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There are a lot of different mobs in Minecraft that players will encounter during their adventures. Some of these mobs can be bred. This can be due to a few different reasons, but is generally done to help players farm specific materials, or even experience.
Some mobs are more useful than others for their items, however. Here are the top five mobs players can breed in Minecraft 1.18.2.
The top 5 mobs that players can breed in Minecraft in 1.18.2
When a player starts out in their survival world, gathering resources becomes very important. One of the first things players need to do is find an efficient way of not only building up their base of operations, but ultimately finding food and items to survive.
Sometimes farming is done as a necessity, but othertimes, it can be done for convenience. These mobs will greatly help players in any survival world.
1) Cows
Probably one of the most well-known and common mobs for farming in Minecraft, there's a reason that cows are such a staple of farming and breeding. They provide players with a few different resources that they will undoubtedly find useful throughout their entire playthrough.
Not many mobs can stay relevant as long as the faithful cow. Cows, when bred and farmed, can produce the following items:
- Leather - Cow leather can be used to create many important items in Minecraft. Most notably these are the leather armors, horse armor, and saddles. Players will find a lot of use for these in other ways as well, able to trade with Leatherworkers to gain emeralds.
- Beef - Cows drop raw beef, which can be cooked and consumed to help players overcome hunger. This is a great source of sustenance and players will want to keep some cooked beef around.
- Milk - Of course, cows also can give milk to players. Milk can be gathered using a bucket when using it on a cow. Milk will allow the player to remove status effects on them when drinking it, and can also be used to create cake.
Players are able to breed cows using wheat. Players must take the wheat and use it on a cow to feed it to them. This causes the cow to enter love mode. Once the cow has entered love mode, they should then do the same thing to another one.
When both cows are in love mode, they will breed and spawn a calf at their location. Calves take 20 minutes to mature into adult cows.
2) Sheep
The faithful sheep is another Minecraft mob that can be useful to players in multiple ways. Of course, sheep can be bred in order to help one harvest wool. Wool is a renewable resource that players can use for multiple things. Players can use wool for the following items:
- Creating beds - This allows players to rest and make it daytime in Minecraft, it also allows the player to set a new spawn point and avoid phantoms.
- Decoration - Wool is a renewable resource that can be dyed. Because of this, players can customize it to almost any color of their choosing and as such it remains a popular block for decorating.
- Paintings - Players can use wool when making paintings which can also be used for player decoration to make a space feel more like home within Minecraft.
Another reason sheep are so great to have around in Minecraft is because they give meat. When killed, a sheep will drop mutton which allows the player to cook and eat it to restore 6 points of hunger.
This is a fantastic source of food for the player and should not be overlooked. Sheep can be bred by feeding wheat to two sheep that are near each other.
3) Chickens
Chickens are another staple for players to breed in Minecraft. They provide many different valuable materials and in addition, they are easy to find and breed.
Chickens can provide players with an easy method of obtaining items that can help them during their playthrough. These items are:
- Feathers - Players can use chickens to gather feathers, which they can use if they plan on crafting a lot of arrows to use a bow and arrow.
- Eggs - Eggs can be thrown by the player when they are laid. When the eggs are thrown, they have a chance of spawning another chicken at the location they break, making breeding easier.
- Meat - Of course, when killed, a chicken will drop a raw chicken, which players can cook in order to restore hunger. This is a great source of early game hunger replenishment.
With so many valuable items chickens can provide to the player, breeding them is a priority during the early game. Luckily, it is easy to breed chickens. Players must use seeds on a chicken to make it enter love mode.
They must then use the seeds again on another nearby chicken. Once they are both in love mode, they will spawn a chick at their location.
4) Pigs
Pigs are another great example of mobs that players should breed in Minecraft. One of the best sources of food in the game, pigs can be bred and kept in captivity quite easily.
Because of this, players may want to ensure that they are able to breed some pigs during their playthrough. Doing so will provide them with:
- Porkchops - Pigs will drop raw porkchop when they are defeated. This can be cooked to provide players with a reliable source of food to eat.
- Saddles - Players can place a saddle on a pig and ride it using a carrot on a stick.
Pigs can be bred by feeding them multiple types of items. Players will want to feed pigs with carrots, potatoes or beetroots. When a player feeds a pig one of these items, they will enter love mode.
Players should then take another pig close by and feed them one of those items as well. Once both pigs have entered love mode, they will spawn a piglet.
5) Wolves
Players may get lonely at times during their journey in Minecraft. Luckily, they are able to get companions that can help during combat or just help them to feel safe wherever they are.
Wolves are one of the best mobs that players can have with them to help defend them. Players can tame wolves by following this process:
- Gather bones - Bones are needed to tame wolves in Minecraft. These can be found on the skeletons wandering the world at night.
- Once the player has enough bones, they should approach the wolf. They can use the bones on the wolf to feed it to them. Once the player has fed the wolf enough bones, they will get hearts above their head. This means they are now tamed.
- A red collar will appear around the wolves' neck. This can be dyed any color players wish.
- The wolf will now accompany the player in combat. One can heal their wolf by feeding it raw meat.
Players will be able to breed wolves once they have them tamed. They can feed the wolf raw meat. This will cause it to enter love mode. They must then find another wolf and feed it raw meat as well. Once they are both in love mode, they will spawn a wolf pup.
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Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
By ANDREW DALTON
AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer says Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards. In a clip released Thursday of an interview with “Good Morning America,” Packer says police called the incident battery and laid out the options for Rock. But Packer says Rock was dismissive of the idea. Smith walked on the Dolby Theatre stage Sunday and slapped Rock after a joke the comedian made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith apologized to Rock in a statement Monday. The academy met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith.
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Bruce Willis, diagnosed with aphasia, steps away from acting
NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting after a diagnosis of aphasia, a condition that causes loss of the ability to understand or express speech, his family said Wednesday.
In a statement posted on Willis’ Instagram page, the 67-year-old actor’s family announced that Willis was recently diagnosed with aphasia and that it is impacting his cognitive abilities.
“As a result of this and with much consideration, Bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him,” read the statement signed by Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, his ex-wife Demi Moore, and his five children, Rumer, Scout, Tallulah, Mabel and Evelyn.
“We are moving through this as a strong family unit, and wanted to bring his fans in because we know how much he means to you, as you do to him,” they said. “As Bruce always says, ‘Live it up’ and together we plan to do just that.”
There are many potential causes of aphasia. It often occurs after a stroke or head injury, but can also develop gradually due to a slow-growing brain tumor or a disease that causes degenerative damage, like Alzheimer’s disease. It’s treated primarily with speech therapy and learning non-verbal means of communication.
Willis’ family didn’t divulge what caused his aphasia. Representatives for the actor declined to comment.
The news about Willis, one of Hollywood’s most beloved actors, immediately spread online as fans reacted. His four-decade career has amassed more than $5 billion in box office worldwide,
Willis had been working steadily and frequently. Renowned for films like “Die Hard,” “Pulp Fiction” and “The Sixth Sense,” Willis has in recent years churned out straight-to-video thrillers. Last year, he starred in a staggering eight films. Most came and went quietly, including titles like “Cosmic Sin,” “Out of Death” and “Deadlock.”
Most recently, Willis starred in February’s “Gasoline Alley” and “A Day to Die,” released in early March. Willis has already shot at least six more films due out in 2022 and 2023, including “Die Like Lovers,” “Corrective Measures” and “The Wrong Place.”
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Colorado couple charged in toddler’s fentanyl death
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado couple face felony charges in connection with the fentanyl death of their 1-year-old child. Prosecutors say the girl died after ingesting enough of the extremely lethal drug to kill an adult. Alonzo Montoya and Nicole Casias of suburban Denver were charged Thursday with child abuse resulting in death and distribution of a controlled substance. The 17th Judicial District’s Office says the Adams County Coroner has determined that the child died in January after ingesting fentanyl and that the couple “participated in illicit drug activity” in the child’s presence at home. An attorney for Casias didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
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(CNN)An investigation is underway at Chicago Public Schools after a teacher hung a small stuffed Black football player doll on a string from a projector screen in their classroom, according to a letter sent to parents by the school's principal and obtained by CNN.
The March 29 letter from Joyce D. Kenner, principal of Whitney Young Magnet High School, says the teacher "indicated" he had come across the doll in his room and "wanted the students to see if someone would claim it." The letter went on to say that "a colleague approached the teacher about the doll and the conversation between the two became contentious.
"Our administrative team investigated the incident and spoke with the teachers," Kenner's letter said. "An official incident report has been created and filed with CPS."
"Chicago Public Schools (CPS) strives to foster safe and secure learning environments for our students, families, and colleagues. Our schools and the District investigate and address all complaints and allegations of wrongdoing in accordance with District policies and procedures," CPS said in a statement to CNN.
The district said the teacher who hung the doll is suspended while the investigation is ongoing. CPS has not identified the teacher.
According to Kenner's letter, school administrators also met with a group of students Tuesday morning to discuss the incident.
"We gave students an opportunity to voice any concerns and recommendations they had. We plan to follow the disciplinary protocol established by Chicago Public Schools," the letter said.
Kimberley Henderson, whose daughter is a sophomore and one of three Black students in the teacher's US history class at Whitney Young, spoke to CNN.
"When I saw the picture, that's when I went over the edge. That was unbelievable to me," Henderson said, referencing an image of the stuffed doll circulating on the internet. "I don't believe that he should be in front of any children, but I want to make sure that he's not in front of mine."
The Chicago Teachers Union said in a statement about the incident that "practices that mitigate the harm of racial biases must be ongoing, and consistent" in the city's schools.
"Mayor (Lori) Lightfoot has a responsibility to provide a safe space for every member of our school communities, which is especially important in a district that serves a student population that is 90 percent Black and Brown children," the statement read. "Any definition of 'safety' must include creating and reinforcing an environment of equity and inclusion for all students, staff and faculty of color."
CNN reached out to the mayor's office Thursday for response to the union statement.
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Lake Forest Park officers apprehend car prowler
Tuesday morning, March 29, 2022 at approximately 4:00am, Lake Forest Park Police Officer J. Benson was on proactive patrol on Shore Drive NE, when he noticed...
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Sunshiny Friday gives way to an active Saturday
More snow chances as well
Updated: 1 hours ago
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - March continues to end on a cool note. There will be more sunshine on Friday but highs struggle to reach 50. Look for more rain to develop Friday night and Saturday as a small but potent storm moves across the state. Colder air with this system could bring snowfall once again on Saturday to parts of eastern Iowa. Saturday night and Sunday the sky clears with an additional rain chance Sunday night into Monday. Have a great night.
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MURRAY, KY -- Murray State women's basketball head coach Rechelle Turner received massive news on Thursday afternoon as both senior guards Macey Turley and Alexis Burpo announced they will return to school next season.
Turley and Burpo have one year of eligibility left after receiving a free covid year from the NCAA.
"Super excited to announce that I will be coming back for another year," Turley said in a statement to Racer fans. "Excited to lace it up for you guys one last time. Let's have some more fun and make some more noise."
"The plans for my life that God has laid out have never ceased to amaze me," Burpo said. "Now those plans mean I will continue my academic and basketball career at MSU for one more year."
Both players have played key roles for coach Turner as the Racers have seen dramatic improvement on the court in each of the last four seasons.
Turley averaged 13.6 points per game this past season for the Racers and was named to the All-OVC first team for the second time.
Burpo continued her improvement at the collegiate level averaging 10.7 points per game, and was second on the team in rebounding and second in assists.
Both played for coach Turner during her stint as head coach at Murray High School.
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Actress Tina Bursill, currently starring in Ensemble Theatre’s production of Love Letters, and next month as the ugly stepmother in Cinderella at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre, can sympathise with all NSW residents whose homes have been flooded.
The AACTA award-winning actress has been living in temporary accommodation in the Southern Highlands for the past six months since disaster struck her Bowral family home in the form of a burst water pipe.
“It wasn’t just the loss of the family home, but all the memories in my parents’ house,” says the former star of Prisoner, Doctor Doctor and Wentworth.
“Then having to go through everything and decipher what to keep – and what to discard – not to mention the smell of mould which no matter how much you wash never seems to go away.
“I have a huge place in my heart for all those people in northern NSW – I understand the heartache – even though the scale there is much worse,” she says.
Not only did she move from Bondi to the Southern Highlands last year, but she also had some health challenges recently and underwent breast surgery.
Bursill would be one of Australia’s best known female faces of the small screen. Which is why Denistone-based artist John Klein asked her to sit for his as a subject for this year’s Archibald Portrait Prize.
The two met at a Variety Club charity function at Chatswood Chase shopping centre, where Klein was working in marketing before he gave up his job to focus on his art. They spent several hours on a very hot Sydney day in his studio for the sitting, while he sketched her.
“I really wanted to show the blue of the sea that she loves and the sun and the sand from her time living in Bondi Beach before her move to Bowral,” says Klein.
“I also made her hair look windswept and wanted to include a piece of jewellery – a necklace that she has a special connection to and always wears,” he explains.
Bursill says:“The necklace was bestowed on me by one of Darlinghurst’s great characters who recently died. A woman called Elizabeth Burton who was a striptease artist who saw me at a time when I was undergoing a series of breast operations.”
“I met her at a wake and when she found out what I was going through she gave me the necklace with a turquoise stone from a Navajo Native American and including some crystals that belonged to her grandmother.
“She was aware of my vulnerability and took the necklace from around her neck and placed it on me. I always wear it now and treasure it,” she says.
“I tried to capture some of that vulnerability but also her strength in the painting,” says Klein, who admits he was nervous the first time he revealed the painting to Bursill.
“I was entranced by it straight away. I was able to see the brightness and my gaze – but I think he observed the longing in me,” Bursill says.
This week Klein was one of the hundreds of artists who personally delivered their entries in Australia’s best known portrait prize, which this year enters its 101st year.
As did Tony Costa, the 2019 winner for his portrait of Lindy Lee, who this year painted documentary photographer Roger Scott, in a sitting at Costa’s Strathfield studio.
“He’s a good friend and I was struck by his gentle, shy personality,” said Costa of his subject.
“I’m more interested in a person’s spirit and Roger has a strong spirit. He’s had some tragedy in his life and you can see it in his face, I tried to capture that.”
Costa, a 10-time Archibald finalist has been touring with the 2019 Archibald exhibition for the past two years, in between lockdowns, and one thing he learnt was how beloved the $100,000 art prize, named for the first editor of The Bulletin, J.F. Archibald, is.
“Everyone loves the Archibald. Artists usually choose to paint people who are special to them. It doesn’t have to be a celebrity, it can be your local garbo, as long as the person is special to the artist you will see it in the work,” he says.
‘It doesn’t have to be a celebrity, it can be your local garbo – as long as the person is special to the artist, you will see it in the work.’
2019 Archibald winner Tony Costa
Floods were a common theme among entrants this year, with artists such as Blak Douglas painting a picture of his friend Karla Dickens, from Lismore, wading in rainwater carrying leaky buckets.
For his entry in the Wynne Prize, Palm Beach photographer Paul Farrar painted an abstract painting of the Colo River, the area of the Hawkesbury along the Putty Road that regularly floods. Entitled Inner City Personal Landscape, Colo River Dawn #22, it recalled a flooded landscape, and even got wet from rain as he delivered it for judging.
The 2022 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes will be on display at the Art Gallery of NSW from May 14 until August 28, before touring to regional NSW and Victoria. The Archibald winner will be announced on May 13.
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NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) — Electric vehicle maker, Rivian told WMBD Thursday its planning to continue its expansion in Normal at a new warehouse facility.
Town of Normal documents show plans for a $30.3 million warehouse expansion project at 301 W. Kerrick Road. The town issued a commercial permit last week to Milwaukee-based, Phoenix Investors for a 500,000 sq. foot facility.
Normal Building Commissioner and Director of Inspections Greg Troemel said it would be an additional 500,000 square feet to the existing property at the location.
Rivian spokesperson, Maura Freeman, wrote in an email that the company plans on leasing the new space from Phoenix Industries upon completion.
Freeman said Rivian currently leases the existing building there and uses it for warehousing operations. She said the new addition will help the company expand current operations at that location.
Troemel said he expects to see architectural and mechanical drawings later this spring.
P.J. Hoerr has been contracted to complete the $30,373,486.00 project the commercial permit shows.
Freeman also said Rivian is continuing to hire employees and the current count at the Normal plant is 5,075 team members.
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https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/rivian-plans-to-lease-30-million-new-warehouse-in-normal/
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Wears Valley family found a glimmer of hope through the chaos Thursday morning. As a wildfire threatened their home Wednesday night in Wears Valley, Tara Grissom and her family had to evacuate.
They found shelter for the night at a hotel in Townsend. When she opened the door Thursday morning she was met with a rainbow stretched across the sky.
“As scary and stressful as these fires are, God, put his love and promises in the sky,” Grissom said of the moment.
Wildfires have burned more than 3,700 acres and at least 100 structures have been damaged or destroyed as of Thursday afternoon.
Perrin Anderson, Sevier County assistant mayor for governmental affairs, said the Wears Valley wildfire is 30% contained as of Thursday afternoon. Mayor Larry Waters said no fatalities or missing persons have been reported.
More than 200 fire personnel are working in the area to combat the wildfire.
To help the victims of the wildfire, Sevier County leaders have relaunched Mountain Tough, which was created in the aftermath of the Gatlinburg wildfires.
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The Education Service Center Region 12 Technology Foundation surprised five area schools on Thursday with $39,912 in combined grant funding — financing that will support their respective educational technology programs.
“Troy High School will receive $4,725 to provide interactive technology to math and science classrooms to increase STEM thinking in students to impact success on the STAAR, TSI, SAT and ACT exams,” Jennifer Marshall-Higgins, an ESC Region 12 spokeswoman, said in a news release. “Raymond Mays Middle School will receive $5,187 for the implementation of the Oculus Quest VR Headset system and 3D printers to enhance students’ understanding of complex concepts through geometry and measurement.”
Troy ISD Superintendent Neil Jeter was elated for both campuses having won a grant.
“We are thrilled to receive two grants from the ESC Region 12 Technology Foundation,” he said. “Both innovative grants focus on improving student engagement and understanding of mathematics concepts through the use of technology. This technology will also be useful in other subject areas.”
Meanwhile, the Academy, Rosebud-Lott, and Copperas Cove independent school districts each had one campus receive $10,000 in grant funding on Thursday, according to the ESC Region 12.
“Academy Elementary School will receive $10,000 to increase second grade student academic performance, interactivity with content, and proficiency in technology through a project-based learning model where students research, write, edit and produce news broadcasts to be shared with the entire campus,” Marshall-Higgins said.
Academy ISD Superintendent Billy Harlan highlighted how Jackie Wright, an Academy ISD instructional technology specialist, and Andrea Chaney, Academy Elementary School’s principal, developed the program to challenge and encourage students to collaborate in a creative learning environment.
“We are looking forward to seeing our students begin their project and how it will have a positive impact on their learning,” he said. “Thank you to the Region 12 Service Center staff for making this a great surprise and for their continued support of our educational programs.”
Rosebud-Lott ISD Superintendent James Rosebrock also was grateful to the ESC Region 12 Technology Foundation for naming Rosebud-Lott Elementary School as a grant recipient.
“We are beginning a robotics program as part of a Regional Pathways CTE program,” Rosebrock said. “This grant will allow the district to introduce robotics to our students at an early age and get them excited about the program at the high school.”
Since 2012, the ESC Region 12 Technology Foundation has awarded $532,500 in grant funding to school districts in Central Texas.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest superhero is not, in the conventional sense, either "super" or a "hero," but he does have an unorthodox ailment and a weird skill-set to separate him from mere mortals. His name is Morbius, and while watching his origin story, you may get the feeling that somewhere in the cinematic multiverse, wires got crossed.
The film begins with a helicopter, transporting a cage to the sort of mist-shrouded isle you half expect King Kong to be inhabiting. But Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is looking to capture smaller game as he approaches the mouth of a cave, hobbling with difficulty on two crutch-like canes.
Positioning himself behind the wires of the cage, he slices open the palm of his hand and, as a roar of batwings echoes from inside the cave, murmurs to the copter pilot "if you're gonna run, do it now."
A rare blood disease treated with a bit o' bat
It's tempting to say "consider yourself warned," but the film's first hour or so, while unremarkable, is decently crafted.
Born with a rare blood disease, Michael Morbius has spent his entire life working on two things — a cure, and origami paper-folding. Natch, it occurs to him to fold together bat and human DNA.
Because the FDA would be unlikely to approve human trials, he and his beautiful co-researcher Martine (Adria Arjona) head in a cargo ship for international waters off the coast of Long Island in the company of eight thuggish mercenaries — think bloodbags — and once Morbius has been injected with bat DNA, it's just a matter of time before things go vampiric.
Let it be said that some side-effects from dabbling in "chiropter-y" are less ghastly than others. Bat DNA evidently gives you great cheekbones and abs to go with increased strength and speed.
Less salutary effects include new fangs that sprout from his gums with decades of decay baked in, and claws that erupt from his fingers pre-filthed. I mean, sure...why not? Except this is a man whose hair has the kind of sheen that comes from brushing it three times a day.
One other thing: he now needs to drink human blood every six hours. Happily, on his way to declining a Nobel Prize, Dr. Morbius invented "artificial blood," though that only fools his system for a while.
Color coded smoke effects for a Jekyll and his Hyde
If you're expecting a conventional Marvel movie, you should be aware going in that what Director Daniel Espinoza and his writers have come up with is more a horror flick with Marvel bells and whistles.
That means Leto's Morbius gets purplish smoke effects to go with those fang-baring snarls as he's riding air currents in subway tunnels, while the similarly afflicted Hyde to his Jekyll – a schoolboy chum played as an adult by an amusingly hopped-up Matt Smith, gets blue-ish vapor trails and snappier lines.
But there isn't much tension to their story. Or logic. At one point, Morbius overhears some counterfeiters passing fake $100s, and commandeers their printing press to make what appears to be an artificial-blood machine — because the technologies for fake-bills and fake-blood match up? Maybe that works better in a comic book.
Bat guys everywhere you look
Speaking of which, when the DC Extended Universe first announced that Twilight star Robert Pattinson would play the lead in The Batman in their corner of the superhero multiverse, it seemed like a nice inside joke — from Vampire-teen to Bat-man. But now that the Marvelverse has Leto going full Dracula, it seems as if the casting maybe could've gone the other way 'round.
Leto is as persuasively haunted by the dark side of vigilantism as Pattinson was, and as a result of corporate positioning, is maybe more determined to avoid being a villain. Not unlike Venom, Morbius was a bad guy when he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man comics, back in the 1970's. He needs to be at least an anti-hero now, if a franchise is to be built around him.
But bad guy/bat guy...who's to say? As the trailers reveal, another DC bat-guy, Michael Keaton, shows up in his non-batty baddie Marvel persona Adrian Toomes, just to mess with the heads of anyone trying to keep cinematic universes straight.
But bloodlines will have to be clarified in more robust "Morbius" episodes to come, this origin story being merely adequate, and by Marvel standards, slightly anemic.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Russell Knox recorded four straight birdies on the back nine and fired a 7-under 65 on Thursday for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Valero Texas Open.
Knox closed out his round with a seven-foot putt to save par at the par-5 18th at TPC San Antonio, and was one shot ahead of Rasmus Hojgaard.
Hojgaard fired a 66 despite a double bogey on his final hole. Matt Kuchar is another stroke back after an opening 5-under 67 and is among a group that includes Denny McCarthy, Aaron Rei and J.J. Spaun.
Defending champ Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy finished at even-par 72. They were outside the top 60 after one round and could flirt with the cut line on Friday.
Bryson DeChambeau had a 1-over 73. After holing a bunker shot for eagle on his 11th hole and following with a birdie on the next, he made bogey on four of his last six holes.
Knox, a 32-year-old Scotsman with two career PGA Tour wins, started his birdie streak at No. 12. All of his birdie putts were inside 10 feet. At the 15th, he was about 20 feet away from a back pin position following his approach and chipped in from the fringe. It was his second chip-in in the round.
“That was one of those kind of bonus birdies that you need when you’re going to have a good day,” Knox said. “Obviously thrilled with the round. It’s been more of the way I want to play.”
Hogjaard, a 21-year-old from Denmark and two-rime winner on the European Tour, had his sights on the first-round lead heading to his closing hole. But, his drive sailed well left of the fairway. It took him four shots to reach the green on the par-4 ninth.
“I had to chip sideways back into the fairway,” he said. “Just was a little too aggressive after that. Yeah, short-sided myself and I didn’t get up and down and suddenly you walk away with double-bogey. Yeah, that was a bit annoying, but it happens.”
Kuchar was 5 under after 11 holes. Thirty feet away from the pin on the next hole, he failed to get up and down and missed a seven-foot putt for par. He got a shot back with a birdie on his 14th hole, and parred out, falling short in a bid to match his season-best round of 64 at the Sony Open, where he finished in the top 10.
“A lot of good and bad that can happen here on this course,” Kuchar said. “I was kind of managing early on in the round and then found a little something on about the fifth or sixth hole. I started having some birdie chances and converted on a few late in my first nine.”
Kuchar has won nine times on the PGA Tour. McCarthy, Rai and Spaun are looking for their first.
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By Ashley Benkarski
NASHVILLE, TN — Justin Jones, 26, has joined the District 52 State House of Representatives race.
The office represents East and Southeast Nashville, which for the first time is a majority minority area.
Media sensationalism has, in many ways, cast Jones as an activist; some have branded him a troublemaker.
But Jones is quick to point out that he’s more than the youthful agitator he’s been typecast to be. “I’m a whole person,” he stated, noting his ministry service and community work with Nashville Civil Rights legends Diane Nash and the late Rip Patton, among others.
“I get portrayed as angry … but I’m doing it out of love, not anger,” he said. “We must root all we do in love and justice.”
Jones is concerned the Republican supermajority’s grip on Tennessee is doing irreparable harm with their support of legislation aimed at silencing the voice of dissent.
Specifically, Jones said, examples include the increase of arrest penalties on protestors to include a felony charge and a bill that would decriminalize the running over of protesters with vehicles; Jones was part of the effort that defeated the bill before it could become law.
“A small minority has hijacked our government,” he remarked. “They control every branch, but how has your life improved?”
He noted Tennessee’s nearly 70 percent approval rating for Medicare expansion, high poverty rate and rural hospital closure rate; the Volunteer State has the highest percentage per capita of rural hospital closures.
He also lamented lawmakers who “take luxuries while denying the rights” of workers, aided by distraction with the goal of class division.
Jones said he’s sought to directly challenge those divisions, walking 273 miles from Bell Haven, North Carolina to Nashville to bring awareness to the spate of rural hospital closures felt more deeply in light of the pandemic. Jones also lent his support to Insure Tennessee during Monroe County’s hospital strikes and walked with Mayor Mike Bell in solidarity.
Jones said he respected the work of Rep. Stewart and hopes to expand on the issues facing the 52nd District, including transportation, gentrification, communication and environmental justice. If elected, he plans to hold what he calls “D52 Day on the Hill” to help constituents exercise their right to be heard. “It’s the People’s House,” he stated.
“Nashville has been changed by young people before, and it’s our time again,” Jones said, referencing the elders who came before him, themselves part of the iconic Student Movement of the 1960s.
“The false power is collapsing.”
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — More than a dozen migrants excitedly ran out of their dormitory at the Good Samaritan shelter here at the mere mention that the Biden administration may lift a rule that expels people at the border before they can request a chance at humanitarian protection in the United States.
They quizzed a reporter they’d overheard speak of the expected change in a rule that for the past two years has forced asylum seekers to wait at shelters in in Mexican border cities terrorized by organized crime.
At times the wait has seemed interminable. They struggle to find work, worry about debts accumulated to just reach the border and live in fear that they or their children could be snatched by drug cartels preying on the most vulnerable.
Migrants have been expelled more than 1.7 million times from the U.S. under public health powers invoked in March 2020 that are designed to prevent spread of Covid-19. The Biden administration plans to lift Title 42 authority – named for a 1944 public health law – by May 23, according to people familiar with the matter, with an official announcement expected as early as Friday. Near the height of the omicron variant in late January, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had extended the order to this week.
Reaction at migrant shelters in Ciudad Juarez shows the determination of many migrants to settle in the United States as soon as possible.
Most of the 63 people staying at Good Samaritan, across the border from El Paso, Texas, were women and their children from Mexico and Central America. The Rev. Juan Fierro, the shelter’s director, said the vast majority had either been expelled under Title 42 authority or were still waiting to try for asylum.
A group of women said that if Title 42 ended they would run to the bridge at the border to request asylum, because returning to their homes was not an option.
Melida Castro, a 32-year-old from Honduras, has been at the shelter for four months with her children, ages 3 and 8. “There’s nothing more for us to do but wait,” she said, explaining she had fled Honduras after a gang killed her uncle.
“I saw him die in my arms,” she said. Her family crossed the border once and turned themselves over to Border Patrol agents, but they were flown to El Paso and pushed back to Mexico. She said the agents mentioned Title 42, but didn’t explain what it meant.
While word of lifting the asylum limits provided a glimmer of hope, the possibility was also met with suspicion.
Delaying the lifting until late May, when the Biden administration has had more than a year in office to prepare, struck some as a way to buy time until the U.S. government can come up with another obstacle.
“Suddenly they’re going to say, ‘We’re not going to lift it,’” said Victor Sanchez, who fled Honduras with his wife and her three younger siblings. They have been staying at another shelter in Ciudad Juarez for a month.
The nine-bedroom concrete Oscar Romero House shelter clusters around a small courtyard with a pomegranate tree where children play after returning from school. The parents sit on the second floor terrace, fearful to go outside, sharing care of the youngest children and looking across the dusty desert cityscape to the mountains of El Paso less than 10 miles away.
Katherine, Sanchez’s wife, had a baby while in Mexico. “If we have to wait, we wait,” she said. “Now that there are organizations that can help us, we’ll wait for a legal way.”
There have been signs that the Biden administration has been preparing for an expected surge of asylum seekers trying to make their way to the border.
Two weeks ago, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited Mexico and Costa Rica to discuss managing migration flows. Without providing details, Mayorkas said he had reached a “migration arrangement” with Costa Rica.
In his State of the Union Address this month, President Joe Biden had said, “We’re securing commitments and supporting partners in South and Central America to host more refugees and secure their own borders.”
Both Mexico and Costa Rica are taking in substantial numbers of asylum seekers that in many cases would otherwise try to enter the United States. They could also be critical in trying to control the flow of migrants to the U.S. border.
Last month, Costa Rica started requiring visas for Venezuelans and Cubans, a step toward slowing their migration north. Mexico already required visas of Cubans and added Venezuelans in January.
Still, large numbers of migrants have been reaching the border. The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that about 7,100 migrants were coming daily, compared with an average of about 5,900 a day in February and on pace to match or exceed highs from last year, 2019 and other peak periods.
Camilo Cruz, a spokesman with the United Nations International Organization for Migration, said this week that every U.S. move on immigration affects migration flows in the region.
“It moves people, generates hope or some kind of speculation by the traffickers,” Cruz said. “That motivates people to come to try to cross the border.” He said the IOM supports a network of shelters along the border and has worked in recent years to build their capacity.
Immigration advocacy groups applauded the decision, which they universally viewed as long overdue. Like the migrants, some questioned the delay until late May when the Biden administration has had months to prepare.
“A phased wind-down strategy just further proves this was never about public health,” Erin Mazursky, interim director of Families Belong Together, a coalition of groups opposed to Trump-era immigration policies, said in a statement. “This policy was in place for two years too long and the reported decision to extend Title 42 until May 23rd is simply another excuse to expel more people. If the intent is to stop upending people’s lives and hold true to America’s commitment to asylum and due process, the expulsions must end now.”
U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, a Los Angeles-area Democrat, told reporters in a conference call Thursday that administration officials visited congressional offices this week to brief lawmakers and their staffs on plans for accommodating larger numbers of migrants — up to about three times the current flow under one scenario.
The administration is “working very hard at finding a way to process migrants lawfully, humanely and efficiently,” she said.
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Associated Press writer Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — 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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North Korea gloats, South Korea pauses over Russia’s war in Ukraine
From their distinctly different vantages in Pyongyang and Seoul, the leaders of North and South Korea are watching the Russian assault on Ukraine with opposing responses calibrated to their own special relationships with Moscow, as well as Beijing.
For North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Russian invasion provides an opportunity to align clearly with President Vladimir Putin for one special reason: Kim is proud of his country’s nuclear weapons, which he has refused to relinquish in the face of offers of vast amounts of aid by both the U.S. and South Korea, and Putin has struck a responsive chord by placing his nuclear forces on alert against the U.S. and its NATO allies.
The fact is that Putin’s main enemy in Ukraine, besides the Ukrainians themselves, is the United States. President Biden is asking Congress to approve $10 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine while vowing in his State of the Union address that Putin will “pay a price” for what’s happening there. Putin’s defiance is all the more reason for Kim to gloat. In triumphant tones, North Korea’s foreign ministry declared the U.S. and its allies had “systematically undermined the security environment of Europe by becoming more blatant in their attempts to deploy an attack weapon system.” All Russia wanted, it said, was a “legal guarantee for security” — by no coincidence, the terminology North Korea uses to rationalize its nuclear program.
For South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the issue of how to respond is far more complicated. His initial response was a blatant attempt at keeping his American ally happy while holding off Russian complaints. “As a responsible member of the international community,” he declared, “the Republic of Korea will send its support to, and take part in, the efforts of the international community to peacefully resolve the situation, including economic sanctions.” Anyone reading his statement in a vacuum with no prior knowledge of the news never would have known that soldiers were firing weapons at one another and people were bleeding and dying.
For Moon, the puzzle of what to say and do is much more difficult than it is for Kim, and that’s not just because North Korea is a granite-faced dictatorship with no freedom of speech while South Korea is a free-wheeling democracy.
First, Moon is going to step down soon after an election on March 9 in which Lee Jae-myung, the candidate of the ruling Minjoo or Democratic Party, faces a severe challenge from the candidate of the conservative People Power Party, Yoon Suk-yeol. Moon, an ardent advocate of reconciliation with North Korea, has gotten nowhere at drawing Kim into dialogue since the failure of Kim’s second summit with former President Trump in Hanoi three years ago. Moon doesn’t want to offend either Russia or China, which has lined up with Russia on the Ukraine invasion. Nor does he want to ruin South Korea’s alliance with the U.S., which keeps 28,500 troops in Korea.
The second problem is that South Korea has virtually no fuel resources. The South counts on Middle Eastern countries for the bulk of its oil and natural gas but still imports 20 percent of its natural gas from Russia. For decades, South Korean leaders have talked about a pipeline to carry natural gas from Russia down through North Korea to South Korea. North Korea refuses to consider such an impossible dream, but years from now, who knows? It might just happen if Russia and the two Koreas ever scale political and diplomatic hurdles.
South Korea must consider other issues. China abstained from a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine, showing that China isn’t joining the U.S. and NATO in opposing whatever Russia is doing. That may have been less than a wholehearted endorsement of the Russian veto after China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said China “deplores the outbreak of hostilities between Ukraine and Russia,” but there’s no doubt whose side China is on in any conflict involving the U.S.
Nor is there any question that South Korea must walk a fine line between its American ally and those two great powers much closer to home. China is South Korea’s biggest trading partner and North Korea’s northern neighbor, benefactor and protector. For all those reasons, South Korea must get along with China as well as Russia. Smooth relations with both of them are vital. Together they saved the North from defeat in the Korean War and might do so again.
If North Korea was a little slow in coming out with public support of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the reason may have been that Kim was waiting to see what his Chinese friends were saying. Now that Kim’s got his signals straight, Moon has much more to worry about. “We have to find an intricate balance between the alliance and the strategic partnership,” said Wi Sun-lac, a former South Korean ambassador to Russia who has been advising liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung on foreign policy.“We have to use our own standing and identity and not be swayed by others.”
Certainly, Wi acknowledged in a talk at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents’ Club, South Korea had to make decisions “based on our alliance with the U.S.” He did not see “the likelihood of war between the U.S. and Russia,” but instead sees a “non-military solution.” Similarly, he envisions “relief of tensions” on the Korean peninsula “by diplomatic methods.”
South Korea’s prime minister, Kim Boo-hyun, whose main job is to preside over cabinet meetings, evoked Moon’s dream of the U.S., China and both Koreas agreeing on an end-of-war declaration affirming that the Korean War, which ended in a heavily armed truce in 1953, is really over. Kim turned aside worries that the North would demand dissolution of the U.S.-Korea alliance and withdrawal of U.S. forces as conditions for a statement that logically should morph into a peace treaty. “We do not mean a peace treaty right away,” he assured foreign journalists.
The conservative candidate Yoon Suk-yeol, meanwhile, continues to demand that the North give up its nuclear program, stressing the need for improving relations with the U.S., which is not at all enthusiastic about an end-of-war declaration, and resuming joint military exercises on the ground involving U.S. and South Korean troops.
In Pyongyang, as North Korea returned to missile-testing after taking a break during the Beijing Olympics, Kim Jong Un had reason to be more confident than ever about his nuclear program. Putin’s mention of a nuclear option confirmed his own reliance on nukes and missiles as the ultimate threat against enemies near and far.
Donald Kirk has been a journalist for more than 60 years, focusing much of his career on conflict in Asia and the Middle East, including as a correspondent for the Washington Star and Chicago Tribune. He currently is a freelance correspondent covering North and South Korea. He is the author of several books about Asian affairs.
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Genesis Shards (GS) traded down 1.6% against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 19:00 PM E.T. on March 31st. Over the last week, Genesis Shards has traded down 2.9% against the US dollar. Genesis Shards has a market cap of $705,275.08 and $16,943.00 worth of Genesis Shards was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Genesis Shards coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.0586 or 0.00000129 BTC on exchanges.
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Current UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou announced his intentions towards a fight with Tyson Fury.
Boxing has been a lifelong dream for Ngannou, who originally strapped on the gloves with the intention of stepping into the boxing ring. MMA turned out to be a successful path, but among the Cameroonian's demands is that the UFC allow him to participate in boxing. The promotion co-promoted with Floyd Mayweather and Showtime for the 'Money Fight' featuring Conor McGregor.
Ngannou is currently recovering after undergoing knee surgery to repair the damage he suffered in training for a title unifier against Ciryl Gane at UFC 270. Dana White has expressed confidence the champ will re-sign, but Ngannou is in uncharted territory as a potential free agent by the end of this year.
On his YouTube channel, 'The Predator' made his intentions crystal clear:
"I don't really care about what [it] would be. I just think it'll be a fight against Tyson Fury. It can be in a phone booth or wherever [but] that fight will happen."
Check out Francis Ngannou's comments on the possible fight with Tyson Fury below:
Ngannou also stated that he doesn't expect Fury to have an MMA bout with him as he would easily defeat 'The Gypsy King'.
Georges St-Pierre doesn't think Francis Ngannou boxing Tyson Fury is a good idea
Georges St-Pierre has outlined the consequences of Francis Ngannou possibly boxing Tyson Fury.
According to 'GSP', Ngannou and Fury will never fight under mixed martial arts rules, as he believes 'The Predator' will crush the boxing heavyweight in under 30 seconds.
Speaking on The MMA Hour, the former UFC two-division champion explained why a loss to Fury in boxing could change Ngannou's career, he said:
"He's a specialist of mixed martial arts, Tyson Fury has boxed all his life, so the odds will go towards Tyson Fury in a boxing match. Of course they will never fight in MMA because Francis will crush him under 30 seconds but I'm just afraid, if you step into boxing maybe he is going to get that punch and stuff. Sometimes it can break a career, you know what I mean."
Check out St-Pierre's full interview on The MMA Hour below:
St-Pierre believes that in a boxing match, the odds will heavily favor Fury and it would not be wise for Ngannou to take on that challenge.
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https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-francis-ngannou-announces-intentions-tyson-fury-fight
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Palm Springs International Airport makes changes to flight procedures for Canadian travelers
In a recent Twitter post, Palms Springs airport announced they will no longer be requiring pre-entry COVID tests for vaccinated Canadian passengers.
In the past, especially during holiday season, there have been difficulties for travelers trying to get a COVID test 72 hours before their flight. Read more about that story HERE.
This change may relieve some stress for Canadians traveling to the Coachella Valley. To learn more about Canada's travel click HERE.
Good news! Starting tomorrow, pre-entry COVID tests will no longer be required for vaccinated travelers going to Canada, and don't forget that PSP has nonstop service to five Canadian cities! Learn more about Canada's entry requirements here: https://t.co/yspDcv45k8#flyPSP pic.twitter.com/j6XPSTASyf
— Palm Springs International Airport (@flyPSP) March 31, 2022
We'll have more details on the story coming up at 5 & 6 p.m.
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Qualcomm (QCOM) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Qualcomm (QCOM) closed at $152.82, marking a +0.06% move from the previous day. This move outpaced the S&P 500's daily loss of 1.57%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 1.56%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the chipmaker had lost 9.76% over the past month, lagging the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 4.23% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Investors will be hoping for strength from Qualcomm as it approaches its next earnings release, which is expected to be April 27, 2022. In that report, analysts expect Qualcomm to post earnings of $2.91 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 53.16%. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $10.59 billion, up 33.46% from the prior-year quarter.
QCOM's full-year Zacks Consensus Estimates are calling for earnings of $11.76 per share and revenue of $42.39 billion. These results would represent year-over-year changes of +37.7% and +26.3%, respectively.
Investors might also notice recent changes to analyst estimates for Qualcomm. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. With this in mind, we can consider positive estimate revisions a sign of optimism about the company's business outlook.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, which ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate remained stagnant within the past month. Qualcomm is holding a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy) right now.
Valuation is also important, so investors should note that Qualcomm has a Forward P/E ratio of 12.99 right now. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 24.42, which means Qualcomm is trading at a discount to the group.
Meanwhile, QCOM's PEG ratio is currently 0.81. This popular metric is similar to the widely-known P/E ratio, with the difference being that the PEG ratio also takes into account the company's expected earnings growth rate. The Wireless Equipment industry currently had an average PEG ratio of 2.23 as of yesterday's close.
The Wireless Equipment industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 190, putting it in the bottom 26% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank includes is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Be sure to follow all of these stock-moving metrics, and many more, on Zacks.com.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
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Disputed school admissions policy OK’d pending appeal
By DENISE LAVOIE
Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has granted a request from a Virginia school system to continue using a challenged admissions policy while it appeals a ruling that found it discriminates against Asian American students. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling Thursday that Fairfax County Public Schools can continue to use its new admissions policy at the highly selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. A judge rejected the new policy in a February ruling, saying that impermissible “racial balancing” was at its core. The school is often ranked as one of the best public high schools in the country.
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California governor rejects parole for Manson family member
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday blocked parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, reversing a panel’s recommendation that she be freed after spending a half-century in prison.
Van Houten, 72, “currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison at this time,” Newsom said in his parole review. It was the fifth time that a California governor has rejected her release.
Her attorney, Rich Pfeiffer, disputed that view and said the decision will be appealed in court. He accused Newsom of rejecting parole because he is worried about “his political future” and noted that Van Houten has a spotless prison disciplinary record.
“We’re not fighting (over) Leslie being a good person. She’s proven that through her actions for half a century,” he said.
Van Houten is serving a life sentence for helping Manson and others kill Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, in August 1969. Van Houten was 19 when she and other cult members fatally stabbed the LaBiancas and smeared the couple’s blood on the walls.
The day before, other Manson followers, not including Van Houten, killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others.
In his rejection letter, Newsom noted that Van Housen had undergone therapy, earned educational degrees and taken self-help classes in prison and had shown “increased maturity and rehabilitation.”
But Van Houten also has “gaps in insight” that continue to make her a danger to society, Newsom said.
Van Houten has had 21 parole hearings since 1982. Most parole boards denied her bid for freedom. But five panels have recommended her release since 2016, saying she had expressed remorse and was no longer a threat to public safety.
Newsom rejected a recommendation made last November.
He previously reversed parole recommendations in 2019 and 2020. In February, the California Supreme Court refused to hear Van Houten’s appeal of the 2020 rejection.
Previous Gov. Jerry Brown rejected Van Houten’s parole in 2016 and 2018.
Manson died in 2017 of natural causes at a California hospital while serving a life sentence.
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Residents in Spring Garden are pleading for help after their home was deemed uninhabitable due to nearby construction. Now, residents are searching for somewhere to go.
Over the last few weeks, tenants were forced to move out of their building, and say there’s still no open line of communication with their management group.
Pictures, one after the next, of the walls getting ready to fall apart inside of 1919 Green Street were provided by residents.
“If you saw that crack, you would’ve gotten out of there as soon as you could,” Seth McDaniel said.
It all started after construction crews from the...
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Taylor Hawkins died with a heavy heart, but what does that mean?
By Sarah Berry
People can die of a broken heart, but what about a heavy heart?
A toxicology report following the death of Foo Fighters drummer, Taylor Hawkins, last Friday, revealed that the 50-year-old had at least 10 different substances in his body including THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids.
An autopsy also found Hawkins’ heart was about double the size of a normal healthy heart and weighed at least 600 grams, as reported by Colombian publication, Semana.
A heavy heart is “not out of the ordinary” says Professor Tom Marwick, the director of Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute.
Athletes can have enlarged hearts which is a healthy adaptation to increased blood circulation during exercise. But a heavy heart is typically not a good thing.
Just about anything that damages the heart muscles can enlarge the heart as it gets bigger to compensate for impaired function, says Heart Foundation chief executive Garry Jennings: “People can get fat hearts too. There is a relationship between body size and heart size.”
And although high blood pressure is a common cause and COVID-19 can also increase the size of the heart, illicit drugs and some prescription drugs carry a significant cardiac risk.
“Cocaine, for example, can cause the arteries of the heart to spasm and that can produce scarring and cause blood pressure to increase. That can increase load on the heart,” Marwick says, pointing out that “old-style” antidepressants like tricyclics also carry a risk.
“Stimulants at high doses can kill heart muscle cells,” adds Jennings. “Or injecting [any type of drug] can introduce bacteria into circulation which can settle on the valves and damage the heart valves - that’s a common cause of heart problems too.”
Heart attacks are increasingly common in people aged under 50 and experts believe substance use may be contributing to the problem.
People who smoke cigarettes are nearly twice as likely to have premature heart disease; cocaine or cannabis users are about 2.5 times as likely to have premature heart disease, while those who use amphetamines increase their risk three-fold. The more substances a person uses the greater the risk.
And while Jennings explains that the heart has “a great reserve” and can cope with a lot of damage before giving out, meaning people are not always symptomatic before a heart attack, if someone has a heart as heavy as Hawkins’, there is likely to be a sign.
“They may have exercise intolerance or shortness of breath,” Marwick says, explaining that a heavy heart can be a symptom of problems, or exacerbate existing problems.
“An enlarged heart carries with it a risk of heart rhythm disorders because the electrical impulses that drive the heart become disrupted as the heart is damaged and scarred,” he explains, “so it can be a cause of death.”
About 20 per cent of people with a coronary blockage die before they get to the hospital and, Jennings estimates, for half of those who know they have high blood pressure or another heart issue there’s another one who doesn’t.
“There is a problem with unrecognised heart problems out in the community,” he says.
Marwick agrees: “These prominent people who have died in the last month or so have been a reminder to the Australian community that as much as we have appropriately focused on COVID over the last two years… probably 100 times the number of people who got into trouble with COVID have been getting into trouble with cardiovascular disease.”
An echo test or an ultrasound of the heart can show the size of the heart, but the first step is a cardiac check-up.
“This is a disease of women as much as men and once people get to the age of 40 they should have blood tests for cholesterol, they should have a blood pressure check and somebody should listen to their heart,” Marwick says.
Some people may require further testing and possibly medication. For many, however, addressing lifestyle is enough to prevent the development of heart problems and can help even those with a genetic predisposition.
“No matter how bad your genes are, there is always a benefit of lifestyle - healthy nutrition, physical activity, not smoking tobacco, not getting diabetes,” Jennings says. “You should never give up on the possibilities that lifestyle can put off the problems.
“The earlier you find out about it the less damage will be there and therefore the better the outcome in the longer term.”
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NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) — Two students have been kicked out of the McLean County Unit 5 School District for their involvement in a fight in mid-March.
Unit 5 spokesperson, Dayna Brown, confirmed two female students at Kingsley Junior High School were expelled for their role(s) in a March 10 fight at the school. Brown said the board of education made the decision Tuesday night.
According to Brown, their expulsion is for the rest of this school year, all of the next school year, and up to two years.
In previous emails between Brown and WMBD, Brown said “the entire situation lasted less than 45 seconds” and “families with students directly involved reported no injuries.”
The district also said parents got involved in the fight that day, which prompted a response from Normal Police and Illinois State University Police. It is unknown if any of the parents have been charged or will be charged.
McLean County State’s Attorney Don Knapp said his office is still reviewing reports for any possible charges.
WMBD reached out to Unit 5 school board members as to why a lengthy expulsion was put in place and board president Amy Roser said “We will not comment on individual student matters.”
Brown said alternative schooling options are being made available to the two girls.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker took the Southeastern Conference by storm last season after taking over the starting job in the second game of the year.
In 13 games he completed 67.99% of his passes with 31 touchdowns and only three interceptions. With that success, comes expectations, Hooker is a dark horse pick for the Heisman Trophy this season, and he’s putting in the work to get there.
“Last year, in year one, it was a lot about, how do I call the plays?” said quarterback coach Joey Halzle. “Where do my eyes go? Now he’s grown to the next step of seeing the second and third reads.”
Hooker has learned the intricacies of playing the quarterback position and it’s showing so far during the spring practices.
“He knows what the defensive structure is, what their rules are and how to manipulate that, and how to play the game with the other side of the ball and get the result that he wants,” Halzle said. “He’s made a huge jump in the offseason of defensive understanding and it’s really showing on the field right now.”
Hooker has taken on a leadership role in the quarterback room and came to camp ready to work, especially in the classroom.
“He’s up there in our office all the time,” Halzle said. “He’s completely rededicated himself to it. He is going right back from the jump and wants to get better.”
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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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Bell County saw two new reported deaths from COVID-19, as cases of the virus continue to stay down.
The Bell County Public Health District reported the two new deaths on their dashboard Thursday, bringing the county’s total to 889. Costa Claver, epidemiologist with the district, said the deaths included a woman in her 20s and a man in his 70s.
The district’s dashboard reported three new cases of the virus Thursday, six fewer than what was reported Wednesday.
The incidence rate of cases in the county is now at 17.36 cases per 100,000 residents, according to the dashboard.
Data from the Texas Department of State Health Services dashboard showed Trauma Service Area L had 25 patients with COVID-19. The service area includes Bell, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Milam and Mills counties.
School cases
Belton Independent School District continued to report no confirmed COVID-19 cases, with two probable cases at Lake Belton High School and one at Charter Oak Elementary.
Temple ISD had no confirmed cases of the virus on its online dashboard.
Salado ISD has not had any confirmed cases of COVID-19 on its campuses since Feb. 15.
Killeen ISD had two student cases and one staff case on Thursday.
Free vaccinations, testing
Several places in Temple offer vaccinations and testing, including CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, the Veterans Administration Hospital, and the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center and clinics.
A second round of free at-home test kits are available at covidtests.gov. Tests are limited to four per household and are shipped through the U.S. Postal Service.
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Skippy Foods, LLC has recalled more than 9,000 cases of peanut butter "due to the possibility that a limited number of jars may contain a small fragment of stainless steel from a piece of manufacturing equipment," the company said in an announcement Thursday.
The specific Skippy brands included Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread, Skippy Reduced Fat Chunky Peanut Butter Spread and Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter Blended With Plant Protein all with "best if used by dates" of early May 2023. Those dates are located at the top of the lid.
The company said there have been no consumer complaints related to this issue and the recall is voluntary.
All retailers that received these particular products have been notified, the company said.
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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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NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville Children’s Theatre (NCT), the nation’s oldest professional theatre for young audiences, launched the Teaching Artists of Color Training Program earlier this month.
After losing many of its teaching artists due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Colin Peterson, NCT’s Education Director, knew he was going to have to pivot his approach to onboarding and training teaching staff.
“It’s been a goal of mine to increase equity and diversity at NCT through our education programs, and now is the time,” said Peterson.
Thus far, NCT has taken steps to improve equity by increasing teaching artists’ weekly pay, providing free extended care for weekly camps, and paying stipends to its college-aged summer camp interns. To take further steps to provide opportunities to young artists, Peterson brought together community activists, directors, and Black NCT teaching artists Shawn Whitsell and Jon Royal to discuss how to achieve various equity goals. From these conversations, came the Teaching Artists of Color Training Program. Through generous funding by the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Mark and Trayte Peters Family, the program is funded for three sessions until 2024.
The Teaching Artists of Color Training Program will admit three artists of color each year to participate in trainings on classroom management, childhood development, trauma-informed practices, inclusion training and general drama skills facilitation. Sessions will be hosted in one-on-one and group formats. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in field-work during regularly hosted Saturday morning classes at NCT serving students 4 to 18 years of age and can complete their training with a guaranteed 5-weeks of employment with NCT for summer camp sessions. Graduated artists will also have the opportunity to continue their work with NCT beyond the summer to serve as a regular teaching artist for NCT’s ongoing drama camps and classes. The program will be led by Jon Royal, a professional director and teaching artist, and co-facilitated by Peterson.
“The hope with this program is that artists who may have always wanted to step into the classroom and teach can have a space to be supported in building a new part of their practice,” said Royal. “Hopefully, some of the processing that can happen when you’re a person of color, in predominantly white training situations can be expressed openly, instead of internalized. If we can help teaching artists bring their full selves into this work, then young people will feel courageous enough to do the same.”
Participants in the 2022 class include:
Gerold Oliver, a Nashville-based actor who portrayed Peter Pan in Wendy’s Adventure to Neverland, as well as portraying the titular character of Ghost in the NCT Hatchery’s world-premiere production of Ryan Reynold’s book, Ghost.
James Rudolph, a Nashville-based actor who portrayed Sebastian in NCT’s production of Disney’s the Little Mermaid, as well as portraying Dad in NCT’s livestreamed production of Pete the Cat.
Piper Jones, a Nashville-based actor and American Idol contestant who portrayed Actor Troupe/Neverbird in Wendy’s Adventure to Neverland, as well as portraying Ursula in NCT’s production of Disney’s the Little Mermaid.
Nashville Children’s Theatre is a professional theatre company providing the children, families and educators of Middle Tennessee with extraordinary shared theatrical experiences that inspire imagination, develop creativity, and build community.
NCT was founded in 1931 by the Junior League of Nashville and is recognized as the oldest professional children’s theatre in the country. A national leader in professional theatre arts and education programs for young people, NCT is ranked by TIME magazine as one of the top five children’s theatres in the country. For more information including specific performance dates and times, please visit NashvilleCT.org.
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Four-time Formula 1 world champion, Sebastian Vettel is now fit to race in the 2022 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season, having missed the first two races of the due to a positive COVID-19 test. Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team called upon Nico Hulkenberg to fill in for the German while he was recovering, though the British-racing green team have been unable to score points in the opening rounds.
In a statement by Aston Martin, the #5 driver has tested negative for COVID-19, and will be able to compete in the upcoming Australian Grand Prix weekend from 8-10 April 2022.
In the statement, the British team claims they are “pleased” with the return of Sebastian Vettel:
“TEAM UPDATE: We are pleased to confirm that Sebastian Vettel is now fit to race and will therefore line up alongside [Lance Stroll] in Melbourne to kick off his 2022 [Formula 1] season at the [Australian Grand Prix].”
Sebastian Vettel will be hoping to make up for lost time in the upcoming weekend, as well as score Aston Martin’s first points of the season.
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Vladimir Putin’s search for ‘Moby Dick’
There is little about Russian President Vladimir Putin that hasn’t been said. His defiant attitude. Autocratic ambitions. Disdain for world order. Propensity for displays of virility. Vanity Fair claimed he lied about his height, implying a Freudian compensation motive. Psychology Today claims his personality and thinking are “grossly distorted.”
There’s no question that Putin is paranoid, anti-social, narcissistic and obsessive-compulsive. This is not speculative. It is evidentiary. In the 20th century alone, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Idi Amin, among others, possessed those same characteristics. Putin is an echo of an ancient and enduring persona: self-absorbed and bent on self-aggrandizement, whatever the costs.
To understand Putin, we could turn to literature. A palpable parallel is Captain Ahab in “Moby Dick,” Herman Melville’s 1851 classic. We all know the famous first line: “Call me Ishmael.” We know the boat was the Pequod, and that it incessantly pursued a leviathan to its own end.
But for the purposes of this essay, President Putin and Captain Ahab are our quarry.
Ahab’s story is fairly linear. His leg was taken by the Great White Whale Moby Dick. Out of spite, he had that leg replaced with a whalebone. When opportunity arose to chase down his nemesis, he became reckless in a fanatical mission. He felt his reckoning was righteous, even as his vessel and most of his crew spiraled into the dark water.
Captain Ahab has a personal vendetta. In pursuing it, Melville clearly depicted the captain as paranoid, anti-social, narcissistic and obsessive-compulsive. He cared little for the destruction that his revenge caused. He was the apotheosis of a monomaniacal, 19th century man.
Vladimir Putin is similarly bound. Ukraine has not bowed to his influence, and it has resisted his savage military assault. It insists on independence, promotes its own unique culture, aligns with Europe, and petitions for European Union and NATO membership. Putin’s oligarchic disposition shrieks — not whispers — in his ear every night that Ukraine is part of Russia’s birthright, and that if he doesn’t recover it, he is a failure to all who have sat on his throne, because a throne it is.
Ukraine is the second largest country by size in Europe. It has ports on the Black Sea, allowing it swift access to the Bosporus and the Mediterranean, cherished trade routes that Russian forces honed in on. It is a successful agricultural nation, which is something that Russia — with all its natural energy resources and centralized control — has never achieved. Ukraine is a prize.
Ukraine is Putin’s lost leg. He has replaced it with a metaphorical whalebone. And more than anything, his psyche wants to have what he believes it deserves. And if he can’t capture his whale, he’ll go down with the ship.
The parallels between Captain Ahab and Vladimir Putin are striking, and perhaps provide insight into what’s going to come next.
Putin embodies the same qualities as Ahab. He is putting his country at risk with little concern for his citizens who will suffer greatly from sanctions imposed by the international community. He has a personal vendetta against Ukraine, which for generations has steadfastly resisted Russia’s attempted influence.
And, most importantly, Putin thinks that land is better than money. That’s a critical mistake. The world is run by money — New York, London, Zurich, Hong Kong, and other cities. What income does Russia have? When was the last time you turned over a product to read a marking “Made in Russia”? Likely never. When was the last time you turned over a product to read “Made in China”? Probably today.
Putin, like Ahab, has made the mistake that the land (i.e., the whale) is the object of advance. Russia has abundant energy reserves, to be sure. But, though it would be difficult, the rest of the world could do without those resources, if necessary. With seven Russian banks removed from the SWIFT international system, and with other sanctions, Russia can’t access or transfer funds. Much like the Pequod in the South Seas, Russia is alone.
Putin is a man of the 19th century, just as Ahab was. But here’s the kicker: Putin can’t control the narrative. There are too many sources in today’s media world that he can’t control. Ahab could control what his seaman knew. It was just him and his little floating world. And even with his enormous controls, Ahab still faced mutiny. His twisted personality and personal vendetta turned his sailors against him. He was able to quell that mutiny, but he was on a small ship, adrift in the Pacific.
Will Putin be able to put down a mutiny? Surely the people around him can see his dysfunctionality. How long will they suffer from it? Social media is not in Putin’s favor. He likely will get the whale (i.e., Ukraine), but in the process of winning the battle, he’ll lose the war. If that happens, it will be a Pyrrhic victory by a 19th century man.
James R. Bailey is a professor of leadership development at the George Washington University School of Business. He is the author of five books and hundreds of articles, and the founder and editor of Lessons on Leadership. Follow him on Twitter @ProfJamesBailey.
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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman convicted in the death of a police officer has been sentenced to 8 to 12 years in prison.
Ashley Kroese of Thompson's Station was 24 years old on June 18, 2020, when she drove on the wrong side of the road in Brentwood, killing Brentwood police officer Destin Legieza, 30, authorities said.
She was previously found guilty of four charges, including vehicular homicide by intoxication. She was sentenced Wednesday for charges in the crash that killed Legieza, The Tennessean reported.
A blood test after the crash found her blood alcohol content was 0.166%, which is twice the legal limit.
Members of Legieza's family spoke at the hearing.
“Ashley. I don’t think you intended to kill anyone that day,” said Heather Legieza, the officer’s widow. “But you moving forward with the trial when you know what you did was with intention, you should have just taken accountability for your actions."
Kroese, who did not testify at the February trial, read from a statement.
“I can’t pretend to understand what you have been going through. I’ve never lost a husband, a son or a brother, and nothing I can say is able to ease your pain, but I am truly and deeply sorry,” Kroese said.
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LONDON (AP) — OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia decided Thursday to stick to a modest increase in the amount of crude they pump to the world, a step that supports higher prices even as the Biden administration plans to try to lower them by releasing oil from strategic reserves.
The group, known as OPEC+, said it would add 432,000 barrels per day in May, as it works to gradually restore production cuts made during the depths of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s slightly up from 400,000 barrels in previous months, with officials saying they’re revising baseline production levels.
The alliance has been unmoved by pleas from oil-consuming countries to pump more oil as energy prices soar, fueling inflation worldwide. High prices have helped Russia — the world’s largest exporter with 12% of the global market — offset some of the economic pain from Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.
The U.S. and European sanctions have dealt a severe blow to Russia’s economy but contain exceptions for energy payments. That is a U.S. concession to European allies who are much more dependent on Russian energy than the U.S., which has banned the import of Russian oil. Europe by contrast gets 40% of its natural gas and 25% of its oil from Russia, and officials there have shied away from a boycott, instead aiming to reduce dependency through conservation and boosting wind and solar energy as fast as they can over the next several years.
Oil prices have risen as global demand rebounded for fuel for cars, trucks and airplanes. The war pushed them ever higher over fears Russian oil might be lost to the market if sanctions tighten.
They have a major influence on how much U.S. drivers pay at the pump, with crude oil accounting for about half the price of a gallon of gas. To combat high gasoline prices — averaging $4.24, up $1.38 from a year ago — U.S. President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels per day from strategic petroleum reserves, with an announcement expected as soon Thursday.
Diesel fuel for trucks, farm equipment and factories has also jumped in price, to a U.S. average of $5.25 per gallon, up $2.02 from a year ago, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
In November, the White House announced the release of 50 million barrels in coordination with other countries, and after the war began, the U.S. and 30 other countries agreed on an additional release of 60 million barrels.
Oil prices slumped on expectations of a new release, but analysts at UniCredit bank said the impact of such moves on prices “is usually short-lived.” That’s because reserves are finite, and the production shortfall is open-ended. Once reserves fall below a certain level, the market might fear they would be insufficient to combat a further shortfall and prices would go up.
U.S. oil prices were down 6.3%, to $100.99, while international benchmark Brent crude dropped 5.6%, to $107.50.
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Francis Ngannou recently provided an update on his return to the Octagon after being out of action for quite some time due to a knee injury.
In a recent video uploaded to his YouTube channel, Ngannou revealed that he will be out for quite some time now due to the knee surgery that he is going through.
Speaking in the video, Ngannou said:
I'll be out for quite a while because I'm having a knee surgery. I feel very happy, and at peace with my choices. I don't want anything to dictate my behavior, or my choices, unless it's my feelings."
Further in the video, the UFC Heavyweight champ also revealed that he will be out of the octagon for around six to eight months depending on the outcome of the surgery.
Speaking of the damage, the Cameroonian mentioned that he had ACL damage and a completely torn MCL.
You can check out the entire video of Francis Ngannou Below:
Francis Ngannou successfully defended his title against CIryl Gane at UFC 270. However, in his post-fight conference, the fighter revealed that he had sustained multiple knee injuries three weeks prior to the fight.
Georges St-Pierre gives his take on Francis Ngannou contract situation
Georges St-Pierre believes Ngannou deserves to get paid for the value he holds.
The UFC Hall of Famer feels that the heavyweight took quite a chance fighting Ciryl Gane with a knee injury. He believes the fighter deserves a well-paid contract now.
While appearing in a recent episode of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, St-Pierre said:
"Man, that guy crossed the ocean with a boat. And nobody could swim, that guy could have died. So for him the significance of fighting, it must be different for him, coming from that background. He's got an incredible story and he made it. I'm so glad that he made it. And now he deserves it, a 100%. I heard he fought his last fight with a knee injury. That's crazy, he took an enormous risk."
Following that, the UFC two-division champion suggested that Ngannou look into other options if he is unable to reach an agreement with the UFC.
Georges St-Pierre said:
“I’m telling him [Francis Ngannou] as a friend that he needs to get paid to his value. And if he’s not satisfied with what the UFC gives him, then go seek, go get your service somewhere else where they’re going to pay you well because he’s not young.”
Watch Georges St-Pierre's appearance on The MMA Hour below:
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With seven games left before the playoffs, the Lakers are currently on the outside looking in for a play-in spot for the postseason…. Back in September, a gambler put $10K on the Lakers missing the playoffs. At that time, the Lakers were the betting favorite to win the Western Conference, and the odds of them not even making the playoffs were set at +1,600. Now, so that $10K bet has a legit shot at a $160K payoff.
WWE will begin talent tryouts Wednesday for 45 current and former college athletes, including 19 football players, as part of WrestleMania Week in the Dallas area.
WrestleMania 38 takes place Saturday and Sunday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Now that Live Wrestling is back, you may want to invest in the WWE:
The stock has been doing well — up about 183% over the past five years, nearly doubling the S&P 500‘s return over the same period.
Since its initial public offering in 1999, WWE’s outstanding share count has steadily risen from roughly 58 million basic shares to more than 78 million in 2019.
WWE has about $250 million remaining to continue share repurchases.
All told, the company returned $202 million in capital to shareholders in 2021, or 4% of its current $4.7 billion market cap.
Bruce Arians is stepping down after three seasons as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ head coach and moving into a front-office role with the organization, the team announced Wednesday night.
It makes you wonder if it is one of the reasons that Tom Brady un-retired.
Tampa Bay defensive coordinator Todd Bowles will replace Arians as head coach.
Bruce Willis is retiring from acting.
He has been diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder.
The family released a joint statement, calling this “a really challenging time.”
Before this announcement, Willis was reportedly having cognitive issues while on the set of recent films.
Memo to Chris Rock…..NO “Notebook” jokes!
Speaking of Chris Rock, his first live performances since the infamous Oscars last sunday were last night as he briefly spoke about the incident. Ticket sales have boomed do to the incident and Rock has added a second show in Cleveland June 17 at the Connor Palace Theater.
A stress management app looked through its data, and found that the most stressful hour of the week is different for men and women.
For the average woman, it’s 7:00 p.m. on a Monday or Tuesday.
For the average man, it’s 8:00 p.m. on Friday.
It also found women are 5% more stressed out than men in general.
‘N SYNC teased on Twitter that “Something is Coming”, but they didn’t say what. Fans are hoping it’s a reunion.
‘N Sync hasn’t released new music since they went on a “hiatus” in 2002.
With the New Kids on the Block currently on tour as are the Backstreet Boys, New Edition and others, not hard to believe.
Speaking of the Back Street Boys, AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys along with Massillon’s Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees will be in concert at Canton’s Centennial Plaza Saturday, July 9. Tickets on Sale at Mix 941.com
Undermanned Cavs lost to the Mavs 120-112 last night and now have dropped 4 of their last 5 games.
Cleveland will take on the Hawks in Atlanta tonight and are an early 6 point road dog.
Today is Thursday, March 31, 2022
Today in Sports History
1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States was founded to set rules in amateur sports. The organization became the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910.
1931 – Knute Rockne died in a plane crash. Rockne won 3 title in 13 years at Notre Dame.
1973 – Muhammad Ali wore a $10000 robe with “The Peoples Champion” inscribed on it. Ali lost the fight to Ken Norton. Elvis Presley had given the robe to Ali on January 2, 1971.
Celebrity Birthdays today
Shirley Jones is 88 (“The Partridge Family”)
Gabe Kaplan is 77 (“Welcome Back Kotter”)
Rhea Perlman is 74 ( Carla on ”Cheers”)
And a Mic Drop Birthday
Christopher Walken is 79
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Re-freeze leads to pileup involving more than a dozen vehicles on I-94 in Maplewood, Minnesota
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MAPLEWOOD, Minnesota (WCCO) — It doesn’t take much to create dangerous driving conditions.
Wet weather and cooler temperatures can cause chaos. Add in rush hour traffic, and you get what happened Thursday morning on Interstate 94 in Maplewood.
MnDOT traffic cameras captured more than a dozen vehicles spinning and crashing into guard rails and each other. The reason? A re-freeze on metro roads.
“Anytime we have temps around 32 degrees and a little precipitation or moisture, those bridge decks will freeze up right away and cause for some slippery conditions,” said Sgt. Troy Christianson with the Minnesota State Patrol.
Losing control on the road is unnerving, but the state patrol says what you do next could save your life. If you’re in a crash, pull over onto the shoulder or an exit ramp — and do not get out of your vehicle.
“We see it quite often where you get out of your vehicle and people are actually struck by the other cars that lose control. So we want to make sure you get your vehicle out of the lane of traffic, stay in your vehicle with your seat belt on, and wait for law enforcement to arrive and make the scene safe,” Christianson said.
As Minnesota continues to thaw out, the best strategy is to plan ahead for you commute. Allow for extra time, more space between you and the car in front of you and go slow. Also, make note of any bridges you might be crossing. Law enforcement says those are the first to get slippery when conditions are right.
The state patrol says to call 911 if you get in a crash. They will ask you a few questions, like if there are any injuries and your location. Then it’s a waiting game until help arrives.
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Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
By ANDREW DALTON
AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer says Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards. In a clip released Thursday of an interview with “Good Morning America,” Packer says police called the incident battery and laid out the options for Rock. But Packer says Rock was dismissive of the idea. Smith walked on the Dolby Theatre stage Sunday and slapped Rock after a joke the comedian made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith apologized to Rock in a statement Monday. The academy met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith.
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Fried chicken meets fine dining: putting haute KFC to the taste test
For some it’s a guilty pleasure, a road trip tradition, a reward for the kids or a Friday night blowout. But now KFC - somehow the most sinful of all the fast foods - has become something else entirely: haute cuisine.
As far as marketing stunts go, it’s a winner. More than 20,000 Sydneysiders supposedly signed up for a seat at the KFC Degustation Restaurant, an 11-course romp through popcorn chicken, Twisters and Zinger burgers - deconstructed, reimagined and dolled up by executive chef Nelly Robinson.
Only 180 diners over three nights will be admitted to the top secret set-up down an Alexandria laneway. In a city that fawns over trendy restaurants, this is bizarrely one of the hardest tables in town to nab (at $75-a-head, for charity, it is also one of Sydney’s most affordable degustations).
But how does this Frankenstein feast stack up on the culinary front? Can those 11 secret herbs and spices survive the transition from greasy cardboard box to the fine dining table? Is any of this stuff actually edible while sober?
We won’t get an answer on that front because, unlike most KFC restaurants, there’s champagne on arrival - a stellar innovation in this correspondent’s book. A host shows us to our seats, and we are offered sparking or still water while PR agents buzz about the room fawning and spruiking.
The meal begins with a soft tomato-ey marshmallow dusted in those stubbornly secret spices, and is quickly followed by something they’re calling a Zinger katsu - a piece of fried chicken stacked on a potato block, drizzled with curry mayo and dill.
Then comes the allegedly “supercharged” wings, which resemble your normal KFC chicken wings, except (as per fine dining custom) smaller. They are cooked on a bed of charcoal and set alight at the table, which makes a nice change from the deep fryer.
By this time we have noticed the candle on our table has melted curiously quickly. Greater alarm sets in when the waiter starts pouring something on the melted wax. Of course, it transpires the candle was made of gravy and this is Robinson’s take on KFC’s venerated potato and gravy tubs.
Paired wines arrive, and what vineyard wouldn’t be thrilled to learn it has been judged the best accompaniment to fried chicken? Or, indeed, Zinger kingfish. Robinson told us this controversial creation was the subject of much disagreement with the powers-that-be, who were not convinced fish belonged on a KFC menu.
“This went on and on and on until I won,” Robinson said.
A Twister follows in two parts; first, Colonel Sanders’ face is drawn on a plate with tomato, lettuce, pepper mayo and KFC flavouring. It can only be consumed by licking - perhaps another fine dining first - and precedes a mini Twister embellished with pearl barley risotto, sundried tomato and Manchego cheese in a spinach tortilla, adorned with an edible flower “just to make it posh”.
We move on to this correspondent’s pick of the bunch - a reinvention of the humble delicacy of popcorn chicken. Here the chicken bites are dunked in a roast garlic mushroom soup which also hosts little pillows of mushroom gnocchi, topped with parsley chips.
By this point, one’s enthusiasm for fried chicken may begin to wane, gunned down by attrition, but the main event is still to come; an Original Recipe drumstick rolled in deep-fried “gold quinoa”. No contemporary degustation would be complete without quinoa, but this rocky accoutrement isn’t to everyone’s taste.
A dessert of wattle seed ice cream is popular at our table, and we imagine ourselves shamelessly demanding it from a hapless teenage cashier at George Street KFC at 3.30am after a night out.
The British-born Robinson loves a gimmick; he previously created a Disney-inspired degustation menu and an Aussie feast featuring dishes like ‘vegemite focaccia’ and ‘bunnings sausage sizzle’.
It’s obviously not vegetarian friendly, and it’s not likely to earn many Michelin stars, but there’s no doubt this KFC caper is a bit of fun. It’s fast food for the Instagram generation and, surprisingly, it works - even the fussy foodies on our table were suitably impressed.
You’ll avoid the grease trap, too; there’s surprisingly little need for the refresher toilette when you’re eating fried chicken with a knife and fork.
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PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A solar storm will be making the Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, visible in Illinois Thursday and Friday, but the weather is not expected to cooperate in Central Illinois.
According to the Curator of Science & Planetarium Director at the Peoria Riverfront Museum Renae Kerrigan, the reason for the Northern lights being visible this far south is due to a large coronal mass ejection (CME) on the sun a couple of days ago.
Kerrigan explained that a CME is when a pocket of plasma from the sun gets caught up in a magnetic storm on the sun, which gets ejected from the sun and sends plasma through space. The plasma can get caught in the earth’s magnetic field and excites the atoms in the earth’s atmosphere, which causes the Aurora Borealis.
“There was an unusually large CME recently, and that meant that the auroral activity was even stronger than normal, and was visible at lower latitude than typical, so we might have a chance to see it here in Central Illinois,” Kerrigan said.
The biggest obstacle for anyone hoping to see the lights is expected to be the weather.
“Unfortunately, the weather has to cooperate for us to be able to see the aurora, it can’t be a very cloudy night, and it looks like we do have some cloudy weather expected,” Kerrigan said.
If the weather does cooperate, the Northern Lights are expected to look different from the pictures you might have seen of them in the arctic circle.
“It is not likely to look like those beautiful green, moving, lights that you see if you look up pictures of the aurora, usually if it is visible this far south from the arctic circle, it is usually more of a red color, and it’s usually fairly faint,” Kerrigan said.
For anyone who would like to try and look Thursday or Friday night, Kerrigan said to temper your expectations.
“It is still worth trying to find because it is a rare thing to be visible at this latitude, but maybe temper your expectations,” Kerrigan said. “Expect something a little bit more tricky to find, you might have to look carefully to know what you’re looking at.”
Those hoping to have their best chances of seeing the Northern Lights are also encouraged to go looking for a place away from cities, which have less light pollution.
More information about the Planetarium and Peoria Riverfront museum is available on their website and on their Facebook page.
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Flora Cummings (S) def. Halle Burt 0-6, 7-6(7-5), 11-9; Lilly Thompson (E) def. Cami Sikora...
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California man convicted of using $27M in PPP loans for personal use, including renting oceanfront property
(Gray News) – A California man was convicted Monday on multiple finance fraud charges, including using fraudulently obtained PPP loans to rent out beachfront property in Santa Monica, according to the Department of Justice.
According to a release from the DOJ, 53-year-old Robert Benlevi submitted 27 Paycheck Protection Program loan applications to four banks between April and June of 2022 on behalf of eight companies he owned.
The DOJ said he sought a total of $27 million in forgivable PPP loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.
Benlevi reportedly represented that each of his companies had 100 employees and average monthly payroll expenses of $400,000, even though he knew the companies did not have any employees or payroll expenses, the DOJ said.
Evidence at trial also reportedly showed that Benlevi submitted fabricated IRS documents falsely stating each of the companies had an annual payroll of $4.8 million.
Three of Benlevi’s companies received $3 million in PPP funds, according to the DOJ. Instead of using the funds to pay for payroll and other business expenses, the evidence reportedly showed that he instead used the money to pay for personal expenses which included cash withdrawals, personal credit card payments and even renting an oceanfront apartment in Santa Monica, California. Some amounts of money were transferred from the business account to personal and business accounts he controlled.
Benlevi was convicted of bank fraud, false statements to a financial institution and money laundering.
He is scheduled to be sentenced June 27, and faces up to 30 years in prison for each of the bank fraud and false statement charges. He also faces up to 10 years for each count of money laundering.
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(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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NEW YORK (AP) A judge has ordered New York's Democrat-controlled Legislature to redraw the state's congressional and legislative districts after finding they were unconstitutional.
Judge Patrick McAllister said in a Thursday ruling that maps redrawing the state's congressional districts were gerrymandered to benefit Democrats. McAllister said those districts must be redrawn, along with the legislative districts, in a way that attracted at least some bipartisan support.
The judge gave lawmakers until April 11 to try again. If their new maps fail to pass muster in the courts again, then the judge said he would order the state to pay for a court-approved expert to redraw the maps.
Legislative leaders said they would appeal the ruling.
The state's primary elections are scheduled June 28 and candidates have already begun campaigning in the new districts.
The judge said that if the Legislature fails again and an outside expert is hired to draw the maps, the process would be expensive and lengthy and may leave the state without maps before Aug. 23, the last possible date that the state could push back its primary election.
Republicans had argued in a lawsuit that the maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to benefit Democrats and marginalize GOP voters.
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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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HONG KONG, Mar 31, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Value Convergence Holdings Limited ("VC Holdings", together with its subsidiaries, the "Group"; Stock Code: 0821.HK), a well-established and one-stop financial services institution in Hong Kong, is pleased to announce its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2021 ( the "Reporting Year").
During the Reporting Year, the Group delivered strong performance in its financial service business. Boosted by its promising business performance, revenue from continuing operations increased by approximately 32% to approximately HK$90.6 million during the Reporting Year (2020: HK$68.4 million). The Group successfully achieved a business turnaround with profit for the year attributable to the owners of the Company of approximately HK$15.2 million, against a loss of approximately HK$31.7 million in 2020. Basic earnings per share from continuing and discontinued operations were HK0.81 cents (2020: Basic loss per share of HK2.36 cents).
Mr. Peter Fu, Chairman and Executive Director of Value Convergence Holdings Limited, said, "VC Holdings has always been dedicated to offering premier financial services and products that fulfil various investment and wealth management needs of clients in the Great China region . During the Reporting Year, we seized opportunities amidst the challenges brought about by the complex and volatile market environment, while achieving breakthroughs in several business segments and enhancing operational efficiency. Our improved results were mainly attributable to the increase in commission from placing and underwriting transactions by VC Brokerage Limited, the increase in interest income money lending due to increase in loan book, increase in net realised and unrealised gain on investment in trading securities and substantial reduction of impairment in accounts receivables and other receivables. The successful turnaround was also a testimony of the dedication and hard work of our staff."
Business Overview
Financial service business
The financial service business remained the Group's core business during the Reporting Year and contributed approximately 99.7% of the Group's total revenue. The business segment recorded a proimising performance, with a 32% year-on-year growth in revenue, driven by the Group's client base established over the years, diverse premium services that cater to clients' needs, competitive fees and a proactive and professional team. The Group continued to provide local and overseas securities dealing, futures trading, derivatives and other structured products trading, placement and underwriting, margin financing and money lending, etc. Besides, the Group offered corporate finance advisory services, including mergers and acquisitions advisory and company secretarial services. The Group also focused on achieving sound development in the financial market and aggressively pursued innovations, among which financial technology is considered a fundamental part of innovations and remains a major focus of investment in the industry. Since the rise of digital era, the Group has introduced its online securities transaction platform, which has been well recognized by the industry.
Proprietary trading business
Hong Kong's securities market remained vibrant in 2021, with total funds raised and average daily turnover reaching HK$770.7 billion and HK$166.7 billion, representing year-on-year increases of 3.0% and 29.0% respectively. Benefitting from this, the performance of proprietary trading business segment remained strong. As of 31 December 2021, the Group held equity securities listed in Hong Kong of approximately HK$423.5 million as financial assets held-for-trading, marking a 71% appreciation of market value as compared with that of 31 December 2020.
Sale and marketing of digital assets
The Group commenced the sales and marketing of digital assets business in December 2021, with a view to capturing the potential growth in the digital era. The joint venture Shenzhen Huiwei Duoying Technology Co. Ltd. was established in December 2021, marking the Group's first step to expand its business to digital assets segment. Subsequent to the establishment of the joint venture Shenzhen Huiwei Duoying Technology Co. Ltd., a sales and marketing team has been established in Shenzhen to facilitate the boost of the sale and marketing of digital assets segment. The Group plans to enhance the business of sales and marketing of digital products of Tencent, with an expectation to obtain exclusive sales rights from digital product distributors of Tencent.
The Group discontinued its healthcare business as a result of the disposal during the Reporting Year.
Outlook
Capitalizing on the strategic partnership and in-depth business collaboration between the Group and its partners, VC Group will continue to adopt its dual-track business strategy to bolster a stable development of its financial operations in Hong Kong and allocate more resources to further expand digital assets business in China, with a view to enhancing flexibility of business, broadening revenue streams and bringing new impetus for sustainable growth of the Group. The Group will also remain vigilant to the potential impact brought about by COVID-19-related uncertainties and continued inflation.
Mr. Fu concluded, "We are optimistic about the prospects of new business, which is expected to start contributing to the Group's revenue in this financial year and make up the shortfall in Hong Kong business resulting from market uncertainties and volatility. Looking ahead, leveraging our deep customer knowledge and comprehensive portfolio of financial products and services, the Group will fully unleash its strengths as a professional financial service provider and continue to move forward towards its strategic goal of building a professional, market-oriented and international investment platform, so as to bring long-term returns for shareholders."
About VC Holdings Limited
Value Convergence Holdings Limited (Stock code: 0821.HK) was listed on the GEM board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2001, and completed transfer of listing to the Main Board in 2008. Being a well-established financial services group committed to delivering premier financial services and products in the Great China region, the Group's services include (i) provision of financial services comprising securities, futures and options brokering and dealing, financing services, corporate finance and other advisory services, asset management and insurance brokerage; (ii) proprietary trading; and (iii) sale and marketing of digital assets.
For more details, please visit www.vcgroup.com.hk.
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During the Reporting Year, the Group delivered strong performance in its financial service business. Boosted by its promising business performance, revenue from continuing operations increased by approximately 32% to approximately HK$90.6 million during the Reporting Year (2020: HK$68.4 million). The Group successfully achieved a business turnaround with profit for the year attributable to the owners of the Company of approximately HK$15.2 million, against a loss of approximately HK$31.7 million in 2020. Basic earnings per share from continuing and discontinued operations were HK0.81 cents (2020: Basic loss per share of HK2.36 cents).
Mr. Peter Fu, Chairman and Executive Director of Value Convergence Holdings Limited, said, "VC Holdings has always been dedicated to offering premier financial services and products that fulfil various investment and wealth management needs of clients in the Great China region . During the Reporting Year, we seized opportunities amidst the challenges brought about by the complex and volatile market environment, while achieving breakthroughs in several business segments and enhancing operational efficiency. Our improved results were mainly attributable to the increase in commission from placing and underwriting transactions by VC Brokerage Limited, the increase in interest income money lending due to increase in loan book, increase in net realised and unrealised gain on investment in trading securities and substantial reduction of impairment in accounts receivables and other receivables. The successful turnaround was also a testimony of the dedication and hard work of our staff."
Business Overview
Financial service business
The financial service business remained the Group's core business during the Reporting Year and contributed approximately 99.7% of the Group's total revenue. The business segment recorded a proimising performance, with a 32% year-on-year growth in revenue, driven by the Group's client base established over the years, diverse premium services that cater to clients' needs, competitive fees and a proactive and professional team. The Group continued to provide local and overseas securities dealing, futures trading, derivatives and other structured products trading, placement and underwriting, margin financing and money lending, etc. Besides, the Group offered corporate finance advisory services, including mergers and acquisitions advisory and company secretarial services. The Group also focused on achieving sound development in the financial market and aggressively pursued innovations, among which financial technology is considered a fundamental part of innovations and remains a major focus of investment in the industry. Since the rise of digital era, the Group has introduced its online securities transaction platform, which has been well recognized by the industry.
Proprietary trading business
Hong Kong's securities market remained vibrant in 2021, with total funds raised and average daily turnover reaching HK$770.7 billion and HK$166.7 billion, representing year-on-year increases of 3.0% and 29.0% respectively. Benefitting from this, the performance of proprietary trading business segment remained strong. As of 31 December 2021, the Group held equity securities listed in Hong Kong of approximately HK$423.5 million as financial assets held-for-trading, marking a 71% appreciation of market value as compared with that of 31 December 2020.
Sale and marketing of digital assets
The Group commenced the sales and marketing of digital assets business in December 2021, with a view to capturing the potential growth in the digital era. The joint venture Shenzhen Huiwei Duoying Technology Co. Ltd. was established in December 2021, marking the Group's first step to expand its business to digital assets segment. Subsequent to the establishment of the joint venture Shenzhen Huiwei Duoying Technology Co. Ltd., a sales and marketing team has been established in Shenzhen to facilitate the boost of the sale and marketing of digital assets segment. The Group plans to enhance the business of sales and marketing of digital products of Tencent, with an expectation to obtain exclusive sales rights from digital product distributors of Tencent.
The Group discontinued its healthcare business as a result of the disposal during the Reporting Year.
Outlook
Capitalizing on the strategic partnership and in-depth business collaboration between the Group and its partners, VC Group will continue to adopt its dual-track business strategy to bolster a stable development of its financial operations in Hong Kong and allocate more resources to further expand digital assets business in China, with a view to enhancing flexibility of business, broadening revenue streams and bringing new impetus for sustainable growth of the Group. The Group will also remain vigilant to the potential impact brought about by COVID-19-related uncertainties and continued inflation.
Mr. Fu concluded, "We are optimistic about the prospects of new business, which is expected to start contributing to the Group's revenue in this financial year and make up the shortfall in Hong Kong business resulting from market uncertainties and volatility. Looking ahead, leveraging our deep customer knowledge and comprehensive portfolio of financial products and services, the Group will fully unleash its strengths as a professional financial service provider and continue to move forward towards its strategic goal of building a professional, market-oriented and international investment platform, so as to bring long-term returns for shareholders."
About VC Holdings Limited
Value Convergence Holdings Limited (Stock code: 0821.HK) was listed on the GEM board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2001, and completed transfer of listing to the Main Board in 2008. Being a well-established financial services group committed to delivering premier financial services and products in the Great China region, the Group's services include (i) provision of financial services comprising securities, futures and options brokering and dealing, financing services, corporate finance and other advisory services, asset management and insurance brokerage; (ii) proprietary trading; and (iii) sale and marketing of digital assets.
For more details, please visit www.vcgroup.com.hk.
Copyright 2022 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. www.acnnewswire.com
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WASHINGTON, DC — Tennessee House Minority Leader Karen Camper joined a Day of Action in Washington DC to show support for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brown Jackson as the Senate Judiciary Committee began. If confirmed, Brown Jackson would become the first African-American woman on the country’s highest court. The National Organization of Black Elected Legislative-Women (NOBEL Women) joined a coalition of organizations rallying in Washington recently in support of Judge Brown Jackson’s confirmation. Leader Camper is the immediate past-president of NOBEL Women. In partnership with the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, state legislators participated in the rally at the steps of the Supreme Court joining leaders from Black Women’s Roundtable, the Women’s Law Center, and other advocacy organizations. During this historic day, leaders also met with their U.S. Senators to convey why Judge Brown Jackson should be our next justice on the Supreme Court and hold federal legislators accountable. “When I heard that Ketanji Brown Jackson was the choice of President Biden, I was excited and thrilled,” Leader Camper said. “She is a decorated and accomplished jurist, experienced both in Washington as President Obama’s choice to be vice chair of the United States Sentencing commission and, on the ground, early in her career as a public defender. This is a nomination that is inspiring for the nation and, frankly, overdue. While this nomination is historic, we should make no mistake about it, Judge Brown Jackson is imminently qualified and is the right person for this high honor.”
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https://tntribune.com/rep-camper-joined-the-day-of-action-in-support-of-judge-jacksons-confirmation-to-the-supreme-court/
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Congress weighs WTO-legal ways to punish Russia
Congress wants to punish Russia for invading Ukraine. In the past week, several bills have been introduced that would stop the U.S. from giving Russia the tariff rates it gets as a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and possibly even suspend or throw it out of the institution. To enhance the credibility of these bills, the U.S. should wean itself from imports of Russian oil and gas.
Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) started things off with the “No Most Favored Nation Trading with Russia Act.” The bill sets out two goals: deprive Russia of the same tariff treatment the U.S. gives other members of the WTO, and “use the voice, vote, and influence” of the U.S. to oust Russia from the institution. The latter would be no easy feat. The WTO doesn’t have a ready-made mechanism to do this. Jim Bacchus has sketched an interesting way forward, but it hinges on two improbable votes, the first one redoing the WTO in a way that Russia would reject, and the second one in favor of purging Russia for rejecting it.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) followed up with a bill that is also called the “No Most Favored Nation Trading with Russia Act.” It would subject Russia to the non-most-favored nation (MFN) tariffs it faced before it joined the WTO in 2012. It would also encourage U.S. allies to follow suit. But it drops any mention of a “vote,” as per the Blumenauer-Doggett bill, instead leaving it to the U.S.’s “voice and influence” to get Russia suspended from the WTO.
Most recently, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) has introduced his “No Trading with Invaders Act.” This bill, like Wyden’s, hits Russia with higher non-MFN tariffs, but more generically targets “aggression in violation of international law against a WTO member.” The bill also lays out a path back to normalized trade relations.
Could Russia legally challenge these non-MFN tariffs at the WTO? This is where things get especially interesting. There are typically three reactions to this question. First, the U.S. might not care if the tariffs are legal. Second, since the Appellate Body isn’t working, any verdict could be appealed into a legal void. Third, the U.S. won’t lose because it can use the WTO’s national security exception, and thus prevail even if the tariffs are found to be illegal.
Because the bills are aimed at being WTO-legal, let’s discount the first, concede the second and focus on the third. The national security exception is not self-judging, as some commentators suggest, but the U.S. would undoubtedly clear the low bar set by Saudi Arabia — intellectual property rights. In this case, the withdrawal of Saudi diplomats convinced the WTO there was an emergency in international relations, even though armed conflict, or public disorder, didn’t hang in the balance.
This was the first step. The second was to show a “nexus” between Saudi’s trade measures and its national security. The WTO couldn’t see how keeping Qataris out of Saudi courts furthered the Kingdom’s national security. Likewise, the U.S. will have a hard time explaining why lower price imports from Russia, but not of oil and gas, pose a national security threat.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), originally sued by Qatar over the same trade embargo as Saudi Arabia, faced a similar problem. It, too, blocked commerce with Qatar to bolster its national security, but exempted liquified natural gas. The optics of this looked absurd. Had Qatar continued to prosecute this case, the UAE would have come up short on the nexus question, even though, like Saudi, it would have cleared the bar in establishing an emergency in international relations.
Trade sanctions are a fraught exercise. Domestic and international factors seldom line up. As Congress weighs WTO-legal ways to punish Russia for invading Ukraine, U.S. imports of Russian oil and gas are an unforced error that should be corrected.
Marc L. Busch is the Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Follow him on Twitter @marclbusch.
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Tommy Thompson, just weeks removed from leading the University of Wisconsin System, met with former President Donald Trump on Thursday for a talk about “Wisconsin politics,” a former aide said.
Thompson was elected to four terms as Wisconsin's governor, and earlier this year declined to rule out another bid. Thompson, 80, spent almost two years atop the university system before leaving earlier this month.
Bill McCoshen, a former chief of staff to Thompson when he served as governor, said the two met at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
“The primary topic was Wisconsin politics," McCoshen said. “They talked about the gubernatorial race, the Senate race and what it will take to win in Wisconsin. The topic of running for governor may have come up, but the purpose was to talk about Wisonsin politics more broadly.”
A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
McCoshen said he expected Thompson to make a decision in April. The primary is in August. Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, businessman Kevin Nicholson and state Rep. Timothy Ramthun are Republicans vying to take on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Thompson was first elected to the Legislature in 1966 and was first elected governor in 1986. He resigned midway through his fourth term to serve as Health and Human Services secretary under then-President George W. Bush, and ran briefly for president in 2008.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish prosecutor in the case against 26 Saudi nationals charged in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made a surprise request Thursday that their trial in absentia be suspended and the case transferred to Saudi Arabia, raising fears of a possible coverup.
The panel of judges made no ruling on the prosecutor’s request but said a letter would be sent to Turkey’s Justice Ministry seeking its opinion on the possible transfer of the file to Saudi judicial authorities, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Trial was adjourned until April 7.
The development comes as Turkey has been trying to normalize its relationship with Saudi Arabia, which hit an all-time low following Khashoggi’s grisly October 2018 killing. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview on Thursday that Saudi authorities were more cooperative on judicial issues with Turkey, but did not elaborate.
In arguing for the transfer, the prosecutor told the court that the Saudi chief public prosecutor’s office requested the Turkish proceedings be transferred to the kingdom in a letter dated March 13, and that international warrants issued by Ankara against the defendants be lifted, according to the private DHA news agency.
The prosecutor said that because the arrest warrants cannot be executed and defense statements cannot be taken, the case would remain inconclusive in Turkey.
Amnesty International urged Turkey to press ahead with the trial, saying if it is transferred to Saudi Arabia, Turkey will be “knowingly and willingly sending the case to a place where it will be covered up.”
Moving Khashoggi’s trial to Saudi Arabia would provide a diplomatic resolution to a dispute that represented the wider troubles between Ankara and the kingdom since the 2011 Arab Spring.
Turkey under Erdogan supported Islamists as the uprisings took hold, while Saudi Arabia and its ally the United Arab Emirates sought to suppress such movements for fear of facing challenges to their autocratic governments. Meanwhile, Turkey sided with Qatar in a diplomatic dispute that saw Doha boycotted by Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Since then-President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, the Gulf Arab states have set aside — but not fully resolved — the Qatar dispute. Meanwhile, Turkey under Erdogan has faced a rapid devaluation of its lira currency over his refusal to hike interest rates. Bilateral trade to the kingdom and the UAE, a major transshipment point for the world economy, also collapsed.
Since the start of 2022, Erdogan has sought to improve those ties, including making his first visit to the UAE in nearly a decade. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, after fighting through the coronavirus pandemic’s economic effects, facing a grinding war in Yemen and struggling with renewed tensions with Iran, also want to resolve the outstanding feud.
Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2, 2018, after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, seeking documents that would allow him to marry Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish national who was waiting outside the building. He never emerged.
Turkish officials allege that the Saudi national, who was a United States resident, was killed and then dismembered with a bone saw inside the consulate. His body has not been found. Prior to his killing, Khashoggi had written critically of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in columns for the Washington Post.
Turkish authorities said he was killed by a team of Saudi agents. Those on trial in absentia include two former aides of the prince.
Saudi officials initially offered conflicting accounts concerning the killing, including claims that Khashoggi had left the consulate building unharmed. But amid mounting international pressure, they stated that Khashoggi’s death was a tragic accident, with the meeting unexpectedly turning violent.
Turkey decided to try the defendants in absentia after Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish demands for their extradition.
The slaying had sparked international condemnation and cast a cloud of suspicion over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Western intelligence agencies, as well as the U.S. Congress, have said that an operation of this magnitude could not have happened without his knowledge.
In urging Turkey to proceed with the trial, Amnesty International said Ankara would be complicit in a coverup if it grants the Saudi request for a transfer.
“If the prosecutor’s request is granted, then instead of prosecuting and shedding light on a murder that was committed on its territory … Turkey will be knowingly and willingly sending the case to a place where it will be covered up,” said Tarik Beyhan, Amnesty’s campaign director for Turkey.
Beyhan said he didn’t want to “think about the possibility” that the prosecutor’s request may be related to the improving ties between Riyadh and Ankara.
“Basic human rights … should not be made the subject of political negotiations,” he said. “A murder cannot be covered up to fix relations.”
Some of the men were put on trial in Riyadh behind closed doors. A Saudi court issued a final verdict in 2020 that sentenced five mid-level officials and operatives to 20-year jail terms. The court had originally ordered the death penalty, but reduced the punishment after Khashoggi’s son Salah, who lives in Saudi Arabia, announced that he forgave the defendants. Three others were sentenced to lesser jail terms.
On Thursday, Khashoggi’s fiancee, Cengiz, appeared to criticize the prosecutor’s request in a tweet in English. “It is an exemplary situation in terms of showing the dilemma facing humanity in the modern era,” she wrote. “Which of the two will we choose? To want to live like a virtuous human being or to build a life by holding material interests above all kinds of values.”
She did not respond to a request for comment.
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Associated Press Writer Jon Gambrell contributed from Dubai.
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American mixed martial arts podcaster, analyst and former MMA fighter, Josh Thomson, took a shot at welterweight fighter Colby Covington. He addressed his thoughts on the much-talked about incident at the Oscars involving Will Smith and Chris Rock.
This past week, Jorge Masvidal was taken into custody by Miami-Dade County Police after allegedly punching Covington in the face twice outside a restaurant. 'Gamebred' faces one count of aggravated battery resulting in great bodily harm and one count of criminal mischief.
Masvidal’s actions came after he lost the bout via unanimous decision to friend turned arch rival Covington at UFC 272. The Miami native didn’t take some of the comments made by 'Chaos' well, prompting him to allegedly attack Covington.
In the Weighing Interjection podcast, Thomson gave his opinion on how Rock handled the incident after Smith slapped him for making a joke about his wife, while also taking a dig at Covington. Thomson said:
"Chris Rock handled that s**t like a champ. He took it on the chin, he took it strong. It wasn't as strong as most people would have thought from Will Smith, but d**n, he handled it like a true professional. It's weird that fighters are pressing charges but actors not interested."
Check out Josh Thomson's comments below:
Kamaru Usman breaks down the Jorge Masvidal-Colby Covington incident
Kamaru Usman opines that both Colby Covington and Jorge Masdival were at fault for the recent incident that took place outside a restaurant in Miami.
The current UFC welterweight champion weighed in on the brawl between the two former best friends, addressing in an Instagram live session how the fight is growing out of the sport and turning into a reality which is concerning.
"One, it’s unfortunate because it’s growing legs now out of just sports to actuality and reality. That’s what’s the danger [is] about what you say trying to build a fight or leading up to a fight. You have to watch your mouth. You can’t just run off at the mouth and say what you want or do what you want and expect the opponent to still keep it sport-related."
Check out the Instagram LIVE by Kamaru Usman below:
Usman further went on to say indirectly that while Covington was the one who aggravated the assault, Masvidal should have handled it better and should have acted more wisely and responsibly.
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Report: US military must do more to avoid civilian deaths
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report says the U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, 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. The RAND 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.
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By Jordan Baker
In the past two years, Walgett Community College incident log has recorded almost 50 cases of violence at the school, ranging from student brawls and threats involving weapons to assaults on teachers. Police were notified or called almost 15 times and, on a handful of occasions, lockdown procedures were activated.
“Numerous students displayed aggressive and threatening behaviour on school grounds and a lockdown was implemented,” the log says of an incident in term one last year, in which police were called.
Another incident involved students breaking into a classroom and distributing the equipment, says the log, released under freedom of information laws. On another occasion, some students lit a fire, causing minor property damage. There were multiple fights between students that teachers tried to handle, but in some cases called police for support.
One time, six students approached a student who was leaving with their parent. “[They] assaulted the student,” it said.
Violence has become a fixture of Walgett High. There are deep disagreements over what to do about it; the elders say the students need more help for their disability and trauma and want police kept out, but others say the environment has become dangerous for both students and teachers.
It is not a new problem. Almost 10 years ago, then Education Minister Adrian Piccoli denounced the government’s neglect of Walgett, and rural schools like it, where most students are indigenous. He said Walgett Community College’s ruinous buildings made it the worst school in the state. “I think it is true to say that we as a community have treated Aboriginal people like rubbish.”
To turn the school around, the NSW government gave its buildings a $9 million makeover. It created a new governance structure - known as Connected Communities - to give parents and local leaders a greater voice in decisions made not only by Walgett Community College, but 15 schools with similarly high numbers of Indigenous children in other parts of the state. The department lured former Asquith high principal, Richard Rule, out of retirement to lead the new-look school.
More money, including Gonski funding, flowed over the next few years and gave Walgett the highest per capita funding of any school in the state. In 2020 - the most recent figures available - it received more than $44,500 for each student from state and federal governments.
None of it seems to have helped.
The high school now has its 31st principal in 24 years. Its attendance rate has been trending downwards from a low base since 2011. Last year it was 43.3 per cent, which was slightly higher than the year before, but far lower than the average across the state (90.7 per cent) or statistically similar schools (76.7 per cent), the freedom of information documents show. Just five of 151 students attended school more than 90 per cent of the time, compared with 31 per cent in similar schools.
In the five years to 2018, the average yearly staff turnover was 50 per cent. Potential recruits were deterred by the geographical isolation and the violence. Two female teachers have been on long-term leave due to severe injuries sustained while being assaulted by female students on school grounds, multiple sources say, and staff members have been hit, spat upon and had their cars damaged.
The turnover and vacancies mean, among other things, that there’s little educational continuity in a school where it’s particularly important. NAPLAN results show many of the students struggle with the basic skills they will need to function in society; the average year 9 score was below minimum standard in every subject but spelling and numeracy. In writing, the average year 9 student was functioning at year 3 level.
Some local families do not want to send their children there. They say they don’t learn, and the conflict makes them anxious.
Kathryn Sharpley’s daughter Caroline Ashby, who is 12, finds the work too easy - her mother says it’s often at year 5 level - and doesn’t like the violence. “Some days she doesn’t want to go, because of all the fights around the school,” her mother says. “She loves maths, it’s her favourite subject. Going there, they’re making her take a step back. I tell her, being Aboriginal doesn’t mean you can’t get somewhere in life.”
Mrs Sharpley could send Caroline to Queensland to live with relatives, or to a school in the nearby town of Lightning Ridge. “I’d prefer her to be close to us, than move a long way,” she says.
Local mother Rebecca Trindall has organised a daily bus to Lightning Ridge, which is about 45 minutes away, and is lobbying for Walgett children to be given automatic access to that school rather than having to lodge out of area applications. “Each year, families are forced to relocate from Walgett or send children away to simply be educated as there are no options available to them locally outside of Walgett Community College.”
One ongoing issue has been tension between principals and community leaders. Richard Rule, the principal installed as part of Dr Piccoli’s makeover, lasted two years. He says he came under pressure from the school reference group - community members who help make school decisions - to leave. Few principals since have lasted much longer.
“[They] were of the belief I was not running the school in the spirit of Connected Communities,” he says. “In Walgett’s case, the model just didn’t work. I wanted a well-run school where children stayed in the classroom and had a teacher in front of them and actually learned something in a stable environment.
“That did not seem to satisfy the reference group, who seemed to want some sort of cultural revolution in their school that was never going to happen while the school was unstable, with violence and teachers under threat.”
The Dharriwaa Elders lay the blame for continued dysfunction with the NSW Department of Education, which “continues to fail to provide what’s needed for Walgett students to succeed at school,” they said in a statement published on their website after the Herald requested an interview. They say they are being denied figures on suspension by Aboriginality, which, they say, means NSW Education wants to hide the link between school suspensions and a lack of support for disability and trauma.
They want the school to stop calling police “as their first response to behaviour incidents”, and say officers should be banned from bringing guns onto the school site. “Recently there was an escalation when five police cars attended the high school to arrest a young teenage girl,” their statement says. “ Walgett school leadership must train their staff to de-escalate behaviours in our young people and decommission their hotline to police. The criminalising of our young people when they aren’t well has to stop.
“We conclude that Walgett schools are not culturally or physically safe.”
Piccoli acknowledges the conflicting expectations of school staff and the community. “When incidents occur at school, and the school takes the disciplinary action it would take at any other school, sometimes the community doesn’t respond well to that,” he says. “Walgett is a very unique place. So it has to be a unique school.
“For example, having police - the community didn’t like that. They don’t want it to be seen as a justice precinct. It’s got to be an education precinct. And they’re right, but you have to be able to guarantee staff safety as well.”
The Connected Communities program was supposed to build bridges between schools and the community. The NSW Department of Education evaluated the program a few years ago, and its findings were ambivalent. On the plus side, most of the 15 schools were successfully introducing local Aboriginal language programs, and attempting to incorporate Aboriginal content into their curriculum.
However, the role of School Reference Groups lacked clarity, it says, and there was uncertainty - “and in some cases tension” - around their role in decision-making. The strategy has also, as yet, had little impact on academic outcomes or attendance at the secondary level. Attendance has gone backwards, and schools were still struggling to engage parents in students’ education. The NSW Department of Education has nevertheless expanded the number of schools involved in the program from the original 15 to 31.
Mark Banasiak is an upper house MP representing the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party, and is also a former teacher. He has taken a particular interest in Walgett, and worries about the students. “People need to be held accountable for these failures to deliver,” he says.
“I’m turning my attention to people higher up, past the executive principal, who are supposed to be supporting the school. Until you address that core issue about why some elements of the community are not coming along with the school’s plan, you are never going to achieve the change you need. The tragedy is it’s the kids that suffer the most. Education should be a circuit breaker in this community, and a way for the community to grow and prosper, and at the moment that’s not happening.”
Asked about the issue in parliament, Education Minister Sarah Mitchell acknowledged there was more to do. “Part of it is the work we need to do to make sure that our staff feel supported, that they feel empowered and that we work not just with the school but also with the whole of the community,” she says.
“We know that some entrenched issues in the Walgett community have existed for years. These are things that multiple government agencies are working on together, and they will continue to do so.”
Mr Rule is sceptical about the whole-of-government approach. “I went to some of those meetings and there was a lot of rhetoric,” he says. “I don’t think I saw in the school one positive outcome from any of the state and federal agencies.”
The NSW Department of Education refused the Herald’s request to interview the school’s principal, who, some say, has brought relative stability in the past 11 months. It gave a statement saying that the Department of Regional NSW was working with community leaders to improve youth education, vocational training, employment and social outcomes.
There’s no easy solution for Walgett, says Piccoli. “There are deep social and historical issues there, that are difficult to change,” he says. Inter-agency collaboration was important, but often did not involve people senior enough to cut through the bureaucracy.
“If I had five minutes to talk to [Secretary of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet] Michael Coutts-Trotter, I would say, ‘we need a minister for Walgett, or a deputy secretary’. It’s very hard to change human behaviour, but we can certainly provide the fundamentals and basics that most people take for granted ... that we haven’t got right there.
“The bottom line is you can never give up. You have to keep getting the best support you can there.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don’t have an answer for how that’s going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that’s a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs.” Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?” Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden’s social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden’s agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven’t abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden’s economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they’d help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That’s done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she’s looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control. It’s an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don’t reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can’t afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a “total disaster” for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
“This will make private insurance for people with diabetes a much more attractive proposition,” said Glied.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers gave up on the chance of meeting the state’s budget deadline when final agreements on the spending plan and related items failed to emerge in time.
The Senate and Assembly adjourned until Monday, when they say they will try again to reach an accord.
The next hard deadline for the budget to be in place is Monday afternoon. That’s when the state comptroller needs to process payroll for 62,000 employees who work at state-run hospitals, prisons and other institutional settings.
In a memo to state agencies, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli warned that if the budget is not completed by 4 p.m., it will delay the direct depositing of checks for the April 7 payday.
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said she’s hopeful the budget can be in place by then.
“We’re going to have a timely budget,” Stewart-Cousins said. “Because we are making progress.”
The biggest sticking point has been whether to include revisions to bail reform in the budget and make other changes to the landmark 2019 criminal justice reform laws.
Hochul, under pressure from political opponents who have accused her of being soft on crime, outlined 10 changes that she would like to make. They include adding more gun-related crimes to the list of felonies that would once again be bail-eligible, making it easier to mandate that a mentally ill person be hospitalized or receive outpatient treatment, and adding more money for mental health services.
Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who championed the laws, have been resistant to making changes, saying there is no hard data linking the reforms to rising crime rates across the state. But the Senate leader said the Legislature is likely to adopt some of Hochul’s suggested changes.
“We are trying to deal with making sure that people are safe and that we create a public safely environment,” Stewart-Cousins said. “Without criminalizing poverty.”
The Senate and Assembly did not include unrelated items like bail reform changes to their proposed spending plans. Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris blamed disagreements over those unrelated proposals for the late budget.
“The unfortunate part is there has been significant amount of non-budgetary issues thrown into the mix towards the end,” Gianaris said. “And that has slowed us down.”
Gianaris said at least one unrelated item could be off the table until later in the session. Proposed reforms to a tax break for real estate developers who agree to build affordable housing in exchange for development projects, known as 421a, will likely not be part of the budget.
The governor and lawmakers are still talking about restructuring the state’s troubled ethics commission, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or JCOPE.
Government watchdogs, including Blair Horner with the New York Public Interest Research Group, warn that a plan currently under consideration would not be an improvement, because the governor and Legislature would continue to appoint the members.
“It is a structure that is designed to fail," Horner said. “The only way these ethics agencies work is if they’re independent.”
And criticism continues over the deal struck Monday between Hochul and the owners of the Buffalo Bills football team. That agreement would require at least $850 million of state money. Some lawmakers and Hochul’s political opponents said it is too big a giveaway to the wealthy owners of a lucrative sports franchise.
Hochul announced Wednesday that some of the stadium financing will come from gaming-related payments made to the state by the Seneca Nation of Indians as part of a legal settlement. That led the leader of the Seneca Nation to attack the plan as an example of “hostile and shameless greed.”
Proposals including a gas tax holiday and allowing restaurants to serve to-go alcoholic drinks along with takeout food are still on the negotiating table.
Not everyone planned on leaving the Capitol for a long weekend, though.
New Yorkers with disabilities and their allies planned to camp out in a lobby outside the governor’s office to advocate for more pay for home health care aides. A proposal backed in the Legislature would require that home care workers receive at least one and a half times the minimum wage.
Sen. Jessica Ramos, a Democrat, was among several lawmakers who spoke.
“I’ve been heartbroken to know that the Assembly and Senate has been sent home,” Ramos said. “We’ve been doing our job; we need the governor to do her job.”
Republicans, who are in the minority in the Legislature, also condemned Hochul and the Democratic legislative leaders for exiting Albany for the weekend without a budget in place. Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay called it “embarrassing,” saying in a statement that the Democrats’ “dysfunction has led to needless gridlock.”
Hochul did not appear in public for the sixth day in a row, amid reports that some of her top staff have tested positive for COVID-19 and are working remotely.
A spokeswoman, Hazel Crampton-Hayes, said in a statement that anyone who tested positive is isolating, and that the governor has continued to test negative. She said Hochul is “working around the clock to finalize a budget.”
Hochul, in a statement, said she is continuing to have “productive conversations” with legislative leaders and will “put in the time it takes” to reach an agreement.
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BA.2, the highly contagious omicron subvariant of COVID-19 driving yet another surge of cases in Europe, has reached D.C., a District health official said Friday. It’s not immediately clear when BA.2 arrived in D.C., but a new study suggests the first known case of the subvariant in the U.S. was detected in December. BA.2 is estimated to be 30 to 50% more contagious than the original version of omicron, but early data signals some good news. “It doesn’t seem to evade our vaccines or our immunity any more than the prior omicron,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told NPR last week. “And it doesn’t seem to lead to any more increased severity of disease.”
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Cameron University offers workforce Organizational Leadership bachelor’s degree
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - A new program at Cameron University (CU) will help adults in the workforce get their college degrees.
The CU Reconnect Program is designed to help those employed to navigate college and receive their B.A. in Organizational Leaders Leadership.
Those accepted, will have a lower tuition rate due to a state initiative.
The newfound program gives applicants the choice to have a focus.
Krystal Brue, the Chair Department of Business & Associate Professor of Management at Cameron, said this helps those adults in working fields that want to take the next step with a college degree.
“Most of the benefit of this program, that we found after speaking with students, is that they want to excel in their career field,” Brue said. “So they are working, but they can’t go to the next level unless they have a college degree. Or they want to get into an area, but they’re just not able to get into because they don’t meet that minimum education requirement.”
Brues said those who may be hesitant, because of their busy lifestyles, will have a flexible schedule.
“Take one step at a time, and move forward. You don’t have to be a full time student to be in this program, you can take one class at a time,” Brue said. “If you take one class to begin with, and if you find it interesting and you can fit it into your schedule, then next semester take another class, or maybe take two.”
The Organizational Leadership Degree will have a focus range from: Corporate, Industrial, Government and non-profit work.
Cameron set up two virtual Reach Higher events, where those interested can talk directly to faculty and admissions.
Financial advisors will also be on standby to answer any questions.
The next session is from 5 p.m to 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 31.
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By Lukman Olabiyi
Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the leadership of its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has enjoined Nigerian Muslim Ummah to search for the crescent of Ramadan immediately after sunset today.
A statement issued by the director of administration of NSCIA, Zubairu Usman-Ugwu on his behalf said: “If the crescent is sighted by Muslims of impeccable character on the said evening, then His Eminence would declare Saturday, 2nd April 2022 as the first day of Ramadan 1443 AH. If, however, the crescent is not sighted that day, then, Sunday, 3rd April 2022, automatically becomes the first of Ramadan, 1443 AH.”
The council also enjoined Muslims to report credible and positive sighting of the crescent of Ramadan 1443 AH to the appropriate authority, especially, members of the National Moon Sighting Committee (NMSC)
The council prayed that Allah would spares the lives of every Muslim to participate in the ibaadah exercise and to maximise the benefits therein.
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https://www.sunnewsonline.com/ramadan-lookout-for-crescent-sultan-tells-muslims/
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A $64.1 billion supplemental state budget that spends on statewide programs ranging from homelessness and behavioral health to the ongoing COVID-19 response was signed Thursday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
The supplemental plan builds off of the $59 billion, two-year spending plan adopted by the Legislature last year, and benefited from the significant influx of revenues the state has seen over the past year. Additionally, lawmakers used more than $1 billion in remaining pandemic-related federal relief funds in the budget.
More than $800 million is allocated for homelessness and housing, including $50 million to transition unhoused people from unsanctioned camps to housing.
Inslee specifically called out the efforts on addressing homelessness, saying that lawmakers “gave us relief that is big, that is bold, and that is fast.”
While there are no general tax increases in the plan, there are also no across-the-board tax cuts, something Republicans had argued for throughout the legislative session that ended March 10.
A small business tax credit was included that would affect about 125,000 small businesses in the state, and was among the bills signed by Inslee Thursday.
Starting in January, businesses making less than $125,000 a year would pay no state business taxes, and those making up to $250,000 a year, business taxes will be cut in half.
The supplemental operating budget also spends state or federal money on things like adding more social supports like nurses and counselors for students, increasing rates to vendors providing services to people with developmental disabilities or long-term care needs and shoring up the state’s paid family leave program, which officials warned was nearing a deficit.
It also allots funding for raises for state workers. According to the Office of Financial Management, about 63,800 general government employees will get a 3.25% general wage increase, about 6,700 state corrections workers will get a 4% general wage increase and about 1,200 state patrol officers will get a 10% general wage increase. The last general wage increase for represented employees was July 1, 2020.
The operating budget also transfers more than $2 billion to the nearly $17 billion, 16-year transportation revenue package that Inslee signed last week. The plan leaves about $3 billion in total reserves.
Inslee had several full or partial vetoes of bills, including a section of a bill that would have expanded the state’s existing warehouse sales and use tax to include smaller warehouses of at least 100,000 square feet. In his veto notice, Inslee said that while he understood the importance of manufacturing and warehousing to rural economies, he said the tax incentives in the bill were overly broad.
Inslee on Thursday also signed a $1.5 billion state construction budget that spends on areas ranging from housing, homelessness, behavioral health facilities, and seismic upgrades at public schools.
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NASHVILLE, TN — The kick-off of the recognition of the two women who integrated Scarritt College for Christian Women, DeLaris Johnson Risher and Lelia Robinson Dabbs house, is the beginning of a year-long campaign to bring to light their quiet, yet radical movement.
The first recognition will be the official naming of The Johnson Robinson House on the Scarritt Bennett Center campus. Themed “It’s Always a Time for Radical Change,” the event takes place Saturday, April 2, 2022, at 12 noon, on the campus of the Scarritt Bennett Center at 1003 18th Avenue South, Nashville, TN. The official ribbon cutting will be led by Ms. Johnson Risher, and relatives of Ms. Robinson Dabbs. The public is invited to attend.
Ms. Johnson, a proud woman in her 90’s is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Nashville chapters will hold a special celebration in her honor during the weekend festivities.
Known now as the Scarritt Bennett Center, the educational training for women institution moved to Nashville in 1924 and was named Scarritt College for Christian Workers, its origination was in Kansas City, Missouri as the Scarritt Bible and Training School more than 90 years ago.
“It has been a wonderful opportunity to research the storied history of the College and continue to discover all its golden treasures. These two women, who dared to stand up for women of color 70 years ago richly blessed the history of this institution,” said Rev. Sondrea Tolbert, Executive Director of the Scarritt Bennett Center.
Ms. Risher, came to Nashville from Orangeburg South Carolina and Ms. Dabbs, from Austin, Texas. Both ladies went on to become Deaconesses in their respective Methodist conferences. Mrs. Delaris Johnson Risher was licensed in 1955 as the first African American deaconess at the Navajo New Mexico Conference. Mrs. Lelia Robinson Dabbs was president of the Central Jurisdiction Deaconess Association for 15 years.
The brave act of these women had its foundation, in part by a professor at the College, who also taught at Fisk University, Dr. Ina Corrine Brown. In her letter to the Board, she stated, it is time, “In the light of these considerations the faculty of Scarritt College believes that the time has come when it is not only appropriate but obligatory that we actively seek a solution to the problem posed by State laws which now make mandatory on our campus a practice which is out of harmony with the mission entrusted to us by the church. The mandate of Christian conscience no longer permits us to say that we can do nothing about racial exclusion on our campus until the State amend s the Constitution. It is our conviction that we should either seek a new interpretation of the law as it affects church-related institutions or act through educational and legal channels to change the law.”
The era of the Scarritt College integration, was ahead of the non-violent movement of the Civil Rights area of the 1960s and the Jim Crow laws were in effect. Scarritt was admitting students of color that were foreign and leaders from Africa, Latin America, and Asian sent from the Methodist mission fields to prepare for lives of service. Their presence tested the limits of the local power structure’s forbearance; however, admitting Black Americans went over the edge! Segregation was being heavily enforced to the extent of not just imprisonment, but the lynching of African Americans had occurred in Tennessee only a decade before. It had not been very long since the KKK had a public office on what is now Music Row near today’s Musica Statue in the Buddy Killen Roundabout.
The year-long campaign will feature a plethora of activities to keep their legacy in the forefront of the College’s history, as well as the city of Nashville, and throughout Methodism and the world. This fund-raising campaign will make it possible to continue the work by the Scarritt Bennett Center in the areas of women’s empowerment and racial justice.
For more information, contact Jenean Davis, Development and Marketing Director, at jdavis@scarrittbennett.org or 615-340-742
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BERLIN (AP) — Investigators said Thursday they have identified a 32-year-old student as the suspect in the poisoning of seven people at a university in western Germany last year.
In August, prosecutors opened an investigation after employees and students at the Technical University in Darmstadt, south of Frankfurt, received medical treatment for symptoms of possible poisoning. Police said at the time that milk cartons and water containers in a building on the campus appeared to have been contaminated.
On Thursday, they said the 32-year-old from the German city of Mainz, a materials science student at the university since 2017, has been sent to a psychiatric hospital. She is suspected of attempted murder, but officials believe she can’t be held criminally responsible because of a psychiatric illness. Police said the suspect hasn’t yet responded to the allegations.
They said information from over 1,000 witnesses helped firm up their case against the suspect, and that forensic analysis pointed to her having been in the building the night before the victims’ symptoms appeared.
Some of the affected employees were mentioned in notes written by the woman, and the investigation found indications that she felt persecuted by them, police said. They didn’t identify the “harmful substances” that were used.
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https://www.mystateline.com/news/international/student-identified-as-suspect-in-german-university-poisoning/
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For a short time, Baker Mayfield seemed to be the answer to Cleveland Browns' dreams. Now, he is being ostracized by the team. After they acquired Deshaun Watson, they are now trying to trade Mayfield. Those paying close attention may have seen this coming all along. So what reasons were there for this sudden failure from someone who once showed so much promise?
#3 - Too much coaching turnover
When the quarterback arrived at Cleveland in 2018, Hue Jackson was his head coach. That lasted eight games as Jackson was fired and replaced on an interim basis by Gregg Williams. Then came the failed Freddie Kitchens era in 2019, only for Kevin Stefanski to get the job in 2020.
That is a ton of turnover for any young player, let alone one trying to be a franchise quarterback. There was never a consistent philosophy in place, and the quarterback was working with too many new people on an annual basis.
#2 - A bad injury
The Browns entered 2021 as Super Bowl favorites. Then, disaster struck when Mayfield went to make a tackle in Week 2 and injured his labrum. He clearly struggled week in and week out, but continued to play, and the team suffered as a result.
This was a shocking sight because it was supposed to be the year in which Mayfield earned himself a mega-deal on par with other quarterbacks in the league. Instead, his value tanked, and the front office got an early start on finding his replacement.
However, there are still questions as to why he was allowed to play while being so injured. He showed what he could do when healthy in 2020, so this remains a mystery for fans in Cleveland.
#1 - A change in philosophy
The Browns were committed to building with Mayfield at the helm. But his 2021 struggles were enough for ownership to commit to going all-in on a star like Watson, even with his ongoing legal troubles.
They were done with being patient and decided to offer a record deal in the process. This was a huge flip, but they are hoping to take a route like the Buffalo Bills, where a slow build turned into a consistent contender. The Browns tried that; unfortunately, it didn't work, and now they are taking a new approach.
Mayfield is now left seeking to restart his career elsewhere. If he succeeds, Browns fans will be wondering why it couldn't have happened in Cleveland.
Baker Mayfield's best option and stats
Mayfield was supposed to be a franchise savior for the Cleveland Browns. And for a short period of time, he was just that. He led the team to the playoffs in 2020 and even took down the Pittsburgh Steelers to advance to the Divisional Round. With the Browns' acquisition of Watson, so much has changed. But Mayfield still has options.
According to the article entitled "NFL exec says Seahwks 'best option' for Mayfield," "one league executive for an NFC team told Fansided’s Matt Lombardo that he views Mayfield as the 'best option' for the Seattle Seahawks." He went on to say:
"There’s no doubt that Baker Mayfield is Seattle’s best option," the source said. "He’s only 26 years old. Is he a headstrong guy? Is he a prideful guy? Absolutely, bigger than life, and that’s alright. Pete Carroll can corral that in. That’s what he’s good at."
In 2021, Mayfield threw 3,010 yards for 17 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. He had a 60.5% completion percentage and a QBR rating of 83.1.
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https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/3-reasons-baker-mayfield-ended-failing-cleveland
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Ariana Grande is fed up with what she says are “disgraceful bills” targeting transgender youth. To mark International Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday, the singer unveiled a new initiative aimed at helping those who would be impacted by such legislation.
Called the Protect & Defend Trans Youth Fund, Ariana announced, “Please join me in donating to this fund i’ve created with @pledge.to to support organizations providing direct services and advocating for the rights of trans youth.”
“Right now there are hundreds of disgraceful bills pending in state legislature that target trans youth and aim to curb their rights,” she continued. “This will provide critical funds to organizations advocating for the rights of trans youth.”
Ariana explained, “All funds will be split evenly between benefiting organizations… I will be matching all funds raised up to $1,500,000.”
Among the programs her initiative will fund are Gendernexus, House of Tulip, Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, JASMYN, and organizations centered in Florida, Iowa, Arizona, Tennessee, Texas and other states that have put forth anti-LGBT legislation.
The “Positions” singer has raised close to $100,000 as of Thursday afternoon, with more donations coming in every minute. Those interested in donating to Ariana’s cause can do so by visiting pledge.to/protect-defend-trans-youth-fund.
The news comes as Oklahoma and Arizona both signed laws banning transgender youth from participating in school sports that align with their gender identity. Other states imposing similar bans include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.
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George Darte has resigned his seat on regional council in a move that has left some of his colleagues shocked.
“It’s a private decision,” said Darte, who represented St. Catharines. “I am so sorry I cannot complete my term. I must do what I must do for me.”
This was Darte’s first term, having finished second place in 2018 among the six regional councillors elected for the city.
Asked if his decision would preclude him from running again in the Oct. 24 election, Darte replied, “That’s a safe assumption.”
St. Catharines Mayor Walter Sendzik was stunned.
“George has been such a big contributor to the council,” he said. “He’s at every meeting, and he contributes and isn’t afraid to challenge council and staff.
“He’s been supportive of so many of the positive initiatives that the (Niagara) Region has undertaken, from transit to the protection of our environment.”
Lincoln Coun. Rob Foster said the resignation came as a complete surprise.
“George is both a friend and a colleague for whom I have so much respect,” Foster said. “We have worked together on several items for the good of all Niagara.
“I do not know the reasons for George leaving, but this is a loss for St. Catharines and Niagara.”
Darte informed his council colleagues of his decision by way of an email sent Wednesday evening.
In the email obtained by The Standard, Darte joked he will miss the butter tarts Region Chair Jim Bradley is renowned for sharing at meetings.
“This is obviously something I take very seriously, and I am sorry that I am not able to go for the full term,” Darte said.
“It has been a pleasure to work with you, all the members of council and the wonderful staff that I have been privileged to know and work with. Jim Bradley has been a truly positive breath of fresh air and has brought the Region back to an organization that any employee would like to work for.”
Later in the email, Darte said, “I am happy to chat with any of you if you wish, but I shall ask you to respect my privacy for my decision to resign. It is not something that I have decided on without having given much thought.”
Darte, a funeral planner, came to council without political experience but with deep ties to the community. His community service included with Rotary Club of St. Catharines, St. Catharines Rowing Club, United Way, St. Catharines hospital and Star of the Sea church.
Sendzik wouldn’t speculate on how city councillors will decide to fill the vacancy.
Local municipalities have two options for filling a regional council seat — byelection or appointment.
However, the Municipal Elections Act stipulates a byelection can’t be held if the seat becomes vacant after March 31.
The Region must fill the seat within 60 days.
Almost three months ago, Mat Siscoe was appointed by his St. Catharines city council peers to replace Sandie Bellows at the Region following her death.
Her seat was declared vacant on Nov. 18.
The decision to appoint Siscoe set off a local political firestorm. City councillors voted 7-6 against a staff recommendation to appoint Mike Britton, who finished eighth in the city’s regional councillor race.
Seventh-place finisher (first runner-up) Kelly Edgar has been appointed when Jim Bradley was elected regional chair by regional councillors at the start of this term.
City policy says when a vacancy occurs in the final year of a term, council shall appoint the next-place finisher if he or she received 70 per cent of the person’s votes before them.
Debate by St. Catharines city council turned on when the final year of the term officially ended.
Britton engaged a lawyer to look into what he called the city council’s “wrong and unjust” decision not to recommend him to fill the Bellows vacancy. The lawyer made a presentation to the regional council before it voted to accept the city’s recommendation and appoint Siscoe.
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https://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/news/council/2022/03/31/darte-resigns-from-regional-council.html
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At every Wednesday home game during the upcoming Midwest League season, the Quad Cities River Bandits will assume a new identity.
Celebrating the Hispanic and Latino communities in the Quad-Cities, the River Bandits will become the "Bandidos del Rio" for each of the team’s 11 Wednesday home games.
Quad Cities players will wear special jerseys that include a colorful serape-inspired design on the sleeves and caps featuring River Bandits mascot Rascal wearing a sombrero and mask that also include the serape-inspired design.
The colorful look and change in identity to the Bandidos del Rio — which translates to Bandits of the River — comes as the Quad-Cities club becomes part of Minor League Baseball’s Copa de la Diversion program for the first time.
The River Bandits are one of eight first-time participants in the program, which debuted in 2017 as part of a Hispanic fan engagement initiative and has grown annually.
This season, 85 minor-league teams will change their names one night each week as part of the program.
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"We’re excited to put a fresh new twist and colorful new look on our iconic River Bandits logo and we are equally enthused about being able to develop a greater connection with a community that frankly at times has been overlooked to a degree," River Bandits owner Dave Heller said. "We're really looking forward to being able to welcome a new group of fans to the ballpark and celebrate with them throughout the upcoming season."
Group O has partnered with the River Bandits as the presenting sponsor of the Copa de la Diversion program in the Quad-Cities.
In addition to being part of the celebration at each Wednesday home game, beginning with a 6:30 p.m. match-up against Cedar Rapids on April 13, Group O will help select a local cause or charity that will receive all of the proceeds from an auction of the special Bandidos del Rio jerseys during a game on Sept. 7.
Group O is also making it possible for fans to enjoy free Ferris wheel and double-decker carousel rides at each Wednesday home game beginning on May 11.
The River Bandits and Group O are also partnering with the Greater Quad Cities Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to promote a local small business or nonprofit organization at each Wednesday home game.
Fans can take part as well. A new line of Bandidos del Rio merchandise will also be available at Rascal’s Team Store at Modern Woodmen Park.
Quad Cities is one of three Midwest League teams participating the Copa de la Diversion program for the first time this season.
The Fort Wayne TinCaps will become the Fort Wayne Fighting Apples as they play as the Manzanas Luchadoras de Fort Wayne and Great Lakes Loons will become the Spicy Pickles of the North, taking the field as Pepinillos Picantes del Norte.
Midwest League clubs in Cedar Rapids, Lansing, Lake County, Peoria, South Bend, West Michigan and Wisconsin will continue participation over the course of the 120-game season which opens April 8.
In addition to competing on the field, teams compete off it as well.
At the end of the season, Minor League Baseball’s Latino Leadership and Community Growth Council will recognize top-performing teams in several areas, including ballpark experience, community engagement and philanthropic impact.
According to figures compiled by Minor League Baseball, during the first four seasons of the initiative attendance at Copa-designated games has been on average 20% higher than at non-Copa games.
In addition to increases in sales at the ballpark, minor-league teams have also partnered with more than 200 local Latino organizations on events and charitable endeavors since the start of the program.
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https://qctimes.com/sports/baseball/professional/minor/midwest-league/bandits-join-baseballs-copa-craze/article_380a0edf-0d88-5a94-aeb7-2eddee216917.html
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As i-80 Gold Corp. nears its first anniversary as a publicly traded company, Chief Executive Officer Ewan Downie said i-80 expects to begin trucking gold ore this summer from its Granite Creek underground mine to nearby Nevada Gold Mines facilities for processing.
“It should start in mid-year this year,” he said in a March 29 earnings call on the company’s fourth-quarter 2021 and full-year 2021 finances that included an ending cash balance in 2021 of $87.6 million, with an operating loss of $16.6 million for the year and an $8.8 million loss for the fourth quarter.
Matt Gili, president and chief operating officer, said the first shipment of 10,000 tons of ore from Granite Creek will be the test, and then i-80 Gold will send monthly truckloads to Twin Creeks for processing. Contract miner Small Mine Development will stockpile the ore before shipments.
Under the swap agreement last October between i-80 Gold and NGM, i-80 Gold has the right to process ore from Granite Creek at the Twin Creeks operations nearby in Humboldt County that are part of NGM’s Turquoise Ridge Complex “until we get Lone Tree up,” Downie said.
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In the exchange, i-80 Gold took over Lone Tree along Interstate 80 from NGM, and NGM received i-80 Gold’s 40% share of the South Arturo Mine northwest of Carlin and the option to acquire the Rodeo Creek exploration property.
Lone Tree has processing facilities, including an autoclave, so i-80 Gold plans to process ore there from Granite Creek once they are ready to use. Hatch Ltd. is currently completing an engineer study for the restart of the autoclave, which has been on care and maintenance.
NGM is a joint venture of Barrick Gold Corp. and Newmont Corp., with Barrick as the operator at 61.5% owner.
Meanwhile, underground mining is under way 24 hours a day, seven days a week at Granite Creek, and i-80 Gold continues to plan for an open pit mine at Granite Creek, as well, that would call for heap leaching the oxide ore.
“We expect it to be the highest margin operation for the company,” Downie said of the proposed open pit that the company hopes to permit.
The Reno-based company that was created when Equinox Gold acquired Premier Gold and spun off i-80 Gold began trading in April 2021.
Along with the asset swaps with NGM, i-80 Gold acquired the Ruby Hill Mine at Eureka from Waterton last year, and the company plans to begin an underground project out of the Archimedes open pit to provide ore for processing at Lone Tree.
Mining recently ended at the open pit at Ruby Hill, but heap leaching continues to provide gold revenue for i-80 Gold as it continues exploring and planning for Ruby Hill’s future, which could later include mining and processing base metals. There is a large zinc deposit there, as well as gold and silver ore.
Downie said Ruby Hill has infrastructure in place for future processing, including oxide mineralization found at the Ruby Deeps deposit, which he said the company was “pleasantly surprised” to find. Ruby Deeps also has refractory ore that would go to Lone Tree.
The company also reported that the portal started a month ago for underground exploration at the McCoy Cove Project south of Battle Mountain, and he said the site is one of the highest-grade undeveloped underground properties in the United States.
Exploration drilling underground is expected to start by the end of the third quarter, Downie said, also reporting that the agreement with NGM will allow for toll processing at a NGM roaster for ore from McCoy Cove.
While the focus at Lone Tree is the processing facilities, i-80 Gold also plans open pit mining at the Buffalo Valley and Brooks projects, with the gold ore to be processed on the heap leach facilities on site, where there is still leaching under way to provide income.
Books and Buffalo Valley are planned as moderate-sized pits southwest of Lone Tree, and gold production should start there in 2023.
“We expect to be the second biggest producer in Nevada,” Downie said, adding that the company’s goal is to produce more than 400,000 gold ounces per year and stating that with the Lone Tree facilities, the company has the ability to “control our own destiny in one of the world’s most favorable jurisdictions.”
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https://elkodaily.com/mining/i-80-to-start-trucking-granite-creek-ore-mid-year/article_6cc253a7-4099-56f9-a71a-34df92d8dab5.html
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SIR – All that my smart electricity/gas meter is doing, instead of giving current consumption levels, is showing a message extolling the merits of a having a smart meter. Consequently I have unable to update my last reading (January 1) before April 1, as recommended by industry experts.
So the projected fixed rate is now almost 350 per cent higher than last year, despite my currently being in credit. I don’t look so smart now.
Jeremy Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire
SIR – I am lucky to live in a Wiltshire market town behind which is the scarp slope of Salisbury Plain rising 500ft. On the slope is our historic White Horse. The truly rural view from the top of the hill takes in the Avon Valley and the Devizes Downs and we can see, on a good day, the next white horse in Wiltshire.
Around the edge of the town we are seeing the installation of more and more solar farms. So instead of green fields we have shiny grey solar panels. The same is happening in other parts of Wiltshire. Regular users of the A303 will have noticed nearby fields turning shiny grey.
As one looks at the view one cannot help noticing the new factories, the new housing estates, new schools, a health centre and farmers’ barns, very few of which have solar panels.
If the Government is determined to install extra solar capacity then could it not pass legislation to ensure solar panels or solar tiles are on every available roof and save our fields from this unwelcome onslaught?
Nicholas Pyne
Westbury, Wiltshire
SIR – Statistically, peak electricity demand in the United Kingdom occurs at 5pm on the second Tuesday of January. The Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng’s ambitious 50GW of solar capacity will contribute precisely nothing to meeting this demand, as it will obviously be dark then.
Ceri Phipps
London EC1
SIR – The Government plans to go ahead with the Sizewell C nuclear power station and five more similar power stations. This will commit the county to a vast expenditure with little return.
To use nuclear power is a good idea to cope with the variations of renewable power but to use a design which has failed is sheer stupidity.
The French design has been used in three power stations so far: the Finnish station has problems, the Chinese station is not working and the French one has teething troubles, and the cost over-runs are staggering. The British example at Hinkley Point may be successful, but we don’t yet know.
The obvious answer is to use the smaller power stations being developed by Rolls-Royce which would have a much smaller environmental footprint, can be built on existing brownfield sites and will cost far less.
They are also very likely to work.
Ken Ward
Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire
Western hypocrisy is costing Ukrainian lives
SIR – When Iraq invaded Kuwait – an oil-rich but non-Nato country – the response of the West was immediate.
Russia invades Ukraine – a sovereign, peaceful European neighbour – three times, and the hand-wringing continues.
There are 40 million reasons why this hypocrisy must end.
Andrew Harding
Haywards Heath, West Sussex
SIR – Sanctions will certainly have an effect but, sadly, Vladimir Putin’s propaganda will succeed in persuading the suffering masses in Russia that their hardship is the result of an unprovoked assault by Nato on their innocent nation – a country doing its best to rescue the Ukrainians from Nazi aggression.
Now he has successfully frightened the West with threats of unimaginable violence, there is no reason to suppose that he will stop at Ukraine. Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, has said that Mr Putin and his regime will be held to account, but there is absolutely no chance of that happening unless Nato and Europe first get their military act together to stop short the “special military operation”.
A bloody nose is the only language a bully understands. It’s already shamefully overdue.
Sqn Ldr Tom Mitcham (retd)
Rustington, West Sussex
Why are men being asked if they’re pregnant?
SIR – I received my first Covid jab most efficiently as part of a cohort between the ages of 70 and 75 at the Grandstand on Epsom Downs.
Following reception I was asked whether I was pregnant (Letters, March 31) and replied that, despite some effort in that direction, no positive signs, whatever they might be, were apparent.
What’s going on?
James Nuthall
Epsom, Surrey
SIR – I volunteer at a Covid-19 vaccination centre. A question on the form completed by everyone who attends is: “Do you think you might be pregnant?”
This always elicits much mirth and certainly helps to calm any nerves, especially among the elderly of both sexes.
John Steinitz
Pinner, Middlesex
SIR – I am a 68-year-old man. I am over six foot, solidly built and look like a man.
While queuing for my Covid jab in a car park, a young gentleman came down the line with a clipboard, asking questions. He got to me, identified my name and asked if I was pregnant.
With a sincere gaze, I said I was. He didn’t know what to do.
Stuart Moore
Bramham, West Yorkshire
SIR – Does a tweed jacket and tie mean nothing any more?
Lt Col Dale Hemming-Tayler (retd)
Edith Weston, Rutland
Listed building pain
SIR – Historic England has published an online tool to encourage property owners to list their properties (report, March 22). I would strongly encourage owners to resist doing so.
Recently I applied for listed building consent to build a small extension to my 18th-century cottage. The council proved a total pain, resisting my three attempts over a two-year period.
Finally approval was granted, but I was forced to use non-matching roof tiles and guttering, and non-matching (single-glazed) windows – all so that future generations would not mistake the age of the new extension.
Having a listed property handcuffs the owner, as every minor alteration, inside or out, needs consent.
Martin Henry
Good Easter, Essex
March of the poles
SIR – Yesterday I was advised by a BT engineer that another consequence of swapping copper landlines for fibre-optic cables (Letters, March 31) is that if the existing cables are not in ducts, BT might install telegraph poles to make the job cheaper.
We must ensure these ugly poles are not added to areas (like ours) where the existing lines are underground.
Ken Turrell
Norwich
Bruce Willis at his best
SIR – Tim Robey’s retrospective on the career of Bruce Willis, who has retired from acting due to illness, did not mention the film that best encapsulates the actor’s cinematic appeal: Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element (“Even in retirement, Bruce Willis will always be Hollywood’s rueful action antihero”, telegraph.co.uk, March 30).
Essentially a bande dessinée or comic book blown up for the silver screen, The Fifth Element is a science-fiction adventure, but for all its far-out ideas Bruce Willis keeps it firmly grounded.
As Korben Dallas – a burnt-out war hero now eking out a meagre living as a taxi driver – Willis is confronted by spaceships, opera-singing aliens, magical cosmic destinies, and the cast’s outrageously flamboyant wardrobe designed by Jean Paul Gaultier, but is not fazed by any of it.
The Fifth Element demonstrates perfectly – maybe even better than Die Hard, for the scale of the contrast – the rueful, downtrodden, grizzled aura that Mr Robey describes, and which made Bruce Willis such a star.
Robert Frazer
Salford, Lancashire
Avoidable NHS deaths
SIR – On Wednesday’s Today, Rhiannon Davies talked about the shocking care she received in the maternity unit at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in 2009 (report, March 31).
It made me wonder what on earth the regulators, such as NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission, actually do. Clearly so much has been missed for years.
As a ward manager on secondment at that time, I received an appalling reaction from senior management when I raised concerns about poor care, which included two avoidable deaths. One very senior nurse said: “I can easily brush that under the carpet.”
I then did my duty, with the full backing of my union, the Royal College of Nursing, and blew the whistle. After this extremely stressful experience, I decided to seek a different type of role.
Hospital managers need to back their staff and listen to them. They are the ones who know what is happening.
Mary Moore
London E2
SIR – The neonatal death of my grandson 12 years ago was caused by the hospital’s insistence on a natural birth, followed by a late decision on a Caesarian section. There was no theatre immediately available, and the baby was fatally harmed.
Fault was eventually admitted, and the parents were compensated after four years of legal wrangling.
With the Shrewsbury scandal in the news, I can’t help wondering how many other babies have suffered the same fate due to “natural birth” policy.
R M Stephens
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
SIR – This is just the latest sad scandal in the NHS. Is it not time to appoint a Royal Commission to review the health service fundamentally and look at best practices worldwide?
Dr Rob McKinty
Darlington, Co Durham
Party fines
SIR – Drivers convicted for speeding endanger the lives of others.
They get fined, but no one seeks the loss of their jobs as well. So why should No 10 staff, if fined for sharing drinks with workmates during lockdown, be hounded into resigning or sacked (Letters, March 31)?
Garry May
Haddenham, Buckinghamshire
SIR – Geoffrey Robertson is spot on (“Partygate offenders have no right to anonymity”, Comment, March 31).
The public concern is real and openness should prevail. But the bigger issue is that this whole business is not being handled by the police or the Government in a transparent way.
Sue Gray’s report should be issued, unredacted, now. Fixed-penalty notices only show that laws were broken. What needs to be established is whether the Prime Minister lied to Parliament. If he did he should resign.
Michael Robinson
Onston, Cheshire
Rooky road
SIR – There are four rookeries busy this year in trees by the A40 between Cheltenham and Oxford. Last year I found two in big beeches beside the A417 between here and Cirencester.
Yet in 20 years of weekly five-mile rambles on footpaths deep in Gloucestershire’s countryside, our walking group has not seen one.
Rooks feed off farmland but – around here anyway – they appear to wish to rear their young near a busy road. There is surely an explanation.
Hamish Thomson
Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire
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Beyond sanctions, we must be smart, cautious and creative with Russia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked a near-global response with severe sanctions being imposed on Russia, President Vladimir Putin and the oligarchs that support and benefit from the country’s kleptocracy. There is a risk, however, that the course on which the United States and the West are presently embarking could risk dramatic escalation and potentially undermine its long-term strategic end goals.
From the outset, Russia’s aggression in Ukraine cannot stand and the West must respond. Failing to staunch Putin in Ukraine could well see the Russian president emboldened further. We must endeavor to help the Ukrainian people with humanitarian aid both in the country and in the countries to which refugees are fleeing. This must be our first and paramount priority while ensuring the security and deterrence capabilities of NATO. We must also continue to provide arms and munitions to Ukrainian forces. This is a critical action and one that should raise the costs of war for the Russian military, and, hopefully, alter the Kremlin’s calculus.
We must, however, not forget that the risk of escalation is very real. With his invasion of Ukraine, something that seems supremely strategically counterproductive, Putin has demonstrated that he is willing to confound expectations and act, perhaps impulsively. Twice now, Russia has raised the specter of nuclear weapons, a threat that should not be taken lightly. Russia expert Fiona Hill suggests that we take these warnings seriously, and she is absolutely right. Calls by the punditry for a no-fly-zone over Ukraine are precisely the type of action that could see NATO forces in direct conflict with Russian forces, which would be an alarming step towards expanded war. An increasingly desperate Russia is, potentially, a much more dangerous country than it is presently.
A smart strategy means identifying the outcome or effects we want to achieve — the end of the war in the immediate term — and using or creating tools to achieve that outcome. We must identify ways to convince Putin that de-escalation and off-ramps are a far more attractive option than prosecuting this war to whatever ends he may have in mind. Calling for regime change (directly or indirectly), forcing Putin into a corner, or leaving the Kremlin with no attractive options will likely only lead to more violence, continued war and possibly, escalation.
Now is the time to begin discussing what the desired end-state is when it comes to Ukraine. Do we want a purely status quo ante? Or something more? What is the art of the possible between Kyiv and Moscow, and the international community? The application of punitive measures without a clear plan for de-escalation and resolution is just inviting greater resistance from Russia.
Policymakers would do well to consider the long-term when responding to this war. Squeezing Russia’s economy, crashing the ruble and imposing punitive costs may seem effective in the near term, but are likely to have considerable second and third-order effects which we will not appreciate for some time.
Removing Russia from the global economy will almost certainly drive it toward increasing autarky, something many within Russia argued was a necessary end goal even prior to the start of this war. An isolated and economically hobbled Russia does not immediately mean peace, and a Putin that sees the West as working to overthrow him could be even more dangerous still.
At the same time, instead of isolating the Russian people, we should be embracing them and opening channels for communication and engagement at a person-to-person level, something about which Russia analyst and writer Mark Galeotti has written. We should be using Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and its digital counterparts to target the Russian people as much as possible.
Canceling student visas, closing airspace, throttling opportunities for educations conferences and other measures hurt precisely the wrong type of people — including those wishing to leave Russia. If we are to look for long-term change within Russia, isolating the people will not have the effect desired. In all likelihood, it will backfire and filter into Putin’s narrative that the West is at war with Russia.
Legal and financial measures that target oligarchs — not average Russians — and which limit their freedom of movement and pursue their money where ever it is found are smarter and more targeted strategies. This also means going after the kleptocratic enablers, something we’re finally seeing in the United Kingdom. London’s financial and property markets were long seen as a “Russian laundromat” for dirty money, something written about by Oliver Bullough and Catherine Belton.
Beyond this immediate war, we need to start thinking laterally when it comes to confronting Russia. Where can we stymie Moscow’s interests and aims globally? Where can we leverage their weaknesses to the West’s advantage? What can we do to exploit their weaknesses? Where can we work with NATO and European partners to contain Russian ambitions? We need to weaponize our creativity and imagination and stop looking at strategy in such a linear fashion.
We must also recognize the limits of our ability to influence the outcome of this crisis. We are, effectively, dealing with an audience of one in Vladimir Putin and it is unclear whether it is possible to influence his behavior, especially if he feels cornered. It is equally unclear whether we can shape the thinking of those in his inner circle, people who are beholden to him and the system, people like Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the security council, Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the foreign intelligence service, or Sergey Shoigu, the minister of defense.
The outcome of this crisis remains and will remain unclear for some time. We should be thinking of the outcome we want and be wary of potential “own goals,” acting in ways that will undermine the effects we want to achieve.
Joshua C. Huminski is director of the Mike Rogers Center for Intelligence & Global Affairs at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress and a George Mason University National Security Institute visiting fellow. He can be found on Twitter @joshuachuminski.
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Goldcoin (GLC) traded down 2.3% against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 19:00 PM ET on March 31st. One Goldcoin coin can now be bought for about $0.0978 or 0.00000214 BTC on popular exchanges. Goldcoin has a market capitalization of $4.27 million and $8,365.00 worth of Goldcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last seven days, Goldcoin has traded down 18.1% against the US dollar.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed during 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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- UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 4.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.80 or 0.00012681 BTC.
- Polymath (POLY) traded 4.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.53 or 0.00001160 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded down 8.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.65 or 0.00001420 BTC.
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- Hellenic Coin (HNC) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $3.68 or 0.00010892 BTC.
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- Presearch (PRE) traded 3.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.19 or 0.00000405 BTC.
- XeniosCoin (XNC) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.65 or 0.00001420 BTC.
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Surgeries hang in the balance as COVID strikes down health staff
By Matt Dennien
Some Queensland hospitals could suspend elective surgeries as rising COVID cases and hospitalisations of health staff and infected patients place pressure on the health system.
Fifty extra pop-up vaccination clinics will be set up for the school holidays to make it easier for families and children to get the jab — with school-aged and booster rates lagging.
A total of 10,722 new infections were reported on Friday, with 403 people in the state’s public and private hospital system with the virus. Fourteen of these are in intensive care units.
The number of Queensland Health and ambulance staff off work because of infections or close contact requirements had also risen again to 3305, more than double the number of a week ago.
“This will put increasing pressures on our health systems,” Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said.
“Each hospital and health service, based on their demand, can be looking at whether they need to suspend planned care - that means elective surgery.
“We are not at this stage looking at having a statewide suspension of elective surgery, and we hope not to need to do that in this current wave.”
Ms D’Ath said 2373 of the new cases were children, and she urged parents and carers to take advantage of the pop-up clinics set to spring up at shopping centres, amusement parks and schools.
More details were expected to be released on the Queensland Health website.
Chief Health Officer John Gerrard said the disproportionate number of children being infected was likely due to low vaccination rates among the cohort and less exposure to the previous wave of the virus in January.
He said the state was approaching the peak of the latest wave, meaning case numbers could soon decline, but hospitalisations and health workforce pressures would lag by one or two weeks.
Data suggested the wave would be about one-third the size of January’s peak owing to increased vaccination. But authorities were still unsure whether winter would bring another wave.
“Vaccination has completely transformed this pandemic,” Dr Gerrard said. “So it’s critical, of course, that people continue to get vaccinated.“
Queensland’s booster rate among the eligible population, at 61.4 per cent, is the lowest in the country.
And its vaccination rate among the five- to 11-year-old age group sits at only 43.3 per cent first-dosed.
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Ukrainian women escaped to give birth in a country free of war. They want their children to know why Putin forced them to flee
By Kyung Lah and Sarah Boxer, CNN
Khrystyna Pavluchenko strokes the tiny hand of her newborn, Adelina. She had anticipated the profound joy of becoming a mother for the first time — but not the guilt.
“(That’s) because I left,” Pavluchenko says, choking on tears, as her hours-old child sleeps in the crib next to her hospital bed in the Polish capital, Warsaw.
“I didn’t want to leave. I had to.”
On February 24, when the Russian invasion began, Pavluchenko, then eight months pregnant, was jostled awake at 6 a.m. Air raid sirens blared through her hometown of Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in western Ukraine. The first Russian missiles were on the way.
Pavluchenko recounts the manic push to escape over the next 72 hours. Her husband, medically ineligible to serve in the Ukrainian military, was already in Poland.
She was desperate to stay behind with her parents, grandparents and extended family.
But they all insisted, “Go to Poland.”
So, reluctantly, she began to plan her dangerous escape from Ukraine.
“Missiles are flying. Where they might hit next, no one knows,” she recalls.
Pavluchenko raced to pack with that in mind. Anything she could imagine she needed for her unborn child had to fit in a bag that she could wheel across the border on foot, once her bus reached the border.
“I was afraid of delivering prematurely,” she says, as she remembers entering Poland.
That was the same fear Polish customs officers had when they saw her. They quickly called an ambulance.
She was whisked to a nearby hospital and eventually to Inflancka Specialist Hospital in Warsaw, where psychiatrist Magda Dutsch is treating Ukrainian women.
“It’s unimaginable,” says Dutsch. “They’re often evacuating. They’re talking about shelling and about bombardment, about hours, sometimes days, that they spend in a bunker. They’re talking about the escape and how difficult it was to get to the border and out of the warzone. For someone who hasn’t seen the war, I don’t think it’s possible to imagine such pain and such stress.”
At least 197 Ukrainian children have been born in Polish hospitals since the war began, according to Poland’s Ministry of Health. When she fled, Pavluchenko had no idea that so many other Ukrainian women were in a similar situation.
To her, she felt utterly alone.
A ‘second war’
In another section of the hospital sits Tatiana Mikhailuk, 58, is who is also one of Dutsch’s patients.
From her hospital bed, Mikhailuk tells the harrowing story of her escape from a town outside the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. As a missile flew overhead, Mikhailuk fled her home with her granddaughter in her arms.
Explosions had already blown out all the windows of her apartment building. As she and her husband drove with their grandchildren out of Bucha, an hour north of Kyiv, something exploded on the left side of the road.
“We were crying and praying the whole time,” says Mikhailuk.
They made it out just in time.
Two days later, Russian missiles would destroy the bridges into their suburb.
Mikhailuk had survived the attack at home. But once she crossed the Polish border, she began hemorrhaging blood.
Doctors at Inflancka Specialist Hospital diagnosed her with cervical cancer and performed emergency surgery.
“This is like a second war for me,” says Mikhailuk. “They (the hospital) did everything they could to save me. I’m very grateful to them, to all of Poland. I will never forget their kindness and what they’re doing for Ukrainians.”
She adds, “I’m grateful to Dr. Khrystyna,” another Ukrainian refugee, who is sitting in the corner of the room while we speak with her.
Khrystyna isn’t sure how to describe what title we should use to refer to her.
At home in Lviv, Ukraine, she is a licensed gynecologist. But in Poland, her official title is “secretary.”
“I’m helping,” Khrystyna, who asked CNN to not reveal her last name. explains.
On February 24, Khrystyna’s husband sent her a text message saying, “Pack your stuff and leave. The war began.”
Like so many other Ukrainian women at the hospital, she ran, taking her young son with her.
When she arrived in Warsaw, a Polish woman took them in, becoming their host in a foreign city. Her host drove her son to a new kindergarten where he began his adjustment to living in Poland.
Khrystyna says she collapsed, consumed with grief and panic.
She realized sitting in an unfamiliar home would be bad for her mental health, so she considered volunteering at the train station, where she could cook for incoming refugees.
“When I pulled myself together, I remembered I’m a doctor. So, I came here (to the hospital) to use this opportunity to help women who fled,” she said.
“Women are lost. Women are stressed. They’re crying,” says Khrystyna, explaining how many Ukrainian women arrive.
“When I approach them and start talking in Ukrainian, that calms them down. I tell them there’s help here. And they calm down a little bit. They can turn to me if they don’t understand anything.”
Mixed emotions
Inflancka Hospital, which specializes in obstetrics and gynecology, has opened its doors to all Ukrainian women. Eighty patients have been treated since the war began and 11 Ukrainian babies have been born there.
The hospital says the refugees do not pay for any medical services. After leaving, post-partem care is also free, covered by clinics in Poland. The hospital tells CNN all patients maintain contact after leaving the hospital and if the women struggle with housing, the Warsaw Family Support Center, a local welfare organization, provides housing.
Khrystyna is grateful for Warsaw’s generosity, but filled with rage at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attacks on the women and children of her country.
“He consciously and purposely bombards children who are not guilty of anything. Children are innocent. But he’s doing it anyway and doing it consciously.”
What helps Khrystyna, and all the doctors at Inflancka Hospital, is the arrival of the littlest survivors of war like Adelina.
These new lives offer a glimmer of hope for the future, they say.
But it’s more complicated for Pavluchenko, who is struggling with all the emotions of new motherhood and the realities of life as a refugee.
It is hard to be happy, she says, delivering a child in a foreign place.
She hopes to one day show her daughter the beautiful and peaceful Ukraine as she remembers.
But she’s uncertain where Adelina will grow up, if she will know her extended family, or even what primary language she will speak.
One thing is for certain: Adelina will know the full journey of how — and where — she came into the world.
“We will tell her everything as it was. She should know the truth.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) – Video used in a secret government exercise centered on a hypothetical nuclear attack has been released publicly for the first time.
The 1986 video, which takes the form of a fake news broadcast, concerns a nuclear bomb going off in downtown Indianapolis.
According to the Digital National Security Archive, the video is part of Mighty Derringer, a multi-agency training exercise on how different branches of the federal government would work together during a nuclear attack.
The video was obtained by tech site Gizmodo via a Freedom of Information Act request.
What you see in the video
In the nearly two-minute clip, a news anchor named “Jeff Schwartz” for the fictitious Channel 9 Eyewitness News addresses viewers.
“We are now in day four,” Schwartz says. “You know that few details are available. But this much we know: A large portion of downtown Indianapolis remains evacuated. Now, reports are sketchy at this point, but we do know that apparently there are terrorists holed up in the downtown part of our city with nuclear devices.”
Schwartz says a federal response team has been sent in to neutralize the threat before tossing to reporter “Ann Miller.” Miller gives her reports while video of downtown Indianapolis — as taken from “Chopper 9” — is shown to viewers.
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Miller describes the streets of downtown, which would normally be full of morning rush-hour traffic, as being relatively empty except for police “down there in the streets making sure everyone stays out of town.”
The feed to the chopper is then interrupted, with Schwartz commenting, “Can someone get on a two-way radio and see if they can contact Ann and see what’s going out there?”
The clip ends as Schwartz cautions the audience before he is interrupted by a booming sound outside of the news studio.
He looks up and says, “Oh, my God,” before the feed goes to black.
Why the video was made
In 1974, the Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) was created. Its mission was to respond to plausible threats of nuclear terrorism or extortion. As part of is work, NEST created the Mighty Derringer project.
In 2012, documents were released on Mighty Derringer and referenced the Joint Special Operations Command and Delta Force. The National Security Archive called it the “most extensive set of declassified documents on any nuclear counterterrorism exercise, covering every phase of the response, from concept to critiques.”
According to those documents, the fictional country of Montrev was behind the simulated terrorist attack on Indiana’s capital. The country is largely believed to be based on Mexico.
Planning sessions for the drills were held at both Camp Atterbury in Indiana and Area A-25 of the Energy Department’s Nevada Test Site.
During the fictitious attack, the NSA says Indianapolis experienced a 1 kiloton nuclear detonation that resulted in “total devastation over a 20 square block area.”
According to Gizmodo’s report by Matt Novak, actual “radioactive material was hidden around Indianapolis in order to give the teams something authentic to look for during their exercise.”
The Mighty Derringer was largely seen as a success, but a DNSA report labeled a range of potential problems, including “bomb detection, interagency coordination, containment of contamination, general ‘confusion.'”
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Arizona governor won’t say transgender people exist
By BOB CHRISTIE
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is refusing to say if he thinks transgender people actually exist. At a news conference Thursday, he twice dodged that exact question just a day after signing legislation limiting transgender rights. The Republican instead defended his signatures on bills barring 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. The Arizona director for the Human Rights Campaign says Ducey’s refusal to acknowledge trans people exist is “appalling.” The bills passed the Republican-controlled Legislature with no support from minority Democrats.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday said the situation in the south and the Donbas region remained extremely difficult and reiterated that Russia was building up forces near the besieged city of Mariupol.
And in a rare sign of internal dissent, Mr Zelenskyy also said in a video address that he had sacked two senior members of the national security service on the grounds that they were traitors.
Mr Zelenskyy, who often uses colourful imagery, said the Russians were so evil and so keen on destruction that they seemed to be from another world, “monsters who burn and plunder, who attack and are bent on murder".
Russia says it is carrying out a “special operation” to disarm and “denazify” its neighbour. Moscow also denies Kyiv's accusations that Russian forces are attacking civilians.
Mr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces had pushed back the Russians from Kyiv and Chernihiv — two cities Moscow had announced would no longer be the focus of attacks as they seek to secure the separatist Donbas and Luhansk regions in the south-east.
“There will be battles ahead. We still need to go down a very difficult path to get everything we want,” he said.
“The situation in the south and in the Donbas remains extremely difficult.”
Mr Zelenskyy also said he had fired two top officials at the national security service — the overall head of internal security as well as the head of the agency's branch in the Kherson region.
“I do not have time to deal with all the traitors, but they will gradually all be punished,” he said and added that the two men had betrayed their oath to defend Ukraine. He did not give specific details.
The occasion marked the first time Mr Zelenskyy has announced high-profile sackings of those involved in Ukraine's defence.
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Alabama infrastructure gets C- grade from civil engineering group
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama’s infrastructure report card was released Thursday morning.
The report from the Alabama Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers analyzes 12 categories. The state’s grade this year is a C-. That’s the same as the last report card back in 2015.
Of those 12 categories, one was not assessed with a grade due to incomplete. Three were in good condition, five are in mediocre condition and three are in poor condition.
“You can’t get to where you want to go if you do not understand where you’re at. And so for me, I mean, this was enlightening to find out, you know where we improve and I grew up in the railroad industry glad to say we got to be, but obviously, in wastewater we got some room for improvement. So this is very helpful,” Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth.
According to the report card, one way to raise the grade is to improve the resilience and sustainability of infrastructure and the safety and security of communities to prepare for the future.
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Community invited to help Lawton FFA students
Published: Mar. 30, 2022 at 5:05 PM CDT
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - Lawton Public Schools Spring Plant Sale begins this next week.
FFA Chapter President Cora Sullivan joined 7News to discuss how the event benefits FFA.
The sale will take place from 3:30 p.m. until 6 p.m. April 4, 5, 11 and 12 at the Lawton School Farm; and again from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. on Saturday, April 9.
There will be bedding plants, herb baskets and hanging floral baskets.
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Driving diversity on the slopes
The U.S. ski industry, partnering with nonprofits, is introducing more women and people of color to skiing and snowboarding. Tammy VuPham, a Vietnamese American who grew up in Georgia, says she felt a bit out of place on the mountain after she moved to the Seattle area and took up downhill...
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