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‘Incorrect’: Minister mistaken on carbon farming endorsement, green group says
By Mike Foley
The Australian Conservation Foundation has rejected a claim made by Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor that it had “backed away” from its warning about fake credits being issued under a taxpayer-funded scheme for carbon farming.
The designer of the Emissions Reduction Fund’s (ERF) carbon credit scheme, Professor Andrew Macintosh, last week alleged most of the money for carbon farming, such as protecting trees or planting vegetation, was being spent on fake carbon reductions.
The scheme has so far paid out about $1 billion for 100 million carbon credits, which are generated by farmers for protecting forests and replanting vegetation, and sold to polluting companies that want to offset their emissions and reduce their carbon footprint.
Professor Macintosh published studies that said up to 80 per cent of the funds were spent on carbon sequestration that was “devoid of integrity” and represented a “fraud on taxpayers”.
“I believe these criticisms are completely unfounded,” Mr Taylor told a forum hosted by the Carbon Market Institute on Friday.
“It is telling that groups like the ACF (Australian Conservation Foundation) have backed away from this latest round of attacks on the ERF and are no longer promoting the claims that have been refuted by the regulator.”
ACF chief executive Kelly O’Shanassy said on Friday that the organisation stood by its claims and endorsed Professor Macintosh’s findings.
“Any speech given by the Energy Minister that claims otherwise is incorrect,” Ms O’Shanassy said.
“Our own investigation are consistent with Professor Macintosh’s revelations about the scheme’s deep flaws.”
A study released in September by the Australia Institute and Australian Conservation Foundation analysed $300 million of credits issued for protecting forests, known as avoided deforestation. It found land clearing in far-western NSW would have needed to have been at least 750 per cent higher to justify the payments made to farmers not to remove trees.
“We found one in five carbon credits issued by the federal government’s $4.5 billion Emission Reduction Fund do not represent real abatement,” Ms O’Shanassy said.
Mr Taylor also told the forum that new ministerial powers had been created that allow the federal government to block new carbon projects to grow native vegetation on farmland if they are deemed damaging to the regional community.
Mr Taylor and Agriculture Minister David Littleproud issued a joint statement that said native vegetation projects that were either larger than 15 hectares, or occupied more than one third of a farm, required ministerial approval from April 8.
“We don’t want to see entire farms locked up, becoming havens for weeds and feral animals as families leave the land,” Mr Littleproud said.
“I support well planned projects that involve the farmer and manage the land, I hope that there will be many projects that present no risk to community.”
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
AD-7C-6D-8H-9H
(AD, 7C, 6D, 8H, 9H)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
AD-7C-6D-8H-9H
(AD, 7C, 6D, 8H, 9H)
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
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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.
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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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The latest updates on Russia's invasion of Ukraine:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after Russian troops withdrew from the north and center of the country, the situation has been heating up in the southeast where Russian forces are building up for new powerful attacks.
In his nighttime video address to the nation Thursday, Zelenskyy said it was heartening for all Ukrainians to see Russian troops retreating from north of Kyiv, from around the northern town of Chernihiv and from Sumy in the northeast.
But he urged Ukrainians not to let up, saying the withdrawal was just a Russian tactic.
"We know their intentions. We know what they are planning and what they are doing," Zelenskyy said. "We know that they are moving away from those areas where we hit them in order to focus on other, very important areas. There where it may be difficult for us.
"We all want to win," Zelenskyy added. "But there will be battles ahead. We still have to go through a very difficult path ahead to get everything we are striving for."
Zelenskyy said he spoke Thursday with European Council President Charles Michel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while his adviser spoke with U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
"We need more support from our partners right now when Russian troops are concentrating additional forces in certain areas," Zelenskyy said.
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The top-ranking Ukrainian Catholic cleric in the United States warned Thursday that religious minorities in the Eastern European country stand to be “crushed” if Moscow gains control, as fighting raged on more than a month after the Russian invasion began.
Archbishop Borys Gudziak said groups at risk include Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox who have broken away from the patriarch of Moscow.
Gudziak also cited reports that Russian forces have damaged two Holocaust memorials and Moscow's false portrayal of Ukraine as a “Nazi” state although Ukraine overwhelmingly elected a Jewish president in Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“What is at stake for the people of faith is their freedom to practice their faith,” Gudziak said during an online panel discussion on the war, hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.
Gudziak is head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and president of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He also oversees external relations for the Kyiv-based Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon says an initial half-dozen shipments of weapons and other security assistance have reached Ukraine as part of the US$800 million package of aid that U.S. President Joe Biden approved on March 16.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that the shipments included Javelin anti-tank weapons, Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, body armor, medical supplies and other material. He said the 100 Switchblade armed drones that Biden approved as part of the package have not yet been delivered.
Kirby said the $800 million in assistance is likely to be fully delivered within about two weeks. It also includes Mi-17 helicopters, small arms, ammunition, vehicles, secure communications systems, and satellite imagery and analysis capability.
Separately, Kirby said U.S. troops are not training Ukrainian troops in Poland but are acting as liaisons with Ukrainian personnel who cross the border into Poland to take possession of U.S. security assistance. He noted that the standard U.S. military training mission that had existed in Ukraine for years was suspended shortly before Russia invaded.
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DOHA, Qatar -- A video showing the head of Ukrainian soccer wearing an armored vest on the streets of Kyiv brought the impact of Russia's war into the FIFA Congress.
Andriy Pavelko used a recorded message to the gathering in Qatar on Thursday to talk about the deaths of footballers even as the sport "has taken a back seat in our country."
The gathering in Doha featured delegates from Russia, including Alexey Sorokin, the chief executive of Russia's 2018 World Cup organizing committee.
Russia won't be in the draw for the World Cup on Friday after being disqualified from playing internationally by FIFA over the war. Ukraine can still qualify but its playoff semifinal against Scotland has been postponed until June with the hope the team will be in a position to return to the field by then.
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LVIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's ombudsperson says that at least one person has been killed and four others have been wounded in the Russian shelling of a humanitarian convoy.
Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova said those who came under the shelling on Thursday were volunteers accompanying a convoy of buses sent to the northern city of Chernihiv to evacuate residents.
She said that the Russian forces besieging Chernihiv have made it impossible to evacuate civilians from the city that has been cut from food, water and other supplies.
The Russian shelling continued two days after Moscow announced it would scale back military operations around Kyiv and Chernihiv.
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BERLIN -- The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has been informed by Ukraine that the Russian forces which were in control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant have "in writing, transferred control" of the facility to Ukrainian personnel.
Ukraine said three convoys of Russian forces have already left the site toward Belarus, while the remaining troops were presumed to be preparing to leave, the agency said Thursday.
The IAEA added that it was in close consultations with Ukrainian authorities on sending a first assistance and support mission to Chernobyl in the next few days.
The agency said it has not been able to confirm reports of Russian forces receiving high doses of radiation while being inside the exclusion zone of the now-closed plant, but is seeking further information in order to provide an independent assessment of the situation.
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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his offer to host a meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian leaders during a telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
A statement from Erdogan's office said the Turkish president also told Zelenskyy Thursday that a meeting between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators who met in Istanbul earlier this week had given "a meaningful impetus" to efforts to end the fighting.
Earlier this week, Ukraine's delegation laid out a framework under which the country would declare itself neutral and its security would be guaranteed by an array of nations, including Turkey.
Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a joint news conference with a top Turkish Cypriot official that Erdogan also is expected to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said there's “no clear evidence” that Vladimir Putin is scaling back military operations around Kyiv and suggested that the Russian president may have ordered some of his advisers fired or placed under house arrest.
Biden told reporters that “there's some indication” that Putin has taken those steps against some of his advisers. He added, “But I don't want to put too much stock in that at this time because we don't have that much hard evidence.”
The White House on Wednesday released unclassified intelligence findings that Putin is being misinformed by his advisors about how badly the Russian military is performing.
The president made the comments after formally announcing that the U.S. would release 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve in hopes of easing surging gasoline prices.
Biden also reiterated that his administration remains skeptical that Russia will scale back operations around Kyiv as Moscow announced earlier this week.
Russian forces continued to shell Kyiv suburbs Thursday, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine says the United Nations and its partners have delivered supplies for thousands of people in the country's northeast but have been unable to reach some encircled cities in the south.
Osnat Lubrani said Thursday that food rations from the humanitarian organization People in Need and the UN World Food Program will benefit nearly 6,000 people in Sumy and areas including Trostianets and Okhtyrka.
In addition, she said, basic household items including blankets and kettles from the UN refugee agency will support 1,500 people and sanitation kits will help 6,000 people with hygiene and drinking water.
Lubrani said medical supplies and trauma kits from the UN World Health Organization will treat 150 patients needing intensive care for serious injuries while other medical supplies will support 10,000 people for three months.
Shei said the UN-facilitated humanitarian notification system with Ukraine and Russia enabled safe passage for the convoy to Sumy on Thursday “but this is clearly not enough.” Efforts over the past month to reach Mauripol, Kherson and other encircled cities in the south have been unsuccessful because of safety concerns.
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BERLIN -- The UN nuclear watchdog says its director-general has arrived in Russia's Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad for talks with senior Russian officials.
The International Atomic Energy Agency didn't specify in a tweet whom exactly Rafael Mariano Grossi will meet on Friday or give further details of his agenda.
He arrived in Kaliningrad Thursday following a visit to Ukraine, where he visited a nuclear power plant and conferred with the energy minister and other officials on efforts to ensure the safety of Ukraine's nuclear power plants.
Ukraine has 15 active nuclear reactors at four plants -- one of which, at Zaporizhzhia, is under the Russian military's control.
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GENEVA -- A team with the International Committee of the Red Cross has arrived in a Ukraine-held city where staff are preparing to take civilians out of the beleaguered port city of Mariupol.
Julien Lerisson, deputy director of operations for the ICRC, said Thursday that the team assembling in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, has medicines, food, water, hygiene items and other essentials.
He said the organization has high-level agreement for the mission but is focused on making sure "the order trickles down the chain of command," allowing the team to enter and leave Mariupol safely.
The Russian military has said it committed to a cease-fire along the route from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian authorities have said 45 buses would be sent to collect citizens and provide resources to those who remain.
Lucile Marbeau, a staff member with the ICRC team hoping to enter Mariupol, said on Thursday: "We're here because really, we hope to be able to facilitate safe passage for civilians desperately wanting to flee Mariupol."
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LONDON -- Britain's defense minister says Ukraine's international allies have agreed to send more military equipment, including artillery ammunition and armored vehicles.
U.K. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace held a conference call Thursday with defense ministers from more than 35 countries, including the United States, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan.
Wallace said that as a result "there will be more lethal aid going into Ukraine." He said that would include "more long-range artillery, ammunition predominantly," to help counter Russia's bombardment of Ukraine's cities.
Wallace said Ukraine was "also looking for armoured vehicles of some types, not tanks necessarily, but certainly protective vehicles."
He said allies were also "looking to see what more we can do" to help Ukraine defend its coastline.
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WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration has sanctioned an employee of a state-affiliated Russian defense firm that developed malicious software that was used to target the energy sector.
The Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh. He was one of four Russians charged in Justice Department indictments unsealed last week that alleged the hacking by Russia of critical infrastructure around the globe, including in the U.S. energy and aviation sectors.
Among the thousands of computers targeted in some 135 countries were of a Saudi petro-chemical plant where the hackers overrode safety controls.
That hack is singled out in a Treasury Department release announcing sanctions against Gladikh and several other employees of the research firm. In total, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced that it was designating 21 entities and 13 individuals, including in the aerospace, marine and electronics sectors.
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LVIV, Ukraine -- Russian troops were leaving the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and heading towards Ukraine's border with Belarus, the Ukrainian nuclear operator company said Thursday.
The operator, Energoatom, said that the Russian military was also preparing to leave Slavutych, a nearby city where power plant workers live.
Energoatom also said reports were confirmed that the Russians dug trenches in the Red Forest, the 10-square-kilometer (nearly four-square-mile) area surrounding the Chernobyl plant within the Exclusion Zone, and received "significant doses of radiation."
The Russian troops "panicked at the first sign of illness," which "showed up very quickly," and began to prepare to leave, the operator said. The claim couldn't be independently verified.
Energoatom said the Russians have signed a document confirming the handover of the Chernobyl plant and stating that the plant's administration doesn't have any complaints about the Russian troops who were "guarding" the facility.
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LONDON -- The head of Britain's military says Russian President Vladimir Putin has "already lost" in Ukraine and is weaker than he was before the invasion.
Adm. Tony Radakin at a think-tank seminar Thursday in London said Moscow's aim to "take the whole of Ukraine" fell apart. He added that the coming weeks "will continue to be very difficult" for Ukraine.
"But in many ways, Putin has already lost," he said. "Far from being the far-sighted manipulator of events that he would have us believe, Putin has damaged himself through a series of catastrophic misjudgements."
Radakin also said there was "disquiet" at all levels of Russia's military about the campaign, from troops who were not told they were invading Ukraine up to senior commanders.
Western officials say Putin's small inner circle is not giving him the true picture of the war, and his isolation may have contributed to miscalculating the strength of resistance Russian troops would meet.
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BERLIN -- The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe expressed regret Thursday at Russia's decision to veto the extension of its observer mission in Ukraine.
The OSCE's special monitoring mission has been present in Ukraine since 2014, when fighting between Ukrainians and Russia-backed separatists broke out in the country's eastern regions after Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, who holds the OSCE rotating chair, said the observers had played a "crucial role by providing objective information on the security and humanitarian situation on the ground and relentlessly working to ease the effects of the conflict on the civilian population" in Ukraine for the past eight year.
The Vienna-based body's secretary general, Helga Maria Schmid, expressed gratitude to the mission's members, several of whom were wounded or killed over the years.
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BERLIN -- Germany's economy minister says Europe should impose additional sanctions on Russia to prevent what he described as a "barbaric" war in Ukraine.
Robert Habeck said he discussed what further measures could be taken with his French counterpart during a bilateral meeting in Berlin on Thursday.
"The last package (of sanctions) doesn't need to be the final one, it should not be the final one," he told reporters, adding that he and French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire had "identified additional points that could be included in a (sanctions) package."
Habeck declined to elaborate on what those points might be.
Speaking ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement on new rules requiring countries to pay for Russia's natural gas sales in rubles, Habeck insisted that contracts would be adhered to. These stipulate payment in euros or dollars.
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BERLIN -- The Austrian and German leaders have underlined their rejection of a halt to Russian energy deliveries at this point.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer noted that several central and eastern European countries depend to one extent or another on Russian gas deliveries.
He and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz argued that existing sanctions already are having a significant effect and said they need time to switch to new providers and renewable energy sources.
Nehammer said that "sanctions only make sense … when they hit those they are supposed to hit, and don't weaken those who carry out sanctions."ROME -- A Kremlin decree says "unfriendly countries" can continue to pay for natural gas in foreign currency through a Russian bank that will convert the money into rubles.
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Putin talked tougher, saying Russia will start accepting ruble payments starting Friday for Western countries that imposed sanctions over its conflict with Ukraine. He said contracts will be stopped if buyers don't sign up to the new conditions, including opening ruble accounts in Russian banks.
European leaders had rejected paying for deliveries in rubles, saying it would undermine sanctions imposed because of the war in Ukraine.
The decree Putin signed and published by state news agency RIA Novosti says a designated bank will open two accounts for each buyer, one in foreign currency and one in rubles. The buyers will pay in foreign currency and authorize the bank to sell that currency for rubles, which are placed in the second account, where the gas is formally purchased.
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ROME -- Italy's leader is urging Europe to "cultivate all available land" as a partial remedy to reductions in agricultural imports, especially of Russian grain, due to the war in Ukraine.
Premier Mario Draghi told reporters on Thursday that under existing agricultural practices in the European Union 10% of land is purposely left fallow, but that must now change as European countries search for ways to reduce dependency on farm imports.
It's not clear whether Ukraine, one of the world's largest exporters of wheat, maize and sunflower oil, might be able to salvage any of this planting season.
Meanwhile, Draghi noted that Western Europe will be looking to food producers like Canada, the United States and Argentina to help make up the shortfall of imports from Ukraine and Russia.
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STOCKHOLM -- The deputy director of Sweden's Military Intelligence and Security agency says Russia has made "a strategic miscalculation when invading Ukraine."
Daniel Olsson said the invasion of Ukraine "has shown that the Russian leadership is ready to take great risks, larger than previously taken."
The government agency's analysis suggested a likely "a western containment of Russia," including reducing trade in Russian energy.
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MADRID -- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says his country has so far received more than 30,000 Ukrainian refugees and expects that figure to reach 70,000 "within days."
Sanchez announced the latest refugee numbers Thursday during a visit to a refugee reception centre in the southeastern city of Alicante, one of four in Spain.
Also Thursday, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said Spain has sent 10 transport aircraft with weapons and humanitarian aid for Ukraine. She didn't specify how many shipments of each type were sent, but at least two carried arms.
She also said during a visit to the Moron de la Frontera air base in southern Spain that eight Spanish F-18 fighter planes are going to Lithuania to take part in NATO patrols.
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KYIV, Ukraine -- The Ukrainian emergency services say the death toll after a Russian missile strike Tuesday on the regional government headquarters in the southern city of Mykolaiv has risen to 20.
The emergency services said rescuers had now found 19 bodies in the ruins since the strike devastated the government building Tuesday morning. One other person died in hospital.
The regional governor accused Russia of waiting until people arrived for work before striking the building.
Emergency services said they are still working at the scene.
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HELSINKI -- Greenpeace says its activists from the Nordic countries and Russia have blocked the transfer of Russian oil between two large tankers sailing in northern Denmark.
Greenpeace said swimmers and activists in kayaks and boats from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia placed themselves between two supertankers to block the transfer of 100,000 tonnes of Russian oil in waters in northern Denmark.
The environmental organization called for an embargo of Russian fuels to stop the funding of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. It said in a statement Thursday that "every time Russian oil or gas are purchased, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's war chest grows, and so far at least 299 supertankers with fossil fuels have left Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine."
Despite some countries declaring a ban on the arrival of Russian vessels to their ports, Russian coal, oil and gas is still arriving via ships registered in other countries, Greenpeace said.
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ROME -- Italian Premier Mario Draghi says Europe is pushing for a cap on gas prices with Russia because its payments are financing the war in Ukraine.
Draghi told foreign reporters Thursday that the prices that Europe is paying are out of line with the global market.
"We, Germany and Italy, along with other countries that are importers of gas, coal, grains, corn ... are financing the war. There is no doubt," Draghi said. "For this reason, Italy along with other countries are pushing for a cap on the price of gas. There is no substantial reason that the price of gas is so high for Europeans."
Draghi noted that Russia has no other market for its gas, giving Europe room to maneuver. Asked about the risk that Russia would simply respond by turning off the taps, Draghi said, "no there is no danger."
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BERLIN -- The German government says its energy minister has received a Ukrainian delegation that includes the foreign ministry's special envoy for sanctions policy.
The Economy Ministry gave no details on the substance of the meeting Thursday hosted by Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck, who is Germany's vice chancellor and also responsible for energy.
The Ukrainian delegation included the sanctions envoy, Oleksiy Makeev, and Wladimir Klitschko, the brother of Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The Klitschko brothers, both former heavyweight boxing champions, are well-known in Germany.
They were joined by Ukrainian lawmaker Halyna Yanchenko.
The German government has resisted calls to halt Russian energy deliveries, though it is working to reduce the country's dependence on Russian fossil fuels in the longer term.
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ROME -- Italian Premier Mario Draghi says the Russian president told him during a 40-minute phone call Wednesday evening that European companies can continue to pay for existing energy contracts in euros and dollars.
Draghi also indicated that Russia's desire for payments in rubles remained intact, but it may be the case that the currency conversion would take place in Russia. Draghi said he is referring the discussion to experts and that analysis was under way on whether "European companies can continue to pay as foreseen, if this means something for the ongoing sanctions."
"It is absolutely not simple to change the currency of payments without violating the contracts," he said.
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BRUSSELS -- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region.
Russia promised during talks in Istanbul on Tuesday that it would de-escalate operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv to "increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the West were skeptical.
Stoltenberg told reporters Thursday that "Russia has repeatedly lied about its intentions," and must be judged on its actions alone, not the word of its leaders.
"According to our intelligence, Russian units are not withdrawing but repositioning. Russia is trying to regroup, resupply and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas region," he said.
At the same time, he said pressure is being kept up on Kyiv and other cities and "we can expect additional offensive actions bringing even more suffering."
The U.S. says Russia has begun to reposition less than 20% of its troops that had been arrayed around Kyiv. The Pentagon says that most moved north, although some crossed into Belarus where they could be resupplied and sent back into Ukraine.
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The Kremlin has expressed "regret" and "concern" over U.S. officials' reports that the Russian president is being misinformed by advisers about his military's performance in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday that "neither the State Department nor the Pentagon possess the real information about what is happening in the Kremlin."
"They simply don't understand what's going on in the Kremlin, they don't understand President Putin, they don't understand the mechanism of decision-making, they don't understand the way we work," Peskov said.
"It is not just regrettable, it elicits concern, because this complete lack of understanding leads to erroneous decisions, tragic decisions that could have very bad consequences," he added.
U.S. intelligence officials said Putin is being misinformed by advisers about his military's poor performance in Ukraine, according to the White House. The advisers are scared to tell him the truth, the intel says.
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Wednesday the U.S. believes Putin was being misled not only about his military's performance but also "how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions because, again, his senior advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth."
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LONDON -- Britain has imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Russian media figures and organizations accused of spreading propaganda and disinformation about the war in Ukraine.
The latest group subjected to asset freezes and travel bans includes Rossiya television anchor Sergey Brilev, who previously lived in the U.K., Gazprom-Media chief executive Aleksandr Zharov and Alexey Nikolov, managing director of Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT.
Sanctions have also been slapped on media organizations TV-Novosti, which owns RT, and Rossiya Segodnya, which controls the Sputnik news agency.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Thursday's sanctions would hit "the shameless propagandists who push out Putin's fake news and narratives."
The U.K. also said it was sanctioning Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia's National Defence Command and Control Centre, accusing him of orchestrating atrocities including the siege of Mariupol.
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MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on the spring draft, with 134,500 new conscripts to be added to the Russian army amid the country's war on Ukraine.
Both Putin and Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu have said that conscripts will not be taking part in the operation in Ukraine. Earlier this month, however, the Russian military admitted that a number of conscripts ended up in Ukraine and were even captured there.
The decree signed on Thursday outlines the draft which will kick off on April 1 and last through July 15.
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BERLIN -- The International Committee of the Red Cross says its teams are ready to facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of the besieged city of Mariupol.
The Red Cross said "for logistics and security reasons, we'll be ready to lead the safe passage operation tomorrow, Friday, provided all the parties agree to the exact terms, including the route, the start time, and the duration."
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Ukraine is sending out several dozen buses to collect civilians from Mariupol after Russia's military said it committed to a localized cease-fire from the city to Ukraine-held Zaporizhzhia from Thursday morning.
"It's desperately important that this operation takes place. The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it," the Red Cross said.
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AMSTERDAM -- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spoke by video link to the Dutch parliament.
Zelenskyy, who delivered his speech in Ukrainian, called on the Netherlands to be prepared to stop importing Russian energy, to halt trade with Russia and to provide more weapons.
He also addressed Prime Minister Mark Rutte, saying "Our EU membership depends on you."
Rutte had told Zelenskyy at an EU summit earlier this month that Ukraine's EU accession can't be sped up. "There isn't something like a fast track, a fast procedure," Rutte said at the March 11 summit in Versailles.
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BRUSSELS -- European Union antitrust regulators have raided the offices of several companies in Germany involved in the supply, transmission and storage of natural gas amid concern over skyrocketing prices in Europe.
The European Commission, which polices EU competition policy, did not name the companies targeted in the March 29 "surprise inspections." But anti-trust regulators have been probing the actions of Russian energy giant Gazprom, which has premises in Germany, in the European market. Gazprom could not be immediately reached for comment.
The Commission suspects that the companies "have violated EU competition rules that prohibit abuse of a dominant position" in the market. It says the inspections do not imply that those involved are guilty.
Russia is the biggest exporter of oil, natural gas and coal to the 27-nation EU. About 40% of the bloc's gas imports come from Russia, much of it piped through Ukraine.
In January, the head of the International Energy Agency blamed Russia for Europe's natural gas crisis, saying that high prices and low storage levels are largely due to Gazprom withholding supplies.
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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's top diplomat says Ankara is working to bring the Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers together again for talks.
In an interview with Turkey's A Haber channel, Mevlut Cavusoglu said the meeting could happen within two weeks.
His comments came days after Turkey hosted Ukrainian and Russian negotiators for face-to-face talks in Istanbul. Cavusoglu said decisions taken during the talks to reduce tensions had not fully been put into effect on the ground.
"We do not see these decisions being reflected on the field - for example, the removal of Russian soldiers from some areas," he said.
Asked about the presence of sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich in the negotiations, Cavusoglu said the businessman was engaged in "useful" efforts to end the fighting.
"Abramovich has been sincerely making efforts to end the fighting since the first day of the war," he said.
During the talks in Istanbul Tuesday, Ukraine set out a detailed framework for a peace deal under which the country would remain neutral but its security would be guaranteed by a group of third countries, including the U.S., Britain, France, Turkey, China and Poland.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A Red Cross warehouse in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol has been struck amid intense Russian shelling of the area.
Satellite pictures from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by The Associated Press on Thursday show clear damage to the warehouse's roof along the Kalmius River near its mouth on the Sea of Azov. A red cross had been painted on the top of the warehouse.
At least one hole from suspected shelling could be seen in an image taken March 21. Some four holes in the roof were clearly visible in images taken Wednesday. The red cross had been on the warehouse's roof from at least late August 2021, according to satellite images.
The International Committee of the Red Cross distributed all the supplies from inside the warehouse earlier in March and no staff have been at the site since March 15, the aid group said in a statement.
The Special Forces Unit "Azov," a Ukrainian National Guard unit fighting in Mariupol whose members include far-right activists, has accused Russian forces of firing on the building. Russia did not immediately acknowledge the allegation.
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed directly to Australian lawmakers for more help in Ukraine's war against Russia including armoured vehicles and tougher sanctions.
Zelenskyy has been tailoring his message to individual countries through video appeals like the one shown Thursday to legislators in the Australian Parliament. Lawmakers gave him a standing ovation at the start and end of his 16-minute address.
He called for Russian vessels to be banned from international ports. Zelenskyy specifically asked for Australian-manufactured Bushmaster four-wheel drive armored vehicles.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had earlier told Zelenskyy that Australia would provide additional military assistance including tactical decoys, unmanned aerial and unmanned ground systems, rations and medical supplies.
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LONDON -- Britain's defence ministry says Russia continues to pound Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, despite Moscow's claim to have scaled back its offensive around that city and Kyiv.
The Ministry of Defence says "significant Russian shelling and missile strikes have continued."
It said Thursday that "Russian forces continue to hold positions to the east and west of Kyiv despite the withdrawal of a limited number of units. Heavy fighting will likely take place in the suburbs of the city in coming days."
The U.K. intelligence update also said heavy fighting continues in the southern port of Mariupol, which has been besieged by Russia for weeks, but that Ukrainian forces remain in control of the center of the city.
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Russia and Ukraine both say they are making efforts to help civilians evacuate westwards out of the besieged port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian military said it committed to a local ceasefire along the route from Mariupol to the Ukraine-held city of Zaporizhzhia from Thursday morning.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Thursday that Ukraine was sending 45 buses to collect people. She said the International Committee of the Red Cross was acting as an intermediary between the two sides.
Similar evacuation efforts have been planned before and collapsed amid recriminations over fighting along the route. Ukraine accused Russian forces last week of seizing bus drivers and rescue workers headed to Mariupol.
Civilians who have managed to leave the city for Ukraine-held territory have typically done so using private cars, but the number of drivable vehicles left in Mariupol has dwindled and fuel stocks are low.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has recalled Ukraine's ambassadors to Georgia and Morocco, suggesting they hadn't done enough to persuade those countries to support Ukraine and punish Russia for the invasion.
"With all due respect, if there won't be weapons, won't be sanctions, won't be restrictions for Russian business, then please look for other work," Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video address to the nation Wednesday. "I am waiting for concrete results in the coming days from the work of our representatives in Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa."
Zelenskyy also said he was expecting results from Ukraine's military attaches in embassies abroad.
He said "the diplomatic front is one of the key fronts" in Ukraine's battle to win the war against Russia.
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The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday by video, according to the head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia.
The delegations met in-person on Tuesday in Istanbul, after two weeks of meeting by video, and the faint outlines of a possible peace agreement seemed to emerge.
The Ukrainian delegation offered a framework under with the country would declare itself neutral -- dropping its bid to join NATO, as Moscow has long demanded -- in return for security guarantees from a group of other nations.
Russian diplomats responded positively to Ukraine's proposal.
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DUBLIN -- An aircraft-leasing company has filed US$3.5 billion in insurance claims for planes and aircraft engines that are stranded in Russia because of sanctions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
AerCap said it had leased 135 planes to Russian airlines and has repossessed 22 of them outside of Russia.
The Dublin-based company said AerCap says it's unclear whether it will recover more, and Russian airlines continue to use its planes even though it terminated the leases and demanded that the planes be returned.
After sanctions prohibited U.S. and European companies from leasing, selling or servicing planes and aircraft parts to Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law letting his country's airlines re-register foreign planes and use them for domestic flights.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency visited a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on Wednesday to meet Ukrainian officials and provide technical assistance.
Rafael Mariano Grossi said the IAEA is not involved in political talks with the Russians.
"We are trying to be very active in order to ensure that as soon as possible, the situation is regressed, and the facilities are back in the hands of the Ukrainians," Grossi said.
Ukraine has 15 nuclear reactors at four plants, one of which (Zaporizhzia) is under the Russian military's control.
Ukraine also is home to the decommissioned Chernobyl plant, the site of the 1986 nuclear accident, with the Russian military seized early in the war. As of Tuesday, eight reactors were operating and the rest were shut down for regular maintenance.
-- From video published by Energoatom Press Service in Media Port --Mykolaiv region, Ukraine
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LONDON -- A U.K. intelligence chief is warning that Russia is looking for cyber targets and bringing in mercenaries to shore up its stalled military campaign in Ukraine.
Jeremy Fleming, who heads the U.K.'s GCHQ electronic spy agency, said Russian President Vladimir Putin "massively misjudged" his chances for a swift military victory in Ukraine.
In a speech in Australia, Fleming praised Ukraine's "information operation" for effectively countering Russia's big disinformation campaign about the war.
While there were expectations that Russia would launch a major cyberattack as part of its military campaign, Fleming said such a move was never part of Moscow's playbook.
But Fleming warns that Russia's "cyber actors are looking for targets in the countries that oppose their actions."
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Bird Watchers, Wildlife Enthusiasts Want To Save Pembroke Pines Eagles’ Nesting Land From Developers
By Jacqueline Quynh
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PEMBROKE PINES, Florida (WFOR) — It’s not just South Floridians feeling the impact of the housing shortage, two eagles in Pembroke Pines might soon be struggling to find a new place to live because developers have their eyes set on the couple’s nesting land.
If that happens, bird watchers who routinely come out to watch the pair will be devastated.
“The main thing that I love about them is the people that I meet here,” David Mendez, a bird watcher said.
For years, wildlife enthusiasts like David Mendez. who helps run Pride and Jewel Bald Eagles of Pembroke Pines, a Facebook page have delighted in watching the pair lay eggs and raise their young. However, that land has become so much more valuable as the housing crisis continues.
Developers are coming to the city of Pembroke Pines interested in the 24 acres, one of the few undeveloped parcels still left in the city.
“They pick this spot because they love it, it’s perfect for them to have their nest and cultivate their young,” said Phil Martin, Audubon Florida Eagle Watch Volunteer.
Volunteers like Martin are worried about the eagles, and other wildlife if development is approved.
“It’s important that people have affordable housing but it’s also important that we take care of our wildlife,” he emphasized.
“Going back to the late 1980s, it was acquired by the city in lieu of taxes, this was actually going to be a housing development and the developer couldn’t afford to pay the taxes, so we took the land,” said Angelo Castillo, Pembroke Pines Commissioner.
While the space could make room for dozens of homes, Castillo proposes re-designating and saving the land.
“It could save an educational purpose so the kids could understand what nature is about, it could be a wetland mitigation bank,” he said.
But it doesn’t mean housing isn’t going up elsewhere.
“We currently have 170,000 residents, but we want to make sure the only residents on this property are these Bald Eagles,” Castillo added.
CBS 4 reached out to the city for comment but have yet to get in touch with anyone for comment as of this publication. A meeting is planned for April 6.
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Police: 13-year-old runaway girl dies at hospital after found unresponsive at motel
D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (WALA/Gray News) - A 13-year-old girl has died in a Mississippi-area hospital after being reported as a runaway from Alabama earlier this month.
WALA reports the Mobile Police Department first reported Keyanna Sylvester as a runaway on March 21. She was then found unresponsive in a motel room in D’Iberville, Mississippi, on March 24, according to D’Iberville Police Capt. Jason King.
Sylvester was taken to the hospital but later died, according to police.
The 13-year-old spent time in Ocean Springs and Moss Point, Mississippi, according to reports.
King said it was too early in the investigation to decide whether foul play was involved in the girl’s death.
“We’re making sure we’re careful about not saying whether it’s criminal or not criminal,” he said.
King also said police are waiting for a report by the medical examiner.
“This hurts me real bad because Keyanna was my baby,” said neighbor Alexie Thames. “You all need to help find whoever did this to my baby. "
Anyone with further information on this case was urged to contact the D’Iberville Police Department at 228-396-4252.
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Police: 13-year-old runaway girl dies at hospital after found unresponsive at motel
D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (WALA/Gray News) - A 13-year-old girl has died in a Mississippi-area hospital after being reported as a runaway from Alabama earlier this month.
WALA reports the Mobile Police Department first reported Keyanna Sylvester as a runaway on March 21. She was then found unresponsive in a motel room in D’Iberville, Mississippi, on March 24, according to D’Iberville Police Capt. Jason King.
Sylvester was taken to the hospital but later died, according to police.
The 13-year-old spent time in Ocean Springs and Moss Point, Mississippi, according to reports.
King said it was too early in the investigation to decide whether foul play was involved in the girl’s death.
“We’re making sure we’re careful about not saying whether it’s criminal or not criminal,” he said.
King also said police are waiting for a report by the medical examiner.
“This hurts me real bad because Keyanna was my baby,” said neighbor Alexie Thames. “You all need to help find whoever did this to my baby. "
Anyone with further information on this case was urged to contact the D’Iberville Police Department at 228-396-4252.
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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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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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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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Social media has significantly impacted the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries in recent years. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit have given people a place to share news and information about these new technologies. They have also played a role in the price fluctuations of various cryptocurrencies. We will discuss how social media has affected the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries.
- A Place for Social Discourse and Knowledge Dissemination
Social media is one of the best ways for people to find more information about cryptocurrencies and blockchain, and these platforms also provide a highly effective medium for sharing knowledge. For example, thousands of subreddits discuss specific currencies or trading strategies.
More importantly, social media has given ordinary people the ability to learn about how blockchain works. There are countless articles, videos, and even courses that have been created outside of formal educational settings for this very purpose.
- Social Media Influences Prices
One of the most important ways social media has affected cryptocurrency prices is market sentiment or general public opinion on specific currencies. Social media has played a significant role in the rise and fall of many cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin. People interested in learning about Bitcoins or other currencies would often join forums like Reddit to learn more about the technology and gain insight into market sentiment regarding certain coins.
The price movements of cryptocurrencies sometimes appear random at first glance. Still, it is possible to understand them by following relevant social media discussions and looking at the trading patterns of these activities.
- Social Media and Institutional Investors
In addition to influencing trading patterns among average retail investors, social media also plays a role in the increased interest from institutional investors. In many cases, these platforms have been used as reliable sources of information for this specific crowd. For example, there are countless reports that titans like George Soros have decided to invest in cryptocurrencies after seeing their positive mentions on social media. This is not to say that every statement of cryptocurrency on Twitter will result in a flood of new investments. Still, it does show that these platforms can be helpful and reliable sources of information for this group.
The presence of misinformation or “fake news” is another way social media impacts the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. In many cases, the spread of misinformation can increase prices, which can significantly impact this specific market. Luckily, there are ways to fight against these practices, including crowdsourcing efforts from websites like Reddit.
One of the most important ways social media has impacted cryptocurrency prices is through regulatory news. Social media platforms have become one of the best places for financial regulators to share their thoughts on regulating blockchain technology. This information can have enormous implications for individual currencies. For example, if a government official discourages the use of Bitcoin, this could lead to a sharp drop in its price. Regulations affect the entire industry rather than specific cryptocurrencies, but they can still significantly impact digital assets when they are announced.
Conclusion
These are just some of how social media has affected cryptocurrency and blockchain over the years. These platforms will continue to play an important role moving forward, both in terms of how people invest in cryptocurrencies and the ways that they choose to use them.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri nonprofit that was at the center of a corruption probe that involved several legislators is paying more than $8 million to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under an agreement with prosecutors announced Thursday.
Federal prosecutors announced the non-prosecution agreement with Preferred Family Healthcare, which agreed to forfeit more than $6.9 million to the federal government and pay more than $1.1 million in restitution to Arkansas.
The Missouri-based mental health care provider operated 50 clinics throughout Arkansas until October 2018 and no longer operates in the state. Prosecutors on Thursday said under the agreement, PFH admitted that its former officers and employees conspired to embezzle funds from the charity and bribe Arkansas legislators.
Several former executives from the charity, former Arkansas legislators and other have pleaded guilty in federal court as part of the corruption probe.
A lobbyist pleaded guilty in 2019 to bribing three Arkansas lawmakers, including the governor’s nephew, to benefit PFH. The lobbyist, Rusty Cranford, was sentenced to seven years in prison and in August was released to serve the remainder of his sentence from home.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in 2020 announced the firm had reached $6.5 million in federal and state settlements following an investigation by Rutledge's office into false Medicaid claims made by former PFH employees.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The appearance by video of the head of Ukrainian soccer, wearing an armored vest from the streets of Kyiv, brought the impact of Russia’s war into the FIFA Congress on Thursday.
“We have regularly received sad news of the deaths of members of the Ukrainian football community,” Andriy Pavelko said in a recorded message to the gathering in Qatar including delegates from Russia.
“They have been killed by the aggressors’ rockets from one of the biggest army in the world. Football has taken a back seat in our country.”
Kyiv hosted the Champions League final only four years ago. Then the soccer world shifted to Russia in 2018 for a World Cup that FIFA President Gianni Infantino still celebrated Thursday as “a great success sportingly and culturally.”
“Obviously it did not solve the problems of the world,” Infantino said. “It did not even solve the problems in the region. It did not create a lasting peace.”
Infantino did not mention the man he was filmed juggling a ball with and praising in 2018: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nor did Infantino blame or mention Russia in his speech.
There was a plea to “stop conflicts and wars” generally rather than specifically issuing a direct message to Putin, who awarded Infantino Russia’s Order of Friendship medal after the World Cup. And in the Doha audience was Alexey Sorokin, the chief executive of Russia’s 2018 organizing committee and former member of the FIFA Council.
There was an expression of regret from Sorokin but only that Pavelko “has these emotions” in the video address.
“It is difficult for them, we understand that,” Sorokin said. “But I’m here not to discuss politics or military activities or anything, I am here in the FIFA Congress.”
Russia won’t be in the draw for the World Cup on Friday after being disqualified from playing internationally by FIFA over the war. Ukraine can still qualify but its playoff semifinal against Scotland has been postponed until June with the hope the team will be in a position to return to the field by then.
For now, the priority for Ukraine is protecting the country from Russia as Pavelko told the FIFA Congress.
“Our children have suffered terrible psychological injuries. Perhaps football will help them forget the horrors of war,” he said as sandbags were being placed around a statue behind him in Kyiv. “I believe every word, prayer and action in support of Ukraine and against the war can stop it.
“We have no right to remain silent. Let there be no air-raid alarms in our cities, instead the songs of fans. Let the battles take place not in the streets with weapons but in crowded stadiums in fair football duel and let the spectators in the stands explode when their favorite team scores a goal, not the bombs.”
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SOUTH WEBSTER — If you give the Wheelersburg Pirates an inch, or even a centimeter, then expect the Orange and Black to take a mile —or at least over 300 feet.
On Wednesday, those Pirates as a result —whether it was inches, yards, feet or even southern Ohio country kilometers — seized a key early-season Southern Ohio Conference Division II softball victory from the host South Webster Jeeps.
That’s because with simply clutch home runs by Sydney Skiver and Macee Eaton, and a stick-with-it bang-bang big defensive play by Wheelersburg second baseman Haley Myers, the Pirates picked up business late after starting slow early —and ultimately cashed in for an epic, and dramatic, 6-5 nine-inning season-opening triumph.
That’s correct, as the six-time and powerhouse defending division champions saw their league winning streak of AT LEAST 30 in some serious jeopardy against the young Jeeps —as South Webster went ahead 4-1 following its initial at-bat, and senior standout Bri Claxon conking an ever-consequential solo home run with two outs in the sixth for a 5-3 advantage.
At that point, it even appeared bleak for the ‘Burg —but its ever-explosive bats finally heated up, like the 80-plus degree temperatures, against Jeep pitcher Rylee McGraw.
In short, Wheelersburg was behind from the first inning onward —until Eaton doubled to center to lead off the seventh, and Sydney Skiver smashed a game-tying two-run one-out blast to straight-away centerfield for the 5-5 tie.
Finally, after the shortstop Claxon came up with her final of multiple mind-numbing defensive efforts in the eighth, and turned a 6-3 double play — there was no getting to the longball with Eaton up to lead off the ninth.
The junior left-handed power-slugger sent a McGraw offering over the left-field fence, and pushed the Pirates into the 6-5 lead —their first since the opening at-bat, when Eaton singled to right and drove in freshman Catie Boggs.
Boggs began the game with a triple to right, the first of 13 Pirate hits —but with five including the two home runs in the final three frames.
Eaton, already a University of Virginia verbal commit, ended up 4-of-5 —with her only other single being of the infield variety, but a hard and direct line drive off McGraw, hitting her above her knee but below her thigh.
Wheelersburg veteran coach Teresa Ruby knew South Webster would be an overly-challenging contest to start the season with —as the Pirates’ scheduled season opener and SOC II tilt with Waverly was postponed from Monday to Thursday.
Had the Pirates lost on Wednesday, it would have marked a highly-unusual two-game losing streak for the proud program —considering their most recent defeat occurred in last season’s state semifinals for Division III.
The Pirates’ only other runs came courtesy of a two-run second-inning Myers double, which plated both senior Lyndsay Heimbach and Boggs —who singled with one out and two outs respectively in the inning.
Wheelersburg left runners at second and third in the first and sixth, Myers and Rileigh Lang at second in the second and seventh, and the bases loaded in the fifth trailing 4-3.
But Eaton’s double, Skiver’s homer, and Eaton’s over-the-fence go-ahead shot simply took the sting off leaving Pirates on bases.
As Ruby said, “they always say it doesn’t matter how many (basehits) you get, it’s when you get them.”
“We kept knocking at the door, but we didn’t do well with situation hitting. We couldn’t get those runners in scoring position in with less than two outs, and we kept hitting fly ball after fly ball. The McGraw girl did throw a nice ballgame for them, and Bri Claxon at shortstop took away several runs with several fantastic plays. Sydney Skiver has been struggling some in the preseason, but she’s been working really hard. To have that at-bat (home run) in that crucial of a situation, it couldn’t have happened to a better kid. But that’s what happens you put the work in. She saw the benefits of that today,” said the coach. “We really didn’t get hits when we needed them until late, but fortunately we finally got them.”
The Division IV Jeeps are now 0-3 and 0-2 in the league, but their three losses are to three quality Division III clubs —4-2 to West, 7-2 at non-league Wellston, and now 6-5 in nine against Wheelersburg.
South Webster head coach Andy Messer praised his Jeeps’ play, and said the Pirates “capitalized on a couple of pitches that were out over the plate”.
“The two home runs, Rylee (McGraw) just hung them (pitches) out a little bit over. Their lineup all has good hitters and it’s hard to pitch around them,” he said. “I believe the one to Eaton was a fastball. We were trying to pitch around her as well, but if you even barely miss and make a mistake, they are going to make you pay.”
Inches out over the plate in the top half, and even split-seconds involving a plate play in the bottom.
With one out, and with Wheelersburg not committing a single error to that point behind sophomore pitcher AndiJo Howard, Claxon clubbed a ground ball towards Myers at second — but she bobbled it and the speedy Claxon beat the throw.
Claxon then stole second, putting herself in scoring position for a potential 6-6 tie — and setting up freshman Lauren Kaltenbach’s at-bat.
Again, Kaltenbach’s grounder went right to Myers, who again mishandled the fielding attempt —and a running Claxon rolled the dice and raced home.
But Myers fired a dart of a throw to senior catcher Brynley Preston, who applied the tag to a sliding Claxon —whose hand didn’t touch the plate prior to Preston’s tagout.
In the final analysis, Myers more than made up for her two errors — with a precision firing directly to Preston for the second out to preserve the lead.
“It was a bang-bang play, I know the swipe tag was there, and the umpire obviously had a better view than I did and we have to trust he made the right call. But I base that decision to send Bri to the plate because she’s the fastest kid on the field, and the ball was not in the fielder’s hands, ” explained Messer. “So I sent Bri and we rolled the dice, but it didn’t pay.”
Ruby, conversely, said simply “you have to play through the whole play.”
“We knew Claxon is very quick and likes to run the bases. We talked about expecting her to take extra bases and she did, and ‘Deuce’ (Myers) is a gamer and I’ll take 10 of her. Haley didn’t field the ball cleanly, but she played through it,” she said. “It saved the game for us.”
Howard recorded the final out on Skylar Zimmerman, who went 3-of-5 — but grounded out to Skiver at third to end the game.
In fact, following Claxon’s sixth-inning home run, Howard —who allowed 11 hits with only four strikeouts but no walks or hit batsmen in facing 39 total Jeeps — did not give up a hit after that.
In fact, she retired eight in a row —getting three grounders to Eaton at first base, sandwiched around two popouts to the shortstop Boggs plus two strikeouts.
The first out of the seventh was a flyout to Heimbach in left.
“AndiJo will tell you that she started very slow, but she battled. That’s what we talked about. Last year, probably, she emotionally wouldn’t have survived this game. This game, she showed a lot more maturity, showed a lot of composure, and settled in,” said Ruby. “I was very happy with that.”
Howard’s finish was in stark contrast to how she started —allowing four runs on four hits for South Webster’s initial at-bat.
Claxon and Zimmerman singled, Bella Claxon reached on an unsuccessful fielder’s choice as Bri Claxon escaped a rundown between third and home, and Ashley Spence and MaKayla Raynard racked up two-run doubles —which crossed Bri Claxon and Zimmerman on Spence’s and Bella Claxon and Spence on Raynard’s.
From there, though, Howard retired the Jeeps 1-2-3 in the second —as the Jeeps’ only other hits and subsequent baserunners until Bri Claxon’s home run were singles by Zimmerman and Spence in the third, Claxon in the fourth, Zimmerman and Ava Messer in the fifth, and finally McGraw in the sixth.
Howard stranded six Jeeps — including four in scoring position, with runners on the corners in the fifth.
“AndiJo finally found her groove and she is a really good pitcher,” said Coach Messer. “She settled in to throw a really good game.”
So too did the senior McGraw, who also went the distance like Howard — and faced 44 Pirates with two strikeouts.
Her only free passes were walks to Skiver in the fifth and ninth, and hitting Preston with a pitch in the fourth.
In addition to Eaton’s 4-of-5 day, Boggs went 3-for-5, Myers and Heimbach both 2-for-5, and Lang landing a ninth-inning single plus Skiver’s homer.
Despite seven combined errors including the Jeeps’ five, all 11 runs were indeed earned.
And, it was indeed a softball epic, but in one which Wheelersburg took over 300 feet —plus fractions of seconds at the end.
“I’m proud of our girls,” said Messer, whose Jeeps host Valley on Friday, “We’re always telling them to never hang their heads on playing bigger schools and competing so well with them.”
One of those bigger squads is Wheelersburg —with an SOC II target always upon its back.
“This was a tough game for us to start with. Coach (Messer) does a fantastic job with this South Webster group. They have some talented athletes. We just have to find our way. We know we always have the SOC target on us, and we have to match the other teams’ emotions and effort. So this is a great learning experience for us,” said Ruby. “We’ll take this, knowing now we can play under pressure and we can play from behind. We showed a lot of composure and I’m proud of them for that. The plan is to build on this.”
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Wheelersburg 120 000 201 — 6 13 2
South Webster 400 001 000 —5 11 5
WHS: AndiJo Howard 9IP, 5R, 5ER, 11H, 0HB, 0BB, 4K, 39BF
SWHS: Rylee McGraw 9IP, 6R, 6ER, 13H, 1HB, 2BB, 2K, 44BF
W —AndiJo Howard; L —Rylee McGraw
Reach Paul Boggs at (740) 353-3101 ext. 1926, by email at [email protected], or on Twitter @paulboggssports © 2022 Portsmouth Daily Times, all rights reserved
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Einsteinium (EMC2) traded 6.3% lower against the dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 19:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. Einsteinium has a market cap of $5.09 million and approximately $26,334.00 worth of Einsteinium was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Einsteinium coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.0229 or 0.00000050 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last seven days, Einsteinium has traded down 7% against the dollar.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.14 or 0.00000304 BTC.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world’s fair in Dubai, a tech-saturated site teeming with talking robots and solar canopies, sought to be the future.
Now, it’s history.
The pandemic-delayed Expo 2020 in the United Arab Emirates closed on Thursday after eight years of anticipation, over $7 billion in investment, 240 million hours of labor and six months of festivities.
The fate of the fairgrounds is clear. Some national pavilions will be demolished. A few will remain, like an enormous lacework dome and the UAE’s soaring falcon-shaped pavilion. Other buildings will be rebranded for a new business district soon to rise from the site.
But the deeper legacy of the event proves more elusive.
When Dubai won the bid to host Expo back in 2013, it felt like a rebirth. Just four years earlier, the glitzy city-state suffered a real-estate crash in the Great Recession, rescued by a $20 billion bailout from oil-rich Abu Dhabi.
As property prices roared back, the Expo — the first world’s fair in the Middle East — appeared to signal Dubai’s troubles were behind it. Officials offered bright predictions. The “world’s greatest show” would draw 25 million visitors. It would generate $33.4 billion in investment until 2031. It would help Dubai push into the top tier of global financial centers.
But, in the end, the billions of dollars, frenzy of fantastical construction projects and barrage of publicity proved powerless against the coronavirus pandemic, which forced Dubai to postpone the event for a year.
“It definitely fell short of what officials would have wanted,” said James Swanston, an economist at Capital Economics. “There were extremely optimistic assessments about Expo driving the next five to 10 years of growth in real estate and business, and COVID disrupted that.”
Dubai raced to widespread vaccination so it could open its borders and relax virus restrictions — earning it a reputation as a party haven for tourists escaping lockdowns back home.
The fair has since logged a staggering, albeit murky, total of 23 million visits — fueled by repeated stops by those already living in the city. Public sector employees got six days paid leave to visit. Schoolchildren regularly descended on Expo for field trips.
While concert lineups included just a few starry names, such as Coldplay and Alicia Keys, culturally specific crowd-pleasers succeeded in drawing diverse and rabid fan bases. K-pop stars, Bollywood singers and a beloved Iranian pop diva lured thousands.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience for all of us,” said 37-year-old Samiya Awan, a Pakistani resident of Dubai and Expo fanatic who volunteered at three national pavilions. “I am coming here every day, even if I’m not volunteering, I’m coming with my kids.”
But the event brought scrutiny as well.
As the FIFA World Cup has for host Qatar, Expo has shined a light on the troubles of migrant laborers. Many low-paid Expo workers have told of plunging into debt to cover recruitment fees, having their passports confiscated and struggling to afford food while toiling at the multibillion-dollar fair.
However, no companies or countries ultimately heeded calls by the European Parliament to withdraw their involvement in Expo over human rights concerns. Dubai has counted on the event to raise its international profile and offer a jolt toits economy as it bounces backfrom the pandemic.
“Bringing the world to Dubai and showcasing Dubai to the world has been one of the successes of this event,” said Tarek Fadlallah, chief executive at Nomura Asset Management Middle East.
Other analysts note that while Dubai increasingly has elbowed its way onto the world stage in recent months, that may have less to do with Expo’s allure than the government’s pandemic response and major reforms.
The UAE has changed its weekend to align with the West, allowed unmarried couples to legally live together and eased visa restrictions and foreign investment rules. Gambling appears to be next. As hordes of well-heeled foreigners flock to the emirate, the prices of luxury properties and villas have surged.
“I wouldn’t give Expo all the credit for residential property price increases,” said Sapna Jagtiani, a director at S&P Global Ratings. “It was mostly driven by how the UAE managed the pandemic and high net-worth individuals moving to the country.”
Dubai may no longer have a major global event but observers say the city’s business-friendly rules and absence of sanctions and politics will buoy the emirate in its Expo comedown. That’s especially true as Russia’s war on Ukraine has pushed oil prices to multi-year highs and stirred economic turmoil in the region.
“We have a lot of oil money that finds its way to Dubai real estate,” Jagtiani added. “It’s considered a safe haven where investment flows whenever there’s conflict.”
However, concerns linger that the end of Expo could aggravate Dubai’s debt and oversupply problems if demand fails to materialize for the expected flood of new hotel and housing construction. Rising interest rates loom as well.
“It may not blow up in the same way as 2009, but it could raise concerns about debt repayments where Abu Dhabi has to step in again,” Swanston said.
But while uncompleted white elephant projects still litter Dubai, others more successful have propelled growth and transformed swaths of its vast deserts into gleaming new developments.
Whether the Expo site has a lasting impact remains to be seen, even as crowds rushed in for the final few hours of the party.
“I’ve heard a lot of mixed feedback about how good or how bad the Expo was, how it didn’t meet certain expectations,” said Khaled Iskandar, a Palestinian architect visiting the site for the fourth time this week. “Personally … I was in awe.”
At a razzle-dazzle closing ceremony, Expo’s dome gleamed with hypnotic scenes of swirling water and orange-yellow light.
“When the Expo ends and this site evolves … the enduring spirit of Expo 2020 Dubai will persist,” proclaimed Jai-chul Choi, president of the General Assembly of the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions that oversees Expos.
Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed a slow and mournful solo. The dark sky lit up with fireworks.
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Associated Press writer Malak Harb in Dubai contributed to this report.
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DUI: On March 25, around 5 p.m., Patrolwoman Lindsey Laughter was called to Murphy USA gas station near Walmart in reference to a possible drunk driver at one of the pumps. Dispatch described a male driver who had fallen asleep at the wheel of a white Ford Ranger. Laughter made contact with the driver and woke him. The driver was identified as Dustin Toby, age 30. Laughter reported that Toby’s license had been revoked and his registration hadn’t been renewed since 2020. According to Laughter, Toby’s pupils were constricted and he was “profusely sweating.” Toby stated he is prescribed Suboxone, and that he took the medication at 7 a.m. Toby performed poorly on field sobriety tests and was placed under arrest.
Assault: On March 2, police were dispatched to the area of Cosby Highway near Templin Street concerning a road rage incident. Police spoke to the complainant, Michael Lizotte, who stated that an older man driving a tan Chevrolet Suburban had nearly struck his girlfriend’s vehicle. According to Lizotte, after the near miss, he and his girlfriend followed the Suburban and told the driver that he had nearly hit them. Lizotte stated that the man exited his vehicle and punched Lizotte several times through the open window before getting back in his vehicle and leaving the scene via I-40 West. The license plate Lizotte reported to police was registered to a tan Suburban, but the owner was much younger than the man Lizotte described. Lizotte stated he hopes to prosecute for assault if the assailant can be identified.
Evading Arrest: On March 26, Newport Police received information regarding a black sedan traveling east from Jefferson County which had fled from Dandridge Police. Patrolman Paul Weber made contact with the driver on West 25/70, as the driver was traveling 80 mph in a 40 mph zone. Weber initiated a traffic stop, at which point the driver accelerated to speeds in excess of 90 mph. Weber gave chase until the vehicle suffered mechanical damage and was forced to stop. The driver was identified as Blaine Williams, age 51. Williams stated he had fled from Dandridge Police “because he was scared,” according to Weber’s report. Williams was placed under arrest, and was unable to provide proof of insurance for the vehicle.
DUI/Child Endangerment: On March 27, police were dispatched to Brock’s Open Air Market in response to two individuals who were unconscious in their vehicle. Patrolman Brandon Cassady made contact first with the driver, Monica Busler, age 38. Busler “kept nodding back off and making incoherent responses” as Cassady tried to wake her, and Cassady took her into custody. In the back seat was a seven-year-old juvenile. Police spoke to the child, who stated that Busler was his mother and that she had pulled off the road after nearly hitting a light pole. Cassady reported that the juvenile was wearing a t-shirt and did not have a jacket in 30-degree weather. Cassady also spoke to the passenger, Bobby Burgin, age 39. Burgin “was also severely intoxicated and could barely stand or walk,” according to Burgess. Both adults were taken into custody, Burgin claimed ownership of a Sig Sauer P320 pistol that was found in the car, and officers found a hypodermic needle and an arm tie-off on Busler’s person at the Cocke County Jail Annex. The juvenile was taken to Newport Police Station where he was released into the care of his uncle.
Theft: On March 27, police received a call from Miguel Gutierrez regarding suspicious activity at his residence. Gutierrez was out of town for the call, but shared video footage of a silver Chevrolet Trailblazer circling his property several times. Gutierrez asked for police to send extra patrol to the area. When police arrived at the scene, the back door of the property had been pried open and several valuable items were missing from the home. Gutierrez provided video of the same SUV circling the property with a trailer less than an hour before police arrived. The suspects could not be identified from the video footage.
Assault: On March 27, police responded to a call from Newport Medical regarding an assault that had previously taken place. Police spoke to the victim, who stated that her brother Jarrod Wise, age 31, had come into their residence and became angry with her. The victim stated she had a Gabapentin prescription and Wise had tried to take it from her. The victim alleged that Wise had struck her in the face several times, stomped her in the back and stomach when she fell to the floor, and “shoved her head through a window in the back room of the residence.” Patrolman Justin Shelton reported that the victim had wounds to her arms, lip, and both hands that corresponded to the account. Police also observed the broken back window at the residence. When questioned by police, Wise stated that the victim had been snorting an unknown substance and he had tried to stop her when the altercation became physical. Wise was placed under arrest and transported to the Cocke County Jail Annex.
INFORMATION GATHERED FROM REPORTS COMPILED BY THE NEWPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT.
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This is the third-year anniversary of Nipsey Hussle’s death. Tina “Slauson Girl” Sampay examines the complexities and similarities between Nip and Black Panther Bunchy Carter.
The murder of Nipsey Hussle hauntingly mirrors the murder of not only Bunchy Carter, but the entire dismantling of Los Angeles Black Panther Party. His 2019 slaying also mirrors how the vision of community progress for Blacks in South Central was disrupted during the 1960’s.
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It has now been three years since Nipsey Hussle (born Ermias Asghedom) was gunned down in front of his flagship clothing store on the corner of Crenshaw and Slauson Ave. His father migrated to the U.S from Eritrea and his mother is a Black woman of Creole descent but Nipsey Hussle was a child of L.A’s inner city, also known as “South Central.”
While many in the South Central/ South Los Angeles community continue to build upon Nipsey Hussle’s foundation of community investment and staying rooted locally, his death continues to represent a serious loss and has left a huge void in the community.
The inner city communities of South Central, Watts and Compton in L.A County have become highly popularized thanks to gangster rap, mainstream media and Hollywood films. On a micro level, those forced to live within the confines of inner city L.A are dealing with the harsh realities of trying to survive, when they have been systemically and economically locked out
Jan. 17. 2022 also marked 53 years since Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter (October 12, 1942 – January 17, 1969) was gunned down on the campus of UCLA, along with fellow Black Panther John Huggins.
At only 26 years old, Bunchy Carter was a larger than life figure in South Central L.A, often referred to as “Mayor of the Ghetto” or “that N*** from the Slausons.”
Carter was leader of the “Renegade” set of the Slausons which, unlike street gangs of today, were formed by Black men to protect Black communities from the racial violence of white groups in L.A like the S#### Hunters.
Carter was also a member of the Fruit of Islam. He was paroled from prison in 1967 and would become a founding member of the Los Angeles Black Panther Party, where he served as Minister of Defense. He even recruited Tupac’s Godfather, Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, as a member when they were both enrolled at UCLA in 1968. One of Carter’s main focuses was organizing groups of men to observe the actions of the LAPD in South Central.
Early Nipsey Hussle songs could be considered “gangster rap” but you can trace his evolution as not only an artist, but a man seeking knowledge of self and someone who was eager to share that with those in the ghetto he grew up in.
The deaths of Huggins and Carter came after a disagreement with another Black nationalist group also at UCLA’s campus, the US organization. Much like the “street politics” that are rumored to have led to the death of Nipsey Hussle, both Huggins and Carter would lose their lives allegedly by another Black man.
Many will focus only on what is indeed a form of Black on Black crime, with less focus on the ways these Black men were knowingly, or unknowingly, pawns on the chessboard system of white supremacy. A system which seeks to undermine and destroy any real aspirations of Black liberation and self-determination.
Poverty and racism is a driving force of inner city violence. When our Black male leaders and brightest minds continue to be stolen from Black communities, it severely handicaps our ability to escape these barriers.
Eric Holder has yet to have a trial for Nipsey’s murder despite several court appearances throughout the years. Delays are expected in the administration of justice for Black lives deemed as threats or disposable to the system.
Like Nipsey Hussle, Bunchy Carter was charismatic and embodied leadership qualities that allowed them to easily appeal to Black men in South Central. Their words evoked action and reflected the depth of their understanding of the world around them.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The four blueblood programs that have descended upon the Superdome for the Final Four all have the ability to recruit on a national scale, their coaches able to hop aboard a jet on a moment’s notice to sit in a living room or take in a game.
Turns out some of their best players were in their own backyard.
All-American guard Ochai Agbaji grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, before heading about 20 minutes west on Interstate 70 to become a star for Kansas, which faces Villanova in the first national semifinal Saturday night. His running mate, Christian Braun, grew up in southeast Kansas but also played his high school ball in suburban Kansas City.
Two-time Big East player of the year Collin Gillespie, who has Wildcats coach Jay Wright eyeing a third national title, also played his high school ball about 20 minutes from campus at Archbishop Wood in suburban Philadelphia. Eric Dixon grew up in nearby Willow Grove and Chris Arcidiacono in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
“We’ve never put an emphasis on recruiting local kids. We’ve put emphasis just going out and getting the best kids,” Kansas coach Bill Self said, “and we’ve been able to recruit national for the most part.
“But it’s pretty special that within 45 minutes of your home you have arguably two of the very best wings in college basketball.”
There are hometown connections in the second semifinal between Duke and North Carolina, too, and those might produce a little extra motivation given that their rival campuses famously lie just 10 miles apart.
Justin McKoy, who played the entire overtime in the Tar Heels’ upset of No. 1 seed Baylor, grew up 30 minutes away in Raleigh. Duke captain Joey Baker only moved about 90 minutes north of his home in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
ONE-ON-ONE
Three years ago, Caleb Samuels had made the decision to transfer from Tulane and was taking a visit to Villanova, where Gillespie and another hometown player, Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree, were given the job of showing him around.
Some of the coaches asked if they would have a little shooting competition and, well, one thing led to another.
“We’re two competitive guys. It turned into one-on-one,” Gillespie recalled Thursday, “and he got up on me like, 13-0, and I was scared. I was nervous. I was like, who is this kid? Because I hadn’t heard of him before. And I obviously looked him up and watched his highlights — ‘All right, he can help us.’”
That might’ve been an understatement. Gillespie and Samuels are now two of the Wildcats’ top three scorers.
“I was up 13-0 the first game, and I remember him coming back, making every shot after that, after I missed, obviously, a layup or something,“ Samuels said. “He ended up winning that game. The series ended up being 3-1, Collin.”
TEAHAN TRADITION
The Final Four has become a Teahan family tradition.
First it was Connor. He played at Kansas from 2007-11 and went to the Final Four twice, winning a national championship with the Jayhawks in 2008.
Now it’s Chris’ turn. He was a freshman on the 2018 Final Four team and is back this year as a super senior.
“The Teahans have kind of become the first family of our program,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “They both put their handprint all over everything we do.”
CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
It’s not uncommon to see politicians making public bets on major sporting events with products highlighting their state’s industries. That’s not an option for North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper considering home-state teams UNC and Duke have brought their rivalry to New Orleans.
So Cooper on Thursday instead issued a proclamation that the state is “The Center of the College Basketball Universe.”
“The stakes are high on Saturday and fans across the nation will get a firsthand look at two programs that have for decades competed fiercely and divided the loyalty of family and friends, but made our state proud,“ Cooper said.
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/ncaa-mens-bracket and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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Although the last mission confronts us with the evil Isabella, the authors of the MMORPG already have plans for the rest of the year.
Back in September of last year, the fan community of the MMORPG she was fascinated with New World. Despite a fantastic debut in terms of the number of players, the title protected by Amazon lost the interest of its followers and received harsh criticism for some of the systems that make up the adventure. However, its developers refuse to abandon their experience and, therefore, today we can enjoy biggest update to date.
The patch also includes bug fixes, world updates, and more.We already knew of the existence of a patch that, in the spring, would bring us some very important news for the history of New World. In this sense, the developer had presented the Heart of the Tempest Expeditionthe last mission of its history that will take us to an illusory and supernatural dimension in which the evil Isabella. To access this battle, we will need a team of 5 players at level 60 or higher and a level of equipment between 550 and 570.
Beyond this, Amazon has not missed the opportunity to remember some of the extra content that is incorporated with this new patch, such as a new weapon, Trabuco, 3vs3 Arenas and other details to consider. Following this line, the patch notes also highlight corrections in dozens of bugsnews in your world, new secondary missions and unpublished characters.
And the news regarding New World will not end here, since Amazon has presented a roadmap with content that will be added in summer and autumn of this same year. On the other hand, Amazon has managed another success in the field of MMORPGs with Lost Ark, which has also regained the interest of its community with a recent patch.
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Woman suffers many broken bones after hit and run at Phoenix bus stop
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Phoenix police said two cars collided on Peoria Avenue and 32nd Lane on Wednesday, March 22, around noon when one of the vehicles jumped the sidewalk and hit a woman who was waiting at the bus stop. One of the drivers who police reported was driving a black four-door Mercedes left the scene before officers arrived.
“I’ve been sick to my stomach,” said Sheila Ozias whose sister, Sharla, was hit at that bus stop. “I couldn’t even believe it, I was shocked like it’s shocking that it happened and especially knowing how severe the injuries were.”
Sharla miraculously survived but has debilitating injuries. She has broken bones from her legs all the way down to her feet. “I’ve had a really hard time with this, especially the first couple of days,” said Sheila. So far, police haven’t arrested the one driver who sped from the scene. “How would you like that if someone did that to your sister and hit another car and then drove off and then left her?”
Sharla works for a Medicare benefits company and is a mother who also enjoys promoting local musicians. It could take a minimum of 6 months for her to walk again, but Sheila said she’s amazed about her resiliency. “I’m really amazed at her attitude and resolve in getting better.”
If you know anything about this case, contact Phoenix Police Department. There will also be a benefit car wash for Sharla at 4494 W Peoria Ave, Glendale, AZ, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Friends have also made an online fundraiser which can be found here.
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HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 31 (ACN) “It is always a good time to enjoy the literary adventure that a book gives us, so let’s read, learn and feel the pleasure of reading,” Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz wrote on Twitter today on the occasion of Cuban Book Day.
Cuban Book Day is celebrated every year on March 31in memory of the National Printing House established on that date in 1959 and whose first director was the writer Alejo Carpentier.
Various magazines were published there, as were the primers, brochures and manuals of the 1961 National Literacy Campaign.
At the suggestion of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, the first book published there was Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra’s El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha), a masterpiece of Spanish literature, which had a print run of 100,000 copies.
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The Glorious Aegeann sea. You're driving down your way for more than enough good restaurantes in order to eat with friends of food. With fresh fries the only think you're left are fish with some oyster-planted tomots from where the giver'ts, olifanti's come along...but all these can make some one go over time of visit and have no fun but for fish we don'T give good excist for This will allow an opportunity on how to handle emergency calls involving these incendiary weapons with its immediate destruction with less effect from damage done at such a high magnitude like that used to. I personally feel that fire safety procedures would be better managed where the fire service could take action that may limit its adoption, however. For some incriminates involving those fire fry chemical agents for safety would prove itself overly complicated, the amount in which there exist in our global culture to cause problems To become known as much. If I can find some books then fine but this should make them not only be known but read because only writing down an equation cannot attract anyone but the formula can become famous if it's taught across all class\nHonored the title says this a book from Theories can have all formulas, solutions equations ect if no problems that may get people knowing or attract me i'd try\nIn short write book on the concept if I cannot create then it There have now been quite quite enough “Iron Ladies Who Made History That Is Just as Riveting and Amazing!” movies to write my life (c)eos out: Hunt the witch hats (see Meryl Streept-Wind Chime Wannabe: An Even Darkerg Movie), make their man a manlier version of her own version but leave with them anyway because they get stuck inside (Grace Sponagle – Busts COVID pandemic’s end may bring turbulence for US health care
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) – When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for a cumbersome U.S. health care system made more generous, flexible and up-to-date technologically through a raft of temporary emergency measures.
Winding down those policies could begin as early as the summer. That could force an estimated 15 million Medicaid recipients to find new sources of coverage, require congressional action to preserve broad telehealth access for Medicare enrollees, and scramble special COVID-19 rules and payment policies for hospitals, doctors and insurers. There are also questions about how emergency use approvals for COVID-19 treatments will be handled.
The array of issues is tied to the coronavirus public health emergency first declared more than two years ago and periodically renewed since then. It’s set to end April 16 and the expectation is that the Biden administration will extend it through mid-July. Some would like a longer off-ramp.
Transitions don’t bode well for the complex U.S. health care system, with its mix of private and government insurance and its labyrinth of policies and procedures. Health care chaos, if it breaks out, could create midterm election headaches for Democrats and Republicans alike.
“The flexibilities granted through the public health emergency have helped people stay covered and get access to care, so moving forward the key question is how to build on what has been a success and not lose ground,” said Juliette Cubanski, a Medicare expert with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, who has been researching potential consequences of winding down the pandemic emergency.
MEDICAID CHURN
Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for low-income people, is covering about 79 million people, a record partly due to the pandemic.
But the nonpartisan Urban Institute think tank estimates that about 15 million people could lose Medicaid when the public health emergency ends, at a rate of at least 1 million per month.
Congress increased federal Medicaid payments to states because of COVID-19, but it also required states to keep people on the rolls during the health emergency. In normal times states routinely disenroll Medicaid recipients whose incomes rise beyond certain levels, or for other life changes affecting eligibility. That process will switch on again when the emergency ends, and some states are eager to move forward.
Virtually all of those losing Medicaid are expected to be eligible for some other source of coverage, either through employers, the Affordable Care Act or – for kids – the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
But that’s not going to happen automatically, said Matthew Buettgens, lead researcher on the Urban Institute study. Cost and lack of awareness about options could get in the way.
People dropped from Medicaid may not realize they can pick up taxpayer-subsidized ACA coverage. Medicaid is usually free, so people offered workplace insurance could find the premiums too high.
“This is an unprecedented situation,” said Buettgens. “The uncertainty is real.”
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, is advising states to take it slow and connect Medicaid recipients who are disenrolled with other potential coverage. The agency will keep an eye on states’ accuracy in making eligibility decisions. Biden officials want coverage shifts, not losses.
“We are focused making sure we hold on to the gains in coverage we have made under the Biden-Harris administration,” said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “We are at the strongest point in our history and we are going make sure that we hold on to the coverage gains.”
ACA coverage – or “Obamacare” – is an option for many who would lose Medicaid. But it will be less affordable if congressional Democrats fail to extend generous financial assistance called for in President Joe Biden’s social legislation. Democrats stalling the bill would face blame.
Republicans in mostly Southern states that have refused to expand Medicaid are also vulnerable. In those states, it can be very difficult for low-income adults to get coverage and more people could wind up uninsured.
State Medicaid officials don’t want to be the scapegoats. “Medicaid has done its job,” said Matt Salo, head of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. “We have looked out for physical, mental and behavioral health needs. As we come out of this emergency, we are supposed to right-size the program.”
TELEHEALTH STATIC
Millions of Americans discovered telehealth in 2020 when coronavirus shutdowns led to the suspension of routine medical consultations. In-person visits are again the norm, but telehealth has shown its usefulness and gained broader acceptance.
The end of the public health emergency would jeopardize telehealth access for millions enrolled in traditional Medicare. Restrictions predating COVID-19 limit telehealth mainly to rural residents, in part to mitigate against health care fraud. Congress has given itself 151 days after the end of the public health emergency to come up with new rules.
“If there are no changes to the law after that, most Medicare beneficiaries will lose access to coverage for telehealth,” the Kaiser Foundation’s Cubanski said.
A major exception applies to enrollees in private Medicare Advantage plans, which generally do cover telehealth. However, nearly 6 in 10 Medicare enrollees are in the traditional fee-for-service program.
TESTS, VACCINES, TREATMENTS, PAYMENTS & PROCEDURES
Widespread access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments rests on legal authority connected to the public health emergency.
One example is the Biden administration’s requirement for insurers to cover up to eight free at-home COVID-19 tests per month.
An area that’s particularly murky is what happens to tests, treatments and vaccines covered under emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.
Some experts say emergency use approvals last only through the duration of the public health emergency. Others say it’s not as simple as that, because a different federal emergency statute also applies to vaccines, tests and treatments. There’s no clear direction yet from health officials.
The FDA has granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for those 16 and older and Moderna’s for those 18 and older, so their continued use would not be affected.
But hospitals could take a financial hit. Currently they’re paid 20% more for the care of COVID-19 patients. That added payment is only for the duration of the emergency.
And Medicare enrollees would have more hoops to jump through to be approved for rehab in a nursing home. A suspended Medicare rule requiring a prior three-day hospital stay would come back into effect.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra recently told The Associated Press that his department is committed to giving “ample notice” when it ends the public health emergency.
“We want to make sure we’re not putting in a detrimental position Americans who still need our help,” Becerra said. “The one that people are really worried about is Medicaid.”
(Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.)
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Blinken: ‘Active discussion’ ongoing on banning import of Russian oil
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said the U.S. is engaging in an “active discussion” regarding whether to ban Russian oil imports.
Blinken, when asked about potentially banning imports of Russian oil, said he has spoken with President Biden and his Cabinet on the prospective move and that discussions are underway with European partners and allies.
“When it comes to oil, Russian oil, I was on the phone yesterday with president and other members of the Cabinet on exactly the subject. And we are now talking to our European partners and allies to look in a coordinated way at the prospect of banning the import of Russian oil while making sure that there is still an appropriate supply of oil on world markets,” Blinken told co-anchor Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“That’s a very active discussion as we speak,” he added.
Blinken’s comments come after White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday said Biden was considering steps to reduce U.S. imports of Russian oil. She emphasized, however, that the administration is “focused on minimizing the impact to families.”
One day earlier, however, Psaki knocked down the prospect of banning Russian oil imports, telling reporters, “We don’t have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy, and that would raise prices at the gas pump for the American people around the world because it would reduce the supply available.”
The push to ban Russian oil imports is ramping up on Capitol Hill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed the move on Thursday, telling reporters, “Ban the oil coming from Russia.”
“I’m all for that — ban it,” she added. She noted, however, that she does not want gas prices to rise.
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In 2011, a multicenter group spearheaded at the University of Virginia demonstrated reduced mortality from real-time continuous cardiorespiratory monitoring in the neonatal ICU using what we now call Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Machine Learning. The large, randomized heart rate characteristics trial made real, for the first time that we know of, the promise that early detection of illness would allow earlier and more effective intervention and improved patient outcomes. Currently, though, we hear as much of failures as we do of successes in the rapidly growing field of predictive analytics monitoring that has followed. This Perspective aims to describe the principles of how we developed heart rate characteristics monitoring for neonatal sepsis and then applied them throughout adult ICU and hospital medicine. It primarily reflects the work since the 1990s of the University of Virginia group: the theme is that sudden and catastrophic deteriorations can be preceded by subclinical but measurable physiological changes apparent in the continuous cardiorespiratory monitoring and electronic health record.
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By Greg Baum
Goalkicking godfather Peter Hudson sees no reason why a future Buddy Franklin can’t kick 100 goals in a season and 1000 goals in a career.
No one has kicked a century since Franklin for Hawthorn in 2008 and last week, when he became the fifth player to reach 1000 career goals, there was a consensus that it was a feat never to be repeated. Hudson asks ‘why not?’
“You’ve got a bloke playing at the moment who in one year kicked 100 goals and 70 or 80 behinds,” Hudson said. “He’s had 180 shots in a year, which to me says that when the next Buddy Franklin or Gary Ablett or Jason Dunstall comes along, who’s to say they can’t kick 150?”
“I’d give anything to see somebody (else) come along and kick 1000 goals in my lifetime. I don’t believe for one minute that nobody could ever do it again.”
Hudson thinks it’s cyclic. He notes that no one kicked a century between Essendon’s John Coleman in 1952 and himself in 1968. A free-scoring period followed almost until the end of the century. Since Tony Lockett in 1998, only Franklin has kicked 100.
“People say the game’s played differently today,” Hudson said. “But every so often a Ben Brown will bob up and kick a bagful. Buddy could kick 10 or 12 on a given day. The thing that makes me chuckle inwardly is that, while the game might have changed, the grounds are better than they used to be 40 or 50 years ago. Those sort of things count.”
Hudson disagrees that full-backs have more tricks now. “I don’t think so. I can remember driving home before mobile phones thinking there was a phone ringing.” he said. “I’d been hit in the back of the ear. You can’t hit blokes in the ear any more, and you can’t chop their arms.”
Statistically, the unorthodox Hudson was the best goalkicker of all, averaging 5.64 in 129 games for the Hawks. Coleman averaged 5.48 in his meagre 98 games for Essendon. Lockett, who leads the aggregate with 1360 goals, averaged 4.84.
Hudson is still an aficionado of goalkicking, but won’t rank the five 1000-plus men. “Lockett was technically almost perfect,” he said. “Jason Dunstall was the hardest worker. I loved watching Doug Wade play when I was at the other end of the ground. Gary Ablett was sensational. Everyone loved watching him.
“I was thrilled to bits when Buddy got his 1000. I like his presence on the field. He looks the part, and when he does something brilliant, it’s super brilliant. He’s got the score on the board. It’s hard to fault him, really.”
Hudson, 76, is an undying footy fan. “I love it. I often say I’d watch it eight nights a week if it was on television. The skills are so good,” he said.
“The only thing I didn’t like about the game was when they kicked backwards. We went through that period of a year or two when they kicked backwards. But they fixed that. You don’t see it so much any more.
“I always thought they should have paid a free kick if you got the ball and kicked it backwards at all.”
Remarkably, no-one had written a biography of Hudson until this week, when Dan Eddy’s A Football Genius was launched.
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Gadkari’s signals
1 min read . Updated: 31 Mar 2022, 11:39 PM ISTWe can’t expect a mass switchover to EVs until they match fossil-fuel guzzlers on an economy-of-adoption comparison. It would be wonderful if this were to happen soon, just as we need electricity generation to become mostly exhaust-free before EV users can earnestly be celebrated as climate-action heroes
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VISTA — Parents of Beaumont Elementary School students showed up for Vista Unified School District’s first workshop in its bond reprioritization process to express frustration with the school district’s decision to suspend a first-phase project at the school.
In a special VUSD board meeting last week, district officials began breaking down the needs and priorities of its Measure LL Facilities Bond.
“Recently, like every school district, we have experienced dramatic cost associated with building,” Superintendent Matt Doyle said. “As a result of that, we need to revisit the list of projects and have conversations with the board about what we can fiscally accomplish given the fact that there is significant cost escalation.”
Prior to the Wednesday, March 23, meeting, the board had already begun reconsidering its project list. One such move impacted the $17.2 million project to replace the portable classrooms at Beaumont Elementary School.
Although knowing there would be backlash from the community, the board voted in February to pause the project citing multiple complexities with the site’s facilities and scope of the project.
This decision, followed by other bond project amendments, helped lead the board to reconsider its facilities bond entirely.
During the first of three hearings, four parents of students at Beaumont Elementary spoke out against the pause and called on the board to show up for their children.
“I don’t even know why we are saying pause,” said parent Adriana Diaz. “It’s not okay that we’re telling our children that that is the kind of school you go to because of your socioeconomic status. We’re not telling them. They know it, they see it.”
Beaumont Elementary School, built in 1959, has an enrollment of 514 with 87% categorized as “socioeconomically disadvantaged,” according to the state Department of Education’s California School Dashboard.
The parents argued that stopping work at Beaumont during the first phase goes directly against the VUSD board’s goal to provide equitable access to education and innovation.
“We are a school of underprivileged and overlooked children,” said Amanda Remmen, a member of the PTA with four children who have attended the school at one point. “Beaumont is their safe space and yet our facilities are not a safe space.”
Measure LL, passed in 2018, authorizes the district to issue and sell $247 million in general obligation bonds at a rate of about $33.15 per $100,000 of assessed property value. The bond is a series of construction and facilities maintenance projects with a long-term scope into 2035.
The district has had successes over the first couple of years of the bond — completing projects at 12 schools — despite a few bumps. Doyle said, for example, that renovations to Bobier Elementary School at one point were paused and have since restarted. Bobier Elementary was built in 1956 and has an enrollment of 570, with more than 96% labeled “socioeconomically disadvantaged.”
However, there are several reasons to reassess bond projects. Funds are tightening up, even though the most recent projects were generally completed at or under budget.
The district is finding the cost of construction and supplies have increased between 20% and 30% in some cases, Doyle said.
Also, the initial bond valuation was based on a collection of wants and needs reported by employees of the schools.
“Those original estimates were done by folks that were not architects or contractors,” said Doyle, who was not superintendent at the time. “So, they were true estimates.”
Now, the board is taking a step back to “be thoughtful” about the challenges facing the district.
“We care deeply about Beaumont,” Doyle said. “We are absolutely committed to Beaumont and all of our schools, but sometimes we have to make adjustments.”
Doyle added that on April 4 a team of architects is scheduled to visit the elementary school to gather additional information.
Directly after public comment, the board went to work reassessing the project list. With 53 flashcards — representing the listed items — the board was faced with the categories it created for itself in the beginning stages of the bond.
The flashcards described the project but left off the name of the school that would receive the work, a way to hone in on which categories of projects the board found most important.
The goal of the bond is “to repair, upgrade, equip classrooms, science labs, local school facilities supporting college readiness, career preparation, math, science, engineering, technology, skilled trades; repair aging classrooms/schools including deteriorating roofs, plumbing, and electrical; improve student safety/school security,” as stated in the bond language.
The school board has flexibility in naming, removing and altering projects, so long as the changes stay within “the spirit of the bond,” according to Doyle.
“I am hearing things tonight from speakers that … I didn’t hear about then, and they probably didn’t exist that many years ago,” said board member Rosemary Smithfield, “but things get worse and worse and worse and now it’s a problem.”
Smithfield questioned whether the project list reflected the true needs of the district, which is something the board intends to investigate as it moves forward in the reprioritization process.
In its three-hour meeting last week, members found that projects were mainly related to three of the six categories listed in the facilities bond improvement plan: Categories C, D and E.
Category C includes safety and security improvement projects; Category D, projects to modernize or improve building systems and infrastructure; and Category E, projects to meet academic and safety standards.
The next bond workshop is on April 21 at 5 p.m. and will focus on the bond’s financial status and funding sources, as well as members’ finalizing the prioritized needs and categories. The final workshop is May 11.
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Los Angeles County Assessor Jeff Prang has selected Ivan Masayon to fill the position of Administrative Deputy II for the Assessor’s Office, with oversight of the Department’s Administrative Services that includes human resources, recruitment, employee relations, budget, fiscal/accounting, purchasing, facilities management, reprographics, training and emergency management.
“I am pleased to announce Ivan as the newest member of my executive team,” Prang said. “This position has sweeping responsibilities that Ivan is more than prepared to undertake. He comes to the position with extensive experience in the budget process as well as the need for effective human resources. Also, Ivan’s understanding of the recruitment process is going to be a valuable asset at a time when it’s most needed. We are lucky to have him and we look forward to working alongside him as we move forward.”
Prior to joining the Assessor’s Office, Masayon was an Associate Director for the County Office of Emergency Management and managed the County’s hazard mitigation programs and disaster recovery efforts, spanning numerous presidential and governor declared disasters. He provided guidance to all county Departments, cities, special and school districts, non-profits, and local communities on federal/State disaster aid, assistance, grants and recovery programs. Prior to working for the county in 2014, Masayon spent nine years with the City of Los Angeles primarily as a Budget Analyst for the Bureau of Engineering and as a Workers’ Compensation Analyst for the Personnel Department. Ivan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics from the University of the Philippines Diliman, a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the California State University Northridge and an Executive Education on Leadership in Crises from Harvard Kennedy School.
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AP PHOTOS on Day 36: Russian tanks destroyed outside Kyiv The Associated Press
March 31, 2022
1of 21 Destroyed Russian armored vehicles sit on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less
2of 21 People hide in a basement of a church which is used as a bomb shelter, after fleeing from nearby villages, that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Petros Giannakouris/AP Show More Show Less 3of 21
4of 21 Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Show More Show Less
5of 21 Ukrainian soldiers pass on top of armored vehicles next to a destroyed Russian tank in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less 6of 21
7of 21 A machine gun of a Ukrainian soldier rests next to condiments for lunch in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less
8of 21 The arm of a dead Russian soldier is seen next to a tank on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less 9of 21
10of 21 People hide in a basement of a church which is used as a bomb shelter, after fleeing from nearby villages that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine,on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Petros Giannakouris/AP Show More Show Less
11of 21 Ukrainian soldiers assist an elderly woman who has hidden from the Russian shelling in a shelter for weeks without food and water, in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Show More Show Less 12of 21
13of 21 Oleksandr, 81, rides a bicycle next to a destroyed Russian tank in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less
14of 21 A Ukrainian serviceman takes a selfie standing on a destroyed Russian tank after Ukrainian forces overran a Russian position outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Vadim Ghirda/AP Show More Show Less 15of 21
16of 21 People take shelter inside a church after fleeing from nearby villages that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Petros Giannakouris/AP Show More Show Less
17of 21 Ukrainian soldiers carry bodies of civilians killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Show More Show Less 18of 21
19of 21 A damaged gas mask lies on the pavement at a Russian position which was overran by Ukrainian forces, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Vadim Ghirda/AP Show More Show Less
20of 21 Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces, 21-year-olds Svitlana, right, and Myroslava, pose for a photograph, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Both Svitlana, and Myroslava, who studied at the same university in Kyiv, decided to leave academia and serve their country by joining the TDF only one month ago. Nariman El-Mofty/AP Show More Show Less 21of 21
Destroyed Russian tanks line a road on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, where Ukrainian troops pose for selfies atop the shell of one vehicle after their forces overran a Russian position. An 81-year-old man bicycles alone past one burned-out tank on the muddy road.
Close to Kyiv, in Irpin, Ukrainian soldiers carry the bodies of civilians killed by Russian forces over a destroyed bridge. Other soldiers assist an elderly woman who has hidden from Russian shelling in a shelter for weeks without food and water.
In the town of Bashtanka, people who have fled nearby villages attacked by the Russian army shelter in a church among the pews and in the basement bomb shelter.
During a break for lunch, a Ukrainian soldier keeps a machine gun close at hand, next to pickles and condiments on the table.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-2-1
(eight, two, one)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-2-1
(eight, two, one)
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In the seven hours during which White House records show no phone calls to or from then-U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, among the calls that are conspicuously absent is one Trump made to then-U.S.Vice-President Mike Pence that morning from the Oval Office.
While the call is not specifically noted in the presidential diary or the presidential call log, its existence has been corroborated by multiple sources who were with Trump and Pence that day, including former aides who testified before the House select committee investigating the US Capitol attack.
And it's not the only call Trump is known to have made in that timeframe that is not reflected in the records.
The mystery of the seven-hour gap has fuelled furious speculation as to why calls are missing. That includes allegations that Trump was using "burner phones" (which he has denied) or that the logs were purposely suppressed.
The missing calls underscore something more endemic: the imperfect and antiquated system of tracking a president's communications.
The White House call log is generated by a switchboard system that dates back to the 1960s, according to the National Archives. The version installed in 1963 was already considered "somewhat outdated" just two decades later.
And it's certainly not one suited for the era of cell phones and text messages or to a President well known for his efforts to circumvent official channels of communications.
BYPASSING THE CALL LOG
There could be various reasons that explain the gap in the call log itself.
One possibility is that Trump was speaking to people from a cell phone. As CNN has previously reported, Trump had a habit of using his and other people's phones to make or receive calls.
Another explanation could be that Trump had aides place direct calls from the Oval Office, bypassing the switchboard.
A former White House staffer who served in the Obama Administration told CNN that if then-President Barrack Obama wanted to make a call to someone from the Oval Office, he would normally ask an aide seated nearby to dial the person. The aide would then call the number and hit transfer to connect the caller to the President.
That call would not go through the White House switchboard and therefore would not be recorded on the White House switchboard log, the former staffer said.
Another factor seems to be where Trump was when he made certain calls. All the calls noted from the Jan. 6 log indicate they were made from the White House residence, suggesting Trump relied on the switchboard to put those calls through. The missing calls appear to start when the diary notes Trump has moved from the residence to the Oval Office.
Trump used the switchboard more often when he was in the private residence, according to multiple sources. But when he was in the Oval Office, the former President would often direct aides sitting outside his office to get certain lawmakers or allies of his on the phone.
Two former Trump officials believe this, plus the chaotic nature of the West Wing on Jan. 6, is what led to the gaps in the call logs.
Calls also should have been documented in the Presidential Daily Diary, which is compiled by an Archives employee detailed to the White House. While it's supposed to include "impromptu moments such as staff member drop-ins and telephone calls," the diarist's account is only as good as the information he or she receives from the President's staff.
The former Obama staffer also acknowledged this process was more of an honor system and dependent on how meticulous aides serving in other administrations were or what instructions they were given.
No explanation has been given so far why calls known to have been made in the hours Trump was in the Oval Office are not documented in the presidential diary.
CHAOTIC RECORD-KEEPING
Multiple sources have described the record-keeping during the Trump administration as generally chaotic. Those sources, as well as witnesses who have testified as part of previous congressional investigations related to the former President's conduct described Trump as deeply suspicious of the White House switchboard and detailed various ways he sought to avoid having records of certain phone calls from being kept.
A Senate Intelligence report from 2020 includes witness testimony from former aides saying that Trump regularly used the cellphone of his body man, Keith Schiller, to place calls to Republican operative Roger Stone because he did not want his to advisers to know they were talking.
"Trump hated people knowing who he spoke to, including from the residence at night when they went through the switchboard," one former Trump official told CNN.
When John Kelly was Trump's chief of staff, he monitored the switchboard to see who Trump was talking to. Trump would often tell people to hang up and call him back on his cellphone if he didn't want it showing up on the switchboard call log.
When Mark Meadows took over as chief of staff, sources said he restricted the number of White House officials who had access to the call logs, limiting the group to only a small number of top aides.
FILLING IN THE GAPS
Despite the gap in the call logs, the House select committee is relying on witness testimony, additional documents and phone records obtained via subpoena to begin piecing together who Trump spoke to that day.
This is especially true for the missing call to Pence. That call is a key point in the House's argument that Trump was taking part in criminal activity, as he kept pressuring Pence to block Congress from certifying the election. Trump has not been charged with any crime.
Pence's former national security adviser, Keith Kellogg, described the call in his testimony before the committee earlier this year, telling investigators that he and other top aides were in the Oval Office with Trump when it took place. He said he could only hear what Trump said, and not Pence's responses.
Kellogg's recounting of the conversation was cited in the committee's letter in late January to Trump's daughter, Ivanka, requesting that she too appear before the panel and cooperate in the probe.
"As January 6th approached, President Trump attempted on multiple occasions to persuade Vice President Pence to participate in his plan. One of the President's discussions with the Vice President occurred by phone on the morning of January 6th," the letter stated.
"You were present in the Oval Office and observed at least one side of that telephone conversation. General Keith Kellogg was also present in the Oval Office during that call, and has testified about that discussion," it added.
CNN reported last month that Ivanka Trump was in discussions to voluntarily appear before the committee for an interview. Others who witnessed the call take place have already testified.
Committee members have said that witness testimony is not the only way they have been able to fill in some of the gaps in official records like the White House logs and daily diary.
"Whether it's a witness who is unwilling to cooperate with us or whether there are gaps in documentation that we have received, we will get that information some other way," Rep. Stephanie Murphy told CNN+'s Kasie Hunt on "The Source" on Wednesday. "Those conversations weren't one-way conversations. There was somebody on the other side of those conversations and we'll get the information that way."
"We're triangulating basically from a lot of different angles and we are getting a fulsome picture of what happened in the run up to and on the day of January 6th," Murphy added.
Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the select committee, told CNN on Wednesday the panel has not received any vice presidential phone log records from the National Archives.
But earlier this month, Thompson told CNN the committee had "started to receive" vice presidential records, without specifying which ones. The Archives has turned over a tranche of vice presidential records, as well as documents chronicling calls to the vice president that were White House records.
One call is noted in the presidential diary even though it is not in the call log that day.
A document obtained by the House is the President's private schedule, and it shows handwritten notes appearing to capture phone calls with Sen. Kelly Loeffler from 11:17-11:20 a.m., and with "VPOTUS" at 11:20 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2021.
The presidential daily diary handed over to the panel does show Trump placed "a phone call to an unidentified person" at 11:17 a.m. on the morning of Jan. 6 but does not make reference to the 11:20 a.m. call. Neither conversation is reflected in the White House call log.
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Browns make small jump in USA Today’s NFL power rankings
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The addition of Deshaun Watson and Amari Cooper could be a big boon for the Cleveland Browns offense. The team still has some big needs and a look at their 53-man roster creates some concerns as holes on the defensive line and depth at wide receiver, tight end and safety all could be problematic.
While the additions of Watson and Cooper will draw the headlines, Jakeem Grant, Chase Winovich and Taven Bryan should all be helpful pieces to the roster.
Releasing Jarvis Landry, Austin Hooper and J.C. Tretter, along with trading Case Keenum, saved the team cap space but also minimized the team’s depth. Landry could return.
Jadeveon Clowney, the team’s biggest free agent, remains unsigned. His desire to cash in could keep him from returning. That won’t stop the team from trying to keep him.
With the uncertainty surrounding punishment for Watson and the team’s remaining roster needs, slotting them among the league’s best is difficult. USA Today’s newest power rankings have the Browns moving up four spots to #13:
13. Browns (17): Dropping QB Deshaun Watson into this roster – from a football perspective – should make this a Super Bowl-caliber group. It remains to be seen how Watson’s off-field luggage and the suspension he’s likely facing alter matters – and the locker room – in a division with little margin for error.
Not surprisingly, the AFC holds a majority of the top ten (7 teams). Ten of the top 13 are AFC teams. With only seven teams making the playoffs, some good teams are going to be left out in the cold.
In the AFC North, Cincinnati holds the second ranking as the Super Bowl runner-up with Baltimore (12) also ahead of Cleveland.
Clarity on Watson’s punishment, more free agent moves and the upcoming NFL draft should provide even more clarity for the Browns 2022 season hopes.
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Buddy The Cat In Stable Condition After Attack, Might Soon Be Discharged To Foster Home
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Buddy the cat, who was attacked by dogs in a suspected case of intentional animal abuse, might be able to be discharged soon. Buddy was alert and exploring his cage, as he heals from surgery at the Pennsylvania SPCA.
Officers say a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old allowed their dogs to attack Buddy. Both suspects surrendered to police.
“Initially, we were very cautiously optimistic that he would make a recovery but now we can say that he is in stable condition and just doing so great. Who would have thought?” said Gillian Kocher with the PSPCA.
Cards and donations have been pouring in for Buddy, who had been living outside at the time of the attack.
He will be discharged to a foster home.
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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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Spirit of Springfield announces pancake breakfast honorary chair
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) -The Spirit of Springfield has announced its honorary chair for this year’s pancake breakfast. Chris Kelley, MGM Springfield President and CEO, will serve as the 2022 chair. Kelley was chosen in recognition of MGM Springfield’s commitment to the city. According to spirit of Springfield President Judy Matt and Mayor Domenic Sarno, Kelley has provided strong leadership and has continuously shown his support for the city, especially during the pandemic.
“When you look around this room, you’re reminded of a couple of things, and the first is that when great leaders and great partners come together that amazing things can happen. But when an entire community comes together that is when extraordinary things happen, and that is what this event is all about and so thank you so much for the honor, Judy, thank you to the spirit of Springfield, thank you to all of you as well,” he said.
Hampden DA Anthony Gulluni served as the 2021 honorary chair. This year’s annual pancake breakfast will be held on Saturday May 14th.
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Friday's weather forecast
09:00 April 01, 2022
SEOUL, April 1 (Yonhap) -- The following is the weather forecast for South Korea's 12 major cities at 9:00 a.m. Friday.
Temperature (C) Condition Possibility
High/Low of Rain (%)
Seoul 14/04 Sunny 0
Incheon 12/04 Sunny 0
Suwon 13/03 Sunny 0
Cheongju 15/05 Sunny 0
Daejeon 15/04 Sunny 0
Chuncheon 15/00 Sunny 0
Gangneung 11/03 Sunny 30
Jeonju 16/05 Sunny 0
Gwangju 17/06 Sunny 60
Jeju 14/09 Sunny 20
Daegu 15/05 Cloudy 20
Busan 13/07 Sunny 0
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The conservative media organization The Daily Wire announced plans to invest $100 million to create programming for children to counter "woke media companies."
The move follows Disney's opposition to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education act — which critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — which was signed into Florida law this week. The law restricts discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms. A group of over a dozen students, parents, educators and advocates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s Board of Education.
The Daily Wire said Wednesday it plans to roll out live-action and animated children's entertainment. It also will spend another $100 million on similar content for adults. The programming is scheduled to launch on The Daily Wire's subscription streaming service in spring 2023.
"Americans are tired of giving their money to woke media companies who hate them," Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing said in a statement. "They're tired of giving their money to woke media companies who want to indoctrinate their children with radical race and gender theory. They want to do more than just cancel them. They want alternatives."
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Aliyah Boston dominated women’s college basketball on both ends of the court this season.
The junior forward helped South Carolina go wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team in the country, putting up an SEC-record 27 consecutive double-doubles, andshe has helped put the Gamecocks two wins away from the program’s second national championship.
Boston was honored as The Associated Press women’s basketball player of the year on Thursday. She is the second player from South Carolina to be recognized with the award, joining former Gamecocks great A’ja Wilson.
“Not often do you get the complete package. I think this recognition is for what she was able to do on both sides of the ball,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “The player of the year is usually for offensive-minded people who think that when you put the ball in the hole, you should be bestowed the player of the year. She’s the full package. Every single day.”
Boston’s parents and aunt as well as the entire South Carolina team were in the audience of the ceremony that also honored AP Coach of the Year Kim Mulkey.
“Coming into this year I said in the back of my mind I wanted to change the narrative this year about women’s basketball,” Boston said. “To get this award means a lot and I can’t wait to do more in the future.”
Boston received 23 votes from the 30-member national media panel that votes weekly for the AP Top 25. Iowa’s Caitlin Clark received six votes and Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith got one.
Boston averaged 16.8 points, 12 rebounds and 2.6 blocks this year.
“I think Aliyah is so unselfish that she’s not very comfortable taking over basketball games,” Staley said. “She doesn’t want to be seen by her teammates as selfish and chasing numbers.”
Boston’s parents surprised the unanimous first-team AP All-American with the news on Zoomthat she had won the award.
“I’m in shock, I got the chills,” Boston said to her parents on the call.
Staley said that Boston is one of the hardest workers on the team.
“Young people will follow anyone, good or bad,” the coach said. “Aliyah has tbe personality where you’d follow her because of how hard she works, how unselfish she is, how giving she is. When it’s time to make plays she delivers. She’s a leader to follow for all the right reasons.”
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HONOLULU (AP) — A man accused with his wife of trafficking a mother and teenaged girl to Hawaii from Guam pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Kevin Robert pleaded not guilty to labor trafficking charges, according to his attorney, Tim Rakieten. His wife, Pomerrine Robert, pleaded not guilty last week. Kevin Robert's arraignment was postponed then because he requested a Chuukese interpreter.
“I need sufficient time to review the case, and review with him, before I can comment any further,” Rakieten said.
State Public Defender James Tabe, whose office represents Pomerrine Robert, has previously declined to comment.
Police alleged in court documents that when the 15-year-old girl and her mother arrived in Honolulu, the Roberts took away their passports, forced them to work and beat them.
Court documents don't specify the country of the passports.
The girl and her mother lived in the couple's apartment, while the teen enrolled at a high school and the woman got a job at a deli where Pomerrine Robert also worked, the documents said.
The documents said Robert took away the mother’s money, the girl was expected to clean the apartment and Robert beat the girl and mother.
The couple locked the girl in a bedroom for several days and she reported it to a school counselor after she was let out, according to the documents.
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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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SOUTH WEBSTER — What one fly ball can do to teams’ fortunes.
For the visiting Wheelersburg Pirates, a dropped fly ball by the South Webster Jeeps jarred the door open on Wednesday — with the Pirates scoring all three of their runs in the sixth inning, and ultimately blanking the Jeeps 3-0 in a Southern Ohio Conference Division II baseball bout.
With the win, the Pirates pushed their SOC II tally to 2-0 —part of 2-1 overall with Tuesday’s non-league loss to Greenup County.
Wheelersburg opened its campaign with a 13-3 six-inning mercy-rule runaway win of Waverly on Monday.
Conversely, it’s been a tough week with the loss for South Webster, which fell to 2-3 — including one-run road setbacks at West (6-5) on Monday and at Wellston (5-4) on Tuesday.
The Jeeps dropped to 0-2 in the SOC II —with West rallying from a 5-1 deficit with a walkoff being South Webster’s other league defeat.
South Webster’s wins were a pair of one-run (2-1 and 5-4) decisions against non-league and visiting Whiteoak on Saturday.
The Pirates and Jeeps stood scoreless through five full frames, but a two-out error in left field off the bat of Connor Estep allowed three Pirates points to push across —including Cole Estep, who led off the inning by reaching on an error.
Hunter Thomas, who was hit by a Robert Martin pitch, also scored — as did Landon Hutchinson, who drew a one-out walk.
Connor Estep then relieved Caden Conn for the final two innings —and retired the Jeeps 1-2-3 in both at-bats to gain the save.
Estep only needed 25 pitches, punching up three strikeouts along with three groundouts.
Conn worked the opening five for the Pirates and was the winning pitcher —thanks to Wheelersburg’s runs in the top of the sixth before Estep came on in relief.
He struck out five, retired the Jeeps 1-2-3 in the opening three innings, and then faced 11 more batters before finally giving way to Estep.
In the third, he walked Gavin Baker and Martin —sandwiched around a Jaren Lower single which helped load the South Webster bases.
However, Conn escaped the jam —inducing Cam Carpenter into a 6-4-3 inning-ending double play.
In the fifth, the Jeeps loaded the bases again —on an Isaiah Ruth single, followed by back-to-back two-out walks to Connor Bender and Baker.
But Conn, who fired 84 pitches, struck out Lower to end the inning.
Martin suffered the tough-luck pitching loss, facing 30 Pirates over the opening six frames— and tossing 106 total pitches.
He struck out nine, and none of his three runs allowed were earned —as he scattered singles to Isaac Bockway in the third, to Thomas and Conn in the fourth, and to Cooper McKenzie in the fifth.
McKenzie doubled and Bockway was hit by a pitch with two outs in the first, but Martin got a strikeout to end the threat.
Martin hit Thomas with a pitch in the second, and walked Bockway in the fifth, while Hutchinson had walks in the fourth and sixth.
Lower pitched the seventh for South Webster, and walked Bockway while striking out two.
Wheelersburg hosted Ironton on Thursday for a non-league affair, while South Webster will host Valley on Friday for an SOC II tilt.
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Looking at the music industry today, it is hard to believe that music is a calling since it has become heavily commercialized. However, Phillionaire remains true to his calling, echoing that music is a path that has called to him his whole life. His natural inclination to music has seen him break out into a star who has superhits like “iWanna” to his credit and whose music provides more than just a distraction for his listeners. Music is a calling, according to Phillionaire.
It requires time, commitment, sacrifice, and talent to make your mark in this highly competitive industry. Yet if you do have a natural inclination to music, you have a great head start. And once you feel that pull to this particular craft, it is hard to break out of its enigma. For Phillionaire, he had no desire to escape this creative grip. Upon realizing that music was the only path he would love to tread on, Phillionaire was determined to do whatever was necessary to make this a reality. It was a calling, and there was no other way to describe it. This innate passion became even more intense, an effective motivator for the young artist.
Even with this passion and motivation, Phillionaire admits the road to success was a difficult one. He had to put forth a lot of self-discipline to focus on the mindset of “work before play” and always remembered why he chose music as a career. Phillionaire shares when he weighed out other career options, the thought of being unhappy for a lifetime always got him back on track.“I couldn’t see myself doing anything else,” Phillionaire reflects.
“It was music or nothing; that’s how strong the calling was.” This natural propensity generated a drive that could not have come from any other source, and Phillionaire is very grateful for it. He realizes the inclination was critical in preparing for this demanding career and is determined to continue focusing on it for future success. There is an adage that your destiny is what you make of it. Phillionaire didn’t just have the talent for a successful music career; he was born with an inclination for this craft that provided the other essential elements. A calling guided the hard work and sacrifices as Phillionaire used his penchant for music to make the right turns on an impressive career path.
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TOKYO (AP) — Starting out with funny videos and chat over Mario Kart racing games, two Ukrainian brothers have added a somber tone to their YouTube channel popular with young Japanese with updates from their country that bring the harsh realities of war closer to Japan.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began just after the duo, Sava Tkachov, 26, and his younger brother Yan, 20, celebrated the second anniversary of their YouTube debut with subscribers exceeding 2 million for their Sawayan Channel and Sawayan Gamesthat Sava hosts.
The first word of war came from their father, a business consultant who had returned to Kyiv two months ago just before Russian troops rolled in and has stayed since to help defend his country. The siblings’ YouTube content, which used to be full of pranks, jokes and action videos, has become more serious.
Worried about their 53-year-old father and friends in Ukraine, the brothers in early March announced on their channel that they planned to volunteer as defenders too. It triggered a wave of reactions, some supporting and others criticizing them.
The father objected and the Tkachovs, who have no military training, abandoned the idea, especially when Sava said he received long and serious messages from some of his teenage fans showing their willingness to follow the brothers to Ukraine.
“By sending out messages through our channel, I made kids want to go to war and I cannot say if it was good or bad,” Sava said at a news conference Thursday. “But at least it was meaningful that they became interested in the issue. Fighting the war on the front-line is not the only way.”
Sava, who uses the handle “No War,” instead turned his gaming channel into a driver for donations and charity game events. He collected some 3.6 million yen ($29,500) in three hours, and donated entirely to the Ukrainian Embassy.
The siblings said they also started receiving messages from parents saying their children started thinking about peace and others thanking them for raising important social issues.
“I believe the merit of YouTube is I can convey the real information from the ground that my father is sharing with us about the situation that is very up to date, and I can stream that online almost immediately, so in that sense it could be much faster and accurate than news provided by traditional news media,” Sava said.
He said that his father would send videos of bombardment and bodies “as in war movies,” but he couldn’t use them because they were too graphic. In a recent appearance on a YouTube talk show hosted by popular former vaccine minister Taro Kono, Sava said the brothers were in regular communication with their father from an undisclosed location.
Japan was quick to join other industrialized nations in imposing sanctions against Russia and providing support for Ukraine.
Tokyo has also sent bulletproof vests, helmets, tents, medical supplies and other nonlethal defense equipment to Ukraine as an exception to Japan’s ban on military equipment transfer to countries in conflict.
Japan has taken tougher measures against Russia, worried about the impact of Moscow’s war on East Asia where Tokyo has faced threats from North Korea and China. In response to sanctions, Russia suspended peace treaty talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands, which Moscow has held since 1945.
Sava Tkachov, who arrived with his family in Japan when he was 4 and studied at a top Japanese university, thanked his adopted country for its support but says Tokyo should stick to its pacifist role.
“Japan is the world’s top-class peaceful nation … and what the country is doing right now is very appropriate,” he said. “As to the question of whether Japan should send weapons, I do not think it’s the kind of role Japan should be playing.”
Instead, he said, Japan can better contribute by continuing to appeal for peace and take a leadership role within Asia.
He also said Japan can provide home to many war-displaced Ukrainians. Some may face challenges of language or unfamiliar food, “but I’m sure they can overcome the difficulties with the empathy of the Japanese people and the spirits of the Ukrainians.”
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert said investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men’s college basketball programs — including 2022 Final Four participant Kansas — have taken “way too long.”
What solutions might be on the table to speed it up, Emmert did not say, but there appears to be increasing acknowledgement that the current process is broken.
“It’s just been really slow in getting through that new independent process that’s wound up reinvestigating the entire case,” Emmert said, referring to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
The IARP was created out of proposals from the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform the sport. It began looking into allegations against Kansas, Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State on the heels of a federal investigation into corruption in college sports that resulted in convictions of shoe company executives, a middle man who worked with them and some assistant college coaches.
Of those FBI cases nearly five years ago, only one -- North Carolina State, tied to its recruitment of one-and-done star Dennis Smith Jr. -- has actually gone through the IARP system to completion and received a ruling that resulted in probation for one year, some vacated victories and penalties for previous coaches.
The four other cases are still pending in the IARP structure, while Auburn went through the more traditional process and received four years of probation in December from an NCAA infractions committee panel.
In the meantime, this year’s NCAA Tournament could be tainted should Kansas win the national championship and subsequently have an unfavorable decision come down in a now half-decade-old investigation.
Created to handle complex cases, the IARP includes independent investigators and decision-makers with no direct ties to NCAA member schools, and rulings cannot be appealed.
Emmert said NCAA institutions need to come up with a process that has “got to be fair. It’s got to be swift. And it’s got to not punish the innocent. ... That’s where the membership’s got to be in all of this, as they shape a new process or rebuild the one that’s in place.”
The Kansas case hinges on whether Adidas representatives were considered boosters — the school contends they were not — when two of them arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas does not dispute the payments. Kansas asked for referral to the IARP instead of having the NCAA’s infractions committee handle the matter.
While the lengthy IARP process has been going on, Self agreed to a new contract on April 2, 2021, that will keep him with the school until he retires.
The five-year deal adds one additional year after the conclusion of each season — in effect, making it a lifetime contract. It guarantees him $5.41 million per year with a base salary of $225,000, professional services contract of $2.75 million and an annual $2.435 million retention bonus.
The contact also includes a clause that says the school cannot terminate him for cause “due to any current infractions matter that involves conduct that occurred on or prior to” the signing of the new contract. Instead, he would forfeit half of his base salary and professional services pay while serving any Big 12 or NCAA suspension.
Emmert declined to weigh on on Kansas’ decision to double down on Self.
“I’ll leave it to the school to make decisions about their coaches’ contracts,” said Emmert, who also spoke at the women's Final Four on Wednesday. “That’s their business, obviously. They can do that as they see fit.”
The infractions process has also come up with the Division I Transformation Committee, which is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies.
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, who chairs the committee along with Ohio athletics director Julie Cromer, said the group is looking at both the overall infractions process and the IARP structure as part of its work.
“I don’t know fully what was envisioned and what wasn’t envisioned,” said Sankey, who has served on the NCAA infractions committee. “But we have to have timely outcomes, both for those accused and for those competing against those who are accused. That has to be a point of emphasis.”
Later, Sankey added: “I was on an implementation working group, and I disagreed with elements of the approach. So I think some of these problems were foreseeable. We have an opportunity to correct and enhance the process. That doesn’t mean everybody will like the process.”
Among other topics Emmert addressed:
NATIONAL NIL RULES
Emmert offered an urgent plea to Congress to craft what he said was needed, uniform national legislation governing financial endorsements for athletes know known as name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
“This tournament’s put on full display the beauty of college sport,” Emmert said. “People love it and enjoy it, and we’ve got to work with the schools and with Congress to make sure we can continue that.
“We’ve got again a relatively short window of time — in my estimate, one and two years,” Emmert continued. “These decisions have to be made because of the dynamics that are underway right now that are far beyond the control of schools, coaches, (athletic directors) or presidents.”
Currently, more than 30 states have been working on their own NIL laws.
TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION
With a number of states considering or passing legislation restricting participation of transgender athletes, Emmert was asked whether the NCAA would bar those states from hosting championship events.
The NCAA has largely followed the Olympic model that allows transgender athletes to compete if they’ve had certain biomedical treatments, including hormone therapies, meant to promote fairness.
Emmert said the NCAA currently requires communities which wish to host events “to explain how it is that they’re going to make sure that the participants in that sport will be allowed to do that in a nondiscriminatory way. ... If they can do that, then we’ll be in those states.“
TRANFER RULES
Emmert said the current transfer rules continue to draw a lot of scrutiny and complaints from coaches and could be adjusted over time.
“The only thing that I can say right now is that it’s clear that students are getting more opportunities to play. They’re getting more freedom of movement in some respects,” Emmert said.
But he added that officials are keeping an eye on how the rules affect “students being able to finish their degrees in a timely fashion and go on and lead productive lives, because we know how few of them will be professional basketball players. It’s a constant point of discussion. I don’t anticipate it going away too soon.”
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AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dave Skretta and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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HBO has showed the checklist of premieres of HBO Max in April 2022, with all of the films and sequence that we will see at the provider over the following couple of weeks. Remarkable premieres such because the sequence Tokyo Vicecreated by way of the screenwriter from Oslo, or the horror comedy Town is our.
Benefiting from the premiere of the following movie in theaters, HBO Max may even premiere the documentary Implausible Beasts: A Herbal Historical pastwhich delves into the animal international of the franchise to find inspirations and curiosities.
On the cinema, Guiding principlethe most recent movie from Christopther Nolan, can be to be had on HBO Max, as will prison saintsthe movie that serves as a prequel to the sequence The Sopranos. The Approach Againthe drama starring Ben Affleck, may even arrive this month, in conjunction with the next information.
Curiously, on this new corporate commentary, the premiere of The Batman on HBO Max has now not been incorporated within the checklist, with a premiere scheduled for subsequent April 17. Now we have contacted the corporate to verify the date.
All HBO Max premieres in April 2022
- Wellington Paranormal, Season 4 – April 1st
- Thawingnew sequence – April 1
- the informernew sequence – April 1
- checkingnew program – April 1
- One true singernew program – April 1
- Malory Towersnew sequence – April 1
- Implausible Beasts: A Herbal Historical past – April 2
- Tokyo Vicenew sequence – April 8
- the pitchnew sequence – April 12
- RiverdaleSeason 4 – April 15
- The Flight AttendantSeason 2 – April 22
- The childnew sequence, April 25
- Barry, Season 3 – April twenty fifth
- Mayans M.C., Temporada 4 – April twenty fifth
- Gentleman Jack, Temporada 2 – April twenty fifth
- Town is our – April 26
- Made for romance, Temporada 2 – April 29
- Evens and Odds, Season 2 – April 29
- prison saints – fifth of April
- The best way again – April 11
- Guiding principle – April twenty third
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How Can Art-Inflective Experienties Shape Citize? (Work with Winn Schwetz)\nThis project works directly toward engagement across institutionally organized divisions: from university campus/administration through out into city culture. Project development: Work on 2 art commisions and the coartivatory art+practicum: [“How Could it Not (Stinka)!” (with Troy Dexter) a sound sculptural park, part II I believe they say...it looks like somebody had good birth day\nPosted Oct/Murtha/4/20? (yes...I had good birth day...I can spell) it came about on Ephipanos....this time around a young guynie has joined with the great Dwah (their BM and the birth stone of Aqua - yes! 0 yes 0 Aquaman - now I get the lore I had grown and seen I’m delighted because the project was fund the year round with generous donators who are supporting children across India (251. in schools already and this website explains and displays projects undertaken over twenty yeats!). Here, from their first, young students and in a more formal presentation in Pashnauanad on 03 Oct when we took the photos.\nPlease enjoy these, all three young adult males: Abid Nabil Qaiyom of \\section * \\uppercase { Abstract}\\\\%~In modern economy development troup which needs innovativness in many sides should solve two-sized tasks for innovators and small/averege sized companies first is innovative and second as to find them.\\\\~~A very interesting solution has found with the \"technopopulara\\\\%\"\\\\ program for innovator\\\\% s that are not to be under commercial interests to the companies.\\\\%% For example by the company This chapter out lines all details from TOPGUN FLIED and from TARGA 82 which would involve, and help shape my story at the 57th, of those air forces falsified, events which would play some big influence over any FLTG’s pilot in combat , during those times… In this I must ask , the unknowings, just to know: I flew airborneo of my airforce , from May – October and March 30 damage reports across West Alabama
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From Bibb County EMA Director Kirk Smith
- Injury reported after an entrapment on Booth Lane in the Brierfield area
- Antioch Road and Davis Hollow Road have trees blocking the road
Fayette County
- No reports of injuries or damage
From Hale County EMA Director Russell Weeden
- Damage reported at the Faunsdale Bar and Grill
- Damage reported at the Faunsdale Co-Op
- 69 South Flea Market in Moundville has substantial damage
- Rockwood neighborhood in Moundville has structural damage
- Trees are blocking County Road 26 on the south end of Hale County
- No injuries reported in Hale County
Greene County
- No reports of injuries or damage
Marengo County
- Damage reported at the Faunsdale Bar and Grill
- Damage reported at the Faunsdale Co-Op
From Pickens County Sheriff Todd Hall
- Trees blocking roads in Benevola, south of Gordo
From Tuscaloosa County EMA Director Nick Lolley
- More than 40 trees down across the county
- Trees and power lines down at:
- Highway 140 at Holman Church Road
- Shades Creek Drive off Holt Lock and Dam road
- Damage reports with multiple trees down:
- Tabernacle Road
- Deerlick Road
- Old Fayette Road
- Ebenezer Church Road
- Holcomb Road off Northside Road
- Debris in the road down Highway 69 South near the former Big John’s Barbecue
- Chicken houses damaged on Boyd Road in Tuscaloosa County
Sumter County
- No injuries reported
- Signage at Rush Hospital in Livingston reported damaged
Walker County
- No reports of injuries or damage
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‘There’s a level of anxiety’: Ricciardo learns to cope with pressures of home grand prix
By Matthew Clayton
Daniel Ricciardo has read the news, scoured social media and heard enough anecdotes from friends to realise this year’s Australian Grand Prix could be the biggest of his Formula One career, but he believes the 2014 event in Melbourne will always stand as his defining home race.
With Albert Park ticket sales at record levels after a dramatic 2021 season, the “Netflix effect” on the sport’s fan base thanks to its Drive to Survive series opening up F1 to a new audience and a three-year gap between grands prix in Melbourne, Ricciardo is itching to take to the grid at a home race for McLaren for the first time, with Melbourne’s 2019 race doubling as his debut for Renault.
The 32-year-old feels the 2014 Melbourne race, where he qualified on the front row of the grid for the first time and finished a superb second before his Red Bull Racing machine was disqualified for breaching a fuel-flow regulation, was the first moment he was considered one of the sport’s premier drivers.
“From what everyone tells me, it feels like this year is going to be big – but for me, 2014 was always the race that felt biggest because I’d just joined Red Bull,” Ricciardo says.
“It was the first race of the season for me and I had a reigning four-time world champion (Sebastian Vettel) as my teammate. They were big stakes because people wanted to know ‘does this guy really have it?’ I wanted to show the team that it wasn’t too much for me, that I could really do this.
“But in terms of the build-up, because Australia hasn’t had a race in so long, they’ve re-done the track and it sounds like the crowd will be huge – 2022 has potential to be something pretty special.”
Ricciardo is well aware of the hoodoo that hangs over home drivers at Albert Park; since Melbourne came on to the grand prix calendar 26 years ago, no local driver has finished on the podium. While McLaren’s early-season struggles in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia before arriving in Melbourne don’t point to that drought ending, he’s learned to cope better with being the centre of attention.
“It’s extremes with Australia because everything is magnified,” he says. “When it’s great, it’s awesome … when it’s bad, it’s way more miserable. In 2019, my race was more or less over after five seconds (after he ran off track and broke his Renault’s front wing) and it wasn’t the most fun day I’ve had.”
Ricciardo admits the pressure of being the sole Australian on the grid for six of his eight grands prix at home has, at times, been difficult to deal with. “It can get to a point where there’s a level of anxiety because of the sheer scale of the attention,” he says.
“It’s quite foreign to get that level of attention, and it can easily get in your head a little bit. I’ve not always done the best job with that, and sometimes it’s best to roll with the punches so you don’t create tension that stops you performing at your best.
“Do you give too much of yourself to things that are outside of driving, or do you shelter yourself away and almost focus too hard on driving and try to shut down everything else? You can lose energy trying to push back and stay under the radar, which you can’t anyway because it’s your home GP.
“Neither is a natural way to go racing, so there’s a compromise you have to accept, and just do the best you can with what you have.”
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HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 31 (ACN) Mambisa is one of Cuba’s two COVID-19 vaccine candidates—the other is Soberana 01—after the Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED) approved the emergency use of Abdala, Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus.
Mambisa can be administered through the nasal cavity and is one of the 11 vaccines of its kind in the world that reached the clinical trial stage. It is also the only one obtained by genetic engineering, which makes it a safe candidate, according to Doctor in Biological Sciences Gerardo Guillén Nieto, director of Biomedical Research of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB).
“In order to request authorization for its emergency use as a booster, Mambisa is under evaluation together with the vaccine Abdala in two clinical trials, one involving COVID-19 convalescents and the other with healthy individuals who received all three doses of Abdala,” he said. “We expect to have the laboratory results in a few weeks to present the final evidences at the International Congress BioHabana 2022, scheduled for April 25-29.
This clinical trial, called Baconao, includes 2,220 volunteers who received the first three doses of Abdala and were boosted five months later with this vaccine and Mambisa, which has been already administered as an intranasal vaccine to more than eight million Cubans.
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Enter now for a chance to win $5,000 in the Arizona’s Family 110º day contest
Sponsored by Parker & Sons
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - It’s that time of year again for the Arizona’s Family annual 110º day contest. This year, the temperature has changed from previous years of 103º to 110º.
The winning entry must include the exact time, down to the minute, that Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport reaches 110º. You may enter once a day until the contest ends.
The winner of the contest will receive $5,000 from Parker & Sons.
Helpful Tips
- To be eligible, entries must be received 7 days prior to the exact day and time Sky Harbor reaches 110º. For example, if Sky Harbor reached 110º on Monday, August 8, 2022, at 3:45 p.m., then the entry must be submitted by August 1, 2022, at 3:45 p.m.
- The earlier you pick the winning day and time, the greater your chances are of winning. That’s because the rules state: The entry received closest to the contest start date 12:01 a.m. M.S.T. on Monday, March 28, 2022) which contains the correct date, hour, and minute that the National Weather Service recorded the First 110° temperature at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, AZ, will be the winner.
- It’s always a good idea to read through the rules. It could help you develop an effective strategy. (Rules can be found below).
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Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING.
1. PROMOTION DATES
The Arizona’s Family/Parker & Sons First 110 Degree Day Sweepstakes begins at 12:01 a.m. Mountain Standard Time (“M.S.T.”) on Monday, March 28, 2022, and ends Sunday, July 31, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. M.S.T. OR when the first 110° (F) temperature of 2022 is recorded by the National Weather Service at Sky Harbor Airport (“the First 110° Day”), whichever occurs first. Entries must be received at least one hundred sixty-eight (168) hours (which equates to seven (7) days) prior to the date, hour and minute of the First 110° Day to be eligible. Entries become the property of Sponsors and will not be acknowledged or returned. Station’s clock will be the official clock for the sweepstakes.
2. ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS
The Promotion is open to all legal residents of Arizona who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry and who live in the Arizona’s Family viewing areas in Apache South, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pinal and Yavapai counties. Employees of KPHO-TV and KTVK-TV (the “Stations”), its parent, subsidiary, and affiliated entities, its advertising agencies, participating sponsors/promotional partners, other broadcasting stations in the Phoenix, Arizona DMA, and the members of their immediate families (spouse, parents, siblings or children) or households (whether related or not) are ineligible to participate or win. This Promotion is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void outside the United States, in NY and FL, as applicable, and where prohibited.
One (1) entry per person with a valid email address per day during promotion period. No group entries. Any attempt to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations, logins, or any other methods may result in disqualification by Sponsors, in their sole discretion. Winners of a prize from Arizona’s Family within the past thirty (30) days from the beginning date of this sweepstakes are not eligible.
Winner is responsible for confirming eligibility and completing required Affidavit and Release, W-9, having a valid Arizona Driver’s License and Social Security Card. Entrants are required to provide truthful information and the Station will reject and delete any entry that it discovers to be false or fraudulent. The Station will disqualify any entry from any individual who does not meet the eligibility requirements and will also delete any entry as required by law.
3. ENTRY
To participate in the Promotion, you may enter via the following method:
Go to http://www.azfamily.com/110 follow the instructions to enter and submit your first name and last name, complete address, city, state, zip code, telephone number, date of birth, and a valid email address in the online entry form. Enter the date, hour and minute you think the first 110o F temperature of 2022 will be recorded by the National Weather Service at Sky Harbor Airport to receive one (1) entry. Internet entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. The authorized account holder is the natural person who is assigned to the email address by an internet access provider, online service provider or other organization that is responsible for assigning the email address or the domain associated with the submitted email address. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. Entries submitted will not be acknowledged or returned. Use of any device to automate entry is prohibited. Proof of submission of an entry shall not be deemed proof of receipt by Station. The contest/sweepstakes administrator’s computer is the official time-keeping device for the Promotion. Only one internet entry per person and per email address per day is permitted. For purpose of this Promotion, a “Day” shall begin at 12:00:00 a.m. M.S.T. and shall end at 11:59:59 p.m. M.S.T.
4. PRIZES AND ODDS OF WINNING
One (1) winner will receive a $5,000.00 check provided by Parker & Sons.
Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. There is no substitution, transfer, or cash equivalent for prizes, except that the Station may, at its sole discretion and to the extent permitted by law, substitute prizes of comparable value or cash. The prizes are expressly limited to the item(s) listed above and do not include taxes, gratuities or any other expenses. Any tickets awarded as part of a prize will be subject to the terms and conditions set forth by the issuer and are valid only on the date(s) printed on the tickets. Other restrictions may apply.
5. WINNER SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION
Decisions of Station management with respect to the Promotion are final.
Approximately two (2) business days after the First 110° Day, at approximately 10:00 a.m. M.S.T., the winning entry will be determined under Sponsors’ supervision from all eligible entries received at least one hundred sixty-eight (168) hours (seven (7) days) prior to the First 110° Day. The entry received closest to the contest start date 12:01 a.m. M.S.T. on Monday, March 28, 2022) which contains the correct date, hour, and minute that the National Weather Service recorded the First 110° temperature at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, AZ, will be the winner. If no eligible entries contain the exact date, hour and minute, the first entry received with the closest entry to the official date and time will win. In case of a tie, the winner will be determined by a random drawing from among all tied entries. If a 110° temperature is not recorded at Sky Harbor Airport by the National Weather Service before 11:59 p.m. M.S.T. on Sunday, July 31, 2022, Sponsors will conduct a random drawing and will select a winner from among all eligible entries received.
Winner must execute and return any required affidavit of eligibility and release and W-9 within ten (10) days of notification attempt or winner will be disqualified and the prize will be forfeited, and an alternate winner will be the next entry received closest to the contest start date which contains the next closest date, hour, and minute to the official date and time. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to complete, sign and return any required affidavit of eligibility and release and W-9 within the required time period, or if a prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, the potential winner will be disqualified and will forfeit the prize. An entrant who provides a mobile wireless number to the Station in connection with a promotion, including by entering via text message or providing a mobile number for winner notification purposes, is responsible for informing the Station if his or her number is reassigned to another person at any time before the end of the Promotion set forth in Section 1 of these rules, and for providing an alternative number where he or she may be reached.
Unless otherwise specified in the prize notification, all prizes or prize certificates may be picked up at the office of the Station at the address below. The winner(s) will forfeit any prize or prize certificate not claimed within thirty (30) days of winning. Prize or prize certificates will not be mailed to the winner(s) without the winner’s or winners’ prior written consent in which the winner(s) shall agree to assume its risk of loss. The Station, its sponsor(s), or promotional partner(s) are not responsible for the safe arrival of a prize or prize certificate
6. CONDITIONS
a. Payments of all federal, state and local taxes are solely the responsibility of the winner. Winner will be required to complete and submit an IRS Form W-9 or the equivalent including a winner’s full Social Security Number for receipt of any prize valued at $600 or more or for any prizes awarded by the Station (in combination with any prizes won in Promotions run by any other Gray television station) in a calendar year with an aggregate value of $600 or more. Failure to submit a complete W-9 or equivalent will result in disqualification and forfeiture of the prize.
b. Participating in the Promotion and acceptance of a prize constitutes a winner’s and guest’s (where applicable) permission for the Station or its agents to photograph, film and record each winner, and to use his/her name, address (city and state), likeness, photograph, voice, biographical information and/or any statements made by him/her regarding the Promotion or its sponsors for purposes of trade, publicity or promotion without additional financial or other compensation, and, the Station may, where legal, require a winner (and guest or travel companion, where applicable) to sign a publicity release confirming such consent prior to acceptance of the prize. It is the responsibility of the winner(s) to ensure that their guest(s) or travel companion(s) sign and return to the Station any required release.
c. To the fullest extent permitted by law, by participating in the Promotion, you:
i. agree to grant the Station a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to edit, telecast, exhibit, rerun, reproduce, use, syndicate, license, print, distribute and otherwise exploit any items (including any photos, videos, audio, or written material) submitted as part of your contest entry (the “Materials”), or any portion thereof, in any manner and in any and all formats and media now known or hereafter devised, without payment to you or any third party;
ii. acknowledge that the Station reserves the right, in its sole discretion, not to use the Materials at all; and
iii. represent and warrant that: you are 18 years of age or older; you have the full legal right, power and authority to grant to the Station the license provided for herein; you own or control the complete exhibition and other rights to the Materials you submitted for the purposes contemplated in this license; you are either the parent (or legal guardian) of any minor featured in the Materials or have received the express consent of the parent (or legal guardian) for any such minor to appear in the Materials and to enter the minor’s likeness in the Materials in the contest; and neither the Materials nor the exercise of the rights granted herein shall infringe upon or violate the right of privacy or right of publicity of, or constitute a libel or slander against, or violate any common law or any other right of, any person or entity.
d. Prior to awarding any prize or prize certificate and depending on the nature of the prize and eligibility requirements of the Promotion, the Station in its sole discretion may require verification of Promotion winner’s or winners’ identification by a showing of valid government-issued photo identification.
e. To the fullest extent permitted by law, by participating and/or accepting a prize, entrants, winner(s) and guests (if applicable) agree to release and hold harmless the Station, its sponsor(s) and promotional partner(s), its advertising and promotion agencies, any social media platform utilized in the conduct of the Promotion (including but not limited to Facebook, Inc.) and each of their respective parent, subsidiary and affiliated entities, and the officers, shareholders, directors, employees, agents, representatives, successors, and assigns of each of them (collectively, the “Released Parties”) against any and all claims or liability arising directly or indirectly from the prize or participation in the Promotion. The Station may also require eligible Promotion winner(s) and their guests or travel companions, if any (as well as each of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s), if winner(s), guest(s) or travel companion(s) are under the age of majority in their state of residence), to sign a liability release confirming such consent. It is the responsibility of the winner(s) to ensure that their guest(s) or travel companion(s) sign and return to the Station any required release.
f. The Station, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person (and all their entries) from this Promotion if he or she tampers with the entry process, the operation of the Promotion, or the operation of the Station’s website, Facebook Page, and/or any other social networking site used in the Promotion, or is otherwise in violation of the rules. The Station further reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify, cancel, terminate or suspend the Promotion, or any part of it, if it is not capable of completion as planned or if any fraud, technical failures or any factor beyond the Station’s control, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Promotion as determined by the Station in is sole discretion. Any attempt by an entrant or any person to deliberately damage any station website, Facebook Page, and/or any other social networking site used in the Promotion or to undermine the legitimate operation of this Promotion may be a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such an attempt be made, the Station reserves the right to seek full prosecution and/or damages from any such individual to the fullest extent permitted by law. The Station’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of this provision. If due to circumstances beyond the control of the Station, any competition or prize-related event or travel is delayed, rescheduled, postponed or cancelled, the Station reserves the right, but not the obligation, to modify, terminate, suspend or cancel the Promotion and shall not be required to award a substitute prize.
g. The Released Parties are not responsible for (i) typographical or other errors in the printing, the offering or the administration of the Promotion, or in the announcement of a prize; (ii) entries not received due to difficulty accessing the internet, service outage or delays, computer difficulties, malfunctions, disconnections, other technological failures, telephone service outages, delays, dropped calls, or busy signals, or any other difficulties that may prevent an individual from sending or receiving a text message; or (iii) lost, stolen, mangled, misdirected, postage due, illegible, incomplete, incorrect, or late entries. Due to online streaming delays, online viewers of station programming may have difficulty participating in on-air contests. Further, the Released Parties are not responsible if any part of a Promotion prize that cannot be awarded due to acts of god, acts of war, natural disasters, weather, acts of terrorism or other factors beyond the Station’s control.
h. To the fullest extent permitted by law, by participating in the Promotion, you understand and agree that:
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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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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-1-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
(four, one, nine, one; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-1-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
(four, one, nine, one; FIREBALL: one)
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LANCASTER – Antelope Valley residents are encouraged to wear blue this Friday, April 1, and throughout the month in recognition of Child Abuse Prevention Month. The Children’s Center of the Antelope Valley is partnering with local businesses and individuals to raise awareness about and help prevent child abuse.
For the second year, local restaurants and retailers are offering special menu items and promotions during April in honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month. They include Coach’s Sports Bar & Grille (Rosamond), Complexity Wine Lounge, Filthy’s Food Truck, Jon Smith’s Subs, Leo + Mamas, Lucky Luke Brewpub, Lucky Luke Brewing Co., Mama’s Kitchen, Olga’s Naturally California Kitchen, The Original Karen’s Kitchen, Scramblez Café, and The Third Place Barroom and Kitchen.
CCAV also has launched its Pinwheels of Hope fundraising campaign with a corporate sponsorship from L.A. Care Health Plan. This year’s goal is to secure sponsors for 1,000 pinwheels – one to represent each child who will receive therapy at CCAV in 2022. Pinwheel sponsorships are available for a donation of $100 each. Corporate level sponsorships for 10 or more pinwheels are also available.
At the end of April, campaign donors and sponsors will be invited to attend a pinwheel garden ceremony, featuring all 1,000 sponsored pinwheels. Donors’ names and corporate sponsor logos can be found at ccav.org/pinwheel-sponsors, which will be updated as contributions are made throughout the month. For more information about becoming a pinwheel sponsor, visit ccav.org/pinwheels, email give@childrenscenterav.org or call 661-949-1206 (ext. 290).
“The Pinwheels of Hope campaign is an opportunity for individuals and businesses to be part of the solution,” said CCAV Board President Samantha Schmitz. “Whether you are a local resident sponsoring one pinwheel or a major donor, together we can make a difference in the lives of children and those who care for them.”
Children can participate in Child Abuse Prevention Month and be entered in a prize drawing by creating a pinwheel of their own. Pinwheel-making kits are available free from CCAV.
According to CCAV, residents can get involved in Child Abuse Prevention Month by:
- Wearing blue on April 1 and throughout the month, and posting photos on social media along with the hashtags, #EndChildAbuseAV and #GreatChildhoods.
- Following and tagging @ChildrensCenterAV on Facebook and Instagram.
- Creating pinwheels by picking up free kits from CCAV at 45111 Fern Avenue, Lancaster.
- Sponsoring a pinwheel (or more) by visiting ccav.org/pinwheels.
- Visiting the participating restaurants and retailers in April.
- Attending the community Food Truck Night on April 28.
[Information via news release from the Children’s Center of the Antelope Valley.]
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, training, targeting and use of weapons in order to better avoid widespread civilian deaths and damage such as the devastating 2017 battle to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants, a new RAND report said Thursday.
The report requested by the Pentagon reflects criticism of the military's airstrike campaign that, according to some estimates, killed more than 1,600 civilians in Raqqa, as the U.S.-led coalition worked to destroy the Islamic State caliphate that wrested control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the report, which lays out a series of recommendations to improve military procedures and strategy, will be used as the department develops its own broader plan to reduce civlian harm.
"No other military works as hard as we do to mitigate civilian harm, and yet we still cause it," said Kirby. "We're going to continue to try to learn from past issues."
RAND concluded that the battle for Raqqa provided important lessons.
Michael McNerney, lead author of the RAND report, called Raqqa "a cautionary tale about civilian harm in urban combat." He said it "should serve as an extra incentive to the DoD to strengthen its policies and procedures to mitigate, document and respond to civilian harm."
The RAND report noted that there has been a wide range of estimated civilian casualties during the seige, but also said it believes that 60%-80% of Raqqa was left uninhabitable by the time the city was liberated in October 2017.
Initially the U.S.-led coalition estimted that it was responsible for 38 incidents involving 240 civilian casualties -- including 178 who were killed. A consortium of local Syrian and international groups, including Amnesty International and Airwars, put the number of casualties at a "high estimate" of 1,600, but said that about 774 of them could specifically be "verified" by data as the result of coalition action.
The report makes it clear that several thousand more civilians likely died, based on the number of bodies uncovered by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, but many were probably killed by IS or other fighters on the ground.
"Our report focuses on U.S. actions in Raqqa, but the actions of the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian partners undoubtedly contributed far more to civilian harm and suffering in Syria overall," McNerney said.
The report noted that the challenges in Raqqa were compounded by limits on the number U.S. troops that could be there, as well as where they could be positioned. U.S. troops on the ground could have provided better targeting and civilian information, including on Islamic State militants' efforts to use civilians as human shields, the report said.
RAND recommended that the U.S. military provide more extensive training and guidance on the need to avoid civilian harm, and plan and execute operations in ways to achieve those goals. Changes could include improved planning, better assessments of potential collateral damage, increased mission rehearsals, improved intelligence gathering, and more selective use of air strikes and munitions that minimize bomb fragmentation.
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Early predictions for 2022 AFC playoffs 'NFL Total Access'
The "NFL Total Access" crew discusses how the AFC playoff picture may turn out in 2022. This game is streaming live on the Yahoo Sports mobile app, or on NFL Network
Former Browns getting second and third chances around the league used to be rare. Much more common now:
Jim Irsay ripped Carson Wentz at the NFL owners' meetings. Wentz responded, or at least tried. By Dan Roche
The quarterbacks in this year's NFL draft class have been heavily criticized, but two could end up hearing their names called very early.
We're a couple weeks into 2022 NFL free agency and salary cap space is at a premium. Here's how much space every team, including the Patriots, has left under the cap.
Raiders made several moves at RB in the first couple days of free agency. Josh McDaniels explains why that was 'critical' need.
Jack Nicklaus, 82, has decided that his time partaking in the Par 3 Contest has ended. But, his annual April trip to Augusta hasn't.
With three first-round picks, the Eagles are sure to pull at least one stunner. Maybe two or three.
What will the Vikings do with the No. 12 overall draft pick?
There's no game afoot with the 49ers. Kyle Shanahan has a desired outcome for the Jimmy Garoppolo saga, and it's easy to decipher from his words at the Annual NFL Meeting.
The Patriots' plans for the 2022 NFL draft have changed slightly after free agency.
The NFL owners made a big splash by updating the league’s playoff overtime rules. Mackenzie Salmon and Analis Bailey look at why it finally gets rid of the antiquated drama of a coin flip.
Patriots edge rusher Matt Judon, who tried recruiting Bobby Wagner to New England, had a fitting reaction to the star linebacker joining the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday.
The combine helped reshape the first round of the NFL draft, starting at the top, where the Jaguars could be drawn to OT Ikem Ekwonu.
Josh Allen disagrees with idea of Stefon Diggs to Cowboys:
Andrea Thome, the wife of MLB Hall of Famer Jim Thome, canceled their Browns tickets. Then she got a note from one of Deshaun Watson's alleged victims.
After all these great moves, this would really put them back a step.
The Packers need a "separator" and a "deep threat" at wide receiver. Here's who could fit each role in the 2022 NFL draft class.
In Chad Reuter's new three-round mock draft, the Bears surprisingly don't target offense with their first selection at Pick 39.
In the immediate aftermath of the unexpected unretirement of Tom Brady, we caught wind of a theory that Brady’s return was possibly tied to the eventual exit of Bruce Arians. (Check out the attached video from Monday, March 14, if you don’t believe me.) Eighteen days later — and on the evening that the annual [more]
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Enjin Coin (ENJ) traded up 0.9% against the dollar during the 1 day period ending at 18:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. During the last week, Enjin Coin has traded 8.2% higher against the dollar. One Enjin Coin coin can currently be purchased for about $1.81 or 0.00003963 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Enjin Coin has a total market cap of $1.58 billion and approximately $448.56 million worth of Enjin Coin was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002185 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 4.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.63 or 0.00003554 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded up 1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.65 or 0.00004286 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002182 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded down 1% against the dollar and now trades at $17.02 or 0.00037167 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded down 4.2% against the dollar and now trades at $49.05 or 0.00107096 BTC.
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We can’t expect a mass switchover to EVs until they match fossil-fuel guzzlers on an economy-of-adoption comparison. It would be wonderful if this were to happen soon, just as we need electricity generation to become mostly exhaust-free before EV users can earnestly be celebrated as climate-action heroes
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As fuel prices soar, the government seems resolved to go full-steam ahead on a shift to cleaner fuels. On Thursday, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said that the prices of electric vehicles (EVs) would match those of petrol vehicles within two years. A day earlier, he reached Parliament in a hydrogen-powered car. Such vehicles are rare. But Gadkari seems driven by the need to popularize an emission-free path for private mobility.
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As fuel prices soar, the government seems resolved to go full-steam ahead on a shift to cleaner fuels. On Thursday, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said that the prices of electric vehicles (EVs) would match those of petrol vehicles within two years. A day earlier, he reached Parliament in a hydrogen-powered car. Such vehicles are rare. But Gadkari seems driven by the need to popularize an emission-free path for private mobility.
Petrol prices have reached around ₹115 per litre in Mumbai and are similarly high in other places. Even if the Ukraine crisis eases and helps them cool, we’re unlikely to see fuel cheapen much. Yet, we can’t expect a mass switchover to EVs until they match fossil-fuel guzzlers on an economy-of-adoption comparison. It would be wonderful if this were to happen soon, just as we need electricity generation to become mostly exhaust-free before EV users can earnestly be celebrated as climate-action heroes. What we should minimize is rhetoric that runs ahead of reality. Our hurry must not let safety standards drop either. An electric two-wheeler caught fire this week. What we’ll need is a campaign that can convince sceptics.
Petrol prices have reached around ₹115 per litre in Mumbai and are similarly high in other places. Even if the Ukraine crisis eases and helps them cool, we’re unlikely to see fuel cheapen much. Yet, we can’t expect a mass switchover to EVs until they match fossil-fuel guzzlers on an economy-of-adoption comparison. It would be wonderful if this were to happen soon, just as we need electricity generation to become mostly exhaust-free before EV users can earnestly be celebrated as climate-action heroes. What we should minimize is rhetoric that runs ahead of reality. Our hurry must not let safety standards drop either. An electric two-wheeler caught fire this week. What we’ll need is a campaign that can convince sceptics.
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Metro Police take three people into custody following months long human trafficking investigation
By CHUCK MORRIS
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Metro Police are executing warrants related to human trafficking at a business in Nashville and a home in Antioch, according to police.
Metro Nashville officials said via Twitter that Charles McGlother Jr., his girlfriend Karen Bailey, 41, and Charles Sumner, 60, have been taken into custody on human trafficking charges.
Police said the execution of warrants at a business on Fesslers Lane and home on Bluewillow Court were the result of a months long investigation. Arrests are being made.
Police entered the business on Fesslers Lane near the intersection of Elm Hill Pike and found no one in the building.
According to MNPD, the three suspects lived and operated a small recording studio on Fesslers Ln alleged to be tied to illegal activity, including drug sales.
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Rubio on failed cease-fire: ‘The Russians never keep their word’
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) during an interview on Sunday said “the Russians never keep their word,” pointing to a failed cease-fire in Mariupol that was meant to help evacuate citizens from the besieged Ukrainian city.
Rubio emphasized the importance of moving civilians and innocent individuals out of Ukrainian cities that are Russian targets, before taking a shot at Moscow’s integrity.
“Mariupol this morning, an example of how the Russians never keep their word,” Rubio told co-anchor Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Ukraine and Russia made another attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol on Sunday through a cease-fire, which ultimately failed for the second day in a row. The Mariupol mayor’s office said Russian forces violated the cease-fire with “intense shelling,” according to The New York Times.
Rubio also said on CNN that he is worried that Russia is agreeing to humanitarian corridors as a way to set up false-flag situations and justify its offensive.
“They’re never gonna allow any of this. And in fact, to the extent they do allow humanitarian corridors, I worry that they’re doing it to set up false flags where they can then attack that and argue that Ukrainians did it,” Rubio said.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine entered its eleventh day on Sunday.
On Saturday, civilian evacuations in Mariupol also stopped after Ukrainian and Russian forces said the other side had violated the cease-fire agreement.
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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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Local businesses continue to be impacted by high gas prices
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) -Concerns about high gas prices now prompting President Biden to take new action. Locally, businesses with delivery services continue to be impacted by the cost of fueling up.
We checked in with one local business we spoke with a few weeks ago when gas prices started rising, to see how they have been overcoming price increases at their store.
“We’ve kept the slight raise just because is still kind of staying but our goal is to not raise it anymore we know everyone is strapped right now,” said Stephanie Oleksak, co-owner of Lagone’s Florist.
Oleksak told Western Mass News that as gas prices remain higher than normal, they have had to increase prices on their delivery services for the past few weeks. She said luckily her customers have been understanding about the change.
“Very understanding because we all the same problem as getting here our driver cost more to deliver everyone is in the same boat,” said Olekask.
On Thursday, President Biden announced a new plan to combat the high prices at the pump, releasing 1 million barrels of oil from the reserves each day for the next six months.
“We’re looking at the largest release ever from the strategic petroleum reserve 180 million barrels over six months. What that means is we’re going to see an extra million barrels per day flowing into the oil markets and that will help lower gas prices a little bit…It’s pushing oil prices down already even though this oil isn’t going to flow into the market until May 1st,” said Biden.
Spokesperson for AAA Mark Shieldrop, told us the good news is that gas prices are currently not sky rocketing like we’ve seen in the past three weeks, but he does expect this to change during the summer.
“We have to remember we’re heading into the summer driving season generally we see more oil consumption and higher gas prices overall,” said Sheildrop.
As for local business owners with delivery services, they told us they hope to get rid of their increased fees as soon as they can.
“We’re keeping an eye on all the gas stations around and going to the cheapest ones we can find to help keep it low for our customers,” said Olekask.
According to AAA, the Massachusetts gas average is currently sitting at $4.22/a gallon as of Thursday.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri nonprofit that was at the center of a corruption probe that involved several legislators is paying more than $8 million to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under an agreement with prosecutors announced Thursday.
Federal prosecutors announced the non-prosecution agreement with Preferred Family Healthcare, which agreed to forfeit more than $6.9 million to the federal government and pay more than $1.1 million in restitution to Arkansas.
The Missouri-based mental health care provider operated 50 clinics throughout Arkansas until October 2018 and no longer operates in the state. Prosecutors on Thursday said under the agreement, PFH admitted that its former officers and employees conspired to embezzle funds from the charity and bribe Arkansas legislators.
Several former executives from the charity, former Arkansas legislators and other have pleaded guilty in federal court as part of the corruption probe.
A lobbyist pleaded guilty in 2019 to bribing three Arkansas lawmakers, including the governor’s nephew, to benefit PFH. The lobbyist, Rusty Cranford, was sentenced to seven years in prison and in August was released to serve the remainder of his sentence from home.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in 2020 announced the firm had reached $6.5 million in federal and state settlements following an investigation by Rutledge's office into false Medicaid claims made by former PFH employees.
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https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Firm-paying-8M-to-Arkansas-feds-over-corruption-17049727.php
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers passed a measure on Thursday to create a paid family leave program, sending the legislation to Gov. Larry Hogan.
The bill, approved by supermajority votes by Democrats who control the legislature, would enable workers to take up to 12 weeks of partially paid leave for specified personal family circumstances such as caring for a sick relative or having a baby. It would provide up to 24 weeks for a parent, if he or she has a serious health issue in the year of a child's birth.
“This has been a long time coming,” said Sen. Antonio Hayes, a Baltimore Democrat. He thanked supporters who have “come together and really advocated on behalf of Maryland families."
Republicans criticized the measure for failing to spell out how much employees and employers would have to contribute, leaving that for the state's labor department to define later. They said Democrats were rushing to get the bill to the Republican governor just to meet a deadline so lawmakers will still be in session if the bill is vetoed.
“We're pushing this bill as quick as we can to get it upstairs,” said Sen. J.B. Jennings, a Republican, who added: “We don't know the numbers ... this bill is a hot mess.”
Because lawmakers are in the last session of the four-year term, they would not have a chance to override the veto next year if they adjourn before the governor acts on legislation.
The measure would create an insurance pool. Employees and employers would contribute to fund the program. Under the bill, the state’s labor department would set contribution rates to pay for the program. Employers with fewer than 15 employees would not be required to contribute.
The measure also includes job protections to protect employees from retaliation or termination for using the leave.
Seven states and the District of Columbia have paid family and medical leave insurance programs, including California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Washington. Colorado and Oregon have approved programs that have not started yet.
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https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Maryland-paid-family-leave-program-bill-passed-to-17049782.php
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Todd Bowles earned his way in the NFL on the defensive side of the ball.
He’s not afraid to talk offense.
The new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won’t be shy about sharing his ideas with offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich and quarterback Tom Brady.
“I’m the head coach. I get to do whatever I want,” Bowles said Thursday, a day after taking over because Bruce Arians moved into a front-office role. “I’m not going to call plays. I understand that. But I have input on how defenses are trying to attack them. I have input on certain situations going into the half, two-minute or third downs or going for it or not going for it and those types of things. That’s my job and I have the freedom to do that. At the same time, I understand and respect Byron and Tom a great deal and they know that. I think we’re off to a good start from a communication standpoint and we just have to keep building.”
Bowles gets a second opportunity after going 24-40 in four seasons with the New York Jets from 2015 through 2018. He also was an interim head coach in Miami for three games in 2011. He becomes only the 12th minority to get a second head coaching opportunity since 1963, according to data in the NFL’s 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Report.
“When I first started in New York, you try to do things the right way and you don’t do it your way, you end up having regret. So I’m going to do it my way,” Bowles said.
Arians joined Bowles at his introductory news conference and learned the Buccaneers will induct him into the team’s Ring of Honor this season. Brady also was in attendance.
Arians, who turns 70 this year, said his decision to step down as coach was about “succession” and making sure he turned the team over to Bowles with an opportunity to succeed. When Brady unretired on March 13, Arians realized the time was right.
“Succession is way important to me,” Arians said. “This has been my dream for a long time. Guys that know me, they knew I wanted one of my guys to take over.”
Arians dismissed reports of friction with Brady, saying it “couldn’t be further from the truth.”
Bowles and Arians have a relationship that dates more than 40 years. Bowles played safety for Arians at Temple in the 1980s and was defensive coordinator on Arians’ staff in Arizona before joining him in Tampa.
“He is the most influential coaching figure and father figure that I have ever had in this league,” Bowles said, adding that it was a bittersweet feeling when he got the news from Arians.
Bowles made it clear he has a different personality than Arians.
“The only thing we have in common is our bald heads,” Bowles said. “He smokes, I don’t. He drinks, I don’t. So, we never got in each other’s way.”
Arians led the Buccaneers to their second Super Bowl title in 2020 and an NFC South title in 2021. With Brady back, Bowles takes over a team that has championship aspirations.
“Good players make good coaches so you always want to have good players,” Bowles said. “I’m not going to apologize for inheriting a talented team. I’ve had less success with a team. It’s different to the fact that I don’t think I can go into this trying to be Bruce. I would fail miserably if I tried. … I can be me.
“I understand a lot of things I’ve learned from my coaching experience, especially from him so I’m going to take that approach. The one thing I know is I know I can coach football players regardless if you’re an All-Pro or a rookie. All of your players want to be coached and help them get better. I can help people get better and I’m going to use my approach.”
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri nonprofit that was at the center of a corruption probe that involved several legislators is paying more than $8 million to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under an agreement with prosecutors announced Thursday.
Federal prosecutors announced the non-prosecution agreement with Preferred Family Healthcare, which agreed to forfeit more than $6.9 million to the federal government and pay more than $1.1 million in restitution to Arkansas.
The Missouri-based mental health care provider operated 50 clinics throughout Arkansas until October 2018 and no longer operates in the state. Prosecutors on Thursday said under the agreement, PFH admitted that its former officers and employees conspired to embezzle funds from the charity and bribe Arkansas legislators.
Several former executives from the charity, former Arkansas legislators and other have pleaded guilty in federal court as part of the corruption probe.
A lobbyist pleaded guilty in 2019 to bribing three Arkansas lawmakers, including the governor’s nephew, to benefit PFH. The lobbyist, Rusty Cranford, was sentenced to seven years in prison and in August was released to serve the remainder of his sentence from home.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in 2020 announced the firm had reached $6.5 million in federal and state settlements following an investigation by Rutledge's office into false Medicaid claims made by former PFH employees.
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https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Firm-paying-8M-to-Arkansas-feds-over-corruption-17049727.php
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When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock over an Oscars ceremony punchline, other comedians felt the sting.
“I know Chris and I know what it’s like to be on a stage in front of an audience that doesn’t like your material,” said stand-up comedian Judy Gold. “But to be physically assaulted, that’s a whole other thing. It felt like every comedian was smacked across the face. It really felt like that.”
Smith’s act comes during a stressful time for comedy. While boundaries for humor constantly shift — think George Carlin’s 1972 monologue on seven so-called “dirty words” banned by TV — comics say they have felt increased pushback from audiences and society. Comedy great Dave Chappelle drew sharpcriticism last year for what some deemed anti-transgender humor in his Netflix special “The Closer.” Kathy Griffin’s careerwas derailed in 2017 when she was photographed holding a mock-up of former President Donald Trump’s head.
Some comedians expressed concern that Smith’s behavior might embolden other displeased audience members.
“No one went up to Chris Rock and said, ‘Are you OK?’” Sheryl Underwood, co-host of “The Talk,” said on the show Tuesday. “I’m going to say this as a comic, I am afraid now to get on a stage, because in my third show, when everyone’s been drinking, if you don’t like my joke, do you now believe that you can get up and slap me? There’s got to be accountability quicker.”
Griffin tweeted that “now we all have to worry about who wants to be the next Will Smith in comedy clubs and theaters.”
“Which is the worst crime here?” veteran comedian Gilbert Gottfried said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Chris Rock being physically assaulted? Or Chris Rock making a joke? That’s it, pure and simple. He made a joke.”
Dean Obeidallah, a lawyer and stand-up comic who hosts a show on the SiriusXM Progress channel, said there is never “a place for a violent response to a joke” but doubted there would be copycat behavior. In his time in comedy clubs, he’s seen yelling, screaming and, once, a glass thrown at somebody. But he’s never seen a punch thrown, nor a comedian slapped.
“If someone were to strike a comedian, they’re going to be prosecuted criminally. They don’t have the privilege that Will Smith has,” Obeidallah said.
The Los Angeles Police Department said Sunday that it was aware of the incident, but Rock had declined to file a police report. Smith stayed through the rest of the ceremony Sunday and received the best-actor Oscar.
Gold said she’s been confronted but never struck, and she knows other female comedians have faced difficult circumstances. “People have been getting on stage, people have thrown things,” she said.
Comedian-actor Yamaneika Saunders calls Smith’s behavior upsetting and Sunday a sad day for ”two beloved Black men in entertainment.” She also views what happened through the lens of a “Black woman in comedy.”
“I’m constantly being threatened….by some man who doesn’t like some (expletive) I said about being a woman, some white guy who doesn’t like some (expletive) I said about being Black,” she said.
Insult humor isn’t new to high-profile ceremonies, which call on comics to liven up what can be tedious events. Ricky Gervais made a meal of celebrities at successive Golden Globe ceremonies, and they grin — or grimace — and bear it. The most famous bad sport: Trump at the 2011 White House correspondents’ dinner, where he sat stone-faced during then-President Barack Obama’s extended ribbing of him.
Rock wasn’t the first to tweak Smith or wife Jada Pinkett Smith at Sunday’s Oscars. Ceremony co-host Regina Hall made what appeared to be a veiled joke about their marriage in trying, unsuccessfully, to draw Smith into a comedy bit.
Rock’s wisecrack was targeted at Pinkett Smith. “Jada, I love you. ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it,” the comedian said to Pinkett Smith, whose close-shaven head looked similar to Demi Moore’s in the 1997 movie. Whether Rock was aware that she has a hair-loss condition, alopecia, is unknown, but Smith reacted with the smack and an angry warning to “keep my wife’s name out your (expletive) mouth!”
A tearful Smith later accepted the top acting award for “King Richard,” his somewhat remorseful speech eliciting a standing ovation from the Dolby Theatre crowd. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has since condemned Smith’s attack and said it’s reviewing the matter.
Whatever the result, his actions indelibly marred the ceremony and ignited discussions about violence, toxic masculinity and the advantages of fame. Smith, who’d conspicuously left Rock out of his remarks Sunday, apologized to the comic and decried “violence in all of its forms” in a statement the next day issued by his publicist and posted on Instagram.
Pinkett Smith’s first public comment came in an Instagram post in which she said, “This is a season for healing and I’m here for it.”Rock referred briefly to the slap at a comedy show Wednesday in Boston, saying he was “still kind of processing what happened.” He appeared to become emotional as the audience gave him several standing ovations.
Whatever pushback comedians may encounter on stage, verbal or physical, they have to guard against censoring themselves to avoid it — and they will, said Obeidallah: “They shouldn’t change, and there’s nothing about this that tells me that they will change.”
They can’t because their role goes beyond providing laughs, as comedians see it.
“We are the truth tellers. We speak truth to power,” said Gold, author of the 2020 book, “Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble.”
Gottfried cites a favorite Carlin quote — “It’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately” — and can’t resist serving up a punchline.
“If Will Smith is reading this, dear God, please don’t come to my shows,” he said.
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AP Television Writer Lynn Elber reported from Los Angeles, AP Media Writer David Bauder from New York.
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https://www.mystateline.com/entertainment-news/will-smiths-oscars-slap-felt-by-comedians-beyond-chris-rock/
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Title IX has been a passionate subject for Candace Parker ever since she learned of its impact while doing a paper on it in the eighth grade.
So, it is no surprise her first documentary as an executive producer is about the landmark legislation. On Saturday, “Title IX: 37 Words That Changed America,” will open coverage of the men’s Final Four on TBS at 1 p.m. EDT.
“I sit here because of Title IX. Although we have so many wins, we have so much further to go. That’s why we went with having the Title IX story told through my eyes so that you can see if Title IX didn’t exist, I wouldn’t exist,” Parker said.
Parker considers herself a first-generation benefactor of Title IX, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Parker’s mother, Sara, attended Iowa before Title IX became law. Candace’s 12-year old daughter, Lailaa Nicole Williams, will have more opportunities.
“It means a lot to be able to have my mom and my daughter be a part of this,” Parker said. “I have inspiration from my mom and her story. And then as well for my daughter, I want to continue to open up doors, and I don’t want her to see limitations.”
The documentary also comes as inequities between the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are coming under intense scrutiny.
“Something as simple as March Madness, right? Like, now women can use that. That’s unbelievable. It’s 2022,” Parker said. “But things are changing. But it still doesn’t take away that we still have so much farther to go. I think that’s the whole point of doing this documentary is if you invest, it’s not a charity, it’s an investment. And it’s an honest investment of trying to make it work. And I think for so long, we just existed; women’s sports existed as something that had to be there. And now we look at it as an investment, and then I think we can start moving things forward.“
Parker won a pair of NCAA championships at Tennessee while being coached by one of the pioneers of Title IX, the late Pat Summitt. Parker has parlayed that experience into a successful career as a two-time WNBA champion and MVP and two gold medals in the Olympics.
Parker is also an accomplished analyst for Turner Sports on its NBA and NCAA Tournament coverage since 2018. During discussions about a contract extension at Turner, Parker and her representatives first pitched the idea of a documentary. It got the green light for production last November.
The documentary includes interviews with Billie Jean King, Peyton Manning, Lisa Leslie, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
“There’s a number of influential voices that I think I have to pinch myself to realize that they’re a part of it,” Parker said. “To have Billie Jean King, like the 10-year-old girl that did a biography project on her, I just think it’s just so special.
“Title IX doesn’t just impact women. To watch Peyton Manning talk about how Pat really influenced his life, as a competitor and just as an individual. To see somebody that is an icon to say that I think speaks to how valuable women in leadership positions are.”
Having the documentary tip-off Turner’s Final Four coverage on Saturday should give it a broader audience. “The Arena” will air following the documentary and focus on the impact of Title IX on sports and society.
This is also the first project for Parker’s production company — Baby Hair Productions — and was also produced with Scout Productions.
“Having a diverse audience, that’s not just the women and girls, we want everyone to see how impactful and powerful women are in society,” Parker said. “To have this be something that we talk about, especially after with ‘The Arena’ show, I think it speaks to just how important it is.”
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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Rangers could face legal action after Sydney Super Cup snub
By Vince Rugari
The organisers of the Sydney Super Cup have hit back at Rangers, who could face legal action for pulling out of the NSW government-backed tournament and a planned Old Firm derby against Ange Postecoglou’s Celtic.
Following weeks of speculation over their involvement, the Scottish champions have confirmed they will not take part in the four-team event in November, for which tickets have already gone on sale.
In a statement released overnight, the club accused tournament organisers of being “unwilling to fulfil their commitments to Rangers” and said they’d terminated their agreement to play in the Sydney Super Cup with immediate effect. According to Sky Sports News, those commitments involved the non-use of the term ‘Old Firm’ in official communications, which Celtic avoids in deference to parts of their fanbase who believe the ‘Old Firm’ ceased to exist when Rangers went bust in 2012.
But TEG and Left Field Live, the co-promoters of the event, have returned serve, accusing Rangers of bowing to fan pressure and letting down their Australian-based supporters, and rejecting any claim they had gone back on their commitments to the club.
“We were disappointed to wake up this morning to Rangers FC’s statement that it will not be participating in the Sydney Super Cup,” the promoters said in a statement.
“The Rangers Board committed to these matches following extensive negotiations over eight months. Seemingly in response to negative fan reaction, they have pulled out of their contracted commitment.
“We have worked closely with all stakeholders to bring this exciting event to Sydney, and we refute any suggestion that we were unwilling to fulfill our commitments to Rangers. We have acted in good faith and have put the event on sale with a great response from fans here.
“In changing their minds, the Rangers Board has let down many, many fans in Australia and the Asian region. We will now consult with our stakeholders before determining our response.”
The decision to withdraw from the Sydney Super Cup will come at a hefty cost for Rangers, with overseas reports indicating they would be hit with a legal bill for breach of contract in the event of a withdrawal.
It does, however, end any fears of fan violence in Sydney between Celtic and Rangers supporters. Representatives of the Sydney-based fan clubs of both teams had expressed serious concern over policing, logistics and the lack of segregation at not only Accor Stadium but pubs, trains and buses across the city during the week leading up to the November 20 fixture.
Never before have Celtic and Rangers played a match against each other on foreign soil, and it may be some years before such a plan is revisited after this false start.
It’s unclear whether organisers will seek a replacement team for the Sydney Super Cup - which is also slated to involve A-League teams Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers - or if Rangers’ withdrawal puts the entire project in jeopardy. TEG Live was contacted for further comment.
The tournament, announced only last month, was not well-received by Celtic and Rangers fans, some of whom believed the venture would cheapen their age-old rivalry - even though an executive from Rangers said the trip to Sydney would earn them more money in eight days than they would through an entire Scottish Premiership season.
Rangers fans have been staging protests at games to make their displeasure clear to the club’s board, throwing tennis balls and toilet rolls onto the pitch at an away fixture a fortnight ago to express their angst against the Sydney Super Cup, as well as the positioning of their club as a ‘foil’ for Celtic and Postecoglou on his planned homecoming tour.
Celtic, who are three points clear on top of the Scottish Premiership ladder, travel to Ibrox to face Rangers on Sunday night (AEDT) in a match that could be decisive in the title race.
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https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/rangers-could-face-legal-action-after-sydney-super-cup-snub-20220401-p5aa08.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_sport
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New career center opens in Aliceville
If you’re looking for a job and live in Pickens County, the Alabama Department of Labor and the Alabama Career Center System just opened a place in Aliceville that can help.
The department’s 55th Career Center hosted its grand opening March 30 at its location inside the Aliceville Public Library.
It’s operating as a spinoff off the Tuscaloosa Career Center, and it’s the first of its kind in Pickens County.
Aliceville Mayor Terrence Windham and ADOL Secretary Fitzgerald Washington were on-hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony, along with local leaders in Aliceville and Pickens County.
Residents can get help with their resumes or job search, be prepped for interviews and learn about educational and vocational programs that can help them in their career paths.
Pickens County employers can get help with employee screenings, job postings and tax credits assistance.
“ADOL’s 55 career centers reach all 67 counties in the state,” Washington said in a statement. “Our goal is to serve as many Alabamians as we can, and this addition in West Alabama area is a welcome one.”
MORE INFO: Aliceville Career Center
- Located: Inside Aliceville Public Library, 416 Third Ave. NE, Aliceville
- Hours: Wednesdays 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
- What’s offered: resume and job search assistance, interview preparation, educational/vocational program information, employer pre-screenings and job postings
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https://www.wvua23.com/new-career-center-opens-in-aliceville/
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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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(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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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-0-6-8
(three, zero, six, eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-0-6-8
(three, zero, six, eight)
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Moores Hill man receives lengthy sentence for failing to register as a sex offender
— Leo Justice of Moores Hill recently received close to the maximum sentence from a Ripley County judge after pleading guilty to a charge of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender (Level 6 Felony). The 58-year-old Justice was...
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Ex-Detroit Lions safety Dean Marlowe signs 1-year deal with Atlanta Falcons
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. – Safety Dean Marlowe, who set a career high with 67 tackles while starting nine games for the Detroit Lions in 2021, has signed a one-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons.
The Falcons announced the signing on Thursday.
Marlowe, 29, began his career by playing three seasons with Carolina before two seasons with Buffalo.
Marlowe may compete with second-year player Richie Grant, a second-round draft pick in 2021, for a starting job.
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Marlowe had two interceptions with Buffalo in 2020. He had a fumble recovery and two passes defensed with the Lions last season.
The Falcons have made their secondary a focus in free agency. They also signed former Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Casey Hayward and former Lions cornerback Teez Tabor, who played last season with the Chicago Bears.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Ex-Detroit Lions safety Dean Marlowe signs 1-year deal with Atlanta Falcons
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The making of India’s railway marvel
10 min read . Updated: 01 Apr 2022, 01:38 AM IST- 38 tunnels. 927 bridges. Inaccessible terrain. The Udhampur-Baramulla line is an engineering feat
- Once the track is commissioned, Kashmiris expect travel time between Srinagar and Jammu to reduce drastically compared to the five hours it takes now by road
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Orphaned owls recovering after being rescued
By Nicole Nalepa
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KILLINGWORTH, Connecticut (WFSB) — Connecticut is home to beautiful wildlife, both in the air, on the ground, and in the water.
And every day there are trained rehabilitators who come together to help these animals when they need it most, just like the folks at ‘A Place Called Hope’ in Killingworth.
They specialize in caring for birds of prey, including these adorable orphaned great horned owls.
This month rehabilitators were called to save two babies who lost their mother to anticoagulant rodenticide poisoning, otherwise known as rat poison.
The weather that day made the rescue quite difficult, but ‘A Place Called Home’ reached out to the Guilford Fire Department and they responded right away.
Firefighters raised their ladders and were able to safely retrieve the two babies.
And thanks to their quick action, these orphaned great horned owls are doing much better.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of a downtown Los Angeles building where an explosion injured 12 firefighters has been allowed to enter a judicial diversion program that allows him to avoid jail time and potentially have all charges dismissed.
A court commissioner on Wednesday granted the diversion request for Steve Sungho Lee. He and his companies must pay more than $125,000 in investigative fees, make sure the property meets fire and building codes and arranging for Fire Department training.
Lee owned a commercial building on East Boyd Street in the city's Toy District that caught fire on May 16, 2020. Firefighters had to run for their lives when a ball of flames shot out the building and scorched a fire truck across the street.
Firefighters inside the building had to run through a wall of flames he estimated as 30 feet (9 meters) high and wide, and those on the roof scrambled down a ladder that was engulfed in fire.
Fire officials said the building was a warehouse for Smoke Tokes, a wholesale distributor of supplies for smoking and vaping products including butane hash oil, a concentrated cannabis extract that can be eaten, smoked or vaped. Highly flammable butane is used in the manufacturing process.
Most of the injured firefighters still haven't returned to work and one, Capt. Victor Aguirre, was hospitalized for more than two months and all of his fingers had to be partially amputated, according to a lawsuit he filed against the building and business owners.
Aguirre alleged that the area contained “hundreds of illegally and improperly stored butane canisters and thousands of illegally and improperly stored nitrous oxide cylinders.”
A fire department report concluded that the blaze, which spread to a nearby building, was fueled by an “excessive quantity” of the containers.
Investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded that the fire started under a storage rack in the building and that a worker with a lit cigarette was seen in the area. The cause of the fire was ruled accidental.
However, city prosecutors filed more than 300 misdemeanor charges of violating fire and safety codes against Lee, his companies and owners of businesses in the building and nearby properties. That included more than 160 counts against Lee and his companies.
If Lee meets all conditions of his judicial diversion program for two years, the charges will be dismissed.
“Mr. Lee will be deemed by law to have never been charged," said his attorney, Blair Berk. “The exhaustive federal investigation of the tragic fire objectively concluded that the cause was accidental, and there was no finding of any wrongdoing by Mr. Lee or his companies.”
City Attorney Mike Feuer opposed diversion for Lee, noting the severity of the fire, the injuries suffered by the firefighters and Lee's alleged failure “to take steps which could have mitigated the extent of the blaze."
The owners of Smoke Tokes and another business, Green Buddha, agreed in November 2020 to pay $139,000 each to cover investigative costs and to move out of the building. Charges against them were later dismissed.
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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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LAS VEGAS (AP) — It’s been 40 years since Formula One last ventured into Sin City for back-to-back Las Vegas races staged in the parking lot of the Caesars Palace hotel.
The European-headquartered series raced in Las Vegas in 1981 and 1982, then packed up with little incentive to return. Then came new ownership, slick marketing, a Netflix docuseries and a historic championship battle that all helped F1 explode in popularity throughout the United States.
The U.S. will be the only country on the 2023 calendar to host three F1 races in one season following Wednesday’s announcement of a Saturday night race down the famed Las Vegas Strip. F1 has raced at Circuit of the America’s in Austin, Texas, since 2012, and in May it will make its debut in Miami.
Barring any surprises, existing races in Mexico City and Montreal will bring F1 to North America five times next season.
Is it too much for one market?
Bobby Epstein, president of COTA, believes there’s enough interest to sustain three U.S. races. He could barely draw 100,000 spectators over a three-day weekend five years ago; COTA had more than 300,000 last year and is already sold out for its October race.
F1’s first race in Miami this May sold out in one day.
“Before we opened, there was very little interest or awareness in America about Formula One because they had no presence here,” Epstein told The Associated Press. “The first few years, it’s hard to know if you have a bright new shiny object or you have something that people really love and come back for and aren’t just curious about.
“What you can’t buy is history and you can’t buy tradition. You have to make it and earn it. The crowds here have told us we’re absolutely doing something right.”
NASCAR is the top U.S. series and already races 13 miles away from The Strip at the oval at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. NASCAR last week made its second appearance at COTA.
IndyCar is the American version of F1 and the most diverse series in the world with its mix of road and street courses, as well as ovals. But the open-wheel series has never challenged F1, even as European drivers are now migrating to IndyCar.
F1 didn’t much focus on the U.S. until Liberty Media Corp. bought the rights to the series in 2017. The American company has since targeted U.S. expansion and received a massive boost from the Netflix docuseries “Drive To Survive.”
Season four dropped ahead of the F1 season opener this month and Netflix said the behind-the-velvet rope peek inside the series ranked No. 1 in 33 countries its opening weekend. ESPN, meanwhile, said viewership for Sunday’s race in Saudi Arabia broke the week-old record for the network and was ESPN’s largest F1 audience since 1995.
“The momentum of Formula One has been demonstrated over the last several seasons and we’ve seen that potential turn into a reality as we watch our fanbase really grow around the world, but especially here in the U.S.,” Greg Maffei, President and CEO of Liberty Media, told The Associated Press.
F1 will promote the event alongside Liberty, which is taking on the additional role because of its belief in the market. F1 signed an initial three-year contract for the race, but the exact race date was not revealed beyond that it will be a Saturday night in November on a temporary 3.8-mile street course that will utilize the iconic Las Vegas Boulevard.
“This is somewhat different for us in that we’re taking a larger role because of our belief in the opportunity and our belief in Las Vegas,” Maffei said.
Added Stefano Domenicali, the CEO of F1: “The best racing on the planet will be in the entertainment capital of the world. Formula One has huge momentum and we are growing around the world and the United States is a massive focus for us, there is no doubt about it.”
No other country hosts more than two races a season. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak said the city expected 170,000 visitors on race weekend to account for 400,000 nights of hotel rooms and an estimated economic impact of half a billion dollars.
But as F1 chases the U.S. dollar, it does so with very little American representation.
Michael Andretti, son of 1978 F1 champion Mario Andretti, is desperate to land a two-car team and a $420 million takeover of the existing Sauber team collapsed late last year. Andretti has since applied for expansion to the 10-team grid.
He’d like to bring to F1 driver Colton Herta, the Californian who turned 22 on Wednesday and is an IndyCar title contender. Herta has signed a testing contract with McLaren and will be evaluated by that team later this year.
Maffei was quick to point out that F1 already does have an American team; Haas F1 is owned by American businessman Gene Haas, who operates part of the organization alongside its NASCAR operation in North Carolina.
But Haas was the worst team in F1 last year and Andretti has publicly called on Haas to sell the F1 team to him. Haas has refused to sell and through the first two races appears to be a much improved team.
Gene Haas was forced to drop both his Russian driver and the sponsorship Nikita Mazepin brought from his father’s fertilizer company following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two weeks before the season opened. The team has somehow emerged stronger and scored points in the first two races of the season.
F1 and Liberty agree the series needs more American representation — teams, drivers, sponsors, all of it — but Domenicali said it cannot be an artificial effort. F1 won’t admit a team owner just to further its growth in the U.S.
“It’s important, but it has to be real,” Domenicali told AP. “People are making a difference, they are the protaganist. But it has to be real, (the driver) has to be quick, because otherwise it would not work. It is a journey that is not easy to accomplish. It will take time, but for sure, is in our focus.
“From the commercial point of view, from the organizer, or promoter point of view who wants to develop the business in the U.S., an American woman or man driver would be very good.”
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AP Sports Writer Jim Vertuno in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A man accused with his wife of trafficking a mother and teenaged girl to Hawaii from Guam pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Kevin Robert pleaded not guilty to labor trafficking charges, according to his attorney, Tim Rakieten. His wife, Pomerrine Robert, pleaded not guilty last week. Kevin Robert's arraignment was postponed then because he requested a Chuukese interpreter.
“I need sufficient time to review the case, and review with him, before I can comment any further,” Rakieten said.
State Public Defender James Tabe, whose office represents Pomerrine Robert, has previously declined to comment.
Police alleged in court documents that when the 15-year-old girl and her mother arrived in Honolulu, the Roberts took away their passports, forced them to work and beat them.
Court documents don't specify the country of the passports.
The girl and her mother lived in the couple's apartment, while the teen enrolled at a high school and the woman got a job at a deli where Pomerrine Robert also worked, the documents said.
The documents said Robert took away the mother’s money, the girl was expected to clean the apartment and Robert beat the girl and mother.
The couple locked the girl in a bedroom for several days and she reported it to a school counselor after she was let out, according to the documents.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A man accused with his wife of trafficking a mother and teenaged girl to Hawaii from Guam pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Kevin Robert pleaded not guilty to labor trafficking charges, according to his attorney, Tim Rakieten. His wife, Pomerrine Robert, pleaded not guilty last week. Kevin Robert's arraignment was postponed then because he requested a Chuukese interpreter.
“I need sufficient time to review the case, and review with him, before I can comment any further,” Rakieten said.
State Public Defender James Tabe, whose office represents Pomerrine Robert, has previously declined to comment.
Police alleged in court documents that when the 15-year-old girl and her mother arrived in Honolulu, the Roberts took away their passports, forced them to work and beat them.
Court documents don't specify the country of the passports.
The girl and her mother lived in the couple's apartment, while the teen enrolled at a high school and the woman got a job at a deli where Pomerrine Robert also worked, the documents said.
The documents said Robert took away the mother’s money, the girl was expected to clean the apartment and Robert beat the girl and mother.
The couple locked the girl in a bedroom for several days and she reported it to a school counselor after she was let out, according to the documents.
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Rubio stops short of rejecting Graham’s call to assassinate Putin
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday stopped short of criticizing and rejecting a suggestion by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in which the South Carolina Republican called for “somebody in Russia” to take out Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Asked by co-anchor Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” if he agreed with Graham, Rubio suggested that his colleague’s tweet was fueled by frustration from the Russian invasion.
“People are watching these images, alright, they’re seeing what’s happening there, and people being murdered and suffering, and it makes you angry, and you want something to happen. And you reach the conclusion, ‘oh wouldn’t it be great if someone internally just took this guy and eliminated it?’” Rubio said.
“That’s not the official policy, obviously, of the United States, no one’s talking about the U.S. doing it,” he later added.
Rubio said Graham “will have to answer for what he meant by that other than to say, I think he’s expressing sort of the frustration that a lot of people have that these horrible things are happening.”
“And it doesn’t seem to be anything we can do that immediately brings an end to it, and it’s very frustrating for people,” he added.
The Florida Republican did, however, say there is a high chance that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be removed from power to “hopefully” stand trial for war crimes for targeting civilian sites during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I would say that at some point, I do think Putin’s gonna be removed from power. I really think the chances of that happening are high… for losing his power, hopefully to stand trial for war crimes for what he’s done,” Rubio said.
Graham on Friday said “somebody in Russia” should take out Putin, adding that such a move would be a “great service” to the world.
“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out,” Graham wrote on Twitter. “You would be doing your country – and the world – a great service.”
Graham’s tweet elicited some GOP criticism, including from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who called the thought “an exceptionally bad idea.”
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PPL (PPL) Stock Moves -0.49%: What You Should Know
PPL (PPL) closed the most recent trading day at $28.56, moving -0.49% from the previous trading session. This move 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 energy and utility holding company had gained 11.59% in the past month. In that same time, the Utilities sector gained 8.54%, while the S&P 500 gained 5.37%.
Investors will be hoping for strength from PPL as it approaches its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect PPL to post earnings of $0.43 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 53.57%. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $1.62 billion, up 8.44% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $1.43 per share and revenue of $6.38 billion, which would represent changes of +36.19% and +10.28%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for PPL. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 2.27% lower. PPL currently has a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
In terms of valuation, PPL is currently trading at a Forward P/E ratio of 20.02. This represents a premium compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 19.97.
The Utility - Electric Power industry is part of the Utilities sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 181, putting it in the bottom 29% of all 250+ industries.
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Entegris, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENTG – Get Rating) SVP Corey Rucci sold 2,130 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $140.00, for a total transaction of $298,200.00. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website.
ENTG traded down $4.18 during trading on Thursday, hitting $131.26. 1,777,974 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,351,253. The company has a market cap of $17.83 billion, a PE ratio of 43.75 and a beta of 1.11. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $127.60 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $133.97. Entegris, Inc. has a 1 year low of $101.16 and a 1 year high of $158.00. The company has a current ratio of 3.47, a quick ratio of 2.21 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.55.
Entegris (NASDAQ:ENTG – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 1st. The semiconductor company reported $0.96 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.89 by $0.07. Entegris had a net margin of 17.80% and a return on equity of 29.95%. The business had revenue of $635.20 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $592.51 million. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.71 earnings per share. Entegris’s quarterly revenue was up 22.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Equities analysts expect that Entegris, Inc. will post 4.16 EPS for the current year.
A number of equities analysts recently issued reports on ENTG shares. Wolfe Research upped their price target on shares of Entegris from $163.00 to $183.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 2nd. Loop Capital raised their target price on shares of Entegris from $150.00 to $165.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, December 2nd. Seaport Res Ptn raised shares of Entegris from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 18th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised shares of Entegris from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $160.00 price target for the company in a research report on Wednesday, January 19th. Finally, Craig Hallum upped their target price on shares of Entegris from $150.00 to $175.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, December 2nd. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Entegris presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $165.70.
A number of hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. BlackRock Inc. lifted its position in Entegris by 8.7% during the fourth quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 14,663,617 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $2,032,085,000 after purchasing an additional 1,179,462 shares during the last quarter. David J Yvars Group lifted its position in Entegris by 16,147.7% during the fourth quarter. David J Yvars Group now owns 11,407,640 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $11,408,000 after purchasing an additional 11,337,429 shares during the last quarter. WCM Investment Management LLC lifted its position in Entegris by 4.9% during the fourth quarter. WCM Investment Management LLC now owns 2,870,052 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $397,732,000 after purchasing an additional 134,672 shares during the last quarter. Neuberger Berman Group LLC lifted its position in Entegris by 29.9% during the third quarter. Neuberger Berman Group LLC now owns 2,699,967 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $339,245,000 after purchasing an additional 621,749 shares during the last quarter. Finally, State Street Corp lifted its holdings in shares of Entegris by 39.2% in the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 2,691,206 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $372,947,000 after acquiring an additional 758,545 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.45% of the company’s stock.
About Entegris (Get Rating)
Entegris, Inc develops, manufactures, and supplies microcontamination control products, specialty chemicals, and advanced materials handling solutions in North America, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, Europe, and Southeast Asia. It operates in three segments: Specialty Chemicals and Engineered Materials (SCEM); Microcontamination Control (MC); and Advanced Materials Handling (AMH).
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From Geoffrey Anyanwu, Jude Chinedu and Abasianam Philip, Enugu
Igbo leaders, yesterday, restated their demand for the South East to produce the president of Nigeria in 2023.
They spoke at an enlarged meeting in Enugu organised by Ahamefuna Socio-cultural Organisation.
The leaders made a strong demand on political parties, especially the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to zone their presidential tickets to the South East.They said the zone had the candidates with the capacity, patriotism and passion to govern Nigeria.
The event chaired by Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu had an array of Igbo leaders, including the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, Prof. Anya O. Anya, Senator Ben Obi, Prof. Uche Azikiwe, Mrs. Beatrice Ekwueme and Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo.
Others were Chief Achike Udenwa, Prof. ABC Nwosu, Chief Dubem Onyia, Senator Az Agboti, Prof. Onyenji, Prof. Uzodinma Nwala, Chief Onyema Ugochukwu, Maj. Gen. Collins Ihekire (retd), Maj. Gen. Godwin Ugwuoke (retd), Dr. Joe Nworgu and Chief Onyemauche Nnamani.
In an 11-point communiqué, the leaders said their demand was predicated on the fact that the zone had not produced a president in Nigeria, except for only six months, adding that “It has also not produced an elected Prime Minister or President since Nigerian Independence in 1960.
“The South East has suffered monumental marginalisation of the zone since after the civil war. This marginalisation has reached new levels in the last seven years. What can Ndigbo do?
“The South East leaders noted that Nigeria has a zoning and rotational culture for the presidency of Nigeria. This agreement on rotational presidency was reached at the 1995 Constitutional Conference. That rotation favours Southern Nigeria at the end of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in 2023. When that presidency rotates to southern Nigeria, the zone that most deserves it is the South East, as other zones have occupied the seat before.”
The Igbo leaders said a president from the South East would usher in unity, peace and progress in Nigeria and guarantee the cessation of agitation by youths for the breakup of the country.
They charged citizens of the zone across all parties to work in unity to achieve the objective of a South East presidency in 2023.
Iwuanyanwu recalled all the efforts and contributions of Ndigbo and their sacrifices for the unity of Nigeria and called on other Nigerians to obey and honour the unwritten agreement on the rotation of the presidency.
Senator Ben Obi said the main aim of presenting the South East case, was to passionately appeal to Nigerian citizens, to support their quest to produce the next Nigerian President in 2023.
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