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GENEVA (AP) — The head of the United Nations said Thursday that nearly all Afghans don’t have enough to eat and some have resorted to “selling their children and their body parts” to get money for food.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ statement was part of a dramatic appeal from the world body and several rich countries that want to help beleaguered Afghans, whose fate has worsened since the Taliban returned to power last year.
Guterres kicked off a virtual pledging conference backed by Britain, Germany and Qatar, seeking to make progress toward the U.N. aid office’s biggest-ever funding drive for a single country: $4.4 billion.
It is a decidedly ambitious goal when much of the world’s attention is on Russia’s war in Ukraine, and some wealthy nations have frozen nearly $9 billion in Afghan assets overseas so the Taliban can’t access them.
In recent weeks, senior U.N. officials have made visits to Afghanistan, even meeting top Taliban officials to saythe country has not been forgotten. With Afghanistan buckling beneath a debilitating humanitarian crisis and an economy in free fall, some 23 million people face acute food insecurity, according to the U.N.
Guterres called on the world to “spare” Afghans who have had their rights stripped — like many women and girls — after the Taliban’s ouster of the country’s internationally-backed government last summer. Rich nations have tried put a financial squeeze on the Taliban in hopes of spurring desired reforms.
“Wealthy, powerful countries cannot ignore the consequences of their decisions on the most vulnerable,” the U.N. chief said. “Some 95% of people do not have enough to eat, and 9 million people are at risk of famine,” he added, citing UNICEF estimates that over a million severely malnourished children “are on the verge of death without immediate action.”
“Without immediate action we face a starvation and malnutrition crisis in Afghanistan,” he said. “People are already selling their children and their body parts in order to feed their families.”
In many parts of rural Afghanistan and among the country’s poorest, girls are often married off at puberty, sometimes earlier, and their families receive a dowry. Aid groups have documented a few cases of children being sold by desperate parents, but such practices are not believed to be widespread.
As the U.N. worked to secure pledges, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Britain will renew this year its 286 million pounds ($380 million) of support from 2021. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock of Germany said her country had stepped up with 200 million euros ($220 million). Qatar said it had contributed $50 million in recent months, and pledged another $25 million for 2022.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the United States announced nearly $204 million in new humanitarian assistance funding to help Afghans.
“This humanitarian aid, like all aid from the United States, will go directly to NGOs and the United Nations,” Thomas-Greenfield said, referring to nongovernmental organizations. “The Taliban will not control our humanitarian funding.”
In a final tally, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, said $2.4 billion was pledged Thursday from 41 countries. Because donors might elect to direct some of the money to help Afghan refugees in neighboring countries, not all the pledges count toward the $4.4 billion appeal for Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, 11 U.S. senators issued a joint statement urging the Biden administration to encourage international donors to step up to help fulfill the needs laid out by the U.N. The senators, all Democrats, alluded to a number of humanitarian crises that are competing for funds and the world’s attention.
“Amid crises in Yemen, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Syria and elsewhere, the international community must not lose focus on Afghanistan,” they wrote.
The complexities of helping Afghans while not rewarding the Taliban came into focus in Kabul on Thursday: Leaders of the militant group raised their largest white flag over Kabul’s historic Wazir Akbar Khan hill, with one leader all but taunting the U.S.-led coalition’s forces that left the country for good last year.
“Because of the rule of this flag, because of the rule of the monotheistic word, thousands of brave sons of this nation placed the bombs in their chests (suicide vests) and drove the occupiers out of this homeland,” Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy prime minister of the interim Taliban government, said.
Among the Taliban leadership, there are deep divisions, however, about the group’s increasingly rigid rule. Pragmatists among them are seeking greater involvement with the international community and believe education and work for women and girls is a right in Islam.
Since a leadership meeting in the southern city of Kandahar in early March, Taliban hardliners have issued repressive edicts almost daily, harkening to their harsh rule of the late 1990s. The edicts have further alienated a wary international community and infuriated many Afghans.
The decrees include a ban on women flying alone; a ban on women in parks on certain days; and a requirement that male workers wear a beard and the traditional turban. International media broadcasts like the BBC’s Persian and Pashto services have been banned, and foreign TV series have been taken off the air.
A surprising last-minute ban on girls returning to school after the sixth grade shocked the international community and many Afghans. In schools across the country, girls returned to classrooms on March 23 — the first day of the new Afghan school year — only to be sent home.
“It broke my — I guess it broke everybody’s heart — to see the images of these girls crying in front of their closed schools,” the Germany’s Baerbock said. “The plight of girls is a dark illustration of the suffering of the Afghan people,” she added.
The situation for Afghans also has grown worse amid the worst drought in years, and skyrocketing prices for food caused by the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine, a key European breadbasket.
“Ukraine is of vital importance, but Afghanistan, you know, calls to our soul for commitment and loyalty,” Martin Griffiths, who heads OCHA, said ahead of Thursday’s pledge drive. “In simple terms, the humanitarian program that we are appealing for is to save lives.”
The amount of Thursday’s appeal for funds is three times what the U.N. aid agency sought for Afghanistan a year ago, a request that was exceeded once donors saw the needs that would have to be met after the Taliban takeover.
Many donor countries are seeking to help beleaguered Afghans while largely shunning the Taliban — but the U.N. agency suggested that political and economic engagement from abroad should return one day, too.
“It’s very important for the international community to engage with the Taliban over time on issues beyond the humanitarian,” said Griffiths. “The humanitarian assistance is no replacement for other forms of engagement.”
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Gannon reported from Islamabad. Habib Wafa in Kabul and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner made a "valuable" appearance on Thursday before the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, Representative Elaine Luria, a member of the panel, said.
"It was really valuable for us to have the opportunity to speak to him," Luria told MSNBC. The Democratic representative declined to provide specifics about Kushner's appearance before the panel via videolink, but said he commented on various reports about events of the day that have already been published.
"He was able to voluntarily provide information to us to verify, substantiate, provide his own take on this different reporting," she said.
Kushner is the first close relative of the former president known to have spoken to the House Select Committee. He also served as a senior adviser in the Trump White House.
A committee spokesman declined comment.
The Select Committee has conducted hundreds of interviews in its investigation of the attack on the Capitol last year by supporters of Trump as lawmakers were poised to certify the Republican's defeat in the November 2020 presidential election by Democratic President Joe Biden.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by David Gregorio)
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“Hi, I’m Roger ‘Good Investments’ Goodell, here to tell you how you can gamble away your house from the comfort of your own home.”
Look what they’ve done to our games, Ma.
Oct. 15, 1986, the day-into-early-night when the nation, which still cared about baseball, was witness to one of the most riveting, intense baseball games ever naturally produced.
I don’t know where Rob Manfred was that day, but he wasn’t with me. Or maybe he was. I was so crazy-glued to the TV set I wouldn’t have noticed.
Game 6, the clincher of the Mets-Astros NLCS, 16 innings of the most spell-binding baseball since they decided to sell peanuts.
The Mets had to win it, with ex-Met and NL Cy Young winner Mike Scott pitching Game 7. Scott was already 2-0 in the series, allowing just one run in 18 innings, two complete games. That’s before analytics pulled such starters after six innings.
But New York had to come back from down, 3-0, after the first inning, to tie it with three in the ninth.
And the incredible never stopped. Each team scored a run in the 14th. The Mets appeared to have it won with three in the top of the 16th, but the Astros scored two and had the tying runner on second when Jesse Orosco ended it, striking out Kevin Bass. Final score, 7-6. Exhale.
That night, throughout that week and at least until yesterday, New Yorkers shared stories about where they were throughout that game.
Some left work carrying transistor radios, others lamented that transistors were useless in the subway, others spent the rest of the game in near-work pubs. Not even Yankees fans could turn away.
No replay challenges, no DH, no analytics; 50,000 in Houston, paying affordable ticket prices, side-by-side through joy, agony and anxiety. Baseball in its glorious, natural and memorable beauty.
But such games, as per Commissioner Manfred, will no longer be tolerated.
MLB — overwhelmed by its self-afflicted tedium, abandonment of fundamentals and devotion to computer-delivered scientific applications to the unscientific — has ruled that all extra-inning games must begin with an artificial additive, a gimmick in the form of a designated runner at second.
Don’t fix what’s killing baseball, fix what isn’t!
And this season, Manfred — who, like Goodell, portrays himself as what he so consistently and conspicuously isn’t (fans’ leading advocate) — is good with it, perhaps even proud of it.
And now MLB, in exchange for tens of millions in Apple TV streaming dough, will exploit the Mets’ second game of the season — next Friday night’s game at the Nationals, Max Scherzer expected to make his first start for the Mets — as pay-extra subscription bait. The game will not be televised on SNY or Channel 11 but exclusively on a “first-few-are-free” internet devices.
And more than 20 Yankees’ games will be removed from free Channel 11 viewing, lost to added-fees Amazon streaming deal.
More decisions that should’ve been too preposterous, too ugly, too greedy, and too unnatural to have even been considered. It’s anathema to the good and welfare of The Game. But instead of “No way!” MLB answered “How much?”
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this pay wall!”
NFL adds another token into its tokenism
The NFL’s latest diversity rules are again bereft of both foresight and genuine racial and gender practicality and sincerity.
Now teams must interview both females plus minority male assistant offensive coaches, thus adding to the predictable foolishness of the Rooney Rule, which only led to suspicions or realities of interviews conducted as a matter of rank tokenism.
How did you land your NFL job? “I’m black” or “I’m a woman” should be calculated as an exercise in service to legit equality? No more than separate drinking fountains did. If the NFL knows that one of its teams practices racial or gender discrimination, act on it! Don’t presume they all do!
That logically creates the suspicion or reality that minimizes legitimate qualifications of all female and minority hires. It insults those it purports to benefit!
How do you defeat tokenism? More tokenism!
Meanwhile, Roger Goodell’s NFL and the NFLPA continue to ignore what has become a profound criminal problem among players. This week, more of the usual. Panthers wide receiver Shi Smith was busted for drugs and a handgun after he was pulled over for speeding. It’s an NFL epidemic, yet Goodell has never been heard to even hint at it.
More: The NFL’s new overtime rules establish one standard to determine teams that make the playoffs, and different rules — each team guaranteed a possession — to determine who wins playoff games.
The inequitable regular-season OT standard will be sustained for the reason that Goodell omitted in his “doing it for the fans” explanation: TV money, especially as it applies to big TV market teams.
The NFL and its networks don’t want regular season 1 p.m. OT games to further collide with the starts of the 4:15 games, which are for the most part scheduled for 4:15 because they include better teams.
And when the Jets and Giants, regardless of their records, play at 4:15, as you’ve known for years after watching three-plus hours of an early game that has gone into OT, that game will be abandoned for local commercials then a scene-setter from wherever the Jets and Giants will play.
But why tell the truth when you can claim to be “all about our fans”?
Spanarkel adds spark to Madness
The runaway TV MVP of the NCAAs was analyst Jim Spanarkel. He added immediately applicable sense to every game he worked — from alerting us to defenses that should overplay players’ dominant dribbling hands, to identifying Purdue as too single-minded trying to take advantage of its height advantage that was double-teamed, front and back, by undersized underdog St. Peter’s.
He’s excellent for all and only the right reasons. No screaming, no faux-cool silly expressions, all substance. And now — based on emails from here, there and everywhere — the nation recognizes how good he is.
It remains unfathomable that Spanarkel, unless it was a matter of misguided diversity — he was replaced by Sarah Kustok and Richard Jefferson — was dumped by YES as Ian Eagle’s longtime partner on Nets telecasts. What a blunder.
Why do we presume that any thought, even the misapplied kind, is ever applied?
Early in Saturday’s Kansas-Miami Tournament game, the score was 9-9 with play on when CBS decided this was a good time to distract us by posting a graphic carrying the breaking news that KU “has three assists on its four made FGs.”
Clearly, CBS broadcast truck had been invaded by saboteurs. Then again, after jumping on stage as if it were Ford’s Theater — “Sic semper tyrannis!” — to smack Chris Rock, how much thought went into Will Smith receiving a standing ovation?
Too much significant Tournament info is withheld by TV. For example, Miami’s “sixth year senior” guard from Chicago, Charlie Moore, originally committed to Memphis, but instead played for Cal. Then Kansas. Then DePaul. Then Miami.
Reader Tommy Ameen figures Moore is “the most educated student-athlete” in the country.
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Welcome Karly Beavers!
Hi there! My name is Karly (she/her/hers) and I am the new Health Promotion Specialist in Health & Wellness Education. I’m from California and have spent the last few years working for a county health department overseeing STI & HIV programming to assist folks in accessing the resources they need to support a long and healthy life.
I have my Bachelor’s in Psychology from California State University, Monterey Bay and a Master of Public Health from Indiana University, Bloomington. I’ve served as a peer health educator, co-authored a couple of journal articles, and once drove around Dr. Ruth Westheimer to provide a campus tour. (She was really kind to me!)
In my free time I can be found working on an art project, playing Animal Crossing, contemplating my next hair color, geeking out whenever it snows, and hanging out with fun animals.
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WHO: COVID deaths jump by 40%, but cases falling globally
GENEVA (AP) — The number of people killed by the coronavirus surged by more than 40% last week, likely due to changes in how COVID-19 deaths were reported across the Americas and by newly adjusted figures from India, according to a World Health Organization report released Wednesday. In...
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Fourth round of Evaluations focus on top ransomware and wiper malware groups, including Russian cyber military unit
WALTHAM, Mass., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Uptycs, provider of the first cloud-native security analytics platform enabling cloud and endpoint security from a common solution, today announced the results of its completed MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluation, Round 4. This round of independent ATT&CK Evaluations for enterprise cybersecurity solutions emulated the Wizard Spider and Sandworm threat groups. Wizard Spider is responsible for the infamous Ryuk ransomware family, and Sandworm is a Russian cyber military unit behind the 2017 NotPetya attacks.
"Ransomware is a growing scourge for all types of organizations and the focus of these MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations could not come at a more appropriate time," said Ganesh Pai, Co-founder and CEO at Uptycs. "Security teams can use these evaluation results to identify gaps in their detection coverage. Our strong performance in both the Windows and Linux portions of the evaluation demonstrate how Uptycs helps these Security teams to detect even advanced ransomware actors, in addition to the hardening needed to minimize the risk of ransomware in the first place."
The MITRE Engenuity evaluations team chose to emulate two threat groups that abuse the Data Encrypted For Impact (T1486) technique. In Wizard Spider's case, they have leveraged data encryption for ransomware, including the widely known Ryuk malware (S0446). Sandworm, on the other hand, leveraged encryption for the destruction of data, perhaps most notably with their NotPetya malware (S0368) that disguised itself as ransomware. While the common thread to this year's evaluations is "Data Encrypted for Impact," both groups have substantial reporting on a broad range of post-exploitation tradecraft.
New advanced detection capabilities helped Uptycs perform strongly in the Wizard Spider and Sandworm evaluation, including:
- Ransomware detection - Uptycs provides generic detection and protection against ransomware attacks on Windows operating systems. The capability analyzes telemetry inside the endpoint agent so it can protect against the attacks in offline mode.
- Process code injection / DLL injection and process hollowing - Uptycs provides generic detection to process code injection and process hollowing on both Windows and Linux endpoints. Process code injection is a technique used by attackers to inject malicious code inside a trusted running process to evade detection.
- Master boot record (MBR) overwrite - Uptycs provides generic detection of MBR overwrite on Windows-based endpoints. MBR overwrite is a technique used by adversaries where the goal is to disrupt operations and make the system unusable.
- Lsass.exe memory credential dumping - To detect attacker attempts to steal credentials, Uptycs provides generic detection of lsass.exe (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) memory credential dumping on Windows-based endpoints.
For full results and more information about the evaluations, please visit: https://attackevals.mitre-engenuity.org/enterprise/wizard-spider-and-sandworm/.
Sign up for our Uptycs Live webinar to learn more about our participation in the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations and how our solution protects against ransomware.
About MITRE Engenuity
MITRE Engenuity, a subsidiary of MITRE, is a tech foundation for the public good. MITRE's mission-driven teams are dedicated to solving problems for a safer world. Through our public-private partnerships and federally funded R&D centers, we work across government and in partnership with industry to tackle challenges to the safety, stability, and well-being of our nation.
MITRE Engenuity brings MITRE's deep technical know-how and systems thinking to the private sector to solve complex challenges that government alone cannot solve. MITRE Engenuity catalyzes the collective R&D strength of the broader U.S. federal government, academia, and private sector to tackle national and global challenges, such as protecting critical infrastructure, creating a resilient semiconductor ecosystem, building a genomics center for public good, accelerating use case innovation in 5G, and democratizing threat-informed cyber defense.
About Uptycs
Uptycs provides the first unified, cloud-native security analytics platform that enables both cloud and endpoint security from a common solution. The solution provides a unique telemetry-powered approach to address multiple use cases—including Extended Detection & Response (XDR), Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP), and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). Uptycs enables security professionals to quickly prioritize, investigate, and respond to potential threats across a company's entire attack surface.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey refused to say Thursday if transgender people actually exist, twice dodging direct questions on the subject just a day after he signed legislation limiting transgender rights.
The Republican worked instead to defend his signatures on bills that bar transgender girls and women from playing on girls high school and women's college sports teams and barring gender affirming surgery for anyone under age 18.
When specifically asked if he believed that there “are really transgender people,” the governor paused for several seconds before answering.
“I’m going to ask you to read the legislation and to see that the legislation that we passed was in the spirit of fairness to protect girls sports in competitive situations,” Ducey said, referring to the new law that targets transgender girls who want to play on girls sports teams. “That’s what the legislation is intended to do, and that’s what it does.”
Asked again if he believed there are “actual transgender people,” he again answered slowly and carefully.
“I ... am going to respect everyone, and I’m going to respect everyone’s rights. And I’m going to protect female sports. And that’s what the legislation does,” Ducey said.
Ducey's response was “appalling,” according to the Arizona director of the Human Rights Campaign, a national civil rights group that advocates for equality for LGBTQ people. The organization worked to ensure families and transgender young people came to the Capitol to testify against the bills as the Republican-led House and Senate considered them this session.
“It's quite shocking that he can't even address trans people or even say that he thinks they exist,” Bridget Sharpe said.
Wednesday's signing of the two transgender bills and a third that bars abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and is currently unconstitutional put Ducey right in the middle of two top issues national Republicans are highlighting in the runup to November's midterm elections.
Ducey also signed election legislation that minority Democrats said amounted to voter suppression by requiring longtime Arizonans to be thrown off the voter rolls if they did not prove their citizenship and residence location.
The governor leads the Republican Governors Association, which is charged with helping elect GOP chief executives in U.S. states. He in is the last year of his second term as Arizona governor and term limits bar him from seeking reelection.
The top Democrat in the state House, Rep. Reginald Bolding, called Wednesday “probably one of the darkest days we've seen in the history of Arizona."
“With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Ducey has hurled Arizona backwards to its ugliest past,” Bolding said Wednesday. “And today, he put in jeopardy pregnant people, transgender youth in danger and curtailed voting rights for people of color.”
Social conservative groups and the Arizona Republican Party praised Ducey's action. The Center for Arizona Policy, whose president shepherded the abortion and women's sports bills through the Legislature, called it a victory.
"Thank you, Governor Ducey, for taking a bold stand for women athletes, vulnerable children, and the unborn by putting your signature on (the bills) in the face of intense opposition from activists," Center for Arizona Policy president Cathi Herrod said in a news release she posted on Twitter.
She said the legislation protects the unborn, ensures a level playing field for female athletes and shows that “Arizona will do everything it can to protect vulnerable children struggling with gender confusion” by enacting the surgery ban.
Ducey said the surgery ban protects children from irreversible decisions.
“These are permanent surgeries of reassignment that are irreversible, and those discussions can happen once adulthood is reached,” he said.
The American Civil Liberties Association has vowed to sue over the surgery ban. U.S. Supreme Court precedent currently says women have a constitutional right to abortion until about 24 weeks of pregnancy, although it is considering whether to uphold a 15-week ban enacted in Mississippi and may overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision enshrining a woman's right to choose.
Arizona joins 13 other states in enacting laws preventing transgender girls and women from playing on girls teams. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a transgender sports ban in his state, saying it would harm transgender girls, but the Legislature overrode the veto. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb also vetoed a sports bill, but lawmakers hope to override his action as well.
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Liam Gumley, Distinguished Scientist
Liam Gumley MS’90 has been awarded Distinguished Scientist by the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
More Alumni Notes
Liam Gumley MS’90 has been awarded Distinguished Scientist.
Ron Walker JD’79 passed away in January 2022 at the age of 75.
During the pandemic Steven L. Katz ’76, MA’77 used his knowledge of anthropology to improve management.
Kris Carey has been appointed EVP CHRO of Constellation Brands.
Joe Broeckert ’02 and Emmy Minarik Broeckert ’02 are partnering in a brewery.
Liam Gumley MS’90 has been awarded Distinguished Scientist.
Ron Walker JD’79 passed away in January 2022 at the age of 75.
During the pandemic Steven L. Katz ’76, MA’77 used his knowledge of anthropology to improve management.
Kris Carey has been appointed EVP CHRO of Constellation Brands.
Joe Broeckert ’02 and Emmy Minarik Broeckert ’02 are partnering in a brewery.
Liam Gumley MS’90 has been awarded Distinguished Scientist.
Ron Walker JD’79 passed away in January 2022 at the age of 75.
During the pandemic Steven L. Katz ’76, MA’77 used his knowledge of anthropology to improve management.
Kris Carey has been appointed EVP CHRO of Constellation Brands.
Joe Broeckert ’02 and Emmy Minarik Broeckert ’02 are partnering in a brewery.
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March 31, 2022
**Media Advisory**
RAVENS PRE-DRAFT PRESS CONFERENCE AND LUNCHEON: NEW DAY/TIME
The Baltimore Ravens' annual pre-draft press conference has been moved to Tuesday, April 5 at 12:15 p.m. Lunch will begin in the cafeteria immediately following the press conference.
If you still plan to attend, please respond to this email by tomorrow (Friday, April 1) at 12 p.m.
Who:
Executive Vice President/General Manager Eric DeCosta
Head Coach John Harbaugh
Director of Player Personnel Joe Hortiz
What:
Ravens Pre-Draft Press Conference and Luncheon
Where:
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Owings Mills, MD 21117
When:
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Times:
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President Joe Biden marked Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday by denouncing “hateful bills” being passed at the state level as the White House played host to “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, the first openly transgender winner on the popular quiz show.
Schneider met with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who joined Rachel Levine, the assistant health secretary and the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, for a conversation with transgender kids and their parents.
Schneider used the moment in the Washington spotlight to speak out against bills affecting transgender people.
“They’re really scary and some of them in particular that are denying medical services to trans youth, those are, those are lifesaving medical treatments," Schneider told reporters. "These bills will cause the deaths of children and that’s really sad to me and it’s really frightening.”
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“Jeopardy!” star Schneider spoke of “being a trans person out there that isn’t monstrous and isn’t threatening and is just a normal person, like we all are,” and said "the more that people like me can be seen, the harder it is to sustain the myths that are ... kind of driving a lot of this hate and fear.”
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Covid: Nurses' boss wants life assurance scheme extended for NHS staff
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The government has been called "disrespectful" for ending a UK-wide scheme that provided financial support to families of deceased health and social care workers in the pandemic.
Families of staff who contract Covid at work and then die are no longer entitled to the £60,000 compensation.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says it is not the right time to stop.
Ministers say the scheme was always intended to be time-limited and there are other death in-service benefits.
But the RCN has written to Health Secretary Sajid Javid calling for an extension of life assurance payments.
Although vaccines are helping to protect people, including NHS staff, against severe Covid, some deaths are still occurring.
Official records for England, Scotland and Wales say 304 NHS staff have died from Covid following workplace exposure, including 10 since the start of December 2021.
RCN chief executive Pat Cullen said: "Ending this scheme now is disrespectful to staff continuing to work under pandemic conditions in health and social care."
Her letter to Mr Javid says: "The overriding principle must be that no member of nursing staff who loses their life this year should be afforded any less respect and family support than one who died in 2020 or 2021.
"The pandemic is far from over.
"I urge you to delay the end of the scheme until a time when nursing staff and all health and care workers are assured that their lives are not at such risk from the pandemic."
Speaking at a Covid death memorial service held last week for NHS frontline workers, Rev Paul Nash, chaplain at Birmingham and Women's Children Hospital, said staff and carers sacrificed their "mental and physical health", with many paying the ultimate sacrifice with their lives.
"We will never, ever forget and we will be forever grateful," he said.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: "Every death from this virus is a tragedy, and our deepest sympathies go out to anyone who has lost a loved one.
"The Life Assurance Scheme was introduced to recognise the exceptional risk faced by frontline NHS and social care staff working at peak periods of the pandemic, and was always intended to be time-limited.
"NHS staff continue to be eligible for death in-service benefits through the NHS Pension Scheme, including a twice-salary lump sum and pensions for a surviving partner and dependants."
- 19 September 2020
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Kellyanne Conway's husband George suggests Russia under new leadership could hand over the 'files on Donald Trump' after ex-president urged Putin to release information on the Biden family
- George Conway said Thursday he'd like to see the 'files on Donald Trump' released if jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ever came to power
- Conway's comments came after Trump said he wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information on Hunter Biden's business dealings
- 'This is a man for whom there is no bottom and Republicans are afraid to call him out,' Conway said of Trump's ask of Putin, amid the invasion of Ukraine
George Conway, the husband of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, said Thursday he'd like to see the 'files on Donald Trump' released if jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ever came to power.
'I wonder some day that maybe we won't have a president in Russia who actually acts in the best interest of the Russian people and behaves himself before the world. Maybe President Navalny. Pray to God somehow that some how could happen,' Conway told CNN's Brianna Keilar. 'And maybe we'll see the Russian files on Donald Trump. I think those would be interesting.'
Conway's comments came on the heels of Trump saying he wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any information he has on Hunter Biden's business dealings.
George Conway (right), the husband of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, told CNN's Brianna Keilar (left) Thursday he'd like to see the 'files on Donald Trump' released if Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ever came to power
George Conway pointed to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (pictured), who is imprisoned, as a potential future leader of Russia in the aftermath of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine
Speaking to Just The News Tuesday, Trump pointed to a 2020 Senate report that said the wife of the former mayor of Moscow, oligarch Yelena Baturina, gave millions to a company co-founded by Hunter Biden.
'She gave him $3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it,' the ex-president said. 'I think we should know that answer.'
George Conway is the husband of Kellyanne Conway, who served as Counselor to the President for Former President Donald Trump
The demand - similar to one Trump made of Putin during the 2016 election cycle to get dirt on his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton - comes amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has resulted in deaths in the thousands.
'This is Donald Trump leading the Republican Party off a cliff,' said Conway, a Republican, but a top Trump critic. 'This is a man for whom there is no bottom and Republicans are afraid to call him out.'
'We are in the middle of this war where Putin, who can't be trusted for a moment, who murders political opponents, who slaughters women and children, and Donald Trump is focused on, what? Himself,' Conway continued.
'Because he wants revenge for losing the 2020 election,' Conway added.
Keilar had initially asked Conway about reports out this week regarding Hunter Biden.
The Wall Street Journal reported that a federal tax probe into Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings was advancing.
Additionally, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, who wrote the 2020 report Trump mentioned, started releasing new financial documents tied to Hunter Biden's business accounts.
Keilar asked Conway how bad he thought it was for Hunter Biden - and also for President Joe Biden.
Republicans have suggested Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings could mean the president is 'compromised.'
Conway said he didn't know what the political ramifications could be.
'I suspect they're not going to be that great,' he said. 'But the point is, we don't have a president who is saying "this is fake news, these prosecutors are corrupt." We don't have a president who is trying to disrupt the process of an investigation in the Justice Department to help somebody in his family.'
Conway added that he didn't think President Biden would try to pardon anybody ensnarled in the DOJ's investigation into his son.
The president kept the U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss in place due to the probe, despite Weiss being a holdover from the last administration.
During Trump's term in office, he fired FBI Director James Comey - as the bureau was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and ties to the Trump campaign.
The Mueller report found additional ways the ex-president tried to meddle with the probe.
It was never confirmed what motivated Trump to try to scuttle the investigation, though there have long been rumors that the Russian government held 'kompromat' on the former American leader.
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Davis Administration sets in motion plans to speed up its GREEN CLEAN ENERGY PLAN!!!
NASSAU, The Bahamas – The government has signed a $9 million contract funded by the European Union in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) that will assist in the expanded use of clean, renewable energy, and promote post-hurricane reconstruction ‘with resilience’ in The Bahamas.
Signing on behalf of the Bahamas Government was Minister of Economic Affairs, Senator the Hon. Michael Halkitis; Country Representative, Daniela Carrera-Marquis signed for the IDB. Also in attendance was European Union Ambassador, Her Excellency Marianne Van Steen. Representing the Minister of Works was Luther Smith, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works and Utilities.
The ceremony was held at the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Senator Halkitis said: “It is worth noting that a high priority of this administration is to reduce the use of fossil fuel by creating an environment for renewable energy, where interested persons or entrepreneurs can participate in, among other things, the application of solar energy for the advancement of industry that is propelled by clean energy. Today, the EU and IDB are providing financial assistance of approximately $9 million, in grant funds, to assist in transforming a plan for renewable energy into reality.”
He said that the support comes at a very timely moment given the current geopolitical circumstances impacting fuel prices and the rise in the costs of goods and services. He also alluded to a current energy investment initiative that is currently being funded by the IDB at a cost of $80 million.
“This project, in summary, entails the installation of renewable energy capacity in East End Grand Bahama and Abaco. The Family islands are also expected to receive support from the energy investment project as solar systems will be constructed on these islands to reduce reliance on traditional energy,” said Minister Halkitis.
IDB Country Rep., Daniela Carrera-Marquis said that the funds will support two micro grids in Abaco and provide electricity support and storage facilities. The grid in Abaco is located in Marsh Harbour near the Government Complex and will impact up to 17,000 persons. The other grid will be located in the Cooper’s Town Medical Clinic facility and will impact 1,000 persons. The funds will also be used to
boost energy capacity in New Providence in three locations with a capacity of 407kilowatts. The grids will be located at the University of the Bahamas (UB); C.I. Gibson Senior High School and the Bahamas Customs Headquarters. The UB grid will also serve as a pilot program and will provide training and supplementary electricity.
European Union (EU) Ambassador, Marianne Van Steen said that the EU was motivated to start the project since Hurricane Dorian devastated the islands. “The European Union thought that climate change had to be a high priority therefore this project was in line with our objective of promoting renewable energy. We are happy to see the Government of the Bahamas is aggressively pursuing its objectives of facing climate change and reducing the country’s reliance on fossil fuels,” she said.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works, Luther Smith said that the project will commence immediately. The government has pledged to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels by 30 percent by
the year 2030.
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Yulia isn’t convinced Ukraine should give up any part of its territory to Russia — even if by doing so it could end the war.
The 25-year-old from Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv is now living in a shelter in the western Ukrainian town of Lviv, and her life is on hold while the conflict rages.
She fled Bucha as “there were bombardments and stuff like that. And a lot of times it was really scary.” Her mother went to Germany, but Yulia decided to remain in Ukraine “because it is my country.” She doesn’t want Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to offer any concessions to Russia, including territorial ones, even to stop the fighting.
Many Ukrainians feel the war is going their way following Russian reversals northwest and east of Kyiv. They are heartened by Russian announcements that military operations around Kyiv and some other northern cities will be scaled back and the focus now will turn fully on “liberating” the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainians see that as a statement of the obvious and one forced on Moscow by the valor and effectiveness of Ukraine’s defense forces, which have stymied all of Russia’s efforts to advance on Ukraine’s capital.
With the Russian invasion faltering, Ukrainian confidence is soaring despite continued missile barrages, and talk is turning to how this war may end.
Neutrality, with guarantees
This week, Ukrainian and Russian diplomats met in Turkey. Ukraine said it was ready to become a neutral state — with security guarantees — to disarm Russian fears it might join the NATO military alliance. And the proposals included a 15-year consultation period on the status of the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow seized from Ukraine and illegally annexed in 2014.
The status of the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk would be discussed directly by Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy at a later date, according to the Ukrainian proposal. Any peace deal would then have to go to a referendum, under Ukraine’s draft proposals.
Yiannis Valinakis, Greece’s former deputy foreign minister, said Kyiv might have come up with this sequence “to alleviate public opinion pressure on Zelenskyy.” If that is the plan, it might not work — even if the Russians eventually accept something along the lines Kyiv is proposing.
Zelenskyy may face a big challenge in persuading Ukrainians to approve the proposals in a referendum, judging by interviews VOA conducted in western Ukraine. Said Yulia, “I don’t agree with giving land away because Ukraine is one country in terms of our Constitution and the territory defined by the Constitution.” She said she believed the Ukrainian army could overrun the Moscow-controlled regions in the Donbas, and she isn’t alone. Many Ukrainians say they are braced for the war to go on for a long time.
Archbishop Vasyl Semeniuk, a Greek-Catholic prelate in the western Ukraine town of Ternopil, said Ukraine has a sacred duty to vanquish the Russian army on the battlefield, and he said Kyiv should not give up on the Donbas or Crimea.
“Why should we give any land away, what for?” he asked. “So many people have died. So many cities have been destroyed. Those territories belong to us, and they grabbed them.”
“Mariupol has been destroyed. Kharkiv is destroyed, and other towns near Kyiv,” Semeniuk told VOA. “There are dead bodies in the street; they run over them with tanks. The war will continue. We have to stop this army that attacked Georgia, Syria and Transnistria.”
Both Washington and Moscow have cast doubts about the prospects for the peace talks, and U.S. officials are questioning the Kremlin’s sincerity, saying actions speak louder than words. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said midweek that he hadn’t noticed anything “really promising” in the talks so far.
Taken a turn
Nonetheless, there is a feeling in Ukraine that the war is entering a new stage. Ukrainians suspect it might be the endgame; others think it will mean fighting continues but almost exclusively in eastern Ukraine.
They echo remarks made Thursday by Britain’s Chief of the Defense Staff, Admiral Tony Radakin, who said Putin has “lost” his war on Ukraine through a series of “catastrophic misjudgments.” Radakin said Russian officers had taken soldiers into combat without their realizing what they were undertaking — a move he described as “insane” and “morally bankrupt.”
Radakin said there were “early indications” that Russian forces were retreating, a move that was making Putin’s military open to attack from Ukrainian defenders. “I think we are seeing that Russia’s ambitions to take Kyiv and Russia’s ambitions to take the whole of Ukraine and do that in a very swift and impressive fashion, those ambitions have fallen apart.”
Ukrainians put more emphasis on the courage of their army for Putin’s setback.
So far, the guns have not been silenced around Kyiv, and British intelligence officials said they expected some heavy fighting around the capital in the coming days. Russian forces blasted Kharkiv Oblast midweek with Grad rockets, and Russian rocket strikes hit a Red Cross building in besieged Mariupol in southern Ukraine. Dnipro in central Ukraine suffered a missile strike, and Chernihiv in northern Ukraine came under “colossal attack,” according to local officials.
But this has done nothing to stop more normal life from reappearing in much of western Ukraine, and slowly in parts of central Ukraine. In Lviv, most stores have reopened, including shopping malls, and there is bustle on the streets. Just three weeks ago, pharmacies were running low on antibiotics and even painkillers. Now they are well stocked, thanks to supplies from Europe. The occasional air raid siren doesn’t prompt people in any large numbers to rush to bunkers as they did a few weeks ago.
Outside Lviv, on highways and in nearby towns and villages, there are still checkpoints, but many are unmanned and at others traffic is waved through with few document checks. Part of the reason is farmers have been putting away their guns to focus on planting crops with the sowing season beginning.
It is also a sign that people in western Ukraine are becoming more relaxed. Many Kyivans are starting to head back to their homes, and the refugee flow across the border into Poland has decreased from a flood to a trickle.
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MAG Silver Reports 2021 Annual Results
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MAG Silver Corp. (TSX / NYSE American: MAG) (“MAG” or the “Company”) announces the Company’s audited consolidated financial results for the year ended December 31, 2021. For details of the audited consolidated financial statements, Management's Discussion and Analysis, Annual Information Form and Annual Report on Form 40-F for the year ended December 31, 2021, please see the Company’s filings on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) or on EDGAR (www.sec.gov).
All amounts herein are reported in $000s of United States dollars (“US$”) unless otherwise specified.
HIGHLIGHTS – DECEMBER 31, 2021 AND SUBSEQUENT TO YEAR END
OPERATIONAL
Significant progress was achieved during the year ended December 31, 2021 on the construction of the 4,000 tonnes per day (“tpd”) Juanicipio processing plant as the Juanicipio project team delivered the project for plant commissioning late in the fourth quarter of 2021.
The plant commissioning timeline was extended, however, by approximately six months until the regulatory approval to tie into the national power grid is obtained. The plant commissioning timeline is now expected to commence in Q2 2022.
As reported by the operator Fresnillo, the Juanicipio Project is expected to come in on budget with the processing plant expected to be ramped up to 85% to 90% of plant capacity by the end of 2022.
A regularly updated photo gallery of construction progress at Juanicipio is available at https://magsilver.com/projects/photo-gallery/#photo-gallery.
Campaign processing of mineralized material from development headings continues through the nearby Fresnillo plant and starting in Q4 2021 mineralized material also began to be campaign processed at Fresnillo’s Saucito plant. Saucito’s flowsheet better resembles that of the Juanicipio plant and will provide further valuable metallurgical benefits as production commences at Juanicipio.
The campaign processing rate originally targeted at 16,000 tonnes per month increased significantly to an average of 37,983 tonnes per month in Q4 2021 and to an average of 44,963 tonnes per month for the first two months of 2022.
Processing at the Fresnillo plants is expected to continue until the Juanicipio plant is commissioned, with Fresnillo making available any unused plant capacity at its Minera Fresnillo and Minera Saucito operations, and if possible matching commissioning and ramp up tonnages that were previously expected at Juanicipio.
For the three months ended December 31, 2021, on a 100% basis:
113,950 tonnes of mineralized material were campaign processed through the Fresnillo and Saucito plants, with 1,519,027 payable silver ounces, 3,641 payable gold ounces, 563 tonnes of lead and 800 tonnes of zinc produced and sold;
Average silver head grade was 542 grams per tonne (“g/t”); and
Pre-commercial production sales totaled $39,368 for the quarter (net of treatment and processing costs), less $7,593 in mining and transportation costs, netting $31,775 in gross profit by Minera Juanicipio in the quarter.
For the year ended December 31, 2021, on a 100% basis:
251,907 tonnes of mineralized material were campaign processed through Fresnillo’s plants, with 2,974,524 payable silver ounces, 5,975 payable gold ounces, 1,065 tonnes of lead and 1,519 tonnes of zinc produced and sold;
Average silver head grade was 470 g/t; and
Pre-commercial production sales of $75,393 (net of treatment and processing costs) less $15,329 in mining and transportation costs, netting $60,064 gross profit in Minera Juanicipio for the year.
Since commencing campaign processing of Juanicipio mineralized material from development headings in August of 2020 through February 2022, a total of 413,691 tonnes of mineralized development material have been processed through the nearby Fresnillo plant and starting in December 2021 in the Saucito plant:
contributing cash-flow to offset some of the initial project capital; and
de-risking Juanicipio’s metallurgical performance, which is expected to significantly speed up project ramp-up.
A further 89,925 tonnes of mineralized development material with a silver head grade of 529 g/t were processed in January and February 2022 through the Fresnillo and Saucito plants.
EXPLORATION
Results of the Juanicipio 2020 exploration program were reported in the third quarter (see Press Release dated August 5, 2021), and the program successfully:
Confirms, and allows modeling with greater detail and confidence of the high-grade silver resource within the upper parts of the Valdecañas Bonanza Zone (as defined in the 2017 PEA) where the first several years of mining is expected to occur;
Confirms, expands, and allows improved modeling of the continuous wide mineralization of the Valdecañas Deep Zone (as defined in the 2017 PEA); and
Confirms, expands, and allows improved modeling of the ever-growing Anticipada Vein.
The Juanicipio 2021 exploration program was completed in Q4 2021 with $6,296 spent on a 100% basis and was focused on continued step-out and infill drilling of the Valdecañas Vein System (including independent targeting of the Venadas Vein family and the Anticipada Vein).
The Juanicipio 2022 exploration program is currently in process, with five drill rigs presently on surface running concurrently with continued underground definition and geotechnical drilling, and one rig testing the new Cesantoni target in the northwest part of the Juanicipio concession.
Deer Trail Project in Utah:
Assays were released in Q3 2021 for the Phase I drill program (see Press Release dated September 7, 2021), which successfully fulfilled all three of its planned objectives by:
Confirming the presence of a thick section of more favorable carbonate host rocks (the predicted “Redwall Limestone” or “Redwall”) below the Deer Trail mine;
Confirming and projecting two suspected mineralization feeder structures to depth; and
Intercepting high-grade mineralization related to those structures in host rocks below what was historically known.
A follow up 5 hole/5,000 metre Phase II drill program commenced in Q3 2021 and is in process with all assays pending.
Subsequent to the year end, the Company entered into a Definitive Arrangement Agreement with Gatling Exploration Inc. (TSXV:GTR, OTCOB:GATGF) (“Gatling”) pursuant to which the Company will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Gatling in an all-share transaction. The Company and Gatling have also entered into a loan agreement pursuant to which the Company has agreed to provide Gatling with a C$3 million secured convertible bridge loan to finance Gatling’s accounts payable and operating expenses.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
As at December 31, 2021, MAG held cash of $56,748 while Minera Juanicipio had cash on hand of $18,972 on a 100% basis.
According to the operator Fresnillo, the Juanicipio Project construction is expected to be delivered on budget at $440,000.
With the current ramp up of underground mine production and given hiring restrictions on contractors arising from new 2021 labour reform legislation, the timing of various sustaining capital expenditures has been brought forward:
These sustaining capital costs are included in current Juanicipio development costs but are not considered by the operator as part of the $440,000 initial project capital; and
The costs incurred are expected to reduce future sustaining capital costs and totaled approximately $41,388 on a 100% basis in the second half of 2021 in preparation for the legislation to come into effect.
The expected cash flow from the ongoing campaign processing until the Juanicipio plant is commissioned, along with the cash held by Minera Juanicipio at December 31, 2021 of $18,972, are projected to substantially fund the remaining capital expenditures in the $440,000 initial capex (a cash call has not been needed since mid-December 2021 which was $21,000 on a 100% basis).
Should there be additional funding requirements in excess of the cashflow generated, related to further commissioning delays or to additional sustaining capital that is being brought forward prior to attaining commercial production, there may still be further cash calls required from Fresnillo and MAG.
In Q4 2021, MAG closed a bought deal share offering and issued 2,691,000 common shares, including 15,700 common shares issued to an officer and two directors of MAG and 351,000 common shares issued upon the full exercise of the over-allotment option, at $17.15 per share for gross proceeds of $46,151. The Company paid commission of $2,301 to the underwriters and legal and filing costs totaled an additional $608 resulting in net proceeds of $43,242.
COVID-19
Fresnillo, the Juanicipio operator implemented a range of safety measures and monitoring procedures, consistent with World Health Organization and Mexican Government COVID-19 directives.
COVID-19 had an impact on the Juanicipio plant commissioning timeline however during the course of the year:
In Q1 2021, Fresnillo, as operator, reported that commissioning was pushed out a few months to Q4 2021 as some infrastructure contracts were delayed related to COVID-19; and,
In Q4 2021, approval to complete the tie-in to the national power grid was extended as noted above related to knock-on effects of the pandemic.
CORPORATE
MAG continued to refresh its board during the year with three new appointments:
Ms. Susan Mathieu was appointed to the board on January 13, 2021 increasing the size of the board to eight members;
Mr. Tim Baker was appointed to the board on March 31, 2021 replacing Mr. Richard Clark who resigned from the board to focus on other professional responsibilities; and,
Mr. Dale Peniuk was appointed to the board on August 3, 2021 replacing Mr. Derek White who did not stand for re-election at the Company’s Annual General and Special Meeting on June 21, 2021.
On October 16, 2021 MAG announced that Mr. W.J. (Jim) Mallory joined the Company as its Chief Sustainability Officer (“CSO”) highlighting the Company’s commitment to environmental, social, governance (“ESG”) betterment.
On March 28, 2022, MAG announced the appointment of Fausto Di Trapani as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) effective May 20, 2022. Mr. Di Trapani is a finance executive with experience in the natural resources sector spanning two decades, most recently having served as the Chief Financial Officer at Galiano Gold Inc. Mr. Di Trapani replaces Mr. Larry Taddei, who, after 12 years of service with the Company, will step down from the CFO role to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Taddei will assist in the orderly transition of his duties following Mr. Di Trapani’s appointment.
JUANICIPIO PROJECT UPDATE
Underground Mine Production
As of August 2020, mineralized development material from the Juanicipio Project is being campaign processed, refined and sold on commercial terms at a targeted rate through Q3 2021 of 16,000 tonnes per month at the nearby Fresnillo plant 12 kilometres away. The processing rate increased to an average of 37,983 tonnes per month in Q4 2021 and subsequent to the year end to an average of 44,963 tonnes per month for the first two months of 2022. In December 2021, for the first time, 8,725 tonnes were processed at Fresnillo’s Saucito beneficiation plant (also 100% owned by Fresnillo). The Saucito plant flowsheet better resembles that of the Juanicipio plant and will provide further valuable metallurgical information as processing commences at Juanicipio. This preproduction toll processing of Juanicipio mineralized development material plus some initial stope production is expected to continue until the Juanicipio plant is commissioned
In the three months and year ended December 31, 2021, 113,950 and 251,907 tonnes of mineralized development material respectively, were processed through the Fresnillo plants, realizing commercial and operational de-risking opportunities for the Juanicipio Project. The resulting payable metals sold and processing details on a 100% basis are summarized in Table 1 (three months ended December 31, 2021) and in Table 2 (year ended December 31, 2021) below.
Table 1: Q4 2021 Development Material Processed at Fresnillo’s Processing Plants (100% basis)
(1) Ounces (“oz”) for silver and gold and, pounds (“lb”) for lead and zinc.
Table 2: Year 2021 Development Material Processed at Fresnillo’s Processing Plants (100% basis)
(1) Ounces (“oz”) for silver and gold and, pounds (“lb”) for lead and zinc.
(2) Processing of Juanicipio mineralized development material at the Fresnillo plant commenced in August of 2020, with no prior processing.
(3) Provisional sales for 2020 were finalized in Q1 2021 resulting in negative adjustment to net sales revenue of $1,146.
The average silver head grade for the mineralized development material and initial stope material processed in the three months and year ended December 31, 2021 was 542 g/t and 470 g/t (three months and year ended December 31, 2020 was 300 g/t and 328 g/t) respectively. This increased grade in the last quarter of 2021 reflects less diluted development material and more stoped vein material being processed.
Processing Plant Construction & Outlook
The Juanicipio project team delivered the Juanicipio plant for commissioning in the fourth quarter of 2021. However, according to the operator Fresnillo, the state-owned electrical company (Comision Federal de Electricidad “CFE”), notified Fresnillo late in December 2021 that the regulatory approval to complete the tie-in to the national power grid could not yet be granted, and the projected commissioning timeline has therefore been extended by approximately six months, with commissioning of the Juanicipio processing plant now expected to commence in Q2-2022 with ramp up to 85 to 90% of the nameplate 4,000 tpd capacity by the end of 2022, according to Fresnillo.
In order to minimize any potential adverse economic effect of the revised commissioning timeline, Fresnillo has indicated it will make available any unused plant capacity at its Minera Fresnillo and Minera Saucito operations to process mineralized material produced at Juanicipio during this period, and if possible match commissioning and ramp up tonnages that were previously expected. The effect on cashflow generation from Juanicipio therefore will also be mitigated while power connection approvals are pending.
With the plant ready to commence commissioning once connected to the power grid, final construction costs are expected to wind down until final commissioning and testing commence. Meanwhile, as noted above, the amount of mineralized development material being processed at the two Fresnillo plats since Q4 2021 has been significantly higher than the original targeted rate of 16,000 tonnes per month. The cash flow from this processing, along with the cash held by Minera Juanicipio at December 31, 2021 of $18,972 and the expected cash flows from continued processing until the Juanicipio plant is commissioned are projected to substantially fund the remaining capital expenditures in the $440,000 initial project capital (a cash call has not been needed since mid-December 2021 which was $21,000 on a 100% basis).
With the current ramp up of underground mine production and given hiring restrictions on contractors arising from new 2021 labour reform legislation, the timing of various sustaining capital expenditures has been brought forward. Labour reform on subcontracting and outsourcing in Mexico was published on April 23, 2021 and came into effect on September 1, 2021. With various restrictions on hiring contractors, Fresnillo, as operator, has indicated a need to internalize a significant portion of its contractor workforce and perform much of the development work directly rather than outsourcing it to contractors. This requires investment in equipment to be utilized in underground operations, either not previously in the project scope or not envisaged to be required until later in the mine life. As well, certain underground development expenditures related to processing development material and some small items brought forward from project investments planned in the future are considered sustaining capital by Fresnillo. The costs incurred are expected to reduce future sustaining capital costs and totaled approximately $41,388 on a 100% basis in the second half of 2021 in preparation for the legislation to come into effect. These costs are included in the current Juanicipio development costs but are not considered by the operator as part of the $440,000 initial project capital. Should there be additional funding requirements in excess of the cashflow generated related to further commissioning delays or to additional sustaining capital that is being brought forward, there may still be further cash calls required from Fresnillo and MAG.
Juanicipio Exploration Update
The planned expenditures for the 2022 Exploration Program total $7,000 with the programs designed to expand and convert the Inferred Mineral Resources included in the Deep Zone into Indicated Mineral Resources, and to explore other parts of the Juanicipio concession. All aspects of the exploration work continue to be done under strict COVID-19 protocols. Subsequent to the year-end in mid-January, 2022, drilling began on the first hole on the “Cesantoni Kaolinite Pits”(Cesantoni) target (assay pending). Cesantoni lies in the northwestern corner of the Juanicipio concession, roughly 6 km west of the Valdecañas Vein and related underground and surface infrastructure.
The 2021 Juanicipio exploration program was completed in late 2021, with an actual spend of $6,296 on a 100% basis and was focused on continued step-out and infill drilling of the Valdecañas Vein System (including independent targeting of the Venadas Vein family and the Anticipada Vein). In total, 23 targets (holes) were successfully tested with 21 being deep infill holes and two exploration holes on other parts of the Juanicipio concession, resulting in 29,421 metres drilled. The program results will be released in Q2 2022 pending receipt of all assays.
Assays for the Juanicipio 2020 drill program were released in the Q3 2021 (see Press Release dated August 5, 2021). The 2020 drill program successfully:
Confirmed, and allowed modeling with greater detail and confidence of the high-grade silver resource within the upper parts of the Valdecañas Bonanza Zone where the first several years of mining will occur;
Confirmed, expanded, and allowed improved modeling of the continuous wide mineralization of the Valdecañas Deep Zone; and,
Confirmed, expanded, and allowed improved modeling of the ever-growing Anticipada Vein.
DEER TRAIL PROJECT UPDATE
Phase I drilling commenced in November 2020 and was completed in Q2 2021 with assays and interpretations released in the third quarter of 2021 (see Press Release September 7, 2021). Phase I saw the completion of three holes and 3,927 metres drilled from surface and successfully fulfilled all three of its planned objectives by:
Confirming the presence of a thick section of more favorable carbonate host rocks (the predicted “Redwall Limestone” or “Redwall”) below the Deer Trail mine;
Confirming and projecting two suspected mineralization feeder structures to depth; and
Intercepting high-grade mineralization related to those structures in host rocks below what was historically known.
Phase II drilling commenced at the Deer Trail Project on August 20, 2021 and is in process, planned for 5,000 metres of drilling over 5 holes. Deviation/directional drilling is being used in Phase II to make the drilling more efficient and accurate. In part to facilitate the directional drilling, drilling contractors were changed in Q1 2022, with the new contractor on site and preparing to resume drilling.
GATLING ACQUISITION
Subsequent to the year end, the Company entered into a Definitive Arrangement Agreement with Gatling pursuant to which the Company will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Gatling in an all-share transaction. The Company and Gatling have also entered into a loan agreement pursuant to which the Company has agreed to provide Gatling with a C$3 million secured convertible bridge loan to finance Gatling’s accounts payable and operating expenses.
Gatling is a Canadian gold exploration company focused on advancing the Larder Gold Project, located in the prolific Abitibi greenstone belt in Northern Ontario, Canada. The 3,370 ha Larder Project hosts three high-grade gold deposits along the Cadillac-Larder Lake Break, 35 km east of Kirkland Lake and 7 kilometers west of the Kerr Addison Mine. The project is 100% owned by Gatling and is comprised of patented and unpatented claims, leases and mining licenses of occupation within the McVittie and McGarry Townships. All parts of the Larder property are readily accessible and MAG expects to engage the existing exploration team going forward.
Qualified Person: Dr. Peter Megaw, Ph.D., C.P.G., has acted as the Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101 for this disclosure and supervised the preparation of the technical information in this release. Dr. Megaw has a Ph.D. in geology and more than 40 years of relevant experience focused on ore deposit exploration worldwide. He is a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG 10227) by the American Institute of Professional Geologists and an Arizona Registered Geologist (ARG 21613). Dr. Megaw is not independent as he is Chief Exploration Officer and a Shareholder of MAG.
FINANCIAL RESULTS – YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021
As at December 31, 2021, the Company had working capital of $57,761 (December 31, 2020: $94,513) including cash of $56,748 (December 31, 2020: $94,008) and no long-term debt. As at December 31, 2021, Minera Juanicipio had cash of $18,972 (MAG’s attributable 44% share $8,348). The Company makes cash advances to Minera Juanicipio as ‘cash called’ by the operator Fresnillo, based on approved joint venture budgets. In the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company funded advances to Minera Juanicipio, which combined with MAG’s Juanicipio expenditures on its own account, totaled $74,136 (December 31, 2020: $64,270).
The Company’s net income for year the ended December 31, 2021 amounted to $6,025 (December 31, 2020: $7,097 net loss) or $0.06/share (December 31, 2020: loss of $(0.08)/share). MAG recorded its 44% income from its equity accounted Investment in Juanicipio of $15,686 (December 31, 2020: $2,214) which included MAG’s 44% share of net income from the sale of pre-production development material (see Table 3 below). Share based payment expense, a non-cash item, recorded in the year ended December 31, 2021 amounted to $4,256 (December 31, 2020: $3,122), and is determined based on the fair value of equity incentives granted and vesting in the year.
Table 3: MAG’s income from its equity accounted Investment in Juanicipio
Shareholders may receive, upon request and free of charge, a hard copy of the Company’s Audited Financial Statements. The Company’s 40-F has also been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
About MAG Silver Corp. (www.magsilver.com )
MAG Silver Corp. is a Canadian development and exploration company focused on becoming a top-tier primary silver mining company by exploring and advancing high-grade, district scale, silver-dominant projects in the Americas. Its principal focus and asset is the Juanicipio Project (44%), being developed with Fresnillo Plc (56%), the operator. The Project is located in the Fresnillo Silver Trend in Mexico, the world's premier silver mining camp, where the operator is currently developing an underground mine and constructing a 4,000 tonnes per day processing plant. Underground mine production of mineralized development material commenced in Q3 2020, and an expanded exploration program is in place targeting multiple highly prospective targets at Juanicipio. MAG is also executing a multi-phase exploration program at the Deer Trail 100% earn-in project in Utah.
This release includes certain statements that may be deemed to be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts are forward looking statements, including statements that address our expectations with respect to the timing and success of plant pre-commissioning and commissioning activities, processing rates of development materials, future mineral production, and events or developments. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "plan", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "may", "will", "project", "predict", "potential", "targeting", "intend", "could", "might", "should", "believe" and similar expressions. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Although MAG believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, impacts (both direct and indirect) of COVID-19, timing of receipt of required permits, changes in applicable laws, changes in commodities prices, changes in mineral production performance, exploitation and exploration successes, continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions, political risk, currency risk and capital cost inflation. In addition, forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, including that data is incomplete and considerable additional work will be required to complete further evaluation, including but not limited to drilling, engineering and socio-economic studies and investment. The reader is referred to the MAG Silver’s filings with the SEC and Canadian securities regulators for disclosure regarding these and other risk factors. There is no certainty that any forward-looking statement will come to pass, and investors should not place undue reliance upon forward-looking statements.Neither the Toronto Stock Exchange nor the NYSE American has reviewed or accepted responsibility for the accuracy or adequacy of this press release, which has been prepared by management.
Please Note: Investors are urged to consider closely the disclosures in MAG's annual and quarterly reports and other public filings, accessible through the Internet at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov
LEI: 254900LGL904N7F3EL14
CONTACT: For further information on behalf of MAG Silver Corp. Contact Michael J. Curlook, VP Investor Relations and Communications Phone: (604) 630-1399 Toll Free:(866) 630-1399 Email: info@magsilver.com Website: www.magsilver.com
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By Richard Cowan and Ahmed Aboulenein
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The high cost of insulin to treat diabetes would be drastically reduced under legislation the U.S. House of Representatives passed on Thursday, in a rare example of drug price reform gaining traction in Congress.
By a vote of 232-193, with few Republicans supporting the measure, the House approved the bill that would cap patients' out-of-pocket costs at $35 a month for their insulin.
Currently, monthly supplies of the life-sustaining medicine average around $375 and can go as high as $1,000, causing some people to skip needed doses.
"No one should have to ration their insulin to help reduce costs and risk their health and in some cases actually cost them their lives," said Democratic Representative Frank Pallone, who chairs a committee that oversees health policy, during House debate.
The legislation would still have to be considered by the Senate, which is crafting a much broader bill.
The Democratic-led effort, if successful, could have far wider ramifications for lowering prescription drug costs - a goal supported by Americans in the run-up to the Nov. 8 congressional elections, according to public opinion polls.
"It is for us a step in the direction of the secretary (of Health and Human Services) being able to negotiate drug prices beyond insulin," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at her weekly news conference on Thursday.
Three companies, Sanofi SA, Eli Lilly and Co, and Novo Nordisk, have long dominated the U.S. insulin market. The trio own some 90% of the market for insulin, which was invented in the 1920s but continues to rise in cost to consumers.
More than 34 million people in the United States have diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most have type 2, which typically does not require insulin to control blood sugar but can. Nearly 1.9 million Americans with type 1 diabetes must take insulin every day.
Medicare, the U.S. government health insurance program for those age 65 and older and the disabled, could have saved more than $16.7 billion from 2011 to 2017 on insulin purchases had it been allowed to negotiate discounts with drug companies, according to a congressional report released last December.
Republican Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers dismissed the legislation as a "government drug-pricing scheme; part of a socialized medicine approach that would lead to fewer cures" while raising health insurance premiums.
(Reporting by Richard Cowan and Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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As he hoisted countless jump shots during his offseason training, Bruce Brown kept one motivating thought in the back of his head.
If the Milwaukee Bucks had more respect for his offensive ability, the Brooklyn Nets might have been NBA champions instead of the Bucks.
“They were just leaving me open, and I just take that as disrespect,” Brown said Thursday morning, flashing back to the Bucks slipping past the Nets in a six-game series in the Eastern Conference semifinals. “Growing up, I was an offensive player. Being in the league, it’s kind of a little disrespectful, for sure.”
On Thursday morning, Brown was eager to find out who was going to defend him hours later in the final regular-season game between the Nets and the Bucks. The last time the teams met on Feb. 26, Brown showed his worth with three 3-pointers and the go-ahead shot with 98 seconds remaining to fuel a Brooklyn win. Brook Lopez, who drew Brown during the playoff series, missed that game for the Bucks but was set to play at Barclays Center on Thursday.
After taking 5.2 shots per game as a role player in the five-game series win against the Celtics, Brown was forced into 7.6 shots per game by the Bucks. He connected on just 2 of 11 from 3-point range.
The outcome weighed on Brown’s mind, “Probably the whole summer,” the defense-first Brown said. “Definitely them putting Brook Lopez on me and how I was a factor but not as much as I wanted to be. I hope they do that [again]. … I’m just looking forward to it, because we all know what happened last time we played them.”
The difference this year, Brown said, is a summer spent practicing shooting off the catch has made it so he has “that confidence of knowing when the ball is going to come and being ready to shoot the ball.” He is a 36.7 percent 3-point shooter, up from 28.8 percent last season.
Thursday marked the first time since Game 4 of that back-and-forth series that the Bucks faced a Nets team with both Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. Since then, Irving missed the final three playoff games with a severe ankle sprain and this season’s first two matchups under the COVID-19 restrictions for the unvaccinated. Durant missed the last meeting during a 21-game absence with a sprained MCL.
The Bucks presented the last true measuring stick against a championship contender before the playoffs for the Nets, who will close out the regular season against the Hawks, Rockets, Knicks, Cavaliers and Pacers.
“This is a great test for us to see where we’re at,” guard Patty Mills said before tipoff. “You don’t need extra juice for a game like this, and I’m sure it will be a playoff type atmosphere.”
With the top four teams (including the Bucks) and bottom three (including the Nets) in the expanded 10-team Eastern Conference postseason bracket closely bunched together, it’s possible that Nets-Bucks could be a first-round playoff matchup if the Nets survive the play-in series. But the Nets are not talking like an underdog hoping for a puncher’s chance of making a deep playoff run.
“Look, we’re the Brooklyn Nets and we’ve always had a target on our back,” said Mills, who joined the team last offseason. “Especially coming into an exciting place like our home, we’re going to get everyone’s best.”
It’s already known that the Bucks’ best is championship caliber, even if the Nets were an overtime period away from being the team that advanced.
“I think whoever came out of that series was going to win the championship,” Brown said, “and they came out of that series.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airport security procedures will become more gender-neutral, with changes to scanners used for screening and the use of an “X” for travelers going through Precheck who do not identify as male or female, the Biden administration said Thursday.
Transportation Security Administration officers will also receive new instructions on screening intended to make procedures less invasive, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
They are among a series of travel-security measures announced by the department in conjunction with Transgender Day of Visibility. President Joe Biden is marking the day by advocating against what his administration terms “dangerous anti-transgender legislative attacks” that have passed in statehouses across the country.
“DHS is committed to protecting the traveling public while ensuring that everyone, regardless of gender identity, is treated with respect,” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the statement.
The use of the “X” pronoun in the TSA Precheck advanced security program will begin April 11 and is intended to keep pace with identity documents that already include that option, DHS said. A new “X” gender marker on U.S. passport applications also begins April 11.
Later this year, TSA will begin using scanners with new technology that will replace gender-based systems and are intended to “advance civil rights and improve the customer experience.”
The TSA will work with airlines to promote the acceptance of the “X” gender marker and will also update the guidance for airport security screening officers to remove gender considerations when validating documents, DHS said.
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Welcome Susan Edwards!
Susan Edwards, M.Ed, is a program development leader with extensive experience in career design, resource expansion and relationship building. She started at Middlebury College on February 7, 2022 as the Partner Inclusion Specialist which will aid in Middlebury’s efforts in the recruitment and retention of faculty and staff by supporting their spouses or partners in finding employment, access resources and integrate into the college and broader community. Susan specializes in client centered advising practices and strength-based community development approaches.
Some of Susan’s most effective achievements include her work at Vermont Works For Women where she lead the redesign and implementation of a career preparedness curriculum for adults navigating employment opportunities, the establishment of sustainable partnerships with colleagues and local agencies in efforts to support employment and community engagement opportunities for Champlain College students and alumni, and the creation and implementation of online and in-person diversity, equity and inclusion education for higher education staff at Champlain College and The University of Vermont.
Through her work in the Peace Corps and Washington D. C.’s Department of Health, Susan has also led research, curriculum development and pilot programming which focuses on increasing resources and employment access for people navigating systemic barriers. Susan, her husband and daughter moved to Vermont from Washington, D.C. ten years ago to be closer to family. Her husband is a vegetable farmer, and they live in a community where sustainability, entrepreneurship and education are valued and supported. She enjoys spending time with her family and doing anything outdoors such as hiking, swimming, running and kayaking. She has yet to learn a winter sport (not sure if sledding counts) but has promised her husband and daughter she will get on some skis this winter and give it a try.
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Summit Insights began coverage on shares of Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP – Get Rating) in a note issued to investors on Thursday, The Fly reports. The firm set a “buy” rating on the technology company’s stock.
CHKP has been the subject of a number of other research reports. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lifted their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $154.00 to $160.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, March 17th. StockNews.com initiated coverage on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Thursday. They issued a “buy” rating for the company. Citigroup initiated coverage on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Monday, January 24th. They issued a “sell” rating and a $115.00 price objective for the company. Morgan Stanley boosted their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $116.00 to $120.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research report on Friday, February 4th. Finally, Piper Sandler lowered shares of Check Point Software Technologies from a “neutral” rating to an “underweight” rating and set a $130.00 target price for the company. in a report on Monday, March 21st. Six research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and eight have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $132.92.
NASDAQ CHKP remained flat at $$138.26 during trading on Thursday. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,038,435 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,428,681. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $133.30 and a 200 day moving average price of $122.36. The firm has a market capitalization of $18.96 billion, a P/E ratio of 22.70, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.95 and a beta of 0.62. Check Point Software Technologies has a 12 month low of $107.85 and a 12 month high of $149.62.
Several hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of CHKP. Franklin Resources Inc. raised its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 7.9% in the 3rd quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. now owns 4,054,104 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $458,276,000 after acquiring an additional 298,230 shares during the period. Nordea Investment Management AB raised its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 97.6% in the 3rd quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 4,004,223 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $460,846,000 after acquiring an additional 1,977,355 shares during the period. Ninety One UK Ltd raised its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 7.9% in the 3rd quarter. Ninety One UK Ltd now owns 3,448,644 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $389,835,000 after acquiring an additional 252,213 shares during the period. Altshuler Shaham Ltd raised its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 3.6% in the 3rd quarter. Altshuler Shaham Ltd now owns 2,253,785 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $293,065,000 after acquiring an additional 79,109 shares during the period. Finally, Acadian Asset Management LLC raised its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 7.1% in the 4th quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC now owns 2,045,176 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $238,341,000 after acquiring an additional 136,035 shares during the period. 86.69% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Check Point Software Technologies Company Profile (Get Rating)
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. engages in the development and market of software and hardware solutions for information technology security. Its products include threat prevention, next generation firewalls, mobile security, and security management. The company was founded by Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht, and Shlomo Kramer in July 1993 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Lviv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russian forces have withdrawn from Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the state enterprise overseeing Ukraine's nuclear power plants said on Thursday. "It was confirmed that the occupiers, who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities in the Exclusion Zone,...
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Novavax (NVAX) Stock Moves -1.47%: What You Should Know
Novavax (NVAX) closed at $73.65 in the latest trading session, marking a -1.47% move from the prior day. 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 vaccine maker had lost 13.47% in the past month. In that same time, the Medical sector gained 5.64%, while the S&P 500 gained 5.37%.
Investors will be hoping for strength from Novavax as it approaches its next earnings release. On that day, Novavax is projected to report earnings of $3.30 per share, which would represent year-over-year growth of 208.2%. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $888.11 million, up 98.58% from the year-ago period.
NVAX's full-year Zacks Consensus Estimates are calling for earnings of $22.84 per share and revenue of $4.57 billion. These results would represent year-over-year changes of +197.44% and +298.65%, respectively.
Any recent changes to analyst estimates for Novavax should also be noted by investors. Recent revisions tend to reflect the latest near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. To benefit from this, we have developed the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model which takes these estimate changes into account and provides an 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. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 9.6% lower within the past month. Novavax is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #4 (Sell).
Looking at its valuation, Novavax is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 3.27. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 22.96, which means Novavax is trading at a discount to the group.
The Medical - Biomedical and Genetics industry is part of the Medical sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 162, which puts it in the bottom 37% 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.
Make sure to utilize Zacks.com to follow all of these stock-moving metrics, and more, in the coming trading sessions.
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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)
Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
(THE CONVERSATION) The Biden administration on March 31, 2022, said it plans to release an unprecedented 180 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to combat the recent spike in gas and diesel prices. About a million barrels of oil will be released every day for up to six months.
If all the oil is released, it would represent almost one-third of the current volume of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It follows a release of 30 million barrels in early March, a large withdrawal until the latest one.
But what is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, why was it created, and when has it been used? And does it still serve a purpose, given that the U.S. exports more oil and other petroleum products than it imports?
As an energy researcher, I believe considering the reserve’s history can help answer these questions.
Origins of the reserve
Congress created the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 in response to a global oil crisis.
Arab oil-exporting states led by Saudi Arabia had cut supply to the world market because of Western support for Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Oil prices quadrupled, resulting in major economic damage to the U.S. and other countries. This also shook the average American, who had grown used to cheap oil.
The oil crisis caused the U.S., Japan and 15 other advanced countries to form the International Energy Agency in 1974 to recommend policies that would forestall such events in the future. One of the agency’s key ideas was to create emergency petroleum reserves that could be drawn on in case of a severe supply disruption.
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act originally stipulated the reserve should hold up to 1 billion barrels of crude and refined petroleum products. Though it has never reached that size, the U.S. reserve is the largest in the world, with a maximum volume of 714 million barrels. The cap was previously set at 727 million barrels.
As of March 25, 2022, the reserve contained about 568 million barrels.
Oil in the reserve is stored underground in a series of large underground salt domes in four locations along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, and is linked to major supply pipelines in the region.
Salt domes, formed when a mass of salt is forced upward, are a good choice for storage since salt is impermeable and has low solubility in crude oil. Most of the storage sites were acquired by the federal government in 1977 and became fully operational in the 1980s.
History of drawdowns
In the 1975 act, Congress specified that the reserve was intended to prevent “severe supply interruptions” – that is, actual oil shortages.
Over time, as the oil market has changed, Congress expanded the list of reasons for which the Strategic Petroleum Reserve could be tapped, such as domestic supply interruptions due to extreme weather.
Prior to March 2022, about 280 million barrels of crude oil had been released since the reserve’s creation, including a 50 million release that began in November 2021.
There have only been three emergency releases in the reserve’s history. The first was in 1991 after Iraq invaded Kuwait the year before, which resulted in a sharp drop in oil supply to the world market. The U.S. released 34 million barrels.
The second release, of 30 million barrels, came in 2005 after Hurricanes Rita and Katrina knocked out Gulf of Mexico production, which then comprised about 25% of U.S. domestic supply.
The third was a coordinated release by the International Energy Agency in 2011 as a result of supply disruptions from several oil-producing countries, including Libya, then facing civil unrest during the Arab Spring. In all, the agency coordinated a release of 60 million barrels of crude, half of which came from the U.S.
In addition, there have been 11 planned sales of oil from the reserve, mainly to generate federal revenue. One of these – the 1996-1997 sale to reduce the federal budget deficit – seemed to serve political ends rather than supply-related ones.
A better way to avoid pain at the pump
President Joe Biden’s November decision to tap the reserve was also seen as political by Republicans because there was no emergency shortage of supply at that time.
Similarly, the latest historic release of 180 million barrels could also be seen as serving a political purpose – in an election year, no less. But I believe it also seems perfectly legitimate in terms of fulfilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s original purpose: reducing the negative impacts of a major oil price shock.
Though the U.S. is today a net petroleum exporter, it continues to import as much as 8.2 million barrels of crude oil every day.
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But in my view, the best way to avoid the pain of oil price shocks is to lower oil demand by reducing global carbon emissions – rather than mainly relying on releases from the reserve.
This is an updated version of an article originally published on Nov. 24, 2021.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/biden-bets-a-million-barrels-a-day-will-drive-down-soaring-gas-prices-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-180461.
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ENGINE: Europe & Africa Bunker Fuel Availability Outlook
• Bunkers tight across ARA, Gibraltar and Med ports
• ARA fuel oil stocks drawn as Russian imports decline
• Gibraltar Strait congestion mounts
Supply is tight across all fuel grades in ARA and Gibraltar Strait ports. Stems require around 5-10 days of lead time. A combination of heightened counterparty risk and self-sanctioning of Russian fuel has compounded with periods of strong bunker demand when prices have dropped, to put pressure on availability of fuel grades and bunker schedules.
Volatile crude prices have forced suppliers to shorten offer validities to only a few minutes, with reconfirmation of prices during fixtures.
ARA’s fuel oil inventories have been drawn to their lowest level since December 2019. While the region’s gasoil stocks recovered some weight on the week, they remain close to multi-year lows, according to Insights Global.
Russia stopped being the biggest source for fuel oil imports to the ARA in the week, replaced by Turkey, Sweden and Poland, according to Vortexa. Bulgaria and the UK also shipped fuel oil that arrived in the ARA. Fuel oil cargoes departed for the UK, France and Spain.
In Hamburg, demand is said to be normal. HSFO380 remains tight and subject to firm enquiry. Recommended lead times for LSMGO and VLSFO are around five days.
Germany has triggered an “early warning level” of its emergency plan for gas security and formed a crisis team to analyse the supply situation. The warning level follows repeated announcements from Russian officials over the past week, saying it will only accept gas payments in roubles from “unfriendly countries”. Russia insists the shift to roubles will only happen gradually, but that it could also be applied to wider set of commodities.
Prompt deliveries are difficult to find across the Mediterranean region, sources say.
Availability of HSFO and LSMGO remains tight across Italian most ports. Only certain suppliers can offer limited prompt deliveries of VLSFO in Genoa, where demand has been good in the past week, a source says.
Gibraltar suffers massive congestion from weather-triggered suspensions in recent days. Suppliers in the port were delayed by 1-3 days and 34 vessels were waiting to bunker on Wednesday, port agent MH Bland says.
In Algeciras, bunker deliveries remained suspended at the more weather-exposed outer C and D anchorages due to bad weather.
Suppliers continued to deliver at its inner A and B anchorages, where there were 15 vessels in line to bunker. Deliveries are subject to a final decision, MH Bland says.
Bunker operations on Wednesday normalised at anchorages in Ceuta after being weather triggered suspension in past days.
Weather conditions in are forecast to deteriorate again in the Gibraltar Strait from Saturday through to Tuesday, possibly triggering more suspensions and delays then.
Prompt VLSFO and LSMGO availability is generally fine in South African ports, except for Cape Town where supply is reported tight.
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Deals combine to more than 292,000 square feet of medical industrial and office space, including the Crothall Healthcare industrial building in Gilroy, California
GILROY, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mohr Capital, a Dallas-based privately held real estate investment firm, sold $65 million of deals over the past 80 days. This includes the recent sale of a 102,466-square-foot industrial building in Gilroy, California, to Four Springs Capital Trust. Mohr Capital sold two additional office buildings in Florida and Wisconsin, totaling more than 292,000 square feet of space, leading into 2022.
Located at 8190 Murray Ave., the property is fully leased to Crothall Healthcare. This mission-critical facility provides state-of-the-art laundry processing services to Northern California hospital systems, enabling them to continue providing medical care to patients. Kevin Moul with Colliers San Jose represented Mohr Capital throughout the transaction.
"We are pleased to have worked closely with Four Springs Capital Trust on this transaction. As our third transaction with Four Springs over the last 12 months, this transaction speaks to our deep partnership with Four Springs that we hope continues," said Rodrigo Godoi, managing director of investments for Mohr Capital. "Mission-critical facilities that serve regional hospitals like this still provide value in a market where occupiers and investors are redeveloping dysfunctional R&D product to suit their needs. We're pleased with the performance of this property, and we hope to continue to invest in the Bay Area's bustling industrial market in the future."
Additionally, Mohr sold a two-story, 78,449-square-foot office building in Orlando's Lee Vista Center business park to Falcon Global Real Estate Advisors. Located at 6272 Lee Vista Blvd., the building is fully leased to Accredo Health Group Inc., an Express Scripts company and subsidiary of the global health service company, Cigna. Prior to the sale, Mohr Capital worked with CBRE and CIGNA to secure CIGNA's long-term occupancy while at the same time lowering its occupancy costs.
Mohr also sold Riverwood Corporate Center II in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, in an off-market transaction to IRA Capital. The office building is fully occupied by ProHealth Care, the largest healthcare provider between Milwaukee and Madison. Shortly after acquiring the building, Mohr Capital worked closely with ProHealth to secure its long-term occupancy at the property through 2032.
"These three transactions support our trajectory to be a leading investor in mission-critical industrial and office facilities for the healthcare field," said Bob Mohr, founder and CEO of Mohr Capital. "We are always on the lookout for cutting-edge investment opportunities, and these sales were a great start to 2022."
About Mohr Capital
Mohr Capital is a privately held real estate investment firm specializing in the acquisition, development and value enhancement of office, industrial and retail assets throughout the U.S. The Mohr Capital team has decades of experience in commercial real estate and has completed more than $1 billion in transactions. Guided by a value-driven strategy and an entrepreneurial spirit, the company relies on strong long-term relationships and possesses keen market insights needed to capitalize on undervalued or underperforming properties. With its family office structure, Mohr Capital can close quickly and has a proven track record of delivering the highest risk-adjusted returns. For more information, visit www.mohrcap.com or follow Mohr Capital on LinkedIn.
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Naomi Osaka's eyes welled with tears when her match ended, an all-too-familiar scene for her in recent years.
These were of the happy variety.
For the former world No. 1, that's major progress.
The unseeded Osaka defeated No. 22 Belinda Bencic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday in the Miami Open semifinals. She's in a championship match for the first time since the 2021 Australian Open, and will meet either No. 16 Jessica Pegula or No. 2 Iga Swiatek on Saturday.
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“Damn, I'm almost crying," Osaka said.
Maybe not even almost. She hid her face in an orange towel a few times right after the match ended, at least one tear clearly making its way down her right cheek. Osaka entered this tournament ranked No. 77 in the world, will leave Miami no worse than 36th and would be back in the top 30 if she wins the title.
It has been a long, trying and often emotional ride for Osaka since her win in the 2018 U.S. Open final over Serena Williams. She was rattled during a loss at Indian Wells on March 12 following a derogatory shout from a spectator, withdrew from last year’s French Open to address her mental state and left last year’s U.S. Open in tears.
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But in South Florida, one of the places she considers home, it's been all support from the fans.
“From the bottom of my heart, thank you," Osaka told them in her on-court interview.
Pegula and Swiatek — who will replace the now-retired Ashleigh Barty as the No. 1-ranked women's player in the world next week — were meeting in the other women's semifinal on Thursday night.
Meanwhile, Daniil Medvedev came into the tournament as the No. 2-ranked men's player in the world. Hubert Hurkacz ensured he will stay there.
Hurkacz — the No. 8 seed and defending Miami champion — wore down the top-seeded and cramp-riddled Medvedev 7-6 (7), 6-3 on Thursday in a men’s quarterfinal.
“Every muscle just went ‘cramp, cramp, cramp, cramp,'" Medvedev said.
Had Medvedev prevailed, he would have overtaken Novak Djokovic on Monday and returned to No. 1 in the world rankings. Instead, the Russian will stay No. 2 in the world and find out who wins the Miami title on Sunday like everyone else.
“For me, it was more important in a way just to win the match itself than to become No. 1,” Medvedev said. “Winning the match, I saw it more as a bonus.”
Hurkacz, who is from Poland, will next meet either No. 14 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain or unseeded Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia in the semifinals. Kecmanovic and Alcaraz play in the last quarterfinal later Thursday.
“I was returning pretty well, I was putting some pressure on his serves and that was helping my game,” Hurkacz said. “I was able to get some free points on my serve and that was pretty big.”
The other semifinal pits sixth-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway against unseeded Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina.
Hurkacz has played Medvedev four times, and Medvedev has been ranked No. 2 in the world in each of those meetings — which they’ve now split. Hurkacz improved to 14-5 this year, and his record in Miami is 12-1 all-time.
“Coming here is so much fun,” Hurkacz said.
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Bimini| Today is indeed one for celebration as the two oldest residents of Bimini celebrate their birthdays today.
Mrs Grace Merle Roberts affectionately called PRETTY GIRL is 99 years old and Mr William Pinder affectionately called BLUE MARLIN WILLIE is 98 years old.
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Knifeman in gas mask and camouflage is SHOT by police after going on rampage and setting home alight in Inverness
- A man wearing a gasmask and brandishing a knife was shot by armed officers
- It came after he appeared to set his home alight, then abseiled out of the block
- Police spoke with him for roughly 15 minutes before he charged at them
A man wearing army fatigues and a gas mask was shot by police yesterday following a tense stand-off.
Officers were called to the scene in the New Craigs area of Inverness at about 3pm yesterday after they received a report of 'concern for a person'.
They were confronted by a man in camouflage gear and a gas mask, brandishing what appeared to be knives in both hands.
Witnesses said he had abseiled out of his flat, which was believed to have been on fire. A police Armed Response Unit was dispatched to support uniformed first responders.
Astonished residents gathered in the street as police cordoned off the scene.
Images of the incident show a man standing in front of a block of flats below a smoking window.
Police spoke to the man for about 15 minutes. However, he then charged at officers swinging what appeared to be a chain, before being shot by police.
A man wearing army fatigues and a gas mask was shot by police yesterday following a tense stand-off
Police spoke to the man for about 15 minutes. However, he then charged at officers swinging what appeared to be a chain, before being shot by police
Armed officers could be seen standing a few yards away seconds before he ran towards them. Police then secured the man in case he was still a threat.
The man was taken away by ambulance as firefighters battled the blaze inside the first-floor flat of the three-storey building.
A number of residents in the block had to be evacuated as a result of the fire.
Police confirmed a 40-year-old man was arrested in connection with the incident and taken to Raigmore Hospital.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: 'Officers attended at a property on Polvanie View in Inverness around 3pm on Thursday, March 31, following a report of concern for a person.
'On attendance, the property was on fire. No one was injured as a result of the fire and it was extinguished by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and a number of neighbouring residents have had to be evacuated.
'During the incident a 40-year-old man was shot by the police. He has been arrested in connection with the incident and has been taken to Raigmore Hospital for treatment where he remains with serious injuries.
'As with any firearm and Taser deployment, the circumstances of the incident have been referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC).'
Officers from Police Scotland surround an armed assailant in a housing estate in the east of Inverness. The male had been attempting to set a property on fire when Officers arrived.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to the address at 3.14pm yesterday and had sent a number of fire engines to the scene
One witness said: 'I just feel bad for everyone else in that flat block, how terrifying.'
Several people took to social media to thank the emergency services.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to the address at 3.14pm yesterday and had sent a number of fire engines to the scene.
Police said inquiries are ongoing and have asked anyone with footage of the incident to contact the force.
Chief Superintendent Conrad Trickett said: 'We want to reassure the public that this incident is contained and there is no threat to the wider public.'
PIRC said: 'We are investigating an incident involving a 40-year-old man in Inverness on March 31, 2022. Our investigation will focus on the police contact throughout the incident with the man who is currently under arrest and receiving treatment in hospital.'
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Rebecca Slaby Leads Nonprofit in Antibias Work
Rebecca Slaby ’97 (BA, Certificate in Global Studies, Certificate in Women’s Studies) is currently the director of AMAZEworks, an antibias nonprofit based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Rebecca and her organization have been featured on Minnesota Public Radio with Angela Davis (the MPR one, not the national equal rights activist, though OUR Angela Davis is a national-worthy equal rights stalwart) and featured in the Star Tribune. In her short time as director, she has nearly doubled the operating budget of a nonprofit during a pandemic and continues to grow as she and her staff work with organizational boards, school districts, small businesses, large businesses, large departments of government bodies — you name it — to further education and societal growth on bias, equity, diversity, and racial/cultural/identity issues throughout the Twin Cities and nationally.
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NG ENERGY ANNOUNCES BEST-EFFORTS, FULLY MARKETED PROSPECTUS OFFERING OF UP TO $45 MILLION OF CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURE UNITS
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VANCOUVER, BC, March 31, 2022 /CNW/ - NG Energy International Corp. (the "Company" or "NGE") (TSXV: GASX) (OTC: GASXF) is pleased to announce that it has obtained a receipt from the British Columbia Securities Commission for its preliminary short form prospectus in connection with a proposed issuance and sale of up to 45,000 convertible debenture units (the "Debenture Units") at a price of $1,000 per Debenture Unit (the "Offering Price") on a best-efforts, fully marketed basis, for aggregate total gross proceeds of up to $45,000,000 (the "Offering"). The terms of the Offering were negotiated with Canaccord Genuity Corp. ("Canaccord") and Beacon Securities Limited ("Beacon" and collectively with Canaccord, the "Lead Agents"), as co-lead agents and joint bookrunners, and StifelFirstEnergy on their own behalf and on behalf of a syndicate of agents to be named at a later date (collectively with the Lead Agents, the "Agents"), and will be reflected in an agency agreement to be entered into between the Company and the Agents on or prior to the Closing Date (as defined below).
Each Debenture Unit will consist of: (i) one 8% convertible unsecured debenture in the principal amount of $1,000 (each a "Convertible Debenture") maturing five (5) years from the closing of the Offering (the "Maturity Date"); and (ii) 400 common share purchase warrants of the Company (each a "Warrant"), with each Warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one common share of the Company (a "Common Share") at an exercise price equal to $2.50 for a period of five (5) years from the Closing Date.
The principal amount of each Convertible Debenture will be convertible, for no additional consideration, at the option of the holder, in whole or in part, at any time and from time, to time into Common Shares prior to the earlier of: (i) the close of business on the Maturity Date; and (ii) the business day immediately preceding the date specified by the Company for redemption of the Convertible Debentures upon a Change of Control (as defined in the indenture that will govern the Convertible Debentures) at a conversion price equal to $2.25 per share, subject to adjustment in certain events.
The Company has granted the Agents an option, exercisable, in whole or in part, at any time not later than the 30th day following the Closing Date, to purchase up to an additional 15% of the Offering.
The Company will be entitled to force the conversion (the "Forced Conversion"), at any time after the second anniversary of the Closing Date, of all but not less than all of the then outstanding Warrants, at a price of $2.50 per share, on not more than 60 days' and not less than 30 days' notice, if the volume weighted average trading price of the Common Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") is greater than $3.00 for the ten (10) consecutive trading days preceding the notice.
The closing of the Offering shall occur on April 19, 2022 or such other date as is mutually agreed upon by the Lead Agents and the Company (the "Closing Date") and is subject to the approval of the TSXV, Neo Exchange Inc. (the "NEO") and other necessary regulatory approvals. The Company intends to apply to the NEO to have the Debentures and Warrants listed on that exchange. The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the necessary approvals to list the Convertible Debentures and the Warrants on the NEO and the common shares issuable upon conversion of the Convertible Debentures and the common shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants on the TSXV. There can be no assurance that the Debentures and Warrants will be listed on the NEO.
The net proceeds of the Offering are expected to be used by the Company: (i) to re-enter the Tinka-1 gas exploration well; (ii) to drill two gas exploration wells at the Sinú 9 Block; (iii) to acquire, process and interpret seismic at the Tiburón Block; and (iv) for working capital and general corporate requirements.
The Debenture Units will be offered (i) in all of the provinces of Canada, except Québec, by way of a short-form prospectus; (ii) in the United States by way of private placement pursuant to the exemption from registration provided for under Rule 144A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended; and (iii) in any offshore jurisdictions pursuant to relevant prospectus or registration exemptions in accordance with applicable laws. The preliminary prospectus contains important information relating to the Offering and the securities offered thereunder, and is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com or by contacting the Lead Agents at Canaccord Genuity Corp., P.O. Box 10337, Pacific Centre, Suite 2200, 609 Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V7Y 1H2 or Beacon Securities Limited, 66 Wellington Street West, Suite 4050, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5K 1H1. The preliminary prospectus is still subject to completion or amendment. There will not be any sale or any acceptance of an offer to buy the Debenture Units until a receipt for the final short-form prospectus has been issued.
The Offering is subject to a number of conditions, including, without limitation, the entering into of a definitive agency agreement and receipt of all regulatory approvals, including the approval of the NEO and the TSXV. There can be no assurance as to whether or when the Offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the Offering.
All amounts in this press release are expressed in Canadian dollars.
The securities being offered have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
About NG Energy International Corp.
NG Energy International Corp. is a publicly traded E&P company on a mission to provide a clean and sustainable solution to Colombia's energy needs. The Company intends on executing this mission by producing and bringing oil and gas to the premium priced Colombian market from its concessions, SN-9, a 311,353-acre block which is adjacent to Canacol's Nelson field, as well Maria Conchita, a 32,518-acre block located in the region of La Guajira. NGE's team has extensive technical expertise and a proven track record of building companies and creating value in South America. For more information, please visit SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and the Company's website (www.ngenergyintl.com).
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Wildeboer Dellelce LLP is the legal advisor to NG Energy International Corp. Dentons Canada LLP and Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas Abogados are Canadian and Colombian legal advisors to the Agents, respectively.
Forward-Looking Information
This news release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, including, without limitation: our statements related to the use of proceeds of the Offering. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties, and contingencies. These statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "may", "should", "will", "could", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or "continue", or the negative thereof or similar variations. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause future results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by those forward-looking statements and the forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. NGE's statements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and conditions, many of which are outside of NGE's control, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by the inherent risks and uncertainties surrounding the Offering, including: that NGE's assumptions in making forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect; adverse market conditions; risks inherent in the beverage manufacturing and packaging sector in general; that future results may vary from historical results; and competition in the markets where NGE operates. Except as required by securities law, NGE does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise.
Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
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By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senior U.S. officials fanned out this week to press world leaders to keep piling pressure on Moscow or join the campaign of sanctions and other measures, as the war in Ukraine enters its fifth week and the initial economic shock to Russia seems to be ebbing.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo met with senior officials in London, Brussels and Paris, and will finish the week in Berlin; the deputy national security adviser for international economics, Daleep Singh, pressed Indian officials in New Delhi, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the Ukraine war with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Morocco.
The effort comes as the initial impact of unexpectedly tough sanctions on Russian banks, oligarchs and companies begins to wear off somewhat, and the United States considers its next economic steps to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Within days of cutting off key Russian banks from the international SWIFT financial transactions network and immobilizing the bulk of the Russian central bank's $630 billion foreign exchange war chest, the rouble lost half its value, prompting U.S. officials to declare that Moscow was battling a financial crisis.
But a month later, the rouble has largely recovered to its level just before the invasion, propped up partly by Russian capital controls, government orders for export firms to sell foreign currency and companies gathering funds to make quarter-end tax payments. Shares on Russia's stock market are trading again, although they have dropped in value.
Russian bank VTB, a principal sanctions target, remains open for business in Europe, where it has gathered billions of euros in deposits, mainly from German savers. Other Russian banks are considering China's UnionPay credit card system after Visa and Mastercard suspended Russian operations.
And the sanctions thus far have left Russia's biggest economic lifeline untouched - energy sales to Europe, which could be up to 500 million euros ($555 million) a day at current prices. Russia is demanding payments in roubles for gas starting on Friday, which could boost the currency further.
The Biden administration is making sure European allies are firmly aligned on punishing Putin, while working to sway leaders who have sat on the sidelines as the war stretches on, officials say.
"We've got to continue to raise pressure on Russia and increase our support for Ukraine," one senior U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "This is a challenge that is facing the free world and all democratic nations. And we need to be prepared for it to last a long time."
COUNTERING CHINA, WARNING INDIA
The visits follow closely on the heels of Biden's visit to Europe last week and come as Russia and China - the world's second largest economy - draw ever closer together. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday, reaffirming Beijing's plans to continue bilateral ties and boost cooperation.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Adeyemo's discussions with his European counterparts centered on sanctions, the impact of India and China on Russia's potential sanctions evasion efforts, and how to help countries like Germany cover their energy needs in the event of a Russian embargo, said one European official.
In Brussels, officials discussed steps to "align sanctions implementation and enforcement, expand joint cooperation on sanctions, and further deepen the transatlantic sanctions alliance," Treasury said.
One key issue was Russia's demand that foreign buyers pay for their Russian gas imports in roubles starting Friday or face supply cutoffs, the European official said. European capitals have rejected the demand, and the German government said it amounted to "blackmail."
It is imperative the United States keep tending its relationships with allies, said Catherine Novelli, a former senior U.S. trade official and diplomat, underscoring the difficulty to maintaining the momentum of sanctions and other punitive measures after the initial outrage wanes.
In India, White House economic adviser Singh, who led efforts to coordinate the Western response to the war, told officials Washington would not set any red lines about purchasing oil, but warned against rapid acceleration of purchases.
India has a military dependence on Russian technology and hardware and has tried to balance its long-standing ties with Russia and the West. Unlike other members of the Quad group of countries - the United States, Japan, Australia - it has not imposed sanctions on Russia.
Singh spoke ahead of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's arrival in the Indian capital for a two-day trip.
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(Reporting by Andrea Shalal, David Lawder in Washington, Mark John in London and John O'Donnell in Frankfurt; Editing by Heather Timmons, Jonathan Oatis and Lincoln Feast.)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is in trouble in Ukraine, and it’s because people lie to him.
That’s the story put out by US intelligence officials, and it has the ring of truth. Apparently, Putin wasn’t told of the miserable state of readiness of Russian troops, the unavailability of spare parts and repair facilities, the shortage of transport, the inefficiency of the Russian air force, the lack of trucks needed to haul ammunition, food and fuel to the front or the surprising effectiveness of the Ukrainian military.
Putin’s “senior advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth” about “how badly the Russian military is performing and how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions,” according to the White House’s Kate Bedingfield.
Certainly, this has been the pattern in Russia — and before that, in the Soviet Union — for decades. Andrew Cockburn’s book on the Soviet Army, “The Threat,” noted these issues almost 40 years ago: poor morale, massive theft of spare parts, food and other items and sunny, faked-up reports sent to superiors.
This is a problem in any enterprise to some degree: Underlings tend to tell higher-ups what they think the higher-ups want to hear. Even in the best organizations, it takes constant effort to ensure that bad news makes it up the chain of command. And Putin’s Russia is not the best of organizations.
Putin has been in power for a long time, and making him happy has been the way to get ahead. And on a day-to-day basis, it works: People get good fitness reports, leaders feel happy, everyone wins.
Until, you know, it’s time to perform. Then reality comes crashing in. That’s the price of suppressing the truth in favor of the party line.
As Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, “One of the Achilles heels of autocracies is that you don’t have people in those systems who speak truth to power or who have the ability to speak truth to power. And I think that is something that we’re seeing in Russia.”
Of course, you can be skeptical about how surprised Putin really was: He’s spent decades dealing with (and profiting in the gazillions from) Russia’s corruption. And that televised meeting in which he forced his minions to endorse his invasion plan even suggests he was getting his excuses lined up in advance in case problems arose.
Thing is, the hide-the-bad-news dynamic is growing by leaps and bounds right here in America.
When news of Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the evidence of collusion with Ukrainians and Chinese it contained, was broken by The Post before the 2020 election, it was denounced, ironically enough, as “Russian disinformation.” Dozens of former US intelligence officials loudly pooh-poohed the story. Social-media outfits like Twitter and Facebook blocked it entirely. (Twitter even barred sharing it with individuals by direct message.)
Now The Washington Post and other establishment media outlets are admitting the laptop reporting is true. Had the news gotten out fairly, the election might well have gone the other way, sparing us the shambolic Biden administration, currently flirting with runaway inflation and World War III. And had Biden won the election anyway, at least voters wouldn’t feel cheated.
Likewise, we’ve seen all sorts of truthful information — questioning the effectiveness of lockdowns, mask mandates, etc. — censored as “dangerous misinformation.”
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is demanding that social-media companies not only censor “misinformation” about COVID but turn over the personal information of people sharing what the United States government doesn’t want shared.
That action faces a First Amendment lawsuit, as it should. (Full disclosure: New Civil Liberties Alliance, a new civil-rights group on whose board I serve, brought the suit.)
But it’s worth talking about why free speech is important. In short, it keeps us from being Putinized.
Censors always claim they’re shutting down lies in defense of the public. The trouble is that the censors in America are no more trustworthy than Putin’s bureaucrats are. They tend to silence things that make them look bad in favor of things that make them look good.
That just means that problems aren’t noticed until they become too bad to ignore.
Censorship isn’t about protecting the public, it’s about protecting the powerful. America needs to make it easier, in Blinken’s words, to speak truth to power. Instead, the Biden administration, even as it lectures other nations, is making America more like Putin’s Russia.
Stop.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.
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CLAVERIA, Philippines (AP) — With assault weapons ready, U.S. and Filipino marines sprang from amphibious vehicles and transport helicopters to defend an island from potential aggressors in a war exercise and show of American firepower staged on Thursday in the northern Philippines.
The exercise — held in far-flung Claveria town across the sea from China and Taiwan — fits into a strategy unveiled in February by the Biden administration to considerably broaden U.S. engagement in the Indo-Pacific region by strengthening a web of security alliances and partnerships, with an emphasis on addressing China’s growing influence and ambitions.
Watched by invited journalists, the mock combat ended with the allied forces successfully securing the island before it could be seized by invaders in a clear warning to would-be aggressors in a region with multiple trouble spots.
“We should indeed improve our preparation for external aggression,” said Philippine regional military commander Maj. Gen. Lawrence Mina, who spoke with reporters as the marines took combat positions on the sandy beach and a narrow trench under the scorching summer heat.
“It’s high time because we never know if we’ll get embroiled in the unfolding events that we’re hearing in the international scene,” he said. “At least we’re ready.”
The beach landing and coastal defense maneuvers were part of one of the largest combat exercises in years between the longtime treaty allies that began Monday and would include live-fire drills, aircraft assaults, urban warfare and civic projects mostly in northern and the western Philippines, which faces the disputed South China Sea.
Col. Timothy Brady Jr., who heads the U.S. 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, said he was “very pleased” with the outcome of the mock beach maneuvers, which started in the nearby coastal town of Aparri.
“Certainly, the objective of what we’re doing is demonstrating the strength of the alliance as well as the commitment to regional security,” Brady said.
Called Balikatan — Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder — the annual exercises will run up to April 8 with nearly 9,000 navy, marines, air force and army troops, including 5,100 American military personnel, to strengthen their joint fighting capabilities and readiness “for real-world challenges,” according to U.S. and Philippine military officials.
First staged in 1991, the Balikatan exercises are anchored on the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty, which commits the United States and the Philippines to come to each other’s aid in case of an attack.
When President Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016, he threatened to scale back U.S. military activities in the country as he nurtured closer ties with China and Russia but walked back on many of his threats, including a move to abrogate a defense pact that would have restricted American forces from largescale combat exercises in the country.
China’s “coercion and aggression spans the globe, but it is most acute in the Indo-Pacific,” the strategy paper said, citing Beijing’s “economic coercion” of Australia, the intensifyingpressure on Taiwan, bullying of neighbors in the East and South China seas and theconflict along the Line of Actual Control with India.
“Integrated deterrence will be the cornerstone of our approach,” the strategy paper said. “We will more tightly integrate our efforts across warfighting domains and the spectrum of conflict to ensure that the United States, alongside our allies and partners, can dissuade or defeat aggression in any form or domain.”
Last week, U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John C. Aquilino said China has fully militarizedat least three of several islands it built in the South China Sea, arming them with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming equipment, and military aircraft in an increasingly aggressive move that threatens all nations operating in the disputed waters.
“I think over the past 20 years we’ve witnessed the largest military buildup since World War II by the PRC,” Aquilino, using the initials of China’s formal name, told The Associated Press in an interview on board a U.S. Navy reconnaissance aircraft that flew near Chinese-held outposts in the South China Sea’s Spratly archipelago, one of the most hotly contested regions in the world.
China has been staging threatening exercises and flying military planes near Taiwan’s airspace, including on Feb. 24, when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, in what it calls a warning to Taiwan independence supporters and their foreign allies.
Chinese officials led by President Xi Jinping say they are committed to using peaceful means to bring Taiwan, which they claim as Chinese territory, under Beijing’s control. Chinese military action against the island in the short- to medium-term is generally considered a remote possibility.
While adhering to a One-China policy — recognizing Beijing as the government of China but allowing informal relations and defense ties with Taipei — the U.S. said in its strategy paper that it “will also work with partners inside and outside of the region to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, including by supporting Taiwan’s self-defense capabilities, to ensure an environment in which Taiwan’s future is determined peacefully in accordance with the wishes and best interests of Taiwan’s people.”
The U.S. and its allies have been routinely sailing warships through the Taiwan Strait, between the island and mainland China, to visibly demonstrate that they are international waters, and conduct major naval exercises in the region.
Beijing maintains its military profile is purely defensive, aimed at protecting what it says are its sovereign rights. But after years of increased military spending, China now boasts the world’s second-largest defense budget after the U.S. and is rapidly modernizing its force with weapons systems.
China is also expanding its nuclear arsenal, with the Pentagon saying Beijing is on track to field at least 1,000 warheads by 2030 — five times the current number.
Philippine marine Col. Romulo Quemado said the Balikatan exercises were complementing crucial efforts to bolster his country’s coastal defense, including the acquisition of armored amphibious vehicles, but were not meant to antagonize any particular country.
“Deterrence is all about perception,” Quemado said.
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Associated Press journalists Aaron Favila and David Rising in Bangkok contributed to this report.
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BOSTON (AP) — A bill aimed at banning discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles in workplaces, school districts, and school-related organizations was unanimously approved Thursday by the Massachusetts Senate.
The vote comes two weeks after the Massachusetts House approved a similar bill.
Supporters say Black women in particular have faced pressure in school and the workplace to alter their hair to conform to policies biased against natural hairstyles.
The Senate added a provision to the House version of the bill that would include the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association to the list of school entities banned from adopting and implementing restrictions on natural hairstyles.
Advocates say the change will ensure those participating in sports and extracurricular activities will not be asked to change their natural or protective hairstyles in order to participate.
The bill has its roots in the case of a Massachusetts charter school that came under fire in 2017 for a policy of banning hair braid extensions. After intense criticism, the school abandoned the policy.
The U.S. House also approved a bill earlier this month that would bar discrimination against Black people who wear hairstyles like Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists in society, school and the workplace. The federal bill would explicitly say that such discrimination is a violation of federal civil rights law.
President Joe Biden has said he would sign the bill into law. It now heads to the U.S. Senate.
Lawmakers in the Massachusetts House and Senate now have to come up with a single version of the bill before taking a final vote and shipping it to Republican Gov. Charlie Baker for his signature.
If signed into law, Massachusetts would become the fifteenth state to adopt the measure, known as the CROWN Act.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued 18 migrants crammed inside a U-Haul trailer with little ventilation early Tuesday morning.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said a U-Haul pickup pulling the trailer stopped at the Border Patrol checkpoint on NM Highway 185, which runs parallel to Interstate 25. Agents found 17 migrant adults and one unaccompanied child inside the trailer.
Agents linked the smuggling scheme to a driver who had crossed the checkpoint minutes before the U-Haul and was found to have a 9 mm handgun, an AK-47 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, ammunition, and a flare gun.
Agents arrested both drivers on suspicion of conspiracy to transport migrants.
On Sunday, a resident alerted border agents to a possible human smuggling scheme after spotting a tractor-trailer parked along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near the Texas-New Mexico state line in Northeast El Paso.
Agents responded and freed 15 adult migrants and one unaccompanied child inside a poorly ventilated cargo container.
The rescued migrants, agents said, were from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Some of them ended up at the Central Processing Center, and agents expelled the others to Mexico under Title 42.
According to a news release, agents referred the driver to the El Paso Sector Integrated Targeting Team and the Texas Department of Public Safety as part of an ongoing interagency investigation.
CBP said that since Fiscal Year 2022 began in October, Border Patrol agents from the El Paso Sector have disrupted approximately 525 smuggling schemes.
“Ruthless human smugglers continuously endanger human lives as one of their tactics is to smuggle migrants in confined spaces with restricted oxygen,” El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez said in a statement. “I am extremely proud of the actions of our El Paso Sector Border Patrol Agents as they often encounter situations, where if not for their involvement, events as these would turn into tragedies. Our Border Patrol Agents are true heroes as they display compassion and professionalism (every day) in our very complex mission of border security.”
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Warren Hardy has remained in the custody of the Madison County Jail since his 2016 arrest. More than five years later he maintains his innocence as he heads to trial.
Hardy’s defense team filed a number of motions ahead of a status hearing Wednesday afternoon.
The defense filed a motion to dismiss one count of the indictment ahead of trial. The indictment alleges Hardy willfully violated a protection order. His attorneys argued Hardy hadn’t been served and did not know about a protection order therefore he could not have violated it.
Judge Comer denied the motion.
The defense filed a separate motion in an effort to prevent a 9-1-1 call from the victim’s husband from being played during the trial. Hardy’s attorneys said the victim’s husband relaying the information on the stand during the trial will suffice, and that playing the recording will only distract the jury from the facts of the case.
Judge Comer said he will make a decision on that request Monday.
There was a motion for pre-approval of extraordinary expenses for clothes for Hardy to wear to trial. Judge Comer approved $500 for clothing.
The Madison County District Attorney’s Office is seeking the death penalty in this case. Hardy is accused of killing 72-year-old Kathleen Lundy.
Court documents show Hardy’s ex-girlfriend filed for a protection order two days before the shooting. It was granted the same day, with a hearing set for the next week.
Huntsville Police say Hardy kidnapped her daughter and stepfather from her apartment and forced them to drive to Morland Pointe, where the shooting happened. Police say Hardy forced his ex into the car at gunpoint when the stepfather managed to drive away.
According to the police, Hardy then found Lundy leaving the residence, demanded her keys, and shot her to death before driving away in her car. He caught up to his ex-girlfriend’s car and fired multiple shots into it. He fled to Tennessee.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday morning. The jury deciding Hardy’s fate will ultimately consist of 12 jurors as well as four alternates.
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Inquiry to be held into government handling of Nazanin's detention in Iran
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An inquiry will be held into the government's handling of efforts to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained in Iran for six years.
The Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) has announced an inquiry into "state-level hostage situations", which will take into account the detention of Nazanin and Anoosheh Ashoori.
Nazanin returned to the UK on March 17 after spending nearly six years imprisoned on charges of spying – something that was always denied.
Following their release, Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq wrote to Tom Tugendhat MP, chair of the FAC, to ask for an inquiry.
She said Nazanin's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, agreed there was a need for a public inquiry to understand why the government failed to bring Nazanin home for so long and is still failing to secure the release of all British nationals held in Iran.
"I thank the FAC for agreeing to our call for an inquiry," she added.
She has asked the committee to consider why three Iranian officials who came to the UK in 2013 to negotiate repayment of a £400m debt were arrested when they arrived in the UK.
She also wants to know why the deal that the UK and Iran supposedly made in 2021 to resolve the debt and bring Nazanin home collapsed.
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“I know that the Foreign Office cannot reasonably be held responsible for the arbitrary detention of its nationals abroad, but it also cannot escape scrutiny and challenge for its clear shortcomings in trying to secure their release – particularly from Iran," she said.
"Other countries including Australia, France, Germany, Canada and the US have had greater success in securing the fair treatment and release of prisoners held for leverage on false charges."
She spent months in isolation before being sentenced to five years at the notorious Evin Prison.
Ms Siddiq said she was grateful to the government for getting Nazanin home, but said: “Richard Ratcliffe and I have known since the start that Nazanin’s imprisonment was linked to the historic debt we owed to Iran, yet it was only after many years of pressure that this was finally resolved.
"While in Iran, Nazanin was blindfolded, handcuffed, interrogated and subjected to solitary confinement, sleep deprivation and torture.
"The government has serious questions to answer about why this was allowed to happen to an innocent British citizen, who was caught as a pawn in a political dispute between two countries."
The FAC said its inquiry will focus on the challenges that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) faces when handling countries which use extra-judicial detention as a tool for diplomacy.
The high-profile releases of Nazanin and Anoosheh will be examined "as well as the precedent the FCDO’s response in these cases may set".
Processes and approaches taken by the government to try to secure the release of detainees will be looked at, as well as the likely impact the FCDO's approach could have on deterring other states from using the tactic.
It will also "consider options for multilateral action to further deter such behaviour".
Mr Tugendhat said: “Nazanin and Anoosheh’s homecoming is wonderful news, but long overdue. After years of imprisonment, in extremely difficult circumstances, Nazanin and Anoosheh are right to ask for answers.
“Iran is not the only country engaging in state hostage taking. The tactic is fast becoming a tool of choice for authoritarian states and recent high profile cases have highlighted the challenges governments face when securing the release of hostages held captive by states.
“This inquiry will examine the support provided by the FCDO to hostages in recent cases, as well as take a look at the broader picture and ask how the Government can clamp down on the practice internationally.”
Written submissions are being accepted by the inquiry until May 13.
The Foreign Office has been contacted.
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Kinder Morgan’s Ruby Pipeline Files for Bankruptcy
The natural-gas pipeline company listed assets and liabilities of as much as $1 billion each
Ruby Pipeline LLC, backed by Kinder Morgan Inc., filed for chapter 11 protection on Thursday to restructure its debt.
The Houston-based natural-gas pipeline company filed for bankruptcy voluntarily in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del. Ruby, directly owned by Ruby Investment Company LLC, listed assets and liabilities of as much as $1 billion each, according to the court filing.
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Crypto company Helium, wafted to stratospheric heights by hot money, becomes a unicorn
By Martyn Warwick
Mar 31, 2022
- The privately held “People’s Network” of decentralised wireless infrastructure now valued at over US$1.2 billion
- Network powered by blockchain raises an additional $200 million in funding and changes its name to Nova Labs
- Proof of Coverage “central to trust in the network and payment of crypto coin”
- Long-term aim is to make the Helium Network “a major cellular provider”
Helium Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, styles itself as “The People’s Network” and says it “represents a paradigm shift for decentralised wireless infrastructure” and maybe it does. The global electronic comms industry has a long history of new companies constantly popping-up hither and yon. Some of them come and stay, others come and go, disappearing after the overheated gas belching from the PR and market-analysis hype machines cools and start-ups lose the lift that propelled them to unfeasible heights and then plummet to obscurity. We have seen it time and time and time again, but every once in a while, one company makes it to the big time by having the right idea and the technology at the right time. Helium has the potential to be another of these rare beasts and certainly the investment community seems to think so.
In essence, Helium, which launched in July 2019, is a blockchain network utilising a decentralised worldwide grid of reliable and robust low-power hotspot devices, sited in domestic premises that work, simultaneously, as wireless access points and network miners. Initially, Helium’s USP (unique selling point) was to provide long-range connectivity to Internet of Things (IoT) devices and later the mission expanded to connect anything to the Internet via a decentralised wireless network (such as 5G). What makes it the “People’s Network” is that hotspots can be deployed by anyone – and that individuals can earn Helium’s native HNT crypto-coins in exchange for providing devices with connectivity.
This decentralised, blockchain-based approach permits wireless infrastructure to scale very rapidly – and at a fraction of the cost of ‘traditional’ models. What Helium has done is quickly to build-out network coverage using a cryptocurrency in a way that both validates the reality of claimed coverage and incentivises individuals to provide the coverage themselves. As Helium’s network grows, the proof of coverage in and across the network has shifted from the simple existence of mining tokens themselves to mining tokens based on the transference of data. That’s how users and investors know that the network is real and not some crypto-con.
The Helium community-run hotspots comprise the network ‘backbone’ and, on average, they cover more than 200 times the area that a Wi-Fi hotpot does. Those providing consistent and reliable wireless coverage are paid with HNT and hotspots are set-up via the purchase of a miner from the Helium website. The miners are placed either in a domestic home or outside it. Helium tests and oversees each one to ensure that are fully functional. The prices of a miner vary on whether they are the indoor or outdoor version but the average cost is abound $500.
The rewards individuals can make depend on the number of other miners in the vicinity, so there is always an incentive to bring more miners into it. Single, individual miners on the periphery of the network can issue “challenges” for others to join but cannot participate in the “Proof of Coverage” (PoC) system. They do earn rewards but more slowly than those in a close knit nearby network node which, again, is an incentive to keep it growing.
The PoC system verifies that hotspots are in, and are providing service to, the location where owners claim they are sited. It leverages the radio frequencies produced by the mining devices to validate them and others operating within a given hotspot.
Helium becomes Nova Labs Inc.
Helium had the good sense to open source its network and blockchain codes, and makes its money by holding HNT crypto-coins and ensuring that the network is dependable and continues to grow. That way, network consumers will continue buying data credits in order to keep up the value of HNTs. It seems to be working. As this is being written, the HNT price is listed at upwards of US$28 and is regarded by analysts as a long-term profitable investment. Users can exchange HNTs for cash.
There’s no doubt investors like the story and are willing to plough-in some serious money and the latest funding round, led by Tiger Capital Management and Andreesen Horowitz, which closed on Tuesday, raised an additional US$200 million. The extra cash pushed Helium’s value up over the US$1.2 billion mark, conferring the company with a ‘unicorn’ status (a privately held start-up company worth more than a billion bucks) and occasioning a name change to Nova Labs Inc. CEO Amir Haleem said the new name indicates a separation between what is now Nova Labs and the Helium blockchain, and confirmed that the new capital injection will be used to fund new products for the Helium wireless network.
As of today, there are close to 700,000 Helium hotspots around the world and some three million more on a waiting list for delivery, which has been delayed yet by supply chain constraints as a result of both Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Amir Haleem says his long-term goal is to make the Helium Network “a major cellular provider”. If that happens, it will put a ravenous tom-cat amongst get some self-satisfied and rather too-relaxed pigeons.
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SEATTLE — Don't be late and miss your chance to experience the latest production from Seattle's Cafe Nordo. Down the Rabbit Hole takes audience members inside the mad and colorful world of Alice in Wonderland. The interactive cabaret features art installations created by local artists, after-hours karaoke, and a seasonal four-course tasting menu.
"We are literally talking to the local foragers about what's in season this week," said Executive Chef Erin Brindley. "All the food is inspired by Alice but it's super local, super seasonal, and super fresh."
The entire evening is hosted by the White Rabbit and brings guests along for a musical and immersive ride. Terry Podgorski is one of the creators behind the show.
"We started with Alice in Wonderland which is iconic beautiful work and bring it to life in a new and modern way," Podgorski said. "We want to give people an opportunity for full escapism and letting their imaginations run wild."
You can let your imagination run wild now through the end of May. Tickets for Down the Rabbit Hole are on sale now. Cafe Nordo is located at 109 S. Main St. in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood.
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Waterloo West High School freshman Allison Wallsteadt speaks to students as they participate in a walkout Thursday in response to the signing of bill HF 2416 by Gov. Kim Reynolds in early March.
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Waterloo West High School students participate in a walkout Thursday in response to the signing of bill HF 2416 by Gov. Kim Reynolds in early March.
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Waterloo West High School students participate in a walkout Thursday in response to the signing of bill HF 2416 by Gov. Kim Reynolds in early March.
Chris Zoeller
Waterloo West High School students participate in a walkout Thursday in response to the signing of bill HF 2416 by Gov. Kim Reynolds in early March.
Chris Zoeller
Waterloo West High School students participate in a walkout Thursday in response to the signing of bill HF 2416 by Gov. Kim Reynolds in early March.
WATERLOO — About 100 students walked out of West High School on Thursday afternoon to protest a new law requiring athletes to participate on sports teams that correspond to their biological gender.
Under House File 2416, signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds on March 3, transgender athletes can't join a team for the sex with which they identify. The law particularly emphasizes that only biological females may participate in girls' and women's sports at schools, colleges and universities in Iowa.
Shortly before 1:15 p.m., students began trickling out of the building and gathered on the north side of the school. Several carried signs with messages like "Support trans athletes," "It's okay to be gay," "Gay is not a bad word" and "Being yourself and doing what you love should not be illegal."
Freshman Perceus Batista-Pedro, a member of West's gay-straight alliance, addressed the crowd using a bullhorn.
"I organized this protest because I'm angry," she said, recounting Reynolds' signing of the bill on transgender athletes. "That bill is discriminatory, benefits nobody and hurts everybody.
"None of them deserves that," she said of the ban. "You want to play sports, what's so bad about that? ... This horrible bill says it is in place for the fairness of sports."
Batista-Pedro particularly objected to the inclusion of students below the college level, where she said sports are intended "to teach kids skills, give them social connections." Transgender students, she added, want the same opportunities that everybody else has for that.
Organizers chose Thursday for the walkout because it was International Transgender Day of Visibility, which has been marked annually since 2009.
Batista-Pedro said there have been an "astronomical" number of anti-LGBTQ bills going through state legislatures across the country this year. She noted that during 2021 "375 trans people were murdered, and those were only the ones reported."
That was the number reported Nov. 11 by Transgender Europe's Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide research project's annual report.
"The reality that we face, many of us are discriminated against at school, at home, at jobs," said Batista-Pedro. "We want to be ourselves."
A series of other students spoke, their words cheered by those in attendance. Some speakers emphasized the importance of standing up for transgender students even if you don't identify as a member of that group.
"Everyone who is participating is participating to make change in transgender lives," said freshman Allison Wallsteadt.
Students spoke for most of the class period they had walked out of and then chanted "Protect trans youth!" They filed back into the school through the main entrance in time for the next class period.
Waterloo Community Schools spokeswoman Akwi Nji said participants in the student-organized, student-led protest will be counted absent for the period they were out of class, as has been done in similar situations.
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More than 2,000 high school students on 45 teams from seven states compete during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
Cedar Falls High School Team 525 members Sean Radke, Mila Haynes and Kylie Buchholz run their robot in competition on Friday during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
The Waterloo Unity 4 Tech team, featuring East an West High students, runs their robot in competition on Friday during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
Cedar Falls High School Team 525 members Mila Haynes, Sean Radke and Kylie Buchholz trade high fives before running their robot in competition on Friday during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
Cedar Falls High School Team 525 members Ethan Strohm, Sean Radke and Mila Haynes load up their robot between matches on Friday during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
Cedar Falls High School Team 525 members Sean Radke, Mila Haynes and Kylie Buchholz run their robot in competition on Friday during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
The Columbus Catholic robotics team The Coded Collective celebrates after a strong finish during a match on Friday at the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
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More than 2,000 high school students on 45 teams from seven states compete during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
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More than 2,000 high school students on 45 teams from seven states compete during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Cedar Falls High School Team 525 members Sean Radke, Mila Haynes and Kylie Buchholz run their robot in competition on Friday during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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The Waterloo Unity 4 Tech team, featuring East an West High students, runs their robot in competition on Friday during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
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Cedar Falls High School Team 525 members Mila Haynes, Sean Radke and Kylie Buchholz trade high fives before running their robot in competition on Friday during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Cedar Falls High School Team 525 members Ethan Strohm, Sean Radke and Mila Haynes load up their robot between matches on Friday during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Cedar Falls High School Team 525 members Sean Radke, Mila Haynes and Kylie Buchholz run their robot in competition on Friday during the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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The Columbus Catholic robotics team The Coded Collective celebrates after a strong finish during a match on Friday at the FIRST Robotics Competition at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
I cover local schools and higher education for The Courier, where I’ve been a reporter for the past two decades. I’m a Minnesota native and have previously worked for newspapers there and in Illinois.
Waterloo West High School freshman Allison Wallsteadt speaks to students as they participate in a walkout Thursday in response to the signing of bill HF 2416 by Gov. Kim Reynolds in early March.
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Bruins honor Rask after retirement
A two-time All-Star, and the winner of the 2014 Vezina, Tuukka 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.
The Canadian Press
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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NOTICE TO THE MEDIA - Government of Canada officials to hold a technical briefing on coronavirus disease in Canada (April 1, 2022)
OTTAWA, ON, March 31, 2022 /CNW/ - Government of Canada officials will provide an update on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemiology.
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Superintendent Dwyer to represent state insurance regulators nationally
WASHINGTON, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Executive Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has appointed Beth Dwyer, Superintendent of Banking and Insurance for Rhode Island's Department of Business Regulation, to serve as NAIC members' representative on the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). She will succeed recently retired Maine Bureau of Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa and will provide the Council with critical expertise and the perspective of state insurance regulators.
"Ensuring financial stability nationwide requires trust, clear communication, and close collaboration between the states and the federal government. Superintendent Dwyer has a proven track record, thorough knowledge of the regulatory landscape, and a tireless commitment to protecting consumers and markets, making her a great choice to help FSOC fulfill its mission," said NAIC President and Director of the Idaho Department of Insurance Dean L. Cameron.
Since taking office in January 2016, Superintendent Dwyer has served in several leadership capacities with the NAIC and is currently the vice chair of the Financial Condition (E) Committee, co-vice chair of the Climate and Resiliency (EX) Task Force, and secretary/treasurer of the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) Board of Directors.
FSOC was created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Council comprises ten voting members and five non-voting members and monitors the safety and stability of the nation's financial system, identifies risks to the system, and coordinates responses.
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Barnaby Joyce boasts about buying his first house for $67k as he urges Aussies to move to regional areas - before Jacqui Lambie brutally shuts him down and says the home ownership dream is OVER for millions
- Barnaby Joyce ridiculed for boasting about buying first home for $67,000
- Deputy prime minister was responding to complaints about high house prices
- Mr Joyce suggested first home buyers move away from cities and look regional
- Stunned Independent senator Jacqui Lambie quickly interrupted Mr Joyce
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has been ridiculed for defending rising house prices after saying he managed to buy his first home for $67,000.
Members of the audience complained they were unable to afford a house in the city because of sky-high prices before Mr Joyce suggested they invest in regional areas, on ABC's Q&A on Thursday night.
Low and above-average income earners have been left struggling to buy their first home, with the average price for a house reaching nearly $1.5million in some cities.
'First house I bought cost me $67,000,' Mr Joyce said.
Mr Joyce was immediately interrupted by stunned panellist and Independent Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie.
Barnaby Joyce has been ridiculed for defending rising house prices after saying he managed to buy his first home for $67,000
Members of the audience complained they were unable to afford a house in the city because of sky-high prices before Mr Joyce suggested they invest in regional areas
'Jesus Barnaby,' Ms Lambie said. 'I don't know what planet you're on. You're looking at $600,000 now. And that's on a good day. Fair dinkum.'
Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers joined in the debate, joking: 'It's good news everybody. Because Barnaby bought a cheap house a long time ago, you'll all be sweet.'
Median house prices stand at $1.41million in Sydney, $998,356 in Melbourne and $828,175 in Queensland.
Ms Lambie said the Australian dream of owning a home was well and truly over for millions of residents.
'The stark reality is this: you can't get a tradie for the next two years, shipping is going through the roof, materials are costing more,' she said.
'Even if you're putting money away now, if you think you're in reach of building a house now, give it another three or four years, on the trajectory we're in, good luck to you.
'Your owning an Aussie house, your dream of doing that is going out the window. You can't pay rent and save.'
Mr Joyce was immediately interrupted by stunned panellist and Independent Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie
The federal government announced during the Budget on Tuesday that it would double the number of places in the Home Guarantee Scheme to 50,000
The federal government announced during the Budget on Tuesday that it would double the number of places to 50,000 in the Home Guarantee Scheme.
Couples will only need a five per cent deposit while a single parent will only need 2.5 per cent.
Host David Speers questioned whether Mr Joyce would recommend a single parent to take out a loan with a measly 2.5 per cent deposit - amid forecasts that interest rates will increase.
Mr Joyce said he knew 'a lot of people' who had made the decision after they took into account their finances.
'You would have to look at the circumstances are in,' Mr Joyce said.
'The debt they're taking, what their forward cash flow position is like. You've got to know what you're earning, and what you're spending.'
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A majority of likely voters oppose having New York put up $850 million in taxpayer subsidies to finance construction of a new Buffalo Bills stadium, a new poll reveals.
The survey, conducted by the firm co/efficient for Big Dog Strategies, found that 55% of likely voters disapproved of the stadium deal while only 22% approved of the plan announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday, with nearly one-quarter undecided.
That means more than two-thirds of voters who have an opinion oppose financing of the new Bills stadium for the team’s Florida-based owners Terry and Kim Pegula — $600 million from the state and $250 million from Erie County.
The poll found that voters in all areas of the state oppose the stadium deal — with the exception of the Buffalo region.
Voters were asked: “Governor Hochul announced a deal to invest $850 million of taxpayer funds in a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills, where the team agrees to stay in Buffalo for 30 years. Do you approve or disapprove of spending $850 million on this deal?”
In New York City, 57% of voters said they disapproved of the stadium subsidy deal, while only 19% approved, with the rest undecided.
Meanwhile, 67% of voters in the Syracuse region oppose the deal, as do 61% in the Albany region and 54% in the Rochester region.
Conversely, the Bills’ fan base registered strong support — with 58% of voters expressing support while 31% disapproved.
The findings pose a potential political problems for Democrat Hochul, the former lieutenant governor who is trying to hold on to the governor’s chair after replacing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned under the threat of impeachment after a state investigation concluded that he sexually harassed or mistreated a slew of women.
More than twice as many Democrats opposed the stadium deal — 50% — than the 24% who supported it.
Sixty eight percent of Republican voters oppose the deal, as did 51% of self-identified independents.
“The deal is unpopular statewide. It’s going to be a real problem for Hochul,” said Chris Grant of Big Dog Strategies, a firm that works for Republican candidates.
Grant said Hochul is getting hammered by the progressive left and from the Republican right, including presumptive GOP gubernatorial nominee Lee Zeldin, over the stadium funding.
The survey interviewed 830 likely voters on landline phones and via cell phones text from Monday through Wednesday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
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https://nypost.com/2022/03/31/ny-voters-oppose-hochul-giving-850m-for-buffalo-bills-stadium/
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NEW YORK • Former Vice President Mike Pence is offering a “Freedom Agenda” platform for Republicans ahead of this year’s midterm elections, presenting a framework for GOP candidates — and possibly himself for a 2024 presidential run.
Pence’s platform, released Thursday, combines traditional Republican goals such as increasing American energy production, cutting taxes and rolling back regulations, with priorities pursued by former President Donald Trump on issues like trade and immigration.
Pence also offers plenty of culture war red meat for the GOP base, pledging, for instance, to save women’s sports by “ensuring that sports competitions are between those who share their God-given gender” and calling for all high school students to pass a civics test.
“Elections are about the future, and I think it’s absolutely essential that, while we do our part to take the fight to the failed policies of the Biden administration and the radical left, at the same time, we want to offer a compelling vision built on our highest American ideals,” Pence told reporters ahead of the plan’s release.
“It really is an effort to put in one place the agenda that I think carried us to the White House in 2016, carried two Bush presidencies to the White House and carried Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980.”
Much of the 28-page plan reads like the platform of a presidential campaign, underscoring Pence’s ambitions and providing a clear road map of the themes and policies he is likely to pursue if he moves forward with a 2024 run. While Pence in recent weeks has worked to distance himself from his former boss as he begins to reintroduce himself to voters and develop a political identity of his own, he has also been careful to tie himself to the policies of the Trump-Pence administration, which remain extremely popular among Republican voters.
It’s part of what aides see as Pence’s unique opportunity, as a former talk radio host, congressman and Indiana governor, to merge the traditional conservative movement with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda.
“There is a winning coalition for America that believes in the traditionally conservative values that the vice president has championed through his career,” said Marc Short, co-chair of Advancing American Freedom, the advocacy group Pence launched last year.
Still, Pence argues that “elections are about the future,” in contrast to Trump’s continued focus on his own false 2020 election claims.
Pence’s plan comes as the GOP has been at odds over the wisdom of offering voters a concrete policy agenda ahead of the midterm elections this year. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has been pointedly opposed to such efforts, arguing that Republicans should keep the focus on President Joe Biden, whose popularity has slumped amid the highest inflation in 40 years and the Russian war in Ukraine, and make the election a referendum on him.
The risks of a specific plan came into stark relief last month when Florida Sen. Rick Scott, another potential 2024 contender and the chair of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, unveiled his 11-point plan to “rescue America.” The effort drew immediate criticism from Democrats and even some Republicans, particularly its call for all Americans to “pay some income tax to have skin in the game” — which would amount to a tax hike for millions of people who pay no income tax because they earn so little.
On Thursday, Scott defended his plan during a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation.
“Bring it on,” the Florida senator said to his critics. “If the Republicans return to Washington’s business as usual, if we have no bigger plan than to be a speed bump on the road to America’s socialism and collapse, we don’t deserve to govern.”
House Republicans, meanwhile, have been working on their own “Commitment to America” plan with echoes of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America,” which Republicans unveiled in 1994 before sweeping the midterms that year.
“For the American public to join with you and support you, first they want to know what will you do,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said at the party’s annual retreat in Jacksonville, Florida, last week.
Candidates on the campaign trail have expressed similar sentiments.
At a Republican Senate primary debate in Ohio on Monday, several of the candidates applauded Scott for his effort, even as they said they disagreed with parts of his plan.
“I’m so sick of Republicans who say, ‘Well, we’re just going to push back against the Biden agenda.’ Well, of course we’re going to do that. But what are we gonna actually do for our voters?” candidate J.D. Vance asked. “There are a lot of problems out there. A lot of very serious problems. And we can’t just sort of stick our flag in the mud and say, ‘We’re against, we’re against, we’re against.’ We gotta be for stuff.”
Pence said that was part of his intention.
“As important as it is for us to criticize and to confront and to be the loyal opposition,” he said, it is “absolutely of equal importance that we offer a positive, compelling vision built on our highest ideals and frankly the successes that we were able to demonstrate during our administration.”
The economic plan unveiled Thursday calls for fast-tracking permits for oil and gas production, expanding drilling on federal lands and offshore and pursuing trade agreements that better protect American workers.
On foreign policy, Pence calls on China to “establish a victims compensation and economic recovery fund” for “negligently unleashing and hiding the origins of COVID-19.”
On immigration, Pence’s agenda sounds much like a Trump press release. It calls on leaders to “oppose all forms of amnesty,” typically defined as a path to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally, and seeks an end to what he calls “chain migration” by limiting family reunification to an immigrant’s close family. It also calls for promoting “the patriotic assimilation of immigrants” and finishing Trump’s border wall.
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6-year-old boy with heart condition helps Batman fight crime in Orlando
A 6-year-old boy was on a mission to fight crime in Orlando on Thursday and he had some help from his favorite superhero Batman.
Masai turned into "Batkid" just one day after his sixth birthday. Some organizations wanted to do something special for him as he continues to fight against a serious heart condition.
"I really, really want to defeat the joker," Masai said. "Because he has evil plans."
The Axel Foundation partnered with the Camaraderie Foundation and Give Kids The World to make Masai's Batman dreams come true.
The 6-year-old, who was with his family visiting Orlando from Philadelphia, was joined by Batman at the Amway Arena.
They searched for the Joker throughout the venue who "kidnapped" Orlando Magic's mascot Stuff the Magic Dragon. The duo worked with the Orlando Police Department, Orlando Fire Department, Seminole County Sheriff's Office and the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
"That's all he kept saying at 6:30 this morning he woke up, 'I want get the joker I'm going to get the joker,'" Masai's father Lance Wheeler said. "I'm just in awe. I don't know how to say, but wow."
Wheeler was just as excited as Masai, but also emotional because of all the ups and downs he had witnessed his son go through.
"At the children's hospital in Philadelphia, he had three surgeries in a matter of eight days. That was when he was little and he got through it all," Wheeler said. "Today's his day, like I still can't believe this is happening – all these people."
When Masai captured the villain, he was named the hero and was presented a badge of honor by the law enforcement officials in attendance.
"[I'm] really, really, really happy," Masai said. "I'm a big kid!"
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https://www.wesh.com/article/boy-with-heart-condition-batman/39602720
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BRIGHTON — A Colorado couple faces felony charges in connection with the fentanyl death of their 1-year-old child, whom prosecutors say died after ingesting enough of the extremely lethal drug to kill an adult.
Thirty-one-year-old Alonzo Montoya and 30-year-old Nicole Casias of the Denver suburb of Brighton were charged with child abuse resulting in death and distribution of a controlled substance in connection with the girl’s death on Jan. 2, the 17th Judicial District’s Office said in a statement Thursday.
It said the Adams County Coroner had determined that the child died after ingesting fentanyl and that Montoya and Casias allegedly “participated in illicit drug activity” in the child’s presence at home before and after her death.
Montoya was being held on $250,000 bail at the Adams County Jail. Bail was set at $100,000 for Casias. A status hearing for both was set for Monday.
Telephone and email messages seeking comment from Casias’ attorney, Rachel Lanzen, were not immediately returned. Montoya was being represented by the public defender’s office, which doesn’t comment on pending cases.
Court records that would provide details on the accusations weren’t immediately available from the county district court. Christopher Hopper, a district attorney’s spokesman, said he could not provide additional information.
Fentanyl is an unpredictable and powerful synthetic painkiller blamed for driving an increase in fatal drug overdoses. It’s 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
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https://coloradosun.com/2022/03/31/adams-county-fentanyl-death-colorado/
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Candidates looking to unseat two incumbents on Baraboo City Council said their aim to serve stems from frustration with the current body.
Bob Wood, 66, is a semi-retired school bus driver and former EMT who said he wants to represent the city because council members haven’t listened to residents in recent years.
“At some point, good men have to stand up,” Wood said. “And I consider myself a good man, so I’m going to stand up and express what a lot of people feel.”
He is vying for the District 9 seat in the April 5 election, which is currently held by Ald. Kathleen Thurow, 78, a lifelong city resident. She took over the position by appointment after her late husband, Dennis Thurow, stepped down in 2020.
Wood and Thurow ran against each other in April 2021 with Thurow winning by a margin of just 20 votes.
Thurow, who works for the Central Wisconsin Community Action Council guardianship and homeless prevention programs, feels as though the current council is performing well. The members are respectful and work well with one another, she said. Overall, Thurow said it seems as though the city is heading in the right direction, especially with the recent increase in housing development.
“Right now we’re in a very good position in the city,” Thurow said. “We have a lot of interest in business and apartments. I would like to help with that. I think we need to keep working on it.”
District 3 incumbent Ald. Mike Plautz, 70, echoed the sentiment with a few exceptions. Plautz said development has been positive, but also criticized moments when council members did not listen to their constituents. He cited the driver registration increase, or so-called wheel tax, being implemented in 2020 despite an advisory referendum that showed citizens overwhelmingly opposed the idea.
“The only reason I’m running for office is to give the people who don’t have a voice, a voice,” Plautz said. “People need to be heard.”
Wood also said the wheel tax was one of the issues which prompted him to run.
Plautz is being opposed by Bryant Hazard, 66, who has been attending council meetings in recent months to better acquaint himself with how the city operates.
Hazard said he decided to run for the seat because he “is not satisfied with the individual in this position.”
Hazard, who is retired, also serves on the Sauk County Board. He said his focus in public service is economic development.
“I’m a little bit more of a numbers guy,” Hazard said. “I want to see the city more fiscally responsible.”
Plautz expressed doubt that someone serving as a supervisor would devote enough attention to serving as a council member because “it just takes too much time” and said he would focus solely on the city, something Hazard can’t do.
Hazard said he feels that he has proven the best person for the seat through his time on the County Board and his visible “track record.”
Thurow expressed a similar sentiment.
“I try to look at all the parts and pieces and do the best for the city,” Thurow said. “I feel that through my years of working, I do have a lot of experience in a lot of different fields that I can bring to the table.”
Each candidate said their goal is to sit on council as a useful representative of the people.
“We need to grow a spine,” Wood said. “We need to take a stand. So let’s build a better future for Baraboo.”
Ald. John Ellington is running unopposed for the District 6 seat.
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The February 2020 NOVLbox: Be Antiracist
Books have always had the magical ability to change minds and lives. They allow us to expand our horizons, reevaluate our opinions, and see the world in new ways. And good books on timely, pressing issues can not only change minds, but change the world.
This month, we’re celebrating books that can change perspectives and the conversation around race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. But there is hope for an antiracist future (just being not racist isn’t enough), and I truly believe that books like these can help move the needle toward a better, fairer world for all.
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In this box you’ll find swag to help you show support for the antiracism movement, and diverse books that help shine a light on issues of race and racism in America:
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynold and Ibram X. Kendi (ARC)
- Internment by Samira Ahmed (hardcover)
- Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles (paperback)
- Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes (ARC)
- A “Heritage is Lit.” T-shirt
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UC Berkeley boffins have found that strategies for squeezing extra profit out of Ethereum transactions come at the cost of other cryptocurrency investors and threaten the security and stability of the entire Ethereum ecosystem.
In a paper titled, “Extracting Godl [sic] from the Salt Mines: Ethereum Miners Extracting Value,” doctoral students Julien Piet and Jaiden Fairoze, with computer science professor Nicholas Weaver, throw down a hat-trick of allusions – gold, hodl, and Godel – to make the case that MEV, or “Miner/Maximal Extractable Value” undermines the integrity of the Ethereum network.
The Ethereum network relies on a blockchain made of cryptographically linked blocks of data. Those mining on the network perform proof-of-work calculations with a computer to aggregate a set of transactions into a block and add it to the chain. Doing so incurs transaction fees tied to computational effort known as “gas.”
MEV, as defined in the Ethereum documentation, “refers to the maximum value that can be extracted from block production in excess of the standard block reward and gas fees by including, excluding, and changing the order of transactions in a block.”
It exists because Ethereum miners control the inclusion, exclusion, and ordering of transactions. Though miners are compensated for their contributions to the blockchain, they can order transactions specifically to boost their reward. As the university trio put it, with MEV, “miners make the lion’s share of the profits, rather than independent users of the private relays.”
At its heart, MEV is a form of arbitrage – taking advantage of a price difference or market inefficiency – but it exists in flavors that would be illegal in regulated financial markets. For example, MEV can be extracted via frontrunning – capitalizing on the knowledge of a pending transaction before it gets committed to a block.
Piet, Fairoze, and Weaver note that there’s been concern about frontrunning in the Ethereum community since 2014 and the problems with MEV were made apparent in a 2020 paper titled, “Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning in Decentralized Exchanges, Miner Extractable Value, and Consensus Instability.”
The threat posed by MEV has been acknowledged by those overseeing the Ethereum ecosystem, who noted: “As DeFi grows and increases in popularity, MEV may soon significantly outweigh the base Ethereum block reward. With that comes a growing possibility of selfish block remining and consensus instability. Some consider this to be an existential threat to Ethereum, and disincentivizing selfish mining is an active area of research in Ethereum protocol theory.”
In their MEV paper – submitted for review at the 2022 Workshop on the Economics of Information Security – the University of California, Berkeley academics describe how they developed an algorithm to analyze MEV exploitation in previously mined blocks and found that Ethereum miners were collecting most of the rewards, at the expense of other participants.
They found most MEV extractions rely on private transactions, 73 percent of which hide trading activity or re-distribute miner rewards. They also found that 87.6 percent of MEV collection is done through privately submitted transactions. Private transactions on the Ethereum blockchain are rare – only 2.07 per cent of all observed transactions in blocks were private.
Nonetheless, the researchers consider the impact of MEV to be material to the viability of Ethereum. Of more than $6m in MEV profit over a 12-day period, two thirds, the researchers say, went directly to miners. And MEV, they said, represented 9.2 percent of the miners’ profit from transaction fees, or 22.7 per cent when restricted to income from DeFi transactions.
“In total, the MEV extractions in our data generated 2,159 ETH (about 6,400,000 USD), only over 12 days,” the paper says. “As a measure of comparison, this represents 2.2 per cent of the total ETH supply created during that same time, and extrapolates to almost 200,000,000 USD in profits per year.”
Some of it is just plain arbitrage, where you’re just exploring inefficiencies between different exchange platforms to make money, but most of it is arbitrage at the expense of other users
MEV, they argue, threatens the stability of the Ethereum network because it “creates network congestion, increases transaction prices, increases the cost of participation in DEXs [decentralized exchanges], and most importantly, threatens blockchain consensus.”
“MEV is basically any strategy you can implement by reordering transactions in a blockchain in order to profit,” said Julien Piet, a doctoral student at UC Berkeley and the lead author of the paper, in a phone interview with The Register. “Some of it is just plain arbitrage, where you’re just exploring, basically, inefficiencies between different exchange platforms to make money, but most of it is arbitrage at the expense of other users.”
“So let’s say a user wants to buy a lot of some token,” Piet explained. “This person submits this transaction to buy that token. What happens is that, like in traditional finance, the price of the token is going to increase because there’s high demand and less offer.
“The main strategy for MEV is for a person that has more control to buy some token before the transaction and sell it right after and basically benefit from the price increase at the cost of the individual actually buying the token in the middle who’s going to have a worse exchange rate.”
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That buyer, Piet said, would lose a few per cent on the transaction.
Essentially, the miners through their transaction ordering ability have financial superpowers that others participating in the system lack.
Piet said there was a system put in place called Flashbots that attempts to address this by making MEV distribution opportunities more fairly available. “But what we found is basically despite the system for fair MEV redistribution, miners still make over 50 per cent of the profits,” he said.
Piet said there are some potential defenses that might be worth investigating, like random transaction order.
“One of the interesting issues is that in Ethereum, like in many blockchains, there’s no regulation authority,” he said. “And so there’s nobody to say well, we want to ensure a specific ordering. We want to make sure this doesn’t happen. In traditional finance, this type of activity – frontrunning and sandwiching – is illegal.”
Given that a significant amount of profit is made today through MEV, and that those conducting transactions don’t have visibility into costs until the transaction is recorded in a block, Piet said he believes regulation is necessary to make Ethereum compatible with traditional finance. ®
source: The Register
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JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – Myrna and Julio Flores fled El Salvador after gang members levied a “tax” on their home-based business and threatened harm if they didn’t pay up.
“We had a baby on the way. That motivated us to close our business, quit our jobs and come to the United States,” Myrna said, holding her now 8-month-old daughter.
The couple crossed the Rio Grande at Reynosa, Mexico, but didn’t have a chance to plead their case for asylum. The U.S. Border Patrol fingerprinted them at a processing center near McAllen, Texas, put them on an airplane to El Paso and expelled them to Mexico under the Title 42 public health rule last month.
Immigration advocates say Title 42 exposes migrants to violent crime in Mexican border cities like Juarez. The Flores couple can attest to that.
On Feb. 12, armed gunmen allegedly belonging to a cell of the Aztecas gang arrived at a church in South Central Juarez where a funeral was being held for a rival. The gunmen murdered six funeral-goers including a 12-year-old boy and wounded several other people. The Floreses were staying at a small migrant shelter in the back of that church and escaped the fusillade.
“When we went out, we had to step over the dead because there were several dead and wounded. We found refuge in the house across (the street),” Myrna said. “The church had to close to because of threats.”
Seeing days go by at a Juarez shelter, the couple is looking forward to the termination of Title 42, which news reports out of Washington, D.C., say will happen on May 23.
“We were fleeing violence and we found more violence,” Julio said. “I hope they let us apply for asylum (in the United States). Most of us are fleeing because there are too many problems in our countries. The violence in El Salvador has exploded. […] There’s a 6 p.m. curfew in most towns (because of gang violence). People cannot come out of their homes.”
Enrique Valenzuela, head of the Chihuahua Population Council (COESPO), says between 10,000 and 12,500 migrants are in Juarez waiting for the end of Title 42.
“The shelters are at 80 percent capacity. That’s between 2,000 and 3,000 people, but for every migrant that comes to us for assistance, there are four to five that do not,” said Valenzuela, whose office oversees Juarez’s Migrant Assistance Center.
The council in 2019 helped U.S. Customs and Border Protection bring order to a then-chaotic border in which flash mobs frequently materialized across from U.S. ports of entry and hustlers sold places in line.
Back then, COESPO helped manage access to international bridges and provided guidance to migrants as to what documents CBP expected of them.
This time, though, it’s still not known what shape that cooperation will take.
“At this point, we don’t know how much of an influx we will have or how the United States chooses to handle that flow,” Valenzuela said. “It’s important for people to know they have to wait for official information, for them not to be tricked that it will be an easy way into the United States now that Title 42 is going to be lifted. No, that is not the case.”
But Valenzuela said Chihuahua Gov. Maru Campos has instructed his office and other state agencies to continue helping migrants regardless of where they come from. That includes Mexican families displaced by a bloody drug war in several regions, Central and South Americans already in the city or on the way, and those whom the United States continues to expel daily.
“It’s our duty to provide humanitarian attention to people arriving at this border. We work with allies that include all three levels of government (in Mexico), the United Nations, local and international NGOs,” he said. “Our primary duty is to provide them shelter – a place to stay – and also medical and mental health screenings.”
Meantime, Myrna and Julio Flores hope to finally soon have a chance to state their case and flee the violence in El Salvador and Mexico. “Our hope is that at least they let us apply for asylum in the United States. Most of us are on the run, running from problems because our countries are too conflictive,” Julio said.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said.
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The United States on Thursday returned a cache of smuggled ancient artifacts to Libya as the oil-rich Mediterranean country struggles to protect its heritage against the backdrop of years of war, turmoil and unrest.
The repatriated items include two sculptures dating to the 4th century B.C. from the ancient city of Cyrene.
One, named the “Veiled Head of a Female,” was previously in the hands of a private collector of other illegal artifacts, according to a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Libya. The other, also a Hellenic bust, had been at the Metropolitan Museum of New York since 1998, the statement said. Both were displayed by Libyan antiquities officials at a reception ceremony in the country’s capital, Tripoli.
Libyan antiquities authorities thanked American officials and law enforcement for the returned items and said that they looked forward to future cooperation. The embassy credited the work of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and Homeland Security Investigations officials for the recovery of the artifacts.
“Although these antiquities were brought illegally to the United States by traffickers, legal efforts have succeeded in returning them to their country of origin,” the embassy statement read.
Libya boasts many ancient Greek and Roman structures, along with a wealth of ancient artifacts in its major museum in the capital of Tripoli and in other museums countrywide, though its archeological sites have been plundered for decades.
Libya has been wrecked by chaos since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The country was after that split for years between rival administrations in the east and the west, each supported by an array of militias and foreign governments.
Large-scale fighting has only stopped in the past year, but Libyans have yet to unite under a single political leadership, despite strenuous U.N.-led efforts.
The Greeks founded the settlement of Cyrene, close to the modern town of Shahat, in the 4th century B.C. It was later incorporated into the Roman empire. The United Nations added Cyrene to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1982 and it has been classified as a location that is particularly endangered due to neglect and looting since 2016.
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BT embarks on transformation journey with DHL
By Yanitsa Boyadzhieva
Mar 31, 2022
- BT to build a network for logistics giant DHL, spanning 27 countries across Europe
- It highlights sustainability benefits from its network implementation
- Logistics is seen as a fruitful sector, providing many opportunities in the digitalisation era
- Bharti Airtel and Etisalat UAE have also announced digital transformation initiatives
UK operator BT has scored a massive deal to build a network and bring digital transformation to Deutsche Post DHL Group (DHL)’s operations in 27 countries in Europe.
The operator explained in a statement that it has tapped a new eight-year agreement with the Germany-based logistics powerhouse, providing it with a “flexible, resilient and secure” network to support DHL in its push to “digitalise supply chains in a sustainable way”.
Under the deal, BT will deploy “the latest technology to transform connectivity” for the logistics group in 27 European countries, including the UK.
The operator told TelecomTV that its solution uses SD-WAN to combine MPLS and internet connectivity and SD-LAN with Wi-Fi 6, explaining that the network combines “the scale and flexibility of the internet with security and resilience to deliver trusted performance”. The design also offers the flexibility to include private 5G.
The network will also be optimised for the cloud, which is increasingly used by DHL for hosting applications and digital services which, according to BT, are being used by 350,000 employees at 1,500 sites across its operating regions. BT is already in the process of deploying SD-WAN to customer premises and going live on a site-by-site basis.
BT claimed the network it builds for DHL will act as a “key enabler” for the logistics giant’s strategy to digitalise and automate its business. To do so in a sustainable way, the UK operator has taken the responsibility to audit DHL’s existing network to remove copper cables wherever possible and replace them with fibre to optimise energy consumption. In fact, BT hit a milestone of switching its network, offices and shops to 100% renewable electricity in November 2020.
Bas Burger, CEO of BT’s Global unit, commented that DHL is driven by “a purpose that mirrors our own: Like BT, it places customer service, the power of technology and sustainability at the heart of its corporate strategy”. He added that the partnership allows for the two companies to achieve their respective growth ambitions and “contribute towards common goals.”
Anna Spinelli, Deutsche Post DHL Group’s Chief Procurement Officer, said that the two companies have “strategically committed to work closely together to enable the best performing, flexible and sustainable network, globally”.
A breath of fresh air
It would appear that the deal with DHL has come at just the right moment for BT. The company reported a 2% decline in revenue for the nine months to 31 December 2021, largely due to drops in revenues at its Global and Enterprise divisions.
“This is a welcome deal for BT’s underperforming Global unit which continues to face headwinds due to the pandemic, which is surpessing companies’ appetite to spend on major projects”, said Kester Mann, Director of Consumer and Connectivity for CCS Insight.
Although BT declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal as they are confidential, it said the duration of the agreement and the geographic size it involves are the best indicators of the deal’s scale.
T-Systems, Deutche Telekom’s IT and digital transformation unit, has also previously scored a deal with DHL which is “in the high three-digit million range” and runs until 2027.
Logistics has been often deemed as one of the sectors with the greatest potential to take advantage of digital transformation and, therefore, bring new revenue streams for telcos. Shifting to 5G and adopting private networks were recently highlighted in a research report conducted by Analysys Mason and Accedian as being increasingly important for the transport and logistics sector. What’s more, 92% of large transportation and logistics businesses have stated they plan to deploy a private 5G network by 2024, though the companies note this figure likely includes public 5G too because “awareness of the benefits of private 5G is still nascent”.
Companies’ efforts to embrace digital transformation are at full steam. Other developments relating to the field announced today by global operators include:
- Etisalat UAE, part of the recently rebranded e&, has tapped a Nokia tie-up for the deployment of 5G private wireless networks at Abu Dhabi-based enterprises. The goal is to digitalise operations of companies operating in a variety of sectors, including ports, oil and gas, government and digital infrastructure. (See Nokia and Etisalat UAE, from e&, to launch 5G private wireless networks to support enterprise digital transformation.)
- Bharti Airtel has partnered with IT services and consulting company Tech Mahindra to build and market 5G use cases and “innovative solutions for India’s digital economy by bringing together their core strengths”. They will also set up a joint 5G innovation lab. Read more here.
- Yanitsa Boyadzhieva, Deputy Editor, TelecomTV
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GRAND CANYON, Ariz. — A former Washington healthcare CEO pleaded guilty for violating the group size limitation of a rim-to-rim hike within the Grand Canyon National Park, according to the National Park Service.
Joseph Don Mount was ordered to two years of supervised probation and is banned from all national parks, monuments, and federal lands within Arizona, according to the park service.
In October of 2020, the park service investigated an allegation that Mount organized a 139-person hiking group through the inner canyon without a permit. Prior to the trip, Mount was told his group required a permit, according to the park service.
The group limit for such hikes is limited to 30. During the pandemic, group sizes were limited to 11.
Since 2014, any group of 12-30 participants, or any nonprofit group participating in a rim-to-rim hike or extended hikes in the inner canyon must obtain a Special Use Permit. Grand Canyon National Park implemented the regulation due to increased day use on inner canyon trails.
The NPS previously told KING 5 that large groups impact the wilderness character for other hikers and can harm the natural environment.
“When you have folks who are walking four, five or six people across, they often go outside the bounds of the trail,” Kait Thomas, Public Affairs specialist at Grand Canyon National Park, previously said. “They start stomping on the soils, the vegetation, causing some damage there.”
Mount, who was working as chief operations officer for Steck Medical Group in Chehalis at the time, was warned by rangers before the trip, according to the park service. Mount was no longer employed at Steck prior to news of the charges on May 4, 2021, a board member for the company previously said.
According to the park service, Mount charged $95 per person for the trip, and investigators learned of the plan after a tipster submitted screenshots from the organizing Facebook group, including a post from Mount, writing “112 COMMITTED HIKERS COMING FROM 12 DIFFERENT STATES!!!!”
A criminal complaint showed Mount denied planning any such hike to a park official before the trip and alleged participants were coached to avoid speaking with uniformed rangers or admitting their involvement with a larger group.
The same complaint claimed Mount later posted about the discussion with the official, writing a “park official telling me I can’t hike the R2R with more than 11 people isn’t going to prevent me from doing one of the greatest hikes on the planet.”
The Grand Canyon is the sixth most popular National Park in the U.S., with 2.9 million visitors in 2020. Still, officials said group size limits are important to preserve the space for all users.
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Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment,” Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to “Good Morning America.” “They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options.”
But Packer said Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,” Packer said. “And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no.”
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night’s ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer’s interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.”
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.”
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Wigan Warriors 19-18 Hull FC: Harry Smith's drop goal sends hosts top of Super League
Harry Smith's second drop goal of the season proved the difference between the teams as Wigan made it six wins from seven in the Betfred Super League by edging out Hull FC at the DW Stadium
Last Updated: 31/03/22 10:33pm
Harry Smith was again the drop-goal hero for Wigan Warriors as he sent them top of the Betfred Super League with the winning score in a 19-18 victory at home to Hull FC.
The Warriors snatched an early lead through man-of-the-moment Jai Field, but the Black and Whites had turned it around by half-time to lead 12-6 thanks to converted tries from Adam Swift and Danny Houghton.
It was nip and tuck throughout the second half as Ethan Havard's score pulled Wigan level, with Chris Satae putting Hull back in front and then full-back Field grabbing his second of the night to set up a grandstand finish.
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Both Smith and the returning Luke Gale missed drop goal attempts in the closing stages, but the former made no mistake at the second time of asking with another crucial one-pointer two minutes from time, just as he had done against Toulouse Olympique earlier in the season.
Story of the game
The home side began impressively and took the lead after three minutes when Field chimed into the line and dummied his way over for the game's first try.
Hardaker could not add the conversion but succeeded with a penalty after 15 minutes after Hull were pulled up for a ball steal in front of the posts.
The Warriors' bright opening probably warranted a bigger lead, but Hull's defence held firm and they gradually worked their way into the contest.
Team news
Wigan Warriors welcomed Bevan French back into the matchday 17 for the first time in 12 months, while Harry Smith was named in the starting line-up in place of suspended captain Tommy Leuluai.
Hull FC had captain Luke Gale back in action for the first time since Round 2 after completing his five-game suspension, with Darnell McIntosh also coming back into the team on the wing.
Prop Ligi Sao was left with a clear run to the line after charging down a kick on halfway, but was quickly hunted down and Gale was close to touching down a kick from winger Darnell McIntosh as the Black and Whites showed their danger.
Wigan failed to heed the warning signs and conceded two tries in the last seven minutes of the half as their opponents made the most of the momentum shift.
Quick hands from Jake Connor and Josh Griffin got winger Swift over at the corner and Lovodua supported a break by centre Mitieli Vulikijapani, who was deputising for the injured Carlos Tuimavave, to get hooker Houghton over.
Gale added both conversions to make it a six-point lead at the break, but Wigan levelled seven minutes into the second half as interchange forward Havard demonstrated neat footwork to step through for a try, which Hardaker converted.
Wigan Warriors 19-18 Hull FC scoring summary
Wigan Warriors: Tries - Jai Field (2), Ethan Havard; Goals - Zak Hardaker (3); Drop goal – Harry Smith.
Hull FC: Tries – Adam Swift, Danny Houghton, Chris Satae; Goals – Luke Gale (3).
That followed back-to-back penalties as the visitors began to lose their discipline, but they regrouped in time to regain the lead just short of the hour.
Lovodua - normally a hooker but playing in the halves in Josh Reynolds' absence - was again the architect with a lovely half-break and neat offload to get second rower Satae charging over for a try with his first touch since starting his second spell.
Gale's third goal re-established his side's six-point lead, but it was all square five minutes later when Warriors full-back Field demonstrated his athleticism and pace to scorch in from halfway for his second try, which Hardaker goaled.
That set the scene for a frantic finish, with Smith missing with his first drop-goal attempt before finally hitting the target to emulate his feat against Toulouse earlier this month.
What they said
Wigan Warriors' Harry Smith on his drop goal
"I was just shouting a lot at the forwards to get me to the right position, get me a quick play-the-ball then trying to get a nice strike on it. I think it's probably the ugliest drop goal I'll ever get, but they all count so I'm really happy with that.
"We spoke all week that it would come down to the end of the game and who wanted it more, and taking it to the wire - and I feel we did that."
Hull FC head coach Brett Hodgson
"We are a little bit disappointed, obviously. I think it was a high-quality game, I think there were moments in that game where an individual, Jai Field, hurt us.
"But I can't complain about our boys' efforts. Unfortunately, we weren't good enough today."
What's next?
Both teams are back in Betfred Challenge Cup action next week, with Hull FC heading to Huddersfield Giants on Saturday, April 9 (5pm kick-off).
Wigan are in quarter-final action the following day when they travel to Wakefield Trinity (2.30pm).
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RAK Petroleum plc Announces the Publication Date of its 2021 Annual Report and Accounts
United Kingdom, 31 March 2022
RAK Petroleum plc, the Oslo-listed oil and gas investment company, will publish its 2021 Annual Report and Accounts on 1 April 2022.
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Email: kevin.toner@rakpetroleum.uk
About RAK Petroleum plc
RAK Petroleum plc is an Oslo Stock Exchange listed oil and gas investment company established under the laws of England and Wales as a public limited company. Its principal holdings are 44.94 percent of DNO ASA and 33.33 percent of Foxtrot International LDC held through Mondoil Enterprises, LLC. DNO ASA is a Norwegian oil and gas operator focused on the Middle East and the North Sea. Founded in 1971 and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, DNO holds stakes in onshore and offshore licences at various stages of exploration, development and production in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Norway, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Ireland and Yemen. Foxtrot International LDC is a privately-held company active in West Africa whose principal asset is a 27.27 percent interest in and operatorship of Block CI-27 offshore Côte d'Ivoire.
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Cops have caught up with one of the dirt bikers who allegedly chased down a motorist and beat him and his son over an “accident” in Harlem, police said Thursday.
Kureem Nelson, 35, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of robbery and assault in connection to the road rage attack on March 15, police said.
The shocking incident, which was captured on camera, started around 4:30 p.m. that day as the 64-year-old driver was heading west on West 127th Street and struck one of the men riding an illegal street vehicle, who allegedly ran a red light at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, cops said.
The crew tailed the 64-year-old, following him two blocks before cutting him off at St. Nicholas Terrace, cops said.
Four of the attackers got off their illegal rides and surrounded the car, pulling the driver and his 36-year-old son from inside, according to cops.
The crew then beat and robbed them of their cell phones, credit cards, and cash, according to police.
The two victims weren’t seriously injured but shaken, the son later told The Post.
“I’m OK, I’m just really concerned about him, concerned about my father,” he said previously. “I want them to find them, and justice.”
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WASHINGTON • Military bases with a high risk for sexual assault, harassment and other harmful behaviors often have leaders who don’t understand violence prevention, don’t make it a priority and focus more on their mission than on their people, a Pentagon review has concluded.
The review studied 20 bases in the United States and Europe, including 18 with some of the more severe problems identified in command climate surveys. It found that the failures were worse in a number of bases in Germany and Spain where key leaders and resources weren’t on site.
Senior defense officials described the report to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the findings before the review was publicly released.
At Naval Station Rota in Spain, for example, officials said the military mission requirements “were prioritized above and at the expense of the sailors’ well-being.” They said sailors reported bullying, mental health issues, sexual harassment and relationship problems, but often could not seek help due to their mission requirements.
In one location, officials said, they found that young enlisted men were taking steps to help their female peers stay safe by keeping them away from more senior leaders who were harassing them.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the report as part of his effort to strengthen sexual assault and harassment prevention across the forces, identify what programs work and ensure high-risk bases get attention quickly. Austin approved the report, and in a memo obtained by the AP, said it will help the department tailor improvements for bases where needs may vary.
“While we have made progress, we must do more to strengthen the integrated capabilities we have on the ground to prevent sexual assault, harassment, suicide, domestic abuse and other harmful behaviors,” he said.
The report comes nearly two years after Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén went missing from Fort Hood, Texas, and her remains were found two months later.
Guillen was killed by a soldier, who her family says sexually harassed her, and who killed himself as police sought to arrest him.
Her death and a number of other crimes, murders and suicides led to heightened scrutiny on assaults and other violence in the military, and to a series of reviews.
An independent panel appointed by Austin last year made more than 80 recommendations, including specific changes to improve accountability of leadership, command climate and culture, and victim care and support.
Officials said Austin’s goal is to find effective ways to prevent harmful behavior, which includes sexual assault and harassment, suicides and domestic violence.
They said this latest report is designed to pinpoint which leadership and other failures contribute to higher instances of such behavior and which prevention programs and other changes actually work.
The report said that the changes proposed by the independent review board will help address the problems.
Frida Larios places flowers near of photograph of slain Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen at the base of a mural of Guillen in Washington, July 13, 2020. Guillen was killed by a soldier, who her family says sexually harassed her.
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Man in his 90s dies and homes are left without power after huge 'gas blast' rocks road in Manchester
- Emergency services were called to Brownley Road in Wythenshawe at 6.30pm
- A man in his nineties was found dead at a property by emergency services
- Several homes were evacuated and a number of properties are without power
A man in his 90s has died and homes have been left without power after reports of a gas explosion in Manchester.
Emergency services were called to Brownley Road in Wythenshawe at about 6.30pm on Thursday and the man was found dead inside a property, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said they were called out to reports of a fire at a domestic property.
A number of houses were evacuated and several properties are without power.
A man in his 90s has died and homes have been left without power after reports of a gas explosion in Manchester
Emergency services were called to Brownley Road in Wythenshawe, Manchester at about 6.30pm and the man was found dead inside a property, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said
Nearby roads have been closed and emergency services were at the scene on Thursday evening.
GMP said it is carrying out investigations and officers are supporting the dead man's family.
A fire service spokesman said: 'At around 6.30pm on 31 March, crews were called to reports of a fire at a domestic property on Brownley Road in Manchester.
'Four fire engines from Bolton North, Cheadle, Wythenshawe and Stockport stations, and the Technical Rescue Unit from Ashton attended.
Emergency services at the scene after a man in his 90s has died and homes have been left without power after reports of a gas explosion in Wythenshawe
'Firefighters assessed the scene and are using breathing apparatus and hose reels to control the fire and make the scene safe.
'Crews are working with colleagues from Greater Manchester Police and North West Ambulance Service and are currently still on the scene.'
GMP said the scene was made safe at about 8pm.
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FRESNO, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The State of California recently launched its TECH Clean California initiative which is a $120 million program funded by California gas corporations to implement low emissions space and water heating units for single and multifamily homes.
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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Colorado. More at chalkbeat.org.
Colorado has unveiled an online database showing what reading programs schools use in kindergarten through third grade, part of a broader state effort to improve how schools teach reading.
At a time when lawmakers in many states want teaching materials publicly posted in order to limit what schools teach about race, gender, and history, the reading database is a very different example of curriculum transparency. It’s part of a package of publicly searchable data mandated by a 2021 state law championed in part by dyslexia advocates.
The effort represents Colorado’s first attempt to shed light on details that have long been out of reach for parents and the public, including what reading curriculums schools use and whether those programs have the state’s seal of approval. A 2019 state law requires Colorado schools to use reading curriculum backed by science. State officials have established a list of a dozen core programs that meet this bar.
Parents who fought for the curriculum transparency measure say the state’s databases fall short. No curriculum is listed for one-third of schools, and other information required by law is incomplete or missing entirely, said leaders of COKID, a statewide dyslexia advocacy group.
But other reading advocates said the new databases are a good starting point and can be beefed up down the road.
“I was worried that it was going to be wonky, hard to navigate, and in the weeds, but I think it’s actually useful,” said Krista Spurgin, executive director of Stand For Children. “I imagine us … when we do literacy workshops with parents, actually showing them this tool.”
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A jury took less than two hours to find a Reedsburg man accused of attempted homicide guilty on all three of the felony charges he was facing during a trial this week in Sauk County Circuit Court.
Circuit Court Judge Wendy Klicko read the verdicts Thursday. Rasmey S. Chhim, 30, was found guilty of felony charges of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree recklessly endangering safety and endangering safety with reckless use of a firearm. Klicko ordered a pre-sentence investigation and revoked the $150,000 cash bond in the case. Defense attorney John Smelinski said he will have a pre-sentence investigation conducted as well.
The trial concluded Thursday after Chhim first testified in the morning and attorneys delivered their closing remarks in the afternoon.
Chhim was charged after events that unfolded in January 2021 in the parking lot of Walmart in Lake Delton. Prosecutors presented video showing the altercation between Chhim’s friend, Marcus Jones, and a man named Joshua Thompson, who was later shot.
Witnesses and video showed Jones meeting Thompson outside of his vehicle. The pair begins walking across a lane of traffic to where a burnt orange crossover SUV was parked. When they got roughly two-thirds of the way to the vehicle, Thompson stopped and ran back to the silver Buick LaCrosse where the mother of his child, Melissa Johnson, was sitting in the driver’s seat and the 2-year-old was sitting in the backseat.
Jones followed and began fighting Thompson as he tried to get into the passenger seat and yelled for Johnson to drive away. Jones said during testimony that Thompson had stolen a chain he was wearing, prompting him to chase the man down.
Video showed that Johnson backed out of the parking spot, knocking Jones down, and as the vehicle backed up farther, Chhim rushed to the front of the vehicle and fired a shot through the windshield in Thompson’s direction.
While the defense argued he shot at the vehicle out of self-defense for Jones, Sauk County Assistant District Attorney Emily Eklund argued that Jones was not in danger and had only suffered a scraped knee, the type of injury children experience when learning how to rollerblade.
“Shooting the passenger of the vehicle does not stop the vehicle; it does nothing to protect anyone,” Eklund said to the jury. “We talked at length about how there was no serious risk to Marcus Jones. Any peril he was in was completely of his own making.”
Smerlinski pushed back against the assertion that Jones and Chhim could have simply walked away from the altercation.
“Whatever those two had going on, JT and Marcus Jones, it wasn’t something you were going to walk away from,” Smerlinski said. “In fact, we saw, that’s exactly how it ended up.”
Smerlinski argued there was no proof that Chhim intended to murder Thompson and that the prosecutors did not meet the burden that Chhim acted unlawfully. Eklund argued that Chhim was not worried for Jones’ life and instead shot Thompson because he “wanted to be cool for people,” as he had indicated in phone calls from prison, she said.
The charge of attempted first-degree intentional homicide carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The other two felonies have a maximum of 12.5 years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision combined. Chhim will be sentenced after the pre-sentence investigations are concluded.
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Sauk County Sheriff Chip Meister warns residents against a scam which involves callers pretending to be law enforcement and threatening arrest unless financial information is provided.
Sauk County supervisors agreed to speed up the purchase of radio equipment for the sheriff's office, but delays mean it will likely still take years to fully upgrade.
Defendant Rasmey Chhim listens to his attorney make a closing argument Thursday during the final day of a trial where Chhim was charged with first-degree attempted homicide.
Defense attorney John Smerlinski makes his closing argument Thursday to the jury on the final day of a trial against his client, Rasmey Chhim, of Reedsburg, who was charged with first-degree intentional homicide.
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DELANO, Calif. (AP) — The death of an inmate at a central California prison is being investigated as a homicide, officials said Thursday.
Juan E. Mendoza, 26, was found unresponsive in his cell at Kern Valley State Prison shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
He had visible injuries and died a short time later despite life-saving efforts.
Mendoza shared his cell with another man, Jorge L. Mendoza, who was removed from the cell and placed in segregation while the death is investigated, authorities said.
Juan E. Mendoza went to prison in 2020 after receiving a six-year sentence in San Bernardino County for second-degree attempted murder and personal use of a dangerous weapon, officials said.
Jorge L. Mendoza was admitted from Monterey County in 2018 and was serving a sentence of life with the chance of parole for second-degree murder with the use of a firearm by a second-striker.
Kern Valley State Prison is located in Delano, northwest of Bakersfield. It has more than 3,200 inmates.
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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – A man who was captured by U.S. Border Patrol Agents near Cesar Chavez/Loop375 after trying to cross the Rio Grande in his truck, has been identified by law enforcement.
31-year-old Patricio Sabas Gomez was wanted in the September 30, 2021 shooting death of 41-year-old Michael Martinez in Wichita, Kansas.
Police say the shooting was a result of a botched drug deal, outside a Wichita hotel. Gomez and his alleged accomplice, Shae Roberts, fled the area following the shooting. Roberts was later captured and was charged with First-Degree Murder and Attempted Distribution of meth.
According to Border Patrol officials, on Monday, March 28, Gomez attempted to enter the U.S. illegally by driving his pickup truck across the Rio Grande from Juarez.
Gomez is being held without bond in the El Paso County Detention Center, awaiting extradition to Kansas to face charges.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials slated millions of dollars for rural water projects in several states, with the Biden administration looking to shore up infrastructure needs made more urgent by long-term drought conditions that have been exacerbated by climate change.
The U.S. Interior Department announced Thursday that $420 million will be spent on projects in New Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa. The work includes construction of water treatment plants, pipeline connections, pump systems and reservoirs to provide drinking water to rural and tribal communities.
The West is experiencing a more than 20-year megadrought. Scientists say the region has become much warmer and drier in recent decades and that climate change will continue to make weather more extreme, wildfires more frequent and destructive, and water supplies less reliable.
From Idaho and Montana south to New Mexico and Arizona, even soil moisture levels have hit record lows as major reservoirs along the Colorado River have plummeted. Earlier this month, Lake Powell hit a record low, spurring concerns about the ability to crank out more hydropower from the dam that holds it back.
Native American tribes that are finally seeing federal money after years of being underfunded are working to get at water they long had rights to but could not access without funds to build the infrastructure. On the Navajo Nation, tens of thousands of people still live without running water, while tribes in the upper Midwest are awaiting pipeline extensions that would tap into reliable sources.
In all, the infrastructure measure included $5 billion for Western water programs, with 20% of that dedicated to rural projects.
Federal officials said the allocations were based on project plans and significant goals that are projected to be reached with the funding.
The largest share — $160 million — will go toward a project decades in the making that will eventually provide water for about 70,000 people who live in communities along the New Mexico-Texas state line, where the Ogallala aquiferis being pumped at a faster rate than it’s being replenished.
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority will receive additional money from the Bureau of Reclamation and the state of New Mexico. When combined with matching money from the utility, the total for this year will be more than $228 million.
“This will take us far in the construction of this critically important project,” said Michael Morris, chairman of the water authority and mayor of Clovis, a rural community in eastern New Mexico.
Other allocations include $75.5 million for the Lewis & Clark Rural Water System, which spans parts of South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. The system is designed to pipe water from the Missouri River to areas as far as 60 miles (97 kilometers) away that have less plentiful resources.
In North Dakota, $51 million will go to a section of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program.
More than $57 million will go to the Rocky Boys/North Central Montana Rural Water System, which serves the Rocky Boy’s Reservation and numerous municipalities. The Fort Peck Reservation in Montana will benefit from $7 million for the water system there.
Tanya Trujillo, assistant Interior secretary for water and science, was flanked by water managers in Albuquerque when she made the announcement.
“The department is committed to bringing clean, reliable drinking water to rural communities to help strengthen resilience to climate change,” Trujillo said.
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What’s up with… Orange, India’s mobile network operators, Apple & Meta
By TelecomTV Staff
Mar 31, 2022
- Orange finds its new chairman
- Reliance Jio loses subs, Bharti adds a few and Vodafone Idea issues shares
- Apple and Facebook/Meta conned by cybercriminals
A new name for the Orange chair, some speed bumps for India's mobile operators, and some cybersecurity challenges for Meta and Apple lead today's news roundup.
Orange has nominated Jacques Aschenbroich as a new board member and, from 19 May, as the new non-executive Chairman of the giant operator, replacing Stéphane Richard, the current Chairman and CEO who is heading for the exit door: Christel Heydemann has already been named as the new CEO, starting 4 April. Aschenbroich is currently the Chairman of smart vehicle technology specialist Valeo. Prior to this he was the CEO of the Valeo Group from March 2009 to February 2016, then Chairman and CEO until January 2022. His CV also includes several positions in the French administration, including a spell in the office of the then French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac during 1987 and 1988.
Reliance Jio has has suddenly started to lose subscribers. Analysis of the performance of mobile networks in India always means getting your head around some huge numbers and, in recent years, the story has been about the rise and rise of Reliance Jio, the runaway market leader. It operates a national LTE network covering all 22 of the sub-continent’s “telecom circles”. However, the latest stats show that some of the gilt may be rubbing off Jio’s well-burnished gingerbread. What’s more, India’s Telecoms Regulatory Authority reported that wireless tele-density actually fell from 84.17 per cent as at the end of December 2021 to 83.43 per cent by January 31, 2022. The biggest loser was Jio. It recorded a 9.3 million decline in its subscriber base in January alone, on top of a 12.9 million fall in December 2021. The operator has lost 37 million subscribers since October, 2021. The recent declines are down to hefty tariff increases that were introduced in November last year which has led to what the nation’s Economic Times broadsheet newspaper calls “SIM consolidation” - in other words, a big fall in the number of SIM cards on the market. Jio’s competitor, Bharti Airtel, was the only service provider to grow its subscriber base. It was up by 714,000 in January. Vodafone Idea continued along its long-term downward path. That said, Jio’s subscriber base still stands at 406.4 million and Bharti’s at 356 million, hardly small beer. Jio claims that the fall in its subscriber numbers is no bad thing because SIM consolidation has helped it to “clear out” millions of inactive users. It says the lull in growth is temporary, growth will “inevitably” resume and that Jio will have more than half a billion customers in the near future when 5G services become ubiquitously available.
Still in India… Vodafone Idea is raising INR45 billion (US$594 million) by issuing new shares to its main stakeholders, Vodafone Group and Aditya Birla as part of a larger fundraising exercise to shore up its finances. Part of Vodafone’s cash injection will come from the funds raised by the sale to Bharti Airtel of a stake in Indus Towers, which was announced earlier this week. Vodafone Idea aims to raise INR145 billion (US$1.9 billion) in total from the new stock issue and new debt arrangements. These are still tricky times for Vodafone Idea.
Last year Apple and Facebook/Meta were conned by cybercriminals - several thousand times. You know Meta, (aka Facebook), the virtual travel company that wants to send robots on holiday on your behalf while you stay at home under a sun-lamp wearing uncomfortable high-tech welder’s goggles so you are unable to soak up the grandeur of the real pyramids of Egypt or experience scuba-diving in the Maldives? Yes? Well Mark Zuckerberg’s fevered brainchild is in trouble yet again. It has now emerged that, last year, Facebook (and Apple too, it must be said) provided fake cops and other ersatz “law enforcement officials” with customer details including names, addresses, phone numbers and IP details. The data was supplied in response to counterfeit “emergency data requests” that do not require court orders signed by a judge. Meta says it was in receipt of 21,700 emergency data requests between January and June 2021 and provided information in 77 per cent of the fake “requests” made. Meta mouthpiece, Andy Stone, told Bloomberg (which first broke the story) that, “We review every data request for legal sufficiency and use advanced systems and processes to validate law enforcement requests and detect abuse.” But seemingly not in those cases. Meanwhile, Apple pointed Bloomberg News at a section in Apple’s “law enforcement guidelines” which says that a senior-level manager from the agency submitting an emergency data request “may be contacted and asked to confirm to Apple that the emergency request was legitimate.” And, of course, that some may not be contacted. Meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg is “out of the office” and far away from Cupertino, surfing daily from his beachside pad in Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands in an effort to take his mind off the worry of being “punched” by bad news about his company.
Nokia is taking legal action against the Romanian government after the country’s Supreme Council of National Defense declined to authorise the vendor as a supplier of 5G technology in the east European country, reports Hotnews.ro.
Deutsche Telekom and Tele2 have completed the €5.1 billion sale of T-Mobile Netherlands to a consortium of private equity funds advised by Apax Partners and Warburg Pincus. Deutsche Telekom says it will bank around €4.0 billion from the deal, which was first announced in September 2021.
Russia initiated a satellite assault as it invaded Ukraine. When the Russian armed forces invaded on February 24, Russian state-sponsored hackers initiated a massive DDoS cyberattack on Viasat satellite modems and supplemented them with a deluge of “destructive commands” to overwrite the key data that allow the modems to function at all. California, US-based Viasat has just reported that the attack affected “tens of thousands’ of their satellite modems in Ukraine and in other parts of Europe. In a statement Viasat confirmed it has shipped 30,000 new modems to get customers back online and is working “to ensure that the network is stable and secure.” It added that various US agencies are “investigating the attack” and looking at possible defences and counter-measures. Saloni Sharma, a spokesperson for the US National Security Council, commented, “We are concerned about the apparent use of cyber operations to disrupt communications systems in Ukraine and across Europe and affect businesses and individuals' access to the Internet." Viasat has retained the specialist cybersecurity company Mandiant to investigate and report back on the attack. Fortunately, it hit domestic residential modems operating on Viasat's KA-SAT network and did not affect Viasat’s “directly managed mobility or government users “. Such an attack, if successful, would have been much more serious and debilitating.
Report reveals security paradox - more cyber-security solutions but more breaches too. Security specialist Acronis says its research (it surveyed 6,200 IT users and IT managers from small businesses to enterprises across 22 countries) appears to show that deploying ever more cyber security solutions won’t necessarily translate into more protection. It found that while 78% of organisations globally run as many as 10 different security solutions, 76% of organisations experienced downtime due to data loss over the past year — a 25% increase from 2021. Acronis has a dog in this fight of course, offering as it does, “unified data protection and cybersecurity to deliver integrated, automated cyber protection.” Even so, its research findings should give serious pause for thought for companies who assume they have their security situations under control. It found that :
Only one in ten users backs up daily, while 34% of users back up on a monthly basis - a staggering 41% of users back up rarely or never.
72% of users had to recover from backup at least once in the past year (33% — more than once). Meaning that some of the users who chose not to back up have permanently lost their data.
82% also claim to have ransomware protection and remediation, yet, successful attacks occur weekly and the size of ransom demands grows each year.
66% of users would not know or be able to tell if their data had been modified.
43% of users are not sure if their anti-malware solutions could protect against new and emerging cyberthreats.
Acronis claims the outdated approaches that professional IT teams have relied on for years are now actively failing them. A new approach is essential, it claims - one that combines cybersecurity, data protection and management into one solution. Find out more from Acronis’ Cyber Protection Week Global Report 2022.
A Russian ‘telecoms tycoon’, Vitaly Vasilievich Kochetkov, the founder of Motiv Telecom, a mobile phone network in the Urals region of Russia, has had his ‘superyacht’ seized by the UK government under the UK sanctions regime, although Kochetkov is not currently on any sanctions list, according to a report in the Mail Online. Under present regulations, a ship owned, controlled, chartered or operated by persons connected with Russia may be subject to a ‘detention direction’. The UK Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, says the “government will continue to take robust action against anyone benefiting from connections to Putin's regime.”
Mobile money is in good health, claims the GSMA which says growth in 2021 set a processing record of $1 trillion for the year. The number of registered accounts was up by 18% since 2020 and now stands at 1.35 billion. The GSMA report on its mobile money programme reveals that one of the most significant drivers of growth was merchant payments, which almost doubled year on year. It says mobile money diversified its value proposition beyond person-to-person transfers and cash-in/cash-out transactions in 2021 and is now playing an important role in the daily lives of people and businesses, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The growth of ecosystem transactions such as merchant payments, international remittances, bill payments and bulk disbursements, together with interoperable transactions, are accounting for a more significant share of the global mobile money transaction mix. Read more.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Signs of the Women’s Final Four coming to Minneapolis are throughout downtown.
“Having a big event here, it’s great for the city and great for the sport,” Stephen Sturek, from Minneapolis, said.
The teams get into town Tuesday night. UConn star Paige Bueckers is no stranger to Minnesota.
This will be the Hopkins High School grad’s second trip to the Final Four.
“I’ve only been here four years, and I know who she is so that says something,” Kristin Goeser, from Hopkins, said.
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Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB – Get Rating) VP Claudia Jaramillo sold 11,628 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, March 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $43.00, for a total transaction of $500,004.00. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website.
NYSE SLB traded down $0.90 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $41.31. 11,596,050 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 17,726,324. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $40.16 and a 200 day simple moving average of $34.63. Schlumberger Limited has a 1-year low of $24.52 and a 1-year high of $46.27. The firm has a market cap of $58.37 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.53 and a beta of 2.02. The company has a current ratio of 1.22, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.87.
Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, January 21st. The oil and gas company reported $0.41 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.39 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $6.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $6.09 billion. Schlumberger had a return on equity of 13.32% and a net margin of 8.20%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 12.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.22 earnings per share. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that Schlumberger Limited will post 1.95 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Morgan Stanley lifted its holdings in shares of Schlumberger by 5.1% in the second quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 9,338,446 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $298,922,000 after purchasing an additional 449,997 shares in the last quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans lifted its holdings in shares of Schlumberger by 11.8% in the second quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 68,058 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $2,178,000 after purchasing an additional 7,173 shares in the last quarter. Koshinski Asset Management Inc. bought a new position in shares of Schlumberger in the third quarter valued at approximately $71,000. Private Advisor Group LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Schlumberger by 124.6% in the third quarter. Private Advisor Group LLC now owns 76,933 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $2,280,000 after purchasing an additional 42,679 shares in the last quarter. Finally, AdvisorNet Financial Inc lifted its holdings in shares of Schlumberger by 53.6% in the third quarter. AdvisorNet Financial Inc now owns 911 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $27,000 after purchasing an additional 318 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 75.52% of the company’s stock.
Several research firms recently issued reports on SLB. Cowen increased their price target on shares of Schlumberger from $42.00 to $48.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday. BNP Paribas upgraded shares of Schlumberger from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $45.00 target price on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, January 26th. Stephens raised their target price on shares of Schlumberger from $40.00 to $45.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Monday, January 24th. Citigroup raised their target price on shares of Schlumberger from $40.00 to $42.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, January 24th. Finally, StockNews.com lowered shares of Schlumberger from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, March 24th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, fourteen have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $43.30.
Schlumberger Company Profile (Get Rating)
Schlumberger Limited provides technology for the energy industry worldwide. The company operates through four divisions: Digital & Integration, Reservoir Performance, Well Construction, and Production Systems. It offers software, information management, and IT infrastructure services; consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning, and production enhancement; petro technical data services and training solutions; reservoir interpretation and data processing services; asset performance solutions; open and cased-hole services; exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services; pressure pumping, well stimulation, and coiled tubing equipment for downhole mechanical well intervention, reservoir monitoring, and downhole data acquisition; and integrated production systems.
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WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don't have an answer for how that's going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that's a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs." Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?" Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden's social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden's agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven't abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden's economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they'd help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That's done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she's looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control. It’s an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don't reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can’t afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a “total disaster” for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
“This will make private insurance for people with diabetes a much more attractive proposition,” said Glied.
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USDA forecasting higher food, grocery costs in 2022
(Gray News) - It looks like elevated food prices are going to continue this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The USDA released its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and predicted the cost of groceries would continue to increase to as much as 4%.
According to the Consumer Price Index, grocery and supermarket food prices were already 8.6% higher in February than last year and up nearly 1.5% from January to February in 2022.
As reported by the Associated Press, prices for U.S. consumers have continued to jump recently, leaving families facing the highest inflation rate since 1990.
“We’re getting into this situation where we have spiraling inflation,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors. “Inflation in one area drives inflation in another.”
Currently, the CPI reports all food categories are increasing in price other than fresh vegetables. Last year, the beef and veal categories had the most significant price increase of 9.3%, and the fresh vegetable category had the smallest at 1.1%. However, no food categories decreased in price in 2021.
Poultry prices are also expected to increase up to 7%, with egg prices predicted to increase up to 3.5% in 2022.
Overall, grocery store and supermarket food purchases are expected to increase up to 4%, with restaurant purchases or food away from home forecasted to increase up to 6.5%, according to the USDA.
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During his time as a student at London's Central Saint Martins, Gibraltar-born British fashion designer John Galliano worked as a dresser at the National Theatre, learning the art of costume and the power of illusion. As a regular in London nightclubs, Galliano met a coterie of artists and colorful personalities, forging strong ties with kindred spirits who would play a decisive role in his career - among which Stephen Jones, who would become Dior's milliner. Following the success of his own brand (founded in 1984,) he was appointed Creative Director of ready-to-wear and haute couture at Givenchy in 1995, before joining Dior in 1996 as Artistic Director of the women's collections. There, he distinguished himself with his extravagant shows that combined eclectic historical and cultural inspirations - a global kaleidoscope of references and unbridled inventiveness, imbued with romanticism and history. The designer's sensitivity for haute couture know-how and innate sense of the spectacular has garnered him a reputation as a master of the silhouette. John Galliano has truly reinvented the art - and the very role - of haute couture, redefining its tropes into a new type of contemporary fashion that combines the influences of his travels - whether real or born of his imagination - and the bountiful heritage of Christian Dior. This book highlights the exceptional silhouettes he created for Dior collection after collection from 1996 to 2011, through his most emblematic models, as photographed by Laziz Hamani, alongside shots by Steven Meisel, Annie Leibovitz, Irving Penn and Paolo Roversi. This singular odyssey is the fifth volume in a new series of books paying tribute to the House's Artistic Directors.
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English sits out Masters while recovering from hip surgery
Harris English has decided not to play in the Masters next week as he recovers from surgery to repair a torn labrum. English was a two-time winner on the PGA Tour last year and finished third in the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Harris English has decided not to play in the Masters next week as he recovers from surgery to repair a torn labrum.
English was a two-time winner on the PGA Tour last year and finished third in the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. He has not played since the Sony Open in Honolulu the second week of the year.
“I’m progressing very well from recent hip surgery, but have to exercise caution as I return to play,” English said on Twitter.
There are no alternates at the Masters, an invitation tournament. That puts the field at 90 players, with one spot available if the Texas Open winner this week is not eligible.
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