county comprising the first subcircuit.
Berkley, of Wood River, is a lifelong resident of Madison County with more than three decades of experience as an attorney. He attended Lewis and Clark Community College and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, graduating with a bachelor's degree in government in 1985. He then graduated from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1990. Since then he has worked as a prosecutor, public defender, private practitioner and for the appellate court system.
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By Daniel Wilson · March 31, 2022, 5:33 PM EDT
An information technology firm has urged the Fourth Circuit to revive its case alleging several of its then-employees used inside information to undercut a pending subcontract with a General Dynamics unit,...
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BOSTON (AP) — After a 15-year career in which he etched his name on the Stanley Cup and the Vezina Trophy, Tuukka Rask is focusing now on avoiding the rink.
“Don’t even go there. Not yet,” the retired Bruins goalie said Thursday night when asked if his daughters had taken up hockey. “They’re into dance and whatnot. If I have to go and spend my days at hockey rinks, so be it. But not really at the top of my list.”
A two-time All-Star, and the winner of the 2014 Vezina as the NHL’s top goalie, Rask announced his retirement last month after a setback in his attempt to come back from a torn labrum in his hip. The Bruins invited him back to drop the ceremonial first puck before Thursday night’s game against the New Jersey Devils, and again – perhaps for the last time – the chants of “Tuuuuk!” echoed through the TD Garden.
Rask took the ice with his wife, and their three daughters dressed for a ballet class. He bumped fists with the players on the Bruins bench while both teams tapped their sticks on the ice to salute him.
“I don’t know what the future holds,” Rask told reporters beforehand, saying that he would be showing up at games and golf outings as a team ambassador. “Maybe I’ll get into coaching. Maybe not, but for now, I’ll be hanging out with sponsors.”
The franchise’s all-time leader in wins, Rask helped the Bruins allow the fewest goals in the NHL in the pandemic-interrupted 2019-20 season, when Boston finished with the most points in the league. He injured his hip during the 2021 playoffs and worked his way back to the team midway through this season.
But after just four starts, he aggravated his injury on Jan. 24 against the Anaheim Ducks. Two weeks later, he announced he was through.
“It was kind of time to be honest with yourself,” he said. “I just figured it was better for everybody to call it. I had a great career. No regrets.”
While his hip still has some good days, Rask said no one could talk him out of retirement. His immediate future will involve as much golf as he can squeeze in between shuttling his daughters to dance class and school.
He may need a hip replacement at some point.
“It was at a point where it affected my everyday life,” Rask said. “I’m a guy who makes pretty quick decisions, anyway. So I wasn’t dwelling on it too long.”
Rask was 308-165-66 with a 2.28 goals-against average and .921 save percentage in a franchise-leading 564 games. He was the backup goalie for the Bruins team that won it all in 2011, and he led the team to Stanley Cup Final appearances in 2013 and ’19.
Although coaching is not in his plans, Rask said he would be available if Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman wants him.
“I told him right after I retired: Tell me if you need anything,” Rask said. “Just make sure you don’t get too high or too low.”
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BERLIN (AP) — Investigators said Thursday they have identified a 32-year-old student as the suspect in the poisoning of seven people at a university in western Germany last year.
In August, prosecutors opened an investigation after employees and students at the Technical University in Darmstadt, south of Frankfurt, received medical treatment for symptoms of possible poisoning. Police said at the time that milk cartons and water containers in a building on the campus appeared to have been contaminated.
On Thursday, they said the 32-year-old from the German city of Mainz, a materials science student at the university since 2017, has been sent to a psychiatric hospital. She is suspected of attempted murder, but officials believe she can’t be held criminally responsible because of a psychiatric illness. Police said the suspect hasn’t yet responded to the allegations.
They said information from over 1,000 witnesses helped firm up their case against the suspect, and that forensic analysis pointed to her having been in the building the night before the victims’ symptoms appeared.
Some of the affected employees were mentioned in notes written by the woman, and the investigation found indications that she felt persecuted by them, police said. They didn’t identify the “harmful substances” that were used.
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City of Tucson Presents El Lazo de Tucson Friday with Roadrunners
March 31, 2022 - American Hockey League (AHL) - Tucson Roadrunners News Release
Tucson, Arizona - The Tucson Roadrunners, owned and operated by the Arizona Coyotes return home for four games in six nights starting Friday with El Lazo de Tucson presented by the City of Tucson.
The Roadrunners return home after outscoring Henderson 9-4 in a two-game series last week in Las Vegas.
Friday will be the team's final El Lazo de Tucson of the year with a Fiesta Friday featuring food trucks and Mariachi Los Diablitos from Sunnyside High School.
The team's game worn El Lazo jerseys for the year are currently up for auction, raffle or to buy now at TucsonRoadrunners.com/LazoJerseys with all proceeds benefitting Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson and Mariachi Los Diablitos. The jersey event will run until Friday at 9 p.m.
El Lazo Packs are also available that include: Four Tickets, two El Lazo T-Shirts and a souvenir El Lazo puck at TucsonRoadrunners.com/ElLazo, the team's landing page for El Lazo de Tucson.
There will also be player signed Mystery Pucks available for $25 at the Roadrunners Give Back Table at the top of Section 216.
About El Lazo de Tucson
The Roadrunnners 'El Lazo' identity is a continuing effort to embrace all that is Southern Arizona and the history and culture of the community. The El Lazo mark features the skull of a Roadrunner in celebration of Dia de Los Muertos and the All Souls Procession (a public ceremony began in Tucson in 1990). El Lazo, Spanish for 'lariat' or 'lasso', is taken from the City of Tucson's city seal that ties together the modern city and the historic area that is now Tucson. The Tucson Rodeo and Parade is held every February and celebrates the ranching history of the area. The skull in the logo is wearing a cowboy hat to reflect this historic tradition in Southern Arizona. The team unveiled their El Lazo identity in 2020 and skated in their El Lazo jerseys for three games during the 2020-2021 season. 2021-2022 marks the team's second season featuring games in their El Lazo identities.
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- Canucks Sign Arseneau to Two-Year AHL Extension - Abbotsford Canucks
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- Tampa Bay Lightning Sign Defenseman Nick Perbix to One-Year, Entry-Level Contract - Syracuse Crunch
- A Monster April Begins with Annual Purple Game on Saturday - Cleveland Monsters
- All COVID-19 Restrictions and Mandates Lifted for Remaining Condors Games - Bakersfield Condors
- Canucks Earn Point in Back to Back against the Marlies, Lose 4-3 in OT - Abbotsford Canucks
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TOUTLE — Playing up a classification didn’t scare Toutle Lake on Wednesday, in fact, the Ducks might’ve scared La Center out of town in a 22-6 drubbing in just four innings on a muddy mess of a field.
The Ducks started strong with a four-run first inning, but they kept the rout rolling with 12 runs in the second frame to take a 16-0 lead after two. Both teams plated three runs in the third and fourth innings to close out the 16-run win early.
“Everyone in the field and at the plate played well,” Toutle Lake coach Cortney Byman said. “Very excited for this season. I’m seeing so much growth in so many players it’s exciting and I can’t wait.”
Makinnley Byman scored four runs on the day and finished a triple shy of the cycle with a single, double and a rare inside the park home run, picking up an RBI in the process. Naomi Chavez also came across the plate to score four runs of her own, stealing a pair of bases and lacing an RBI double in the process.
Toutle Lake (1-1) opens up Central 2B League play with a doubleheader on the road at Napavine on Thursday starting at 3 p.m.
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Amity jumps on Clatskanie early
AMITY, Ore. — Clatskanie fell behind early and never recovered in a 16-1 loss to amity on Wednesday in non-league play.
The Warriors jumped in front with three runs in both the first and second innings to take a 6-0 advantage and broke loose in the third with an 8-run inning to go up 14-0.
Mattee Champion got the Tigers on the board in the top of the fourth on a groundout that scored Reilly Norgren and avoided a shutout for Clatskanie. But the Warriors tacked on two more in the bottom half to end the game after hitting the 15-run rule.
Norgren, Kylie Thomas, Paige Taylor and Karielle Carlson all finished 1-for-2 for the Tigers on the game, with Champion picking up Clatskanie’s lone RBI.
Clatskanie (0-3) gets the weekend off before starting their Coastal Range League season at Willamina at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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The Nigerian Army (NA) has reacted to the viral video of a Soldier claiming to have been abandoned by his colleagues at a war front, saying the video was a calculated attempt to whip up sentiments. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, stated this while reacting to the viral video on the […]
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WINNEMUCCA, Nev., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: HYMC) ("Hycroft" or the "Company"), a development company operating the Hycroft Mine in the prolific mining region of Northern Nevada, filed its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
2021 Financial Highlights
- Production: As previously announced, gold production for the year ended December 31, 2021, of 57,668 ounces exceeded the high end of the guidance range as the process team continued to improve equipment, process control and costs. Silver production of 355,967 ounces was approximately 20% below guidance due to slower than planned leach kinetics. Processing of ore on leach pads is currently planned to proceed through the second quarter of 2022.
- Sales: Sales for the year ended December 31, 2021 were 56,045 ounces of gold (average realized price of $1,794 per ounce) and 397,546 ounces of silver (average realized price of $25.66 per ounce).
- Unrestricted Cash Position: The Company ended 2021 with $12.3 million of cash on hand and was in compliance with debt covenants
- Net Loss and Cash Used: Due to high operating costs relative to the associated gold equivalent production and sales volumes and ceasing of mining operations in November, 2021, the Company recorded a net loss of $88.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. Due to the losses from operations, the Company ceased mining activities and is now focused on completing its technical studies and exploration to develop the Hycroft mine through a milling and pressure oxidation process. The $44.0 million reduction in unrestricted cash since the beginning of the year was primarily due to cash used for operating activities of $37.0 million, cash used for investing activities of $6.9 million, cash used for financing activities of $5.5 million, and a $5.4 million reduction in restricted cash.
Subsequent Events:
- The Company completed several financing transactions to significantly strengthen its balance sheet, including:
- Nasdaq trading: With the recent improvement in the stock price, the Company has regained compliance with the Nasdaq minimum bid price for continued listing.
About Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation
Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation is a U.S.-based gold and silver development company that owns the Hycroft Mine, a well-established, world-class asset with a significant mineral endowment in Northern Nevada, a tier one mining jurisdiction. The company is focused on transforming Hycroft into a large-scale mining operation by developing a process for its large sulfide gold and silver mineral resources on site. Additional information is available at hycroftmining.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Unites States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Unites States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included herein and public statements by our officers or representatives, that address activities, events or developments that our management expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to such things as future business strategy, plans and goals, competitive strengths and expansion and growth of our business. The words "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "believe" "target", "budget", "may", "can", "will", "would", "could", "should", "seeks", or "scheduled to" and similar words or expressions, or negatives of these terms or other variations of these terms or comparable language or any discussion of strategy or intention identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements address activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future and are based on current expectations and assumptions. These risks may include the following and the occurrence of one or more of the events or circumstances alone or in combination with other events or circumstances, may have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, cash flows, financial condition and results of operations. Please see our "Risk Factors" set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and other reports filed with the SEC for more information about these and other risks. You are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements. Although we have attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Although these forward-looking statements were based on assumptions that the Company believes are reasonable when made, you are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results, performance or achievements may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements contained in this news release. In addition, even if our results, performance, or achievements are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this news release, those results, performance or achievements may not be indicative of results, performance or achievements in subsequent periods. Given these risks and uncertainties, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements made in this news release speak only as of the date of those statements, and we undertake no obligation to update those statements or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to any of those statements to reflect future events or developments.
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Cambiar Investors LLC acquired a new position in shares of U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. (NYSE:USPH – Get Rating) during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor acquired 25,465 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,433,000. Cambiar Investors LLC owned approximately 0.20% of U.S. Physical Therapy as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in USPH. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. grew its holdings in U.S. Physical Therapy by 33.6% during the 3rd quarter. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. now owns 445 shares of the company’s stock worth $49,000 after acquiring an additional 112 shares during the period. Fifth Third Bancorp grew its stake in shares of U.S. Physical Therapy by 18.5% during the third quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 948 shares of the company’s stock worth $105,000 after purchasing an additional 148 shares during the period. Cim LLC increased its holdings in U.S. Physical Therapy by 11.5% in the fourth quarter. Cim LLC now owns 2,248 shares of the company’s stock valued at $210,000 after purchasing an additional 232 shares during the last quarter. Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd acquired a new position in U.S. Physical Therapy in the third quarter valued at about $227,000. Finally, Teacher Retirement System of Texas bought a new position in U.S. Physical Therapy during the third quarter worth about $230,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 97.79% of the company’s stock.
In related news, COO Graham D. Reeve sold 2,118 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $90.75, for a total value of $192,208.50. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, Director Harry S. Chapman sold 3,320 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $94.75, for a total transaction of $314,570.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 7,218 shares of company stock worth $676,259 over the last ninety days. Insiders own 1.80% of the company’s stock.
U.S. Physical Therapy (NYSE:USPH – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 24th. The company reported $0.73 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.04. U.S. Physical Therapy had a net margin of 6.77% and a return on equity of 15.08%. The business had revenue of $129.83 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $128.62 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.08 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 10.5% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts forecast that U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. will post 3.3 earnings per share for the current year.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 8th. Investors of record on Monday, March 14th will be issued a dividend of $0.41 per share. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.65%. This is an increase from U.S. Physical Therapy’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.38. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 11th. U.S. Physical Therapy’s payout ratio is presently 67.77%.
USPH has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. CJS Securities upgraded U.S. Physical Therapy from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $120.00 target price on the stock in a report on Tuesday, December 14th. Barrington Research cut their price objective on U.S. Physical Therapy from $144.00 to $123.00 in a report on Friday, February 25th. StockNews.com assumed coverage on U.S. Physical Therapy in a research note on Thursday. They set a “hold” rating for the company. Finally, Zacks Investment Research downgraded shares of U.S. Physical Therapy from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 2nd. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $120.00.
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U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc, through its subsidiaries, operates outpatient physical therapy clinics that provide pre-and post-operative care and treatment for orthopedic-related disorders, sports-related injuries, preventative care, rehabilitation of injured workers, and neurological-related injuries.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The pain was sharp and familiar. It reminded David Price of where he has been. It also told him he still might be able to be the pitcher the Los Angeles Dodgers thought they had nearly 26 months ago.
Price’s quiet spring began the way others have in the five-time All-Star’s 13-year career: His left elbow hurt after his first live batting practice a couple of weeks ago, and he knew the resumption of an old routine was underway.
“Always the elbow,’’ Price said. “It happens every year, all the way back to 2010. Now, everything feels good – arm, elbow and shoulder.’’
It was good enough to impress Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and anybody else who watched Price make his first spring appearance against Cleveland on Wednesday night. The left-hander worked only an inning, but he had two strikeouts and was clocked at 93 mph.
In an abbreviated camp, it wasn’t enough to determine his role. It did remind the Dodgers that Price is still in the mix.
From starter to bullpen, Price’s role with the Dodgers has been uncertain since they acquired the 2012 American League Cy Young Award winner from the Boston Red Sox in a three-team deal that included right-fielder Mookie Betts in February 2020.
Price didn’t pitch at all that year, opting out because of concerns about COVID-19. In 2021, he bounced between the starting rotation and the bullpen with 11 starts and 28 appearances as a reliever. His overall ERA was 4.03.
He arrived at camp in mid-March ready to do anything. Then Roberts mentioned him as a possible starter.
“I’m preparing that way, yeah,” said Price, who is in the final year of a seven-year, $217 million contract. “I think it’d be silly of me to prepare to be a reliever if I’m asked to start. So, I’m preparing to be a starter until otherwise.”
Otherwise looks to be the case. Roberts projects his starting rotation will be Walker Buehler, Julio Urias, Clayton Kershaw, Andrew Heaney and Tony Gonsolin. He cautioned that nothing is set in stone, mostly because pitchers were limited in a camp cut short by major league baseball’s lockout.
The Dodgers signed career starter Tyler Anderson in mid-March, just in case. As for Price, Roberts said: “I just think that David, right now, is not an option in the sense of, he’s not built up. It just doesn’t seem feasible right now.”
The 36-year-old left-hander could still have an immediate role, like one inning in relief early in the season, Roberts said, and moving up to multiple innings as he gets stronger.
“I’m confident in David in any role,’’ Roberts said. “I like his versatility. The role doesn’t matter. It’s just knowing that he’s going to pitch valuable innings in whatever role.”
NOTES
Cody Bellinger took batting practice Thursday on the minor-league side of the Dodgers’ camp. The 2019 National League MVP is 4 for 27 with 17 strikeouts this spring.
“I wouldn’t say I’m alarmed,’’ Roberts said. “I think ‘progressing’ is the word. We’ve got to continue to log at-bats to make him feel as comfortable as possible when the season starts.’’
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New deep inelastic scattering experiments measure two mirror nuclei
Scientists are holding up a "mirror" to protons and neutrons to learn more about the particles that build our visible universe. The MARATHON experiment, carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, has accessed new details about these particles' structures by comparing the so-called mirror nuclei, helium-3 and triton. The results were recently published in Physical Review Letters.
The fundamental particles that form most of the matter we see in the universe—quarks and gluons—are buried deep inside the protons and neutrons, the nucleons that make up atomic nuclei. The existence of quarks and gluons was first confirmed a half-century ago in Nobel Prize-winning experiments conducted at DOE's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (now known as SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory).
These first-of-their-kind experiments introduced the era of deep inelastic scattering. This experimental method uses high-energy electrons that travel deep inside protons and neutrons to probe the quarks and gluons there.
"When we say deep inelastic scattering, what we mean is that nuclei bombarded with electrons in the beam break up instantly thereby revealing the nucleons inside them when the scattered electrons are captured with state-of-the art particle detection systems," said Gerassimos (Makis) Petratos, a professor at Kent State University and the spokesperson and contact person for the MARATHON experiment.
The huge particle detector systems that collect the electrons that emerge from these collisions measure their momenta—a quantity that includes the electrons' mass and velocity.
Since those first experiments five decades ago, deep inelastic scattering experiments have been performed around the world at various laboratories. These experiments have fueled nuclear physicists' understanding of the role of quarks and gluons in the structures of protons and neutrons. Today, experiments continue to fine-tune this process to tease out ever more detailed information.
In the recently completed MARATHON experiment, nuclear physicists compared the results of deep inelastic scattering experiments for the first time in two mirror nuclei to learn about their structures. The physicists chose to focus on the nuclei of helium-3 and tritium, which is an isotope of hydrogen. While helium-3 has two protons and one neutron, tritium has two neutrons and one proton. If you could "mirror"-transform helium-3 by converting all protons into neutrons and neutrons into protons, the result would be tritium. This is why they are known as mirror nuclei.
"We used the simplest mirror nuclei system that exists, tritium and helium-3, and that's why this system is so interesting," said David Meekins, a Jefferson Lab staff scientist and a co-spokesperson of the MARATHON experiment.
"It turns out that if we measure the ratio of cross-sections in these two nuclei, we can access the structure functions of protons relative to neutrons. These two quantities may be related to the distribution of up and down quarks inside the nuclei," Petratos said.
First conceived in a summer workshop in 1999, the MARATHON experiment was finally carried out in 2018 in Jefferson Lab's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, a DOE user facility. The more than 130 members of the MARATHON experimental collaboration overcame many hurdles to carry out the experiment.
For instance, MARATHON required the high-energy electrons that were made possible by the 12 GeV CEBAF Upgrade Project that was completed in 2017, as well as a specialized target system for tritium.
"For this individual experiment, clearly the biggest challenge was the target. Tritium being a radioactive gas, we needed to ensure safety above everything," Meekins explained. "That's part of the mission of the lab: There's nothing so important that we can sacrifice safety."
The experiment sent 10.59 GeV (billion electron-volt) electrons into four different targets in Experimental Hall A. The targets included helium-3 and three isotopes of hydrogen, including tritium. The outgoing electrons were collected and measured with the hall's left and right High Resolution Spectrometers.
Once data collection was complete, the collaboration worked to carefully analyze the data. The final publication included the original data to allow other groups to use the model-free data in their own analyses. It also offered an analysis led by Petratos that is based on a theoretical model with minimal corrections.
"The thing that we wanted to make clear is that this is the measurement we made, this is how we did it, this is the scientific extraction from the measurement and this is how we did that," Meekins explains. "We don't have to worry about favoring any model over another—anyone can take the data and apply it."
In addition to providing a precise determination of the ratio of the proton/neutron structure function ratios, the data also include higher electron momenta measurements of these mirror nuclei than were available before. This high-quality data set also opens a door to additional detailed analyses for answering other questions in nuclear physics, such as why quarks are distributed differently inside nuclei as compared to free protons and neutrons (a phenomenon called the EMC Effect) and other studies of the structures of particles in nuclei.
In discussing the results, the MARATHON spokespeople were quick to credit the hard work of collaboration members for the final results.
"The success of this experiment is due to the outstanding group of people who participated in the experiment and also the support we had from Jefferson Lab," said Mina Katramatou, a professor at Kent State University and a co-spokesperson of the MARATHON experiment. "We also had a fantastic group of young physicists working on this experiment, including early career postdoctoral researchers and graduate students."
"There were five graduate students who got their theses research from this data," Meekins confirmed. "And it's good data, we did a good job, and it was hard to do."
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https://phys.org/news/2022-03-deep-inelastic-mirror-nuclei.html
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unding from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) has put the first significant funding in a decades-long effort to deepen the Arkansas River navigation channel to 12-feet. Much of the river system depth is now at nine feet.
On March 29 the U.S. Corps of Engineers (USACE) published an addendum of projects funded through IIJA, which included $92.6 million to “initiate construction of the project.” All six members of Arkansas’ Congressional delegation voted against the infrastructure bill.
The Arkansas River system (McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation system, or MKARNS) is 445 miles long and stretches from the confluence of the Mississippi River to the Port of Catoosa near Tulsa, Okla. The controlled waterway has 18 locks and dams, with 13 in Arkansas and five in Oklahoma. The river also has five ports: Pine Bluff, Little Rock, Fort Smith, Muskogee, Okla., and the Tulsa Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma.
A March 30 presentation by Greg Mattson, deputy chief of operations for the USACE Little Rock District, to the Arkansas Waterways Commission shows that that federal authorization of the channel was made in 2004, and the cost of that work is now estimated at $274.7 million. (Talk Business has attempted to contact Mattson to get clarification on the cost estimate, and when and where the work might begin.)
‘LIQUID HIGHWAY’
Phyllis Harden, chair of the Arkansas Waterways Commission, said much of the navigation channel is now at 12 feet or more, and the funding will help improve the river depth faster than industry officials previously believed. (Link here for USACE info on river depth info.) She said a deeper channel on all river segments could mean 40% or more placed in each barge.
“Putting 40% more in each barge will help industry, particularly, with fuel prices as high as they are. It really feels good for the MKARNS to finally be recognized worthy of funding. It is a good day for the State of Arkansas and the waterways industry,” Harden told Talk Business & Politics. “As previous studies have indicated, the majority of the dredging is in Oklahoma. Dikes, mostly in the Arkansas portion, have helped achieve and maintain the current depth and hold it during high water.”
She praised past efforts of Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., and U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, in advocating for river funding.
Marty Shell, president of Van Buren-based Five Rivers Distribution, which operates the port of Fort Smith and a port facility in Van Buren, said river operators have been lobbying for such funding since 1998.
“The deepening of the system will allow the state to compete with Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky for job recruitment and retention. This will allow for 43% more product to be put into the same barge, and with the inflationary times and high fuel prices along with truck driver recruitment shortages and constraints, this improvement will reap benefits for the River Valley for years to come,” said Shell, who is also a member of the state’s Waterways Commission.
He also said better utilization of the state’s “liquid highway” which provides transportation needs for Arkansas’ agri, construction and manufacturing sectors, will have broad benefits.
“Barging is the most economical way to move a ton mile, and it is also the most environmentally friendly way to move a ton mile. It’s time for us to start utilizing our liquid highway more than we have in the past,” he said.
THREE RIVERS
The IIJA addendum also includes $109.147 million for work on the “Three Rivers” project to control flooding and erosion near the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers. Without additional infrastructure, flooding could cause expensive and long-term disruptions on the Arkansas River system.
“More importantly, if a cutoff formed, navigation through the project area would cease for extended periods due to dangerous cross currents during high flows, and draft constraints during low flows until USACE could mobilize their contingency plan and repair or close the cutoff, which would take at least six months. During the closure, most shippers would have to find alternative overland routes at much higher costs. In addition, sediment deposition would increase dredging requirements, and an estimated 200 acres of bottomland hardwood forest in the path of a cutoff would be destroyed as land converted to open water,” the USACE noted in an April 2018 report on the project.
The USACE recommended a containment plan that in early 2018 was estimated to cost $187.651 million.
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https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/local-regional-news/2022-03-31/feds-to-fund-arkansas-river-deepening-work-project-to-control-flooding-and-erosion
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Last week, fashion icon NIGO unveiled his latest body of work I Know NIGO, which contains 11 tracks and a wealth of contributions from Tyler, The Creator, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, Kid Cudi, the late Pop Smoke, Lil Uzi Vert, and more. Pusha T also makes dual appearances on the album on the standout cuts “Punch Bowl” (alongside his brother No Malice as Clipse) and “Hear Me Clearly,” which later of which served as an official single and saw the Virginia emcee delivering his best coke raps over production from Kanye West, ThaMyind, Luca Starz, and BoogzDaBeast:
“Dope sell itself, got a trunk full of receipts, is you looking for me, or are we looking for Meech? Stand on my standards, expanded with the Ziploc, even if a nigga number better, never clique hop, never tell a jeweller what you spent for your wristwatch, and we don’t fuck bitches who fuck niggas on TikTok…”
Courtesy of AWGE (who has been handling the visual work for each I Know NIGO drop), viewers can see Pusha T bringing his bars to life on the small screen. The short clip sees Pusha rapping while a women stacks bricks in front of him, riding the subway with his carriers, taking part (or showcasing) an apparent robbery-in-progress, and much more.
Earlier this month, Pusha could be seen on Twitter explaining his own long-awaited album, which will see production from both West and Pharrell divided into apparent sides:
“See [Pharrell] was focused more on compositions (song structure, call outs, flow patterns) on his portion of the album. [Kanye West] was more focused on the bars and the neck breaking bop that comes from the beat… My goal was to get the best out of both of them for what they like out of me artistically, they both like different things from me.”
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FORT VALLEY, Ga. — The American Red Cross has been facing a blood shortage since the start of the pandemic in March of 2020.
The shortage can affect medical treatment for some. One group that needs the blood are sickle cell patients.
The CDC says they don't know how many people have the sickle cell trait, but almost 100,000 Americans have sickle cell disease (SCD).
SCD is a blood disorder that makes the red cells in your body become C-shaped, hard, and sticky.
Jessica Coates, 37, was diagnosed with the genetic disorder when she was 2 years old. She's having the disease is exhausting.
"It feels like you're kind of trapped in a limited body."
Coates says blood circulation is poor in her body, especially in her hips. However, it is different for everyone.
"It usually happens in my joints -- so the knees, the elbows, shoulders," Coates said.
Coates is on the board for CultureSHOCK of Dublin, a nonprofit group that "encourages social & civic engagement and serves as a local hub to provide experiences that enrich cultural understanding & inspire positive change."
According to the CDC, about one and 13 African American babies is born with the sickle cell trait. Once someone is diagnosed with SCD, possible treatments include medication or blood transfusion, but with a national blood shortage, this could cause complications.
"Particularly, it's important because anything can be a life-threatening situation for anyone with sickle cell," Coates said
Coates doesn't do blood transfusions often because of the iron overload. She has had a transfusion before.
"I had to have an emergency C-section with my first son."
All four of Coates' children have the sickle cell trait. Coates wants people to be more educated on SCD because she said it can be a family member, coworker or friend.
"This is what sick can look like. This is what sickle cell looks like. It doesn't look like someone who is beat up and battered," Coates said.
Jessica said the most important thing people can do it get tested for the sickle cell trait.
You can go to Sickle Cell Disease Association of America's website to learn more about the disease.
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https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/health/blood-shortage-affects-people-with-sickle-cell-disease-2/93-6a6aa5ef-d67e-450b-a484-64ef11ae2271
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Defenseman Bowen Byram Assigned to Eagles on Conditioning Loan
March 31, 2022 - American Hockey League (AHL) - Colorado Eagles News Release
WINDSOR, CO. - The Colorado Eagles, proud AHL affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche, have announced that defenseman Bowen Byram has been assigned to the Eagles by the team's NHL affiliate on a conditioning loan. Byram was selected by Colorado with the fourth overall pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and has notched five goals and eight assists in 37 career games with the Avalanche.
Prior to turning pro, the 6-foot-1, 190-pound blueliner generated 46 goals and 104 assists in 188 games with the WHL's Vancouver Giants. He would also help lead Team Canada to a Gold Medal at the 2020 World Junior Championships and a Silver Medal in 2021.
The Eagles will be back in action when they travel to take on the Ontario Reign on Friday, April 1st at 8:00pm MT at Toyota Arena in Ontario, California. Tickets for all regular season games are on sale now and start at just $19. You can find more information on ticket packages, theme tickets, and promotional nights, by visiting ColoradoEagles.com or by calling the ticket department at (970) 686-7468.
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With UP BJP unit chief Swatantra Dev Singh being inducted as a minister in the Yogi Adityanath-led state government, the ruling party is now gearing up to fill up the key post with an eye on the upcoming civic polls and organisational programmes aimed at voter outreach.
The incumbent state chief Swatantra Dev Singh was inducted as a cabinet minister in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and has been allocated the Jal Shakti portfolio.
Among the names doing rounds in party circles for the post of BJP state president include Mathura MLA and former power minister Shrikant Sharma, former Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, Aligarh MP Satish Kumar Gautam and Kannauj MP Subrat Pathak – all of whom belong to the Brahmin community.
Sources said that party’s would be sticking to its ‘one man, one post’ policy while selecting candidates and would announcing the new president of its state unit within a month.
Apart from the state unit chief, the BJP is also looking for replacements for former BJP state vice-presidents Daya Shankar Singh and Arvind Kumar Sharma, general secretary JPS Rathore and BJP OBC Morcha state president Narendra Kashyap – all of whom were sworn in as ministers in Yogi Adityanath’s new government.
Party sources said that the appointments for the other posts will be made immediately after the nomination of the BJP state president.
They also said that the party plans to induct more ministers in the state cabinet who so far have not been elected as members of either Vidhan Sabha or the Legislative Council – within six months.
“In the current government, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is a Kshatriya from east Uttar Pradesh, while Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya is a prominent OBC leader from central Uttar Pradesh. The other Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak is a Brahmin from Awadh region of central Uttar Pradesh. The party is most likely to pick a Brahmin face from the western part of the state, or the Bundelkhand or Braj regions for next state president to maintain a regional balance. Also, to get the support of upper caste voters, the party is most likely to pick a Brahmin,” said party leader.
However, there are a few voices in the BJP that claim that nothing can be said for sure.
“Nothing is certain in the party when key decisions are taken by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. A leader belonging to the OBC community or Scheduled Castes (SC) may also be picked, while keeping in mind the bigger picture. The party needs a dynamic face that can look after organisational activities across the state.” However, sources said that so far none of the names being considered by state-level leaders was an OBC or SC leader.
Party leaders that the BJP brass would be organisign several programmes in April and a full-time state president would be required to oversee their successful implementation.
“Among the activities planned, there is a micro-donation collection drive starting from April 6, which is BJP’s Foundation Day. As part of the drive, party workers can donate any amount from from Rs 5 to Rs 1,000,” said a source.
The party has planned a series of programme for the week starting April 14 that is is Dr BR Ambedkar’s birth anniversary. “The programmes include community feasts and seminars based on Ambedkar’s life and thoughts in every district. The objective is to ramp up BJP reach among SC voters,” said a party functionary.
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Well, if this isn't the pot calling the kettle black...
I may have mentioned once or twice that I regularly devote time to escorting patients into and out of family planning clinics, to help them navigate the gauntlet of forced-birth religious terrorists determined to traumatize them simply for seeking legal healthcare. When these religious zombies aren't screaming at or manipulating vulnerable patients, they love taking pot shots at us escorts, and let me tell you, these insults are low blows. "Devil." "Filthy woman." "You won't be laughing when you meet your maker." (Check. Check. I've met my parents, and they make me laugh on the regular.)
But one of their favorite things to scream at both patients and at us are fabricated gruesome descriptions of clinic employees gleefully tearing the fetus' limbs from its body (assuming limbs have formed, but don't mention that, because to these people, every single abortion involves the live birth of a 9-month-old viable fetus who is then literally murdered and then dismembered, even if the patient is only 6 weeks pregnant.)
"They tear them limb from limb!" is a favorite refrain, they yell, red-faced in outrage at us, as we shrug and go back to our conversations. "You don't care! You're MONSTERS!" they shriek, incredulous they're not provoking a reaction. If this occurs when no patients are around, I've even been known to say to a fellow escort, "Sometimes I like to grind them up with my morning smoothie!" to which my friend will reply, "They're great in soup!" Just to highlight the absurdity of it all.
One of their favorites is "HAVE YOU SEEN THE BIOHAZARD BAGS THEY TAKE OUT TO THE TRASH IN THE BACK?" as if every single medical facility didn't dispose of its waste in biohazard bags.
GUESS WHAT, FRIENDS? GUESS WHO HAD BIOHAZARD BAGS REMOVED FROM THEIR HOMES? AND GUESS WHAT WAS IN THEM???
Police discovered five fetuses at the home of an anti-abortion activist in Capitol Hill on Wednesday, the department has confirmed to WUSA9.
Officers responded shortly after noon to a home on the 400 block of 6th Street SE to investigate a tip about potential bio-hazard material in the residence. Once inside, they located the fetuses. The remains were collected by the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
That was WUSA9 reporting that Lauren Handy's home was raided by the feds, and they found five - count them - FIVE fetuses in her house that needed to be removed (in an alarming and poetic twist) in biohazard materials bags. Because they were F*CKING FETUSES.
Now I take issue with the term "anti-abortion activist," but I'll save that rant for another day. She's a terrorist, and that's how she'll be referred to here. She's Director of Activism for a group deceptively named "Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising," deceptive because there's nothing "progressive" about her or the group. Mercy Missions is the group she calls her own, but they all do the same thing. Make appointments at clinics under fake names, then invade the clinics by force, and blockade the doors with their bodies and furniture, sometimes even chaining themselves together, so that patients cannot enter or exit the clinic. She even proudly brands herself a "clinic invader" in her Instagram bio.
So, Lauren Handy and eight of her co-terrorists from around the nation (HELLO, RICO!) were indicted yesterday on federal conspiracy charges and FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act violations, and could see eleven years in federal prison if convicted. This was BEFORE DC Homicide got involved and removed five f*cking fetuses from her place of residence.
Did her mother not buy her dolls when she was a child?
FIVE FETUSES. How? Why? Whose? For how long? To what end?
Photography props for their disgusting posters???
P.S. Remember when Marsha Blackburn lied, and said Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson described all "pro-choice" people as loud, noisy, and hostile? Judge Jackson was talking about THESE PEOPLE in her ruling. THESE people are loud, noisy, and hostile. I wonder what Marsha Blackburn thinks about these five fetuses being stored in Lauren Handy's apartment since 2020.
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https://crooksandliars.com/2022/03/anti-abortion-five-fetuses-dc
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Clark County Man Arrested for Possession of Child Pornography
Sellersburg – A Cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) led to the arrest of a Clark County man for possession of child pornography. Master Trooper/Detective Scott Stewart with the...
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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556484060794/clark-county-man-arrested-for-possession-of-child-pornography
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Dems Seek Probe Of NCAA Gender Equity Year After Viral Clip
By Rachel Scharf · March 31, 2022, 6:16 PM EDT
Democratic lawmakers proposed Thursday that a bipartisan congressional commission investigate gender equity within the NCAA, a year after a viral TikTok video highlighted disparities between the resources provided for the men's...
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https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/1479634/dems-seek-probe-of-ncaa-gender-equity-year-after-viral-clip
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A LASTMA official has been dismissed after he was caught on camera assaulting a writer in the state.
The writer with the Twitter handle @EmdeeDavid had shared the video of the officer assaulting him on his handle and wrote;
”Dear @followlasg and @followlastma. Does a #lastma officer have the authority to hit a motorist like this? Is this not assault? This officer must be checked. #StopLastmaBully”
The video caught the attention of the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu who had a meeting with the assaulted writer.
The writer in an update shared on his Instastories disclosed that the erring official has been dismissed.
Watch the video of the official assaulting the writer below…
Source: Linda Ikeji
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https://www.newsheadlines.com.ng/linda-ikeji-blog/2022/04/01/lastma-official-dismissed-after-he-was-caught-on-camera-assaulting-a-writer/
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The pain was sharp and familiar. It reminded David Price of where he has been. It also told him he still might be able to be the pitcher the Los Angeles Dodgers thought they had nearly 26 months ago.
Price’s quiet spring began the way others have in the five-time All-Star’s 13-year career: His left elbow hurt after his first live batting practice a couple of weeks ago, and he knew the resumption of an old routine was underway.
“Always the elbow,’’ Price said. “It happens every year, all the way back to 2010. Now, everything feels good – arm, elbow and shoulder.’’
It was good enough to impress Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and anybody else who watched Price make his first spring appearance against Cleveland on Wednesday night. The left-hander worked only an inning, but he had two strikeouts and was clocked at 93 mph.
In an abbreviated camp, it wasn’t enough to determine his role. It did remind the Dodgers that Price is still in the mix.
From starter to bullpen, Price’s role with the Dodgers has been uncertain since they acquired the 2012 American League Cy Young Award winner from the Boston Red Sox in a three-team deal that included right-fielder Mookie Betts in February 2020.
Price didn’t pitch at all that year, opting out because of concerns about COVID-19. In 2021, he bounced between the starting rotation and the bullpen with 11 starts and 28 appearances as a reliever. His overall ERA was 4.03.
He arrived at camp in mid-March ready to do anything. Then Roberts mentioned him as a possible starter.
“I’m preparing that way, yeah,” said Price, who is in the final year of a seven-year, $217 million contract. “I think it’d be silly of me to prepare to be a reliever if I’m asked to start. So, I’m preparing to be a starter until otherwise.”
Otherwise looks to be the case. Roberts projects his starting rotation will be Walker Buehler, Julio Urias, Clayton Kershaw, Andrew Heaney and Tony Gonsolin. He cautioned that nothing is set in stone, mostly because pitchers were limited in a camp cut short by major league baseball’s lockout.
The Dodgers signed career starter Tyler Anderson in mid-March, just in case. As for Price, Roberts said: “I just think that David, right now, is not an option in the sense of, he’s not built up. It just doesn’t seem feasible right now.”
The 36-year-old left-hander could still have an immediate role, like one inning in relief early in the season, Roberts said, and moving up to multiple innings as he gets stronger.
“I’m confident in David in any role,’’ Roberts said. “I like his versatility. The role doesn’t matter. It’s just knowing that he’s going to pitch valuable innings in whatever role.”
NOTES
Cody Bellinger took batting practice Thursday on the minor-league side of the Dodgers’ camp. The 2019 National League MVP is 4 for 27 with 17 strikeouts this spring.
“I wouldn’t say I’m alarmed,’’ Roberts said. “I think ‘progressing’ is the word. We’ve got to continue to log at-bats to make him feel as comfortable as possible when the season starts.’’
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Type 1 diabetes patients testing 'artificial pancreas' technology on the NHS
The technology reads blood sugar levels and uses an algorithm to determine how much insulin should be administered.
Friday 1 April 2022 00:49, UK
Hundreds of adults and children with type 1 diabetes are testing an "artificial pancreas" to monitor their insulin levels.
The device - a hybrid closed loop system - reads blood sugar levels and uses an algorithm to determine the amount of insulin that should be administered.
It is being tested in more than 30 NHS diabetes centres across England, with 875 people benefiting for a year so far.
The study is the first of its kind in the world and the device could soon be available for use through the NHS.
Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality adviser for diabetes, said: "It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication."
Scientists say the device can eliminate finger-prick blood tests and help prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks.
It could be particularly helpful for children - it is estimated that only a third of youngsters with type 1 diabetes achieve good control of their blood glucose level, which is needed to prevent complications from the disease.
Charlotte Abbott-Pierce, six, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes just over a year ago and is part of the pilot.
Her mother, Ange, said: "Before the hybrid closed loop system was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte's blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar."
Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: "This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes."
Managing calorie intake could lead to Type 2 diabetes remission
Meanwhile, new research has found that even slim people can get remission from type 2 diabetes by managing their calorie intake.
Obesity increases the risk of type 2 diabetes but 10% of sufferers have BMIs that do not reach the 'obesity' threshold.
A trial led by expert Professor Roy Taylor, of Newcastle University, has found that 70% of participants with a low BMI went into type 2 remission thanks to diet-controlled weight loss.
Some 20 patients were put on a strict 800 calorie per day diet for two to four weeks, followed by four to six weeks of weight loss maintenance when normal food was gradually reintroduced.
This cycle was repeated up to three times, until participants lost between 10% and 15% of their bodyweight, and after 12 months, participants' BMI averaged 22.4 - down from 24.8.
Some 70% had gone into remission - half of them after only one weight loss cycle.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Federico Motka’s abductors greeted him in English after he and his colleagues were kidnapped near a refugee camp on the Turkish border: “Welcome to Syria, you mutt.”
For the Italian aid worker, it was the beginning of 14 months of brutality at the hands of the Islamic State.
Motka testified about the ordeal Thursday at the terrorism trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, a British national charged with taking a leading role in an Islamic State kidnapping scheme that took more than 20 Westerners hostage between 2012 and 2015.
Four Americans — journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller — were among them. Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were decapitated. Mueller was forced into slavery and raped repeatedly by the Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, before she too was killed.
Motka is the first surviving hostage to testify at Elsheikh’s trial in Alexandria, Virginia.
Born in Trieste, Italy, Motka said he spent much of his childhood in the Middle East and went to boarding school in England. He was an aid worker surveying the needs of refugee camps in March 2013 when he and a colleague, Briton David Haines, were captured and taken hostage.
Motka testified that for the first month of captivity, he was only occasionally mistreated, but that mistreatment frequently came at the hands of three captors whom hostages dubbed “the Beatles” because of their British accents. They learned to speak surreptitiously about their captors, who wore masks and took pains to conceal their identity, since they never knew what would set them off. A dispute over bathroom hygiene prompted a particularly intense beating, he said.
“They said I was a posh wanker because I went to boarding school,” Motka testified. “They said I was arrogant, and they were going to take me down a peg.”
Motka’s use of the term “posh wanker” set off a brief period of uncomfortable laughter in the courtroom, when the judge interrupted and asked what the phrase means, forcing Motka to explain the term’s vulgar meaning of the British idiom.
The British accents and phraseology are an important part of the case, though, as prosecutors seek to prove that Elsheikh is indeed one of the Beatles who tortured hostages, even though the Beatles took great pains to conceal their faces. Motka testified that there were at least three Britons in the group of captors, and the hostages nicknamed them “John,” “George” and “Ringo.”
Prosecutors have said in court that Elshiekh is the one who was nicknamed Ringo.
One way Motka distinguished the three was their preferences for inflicting punishment.
“George was more into boxing,” Motka testified. “John, he kicked a lot. Ringo used to talk how he liked wrestling. He would put people in headlocks.”
He described one instance when Ringo put James Foley in a headlock so tight that he passed out.
Motka also recounted a time in the summer of 2013 when the hostages were held in a facility they nicknamed “the box.” The Beatles excitedly put Motka and his cellmate David Haines in a room with Foley and British hostage John Cantlie for what they called a “Royal Rumble.”
“They were super excited about it,” Motka said of the Beatles about the tag-team style fight they imposed on the foursome. “We were so weak and shattered we could barely lift our arms.”
The group was told that the losers would be waterboarded. Two of the four passed out during the hour-long battle, Motka said. The Beatles deemed him the loser but never waterboarded him, inflicting a beating instead.
As they were transferred to different facilities, Motka said the hostages were sometimes separated from the Beatles for weeks at a time. Those periods were welcome, relatively speaking, because the Beatles were unique in their cruelty, he said.
When they were transferred again to a place they nicknamed “the dungeon” and saw that the Beatles were there, “we crapped our pants,” Motka said. “We had just started to relax a little” as the mistreatment had eased in their absence.
“The box,” where the Beatles were a regular presence, was one of the worst stretches of captivity. Motka said he and other hostages there endured a lengthy “regime of punishment” that included regular beatings and forced stress positions. “George,” another man named Abu Mohamed and a third nicknamed “the punisher” regularly tortured them, Motka said.
“They played lots of games with us,” Motka said, maintaining composure as he clearly struggled with the emotions of describing his captivity. “They gave us dog names. We needed to come and immediately respond” to the dog name to avoid a beating.
Motka was not released until May 25, 2014. His 14 months in captivity were the longest of any hostage in the group.
Defense lawyers, though, have highlighted the difficulties that hostages have in formally identifying each of their captors, who routinely wore masks that covered all but their eyes.
In opening statements, prosecutors referenced only three British nationals — Elsheikh, his longtime friend Alexenda Kotey, and Mohammed Emwazi, who frequently carried out the role of executioner and was known as “Jihadi John.”
Emwazi was killed in a drone strike, and Kotey was captured alongside Elsheikh and also brought to Virginia to face trial. Kotey pleaded guilty last year in a plea bargain that calls for a life sentence.
Jurors also heard testimony Thursday from Danish hostage negotiator Jens Serup, who testified about prolonged efforts to secure the release of Daniel Rye Ottosen in exchange for 2 million euros.
The jury saw photos of huge bruises on Ottosen’s arm and back after he was finally released. Serup testified that the captors told Ottosen the beating was a “farewell present not to forget them.”
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation® (IACMI) today announced Dale Brosius has been appointed interim chief executive officer effective April 1, 2022. Brosius will lead IACMI as it identifies a permanent CEO to succeed Dr. John Hopkins, who is stepping down after leading the organization for more than four years. IACMI is one of 16 Manufacturing USA innovation institutes created to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing through large scale public-private collaboration on technology, supply chain and workforce development.
"Dale has been a foundational part of IACMI since its origins and brings proven experience, expertise, and stability to the IACMI leadership role," said Dr. Stacey S. Patterson, president of the University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF). UTRF is the sole corporate member of Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation, the non-profit organization which operates IACMI. "From our inception, and even prior to his being named chief commercialization officer in February 2015, Dale has played a key role establishing IACMI, growing and serving our consortium membership, and ensuring success in meeting our Department of Energy objectives."
As interim CEO, Dale will become responsible for the full scale of day-to-day operations of the institute. He will also continue in his roles as Chief Commercialization Officer, Executive Director of the IACMI Consortium, and chair of the IACMI Consortium Council.
With more than 30 years of industrial experience in the composites industry, Brosius' career has included positions at U.S.-based firms Dow Chemical Co., Fiberite and successor Cytec Industries Inc. At Fiberite and Cytec, he led key activities related to high performance carbon fiber prepreg-based components for aerospace and industrial markets, and managed thermoset molding compound businesses in the U.S. and France. Prior to joining IACMI, he led the establishment of European and U.S. operations for Australian-based composites manufacturer Quickstep Technologies. Brosius has a BS in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Since 2015, IACMI has managed over 50 collaborative and industry led technical projects with greater than $150 million in research and development value. More than 15 new products are now commercially available and $400 million-plus has been invested in a broad system of open access facilities for demonstration at scale in eight states. IACMI has engaged more than 9,000 people in composites training and STEM outreach and placed more than 100 university interns with industry collaboration.
Through collaboration with industry, academia, and national laboratories, IACMI projects have demonstrated faster cycle times and lower costs for composite materials and structures, decreased carbon intensity, and increased recyclability of composites.
About IACMI – The Composites Institute
IACMI – The Composites Institute is a 130-plus member community of industry, universities, national laboratories, and federal, state, and local government agencies working together to accelerate advanced composites design, manufacturing, technical innovation, and workforce solutions to enable a cleaner and more sustainable, more secure, and more competitive U.S. economy. IACMI is managed by the Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation (CCS), a not-for-profit organization established by The University of Tennessee Research Foundation. A Manufacturing USA institute, IACMI is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office, as well as key state and industry partners. Visit www.iacmi.org and follow IACMI on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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Risk of homelessness or incarceration among foster youth varies by type of disability
Ages 17-21 are important transitional years as young adults learn to become adults with more responsibilities. Many youth have family members who provide social and financial support to help them during this critical time; however, many transitioning out of foster care lack these supports. Without social supports, they face a greater risk of homelessness, incarceration, and other socially isolating outcomes.
A new study shows that the likelihood of a foster youth with disabilities experiencing homelessness or incarceration during the transition to adulthood varies by type of disability. George Mason University associate professor of Social Work JoAnn Lee and associate professor of Health Administration and Policy Gilbert Gimm found that youth with emotional disabilities are more likely to experience homelessness and incarceration than those with other disabilities. However, after digging a little deeper, they found that there are other factors that explain the association between emotional disabilities and both homelessness and incarceration: "Our findings did not find statistical significance for an emotional disability when controlling for other variables, contrary to what we expected based on prior studies," said Lee. "This is especially notable since emotional disability is the disability type people tend to focus on, if they differentiate the type of disability diagnosis."
Previous studies either grouped everyone with a disability together or focused only on emotional disability. This study found that intellectual or developmental disability, visual/hearing disability, and physical disabilities are associated with a lower likelihood of homelessness and incarceration. Out of the disabilities analyzed, those with a physical disability reported the lowest rates of homelessness and incarceration and those with an emotional disability reported the highest rates.
"This study brought to light the need to tailor social supports and policies to the specific needs of young adults with disabilities, which can reduce barriers to services and improve community participation. In turn, improved access to services and social engagement can ultimately reduce the risk of homelessness and incarceration," said Lee.
Additionally, the research revealed that youth connections to school, employment, and extended foster care support were associated with lower likelihood of experiencing homelessness and incarceration. The study also identified a smaller group of youth who had not yet been evaluated and requires more study because they appear to have the worst overall outcomes.
In the study, nearly half (46%) of youth aging out of foster care were diagnosed with a disability. The majority had an emotional disability (36.8%) and a small percentage of youth aging out were diagnosed with an intellectual/developmental disability (4.3%), visual or hearing disability (6.3%), and a physical disability (1.1%). Nine percent of the study cohort had not been evaluated for a disability.
"We recommend two important policy implications based on our findings. First, transition services for high-risk youth should be bolstered. Second, extending transition services up to age 25 can help to reduce the risk of homelessness and incarceration," said Gimm.
The paper titled "Assessing Homelessness and Incarceration Among Youth Aging Out of Foster Care, by Type of Disability" was published online in the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal in February 2022. Researchers did an analysis to identify associations between disability type and both homelessness and incarceration while controlling for other demographic and child welfare system characteristics.
The study merged the administrative data from the 2014 cohort of the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) and Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System (AFCARS). The NYTD outcomes database interviewed youth when they were 17 years old, with follow-up interviews when they reached 19 and 21 years of age, respectively, to find out how they were doing as they age out of care and transition to adulthood.
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The counting is over in the second union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. But it's too close to call.
There were 993 "no" votes and 875 "yes" votes, but more than 400 contested ballots remain. According to the National Labor Relations Board, there will be a hearing within a few weeks to decide if any of the challenged ballots will be opened and counted.
More than 6,100 workers were eligible to vote in the do-over election, which was ordered after the NLRB found that Amazon had improperly interfered in last year's tally.
Turnout in this year's vote was down from last year when over half of eligible voters cast ballots. But among those who actually voted this time around, there was greater support for the union. Last year, workers voted more than 2-to-1 against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a well-established national union.
"This time around we were able to educate more about unions," said Jennifer Bates, a warehouse employee, noting that organizers were able to get closer to workers now that the pandemic has eased.
The RWDSU called for every vote to be counted.
"The tenacity and courage of these workers never wavered in this unnecessarily long process," said RWDSU president Stuart Appelbaum in a statement. "Workers will have to wait just a little bit longer to ensure their voices are heard."
Meanwhile in a separate Amazon union election on Staten Island in New York, the vote count will continue Friday morning. Roughly 8,000 workers were eligible to vote on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union, an upstart organization led by former and current Amazon warehouse employees. With ballots still to count, the union is in the lead, with 1,518 voting yes so far, and 1,154 voting no.
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Dr. Dre’s debut album may have made its way back to Death Row Records. In a recent Instagram post, Snoop Dogg shared a photo alongside the renowned producer and revealed that “The Chronic is bac home.”
Talks about the project’s inclusion on Dre’s former label started shortly after the news of Snoop’s Death Row acquisition. At the time, it was reported that The Chronic was not included in the label’s discography but would make a return in early 2023. Snoop later told TIDAL’s Elliott Wilson suggested that he had the album in his possession — a statement that was immediately refuted. According to Dre’s attorneys, the reports regarding Death Row’s ownership were “false.” They also made it clear that “Dr. Dre owns 100 percent of The Chronic.”
As no further details were provided in Snoop’s post, it is not clear whether he and Death Row actually acquired ownership of The Chronic, and if so, how. In the meantime, Snoop is working to bring Tupac Shakur’s All Eyez On Me and The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory back to the label and is pretty confident that he’ll get it done.
“To be in control of the brand means that I got all of the pieces that I need to do what I got to do, from the masters to the publishing, to the IP, to the label, to the logo, to everything,” he told Wilson. “It’s all mine. I’m able to move it around and do what I need to do with it.”
He continued, “As far as 2Pac’s masters, 2Pac’s masters came back to him last year. But I got a great relationship with his estate, and I’m pretty sure we’re going to be able to work something out … to continue some Death Row 2Pac business now that Snoop Dogg is in control of Death Row. Same with Dr. Dre and The Chronic. I got The Chronic album. I got Doggystyle, Tha Doggfather, Murder Was the Case, Dogg Food, Above the Rim. I got all those records.”
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ECHL Transactions - March 31
March 31, 2022 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
Following are the ECHL transactions for Thursday, March 31, 2022:
CONTRACTED PLAYERS RELEASED (eligible for waivers/waiver claims):
Orlando:
Matthew Barry, F
OTHER TRANSACTIONS:
Allen:
Delete Zane Franklin, F ECHL playing rights traded to Reading
Atlanta:
Add Greg Campbell, D activated from reserve
Add Eric Neiley, F activated from reserve
Delete Kamerin Nault, F placed on reserve
Delete Tim Davison, D placed on reserve
Delete Kameron Kielly, F placed on Injured Reserve (effective 3/28)
Delete Billy Constantinou, D traded to Wichita
Florida:
Add Matteo Gennaro, F assigned by Bakersfield
Delete Dalton Gally, D traded to Kansas City
Fort Wayne:
Add Cam Gray, G signed contract, added to active roster
Delete Samuel Harvey, G placed on bereavement leave
Delete Keaton Jameson, F traded to Utah
Iowa:
Add Luke Nogard, F activated from reserve
Delete Josh Koepplinger, F placed on reserve
Kansas City:
Delete Darik Angeli, F traded to Florida
Newfoundland:
Delete Matt Hellickson, D recalled to Toronto (AHL)
Delete Pavel Gogolev, F recalled to Toronto (AHL) by Toronto (NHL)
Norfolk:
Delete Kyle Rhodes, D traded to Rapid City
Orlando:
Add Brad Barone, G activated from reserve
Add Luke McInnis, D activated from reserve
Delete Zachary Emond, G placed on reserve
Delete Chad Duchesne, D placed on reserve
Rapid City:
Delete Jay Stevens, G released as EBUG
Delete Elijah Vilio, D traded to Norfolk
Delete Brett Van Os, F traded to Norfolk
Reading:
Add Tyler Kirkup, F signed contract, transferred from ATO
Add Brennan Saulnier, F assigned by Lehigh Valley
Delete Jared Brandt, D traded to Worcester
South Carolina:
Add Kevin Fitzgerald, F signed contract, added to active roster
Add Seamus Donohue, D signed contract, added to active roster
Add Colby McAuley, F team suspension lifted
Delete Greg DiTomaso, D placed on reserve
Delete Alex Brink, F placed on reserve
Delete Colby McAuley, F traded to Allen
Toledo:
Add Zach Driscoll, G signed ATO, added to active roster
Delete Connor Walters, D traded to Wichita
Delete Ian Parker, F traded to Wichita
Tulsa:
Add Adam Schuch, G added as EBUG (a.m.)
Delete Adam Schuch, G released as EBUG (p.m.)
Wichita:
Add Justin Bean, D added to active roster (traded from Cincinnati)
Add Jake Wahlin, F added to active roster (traded from Rapid City)
Delete Jacob Graves, D traded to Atlanta
Delete Cam Clarke, D traded to Toledo
Worcester:
Add Steven Jandric, F signed contract, added to active roster
Delete Blake Christensen, F placed on Injured Reserve (effective 3/28)
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ECHL Stories from March 31, 2022
- Royals Acquire Franklin from Allen; Brandt Traded to Worcester - Reading Royals
- Solar Bears Release Matt Barry - Orlando Solar Bears
- ECHL Transactions - March 31 - ECHL
- Worcester Railers HC Acquire Defenseman Jared Brandt from Reading Royals for Future Considerations - Worcester Railers HC
- Graves Dealt to Atlanta; Clarke to Toledo - Wichita Thunder
- Admirals Acquire Vilio and Van Os from Rapid City - Norfolk Admirals
- Americans Acquire Colby McAuley from South Carolina - Allen Americans
- Rush Acquire Defenseman Kyle Rhodes from Norfolk - Rapid City Rush
- Fan Instructions for 2022 Guns N' Hoses Charity Game - Orlando Solar Bears
- Stingrays Sign Two More Huskies; Trade McAuley to Allen - South Carolina Stingrays
- Walleye Make Multiple Moves Ahead of Trade Deadline - Toledo Walleye
- Glads Trade for Defenseman Graves - Atlanta Gladiators
- Thunder Weekly, March 31 - Wichita Thunder
- Worcester Railers HC Sign Forward Steve Jandric to an ECHL Contract - Worcester Railers HC
- Newfoundland's Finkelstein Is AMI Graphics/ECHL Plus Performer of the Month - ECHL
- Thunder Raise over $30,000 During Stick It to Cancer Weekend - Adirondack Thunder
- Rush Defeat Grizz 4-3 - Utah Grizzlies
- Rush Drop Grizzlies, 4-3, Take over Division Lead - Rapid City Rush
- Americans Win Overtime Thriller - Allen Americans
- K-Wings Thrill at Home in OT, Now in Playoff Position - Kalamazoo Wings
- Make It Two in a Row for the Lions - Trois-Rivieres Lions
The opinions expressed in this release are those of the organization issuing it, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of OurSports Central or its staff.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jeff Walz has had a lot of success getting players to transfer to Louisville over the last few years, including three starters on his Final Four team this season.
He's not the only coach in the Final Four who has bolstered the roster by using the transfer portal as both South Carolina and UConn have found supplemental players from it.
Still Walz, Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma think the amount of players looking to change schools is getting out of control.
“I always like to say, ‘The grass is greener on the other side because it’s fertilized with a bunch of bull,’” Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. “I think there are a lot of players that will jump into the portal after one year that don’t really have a good grasp of why they’re doing it.”
Staley likened the portal to Twitter, Instagram or TikTok.
“It’s a big ol’ fad that just keeps continuing,” she said. “Is it out of hand? It absolutely is. I don’t know how you control it. But it’s their way. It’s their way of controlling their own destinies.”
Both Staley and Auriemma noted that there were currently more players seeking to transfer than there were scholarships available across the country.
“You know those 850 people in the portal? Three hundred of them are not going to find a school to go to because they’re going to realize it’s not the school they just left,” Auriemma said.
Despite the reservations, they're still playing along. Emily Engstler (Syracuse), Kianna Smith (California) and Chelsie Hall (Vanderbilt) have been key for Louisville. Engstler and Hall just joined the program this season.
When Engstler was considering the Cardinals, Walz went to Mykasa Robinson to discuss how her role would likely shrink if Engstler were to come and gauge her comfort level.
“She looked at me, and she’s like, ‘I’m tired of guarding her. If we can get her, yes, because she likes to win, and she wants to play with other good players,’” Walz said.
SOUTH CAROLINA SUPPORT
The Gamecocks have led the nation in average attendance for seven straight years, buoyed by a base of more than 10,000 season tickets. Despite the 1,200-mile distance from campus to downtown Minneapolis, there will be plenty of garnet-and-black-clad South Carolina fans voicing their support on Friday night when the Gamecocks take on Louisville.
“They’ve been with us when we weren’t a popular team or we weren’t a whole lot to cheer about,” Staley said. “This is my 14th year being at South Carolina, but the last probably 10, the fans have given us a ride that’s kind of irreplaceable.”
One of the catalysts for the attendance boom was giving fans as much as access to the program as they could, to build relationships and let the locals get to know the players as people.
“You really feel the love in the community,” guard Brea Beal said. “You can go to the store and run into somebody and they’re like, oh my gosh, just freaking out. It’s like a family.”
FOND MEMORY
Walz spent one season at Minnesota on his climb up the coaching ladder, serving as an assistant under current Maryland coach Brenda Frese.
That was 20 years ago, when Hall of Fame finalist Lindsay Whalen was a sophomore for the Gophers on a breakthrough team that reached the Final Four two seasons later. The women's team at that time played in a smaller gym, the Pavilion, next door to Williams Arena where the Minnesota men's team has played since 1928.
A water pipe burst that winter, moving the women's team into the bigger venue. The Gophers were on a roll, and the first game in the building known as “The Barn” was packed to the rafters.
“From that point on, we continued the rest of the season playing in the Barn in front of unbelievable crowds,” Walz said.
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THE CENTRAL Railway generated highest-ever revenue of Rs 530.34 crore from sale of scrap in the financial year 2021-2022. The amount is Rs 138.91 crore more than the earnings of corresponding period from last year and is an increase of 35.48 per cent. The earnings for the corresponding period last year were Rs.391.43 crore.
According to the “Zero Scrap Mission”, sale of scrap is being undertaken on all divisions and various depots of the Indian Railways.
With the recent sale the Central Railway has surpassed the target of Rs 400 crore set for FY 2021-22 from scar sale. The official said, the scrap materials include scrap rails, permanent-way materials, condemned coaches, wagons and locomotives etc.
Meanwhile, the Western Railway also sold scrap worth Rs 511.70 crore during similar period. It also surpassed its annual scrap sale target of Rs 390 crore by a margin of 31.2 per cent.
Anil Kumar Lahoti, General Manager, Central and Western Railway said that the disposal of scrap has not only helped the Railways in generating revenue but has also helped to keep the railway premises clean and environment friendly.
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WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Many of you are sharing your thoughts and prayers on social media for the District Attorney Investigator killed after Wednesday's car crash in Warner Robins, Donald Crooms. We went to Perry to learn more about him and the accident.
Two people died in the wreck. One of them was 56-year-old Donald Crooms of Bonaire, but his friends call him Richard. He worked at the Houston County District Attorney's Office as an investigator since September 2020.
Houston County's District Attorney Will Kendall got a call he'll never forget.
Kendall said, "They believed that one of my investigators was involved in a motor vehicle accident on Moody Road."
Kendall dropped everything and went to the intersection.
"Once they loaded him up in the ambulance, then Captain Holland and I and then another one of our investigators and my chief went over to notify his wife, and take her to the hospital," Kendall said. "Once we got there, we had found out that he had passed away."
The Houston County Sheriff's Office says 27-year-old Kandace Jackson of Jeffersonville was driving in a Honda Civic south on Moody Road, when her car drifted into oncoming traffic.
Corporal Michael Dixson with the Houston County Sheriff's Office said, "As far as toxicology, that has been collected and sent off, but as far as the results of it, I don't know."
Dixson says Jackson hit 56-year-old Richard Crooms of Bonaire. She died at the scene.
"We talked for two or three hours," a friend of Crooms said. "We were going to go out together, get a couple of drinks, and it just didn't happen."
Joe White retired as a captain from the Bibb County's Sheriff's Office. He was Crooms' close friend and supervisor.
"There was a bond there, of course. He was a humorous fella when it came to be funny, but when it came to his job, he was a professional and thorough. He was a master shot. Everybody liked him," White said.
Crooms was driving north in a Chevrolet Tahoe when he hit a pickup truck driven by an Elko man. The Elko man was not hurt.
Kendall says Crooms was on duty at the time of the accident, serving subpoenas for a trial next week.
"Having someone walk through the door like him every morning made us all better people when he was here. We have a void here in our office right now," Kendall said.
Richard Crooms' friends also say he loved cooking, football, and the outdoors. They say they never saw him without a smile. He was always laughing, and he adored his job and family.
Crooms worked for the Bibb County Sheriff's Office for 25 years. Then, he spent time training law enforcement at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center, and an officer at Middle Georgia University.
He was also a father and a husband. Kendall says he's helping the family plan funeral arrangements.
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Federal judge rules Florida lawmakers intentionally discriminated against Black voters
'Every single challenged provision has a disparate impact on Black voters in some way,' Judge Mark Walker says
In a sharp rebuke to Republican lawmakers, a federal judge on Thursday ruled that parts of a 2021 state elections law were intended to discriminate against Black Floridians.
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker also made the rare move of putting Florida under a process known as “preclearance,” meaning that he will have to approve any changes to certain provisions to the state’s elections laws.
The state “has repeatedly, recently, and persistently acted to deny Black Floridians access to the franchise,” the judge wrote.
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Walker’s 288-page decision came in a lawsuit challenging a 2021 law that imposed new restrictions on mail-in voting and third-party voter registration organizations. DeSantis and Republican legislative leaders quickly slammed Walker’s ruling and vowed to appeal.
DeSantis and GOP lawmakers pushed the election-law changes after former President Donald Trump and his supporters hammered on unfounded allegations of widespread fraud in Trump’s 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
The law passed after DeSantis and other Republican officials praised the relatively smooth election in Florida, where Trump won by a comfortable margin.
The law also came after the number of Black Floridians who voted by mail doubled amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
The legislation (SB 90) included restricting election supervisors’ use of drop boxes; requiring voters to request mail-in ballots more frequently; and forcing third-party groups to provide a disclaimer informing potential voters that their applications may not be turned in within a 14-day window imposed by the law.
The League of Women Voters of Florida and a number of Black and Hispanic advocacy groups filed lawsuits challenging the measure, alleging that it was an effort to restrict minority voters from accessing the ballot. Walker held a two-week trial early this year.
In Thursday’s ruling, Walker found that “every single challenged provision has a disparate impact on Black voters in some way.”
Walker wrote that the main question was whether the legislation was enacted "without regard to whether it harmed minority voters" or whether it targeted minority voters to secure an electoral advantage for Republicans over Democrats.
The judge noted that the law was not intended to discriminate against Hispanic voters, who are not as strongly associated with either the Democratic or Republican parties.
“In sum, this court concludes that to the extent promoting voter confidence or preventing fraud may have motivated the Legislature in part, this court finds that the Legislature passed SB 90 with the intent to restructure Florida’s election system in ways that favor the Republican Party over the Democratic Party.
"This court further finds that, to advance the Legislature’s main goal of favoring Republicans over Democrats, the Legislature enacted some of SB 90’s provisions with the intent to target Black voters because of their propensity to favor Democratic candidates,” Walker wrote.
The provisions that were intended to discriminate against Black voters violate the federal Voting Rights Act, Walker ruled. The judge also decided that the Legislature would not have passed the provisions “absent an intent to discriminate against Black voters,” a violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments.
The temptation is great “for the party in the majority to target the particular racial groups that support the minority party,” especially in Florida, where elections are won by razor-thin margins, Walker wrote. Republicans hold super-majorities in the state House and Senate.
“The evidence before this court also shows that, for the past 20 years, the Legislature has given into that temptation by repeatedly targeting Black voters because of their propensity to favor Democratic candidates,” the judge wrote.
In explaining his decision to put Florida under preclearance restrictions, Walker pointed to a measure passed by the Legislature this month that would impose new restrictions on mail-in voting, while repealing the disclaimer requirement in the 2021 law.
Litigation over election law takes time, Walker wrote.
“And so, before litigation can run its course, the Legislature can merely change the law – as it has done here (with the new law). The result is that Floridians have been forced to live under a law that violates their rights on multiple fronts for over a year.
"Without preclearance, Florida could continue to enact such laws, replacing them every legislative session if courts view them with skepticism. Such a scheme makes a mockery of the rule of law. Under any metric, preclearance is needed,” he wrote.
The preclearance requirement bans Florida from enacting any law or regulation dealing with third-party voter registration groups, drop boxes or “line warming,” a term used when people or groups hand out drinks or food to voters waiting in line, for the next 10 years.
During a news conference Thursday afternoon in Palm Beach County, DeSantis told reporters that Walker’s ruling “was not unforeseen because we typically set our clocks to getting a partisan outcome in that court.”
DeSantis, a Harvard Law School graduate, predicted that Walker’s decision would be overturned by the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“There’s an old saying in law, if you have the facts, on your side, argue the facts. If you have the law, on your side, argue the law. If you have neither you pound the table. Well, this is a judicial equivalent of just pounding the table, and I think it was performative partisanship,” the governor said.
In a prepared statement, Senate President Wilton Simpson called the judge’s ruling “appalling.”
“This order is highly unprofessional, inaccurate, and unbecoming of an officer of the court. The Florida Senate looks forward to continuing to advocate for fair, free, transparent and secure elections for all,” Simpson, R-Trilby, said.
House Speaker Chris Sprowls also blasted the decision.
“The illogical leaps and unsupported inferences in Judge Walker’s opinion amount to a 288-page accusation of discriminatory intent based on limited analysis of data he thinks the Legislature might have had, the uncritical and complete acceptance of the comments of Democratic lawmakers and a total disregard for other viewpoints,” Sprowls, a Palm Harbor Republican who is a lawyer, said.
Florida lawmakers knew that the 2021 measure would have a disparately negative impact on Black voters before they passed it, Walker wrote.
“The evidence before this court not only suggests that the Legislature had such knowledge, but also that it specifically sought it out,” he said.
Walker’s order bans state and local elections officials from enforcing the challenged provisions of the 2021 law.
The ruling chronicled what Walker described as the state’s “grotesque history of racial discrimination,” saying that “when all of the evidence is viewed together, a coherent picture emerges.”
“What is this court to make of this history? To be sure, there are those who suggest that we live in a post-racial society,” wrote Walker, who was appointed to the bench by former Democratic President Barack Obama.
“But that is simply not so. Still, this court is mindful of the Eleventh Circuit’s admonition that Florida’s racist history cannot ban ‘its legislature from ever enacting otherwise constitutional laws about voting.’ … But Florida’s painful history remains relevant; it echoes into the present and sets the stage for SB 90.”
News Service staff writer Jim Turner contributed to this story.
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Jeff Jackson looks for what he calls “competitive character” in players he recruits to Notre Dame, and more than a decade after he recruited Anders Lee, he still says the Islanders winger exemplifies that.
Lee stands a large 6-foot-3. He takes up space when he walks into a room and, more importantly, when he’s on the ice. But the size, while it helps, is not what makes him such a weapon for the Islanders in the crease, where the bulk of his goals — 25 this season, 11 in the month of March headed into Thursday’s game — are scored.
That, instead, is about equal parts brains and brawn, the sort of competitive intangibles that Jackson saw when he recruited Lee to Notre Dame years ago.
“The first key is to not have any fear,” Jackson told The Post. “Because it’s an area where you’re gonna get cross-checked, you’re gonna get slashed in the back of the ankles. It’s a high-traffic area and not every player is willing to stand in that area or get in that area.”
The Islanders-Rangers rivalry, which renews at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, features two of the league’s best forwards at getting into the dirty areas and scoring. Opposite Lee, Chris Kreider’s 46 goals are third in the league and his 24 power-play goals — most scored from his station in front of the goaltender — lead the NHL.
Like his counterpart, Kreider is 6-3, and like Lee, it comes down to more than sheer size.
“You don’t have to be 6-foot-2 and 220 pounds to go in front of the net,” Rangers coach Gerard Gallant said. “Anybody — [5-9, 184-pound] Brendan Gallagher [in] Montreal, a guy that I coached before — it just takes a lot of character to go there.”
At a younger age, Kreider scored most of his goals off the rush, taking advantage of skating and skill that outweighed his counterparts in high school. It wasn’t until he got to Boston College when he started to station himself in front of the net.
Much of anyone’s success there comes down to hockey sense as much as anything physical. A slight change in positioning can be all the difference between being in the right spot for a rebound and a chance going to waste. Knowing where the goaltender’s eyes are — and being able to get in front of them — creates goals, too.
“Shoulder checking to see where the goalie’s line of sight is and also the other part of it, especially with a guy like Anders, it helps to have good hands,” Jackson said. “It helps to have good skills at the net front as far as your puck skills. For getting pucks, lifting pucks or redirecting pucks. It’s not just rebounds, it’s tips, it’s deflections. And sometimes pucks even go in off your body.
“First of all you gotta be there, then secondly you gotta be able to manipulate your position to be able to establish, not just where the puck is but where it might be in the next [moment], after the pass. So it’s about reestablishing your position as the puck moves on the outside of the ice.”
In college, Lee would watch cutups of Tomas Holmstrom, a four-time Stanley Cup winner with the Red Wings, paying attention mostly to how he’d constantly reestablish position, checking where the goaltender’s eyes were and getting in his line of sight.
Doing that maximized his chances of getting rebounds and tipping pucks, both skills at which Lee excels now.
“He understands time and space,” Islanders coach Barry Trotz said. “He understands a little bit of the geometry of where he is, how he’s gotta get pucks up. Getting the timing of, ‘You’re next to me, how do I separate?’ ”
Kreider’s hand-eye coordination — and thus his ability to tip pucks — has always been there. Bill Blackwell, his coach at Masconomet (Mass.) Regional High School, recalls hearing about his prowess at lacrosse and baseball at a younger age. His positioning, too, is excellent.
“All the time, you watch, whenever the puck goes to the side, you always want to take the goalie’s eyes away,” Blackwell said. “And that’s what he does a great job of. He just always follows the puck, he’s always at the top part of the crease and he’s always following wherever the puck’s going.”
Trotz, when asked about Lee recently, pointed to a goal he scored against — who else — the Rangers. Toward the end of a power play a couple weeks ago, Lee found the right moment to get from the crease to the low slot without a defender following him, scoring a one-timer from Mathew Barzal.
“He had to time it, if you go there right away, they got you covered,” Trotz said. “He had to almost have that instinct, ‘I’m gonna push off, I just need a couple feet and time and so the puck’s there.’
“He’s sort of developed his own style that works for him on the interior. He’s hard to move. With goalies being so good, obviously his net presence is invaluable.”
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Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether they violated campaign finance law by misreporting spending on research that eventually became the infamous Steele dossier.
That's according to documents sent Tuesday to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which had filed an administrative complaint in 2018 accusing the Democrats of misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to obscure the spending.
The Clinton campaign hired Perkins Coie, which then hired Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence firm, to conduct opposition research on Republican candidate Donald Trump's ties to Russia. But on FEC forms, the Clinton campaign classified the spending as legal services.
The Clinton campaign and DNC had argued that the payments had been described accurately, but agreed, according to the documents, to settle without conceding to avoid further legal costs.
The Clinton campaign agreed to a civil penalty of $8,000 and the DNC $105,000, according to a pair of conciliatory agreements that were attached to the letter sent to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation.
The documents have not yet been made public and FEC spokeswoman Judith Ingram said the FEC has 30 days after parties are notified about enforcement matters to release them.
The Steele dossier was a report compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and financed by Democrats that included salacious allegations about Trump’s conduct in Russia and allegations about ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
he dossier has been largely discredited since its publication, with core aspects of the material exposed as unsupported and unproven rumors. A special counsel assigned to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe charged one of Steele’s sources with lying to the FBI and charged a cybersecurity lawyer who worked for Clinton’s campaign with lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting in which he relayed concerns about the Russia-based Alfa Bank.
Trump, who has railed against the dossier for years, released a statement celebrating the agreement and once again slamming the dossier as “a Hoax funded by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign.”
Additional reporting by The Associated Press.
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INGLESIDE, Texas — The City of Ingleside broke ground on a new recycling center. A ceremony was held with community leaders on Thursday.
It was made possible thanks to a partnership between the city, H-E-B and Keep Texas Recycling.
The new recycling center will be open to all residents of San Patricio County, where you can drop off cardboard, plastic bottles and jugs.
Many hope this new facility will help keep the area clean.
"We see less illegal dumping, we see less litter," said Keep Texas Recycling Director Rachel Hering. "When people have an outlet for their recyclables to go to, we really see it make a difference in the whole environment of that community."
The new recycling facility, located at 1421 4th St., is expected to officially open this summer.
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Hospitality Co. Employee Seeks Collective Cert. In OT Suit
By Irene Spezzamonte · March 31, 2022, 6:45 PM EDT
A former hospitality company employee told a Tennessee federal court Thursday that his overtime suit should get collective certification, arguing that the company had a widespread policy of giving workers a...
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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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PORTLAND, Maine — The worldwide seafood industry is steeling itself for price hikes, supply disruptions and potential job losses as new rounds of economic sanctions on Russia make key species such as cod and crab harder to come by.
The latest round of U.S. attempts to punish Russia for the invasion of Ukraine includes bans on imports of seafood, alcohol and diamonds. The U.S. is also stripping “most favored nation status” from Russia. Nations around the world are taking similar steps.
Russia is one of the largest producers of seafood in the world, and was the fifth-largest producer of wild-caught fish, according to a 2020 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Russia is not one of the biggest exporters of seafood to the U.S., but it's a world leader in exports of cod (the preference for fish and chips in the U.S.). It's also a major supplier of crabs and Alaska pollock, widely used in fast-food sandwiches and processed products like fish sticks.
The impact is likely to be felt globally, as well as in places with working waterfronts. One of those is Maine, where more than $50 million in seafood products from Russia passed through Portland in 2021, according to federal statistics.
“If you’re getting cod from Russia, it’s going to be a problem,” said Glen Libby, an owner of Port Clyde Fresh Catch, a seafood market in Tenants Harbor, Maine. “That’s quite a mess. We’ll see how it turns out.”
Russia exported more than 28 million pounds (12.7 million kilograms) of cod to the U.S. from Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan. 31, 2022, according to census data.
The European Union and United Kingdom are both deeply dependent on Russian seafood. And prices of seafood are already spiking in Japan, a major seafood consumer that is limiting its trade with Russia.
In the U.K., where fish and chips are a cultural marker, shop owners and consumers alike are bracing for price surges. British fish and chip shops were already facing a squeeze because of soaring energy costs and rising food prices.
Andrew Crook, head of the National Federation of Fish Friers, said earlier this month that — even before the war — he expected a third of Britain’s fish and chip shops to go out of business. If fish prices shoot up even higher, “we are in real dire straits,” he said.
In mid-March, the U.K. slapped a 35% tariff hike on Russian whitefish, including chip-shop staples cod and haddock.
“We’re a massive part of U.K. culture and it would be a shame to see that go,” he told broadcaster ITV.
U.S. consumers are most likely to notice the impact of sanctions via price and availability of fish, said Kanae Tokunaga, who runs the Coastal and Marine Economics Lab at Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland.
“Because seafood is a global commodity, even if they are not harvested in Russia, you will notice the price hike,” Tokunaga said.
In the U.S., the dependence on foreign cod stems to the loss of its own once-robust Atlantic cod fishery that cratered in the face of overfishing and environmental changes. U.S. fishermen, based mostly in New England, brought more than 100 million pounds (45.4 million kilograms) of cod to the docks per year in the early 1980s, but the 2020 catch was less than 2 million pounds (900,000 kilograms).
Regulators have tried to save the fishery with management measures such as very low fishing quotas, and many fishermen targeting other East Coast groundfish species such as haddock and flounder now avoid cod altogether.
Seafood processors in Massachusetts are concerned about job losses due to loss of Russian products, Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, who does support sanctions on Russia, said.
“I have heard from seafood processors in my home state with concerns about potential sudden effects of a new, immediate ban on imports on their workforce, including hundreds of union workers in the seafood processing industry,” he said on the Senate floor in February.
For U.S. producers of seafood staples such as fish and chips, the lack of Russian cod could mean pivoting to other foreign sources, said Walt Golet, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences.
“We might be able to bring in more from Norway, a little more from Canadian fisheries,” Golet said. “It really is driven by the price of those imports.”
As an alternative, producers and consumers could try underutilized fish species caught domestically, such as Atlantic pollock and redfish, said Ben Martens, executive director of Maine Coast Fishermen's Association.
“Maybe this is a time to use haddock or hake or maybe monkfish, something different,” Martens said. “If it’s going to disrupt supply chains it does present an opportunity for other species to fill that void.”
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NextEra Energy (NEE) Stock Moves -0.92%: What You Should Know
NextEra Energy (NEE) closed the most recent trading day at $84.71, moving -0.92% from the previous trading session. This change was narrower than the S&P 500's daily loss of 1.57%. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 0.09%.
Coming into today, shares of the parent company of Florida Power & Light Co. Had gained 10.25% in the past month. In that same time, the Utilities sector gained 8.54%, while the S&P 500 gained 5.37%.
NextEra Energy will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. On that day, NextEra Energy is projected to report earnings of $0.66 per share, which would represent a year-over-year decline of 1.49%. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $5.11 billion, up 37.24% from the year-ago period.
NEE's full-year Zacks Consensus Estimates are calling for earnings of $2.82 per share and revenue of $23.24 billion. These results would represent year-over-year changes of +10.59% and +36.17%, respectively.
Any recent changes to analyst estimates for NextEra Energy should also be noted by investors. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
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. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection has moved 1.38% higher. NextEra Energy currently has a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy).
Investors should also note NextEra Energy's current valuation metrics, including its Forward P/E ratio of 30.34. This valuation marks a premium compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 19.97.
Also, we should mention that NEE has a PEG ratio of 3.44. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. NEE's industry had an average PEG ratio of 3.47 as of yesterday's close.
The Utility - Electric Power industry is part of the Utilities sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 181, which puts it in the bottom 29% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank includes is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
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- Attributes delay to Covid-19 and Russia-Ukraine war
- Says local bitumen processing’ll reduce road construction cost
Deji Elumoye in Abuja
The federal government has ruled out the possibility of completing the 43-year-old Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill in Kogi State this year, saying its initial resolve to resume the construction of the mill was thwarted by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Making this disclosure Thursday while featuring on the weekly ministerial media briefing at the State House, Abuja was the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite.
He revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the release of $2 million for the conduct of a technical audit of the mill as demanded by Russians before the restart of its implementation.
He said the technical audit was necessary to ascertain the condition of the facility before restarting the work.
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Source: Thisday Newspaper
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is naming actor Taraji P. Henson and the NBA’s Chris Paul to a presidential advisory board on historically Black colleges and universities.
They are among nine men and nine women Biden is appointing to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the White House announced Thursday.
Several HBCU presidents, the president of United Airlines and the first Black woman to become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency are among Biden’s selections.
They will join Tony Allen, the president of Delaware State University, and Glenda Glover, the president of Tennessee State University, who are serving, respectively, as chairperson and vice chairperson of the board, which was established during the Carter administration.
Henson is a Washington, D.C., native who studied acting at Howard University, a historically Black school and the alma mater of Vice President Kamala Harris. Paul is a 12-time NBA All-Star with the Phoenix Suns and two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Besides Allen and Glover, the presidents of five other HBCUs will also join the board. They are Virginia State University, Norfolk State University in Virginia, Alabama State University, Prairie View A&M University in Texas and Dillard University in New Orleans.
Lisa Jackson, who became the EPA’s first Black administrator in the Obama administration, and United Airlines President Brett Hart will also join the board.
Biden also intends to appoint Paige Blake, a 20-year-old junior at Bowie State University, an HBCU in Maryland.
The White House said the administration has committed $5.8 billion in support to these historically Black colleges and universities through a combination of pandemic relief funding, grants and forgiving capital improvement debt.
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51job, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results
SHANGHAI, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 51job, Inc. (Nasdaq: JOBS) ("51job" or the "Company"), a leading provider of integrated human resource services in China, announced today its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2021 ended December 31, 2021.
Fourth Quarter 2021 Financial Highlights:
- Net revenues increased 15.7% over Q4 2020 to RMB1,345.2 million (US$211.1 million)
- Online recruitment services revenues increased 12.0%
- Other human resource related revenues increased 19.0%
- Income from operations was RMB304.6 million (US$47.8 million)
- Fully diluted earnings per share was RMB5.23 (US$0.82)
- Non-GAAP adjusted fully diluted earnings per share[1] was RMB5.99 (US$0.94)
Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Highlights:
- Net revenues increased 19.8% from 2020 to RMB4,420.4 million (US$693.7 million)
- Online recruitment services revenues increased 11.6%
- Other human resource related revenues increased 31.3%
- Income from operations was RMB551.3 million (US$86.5 million)
- Fully diluted earnings per share was RMB9.40 (US$1.47)
- Non-GAAP adjusted fully diluted earnings per share was RMB13.12 (US$2.06)
Fourth Quarter 2021 Unaudited Financial Results
Net revenues for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021 were RMB1,345.2 million (US$211.1 million), an increase of 15.7% from RMB1,163.1 million for the same quarter in 2020.
Online recruitment services revenues for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 12.0% to RMB617.7 million (US$96.9 million) compared with RMB551.6 million for the same quarter in 2020, primarily due to an improvement in hiring sentiment, demand and activity from employers in 2021.
Other human resource related revenues for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 19.0% to RMB727.5 million (US$114.2 million) from RMB611.5 million for the same quarter in 2020. The growth was primarily driven by robust employer demand for seasonal campus recruitment, business process outsourcing and training services in 2021.
Cost of services for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 29.1% to RMB535.2 million (US$84.0 million) from RMB414.5 million for the same quarter in 2020, primarily due to higher employee compensation expenses, headcount additions and greater direct costs, such as venue rental, media production and technology support, incurred in providing campus recruitment services to employers. Gross profit for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 8.2% to RMB810.0 million (US$127.1 million) from RMB748.6 million for the same quarter in 2020. Gross margin, which is gross profit as a percentage of net revenues, was 60.2% in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with 64.4% for the same quarter in 2020.
Operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 28.9% to RMB505.4 million (US$79.3 million) from RMB392.0 million for the same quarter in 2020. Sales and marketing expenses for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 34.3% to RMB403.6 million (US$63.3 million) from RMB300.6 million for the same quarter in 2020, primarily due to higher employee compensation expenses, staff additions and greater spending on advertising and brand awareness campaigns. Advertising and promotion expenses increased 27.7% to RMB90.0 million (US$14.1 million) for the fourth quarter of 2021 from RMB70.5 million for the same quarter in 2020.
General and administrative expenses for the fourth quarter of 2021 increased 11.3% to RMB101.8 million (US$16.0 million) from RMB91.4 million for the same quarter in 2020, primarily due to higher employee compensation expenses
Income from operations for the fourth quarter of 2021 was RMB304.6 million (US$47.8 million) compared with RMB356.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2020. Operating margin, which is income from operations as a percentage of net revenues, was 22.6% for the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with 30.7% for the same quarter in 2020. Excluding share-based compensation expense, operating margin would have been 24.9% for the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with 33.7% for the same quarter in 2020.
The Company recognized a loss from foreign currency translation of RMB10.9 million (US$1.7 million) in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with RMB33.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, primarily due to the impact of the change in exchange rate between the Renminbi and the U.S. dollar on the Company's U.S. dollar cash deposits.
The Company recognized a mark-to-market, non-cash loss of RMB10.7 million (US$1.7 million) in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with RMB9.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 associated with a change in fair value of listed equity securities investment in Huali University Group Limited, which is traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The Company also recognized RMB3.4 million (US$0.5 million) in professional services fees and administrative expenses related to the proposed going-private transaction in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Other income in the fourth quarter of 2021 included local government financial subsidies of RMB98.6 million (US$15.5 million) compared with RMB14.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Net income attributable to 51job for the fourth quarter of 2021 was RMB355.2 million (US$55.7 million) compared with RMB342.0 million for the same quarter in 2020. Fully diluted earnings per share for the fourth quarter of 2021 was RMB5.23 (US$0.82) compared with RMB5.01 for the same quarter in 2020.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, total share-based compensation expense was RMB29.9 million (US$4.7 million) compared with RMB35.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Excluding share-based compensation expense, loss from foreign currency translation and change in fair value of listed equity securities investment, as well as the related tax effect of these items, non-GAAP adjusted net income attributable to 51job for the fourth quarter of 2021 was RMB406.7 million (US$63.8 million) compared with RMB420.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2020. Non-GAAP adjusted fully diluted earnings per share was RMB5.99 (US$0.94) in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with RMB6.16 in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Fiscal Year 2021 Unaudited Financial Results
Net revenues in 2021 were RMB4,420.4 million (US$693.7 million), an increase of 19.8% from RMB3,689.0 million in 2020
Online recruitment services revenues in 2021 increased 11.6% to RMB2,396.2 million (US$376.0 million) from RMB2,147.3 million in 2020. The increase was primarily due to the improvement in business activity and more recruitment needs of employers in China in 2021.
Other human resource related revenues in 2021 increased 31.3% to RMB2,024.2 million (US$317.6 million) from RMB1,541.6 million in 2020, primarily due to resilient customer demand and usage of the Company's training, campus recruitment, placement and business process outsourcing services.
Cost of services in 2021 increased 32.9% to RMB1,676.7 million (US$263.1 million) from RMB1,261.7 million in 2020, primarily due to higher employee compensation expenses and headcount additions. Gross profit in 2021 increased 13.0% to RMB2,743.7 million (US$430.5 million) from RMB2,427.2 million in 2020. Gross margin was 62.1% in 2021 compared with 65.8% in 2020.
Income from operations in 2021 decreased 36.4% to RMB551.3 million (US$86.5 million) from RMB867.1 million in 2020, primarily due to the significant increase in sales and marketing expenses in 2021. Operating margin was 12.5% in 2021 compared with 23.5% in 2020. Excluding share-based compensation expense, operating margin would have been 15.9% in 2021 compared with 27.4% in 2020.
Net income attributable to 51job in 2021 was RMB640.7 million (US$100.5 million) compared with RMB1,097.3 million in 2020. Fully diluted earnings per share in 2021 was RMB9.40 (US$1.47) compared with RMB16.12 in 2020.
Excluding share-based compensation expense, loss from foreign currency translation, and changes in fair value of listed equity securities investment and long-term investment, as well as the related tax effect of these items, non-GAAP adjusted net income attributable to 51job in 2021 was RMB894.4 million (US$140.4 million) compared with RMB1,243.9 million in 2020. Non-GAAP adjusted fully diluted earnings per share was RMB13.12 (US$2.06) in 2021 compared with RMB18.28 in 2020.
As of December 31, 2021, cash and short-term investments totaled RMB10,587.0 million (US$1,661.3 million) compared with RMB10,761.9 million as of December 31, 2020.
Currency Convenience Translation
For the convenience of readers, certain Renminbi amounts have been translated into U.S. dollar amounts at the rate of RMB6.3726 to US$1.00, the noon buying rate on December 30, 2021 in New York for cable transfers of Renminbi as set forth in the H.10 weekly statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement the consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"), 51job uses non-GAAP financial measures of income before income tax expense, income tax expense, adjusted net income, adjusted net income attributable to 51job and adjusted earnings per share, which are adjusted from results based on GAAP to exclude share-based compensation expense, loss from foreign currency translation and changes in fair value of listed equity securities investment and long-term investment, as well as the related tax effect of these items. The Company believes excluding share-based compensation expense and its related tax effect from its non-GAAP financial measures is useful for its management and investors to assess and analyze the Company's core operating results as such expense is not directly attributable to the underlying performance of the Company's business operations and do not impact its cash earnings. The Company believes excluding loss from foreign currency translation and changes in fair value of listed equity securities investment and long-term investment, as well as the related tax effect, from its non-GAAP financial measures is useful for its management and investors as such translation, mark-to-market gain or loss is not indicative of the Company's core business operations and will not result in cash settlement nor impact the Company's cash earnings. 51job also believes these non-GAAP financial measures excluding share-based compensation expense, loss from foreign currency translation and changes in fair value of listed equity securities investment and long-term investment, as well as the related tax effect of these items, are important in helping investors to understand the Company's current financial performance and future prospects and to compare business trends among different reporting periods on a consistent basis. The presentation of these additional measures should not be considered a substitute for or superior to GAAP results or as being comparable to results reported or forecasted by other companies. The non-GAAP measures have been reconciled to GAAP measures in the attached financial statements.
About 51job
Founded in 1998, 51job is a leading provider of integrated human resource services in China. With a comprehensive suite of HR solutions, 51job meets the needs of enterprises and job seekers through the entire talent management cycle, from initial recruitment to employee retention and career development. The Company's main online recruitment platforms (http://www.51job.com, http://www.yingjiesheng.com, http://www.51jingying.com, http://www.lagou.com, and http://www.51mdd.com), as well as mobile applications, connect millions of people with employment opportunities every day. 51job also provides a number of other value-added HR services, including business process outsourcing, training, professional assessment, campus recruitment, executive search and compensation analysis. 51job has a call center in Wuhan and a nationwide network of sales and service locations spanning more than 30 cities across China.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "targets," "confident" and similar statements. Among other things, statements that are not historical facts, including statements about 51job's beliefs and expectations, as well as 51job's strategic and operational plans, are or contain forward-looking statements. 51job may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. All forward-looking statements are based upon management's expectations at the time of the statements and involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: execution of 51job's strategies and business plans; growth and trends of the human resource services industry in China; market acceptance of 51job's products and services; competition in the industry; 51job's ability to control costs and expenses; 51job's ability to retain key personnel and attract new talent; relevant government policies and regulations relating to 51job's industry, corporate structure and business operations; seasonality in the business; fluctuations in the value of the Renminbi against the U.S. dollar and other currencies; risks related to acquisitions or investments 51job has made or will make in the future; accounting adjustments that may occur during the quarterly or annual close or auditing process; and fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China and globally, including the impact of the coronavirus or other pandemic. Further information regarding these and other risks are included in 51job's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of the press release and based on assumptions that 51job believes to be reasonable as of this date, and 51job undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
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EMPORIA (KSNT) – The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has released the results of a study focused on largemouth bass virus in Kansas lakes.
The study says that LMBV was first found in Crawford State Fishing Lake in 2007, and has since spread to other bodies of water, having a negative impact on largemouth bass populations. In a recent newsletter released by the KDWP, the virus was shown to have caused a ‘catastrophic loss’ of largemouth bass in some lakes.
Fisheries staff from the KDWP’s Research and Survey Office in Emporia began in 2018 to check 25 bodies of water in Kansas that had, in the past, carried healthy largemouth bass populations, along with populations that were seen to be declining in terms of abundance or size, and populations that were previously shown to test positive for LMBV. The study showed that LMBV was present in an additional eight bodies of water where it had not existed previously along with some other key findings:
- A total of 1,260 largemouth bass were examined throughout the three-year study.
- Of the 25 bodies of water tested, 14 of them tested positive for LMBV, six of which were already know to contain the virus.
- There was no evidence of LMBV effects on body condition, relative abundance of quality-length fish or growth rates.
KDWP staff said they were surprised and relieved to learn that there was no evidence of the virus having long-term effects on body condition, the relative abundance of quality-length fish or growth rates in Kansas populations.
“It’s very possible that the acute effects of LMBV have already occurred in some of these impoundments,” Jeff Koch, KDWP Fisheries research supervisor, said. “If that’s the case, that likely means many of these populations have already rebounded and have perhaps even developed some degree of immunity to the virus.”
Koch went on to say that some of Kansas’ best largemouth bass fisheries tested positive for the virus and have not shown evidence of any substantial population-level effects, which is a promising result of the study.
LMBV symptoms are most often seen in bodies of water during the heat of summer or other periods when fish are stressed. The LMBV virus causes fish infected with it to swim in an abnormal way, have open sores or lesions or look sickly or skinny. The virus is lethal in black bass populations but other fish, such as crappie, bluegill, green sunfish and redear sunfish, have been known to carry LMBV.
“Largemouth bass virus is a relatively new disease, so it’s all the more important that we continue to study its range and effects, and add to the scientific community’s body of knowledge,” Vanessa Salazar, KDWP Fisheries biologist, said. “Thanks to the hard work and expertise of many biologists in our division, we’ve been able to accomplish just that.”
The KDWP says that the virus is transmitted in water, so fishers are encouraged to clean, drain and dry their boats and equipment before moving to a new waterbody to help prevent the spread of LMBV and other aquatic pathogens and nuisance species.
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Cost of living: Will a move to renewables save us money on our energy bills?
A combination of war in Ukraine, rising bills and climate change means renewable energy has never been more significant. As it's now cheaper to produce energy from wind than gas, how might speeding up the change to net zero save us all money? And what's holding us back?
Friday 1 April 2022 01:26, UK
Figures seen by Sky News suggest that the cost of producing energy from wind will be less than half the cost from gas this year, falling to a quarter in 2023.
Only yesterday, the prime minister told wind-industry leaders that he has "an insatiable desire to further maximise supply" of wind energy, as part of his long-term energy strategy to reduce reliance on fossil fuels - something he says is more crucial since Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.
And on the day that a standard energy bill rises by more than 50%, pushing more than a quarter of homes in England into fuel poverty, the fact that wind is cheaper is more important than ever.
Wind is already the second biggest contributor of energy in the UK, having multiplied almost 20 times in the last 10 years.
While the environmental benefits of wind energy have been behind most of its rise so far, the political and economic benefits are key to why plans are being accelerated now.
Using less gas would not only wean us away from a reliance on foreign fuel supplies, it would also limit how much our energy bills are affected by the global prices of gas and oil.
Wind is now cheaper than gas
During the back end of last year, energy from wind became cheaper than gas for the first time, according to Rajiv Gogna, an energy analyst at consultancy firm LCP.
"Last year, existing gas plants would charge about £50 per megawatt hour (MWh) for the energy they produced, but this year it'll be about £200/MWh and we'd expect this to be about the same in 2023," explained Mr Gogna.
One MWh is enough to power a home for about 10 weeks, or drive an electric car 3,600 miles.
"The cost of energy from new wind farms will be about £70/MWh this year and there are contracts signed to provide it for £50/MWh in 2023.
"In 2015 it would have been about £140/MWh and last year the cost from new wind farms was about £90/MWh."
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The way of measuring how expensive it is to produce energy from different sources is called the 'levelised cost of energy' - it takes into account all of the different costs involved over the lifetime of a plant and how much energy they can provide over that time.
That's the cost of building the plant, including the cost of borrowing money to do so, as well as the maintenance, delivery and operational costs, and the fuel where relevant.
We are looking at quite different calculations when it comes to gas and wind stations.
With wind the cost is front-loaded. It's all about how much it costs to build the turbines - there will be some maintenance costs but the fuel is free. With gas, it's much more about the fuel.
Technological advancements in recent years have meant bigger, more efficient wind turbines have become cheaper to build. Meanwhile the price of gas has gone in the opposite direction, thanks in part to supply issues caused in part by Russia's action in Ukraine.
Why are bills still high?
At the moment it's difficult to see how cheaper energy from wind is contributing to savings on our energy bills, and this is partly to do with how the National Grid buys the energy that we use.
The National Grid has sophisticated models predicting how much energy the country will need for a given half hour period, based on habits we know about like when people cook or turn lights on, as well as how cold it is and how many people will have their heating on.
The grid then buys energy, using the cheapest suppliers it can, to fulfil that need.
Using the cheapest suppliers means they will start by buying from renewable sources - wind, solar, tidal etc., and then move on to nuclear and the most efficient gas suppliers, before resorting to the most expensive gas and coal providers only if there is still demand left over.
Effectively, we pay for the total cost of that, balancing the cheapest sources of energy against the most expensive. The costs are paid by the industry but are ultimately passed on to bill payers.
We are also still paying for energy from older wind farms at the more expensive rates they were built at.
Dr Simon Evans, deputy editor and policy editor at climate change publication Climate Brief, says "renewables are taking the edge off bills a bit, because they are mitigating against us using the most expensive gas and coal".
"They shaved the equivalent of about £10 off bills last winter, and would have saved about £100 if we'd already built the wind and solar farms that are under contract or expected to be granted contracts in the summer."
"But the wholesale price of gas is still most important in setting the price we pay - it has driven about 90% of the increase in bills.
"If we had more renewables they would be taking more of the edge off the higher bills."
So despite the complicated payment method, there are minor improvements already being made to people's bills thanks to renewable energy, with more significant ones to come in the future. That doesn't answer the question of supply though.
What happens when the wind isn't blowing?
In previous years, the supply of energy was relatively predictable. The National Grid can reliably predict how much energy a given gas or coal power station will produce per hour, and match that against how much energy they think we'll need.
Now the UK is using more wind, supply is less predictable short-term.
Just as the country isn't able to control the global price of gas and oil, it also doesn't have much sway over the weather - how much the wind blows or how much the sun shines.
On 29 January this year, wind was responsible for its highest ever daily output of energy in the UK - 409,107MWhs. It was more than half of the total energy used in the UK that day.
On days like this, the grid is able to avoid buying from the most expensive providers, which pushes the overall costs of energy down.
But on 25 January, just four days prior to that record output, the wind wasn't blowing as much and the grid was able to buy fewer than 100,000MWhs - a quarter of what it purchased on 29 January.
So it would have needed to reach out to some of the more expensive suppliers to meet the demand, pushing the overall costs up.
The gas and coal suppliers that aren't usually switched on will charge the highest rates, partly because it's expensive to switch the stations on from cold and they have to be on for a certain amount of time, for safety reasons. But also because those selling the energy know that times are desperate and they can get away with asking for more.
A solution to this is being able to store energy created from wind and solar when more is being produced than can be used at the time.
The storage is typically either in batteries or in the form of hydrogen that can be extracted from water when the turbine is running, and stored to be burned when it's needed later.
These storage options can be expensive - so transitioning to a renewable system which could cope with cold, calm, dark periods could still be costly even if the 'fuel' is free, but Dr Evans says such a system would still be cheaper overall.
"Because wind and solar are so very cheap, the overall costs are lower even when you pay for storage and for building the storage technology.
"The prices will fluctuate up and down more hour-by-hour than they do at the moment, but the average costs would still be lower than they are now.
"The way that consumers pay for and use energy at the moment means the hour-by-hour changes won't be that noticeable - you'll just see the overall price going down.
"But we may get to a stage where we can set smart chargers to charge your electric car only when the wind is blowing strongly, and can sell energy back to the grid when it's not."
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INGLESIDE, Texas — The City of Ingleside broke ground on a new recycling center. A ceremony was held with community leaders on Thursday.
It was made possible thanks to a partnership between the city, H-E-B and Keep Texas Recycling.
The new recycling center will be open to all residents of San Patricio County, where you can drop off cardboard, plastic bottles and jugs.
Many hope this new facility will help keep the area clean.
"We see less illegal dumping, we see less litter," said Keep Texas Recycling Director Rachel Hering. "When people have an outlet for their recyclables to go to, we really see it make a difference in the whole environment of that community."
The new recycling facility, located at 1421 4th St., is expected to officially open this summer.
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After Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock on stage Sunday at the Academy Awards ceremony, Los Angeles police officers were prepared to arrest Smith, according to an interview with the award show's producer, but the comedian was adamant he did not want to press charges.
In an excerpt of an interview with ABC News, aired Thursday on "World News Tonight," producer Will Packer said LAPD officers told Rock, "This is battery" and that he could press charges, and they were prepared to arrest Smith that night.
"They said, we will go get him. We are prepared. We are prepared to get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him. They were laying out the options," Packer told ABC. "And as they were talking, Chris was ... being very dismissive of those options. He was like, no, I'm fine. He was, like, no, no, no."
The LAPD put out a statement on the night of the Oscars, saying, "The individual involved has declined to file a police report."
Rock made a brief reference to the incident Wednesday at a stand-up show in Boston, his first public appearance since the Oscars. He told the audience he was "still processing what happened" and would have more to say at a later date.
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President Joe Biden set off international alarms over the weekend when he committed the United States to the goal of regime change in Russia. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said of Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a speech in Poland. The last time the United States set itself to removing a foreign leader, in Iraq in 2003, the American plan turned into a long-running disaster. Now, with war raging in Ukraine, it would seem a terrible idea for the president to announce that the goal of U.S. forces is to remove Putin from his position atop the Russian government.
The White House was quick to explain that it was all a mistake — Biden’s mistake. Worried aides put out word that Biden’s statement was not in his prepared remarks. They made clear that no, no, no, United States policy was not regime change in Russia. “He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change,” a freaked-out White House official told Fox News. “The president’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia or regime change.” So when Biden said Putin “cannot remain in power,” he meant that Putin cannot remain in power over his neighbors.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken performed the formal cleanup Sunday during a news conference in Jerusalem. Unbidden, he said, “As you know, and as you’ve heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia or anywhere else.” Blinken said any regime change in Russia would be up to the Russian people.
Finally, Biden, back home, said flatly, “I’m not walking anything back.” Asked what he meant when he said Putin “cannot remain in power,” Biden explained, “I was expressing the moral outrage I felt towards this man.”
Indeed, some of the administration’s most fervent supporters argued that the president was right to say what he did. The pro-Biden Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin wrote that “Biden reminds us how fortunate we are to have an experienced diplomat and energetic proponent of our democratic alliances rather than Putin’s poodle,” by which she meant former President Donald Trump.
Democratic fundraiser Bill Kristol, who as a Republican was one of the loudest and most influential proponents of regime change in Iraq in 2003, compared Biden’s retracted “cannot remain in power” statement to President Ronald Reagan’s famous declaration at the Berlin Wall in 1987: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
It was a laughable comparison. For one thing, Reagan’s line was not a gaffe. In the weeks leading up to the Berlin speech, some in the Reagan administration opposed the proposed “tear down this wall” declaration. The president favored it, and thus it stayed in the speech. In an article on the National Archives website, Peter Robinson, the Reagan speechwriter who penned the speech, included an image of the page of Reagan’s speech that contained the declaration. There it was, in black and white. So “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” was not a gaffe. It was a planned remark.
Second, the Reagan White House and administration did not rush to disavow the president’s words. The “tear down this wall” passage became the most famous of the speech, and one of the most famous of Reagan’s presidency, because it dramatically expressed Ronald Reagan’s feelings and policy toward Communism. In the days that followed, the president did not run away from his own words.
Third, Reagan called for Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, to allow freedom in his country and the nations under Soviet control. Reagan did not call for the removal of Gorbachev. Perhaps if Biden had said, in today’s circumstances, “Mr. Putin, end this war,” there would have been some analogy. But that is not what Biden said.
After Biden’s gaffe, there emerged a debate over whether it was really a gaffe — whether Biden said exactly what he intended to say and then allowed his staff to back away from it to avoid the charge that the U.S. is trying to remove Putin, even though, in fact, the U.S. is trying to.
Just a week earlier, the historian Niall Ferguson argued that the Biden administration had decided to make Russian regime change its goal in the Ukraine war — in other words, to use the war to try to bring Putin down, rather than to seek a quick and peaceful resolution to stop the killing.
After Biden delivered his speech, Ferguson tweeted: “As I said last week, the Biden administration has apparently decided to instrumentalize the war in Ukraine to bring about regime change in Russia, rather than trying to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible. Biden just said it out loud. This is a highly risky strategy.” Instead, Ferguson wrote, “the U.S. should be doing everything in its (considerable) power to broker a ceasefire and compromise peace.”
Now, after Biden’s “cannot remain in power” gaffe, or non-gaffe, the U.S. strategy is not clear. If it was a gaffe, it was a sign of a disturbing trend. As Glenn Greenwald noted, “This episode marked at least the third time in the past couple weeks that White House officials had to walk back Biden’s comments, following his clear decree that U.S. troops would soon be back in Ukraine and his prior warning that the U.S. would use chemical weapons against Russia if they used them first.” If it was not a gaffe, it was perhaps even more disturbing.
So if it was a gaffe, it was bad. If it was not a gaffe, it was worse. What it was not was the reincarnation of Reagan’s “tear down this wall” declaration. Of that, everyone can be sure.
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Music, food and fundraising will mesh on Sunday during the Napa Valley to Ukraine benefit concert and rally at the Napa Valley Expo.
Organizers are staging the event to garner donations for food, equipment and other aid to Ukrainians who have fled their homes — or their country — since an invasion by Russia began on Feb. 24. The benefit will take place at the Expo fairground at 575 Third St. in downtown Napa.
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Guests will be admitted to Napa Valley to Ukraine in exchange for donations to the Bay Area-based nonprofit Nova Ukraine and World Central Kitchen, a food relief agency.
Nova Ukraine has reported garnering more than $11 million in donations since Feb. 20 and distributing $4.7 million in the first three weeks of the war, with more than 60% of spending devoted to first aid and medicines for Ukraine.
World Central Kitchen, which provides meals to people affected by natural disasters and humanitarian crises around the world, is serving thousands of meals daily to Ukrainian refugees entering Poland, Romania, Hungary and Moldova, and also is supporting restaurants in major Ukrainian cities including Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa, according to the nonprofit’s website.
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According to Jim Jones, a former Napa attorney and member of co-organizer Kiwanis of Napa, said scheduled speakers will include Ukrainian Consul General Dmytro Kushneruk, the Ukrainian consul-general in San Francisco; state Senator Bill Dodd; Napa County Supervisor Ryan Gregory; Napa Mayor Scott Sedgley; and Yana Rothman, a member of Nova Ukraine.
The Expo will open at 2 p.m. at the Juarez Street gate, and the music program will begin at 2:30 with the local band High Noon. The main event and concerts will begin at 3 p.m., with closing remarks expected at 6 p.m. Food trucks will be present, and wine and beer will be available.
Slated to perform at Napa Valley to Ukraine are three acts appearing courtesy of the BottleRock festival producer Latitude 38 Entertainment, Jones said: Fantastic Negrito, Great Northern and the Stone Foxes.
Eventgoers are advised to arrive at the Expo, carpool or use public transportation due to limited parking in the Expo area, according to Jones.
For more information, visit napavalleytoukraine.org
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ SuperCom Ltd. (SPCB) on Thursday reported a loss of $5.4 million in its fourth quarter.
The Tel Aviv, Israel-based company said it had a loss of 32 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 1 cent per share.
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Ofwat has today confirmed that Thames Water will change how it installs smart meters and will make the data from them available to retailers for free.
That follows an investigation by the water regulator on how the company replaces meters and offers free data services to retailers.
Ofwat had previously received complaints that Thames Water installed smart meters that were incompatible with data logging devices used by retailers and third-party providers.
Emma Kelso, Senior Director of Markets and Enforcement, said: “We opened this investigation because we were concerned that Thames Water’s smart metering policy was disadvantaging customers.
“The package of commitment Thames Water has now put forward has addressed our concerns and will help rebuild trust with customers and other parties who rely on its services.”
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Police: 13-year-old runaway girl dies at hospital after found unresponsive at motel
D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (WALA/Gray News) - A 13-year-old girl has died in a Mississippi-area hospital after being reported as a runaway from Alabama earlier this month.
WALA reports the Mobile Police Department first reported Keyanna Sylvester as a runaway on March 21. She was then found unresponsive in a motel room in D’Iberville, Mississippi, on March 24, according to D’Iberville Police Capt. Jason King.
Sylvester was taken to the hospital but later died, according to police.
The 13-year-old spent time in Ocean Springs and Moss Point, Mississippi, according to reports.
King said it was too early in the investigation to decide whether foul play was involved in the girl’s death.
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King also said police are waiting for a report by the medical examiner.
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Anyone with further information on this case was urged to contact the D’Iberville Police Department at 228-396-4252.
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TOM UTLEY: I left it too late to say thank you to the woman who shaped my happy life. So I'll do it right here...
This week we laid to rest an old lady who had a profound effect on the course of my life.
Pauline Wilkinson, who was 98 when she died, had been my mother’s bosom friend during World War II, when they served together as nurses in the Voluntary Aid Detachment, tending wounded soldiers.
They remained in constant touch until my mother’s death in 2012, seven decades later.
But it wasn’t until I was eight years old, when I started at an expensive boarding school in Suffolk, that Pauline exerted a formative influence on my own life.
Pauline Wilkinson, who was 98 when she died, had been my mother’s bosom friend during World War II, when they served together as nurses in the Voluntary Aid Detachment, tending wounded soldiers. Nurses are pictured above during the war
This was because soon after the war, she had married the school’s headmaster — and when my parents were at their wits’ end trying to decide where I should be educated, she had told them: ‘You must send him to us, at Orwell Park.’
So it was that I found myself on a primrose path of privilege, chiefly reserved for the offspring of parents much richer than mine.
Housed in a stately home, with 100 acres of grounds sweeping down to the River Orwell, the school had its own swimming pool, tennis courts, orangery, golf course, dark room, observatory and billiards room.
Struggle
It was there that I picked up the basics of Latin, French, history, geography, essay-writing and maths (never my strong point), while enjoying all sorts of extra-curricular activities such as piano lessons, wildflower collecting, bamboo- hut building, target shooting, snooker, pottery, photography, ballroom dancing and astronomy.
From Orwell Park, it was a natural progression to a top public school and one of the country’s best universities (in my case, Westminster and Cambridge). Nothing less was expected of us at Orwell, and as I’ve always thought, high expectations of children, whatever their background, are an important part of the battle in education.
It wasn’t until I was eight years old, when I started at an expensive boarding school in Suffolk, that Pauline exerted a formative influence on my own life. This was because soon after the war, she had married the school’s headmaster — and when my parents were at their wits’ end trying to decide where I should be educated, she had told them: ‘You must send him to us, at Orwell Park' (pictured)
If teachers make it clear that they expect their pupils to learn stuff — with no excuses for failure — there’s a good chance that they will.
As a child, it never occurred to me to wonder where on Earth my parents found the money to send me to such a pricey prep school, though I knew my family was extremely hard-up by the standards of most of my schoolmates.
Only many years after I left did I learn that when my parents had protested they couldn’t possibly afford the fees, Pauline and her headmaster husband — who were childless themselves — insisted on making a huge contribution from their own pockets.
Now, I’ve no idea how different my life might have been if it hadn’t been for the Wilkinsons’ great generosity.
It’s possible, though improbable, that I might have ended up in much the same sort of job, wherever I had gone to school.
As a child, it never occurred to me to wonder where on Earth my parents found the money to send me to such a pricey prep school, though I knew my family was extremely hard-up by the standards of most of my schoolmates, writes Tom Utley (pictured)
But what I do know for certain is that my progress through the best of Britain’s education system into comfortably paid work would have been much less smooth if it hadn’t been for Pauline’s friendship with my mother and the rigorous grounding I received at Orwell Park. I’m a lucky so-and-so, and well aware of it.
I only wish that the opportunities I had could be opened up to more children with parents who struggle to get by. If you ask me, bringing back grammar schools would be an excellent start. But that’s a column for another day.
For now, it’s enough to say that Pauline’s funeral on Wednesday was an occasion for me to reflect on my great good fortune, and how inadequately I’d ever thanked her for the leg-up she gave me through her kindness.
I’m ashamed to admit that I hadn’t seen her for about 40 years when I heard of her death. What with the demands of my job, and four children of my own to bring up, I kept telling myself I was too busy to make the trek from my South London suburb to her retirement home in Sudbury, Suffolk.
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As so many of us think at funerals, it’s too late now to say the things we left unsaid. It’s a thought that has often been on my mind lately, since Pauline’s was the third funeral I’ve attended in the past fortnight alone.
Meanwhile, another dear friend of my family has just died, with a date for her obsequies yet to be fixed.
Indeed, since our first-born son is due to marry this summer, I suppose you could sum up my diary commitments so far this year as Four Funerals And A Wedding. It’s one of the sadnesses of growing older ourselves that we tend to be summoned to more of the former than the latter.
But this recent spate of funerals has also brought home to me the extraordinary way in which the process of ageing distorts our view of the passage of time.
True, I’m far from the first to point out that time seems to drag on interminably in our childhood — particularly when we’re counting the hours and days until Christmas or the end of term.
At my age of 68, however, it veritably flashes past — and barely have the Christmas decorations come down for another year than it’s time to put them up again.
To me, it seems only yesterday when I joined the staff of the Daily Mail. But I now see, to my astonishment, that I’ve been offering my weekly ramblings in these pages for only a few weeks short of 16 years. Quite long enough, many will say.
In the same way, I was flabbergasted to work out at Pauline’s funeral that when I arrived at Orwell Park, she had yet to turn 40. At my age now, of course, thirtysomethings seem mere kids.
To the eight-year-old me, however, the headmaster’s wife was … well, if not exactly ancient, then at the very least a formidable figure in advanced middle-age, not to be messed with.
Uplifting
Then I got to thinking that if I were to reach Pauline’s age of 98 — highly unlikely, I grant you, given my aversion to physical exercise and my addiction to cigarettes and booze — I would have another 30 years still to live.
At first, this seemed like an eon. But then I reflected that the third of our four sons is already 30 years of age — and to me it seems only the other day when I attended his birth.
But I wouldn’t want you to think I’ve spent my past fortnight in those churches and crematoria, reflecting gloomily on how little time I have left. On the contrary, I’ve come to regard funerals not merely as desperately sad, but as uplifting occasions too.
A well chosen anecdote in a eulogy can illuminate the character of the deceased, uniting friends and family in affectionate remembrance and gratitude for a life.
So I’ll end with a sweet story told at Pauline’s funeral. As I well remember from my days at Orwell Park, one of her jobs as the headmaster’s wife was to take down a list of toys we boys wished to buy with our pocket money — Airfix model Spitfires, Potty Putty (does that still exist?), balsa wood gliders and the like. She would then drive off to nearby Ipswich to buy them for us.
On the occasion in question, she reported back to a nine-year-old that she was sorry, but she’d been unable to find what he wanted.
‘Don’t worry,’ said the child, adding ‘thank you so much for trying’ — at which he pressed a sixpenny piece into her hand as a reward for her efforts!
To her great credit, Pauline didn’t reject the 2.5p coin, and nor did she laugh (except when she was recounting the story later to her adult friends).
Instead, she accepted the tip in the spirit in which it was offered. I call that class — and it was Pauline all over.
Look upon this column as a mark of my appreciation for the huge part she played in shaping my happy life. But unlike me, don’t leave it too late to say thank you to those who’ve been good to you.
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Cambiar Investors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of ManpowerGroup Inc. (NYSE:MAN – Get Rating) by 10.8% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 26,483 shares of the business services provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 2,592 shares during the period. Cambiar Investors LLC’s holdings in ManpowerGroup were worth $2,578,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the stock. Intersect Capital LLC raised its holdings in shares of ManpowerGroup by 3.7% in the third quarter. Intersect Capital LLC now owns 2,602 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $282,000 after buying an additional 94 shares during the period. AGF Investments LLC grew its position in ManpowerGroup by 3.9% in the 3rd quarter. AGF Investments LLC now owns 2,634 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $285,000 after acquiring an additional 100 shares during the last quarter. Louisiana State Employees Retirement System grew its position in ManpowerGroup by 0.7% in the 4th quarter. Louisiana State Employees Retirement System now owns 13,900 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $1,353,000 after acquiring an additional 100 shares during the last quarter. Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board increased its stake in ManpowerGroup by 0.6% in the third quarter. Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board now owns 17,230 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $1,866,000 after purchasing an additional 101 shares during the period. Finally, Leuthold Group LLC lifted its position in shares of ManpowerGroup by 0.3% during the third quarter. Leuthold Group LLC now owns 38,512 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $4,170,000 after purchasing an additional 114 shares during the last quarter. 94.57% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
MAN has been the subject of several research reports. StockNews.com initiated coverage on ManpowerGroup in a report on Thursday. They issued a “buy” rating for the company. Bank of America began coverage on shares of ManpowerGroup in a research report on Friday, March 11th. They set an “underperform” rating on the stock. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $126.17.
Shares of NYSE MAN traded down $3.18 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $93.92. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 357,333 shares, compared to its average volume of 435,857. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.03 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.57, a P/E/G ratio of 1.29 and a beta of 1.91. ManpowerGroup Inc. has a 1-year low of $84.32 and a 1-year high of $125.07. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $101.51 and a two-hundred day moving average of $102.09. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.22, a quick ratio of 1.11 and a current ratio of 1.11.
ManpowerGroup (NYSE:MAN – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 1st. The business services provider reported $2.20 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $2.01 by $0.19. ManpowerGroup had a return on equity of 16.39% and a net margin of 1.85%. The company had revenue of $5.38 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.35 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.48 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 6.5% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts predict that ManpowerGroup Inc. will post 8.79 EPS for the current fiscal year.
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ManpowerGroup, Inc engages in the provision of workforce solutions and services. It operates through the following segments: Americas, Southern Europe, Northern Europe, Asia Pacific Middle East, and Right Management. The Americas segment offers services as Manpower, Experis, and ManpowerGroup Solutions through both branch and franchise offices.
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Most of President Joe Biden’s historic foreign policy speech given over the weekend was washed away by the press. For days, journalists fixated not on how the Poland address marked a fundamental change in the West’s relationship with Russia, but on a nine-word ad-lib that Biden added to the text, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” in reference to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Journalists rushed in to claim the “gaffe” had produced “shock waves” around the world. (It did not.)
Swinging into theater criticism mode and searching for a conflict narrative, the press obsessed over the semantics story, portraying Biden as “undisciplined” and creating a monster “distraction” — an “unforced error” — as the war in Ukraine drags on.
Biden doubled down, saying that he was expressing his “moral outrage” over the mass killing that Putin had unleashed. He confirmed his comment came from the heart and did not represent a policy change for the U.S., which is not trying to change the regime in Moscow.
Still, journalists refused to drop the weird gotcha coverage. They hit Biden on Monday with 14 separate questions at a press briefing (“It sounded like you were calling for regime change in Russia”), pretending the story was still shrouded in confusion. Meanwhile, the press didn’t ask a single question about the state of the Ukraine war.
The media theatrics were especially galling since the previous president spent four years struggling to string together coherent sentences, garbling his way through a presidency.
Famous for being a habitual liar, as well as boasting often impossible-to-follow syntax that left people scratching their heads trying to make sense of his oddball pronouncements, Trump obliterated the idea that an occasional gaffe ought to define a politician, and the press stopped caring about his nonstop missteps. (To this day, Trump thinks "stealth" fighter planes are invisible to the human eye.)
Biden’s nine-word comment about Putin? That was Katie bar the door for the media — “gaffe” was mentioned on cable news over 100 times with regards to the Biden-Putin story, according to TVeyes.
It certainly appears the breathless pursuit of “gaffes” is a sport the press plays only with Democrats. “You will notice that the use of "gaffe" almost disappeared during Trump's term as president because most of what he said was a gaffe— or would have been under a previous president,” noted New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen.
That, despite the fact Trump once called Apple CEO Tim Cook Tim Apple, referred to 9/11 as 7/11, claimed noise from windmills causes cancer, and told a crowd that “the kidney has a very special place in the heart.”
Trump spent years slurring his words and rambling like a madman. That look-away media coverage continues today. Over the same weekend that Biden was undressed by the media for his get-tough Putin ad-lib, Trump praised the Russian dictator. The D.C. “gaffe” police though, wrote no tickets in response.
How many news articles and television reports did you see in 2020 about Trump "gaffes" and how they might stand in the way of his re-election bid? Probably the same number as I did, which was basically zero. Even though Trump was urging people to inject bleach into their veins.
To this credit, CNN’s Don Lemon this week, while reporting from Ukraine, pushed back on the Beltway media’s pointless “gaff” pursuit. “Quite honestly, I think this is a media manufactured story,” he stressed, dismissing the idea that Biden had endorsed the idea of removing Putin from power:
I think that we need to take a step back and stop trying to make it into something that it is not. It is important I think that the -- this is what people want to hear from the president. This is the stance that the people of America, especially the people of Ukraine, want the leader of the free world to have, to be strong. And to say exactly what Vladimir Putin should not be doing.
The press for years has been overly interested in Biden “gaffe” coverage. The president famously grew up with a severe stutter, which he overcame but sometimes finds himself at a temporary loss for words. The press likes to lean into that to generate news, and especially during the 2020 campaign. One Hill headline read, “Do Biden's Gaffes Make Him Unelectable?” Mediaite labeled it an "insane gaffe" when Biden at a rally mistakenly referred to Super Tuesday as Super Thursday, before quickly catching his mistake. That doesn't seem "insane."
Around the same time, Vanity Fair was wringing its hands over the Democrat’s miscues: “The rake-stepping won’t stop, and the attacks won’t go away, raising the question of whether there will come a tipping point for Biden.”
Biden ended up getting more votes for president than any candidate in U.S. history, confirming that voters don’t care about Democratic “gaffes.”
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BOSTON and ATLANTA, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: IKT) (Inhibikase or Company), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics to modify the course of Parkinson's disease and related disorders, today reported financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2021 and highlighted recent developments.
"2021 was an important year for Inhibikase as we advanced our lead program IkT-148009 for Parkinson's disease into the clinic, continued to develop our early-stage pipeline programs and strengthened our balance sheet to support our development efforts well into 2023," commented Dr. Milton H. Werner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Inhibikase. "Just recently, we presented results from our Phase 1 and 1b study of IkT-148009 in patients with mild to moderately advanced Parkinson's disease at the annual AD/PD™ meeting. We believe these data continue to validate the safety and therapeutic potential of IkT-148009. As we look ahead, we hope to share more about our development strategy for this program including the upcoming Phase 2a study at our upcoming virtual KOL investor event on April 20th. Looking to our earlier programs, we are also continuing to advance IkT-148009 in animal models of Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA), as well as plan to submit our IND application for IkT-001Pro, both in the second quarter. We view 2022 as a year of execution across our pipeline and look forward to providing updates throughout the year as we seek to improve the lives of patients suffering from a devastating neurodegenerative disease."
Recent Developments and Upcoming Milestones:
- Phase 1b clinical trial of IkT-148009: The Phase 1b study is a 3:1 randomized, placebo-controlled dose escalation trial evaluating the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of seven-day dosing of IkT-148009 at three escalating dose levels. The study is also assessing motor and non-motor function, gut motility, and measures of alpha-synuclein aggregate clearance as exploratory endpoints. In March, the Company presented data from the first cohort at the Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Diseases Conference (AD/PD™). Data demonstrated that the safety and tolerability profile in patients closely matched that of older healthy volunteers. Pharmacokinetics of IkT-148009 in volunteers and subjects was also similar, indicating that IkT-148009 pharmacology is consistent across the patient groups and penetrates the Central Nervous System. The Company expects to complete dosing of the Phase 1b study in the second quarter of 2022 and present full data at a medical meeting later this year.
- Phase 1 dose escalation of IkT-148009 in older and elderly healthy volunteers: Inhibikase continues to evaluate IkT-148009 in older and elderly healthy volunteers as part of the Phase 1 study. The Company has completed dose escalation studies through 325 mg. To date, no clinically significant adverse events have been observed at any dose.
- Phase 2a clinical study for IkT-148009 in patients with Parkinson's Disease: Inhibikase expects to dose the first patient in a Phase 2a study of IkT-148009 in untreated Parkinson's Disease in the second quarter of 2022, subject to agreements with the FDA. The 3:1 randomized, double-blind, twelve-week dosing trial will evaluate the safety and tolerability of three doses of IkT-148009 in up to 120 patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease who have not yet progressed to the need for symptomatic therapy. The trial will also measure motor and non-motor function inside and outside of the brain as secondary endpoints and evaluate whether treatment with IkT-148009 leads to a reduction or clearance of pathogenic alpha-synuclein aggregates as exploratory endpoints.
- Investigational New Drug application (IND) for IkT-001Pro for stable-phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML): IkT-001Pro is the Company's prodrug formulation of Imatinib mesylate, designed as a potentially safer, better tolerated treatment for Imatinib-sensitive cancers such as stable-phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). The Company is completing clinical batch manufacturing of pill formulated IkT-001Pro and conducting required stability studies and expects to submit the IND for IkT-001Pro in the second quarter of 2022. The Company expects to commence bioequivalence studies in accordance with the 505(b)(2) regulatory pathway agreements with the FDA.
- Preclinical studies evaluating IkT-148009 in animal models of Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) in preparation for Phase 2 clinical studies: Inhibikase expects to report preclinical data studying IkT-148009 in at least one of two animal models of MSA prior to dosing of MSA patients. The studies are evaluating whether inhibition of the Abelson Tyrosine Kinase, or c-Abl, could have a therapeutic benefit in MSA. The potential role of c-Abl in the disease process was highlighted in the Company's recent publication published in the peer reviewed journal Neurobiology of Disease[1]. Depending on the preclinical results in animal models of MSA and subject to agreement with the FDA and equivalent regulatory bodies in the European Union, Inhibikase may advance IkT-148009 into a Phase 2a clinical study in the third quarter of 2022.
Upcoming Events:
Virtual KOL Investor Event
Date: April 20, 2022
Time: 10:00am ET
Registration Link: https://www.inhibikase.com/investors
Inhibikase's executive leadership team and featured Key Opinion Leaders will host a virtual presentation highlighting the Company's recent clinical progress including a review of the recently reported Phase 1 data for its lead asset, IkT-148009 as well as an overview of the upcoming Phase 2 program. Additional presentations will highlight the current unmet need and competitive landscape in Parkinson's disease.
Full Year 2021 Financial Results
Grant Revenue: Grant revenue was $3.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $0.7 million in the prior year. The increase was driven by increased grant research activity during 2021 compared to 2020. During 2020, the Company's focus was shifted toward advancing its Phase I clinical trials which did not result in grant revenue. The Company utilized its working capital and personnel resources in 2021 to carry on its Phase I clinical trial in addition to its grant research activity.
R&D Expenses: Research and development expenses were $11.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $0.9 million in the year ended December 31, 2020. The increase was primarily due to a full year of increased activity in our Parkinson's disease Phase I clinical trial.
SG&A Expenses: Selling, general and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2021 were $6.5 million compared to $2.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increase was primarily due to increased liability insurance, legal and accounting fees, board costs, investor relations and consulting fees associated with operating for the first full year as a public company.
Net Loss: Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $14.8 million, or $0.81 per share, compared to a net loss of $2.8 million, or $0.35 per share in the year ended December 31, 2020.
Cash Position: Cash and cash equivalents were $40.8 million as of December 31, 2021. The Company expects that existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to fund its operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements into the third quarter of 2023.
About Inhibikase (www.inhibikase.com)
Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: IKT) is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for Parkinson's disease and related disorders. Inhibikase's multi-therapeutic pipeline focuses on neurodegeneration and its lead program IkT-148009, an Abelson Tyrosine Kinase (c-Abl) inhibitor, targets the treatment of Parkinson's disease inside and outside the brain. Its multi-therapeutic pipeline is pursuing Parkinson's-related disorders of the brain and GI tract, orphan indications related to Parkinson's disease such as Multiple System Atrophy, and drug delivery technologies for kinase inhibitors such as IkT-001Pro, a prodrug of the anticancer agent Imatinib that the Company believes will provide a better patient experience with fewer on-dosing side-effects. The Company's RAMP™ medicinal chemistry program has identified a number of follow-on compounds to IkT-148009 to be potentially applied to other cognitive and motor function diseases of the brain. Inhibikase is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Investors and others should note that we announce material financial information to our investors using our investor relations website, press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts. The Company intends to also use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube as a means of disclosing information about the Company, its services and other matters and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "anticipates," "plans," or similar expressions or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on Inhibikase's current expectations and assumptions. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, which could cause Inhibikase's actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are set forth in Inhibikase's filings with the SEC, including its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, including under the caption "Risk Factors." Any forward-looking statement in this release speaks only as of the date of this release. Inhibikase undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by any applicable securities laws.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest superhero is not, in the conventional sense, either "super" or a "hero," but he does have an unorthodox ailment and a weird skill-set to separate him from mere mortals. His name is Morbius, and while watching his origin story, you may get the feeling that somewhere in the cinematic multiverse, wires got crossed.
The film begins with a helicopter, transporting a cage to the sort of mist-shrouded isle you half expect King Kong to be inhabiting. But Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is looking to capture smaller game as he approaches the mouth of a cave, hobbling with difficulty on two crutch-like canes.
Positioning himself behind the wires of the cage, he slices open the palm of his hand and, as a roar of batwings echoes from inside the cave, murmurs to the copter pilot "if you're gonna run, do it now."
A rare blood disease treated with a bit o' bat
It's tempting to say "consider yourself warned," but the film's first hour or so, while unremarkable, is decently crafted.
Born with a rare blood disease, Michael Morbius has spent his entire life working on two things — a cure, and origami paper-folding. Natch, it occurs to him to fold together bat and human DNA.
Because the FDA would be unlikely to approve human trials, he and his beautiful co-researcher Martine (Adria Arjona) head in a cargo ship for international waters off the coast of Long Island in the company of eight thuggish mercenaries — think bloodbags — and once Morbius has been injected with bat DNA, it's just a matter of time before things go vampiric.
Let it be said that some side-effects from dabbling in "chiropter-y" are less ghastly than others. Bat DNA evidently gives you great cheekbones and abs to go with increased strength and speed.
Less salutary effects include new fangs that sprout from his gums with decades of decay baked in, and claws that erupt from his fingers pre-filthed. I mean, sure...why not? Except this is a man whose hair has the kind of sheen that comes from brushing it three times a day.
One other thing: he now needs to drink human blood every six hours. Happily, on his way to declining a Nobel Prize, Dr. Morbius invented "artificial blood," though that only fools his system for a while.
Color coded smoke effects for a Jekyll and his Hyde
If you're expecting a conventional Marvel movie, you should be aware going in that what Director Daniel Espinoza and his writers have come up with is more a horror flick with Marvel bells and whistles.
That means Leto's Morbius gets purplish smoke effects to go with those fang-baring snarls as he's riding air currents in subway tunnels, while the similarly afflicted Hyde to his Jekyll – a schoolboy chum played as an adult by an amusingly hopped-up Matt Smith, gets blue-ish vapor trails and snappier lines.
But there isn't much tension to their story. Or logic. At one point, Morbius overhears some counterfeiters passing fake $100s, and commandeers their printing press to make what appears to be an artificial-blood machine — because the technologies for fake-bills and fake-blood match up? Maybe that works better in a comic book.
Bat guys everywhere you look
Speaking of which, when the DC Extended Universe first announced that Twilight star Robert Pattinson would play the lead in The Batman in their corner of the superhero multiverse, it seemed like a nice inside joke — from Vampire-teen to Bat-man. But now that the Marvelverse has Leto going full Dracula, it seems as if the casting maybe could've gone the other way 'round.
Leto is as persuasively haunted by the dark side of vigilantism as Pattinson was, and as a result of corporate positioning, is maybe more determined to avoid being a villain. Not unlike Venom, Morbius was a bad guy when he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man comics, back in the 1970's. He needs to be at least an anti-hero now, if a franchise is to be built around him.
But bad guy/bat guy...who's to say? As the trailers reveal, another DC bat-guy, Michael Keaton, shows up in his non-batty baddie Marvel persona Adrian Toomes, just to mess with the heads of anyone trying to keep cinematic universes straight.
But bloodlines will have to be clarified in more robust "Morbius" episodes to come, this origin story being merely adequate, and by Marvel standards, slightly anemic.
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Polynesian island yields 'treasure trove' of fungal biodiversity
The islands of the South Pacific are a hot spot for biodiversity, but their jagged peaks, hot and humid conditions, and remote locations have limited scientists' ability to document the many fantastic forms of life in the region.
In a new study published this week in the Journal of Biogeography, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, provide the first detailed description of the stunning array of fungi that make their home on the Polynesian island of Mo'orea. The collection includes more than 200 species of macrofungi—that is, fungi producing visible, fruiting bodies—many of which may be new to science.
"It's like a treasure trove," said study lead author Matteo Garbelotto, cooperative extension specialist and adjunct professor of environmental science, policy and management at UC Berkeley. "It's truly uncharted territory in evolutionary biology and biodiversity of the fungal kingdom, and this is one the first attempts to generate baseline information on fungal diversity, not just for Mo'orea, but for the entire and vast Insular Oceania region."
As part of the Mo'orea Biocode Project, the study team spent months trekking across the island in search of new species of fungi, ultimately gathering a total of 553 fungal specimens and sequencing the DNA of 433 of them. Because only a handful of the sequenced specimens have exact genetic matches with other known species, the Mo'orea collections are likely to contain completely new species.
By comparing the DNA sequences of these fungi to those of other species around the world, the team was also able to piece together where the fungal biodiversity on the remote island may have originated. The findings suggest that the majority of the species, or their ancestors, were carried by easterly winds from Australia or other South Pacific islands, though a small number may have been brought to Mo'orea by humans from far-flung locations like East Asia, Europe and South America.
"We were really interested in the biodiversity of the island," said study first author Todd Osmundson, who completed the work as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley. "Mo'orea is an island in the middle of the ocean, and it's a geologically young volcanic island. It's never touched another piece of land. How did fungi get there, and where did they come from?"
Understanding both the biodiversity of fungi on the island and how different species have traveled around the world to arrive at this remote location can help as scientists grapple with the ongoing impacts of global travel and trade on biodiversity.
"The Mo'orea BioCode project was the first all-taxa-survey of a tropical island to include DNA vouchers and other associated information. It included all organisms from marine and terrestrial habitats and everything larger than bacteria," said George Roderick, William Muriece Hoskins Professor of environmental science, policy and management at UC Berkeley. "Since, the data has proven to be enormously valuable in monitoring the impacts of global change on Mo'orea but also on other tropical Pacific islands."
'Every day we had a different challenge'
The Mo'orea Biocode Project was led by Neil Davies, executive director of UC Berkeley's Gump South Pacific Research Station, and ran from 2007 to 2010. One of the motivations for the project was to create a model ecosystem that could be used to answer fundamental questions about how ecosystems work.
"Fungi are really important parts of ecosystems," said Osmundson, who is currently a professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. "They act as primary decomposers, and in some cases (as) pathogens that break down decaying organic matter and recycle the nutrients into forms that other organisms can use. They're also really important as symbionts. They live with other organisms and benefit that organism in exchange for other things. For instance, some fungi will attach to the roots of plants and exchange nutrients with them."
To collect the specimens, the research team spent months on Mo'orea, beginning before dawn each day to gather samples of fungi from all corners of the ecosystem, including the soil, the roots and leaves of plants, and even the air.
As the heat and humidity rose throughout the day, the outdoor conditions would often become inhospitable to both the scientists and the delicate fruiting bodies of the fungi they had collected. By early afternoon, they would take their samples back to the lab and begin the process of documenting and culturing the specimens they had found, often staying up late into the night to complete their work.
"The terrain on the island is incredibly steep, and when it rains it becomes incredibly muddy, and a lot of areas are not managed. So, every day we had a different challenge," Garbelotto said. "There are some slopes that you can only really explore on ropes. I remember being attached to a rope with my hands sticking out on the precipice, trying to collect a mushroom that was growing on a little outcrop where you couldn't possibly walk."
Each of the specimens was photographed and dried for storage in the University Herbarium and compared to databases of known species. As part of the biocode project, the research team also obtained DNA sequences of a specific gene that can be used as a unique "barcode" to differentiate one species from another.
"In many ways, Mo'orea is not a pristine island, and that actually makes it more interesting to me," Garbelotto said. "The island has completely pristine areas and also has areas that have been inhabited and deeply changed by humans, starting with the arrival of Polynesians 3,000 years ago and continuing until relatively recently with the arrival of the French, the English and the Americans. Compared to places that are completely pristine, Mo'orea is more interesting to me because it's more representative of what the world actually is."
Additional co-authors of the paper are Sarah E. Bergemann of Middle Tennessee State University and Rikke Rasmussen, who worked on DNA sequencing as a volunteer at UC Berkeley.
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Today (Mar. 31), on the third anniversary of Nipsey Hussle’s passing, Pacman Da Gunman and Hit-Boy officially unveiled their joint effort Bulletproof Soul in his honor. The project consists of nine tracks and additional assists from Peezy, B. Carr, J Stone, Dom Kennedy, and Yhung T.O. The late Crenshaw legend was Pacman’s mentor and a close friend and frequent collaborator of Hit-Boy’s as well.
One of the last previews before the project was released in full was “Not Your Average,” which came accompanied by a King Spencer-directed clip that sees Pacman in his zone sliding over bouncy Hit-Boy beat that set the tone for the full release:
Palm itchin’ so I’m on my way to get it, keep them peoples out my business, I ain’t struggled in a minute/ Now she always in her feelings, I ain’t fucked her in a minute but she know, she gotta suck it ’til I finish, huh? Not yo’ average, I’ma go in for the gutter/
Preceding this drop were other singles like “Told Us No To Do It” and “Find A Balance.” In terms of what they’ve been up to individually, Hit-Boy has had a prolific past year. He joined forces with Nas and dropped off their Magic album right before 2021 came to a close. Prior to that, he shared another collaboration project, this time with Big Sean. Their joint What You Expect EP boasted assists from names like Bryson Tiller and Lil Durk.
Last summer, Los Angeles’ very own Pacman Da Gunman finally unleashed his Less Is More EP, which arrived via Nipsey Hussle’s All Money In No Money Out Records. Clocking in at just under 26 minutes in length, the 8-track body of work boasts features from a solid roster of names like Mozzy, Icewear Vezzo, Wale, Blac Youngsta, and the late and great Nipsey Hussle.
Be sure to press play on Pacman da Gunman and Hit-Boy’s brand new Bulletproof Soul project. Rest in Peace, Nipsey Hussle.
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Royals Acquire Franklin from Allen; Brandt Traded to Worcester
March 31, 2022 - ECHL (ECHL) - Reading Royals News Release
The Reading Royals, proud affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers, announced Thursday the acquisition of the rights to forward Zane Franklin from the Allen Americans to complete the future considerations portion of the trade for Reading that sent Joshua Winquist to Allen.
Franklin, 23, is a 5-foot-11, 201-pound forward with one year of professional hockey experience. The Marywayne, Canada native played collegiately at the University of Saskatchewan where he recorded 26 points (6 G's/20 A's) in 20 games played in USports.
Previously, Franklin played 60 games in the ECHL for the Allen Americans. He earned 32 points (9 G's/23 A's) in his rookie season including an assist and seven penalty minutes in the 2021 Kelly Cup playoffs.
In further news, Jarden Brandt, D was traded to the Worcester Railers on Thursday, Mar. 31 for future considerations. Brandt, 26, was in his first professional season with the Royals after signing a standard player contract (SPC) on Sept. 30, 2021. The St.Louis, MO native collected eight points (1 G/7 A's) in 37 games with Reading in the ECHL.
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WITH COVID cases falling steadily, Delhi and Maharashtra — which were among the worst hit regions — decided on Thursday to lift the mask mandate. Both, however, advised the continued use of masks in crowded areas.
Sources said the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), at a meeting chaired by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Thursday, decided to do away with the Rs 500 fine for not wearing face masks in public places from April 1. The fine was reduced from Rs 2,000 to Rs 500 last month.
While the DDMA is yet to issue a detailed order, sources said it is likely to advise the continued use of masks in crowded areas.
Most of the Covid-related curbs in the capital were lifted last month, and all schools will return to only offline mode from Friday. Sources said hospitals will be directed to test and track people with flu-like symptoms.
In Maharashtra, the government announced that all restrictions will be lifted from April 2. “Gudi Padwa is the beginning of the new year. This is the day to start new work… For the past two years, we’ve successfully battled the deadly coronavirus, and today it seems to be fading. To make a fresh start, the restrictions imposed… under the Disaster Management Act as well as the Epidemic Diseases Act are being completely lifted from Gudi Padwa (April 2),” Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said in a statement.
State Health Minister Rajesh Tope said: “But this doesn’t mean people should be complacent, they need to be careful. Although it is not mandatory to wear a mask, people are advised to wear masks wherever they can, to take care of themselves and others.”
Tope pointed out that many regions in the US, UK and Europe have already become mask-free. “But we have made it optional. The decision has been taken by the chief minister and all others in consultation with the task force and the health department,” he said.
The Maharashtra government is yet to issue official orders in this regard.
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ALBANY — State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins revealed Thursday she was blindsided by a deal Gov. Kathy Hochul reached to commit a whopping $850 million in public money for a new Buffalo Bills stadium.
Under the agreement — announced Monday following weeks of behind-closed-doors meetings involving Hochul, Erie County officials and the franchise’s owners — New York State will dedicate $600 million in the proposed $216 billion 2023 budget for the venue’s construction, Erie County will cover $250 million and The NFL and the Bills will pay $550 million.
Asked if she knew about the specifics of the $1.4 billion project before they were released, Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) replied, “No.”
“Well, I mean, we were discussing it. I think we’re still trying to figure out what the parameters are,” she told reporters in Albany’s Capitol outside her office when asked for her reaction to being left in the dark. “So we’re discussing it.”
The Post reported earlier this month that state and county officials would spend nearly $1 billion for a new Bills stadium. For the project to break ground, state lawmakers will need to approve the stadium funding when they cast votes on the annual budget.
The new Bills’ home field — set to replace the decades-old Highmark Stadium by 2026 — is one of the main sticking points in the negotiations regarding the soon-to-be late budget, along with New York City casinos and bail reform.
Asked about criticism that the project is a publicly subsidized handout to billionaires — let alone ones who live in Florida — Stewart-Cousins declined to throw a penalty flag — vowing to “take a look at” the particulars, while talking up the significance of the Bills’ significance to Buffalo and Empire State.
“So we actually have the parameters, I’m not in a position to really talk about it, other than the fact that clearly it is now being discussed. We’re going to get the language. We’re going to take a look at it,” the lawmaker said Thursday afternoon. “But I think that we all know that the Buffalo Bills are important, not only to Buffalo, but to the state, so we’re looking at it, but I don’t have the language yet.”
In addition to the opaque process ahead of the deal’s announcement and complaints about corporate welfare, the project has come under fire because the governor’s husband, Bill Hochul, could potentially stand to benefit from it, as The Post reported Tuesday.
Bill Hochul is senior vice president and general counsel for Delaware North, the major food concessionaire at the Buffalo Bills’ current Highmark Stadium. The agreement requires that the team remain in Buffalo for another 30 years.
“One of the biggest winners of this bad stadium deal is Delaware North. Delaware North will make far more money from additional new food service and beverage business in the new stadium,” John Kaehny, executive director of the government watchdog group Reinvent Albany, previously told The Post.
On Wednesday, former state officials who worked for disgraced ex-Gov. Cuomo Andrew Cuomo ripped Hochul for agreeing to give the owners of the Buffalo Bills $600 million in taxpayer funds to build a new stadium that won’t be located in New York’s second largest city. A state official familiar with preliminary discussions for a new Bills’ stadium said Cuomo wanted it built in the City of Buffalo instead of the suburban Orchard Park, where the current stadium is located.
“We would not have done a deal with a stadium in the suburbs. It had to be in downtown Buffalo,” said a former Cuomo official familiar with the discussions. “We would have never given that much. The deal doesn’t make any sense.”
Stewart-Cousins’ Thursday comments come as legislative leaders and Hochul will miss their midnight budget deadline as state lawmakers prepare to leave Albany for a long weekend until they reconvene next week. If they pass a budget by Monday at 4 p.m., New York will “avoid any issues with upcoming payrolls” of state workers for the new fiscal year, according to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office.
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Hundreds of goats and sheep are working around the clock protecting Sacramento California from wildfires.
For the second year in a row, the city deployed the herd to clear out hundreds of acres of open fields in and around the city.
"The sustainability of it — the ability to do something without the use of mechanical equipment — that is lessening the carbon footprint," said Shawn Aylesworth, park maintenance manager for the city of Sacramento. "And its all geared toward the protection of the neighborhoods that border these open areas."
Extreme grazing is not new. Ranchers have been doing it for as long as there have been ranches. But cities are slowly adopting it as a climate friendly alternative to machinery.
"There really isn’t a cost savings. Its really the benefit of what were doing for the environment and our stewardship responsibilities," Aylesworth said.
The animals can clear cut a few acres in a few days.
The goal is to reduce the wildfire threat to the houses nearby.
100 percent of the state of California is in some level of drought, and the state’s capital city is in a severe drought.
Using the herd reduces the risk of an accidental spark from a lawnmower starting a fire.
The goats and sheep will finish their first tour of duty in a few weeks, but they’ll be back in the summer when the fields are really dried out.
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KATHLEEN, Ga. — Fighting fires may cost a lot more than people think. The equipment firefighters need can surpass hundreds of thousands of dollars. In Houston County, the fire department is fundraising and asking people in in unincorporated areas to chip in.
At the Houston County Fire Department, 70 paid and volunteer staff are ready to jump into action at any moment.
"Our call volume has increased tenfold," Fire chief Chris Stoner said, but to take action, the staff has to be well-equipped, and the equipment they need can cost thousands.
"So purchasing that equipment, that’s one of the additional things that we do off of this fundraiser is keep that kind of stuff going," he continued.
To serve and keep the millage rates low, they host an annual fundraiser.
"It’s one way we try to help keep the taxes low. Our department is solely funded from a fire tax in the unincorporated areas of the county, so we don’t receive any money from the general tax,” he explained.
This year they’re asking for a few things, and the prices may surprise you:
UNIFORMS, $3,500 each. A washer and dryer that remove cancerous materials from those uniforms, $8,000. For the air tanks that help firefighters breathe, $39,000.
"That’s a pretty immense cost," he said.
Brad Niebrand was a firefighter once himself, but now he works on restoration after the fire is out.
“We come in and help the families try to put their lives back together and get back to some sort of normalcy. we specialize in fire, mold and water mitigation,” Niebrand said.
He's even done fundraising for the department and says each dollar really counts.
"Most people will go through their entire life and never need the fire department, but I promise you when that day comes, you’re going to be glad that you supported them and they have the equipment they need to either save your life or your structure, your home,” he said.
The last time the department held a fundraiser, it raised $60,000. This time, they're hoping they can pass that. if you are interested in donating, you can drop the money off at the department directly, or by mail. You can also find a link on their Facebook page.
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7th Circ. Backs Ill. State Police's Win In Race Bias Suit
By Rachel Stone · March 31, 2022, 7:56 PM EDT
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit lodged against the Illinois State Police by a Black retired special agent, finding he didn't show the department's decisions to suspend...
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Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has agreed to appear at a deposition in Connecticut to answer questions in a lawsuit by relatives of some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.
That's according to new court filings by his lawyers on Thursday, which comes a day after a judge ordered fines against Jones for defying orders to attend a deposition last week despite his claim of illness.
Jones now says he can answer questions on April 11 and is asking the judge to put a hold on the fines. There was no immediate ruling on Jones' requests. The families are suing him for calling the school massacre a hoax.
Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis said, “The court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant Alex Jones willfully and in bad faith violated without justification several clear court orders requiring his attendance at his depositions on March 23 and March 24.”
Judge Bellis said in the decision on Wednesday, “It is clear…that the plaintiffs here simply want and are entitled to the deposition of Mr. Jones and that Mr. Jones has continued to attempt to deliberately disregard the court’s orders and attempts to manipulate the court process.”
“While paying the fees and court’s costs will reimburse the plaintiffs for costs incurred in attempting to procure Mr. Jones’ deposition, it is not a substitution for his testimony,” she said.
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Could the Golden Globes be getting an overhaul?
That's the plan proposed by Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who formerly served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who hold the annual Oscars. Isaacs now serves as a partner and senior advisor at Pacific Coast Entertainment, who shared their proposal to the members of the Globes' governing body, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, exclusively with ET on Thursday.
The proposal reads in part, "Over the last year, many watched the headlines that have dramatically impacted the reputation and stature of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA or Association), its members, and the Golden Globe Awards. A year into the Association's public commitment to transform, and despite the actions taken toward that goal, the boycotts continue, and the public image of the HFPA and Golden Globe Awards remains tarnished."
"As partners, we would take the additional steps needed to reassure the world that the processes by which nominees are considered and awardees selected adhere to the highest ethical standards," the letter continues. "Further, we would deepen and accelerate the work you began more than a year ago, adding more credibility in establishing a more authentic transformation and a willingness to encompass greater diversity and inclusion. This evolution goes far beyond a single award show on a single night."
Prior to issuing an invitation to all HFPA members to hear more about PCE's proposal at an upcoming dinner, the letter concludes, "At PCE, our goal is to build a robust business partnership with the HFPA that will benefit all members of the HFPA while restoring the brand and reputation of the Golden Globes. Our plan includes: creating an endowment to support the foreign correspondents; consummating strategic relationships for brand and community impact; and, creating a path for key industry partners to re-engage with the HFPA."
Following a year of controversy over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's membership and nominations process, the 2022 Golden Globes were not televised and were held without an audience or red carpet. The HFPA announced just days ahead of the scheduled ceremony that only "select members and grantees" of the governing body would be in attendance, under strict COVID protocols.
During the ceremony, Senior Vice President of the NAACP Hollywood Bureau Kyle Bowser unveiled the Reimagine Coalition, a joint five-year initiative to increase diversity, equity and inclusion across the global entertainment industry.
According to the initiative, each year, the HFPA and NAACP "will collaborate on, fund, and support a series of trailblazing initiatives, with the overall goals of ensuring visibility of projects from artists of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds; increasing diverse representation in the industry; and building pathways to inclusion for young artists and journalists of color."
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WASHINGTON — DC Police discovered five fetuses at the home of an anti-abortion activist in Capitol Hill on Wednesday, the department has confirmed to WUSA9.
Officers responded shortly after noon to a home on the 400 block of 6th Street SE to investigate a tip about potential bio-hazard material in the residence. Once inside, they located the fetuses. The remains were collected by the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
The home was occupied by Lauren Handy, an anti-abortion activist who was indicted along with nine others Wednesday by a federal grand jury. Handy is accused of felony conspiracy against rights for a blockade inside a D.C. abortion clinic in October 2020.
WUSA9’s camera was outside as DC Police homicide and forensic services detectives took evidence out in red biohazard bags and coolers from the rowhouse's basement.
Handy declined to speak on camera Wednesday, but told WUSA9 she expected the raid to happen "sooner or later." She also declined to say what was in the coolers, saying only that "people would freak out when they heard."
DC Police Executive Assist. Chief of Police Ashan M. Benedict told reporters Thursday the fetuses appeared to have been aborted in accordance with D.C. law.
"There doesn't appear to be anything criminal about that — except for how they got into that house," Benedict said.
Benedict said the investigation that led officers to Handy's home was separate from the federal investigation that resulted in her indictment Wednesday. He declined to comment on whether the department was working with agencies in other states, saying it was "day one" of the case.
WUSA9 reached out to Handy on Thursday for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, where Handy serves as director of activism, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
D.C. Superior Court records show Handy has a history of legal issues related to her anti-abortion activities. A D.C. charter school filed a civil complaint against her for trespassing in December 2015. She was arrested for unlawful assembly outside the school earlier that year, and at different locations in 2019 and in January for unlawful entry and blocking an entrance. Only of those cases resulted in more than a ticket. That case stemmed from a March 2019 arrest at the Washington Surgi-Clinic — the same clinic in the indictment Handy now faces. The charge was dropped in July 2019 for want of prosecution.
In the indictment unsealed Wednesday, prosecutors say Handy called the clinic pretending to be a woman named “Hazel Jenkins” who needed an abortion and made an appointment for the morning of Oct. 22, 2020. That morning, Handy allegedly approached a clinic employee and said she was Hazel Jenkins there for her appointment. When the employee opened the door, the indictment says, Handy and the other co-defendants forced their way into the clinic. In the process they allegedly knocked the clinic employee over, causing her to injure her ankle.
Once inside, the defendants allegedly moved chairs to block the entrance to the clinic’s treatment area and used chains and rope to tie them together.
While inside, one of Handy's co-defendants, Jonathan Darnel, allegedly live-streamed the blockade, saying at one point, “We have people intervening physically with their bodies to prevent women from entering the clinic to murder their children.”
The indictment charges all nine defendants with conspiracy against rights and clinic access obstruction. The first count is a felony carrying a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
Charged in the indictment are:
- Lauren Handy, of Virginia/D.C.;
- Jonathan Darnell, of Virginia;
- Jay Smith, of New York;
- Paulette Harlow, of Massachusetts;
- Jean Marshall, of Massachusetts;
- John Hinshaw, of New York;
- Heather Idoni, of Michigan;
- William Goodman, of Michigan;
- Joan Bell, of New Jersey.
Handy, who founded the anti-abortion group Mercy Missions, hasn't limited her anti-abortion activities to D.C. In 2019, she and another group of protesters that also included Goodman, were charged with a felony for allegedly resisting arrest at an abortion clinic in Michigan. That charge was reduced earlier this year to misdemeanor trespassing.
Laura Meyers, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, said the group of anti-abortion activists was familiar to her.
“They have protested at our facility on 4th Street many times and have been disruptive," Meyers said. "They have harassed patients, they have obstructed patients and no one should have to experience that intimidation for trying to access health care.”
Darnel as well has been involved in other anti-abortion protests in the D.C. area. In 2019, WUSA9 reported that he joined a group of protestors who set up outside Dunbar High School with graphic anti-abortion posters.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jeff Walz has had a lot of success getting players to transfer to Louisville over the last few years, including three starters on his Final Four team this season.
He's not the only coach in the Final Four who has bolstered the roster by using the transfer portal as both South Carolina and UConn have found supplemental players from it.
Still Walz, Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma think the amount of players looking to change schools is getting out of control.
“I always like to say, ‘The grass is greener on the other side because it’s fertilized with a bunch of bull,’” Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. “I think there are a lot of players that will jump into the portal after one year that don’t really have a good grasp of why they’re doing it.”
Staley likened the portal to Twitter, Instagram or TikTok.
“It’s a big ol’ fad that just keeps continuing,” she said. “Is it out of hand? It absolutely is. I don’t know how you control it. But it’s their way. It’s their way of controlling their own destinies.”
Both Staley and Auriemma noted that there were currently more players seeking to transfer than there were scholarships available across the country.
“You know those 850 people in the portal? Three hundred of them are not going to find a school to go to because they’re going to realize it’s not the school they just left,” Auriemma said.
Despite the reservations, they're still playing along. Emily Engstler (Syracuse), Kianna Smith (California) and Chelsie Hall (Vanderbilt) have been key for Louisville. Engstler and Hall just joined the program this season.
When Engstler was considering the Cardinals, Walz went to Mykasa Robinson to discuss how her role would likely shrink if Engstler were to come and gauge her comfort level.
“She looked at me, and she’s like, ‘I’m tired of guarding her. If we can get her, yes, because she likes to win, and she wants to play with other good players,’” Walz said.
SOUTH CAROLINA SUPPORT
The Gamecocks have led the nation in average attendance for seven straight years, buoyed by a base of more than 10,000 season tickets. Despite the 1,200-mile distance from campus to downtown Minneapolis, there will be plenty of garnet-and-black-clad South Carolina fans voicing their support on Friday night when the Gamecocks take on Louisville.
“They’ve been with us when we weren’t a popular team or we weren’t a whole lot to cheer about,” Staley said. “This is my 14th year being at South Carolina, but the last probably 10, the fans have given us a ride that’s kind of irreplaceable.”
One of the catalysts for the attendance boom was giving fans as much as access to the program as they could, to build relationships and let the locals get to know the players as people.
“You really feel the love in the community,” guard Brea Beal said. “You can go to the store and run into somebody and they’re like, oh my gosh, just freaking out. It’s like a family.”
FOND MEMORY
Walz spent one season at Minnesota on his climb up the coaching ladder, serving as an assistant under current Maryland coach Brenda Frese.
That was 20 years ago, when Hall of Fame finalist Lindsay Whalen was a sophomore for the Gophers on a breakthrough team that reached the Final Four two seasons later. The women's team at that time played in a smaller gym, the Pavilion, next door to Williams Arena where the Minnesota men's team has played since 1928.
A water pipe burst that winter, moving the women's team into the bigger venue. The Gophers were on a roll, and the first game in the building known as “The Barn” was packed to the rafters.
“From that point on, we continued the rest of the season playing in the Barn in front of unbelievable crowds,” Walz said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A lot is known about the few hours that shook American democracy to the core. The defeated president’s incendiary speech, the march by an angry crowd to the U.S. Capitol, the breaking in, the beating of cops, the “hang Mike Pence” threats, the lawmakers running for their lives, the shooting death of rioter Ashli Babbitt. All of that chaos unfolded over about eight hours on one day: Jan. 6, 2021.
But for all that is known about the day,piecing together the words and actions of Donald Trump over that time has proved no easy task, even though a president’s movements and communications are closely monitored.
There’s a gap in the official White House phone notations given to the House committee investigating Jan. 6 — from about 11 a.m. to about 7 p.m., according to two people familiar with the congressional investigation into the riot. Details may still turn up; the former president was known to use various cell phones and often bypassed the White House switchboard, placing calls directly.
And over the past four-plus months a lot has surfaced about what Trump did do and say on Jan. 6 — in texts, tweets, videos, calls and other conversations.
The following account is based on testimony,timelines and eyewitness reporting gathered by The Associated Press and The Washington Post and CBS News, and from officials and people familiar with the events who spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity.
SORE AT HIS NO. 2
Trump entered the Oval Office at 11:08 a.m. By that time, about 400 pro-Trump demonstrators had already massed at the Capitol. Trump placed a call to Vice President Mike Pence — their only conversation of the day. It didn’t go well: Trump wanted Pence to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and he was very unhappy the vice president wouldn’t do it.
At 11:38 a.m., the president left the White House to address his rally on the Ellipse, a big grassy oval behind the White House, about a mile or so from the Capitol. It was bitter cold, but that didn’t keep the crowd away. Trump was up on stage by 11:57 and addressed his supporters until about 1:15 p.m.
Among Trump’s challenging final words: “We fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country any more. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country. So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to the Capitol.”
‘THEY’RE THROWING METAL POLES’
Growing crowds were migrating to the Capitol. Almost immediately after Trump concluded, a Capitol Police officer called for backup.
“They’re throwing metal poles at us,” the officer said in a panicked voice. “Multiple law-enforcement injuries.”
Would Trump himself head for the Capitol, as he’d suggested in his speech? It was unclear at first, but his motorcade turned to head back to the White House.
At 1:21 p.m., Trump met with his valet at the White House, logs say. At the Capitol, meanwhile, then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund begged for help from the National Guard as the crowd started to swell around the west side of the building and became increasingly violent.
By then the TV networks had picked up the melee and were broadcasting live as the mob broke through metal police barricades and advanced toward the doors of the building where lawmakers were gathered to certify the presidential election results. The surreal images soon filled television screens throughout the West Wing, where staffers watched, stunned.
LOCKDOWN
By 2 p.m. the U.S. Capitol was locked down. At 2:11, Pence was evacuated. At 2:15, congressional leaders were evacuated. At 2:43, demonstrator Babbitt was shot trying to enter the House chamber through a window broken by the mob.
No official record has surfaced yet of what Trump was doing during this time. The next entry in Trump’s daily diary is not until 4:03 p.m., when he went out to the Rose Garden to tape a public address after frantic urging.
But during this time Trump was hardly idle. He was in touch with lawmakers and he was, according to aides, watching the violence unfold on national television. And he was tweeting.
At 2:28, he tweeted not about the violence but to show his pique at his vice president:
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
At some point, Trump also talked to lawmakers. Republican Kevin McCarthy told a California radio station that he had spoken to the president.
“I was the first person to call him,” McCarthy said. “I told him to go on national TV, tell these people to stop it. He said he didn’t know what was happening.”
Washington Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler said McCarthy relayed that conversation to her. By her account, when McCarthy told Trump it was his own supporters breaking into the building, Trump responded: “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”
Trump also talked to Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, among other GOP lawmakers. Tuberville later said he spoke to the president while the Senate was being evacuated. Utah Sen. Mike Lee said Trump accidentally called him when he was trying to reach Tuberville.
Others, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, tried but failed to get through to the president.
‘IT HAS GONE TOO FAR’
At 3:14 p.m. a Trump tweet at last made a sideways reference to the havoc. “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
At some point, he sequestered himself in the dining room off the Oval Office to watch the violence play out on TV, rewinding and re-watching some parts, according to former aides. Unable to get through by other means, allies including his former chief of staff and communications director resorted to tweeting at him to try to get through. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was getting a flurry of texts from lawmakers, from Fox News personalities and even Trump’s own children.
“Hey, Mark, protestors are literally storming the Capitol. Breaking windows on doors. Rushing in. Is Trump going to say something?” reads one text.
“We are all helpless,” says another.
As the violence continued, the president’s elder son texted Meadows:
“He’s got to condemn this s(asterisk)(asterisk)(asterisk) Asap,” Donald Trump, Jr. texted.
Meadows responded: “I’m pushing it hard. I agree.”
Trump, Jr. texted again and again, urging that his father act:
“We need an Oval address. He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.”
‘REMEMBER THIS DAY FOREVER!’
At 4:08 p.m. Trump went out to the Rose Garden. At 4:17 p.m. he released a scripted, pre-recorded video, which included a call for “peace” and “law and order” and finally told his supporters “you have to go home now.”
But they didn’t. Things were still wildly out of control. In fact, the Capitol building was not secured until 5:34 p.m.
At 6:01, Trump’s message was back to indignant: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” he wrote. “Remember this day forever!”
At 6:27, he went back to the residence, and started calling his lawyers.
Congress did not resume counting electoral votes until 8 p.m. They finished at 3:40 a.m. and certified Biden as the winner.
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Associated Press Writers Jill Colvin in New York, Nomaan Merchant, Zeke Miller, Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Mike Balsamo contributed to this report.
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TOPEKA (KSNT) – Ahead of a controversial conservative speaker’s appearance Thursday at Washburn University, students gathered for ‘Trans Visibility Day.’
A campus group, the Young American Foundation, invited Michael Knowles, a conservative commentator and author, to speak at a campus event at 7 p.m. While Washburn University did not invite him, he did gain a venue at the college’s A/B Room in the Memorial Union through the student group.
The podcast host for “The Daily Wire” made a social media post ahead of his speaking event, which stirred up a negative response from some students and professors at Washburn.
“Will be discussing how to end this transgenderism madness once and for all,” Knowles wrote. “Hope to see you there!”
Washburn College Republicans, while not the group that invited him, shared the post. With word spreading online of Knowles comment, another group at Washburn planned a rally at 4:30 p.m. ahead of his event.
The gathered students and faculty told KSNT 27 News they were not there to protest Knowles.
“This isn’t a protest or rally against the speaker, nor is it against people with conservative values or people who may disagree, whatever have their own opinions,” Sierra Jeter, one of the event organizers, said. “This is to show support for our transgender and nonbinary students and show them they have this community that will rally behind them and protect them no matter what.”
The gathering was accompanied by rainbow flags and sidewalk chalk messages, including “Trans Lives Matter.”
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FRESNO, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Well Done Moving, Inc. once again shows its appreciation for its local community by offering a moving discount to first responders.
Well Done Moving created this initiative to express appreciation for our local First Responders by offering discounted moving services for the month of April. Sales Director, Lindsey Beasley states, "The success we've experienced is directly attributed to the amazing people of our community. As a family-owned, Fresno-based company, we are proud to be able to give back to a community that has entrusted us with their valuables for over a decade".
First Responders can take advantage of this opportunity within the Fresno, Madera, Kings, and Tulare counties.
Well Done Moving strives to actively give back to the local community by creating and participating in philanthropic events such as Moving Neighbors in need, Assisting Creek Fire evacuees, and supporting Habitat for Humanity by moving residents into their new homes.
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As Covid-19 infection rates and restrictions are waning in some places and a variant is surging in others, it's difficult to understand where we are in the pandemic.
But two years ago, the situation was clear: for many people, coronavirus had brought the world to a stop. That's when pediatric surgeon Dr. Ala Stanford sprang into action, bringing Covid-19 testing to Black and Brown communities in Philadelphia that were hard hit by the virus.
In the months that followed, Stanford brought testing and vaccines to more than 75,000 people through her nonprofit Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium. And as she worked to help underresourced communities weather the pandemic, she diagnosed an even greater problem.
"We were seeing folks that hadn't seen a doctor in a decade," said Stanford, who was honored as a Top 10 CNN Hero last year. "We were just literally putting a Band-Aid to a much bigger problem with health inequities and health disparities."
It's well-documented that Black and Brown communities have suffered greater hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19 for a host of reasons, including higher risk factors for exposure and a higher risk of severe disease.
But lack of accessible and affordable health care is a key factor that leads to worse health outcomes for people of color. In particular, lack of outpatient care, like annual checkups and doctor's visits, can play a critical role in preventing health issues.
This larger, systemic issue is what Stanford is trying to remedy.
In November, she began seeing patients at the Dr. Ala Stanford Center for Health Equity, her new facility in north Philadelphia. This multi-disciplinary clinic offers services ranging from primary care and mental health, diagnostic testing like EKGs and mammograms and, of course, Covid testing and vaccinations.
"We take care of newborns through grandma and grandpa," she said. "And that is the next step ... wanting to not just save lives, but really impact an entire lifetime with people."
Located on the grounds of Deliverance Evangelistic Church, in an area that once housed a day care center, the space underwent a massive renovation. The center now includes exam rooms, consultation areas, a children's play space, even a fish tank. Most importantly, it provides care to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay.
"If you have insurance, we run it," Stanford said. "If you don't have insurance, we help you get (it). And if you don't have anything, you're not going to be turned away."
This fall, as the coronavirus seemed to recede into the background, Stanford was excited to switch gears to focus on this broader health mission. But the Omicron variant of the virus changed her plans.
"After Christmas, there were so many people sick, literally wrapped around this building to get Covid tested. The positivity rate was 45%" she said. "So, we had to stop primary care and just focus on testing and vaccination."
Yet, she and her team still figured out a way to provide brief wellness checks with each vaccination.
"You come in for a shot and you see your vital signs are out of whack -- you might say 'Did you know you have high blood pressure?' or 'Did you take your medication today?'" Stanford said.
And in early January, when Stanford realized that Covid rates were rising in children and young people, she added another approach.
"In a public health crisis, you go to the people. And the kids are primarily in school, so that's what I pushed for," she said.
Since then, Stanford's team has worked with FEMA to hold nearly 20 vaccination clinics at schools in and around Philadelphia. She says in some of them, they have doubled the vaccination rates among students. Her group also still offers vaccinations and testing throughout the community at police departments and mass transit SEPTA stations.
Two years later, Stanford's surgical practice is still on hold. While she admits to missing the operating room at times, she knows that the work she is doing now is making a difference on a much larger scale.
"What we've done has touched over 100,000 lives. And that refuels me," she said. "The need here right now is so great. I feel that this is where I'm supposed to be."
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Thursday marks the anniversary of a tragic day in the history of Corpus Christi.
Tejano performer and hometown superstar Selena Quintanilla-Perez was murdered on this day 27 years ago.
Selena was shot and killed by her fan club president Yolanda Saldivar at the former Days Inn hotel on Navigation near Leopard in 1995.
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The Grammy Award-winning singer was just 23 years old.
Selena's fans visited places associated with her on Thursday.
Local fan Maria Reyes used to make yearly visits to Seaside Memorial Park, where the singer was laid to rest.
She said hasn't visited the site in a couple of years, but when she did visit Thursday, Reyes would give away Selena cups to people she ran into.
“She meant a lot to me,” she said. “I feel like she was family. Oh, I loved her songs, I loved her songs. I still listen to all her songs, all her dolls that -- collections. I miss her a lot. Selena will always live in my heart, all the time.”
Reyes said she plans to resume her yearly visits.
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The teeming supporters of the governorship aspirants on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State have disrupted the party’s local government election campaign flag-off in Kankia Local Government Area of the state.
The APC supporters, mostly youths, stormed the Kankia township stadium and started shouting to distract, as well as engaged in singing and dancing all in a bid to disrupt proceedings at the event.
The gubernatorial aspirants, whose supporters were at the event, included the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Mustapha Inuwa, Mr. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, QS Mannir Yakubu, Dr. Umar Dikko Radda and Hon. Faruq Lawal Jobe, among others.
Some of the party’s supporters, who were seen with dangerous weapons at the venue of the event, could not heed to the advice by the master of the ceremony to remain calm despite the presence of Governor Aminu Bello Masari…
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There’s a very busy custom home builder working in Napa, one that’s created about 1,000 homes — and they’re all for the birds.
Jim Chaney, 84, makes birdhouses. Many, many birdhouses.
Over the past two or so years, Chaney has spent most of his days in a small wood shop in his backyard making little homes for flying friends.
Actually, said Chaney, “I make more than birdhouses. I make squirrel feeders and houses, I make bat houses, dove boxes, and I make benches and everything else.”
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“It keeps me busy,” said Chaney. When he’s measuring and cutting the parts for the houses, “You gotta use your brain to do that and it keeps me busy. So I can live for a long time.”
Chaney certainly has the experience to back it up. He’s a retired millwright who built lumber mills, other large buildings — including a bowling alley — mostly around Northern California.
In 2019, Chaney, his daughter Christine and her husband Rick Jordan moved from Humboldt County to Napa. Jordan is the principal at Napa Valley Adult Education.
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Once settled in, the family soon discovered Buy Nothing Napa. The Facebook group follows a “gifting economy” model, where goods and services are given freely — not sold or traded — and are offered without any expectation of profit or personal gain. It’s a relationship-driven model that focuses on sustainability and helping neighbors.
Hundreds of Napa residents connected through Facebook are helping to create a hyper-local gift economy, known as the Buy Nothing Project.
Most of his wood used for the birdhouses “comes from scrap material we get from Buy Nothing people,” said Christine Chaney. “People just drop it off.” Anything wood gets turned into a birdhouse, and quickly. For example, “He went through 107 feet of [used] fence board,” she recalled.
When he finishes a new group of birdhouses, Christine Chaney posts the items on Buy Nothing Napa, alerting members of the added “inventory.” It usually goes fast.
The family also has a sign outside their home in west Napa offering up the free birdhouses.
“I love the birdhouse that your dad made,” wrote one Buy Nothing Napa member. “Your dad is spreading joy.”
“So sweet of him doing all this work,” wrote another member.
“Your dad’s work is so charming,” added another.
Chaney has also made dozens of birdhouses for after school programs, a day care program and other groups.
“I think 85 was his biggest order yet,” said his daughter.
Christine Chaney said her father, who has six children, taught her as a teenager how to use woodworking and other construction equipment.
“I learned how to do all that stuff from my dad,” she said. “It was always about using your hands and not being afraid just because you’re a girl to try these things.”
Thanks to his decades of woodworking experience, Chaney doesn’t need a pattern or any kind of directions to make his birdhouses.
“I try and make them all a bit different,” he said.
Why? “I wouldn’t want one that everybody else has,” he said. Each Jim Chaney birdhouse is an original.
It takes about an hour to make one birdhouse. On some days he’ll make five or six miniature houses, assembly-line style.
When asked if he should try and sell his custom-made birdhouses, Chaney shrugged.
“I just give them away,” he said. “If people want them they can have them.”
“I think a lot of it has to do with the Buy Nothing community,” said Christine Chaney.
Members have embraced Chaney and his birdhouses, complimenting his work and readily supplying him with new material.
“We get all the wood for free, and it keeps him busy and engaged,” she said.
Chaney said his primary birdhouse building tools include a sander, circular saw, stapling gun and jigsaw.
Because Chaney is blind in one eye, he’s made some concessions for safety including using a special guard on his saw.
“He’s had to really dial his work down but he knows his tools and how to use them,” said his daughter.
Does he ever get cut? Sure, Chaney said, nonchalantly.
“He staples his fingers every once a while,” said Christine Chaney.
“It don’t hurt,” said Jim Chaney. “You just pull it out.”
Buy Nothing Napa's Facebook page said that the group is not currently accepting new members because membership has reached full capacity. To inquire about birdhouses or reach the Chaney family, email bpmchristine@yahoo.com
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Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
Napa man makes hundreds and hundreds of free birdhouses
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In Michael Kinsley’s immortal definition, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” By that standard, the term would definitely apply to Joe Biden’s recent condemnation of Vladimir Putin.
“For God’s sake,” Biden blurted out, “this man cannot remain in power.”
An international coalition of Nervous Nellies and lunchroom monitors pronounced themselves aghast. You’d think the president had intentionally broken wind at a state dinner, or proclaimed a Supreme Court justice’s wife as crazy as an outhouse rat.
No sooner had he made the remark at the end of a powerful speech expressing the West’s determination to resist Russian aggression — Biden warned Putin not to advance “on one single inch of NATO territory” — than White House staff began walking it back. “Regime change” in Russia, they emphasized, is not American policy.
A hand-wringing Washington Post headline read: “Biden’s Putin remark pushes U.S.-Russia relations closer to collapse.”
Not Putin’s manifest crimes against humanity, mind you, but Biden’s outburst. Might it not push Putin’s imagined paranoia over the edge?
On the Sunday talk shows, Republican politicians competed with Kremlin spokesmen to express their shock. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” GOP Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio worried that Biden’s indignation “plays into the hands of Russian propagandists and plays into the hands of Vladimir Putin.”
Kremlin mouthpiece Dmitry Peskov said it wasn’t up to Biden to decide who the Russian president should be. Somewhat laughably, he insisted that was up to the “Russian people,” whose say-so is entirely theoretical, given Putin’s practice of having political rivals jailed or murdered. Indeed, the Little Czar’s reign resembles nothing so much as a series of footnotes to Dostoyevsky’s prophetic 1872 novel “The Possessed.” Suffice it to say that Russia has never experienced democracy, instead lurching periodically from one form of dictatorship to another.
Even so, America’s imaginary determination to conquer Russia is a major feature of the Putin regime’s propaganda, despite the U.S. having restrained itself from trying since 1945. Anybody familiar with Russian suffering in World War II can understand a degree of national paranoia, although Biden was surely correct to say that Putin’s pledge to “de-Nazify” Ukraine is both “cynical” and “obscene.”
Nevertheless, to many Russians, it plays.
That said, and much to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dismay, everything about President Biden’s strong but measured approach to Ukraine’s agony has demonstrated extreme U.S. reluctance to go to war in Russia’s backyard. First Napoleon and then Adolf Hitler long ago proved the futility of doing so.
And that was before Russia acquired nuclear weapons.
Even so, God forbid that the Russian dictator should get his little feelings hurt. Why, he might do something crazy, such as bomb Ukrainian apartment buildings, hospitals and orphanages.
War crimes, all.
Even French President Emmanuel Macron of France, a stalwart NATO ally, expressed a degree of concern with Biden’s outburst. “I wouldn’t use this kind of words,” Macron said in a television interview. He said that he hoped to broker a cease-fire and a Russian withdrawal by diplomatic means. “If we want to do this,” Macron added, “we mustn’t escalate, neither with words nor with actions.”
Down at the police station, this tactic is known as the good cop/bad cop approach to dealing with recalcitrant suspects. And cops use it because it works. Do you want to cut a deal with the very angry American president, or the more understanding French one?
Italy’s foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, put it another way. President Biden, he said, had used words “that must make Putin clearly understand that he has to stop.” The American president, he added, made “a very clear speech, he used resolute words ... But let’s remember that on the other side, Putin uses bombs.”
Was Ronald Reagan wrong to call the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire”? Was it a terrible gaffe by a doddering old man to personalize the Cold War when Reagan urged “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”? Many thought so at the time, but few would say so now.
In his Warsaw speech, Biden cast the Ukraine crisis as a new Cold War, a generational conflict: “a new great battle for freedom: a battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.”
Like blogger Kevin Drum, I doubt Biden’s spontaneous remark will send Putin over the edge. “Quite the opposite,” Drum wrote: “The fact that Biden is obviously very sincere in his loathing of Putin makes it clear that the U.S. and NATO are unlikely to back down in Ukraine.” Putin would be well advised to find a pathway to retreat from a disaster of his own creation.
Good cop/bad cop.
Biden himself now says he never meant to endorse a policy of “regime change,” but had an emotional reaction to meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
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Survivors of child abuse and neglect want lawmakers to make more people be required to report it
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - When families of child abuse survivors found out current Kansas law does not consider clergy as mandatory reporters, they knew they had to find a way to make a change.
Survivors and families of survivors are looking to hold a certain group accountable to report child abuse.
“Anyone that is in clergy or minister, if you go to your pastor with the fact that someone has been hurt they will be bound by law to report. That’s the thing that is hitting home the most, why do we need a bill for this, this is common sense why wouldn’t anyone in the state of Kansas want to keep kids safe,” said Lori Cook, mother of abuse victim.
Lawmakers are considering a resolution for a constitutional amendment, adding clergy and religious organizations to the list of mandatory reporters.
One survivor says if this was in place years ago, her abuse could have been prevented.
“The church stood by and didn’t do anything to help me out. They protected my abuser since they were not at that time and still are not mandated reporters so they are not obligated to do anything at the time,” said Joe Cheray.
Supporters say the measure could save thousands of lives.
“Studies show that 90% of children abused, are abused by someone they know. Abusers typically don’t stop after one child, the man who abused me, I know at least six other women he abused and I wasn’t the first and I wasn’t the last,” said survivor Kim Bergman.
A second measure would end the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse victims to file a civil lawsuit.
Cook says she feels the state has failed survivors.
“Because of the trauma my family has gone through, it could have been prevented and at night when I go to bed, I pray for all the other kids out there that are falling through the cracks because our state simply won’t take care of it so that they are safe.”
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Outfits worn by the Queen to go on display at Balmoral as part of Platinum Jubilee exhibition
- A new exhibition marking the Queen's Platinum Jubilee will launch at Balmoral
- Called Life at Balmoral, the exhibition will run from April 1st to August 2nd
- As well as the outfits, it will feature a piece highlighting the plight of wild salmon
- This will mark the first time contemporary art has been shown at Balmoral
A collection of the Queen's outfits are set to go on display at Balmoral Castle as part of an exhibition to mark the monarch's Platinum Jubilee.
The clothing, which includes kilts as well as coats, hats, and dresses, will feature in the Life at Balmoral exhibition, which will be on show in the castle ballroom between 1st April 1 and 2nd August this year.
Images launched ahead of the event show assistant curator Sarah Hoare adjusting some of the ensembles give a sneak peek of what will be on view, revealing that one of the Queen's trademark looks - a brightly coloured yellow frock coat and hat - will feature.
The canary outfit was worn by the monarch in 2017, as she attended the Investec Derby Festival at Epsom Racecourse.
A selection of Her Majesty's outfits will be on view during an exhibition at Balmoral Castle that opens on April 1st, and marks the monarch's 70 years on the throne. Here she is pictured wearing one of the outfits at Epsom Racecourse in June 2017
One of the Queen's trademark brightly coloured frock coats and hat ensembles (far right) will be on show, alongside kilts and other outfits
In addition to the clothing display, it will also feature a contemporary art installation - marking the first time modern art has been shown at the Castle.
The installation, Salmon School, created by artist Joseph Rossano, consists of 250 mirrored glass forms, suspended in the air to look like a school of wild salmon.
It aims to highlight the plight of wild salmon and the importance of salmon conversation, as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten their existence in the wild.
Mr Rossano said: 'The Salmon School is an international collaborative performance project that contextualises the finality of a seemingly infinite resource.
'A synthesis of art and science, the Salmon School fosters environmental awareness, bringing together diverse communities for a greater good - cold, clean water.
'Embracing art's ability to disarm, to make something beautiful - a sculpture mimicking an ideal, a restored ecosystem - the project achieves measurable change through its actions and initiatives.'
Assistant curator Sarah Hoare prepares the outfits ahead of the 'Life At Balmoral' exhibition, which will run from April 1st to August 2nd this year
Final tweaks: assistant curator Sarah Hoare puts the last minute touches to one of the outfits on show at the event
Balmoral Castle (pictured) in Aberdeenshire, and its 50,000 acre country estate, is much-beloved by the Queen who spends her Summers there
First conceived and shown in the Pacific Northwest in the US, Salmon School was then shown at Cop26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021.
Salmon conservation work has been supported by the Queen, the Royal Family and the Balmoral Estate on the River Dee over the last 170 years.
The Balmoral Estate works closely with the River Dee Trust to deliver practical salmon restoration to help protect the endangered fish.
Most recently, across Deeside, the River Dee Trust and Dee District Salmon Fishery Board have introduced a One Million Trees campaign to plant riverbank trees, to help restore the Dee and save its salmon.
The Castle Bathroom will host the Life at Balmoral exhibition, celebrating the Platinum Jubilee. A modern installation 'The Salmon School' (pictured) is part of the show
First time: the exhibition marks the first time contemporary art, in the form of The Salmon School (pictured) created by artists Joseph Rossano (pictured) has been shown at Balmoral
The artwork (pictured) aims to highlight the plight of wild salmon and the importance of salmon conversation
Trees are said to have multiple benefits in helping wild salmon to thrive, including providing shade over the water, nourishment through leaves and insects, and helping to stabilise the riverbanks to prevent erosion.
In the last five years, the Balmoral Estate has planted 300,000 trees along the River Dee.
The work to protect wild salmon also includes using windblown trees to create large wooden structures in the rivers on the estate, to offer a variety of salmon habitats, which in turn give shelter from bad weather and trap nutrients.
Small wooden dams have also been created in the estate's smaller streams to help river flows in times of flood and drought.
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12-year-old suspect arrested in Greenville County school shooting, sheriff says
Suspect, victim 'were familiar with each other,' sheriff says
Suspect, victim 'were familiar with each other,' sheriff says
Suspect, victim 'were familiar with each other,' sheriff says
Hours after a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed at his Greenville County middle school, officials released new information on the shooting.
Community activist Bruce Wilson identified the victim as Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson, saying he died at the hospital.
Wilson released the following statement on behalf of the family:
"We are all devastated by today’s tragedy. We love Jamari dearly and we would ask that our privacy be respected as we grieve during this very difficult time.”
Previous coverage, including timeline of events: Student, 12, dies after being shot in South Carolina middle school, family says
Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said in a Facebook post that the suspect, who is also 12 years old, shot Jackson at least one time.
Because of his age, his name was not released.
Greenville County deputies said the ordeal began when a school resource officer requested backup just before 12:30 p.m.
More than 200 law enforcement officers arrived at the school.
The suspect, who is also a student, was taken into custody near the school, Lewis said.
In his Facebook post, Lewis said deputies got a tip that the suspect was at a home on Old Easley Bridge Road. They later found him hiding under a deck and were taken into custody, Lewis said. He said the handgun used in the shooting was also recovered.
The 12-year-old suspect is being charged with murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, possession of a firearm on school property and unlawful possession of a weapon by a person under the age of 18, Lewis said.
He said the boy will be taken to the Department of Juvenile Justice, Columbia.
"While the motive for the shooting and how the suspect was able to get possession of a firearm is still under investigation, we can confirm that the victim and suspect were familiar with each other and we are confident the incident was isolated," Lewis said.
He said no other students were injured in the incident.
“My heart breaks for this young boy’s family and my prayers are with them tonight, Lewis said in the post. "Additionally, I will be praying for the other young boy who pulled the trigger and his family."
Greenville County school district spokesman Tim Waller said that Tanglewood Middle will have an “optional day” Friday, and no learning will be done. Teachers, students and staff can show up, talk to guidance counselors, interact with one another and see the school, he said. "They can be in the community and take comfort with each other," Waller said.
Dr. Burke Royster, Superintendent, Greenville County Schools, released this statement:
"We are deeply saddened to hear that the student victim in the shooting at Tanglewood Middle School passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his fellow students, the staff members at the school and everyone who knew this child. This is an absolute tragedy, and we will continue to do whatever we can to support his family and the Tanglewood community as they mourn the young life that was lost today.
"We want to recognize the tremendous response from Principal Walles and the staff at Tanglewood, the school resource officer, Sheriff Hobart Lewis, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, EMS, and the multiple local, state and federal law enforcement agencies who all responded rapidly in accord with our emergency response plan."
Dr. Graysen Walles, Principal, Tanglewood Middle School said: "My heart goes out to the family of our student who passed away, and my prayers are with them. Our entire Tanglewood family is hurting with this news and from the events that took place today. Our school is mourning and will work together to heal and process this tragedy."
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Denver Fashion Week (DFW) was born to produce a world-class fashion experience unlike any other in the Mile High City. Created by 303 Magazine, the nationally acclaimed, week-long show takes place April 3-10, 2022 and serves as a collaborative space for designers, hair and makeup artists, boutiques, models and creatives to celebrate fashion. According to Forbes Magazine, “Denver Fashion Week is one of the fastest-growing American fashion platforms.”
Reserve your Denver Fashion Week runway seat!
If you’re looking to elevate the already highly-anticipated experience, we have news for you. After you reserve a runway seat, book a room with the official DFW hotel partner, Thompson Hotel, for an exclusive 20% discount off your stay. Thompson Denver is downtown Denver’s newest boutique hotel featuring modern designs and luxurious hospitality just steps away from the heart of the city.
“We are thrilled to be the official hotel partner for Denver Fashion Week,” said Amanda Parsons, general manager and area vice president of Thompson Denver. “We are honored to support the city’s leading fashion event that provides a platform for emerging designers, local boutiques and creative talent that differentiate Denver’s fashion scene. Fashion Week is integral to our city’s culture and we’re excited to celebrate our partnership with visitors and locals.”
Denver Fashion Week Private After-Party
And the fun doesn’t stop there. Thompson Denver is home to restaurant and nightlife venues — from the newly-opened Chez Maggy to Reynard Social, a lively sixth-floor lounge overlooking the Rocky Mountains, 16th St Mall and LoDo’s city skyline. Reynard Social is proudly hosting DFW’s private after-party. On Thursday, April 7, all first- and second-row runway seat guests get a complimentary invite to the private event.
After watching Selling Sunet’s Vanessa Villela strut the runway in UK-based designer KolchagovBarba on Thursday, head to Reynard Social for a meet and greet with the show’s designers, models, hair and makeup artists, producers and exclusive guests. It’s that easy — reserve your seat and get free access to DFW’s private after-party where you can enjoy cocktails, music and more.
Click here to reserve your runway seat and here for 20% off at Thompson Denver, or use code “LODO” at checkout.
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‘It looks scary on TV’ | Dolly Parton has a message for first responders fighting to save her home community
East Tennessee native Dolly Parton took to social media to share her thoughts on the current wildfires threatening Sevier County as firefighters continue to battle the blaze.
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Queen of East Tennessee, Dolly Parton, released a statement as mandatory evacuation orders continue and the Hatcher Mountain Wildfire grows.
“I’ve been keeping up with everything going on with the fires near my home area,” Parton said. “It looks scary on TV, but I’m proud of how everyone in the area has pulled together like they always do.”
The fire affected more than 3,700 acres and is 30% contained as of Thursday evening, according to officials with the Sevier County Emergency Management Agency.
Two firefighters were injured and one civilian was airlifted out of the area.
“I’m especially proud of the brave men and women who are working to contain the fire. I know there are some folks who have been affected, and I hope that you will join me in saying a prayer for them,” she said.
Her theme park, Dollywood, is in Pigeon Forge which is outside of the evacuation zone but not far from the active fire fight.
“During this time, I’ve also remained in touch with my people at Dollywood who have assured me everything is okay there,” Parton said.
Parton created the “My People Fund” to help victims of the 2016 Gatlinburg Wildfires.
The My People Fund gave families thousands of dollars and a chance for people to rebuild.
Volunteers from around the world calmed the fears of victims as they donated millions of dollars to the relief fund.
Twin brothers Beau and Zackary MacLellan lost their home and their jobs to the 2016 fire.
The night of Nov. 28, 2016, they weren’t aware of the chaos surrounding them until they received a knock on the door.
“We were so caught off guard. The cop was like, ‘You need to leave, like now,” Zackary reflected.
For the brothers, the My People Fund helped them get back on their feet.
“It brought a tear to my eye to see everyone coming together as one, and it reassured me that everything was really going to be okay,” Beau said.
The brothers carry their work uniforms as a reminder of how far they’ve come since that night. And, it’s the days after that night that they said give them a new light in life.
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Readings this Sunday: April 5, 2022
Lent 5
Isaiah 43:16-21 Psalm 126 Philippians 3:4b-7, 8-14
Luke 20:9-20
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The A1(M) in West Yorkshire has been closed northbound due to a road traffic collision. The road has been closed since around 11.30pm on Thursday night.
The A1(M) is closed at junction 45 for the A659 at Wattlesyke, heading to Boston Spa.
Traffic camera images close to the scene of the collision showed queuing traffic on the approach. There was no information immediately available on the circumstances surrounding the collision, including whether anyone has been injured as a result.
Traffic information service Inrix said: "A1(M) Northbound closed due to accident at J45 A659 Wattlesyke (Boston Spa). The road has been closed since around 23:30 Thursday night. Diversion - via the exit and entry slips."
Highways England currently expects the scene to be clear by 4.30am on Friday. This is a breaking story. Follow our live blog below for the latest updates.
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Road could remain closed until 4.30am
Highways England has revised its anticipated reopening time to 4.30am.
A1(M) closed at junction 45
In an update at 1am on Friday, traffic information service Inrix said: "A1(M) Northbound closed due to accident at J45 A659 Wattlesyke (Boston Spa). The road has been closed since around 23:30 Thursday night. Diversion - via the exit and entry slips."
Latest from Highways England
Highways England currently estimates normal traffic conditions will resume by 3.45am.
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