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BISD to select construction-manager-at-risk
Trustees of the Bowie Independent School District will consider construction-manager-at-risk proposals connected to the building of the new administration building when they meet in a called session at noon March...
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RRR Day 7 Box Office Collection: Here's How Much Jr NTR-Ram Charan's Film Earned On Thursday!
SS Rajamouli's latest directorial venture RRR is enjoying a tremendous run at the box office. The period drama headlined by Ram Charan and Jr NTR has been on a record-breaking spree ever since it released on March 25. The film has already zoomed past Rs 650 Crore (gross) at the worldwide box office while it has grossed more than Rs 270 Crore in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, its primary market.
Let us tell you that the film has completed an earth-shattering week of its release and is now the third highest-grossing Telugu film after Baahubali: The Conclusion and Baahubali: The Beginning, both directed by Rajamouli. Talking about the film's daywise collection, on day 7, the film's collection remained fantastic as it raked in a share of Rs 8 Crore. In six days, the film had made Rs 180.17 Crore from the Telugu region, which now makes RRR's total share to Rs 188.17 Crore. Well, with no major releases to clash with, apart from Taapsee Pannu's Mishan Impossible which is releasing this Friday, Jr NTR-Ram Charan's film will be able to mint more moolah in the days to come.
Take a look at RRR's Daywise Box Office Collection (Share- Andhra Pradesh and Telangana)
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1:
Rs
74.11
Crore
Day
2:
Rs
31.63
Crore
Day
3:
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33.
35
Crore
Day
4:
Rs
17.73
Crore
Day
5:
Rs
13.63
Crore
Day
6:
Rs
9.54
Crore
Day
7:
Rs
8
Crore
Total:
Rs
180.17
Crore
(share-
approx)
With a budget of Rs 550 Crore, RRR is already in a humongous profit zone.
Meanwhile, recently, RRR's writer Vijayendra Prasad's opinion on the film's possible sequel made quite a buzz on the internet. During his interaction with Mid-day, the writer had shared, "We can take the two heroes on another action-based adventure outside India, in other British colonies that existed in 1920. But we haven't discussed that possibility yet."
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https://www.filmibeat.com/telugu/news/2022/rrr-day-7-box-office-collection-here-s-how-much-jr-ntr-ram-charan-s-film-earned-on-thursday-332276.html
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The third member of the Warriors’ Run TMC trio will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this summer.
Tim Hardaway has received the call from the Hall, joining Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin to complete the Golden State trifecta.
NBC Sports Bay Area’s Monte Poole first reported the news. A source confirmed Hardaway’s induction to sports editor Bud Geracie. The official announcement is expected Saturday.
Hardaway played the first six-and-a-half years of his career with the Warriors, earning three All-Star nods and orchestrating Don Nelson’s entertaining, up-and-down style of basketball that energized Bay Area fans. He averaged 9.3 assists per game over five-plus seasons with the Warriors, along with 19.8 points.
The Warriors’ Run TMC era lasted just two seasons as it ended when Richmond was traded to Sacramento following Golden State’s exciting 1991 playoff run, which included a first-round upset over David Robinson’s Spurs.
Proving the phenomenon of the Warriors’ fast-paced play didn’t die down even after Richmond left, McDonald’s even began marketing a “Tim and Chris Burger” in the Bay Area in 1992. The fast food chain’s televised ad featured Hardaway and Mullin arguing over it was called a “Tim and Chris Burger” or a “Chris and Tim Burger.”
Their televised dilemma was nothing compared to what Warriors opponents faced each night back then.
“We called it controlled chaos,” Hardaway said when he was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame four years ago. “We knew how to move without the basketball, set back screens, and we knew how to create and take advantage of mismatches.”
Hardaway may be the last of the Run TMC stars to make it to the Hall of Fame, but there was no doubt which of the three made them go.
“He was the catalyst. He was the one who was driving the ship,” Richmond once told this news organization. “Right before training camp, I remember Nellie brought the whole team together and said, `Tim is the quarterback. Just run the floor and he’ll find you.’ ”
In just his second year in the league, Hardaway was already electrifying while averaging 22.9 points, 9.7 assists and 2.6 steals. Combined with Mullin’s 25.9 points per game and Richmond’s 23.9, the threesome averaged a whopping 72.5 points per game.
The Warriors were among the top three scoring teams in the NBA for the first five years of Hardaway’s career, including the 1993-94 season he missed with a knee injury while rookie Chris Webber emerged as another star.
The 1996 trade that sent Hardaway to Miami was one of several moves that plummeted the Warriors from the playoffs into the NBA’s basement.
Hardaway played parts of six seasons with the Heat, getting two more All-Star accolades, before finishing his career with two seasons split between Dallas, Denver and Indiana. His No. 10 jersey was retired by Miami.
Reports indicate Spurs star Manu Ginoblili and WNBA great Swin Cash will also be inducted, along with former Warriors coach George Karl and collegiate coach Bob Huggins.
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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/03/31/warriors-great-tim-hardaway-will-be-inducted-into-hall-of-fame/
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The chip giant is acquiring Granulate in a deal that is reportedly valued at $650m.
Intel confirmed today (31 March) that it is acquiring Israeli AI start-up Granulate to help its cloud and data centre customers optimise workload performance.
While neither company has revealed financial details of the transaction, sources familiar with the deal told TechCrunch that Intel valued Granulate at $650m.
Granulate is an AI-powered workload optimisation software start-up that helps small and medium-size businesses improve software response times and reduce costs across multiple cloud and physical environments.
Modern cloud computing architectures and their associated performance issues have increased in complexity, and traditional operating systems are not always the best fit to solve the issues. This is where Intel hopes to use Granulate software to reduce CPU utilisation and latency for its clients.
Sandra Rivera, executive VP and general manager of the data centre and AI group at Intel, said that customers “demand scalable, high-performance software to make the most of their hardware deployments”.
“Granulate’s cutting-edge autonomous optimisation software can be applied to production workloads without requiring the customer to make changes to its code, driving optimised hardware and software value for every cloud and data centre customer,” she added.
Granulate software
Granulate has built software that does not require developer intervention or customers to make changes to the code, and its optimisations for CPUs can be applied even on legacy Linux systems.
Asaf Ezra, co-founder and CEO of Granulate, said that the acquisition has the potential to help customers “achieve meaningful cost reductions and five times the throughput across workloads”.
“As a part of Intel, Granulate will be able to deliver autonomous optimisation capabilities to even more customers globally and rapidly expand its offering with the help of Intel’s 19,000 software engineers,” he said.
The acquisition is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2022, after which all 120 employees of Granulate will be added to Intel’s data centre and AI business unit.
Granulate raised $30m in its most recent funding round a little more than a year ago. The Series B investment was led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with backing from Insight Partners, TLV Partners, Hetz Ventures and Dawn Capital.
Last month, Intel announced its intention to acquire another Israeli company, chipmaker Tower Semiconductor, for around $5.4bn to help scale foundry services globally.
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Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
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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Wang Visit: Beijing Is Not Reassessing Its India Policy – Analysis
By Observer Research Foundation
By Harsh V. Pant
Some two years into the military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi paid a short visit to India last week. The India leg of his trip was shrouded in secrecy even as other parts of the itinerary – Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal – were well publicised. In diplomacy, secret visits are sometimes intended to break long-standing logjams and demonstrate a commitment to the resolution of conflicts. But this was no such visit. It was primarily aimed at testing India’s resolve and to assess if changing global geopolitics made New Delhi more amenable to giving in to China, much like in the past.
There used to be a time when railing against western imperialism with “like-minded” powers such as China and Russia used to be the high-watermark of India’s global footprint. The Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral emerged in the context of the American unipolar moment in the immediate aftermath of the end of the Cold War. This RIC then morphed into Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRIC) and then added South Africa (BRICS) as the global economic order underwent a transformation with the emergence of China and India as key economic powers. As part of these platforms, India tried to forge a partnership with China based on shared global outlooks. It was argued that this global convergence would eventually lead to a bilateral convergence as the two nations with divergent interests would be able to reconcile them by focusing on international challenges. It was another matter that China’s global interests were far more expansive than India’s and that there was hardly any hope beyond some tactical coordination at the global level. In the process, not only did Sino-Indian bilateral ties continue to suffer but India’s global footprint was also weighed down by the contradictions in the Sino-Indian global engagement.
But myths, once forged, attain a life of their own. And, Indian foreign policy continued to perpetuate this mythology till it was once and, hopefully, forever shattered by the bloody clashes of June 2020 in the Galwan Valley, leading to the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers. Since then, New Delhi has been steadfast that normalisation of ties with China won’t be possible without peace and tranquility along the LAC. As external affairs minister S Jaishankar suggested: “Our [India’s] relationship (with China) is not normal, given the presence of a large number of troops in contravention of the 1993-96 agreements.” This message was also reiterated by national security adviser Ajit Doval who was invited by Wang Yi to visit China to take forward the Special Representatives talks on border issues only to be told that this would be possible only after disengagement and eventual de-escalation at the LAC.
Wang Yi was fully aware of Indian demands. He was in regular touch with Indian interlocutors over the last two years. Beijing is fully aware of the sensitivities of India on this issue. But being sensitive to Indian concerns is not a priority for the Chinese. Just before he landed in India, he weighed in on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Pakistan, knowing full well how this would be received in India. When Wang Yi said Beijing “heard the call of many Islamic friends” over the Kashmir issue, adding that it “shared the same aspiration”, the Indian reaction was swift and pointed. It named the Chinese foreign minister in rejecting his reference to India, reminding him that not only does China have no locus standi on the matter but also that India refrains from public judgment of its internal issues.
Still, Wang Yi landed in New Delhi. The atmospherics were all wrong, the optics terrible and the underlying factors that make for a successful diplomatic trip absent. He came for a specific reason. Beijing has no interest in normalisation of ties. Its unprecedented military mobilisation along the LAC is a sign that China is not likely to relent in its long-term goal of trying to make India bend to its will. But it has a short-term problem with the BRICS summit meeting approaching and it views the Russia-Ukraine crisis as an opportunity to lure India into making some grandiose assertions about Russia, China and India standing up to the West.
China is worried about the trajectory of the Ukraine crisis. After having embraced Putin during the Winter Olympics with a “no limits” partnership, it can’t afford to ignore him now. At a time when Xi Jinping’s focus should have been on the economic revival of China post-pandemic, there is a Covid resurgence and a global conflict. China is far more exposed to the global economy than Russia ever was and the vulnerabilities for China are readily apparent. The West has not given any indication that it is willing to shift its focus away from the Indo-Pacific any time soon even as it has been more understanding of the Indian position on the Ukraine crisis. As the Chinese position gets ever more precarious, wooing India to seek a common ground remains an option for Beijing which it is trying hard to operationalise.
But New Delhi only has to look at this visit to see that there is no fundamental reassessment in Beijing about its India policy. It’s still about targeting India’s vulnerabilities – be it making common cause with Pakistan on Kashmir or with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Wang Yi’s visit would seem curious only to those who have no understanding of how China operates. There was a method in this madness. Only this time, Indian policymakers seem to have kept their own sanity. Hopefully, there won’t be any going back.
This commentary originally appeared in Hindustan Times.
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https://www.eurasiareview.com/01042022-wang-visit-beijing-is-not-reassessing-its-india-policy-analysis/
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What to Know
- WonderCon, presented by Comic-Con International
- April 1-3 in Anaheim
- Panels, vendors, cosplay events, films, and more
WonderCon: Major movie talk, the coolest of costumes, imaginative cosplay opportunities, and all sorts of merch-y goodness, from toys to comic books to tees? Fans can expect a bounty of character-fabulous fun as this mondo pop culture expo, which is presented by Comic-Con International, returns to the Anaheim Convention Center "For the First Time Since 2019." Have you missed this gleeful gathering, which will unfurl, with all the majesty of a superhero's shiny cape, from April 1 through 3? Find ticket information now.
dineLA Opens: California Restaurant Month may have officially wrapped at the end of January, but the Restaurant Weeks in our foodie-tropolis do have a delicious knack for popping up later on the calendar. And so the first annual go-around of dineLA, a two-week eat-out extravaganza, shall. It opens on April 1, hundreds of restaurants are partcipating, representing a sumptuous spectrum of cuisines, towns from all over Southern California will be featured, and the prix fixe prices? Some lunchs start at $25. Let your appetite, and imagination, be stoked on this site.
Bonsai-A-Thon: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is home to one of the most magnificent Japanese Gardens in the world, a floral wonderland that celebrated its centennial just over a decade ago. Bonsai trees are one of the centerpieces of this verdant area, and pros will spend the weekend honoring the ancient art form through talks, demonstrations, and appreciation, too. A bonsai bazaar is on the schedule, and joining the joyful and educational fun? It's all part of your Huntington ticket. Good to know: A Huntington reservation, in addition to a ticket, is required on weekends.
Springtime on the Farm Opens: Little goats, fuzzy chickens, bountiful produce, and the sorts of new and dewy sights that say the freshest of all the seasons is opening its proverbial petals? We're in the mood for all of those uplifting sights, and Underwood Family Farms can deliver, and then some. The Moorpark agricultural attraction's annual spring-centered celebration opens for its multi-week run on April 2, giving families a chance to admire the farm's animals, wander a labyrinth, and snap photos in front of giant eggs and other Easter-themed decorations. If you're heading to the farm on a weekend, you'll need to get your ticket in advance. In fact, do read up on admission, weekend tips, and everything you should "baaa" familiar with now (yes, it is spring so "baaa" we shall.)
SOAR Opens: Flitting like a butterfly is always an airy and effervescent act, but if you plan on a day spent at South Coast Botanic Garden, you'll likely want to take a vehicle to the Palos Verdes Peninsula location (especially if you don't sport your own set of colorful wings). The uplifting happening, which will flutter through the world of tropical butterflies, will enjoy a fluttery four-month run at the lush and spacious property. Is a nectar garden part of this spectacular scene? Oh goodness, these elegant insects do love their nectar, so you can count on calling upon such a space. Start here to get your tickets, and do make plans to wander the rest of the garden, where flowers, pathways, and verdant vistas please the senses.
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https://www.nbclosangeles.com/the-scene/weekend-superheroes-fly-for-wondercon/2860344/
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Blueprint Gaming awarded Ontario licence
31st March 2022 10:13 am GMTCasino games developer Blueprint Gaming has received approval from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) to supply games to the province's licensed operators.
The approval allows Blueprint to deploy its portfolio of games, including popular titles such as The Goonies, ted, and Sausage Party, when the new regulated market opens on April 4.
The company will also be adapting its Deal or No Deal branded games to be based on Canada’s equivalent show, Le Banquier.
Complementing the deployment of Blueprint’s titles is an updated version of its jackpot system, Jackpot King. The update, rebranded as Jackpot Royale, has been modified to work with the specific requirements and liquidity of the market.
“Ontario has the potential to become one of the biggest iGaming markets in North America, so being able to service the province from day one is a hugely important move for the company,” said Blueprint Gaming director of key accounts and marketing UK Jo Purvis. “Players in Canada already enjoy our style of games and we have strong expectations for the market. We’re looking forward to bringing our content to a much wider audience.”
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https://www.gamingintelligence.com/legal/licensing/154833-blueprint-gaming-awarded-ontario-licence/
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With 100 channels and 40 thousand hours of entertainment; VIX debuts today as the free streaming platform that arises from the merger of Televisa and Univisión to serve the Spanish-speaking market.
“Televisa and Univisión come together with a mission that is to create a global streaming service to serve the Spanish-speaking market. And what we are announcing is the launch of that service for tomorrow; in its first version, which is the free version; of which we are in charge and we are super pleased with what we are bringing to the market, because it is a unique offer”, he highlighted. Raphael Urbina, Executive Vice President and General Manager AVOD VIX; who with Luis ArvizuVP Digital, detailed to MILLENNIUM aspects of the platform they are presenting.
When specifying the characteristics of the VIX platform, the executive highlighted that it is unique, “first because it is well differentiated from what exists in traditional television; Well, we are not simply trying to replicate streaming TV, we are making a commitment to specific content for streaming, in which there are obviously many soap operas, but there will also be series, movies and live sports. All this in a free and super easy to use streaming platform, whether you want content on demand or content on more linear channels that look traditional but are actually streaming”.
Explaining what elements they consider to integrate their content, Urbina explained: “Obviously, the Televisa-Univisión merger comes from the fact that this is a global market and we need to join efforts to launch a product. And the library and the collection of Televisa in its 70 years is a super important part of the offer; obviously in traditional television we don’t have the capacity to offer all that content at the same time. But on the platform we will start with 40,000 hours of on-demand content and more than 100 channels” that will be nurtured taking as “the backbone the content of Televisa; in addition to the fact that we are adding a lot of third-party content in terms of series, movies, independents, blockbusters from different production companies such as Disney”.
And added that the news and sports part will be a very important differentiator for your platform, which is why he advanced: “We are creating channels specifically for this platform, we will have a 24/7 news channel that Univision is preparing in the United States; another is in Mexico and is being produced by Noticieros Televisa; We are also working on another 24/7 sports news program, which will be the center of our coverage of the Qatar World Cup, of which we will have 40 games, which will obviously be another great differentiator”.
Salma Hayek, Eugenio Derbez, Selena Gomez, Mario Vargas Llosa and María Dueñas, their partners
The second part of the platform launch, VIX+is planned for the second half of the year and the intention is to offer a service focused on the target market.
“It is one thing to make content in Spanish and another to understand the culture of each of the markets we are targeting and for consumers to see their culture reflected in that content. We think this is going to be a very, very strong differential for Vix and Vix Plus; and to achieve the goal we have partnered with the main content creators in the Spanish-speaking world, Salma Hayek, Eugenio Derbez, Selena Gomez, Mario Vargas Llosa and María Dueñas; we are bringing in high-level talent, to produce and tell stories that are relevant to this audience, that will make us have a great differential”, highlighted Urbina.
And he reiterated: “One thing is to generate global entertainment content that can be translated into many languages and can be successful in many countries, which has a lot of value, but it also has a lot of merit that this resonance is really achieved with the local market that we are serving; because we are all competing for the attention of the consumer .
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The first productions with Lemon Films
TelevisaUnivisión Inc and Lemon Films are preparing four productions that will premiere on the VIX+ platform.
They will be a moviemy teacher ate my friend), two fiction series(A good divorce and it’s not you, it’s my daddy issues) and a reality show (the crazy dog) which are already being prepared under the Lemon Films label for ethe second semester of the year.
In this era of high-end content, there was a need for a place that focused on giving creators of Latin origin a voice; And VIX+ is doing it.”
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https://d1softballnews.com/launch-of-vix-the-specialized-platform-for-the-hispanic-market/
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How government over-classification may hide UFO videos and harm our security
Remember those videos taken by U.S. military pilots showing unidentified objects flying at incredible speeds and executing impossible maneuvers? They’ve appeared widely in various media since 2017, but if DOD gets its way going forward, all such videos — and other materials relating to UFOs, officially known as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) — will be classified and unavailable to the public.
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines recently acknowledged that excessive government classification undermines U.S. national security. As she wrote in January in a letter to U.S. senators, “It is my view that deficiencies in the current classification system undermine our national security, as well as critical democratic objectives, by impeding our ability to share information in a timely manner.”
She also acknowledged that excessive classification damages the public’s faith in government and “reduces the Intelligence Community’s capacity to effectively support senior policymaker decision-making.”
The DNI’s testimony followed that of senior military officers who have complained to Congress regarding excessive classification.
This is, in fact, a problem familiar to anyone who has worked extensively with classified U.S. government information.
The DNI’s concerns are particularly timely and important. As I used to remind my security and counterintelligence colleagues in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, we did not win the Cold War because we were better at protecting information; we won the Cold War because we were much better at moving and sharing information, especially in the private marketplace, where the resulting efficiencies and innovation enabled us to consistently outpace and outperform the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, or UAPTF, issued new classification guidelines last year that classify as “Secret” the sorts of videos (e.g., “Gimbal,” “Go Fast” and “FLIR1“) that DOD has acknowledged were unclassified — not declassified — when they were released in 2017. This new blanket of secrecy is apparent from the DOD briefing guide on last year’s unclassified UAP report, which states: “Except for its existence, and the mission/purpose, virtually everything else about the UAPTF is classified, per the signed Security Classification Guide.”
Further evidence of this new effort to suddenly classify photographic information which a formal U.S. Air Force investigation recently determined did not cause any damage to national security, is evident from the UAPTF Security Classification Guide, which appears to classify virtually all data analyzed by the task force. Yet, the dissemination of those famous unclassified videos — “Go Fast,” “Gimbal” and “FLIR1” — actually enhanced national security by facilitating awareness on the part of the government and the public that we appear to have a strategic vulnerability which needs to be addressed.
No doubt the same “We don’t want to share with the public” mindset would have resulted in classifying the Sputnik launch in 1957 if the Intelligence Community could have gotten away with it. Thankfully, the American people became aware of Sputnik, and of the fact that the Soviets had achieved a major technological breakthrough in space, which led the public to demand the actions that ultimately produced the immensely successful U.S. space program.
Excessive classification is contrary to the values of a democratic society and should be opposed as a matter of principle. However, there also are pragmatic reasons to raise this issue.
I am approaching the UAP topic as a member of two serious groups of scientific researchers, the Galileo Project and the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU). Both of these UAP research organizations have gathered able groups of scientists who are seeking to advance our collective understanding of UAP anomalies. Those efforts now appear to be hindered by new guidance that moves the classification yardsticks merely because some U.S. government officials dislike oversight and are uncomfortable sharing information.
Since DOD isn’t claiming retroactively that the “Gimbal,” “Go Fast” or “FLIR1” videos themselves are or ever should have been classified, or that their release has damaged national security, by what authority are they now claiming the need or right to classify the same sorts of information going forward?
As an example of the damage which excessive classification can do, let me offer a specific example. An effort is underway using machine learning to train a powerful computing capability to detect valid UAP videos and photos and to reject fakes or videos that mistakenly capture conventional aircraft. Training the system requires valid, authenticated UAP video — the more, the better. Suddenly, the source of the best, most authoritative UAP videos has been eliminated by this inappropriate but all too commonplace bureaucratic decision to withhold taxpayer-funded information from the taxpayer.
Notably, the new UAP classification guidance may be in conflict with Executive Order (EO) 13526, which restricts reclassifying information and also prohibits information from being inappropriately classified. It’s difficult to see how these videos could “reasonably be expected to cause identifiable or describable damage to the national security” as required by EO 13526 § 1.4. By contrast, it is easy to see how increasing awareness of these issues on the part of policymakers, scientists and the public is necessary to advance national security. Were it not for the “Gimbal,” “Go Fast” and “FLIR1” videos, and the testimony of pilots involved in those encounters, the nation might still be completely unaware of these continuing apparent violations of restricted U.S. airspace.
The DNI and Congress should both ask the UAP Task Force’s successor to explain the “identifiable” or “describable” damage that they believe is “reasonably expected” from sharing routine UAP videos like “Go Fast” or “FLIR1.”
Certainly, there are valid cases for classification — for example, a classified sensor system operating from a sensitive location. However, most of the videos suddenly being classified appear to be from handheld video cameras on Navy ships and the same unclassified sources used to produce “Gimbal,” “Go Fast” and “FLIR1.” Indeed, in a number of cases, the videos are from iPhone cameras that pilots often carry while flying. By what rationale can iPhone pics of UAP taken on routine training missions over the U.S. be deemed classified?
If the Director of National Intelligence is looking for examples of excessive classification, she need look no further than the UAP Task Force and its successor. In the meantime, science will continue to be hindered, and inefficiency and ignorance regarding the UAP issue will continue to prevail.
NOTE: This post has been updated from the original to rephrase the first paragraph to clarify that videos already released will still be available to be viewed.
Christopher Mellon served 20 years in the federal government. He’s a registered independent who served presidents and senators of both parties. He served as deputy assistant Defense secretary for intelligence, 1999-2002, and for security and information operations, 1998-99. From 2002 to 2004 he was minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He was a consultant and contributor to the HISTORY Channel’s nonfiction series, “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.”
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Final Four teams heavily recruit talent in their backyards
By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Basketball Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The four blueblood programs that have descended upon the Superdome for the men’s Final Four all have the ability to recruit on a national scale. Their coaches are able to hop aboard a jet on a moment’s notice to sit in a living room or take in a game. Yet all of the teams in New Orleans have pulled talent from their own backyards. Kansas has mined stars from Kansas City, Villanova from the fertile recruiting grounds of Philadelphia, and Duke and North Carolina have gone head-to-head for local talent with their campuses separated by about 10 miles.
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https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/03/31/final-four-teams-heavily-recruit-talent-in-their-backyards/
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Lucky winner Michael T. hit an over $1 million jackpot at The LINQ Hotel and Experience, the venue announced in a tweet Thursday.
Michael hit the “Mega Progressive” jackpot for $1,041,779 playing Let It Ride, the casino said in a tweet.
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Cambiar Investors LLC raised its holdings in NETSTREIT Corp. (NYSE:NTST – Get Rating) by 2.3% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 105,750 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 2,336 shares during the quarter. Cambiar Investors LLC owned approximately 0.27% of NETSTREIT worth $2,422,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
A number of other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Point72 Hong Kong Ltd purchased a new stake in shares of NETSTREIT during the third quarter valued at $74,000. Royal Bank of Canada boosted its position in NETSTREIT by 47.2% in the 2nd quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 7,187 shares of the company’s stock valued at $166,000 after buying an additional 2,304 shares during the period. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. boosted its position in NETSTREIT by 57.4% in the 3rd quarter. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. now owns 10,233 shares of the company’s stock valued at $242,000 after buying an additional 3,733 shares during the period. Citadel Advisors LLC bought a new position in NETSTREIT in the third quarter worth approximately $270,000. Finally, Jane Street Group LLC bought a new position in shares of NETSTREIT during the 3rd quarter worth $298,000.
Separately, Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of NETSTREIT from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 15th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $28.00.
Shares of NYSE:NTST traded up $0.12 on Thursday, hitting $22.44. 291,143 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 538,054. The firm has a market capitalization of $992.86 million, a P/E ratio of 320.57, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.63 and a beta of 1.08. The company has a current ratio of 0.45, a quick ratio of 0.45 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30. NETSTREIT Corp. has a 1-year low of $18.01 and a 1-year high of $26.92. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $21.90 and its 200 day moving average price is $22.83.
NETSTREIT (NYSE:NTST – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 24th. The company reported $0.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.24 by ($0.19). NETSTREIT had a return on equity of 0.45% and a net margin of 5.15%. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.20 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts predict that NETSTREIT Corp. will post 1.02 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 30th. Investors of record on Tuesday, March 15th were issued a dividend of $0.20 per share. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.57%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, March 14th. NETSTREIT’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 1,142.86%.
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NETSTREIT is an internally managed Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) based in Dallas, Texas that specializes in acquiring single-tenant net lease retail properties nationwide. The growing portfolio consists of high-quality properties leased to e-commerce resistant tenants with healthy balance sheets.
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A s preparations for the 2023 general elections kick off, Nigerians have begun to unveil their stakes and aspirations in the coming dispensation. We have seen high-wired interests in the elective executive offices, especially the presidency. Given the declarations so far made, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu are the eldest aspirants to the 2023 Nigerian presidency.
From his body language and the campaign of his apologists, Atiku Abubakar believes that his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) can only win the 2023 presidential election if the party gives him the presidential ticket. Going by the understanding of the almighty Waziri of Adamawa whom an analyst has labelled a “career presidential aspirant”, he is the only member of the Peoples Democratic Party whose presidential ambition deserves support. Atiku Abubakar cannot support another person’s presidential project. Bola Tinubu notwithstanding his moral burdens and health challenges believes that he has what it takes to preside over Nigeria come 2023.
In a manner reminiscent of the peacock, Tinubu struts about in overflowing ‘agbada’ to every nook and cranny of Nigeria, boasting plaintively of his contributions to Nigeria especially as it pertained to the making of the political contraption known as the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Muhammadu Buhari uninspiring presidency in 2014 and 2015 respectively. With his highly commercialized campaign, Tinubu wants to be given the opportunity in 2023 to realize what, according to him, has been his “lifetime ambition to rule Nigeria”!
As things stand presently, the respective presidential ambitions of former Vice-president Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu constitute the greatest problems of their respective political parties as the parties prepare for the 2023 general elections. Both 76-year-old former Vice-president Atiku Abubakar and Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose age is indeterminate, have weaved false senses of indispensability around themselves in their respective political parties; and in their delusions, they want all moral rules of the party to be broken for their selfish ambitions.
This is why they both want the issue of zoning to either be twisted to accommodate them or jettisoned; and it does not matter to them if their respective political parties implode or suffer losses in the process. The desperations of Atiku and Tinubu over 2023 are understandable.
Their respective ages and health conditions cannot permit them to contest another presidential election after 2023. In the eyes of Atiku and Tinubu, the Nigerian Presidential Villa (Aso Rock) looks like an old people’s home, and they respectively crave to retire there as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This idea is wrong. I am sure that given what Nigerians are passing through in the hands of aging President Muhammadu, they will not touch an elderly presidential candidate even with a long pole come 2023.
Nigerians currently yearn to have a young and agile president who will be aware of developments in the country and have capacity to move round and monitor policy implementation. Watching the duo of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Senator Bola Tinubu, well-meaning Nigerians like Chief Olabode George have begun to question their respective claims to patriotism, dignity and senses of morality, justice and fair play. It is baffling that Atiku and Tinubu who were active players in the 1999 political transition programme in Nigeria when all Nigerians forsook their respective comparative advantages in order to give vent to the political equity and justice of that time are behaving the way they are behaving now.
Pursuant to the equity and justice of that time which was to produce a Nigerian president of Yoruba extraction, an Igbo man, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, out of humility and patriotism did not consider his presidential ticket on the platform of a major political party – All Peoples Party (APP) too dear a thing to be sacrificed for the unity of Nigeria.
When Atiku and Tinubu want to ignore the fact that the Southeast is the most deserving of the 2023 presidency, they ask: Is zoning or rotation in the constitution? May I remind them that when Dr Ogbonnaya Onu made that sacrifice in 1999, zoning or rotation was not spelt out in the constitution; but a Nigerian president of Yoruba extraction was necessary then.
Just as then, a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction has become necessary to fully reintegrate Nd’Igbo into the Nigerian establishment and give Nd’Igbo a radical sense of inclusiveness in Nigeria since the end of the civil war! At this point, it has become pertinent to state that no section of Nigeria deserves the 2023 presidency more than the Nd’Igbo of South eastern Nigeria.
Having said that, I call on Nigerians once more to fully demonstrate their wisdom, patriotism and commitment to national unity in the 2023 presidential election by supporting one of the many young and vibrant aspirants from the South eastern region of Nigeria to win the 2023 Presidential election. This will douse tension in the country, conclude the inchoate post-civil war programme of Reintegration and set Nigeria on a trajectory of enthralling development.
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https://www.newtelegraphng.com/atiku-tinubu-and-the-veils-of-vaulting-ambition/
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State of Minnesota was slow to respond to 2020 rioting, report finds
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota's response to the 2020 riots that broke out after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd was too slow, a new report found.
The state eventually brought a historic deployment of the Minnesota National Guard and State Patrol that restored order to city streets. Yet there were many failures: mistreatment of peaceful demonstrators, a lack of coordination with Minneapolis Police, and little discipline for what went wrong.
"It was all new for the state and city to be operating in this way," Anna Granias, a Wilder research scientist, told lawmakers on the House Public Safety committee during a Thursday afternoon hearing.
The report, conducted by St. Paul-based Wilder Research, cost taxpayers $180,953. It follows a previous independent review conducted by a separate third-party firm for the City of Minneapolis that blamed the city for numerous breakdowns.
State officials eventually set up a multi-agency command center at TCF Stadium, since renamed Huntington Bank Stadium, on the University of Minnesota campus. The site was not ideal because of its proximity to the rioting could have made it a target, the report found. The stadium was the state's third choice after two preferred sites were unavailable because of COVID-19.
Minneapolis Police participation at the multi-agency command was lacking. The agency had representatives there, but Chief Medaria Arradondo was "notably absent," the report found.
On the ground, police officers, State Patrol, and National Guard soldiers failed to distinguish between lawful and unlawful protesters. This led to injuries to both protesters and journalists. The State Patrol recently settled a lawsuit in which it agreed to a series of changes related to crowd control.
Minnesota lawmakers raised questions about why the report was finally released nearly two years after the incidents it describes.
"There’s also been speculation that this report was delayed or heavily edited to avoid embarrassment or not having to act on these recommendations," said state Rep. Cedrick Frazier, DFL-New Hope. He urged state Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington to release all drafts of the report, which Harrington did not commit to doing.
Harrington said Wilder researchers delayed their report, so they could talk with people in the White Earth Native American community and Somali community.
"We thought that was the right thing to do," he said. "If we were going to have a comprehensive report, that made the most sense to me."
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Lawmakers also questioned why so few state law enforcement officials had been disciplined for the errors outlined in the report. Harrington said six internal affairs complaints had been filed, leading to one disciplinary action. He did not describe the cases.
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https://www.fox9.com/news/state-of-minnesota-was-slow-to-respond-to-2020-rioting-report-finds
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Fort Sill celebrates National Vietnam War Veterans Day
FORT SILL, Okla. (KSWO) - Tuesday was National Vietnam War Veterans Day and Vietnam veterans were invited to Fort Sill for a recognition ceremony at Post Exchange.
Every vet received their own lapel pin commemorating the event and the Post Exchange put out their Vietnam Veteran show truck.
The national day of observance first began on the war’s 50th anniversary in March of 2012 by former President Obama.
March 29 is the day when the last U.S. troops left Vietnam in 1973
Fort Sill’s Garrison Commander Col. Rhett Taylor helped honor those at the event.
“We’re really here to welcome them home,” he said. “They didn’t have that when they came home. And I think that the soldiers today kind of take that for granted; that support that they get from the community. We just got to take time and recognize our Vietnam Veterans, what they contributed, and what they sacrificed. And just welcome them home, and let them know that we haven’t forgotten and the nation is grateful for their service.”
Taylor said events like this are important for soldiers who serve or have served.
“It means a lot to be a part of this, to truly honor them for their sacrifice,” he said. “When I’m in ceremonies like this, it really reminds me what we’re here for. It’s not just for the soldiers that are serving today, but it’s for those who have served.”
The ceremony happens every year at Fort Sill.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s hiring boom of the past year has narrowed racial disparities in unemployment. Yet the Federal Reserve’s ongoing interest rate hikes — shaping up to be the steepest in 15 years — threaten to reverse that progress.
The Fed’s rate hikes will mean higher borrowing rates that could hobble the job market and undercut a goal the Fed unveiled two years ago: To keep rates ultra-low for as long as possible, to help less advantaged workers, who often don’t benefit much from job growth until late in an economic expansion.
Now, though, facing the worst inflation in four decades, the Fed has begun tightening credit and is expected to keep raising its benchmark short-term rate multiple times this year and next. Such rapid hikes typically slow borrowing and spending and can raise unemployment and even cause a recession. During such downturns, Black and Hispanic Americans commonly suffer higher jobless rates.
The Fed’s shift away from low rates comes as the African American unemployment rate has reached 6.6%, down sharply from its pandemic high of nearly 17% and a relatively low level historically. Yet it remains twice the 3.3% rate for whites. Hispanic unemployment is 4.4%.
“The reason why this matters in the Black community is because we are literally the last hired, and it’s only when you get to this point in a recovery where black workers really see their gains,” said William Spriggs, chief economist at the AFL-CIO. “When you slow the pace of hiring, then you cut off that path.”
On Friday, the government will issue the March jobs report, which could shine further light on racial disparities. Economists estimate that employers added a healthy 478,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate dipped from 3.8% to 3.7%, according to data provider FactSet. That would be near the 3.5% rate just before the pandemic struck, which was the lowest level in a half-century.
In August 2020, the Fed redefined its goal of maximum employment as being “broad-based and inclusive.” For the first time, it would look beyond the overall unemployment rate and also consider jobless rates for Black and Hispanic workers in setting interest rates. Fed officials hoped that by keeping rates down, they could help narrow the nation’s persistent racial unemployment gaps.
The policy represented “a significant shift,” said Stephanie Aaronson, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution and a former Fed economist. “Prior to that, every Fed chair would have said something along the lines of, a rising tide lifts all boats. Now they were saying, a rising tide lifts all boats — but not to the same level, and not at the same pace.”
For Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed officials, the goal was to keep the economy running “hot” to reduce unemployment as much as possible. The Fed also wanted to raise too-low inflation, which had stayed stubbornly below its 2% annual target for roughly a decade.
In a so-called hot economy, businesses become so desperate for workers that they hire applicants they would otherwise have neglected. They are more likely, for example, to hire and train workers who lack certain skills or even people who have completed prison sentences.
But the pandemic has upended the Fed’s intentions. The combination of supply-chain snarls and robust consumer demand, fueled by government rescue aid and the Fed’s own low rates, fed an unexpectedly large and persistent spike in inflation. The result is that the central bank must raise rates to fight inflation.
Powell and other Fed officials say they hope that by doing so, they will prolong, rather than derail, economic growth and further narrow racial inequities. Among those officials is Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, who said last week that he expected the economy to keep growing even in the face of higher rates.
“And if that is in fact what happens, then it is possible that we can still see the narrowing of these (racial) gaps,” Bostic said.
With inflation chronically high, economists are in overwhelming agreement that the Fed has no choice but to tighten credit — perhaps aggressively — well into 2023.
“When inflation is not a problem, then it’s much easier to say, ‘We’re going to maximize employment and see how far we can take this,’ ” said Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s program on race, ethnicity and the economy. “But with inflation in the mix, they’re in a position now where they can’t really ignore that.”
The seeds of the Fed’s shift toward pursuing a more inclusive recovery were sown during the economic expansion that followed the 2008-2009 Great Recession, the longest in U.S. history. The Fed pinned its key rate at nearly zero in December 2008, where it remained for seven years. Over time, its policies helped shrink unemployment to its lowest point in a half-century. Black and Hispanic jobless rates reached record lows.
Black unemployment fell to 5.4% in 2019, the lowest on records dating to 1972. It was just 1.9 percentage points above the white rate of 3.5%, the smallest such gap on record.
Other racial gaps vanished altogether. The proportions of Black and white Americans who were either working or seeking work equaled each other in 2019, for example, after roughly four decades in which Black workers had trailed whites.
In part, that reflected an aging white population with comparatively more retirements. But it also resulted from a steady rise in Black Americans who either found jobs or had begun seeking one.
That progress bolstered a view among economists that the Fed’s rate policies could make a major difference. Research by Aaronsonfound that when the unemployment rate falls especially low, disadvantaged groups disproportionately benefit.
Still, the reality that racial unemployment gaps exist even during hot economies has fueled a perception among economists that there are limits to what the Fed’s low rates — and a strong economy — can achieve. Economists generally believe that federal spending and tax policies have a more significant impact on household finances.
Algernon Austin, who leads the race and economic justice program at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, suggested that while the central bank deserves credit for pursuing an inclusive recovery, “what the Fed does is not going to solve the problem.”
Likewise, Powell said last year that he believed Congress and other institutions would have to pursue policies, in education and other areas, to fully eliminate racial inequalities in jobs and incomes.
“We would all love to see no such gap,” he said. “I think eliminating inequality and racial discrimination … is really something that fiscal policy and other policies — frankly, education policies and that kind of thing — are better at focusing on.”
For now, Black Americans face higher unemployment than whites at every level of education, according to data compiled by the Economic Policy Institute. In 2019, Black workers with a four-year college degree had a higher jobless rate than whites with only some higher education did.
Spriggs suggested that stricter enforcement of civil rights laws to fight discrimination in hiring could help narrow the racial disparities. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s budget has stagnated for years, Spriggs noted, even while it has taken on additional tasks, including the enforcement of age bias laws.
Better enforcement by the EEOC might, for example, help address the fact that Black unemployment has remained roughly double the white rate for decades. At a conference last week held by the Brookings Institution, William Darity, an economist at Duke University, called that ratio “a powerful index of discrimination.”
Darity has called for a federal jobs guarantee that would give the unemployed the option of a public sector job. With that policy as a “cushion,” Darrity said, “the Fed could tackle inflation without fear of extreme adverse social consequences.”
In a speech last February, Powell acknowledged the limits of the Fed’s powers.
“Over the course of a long expansion, these persistent disparities can decline significantly,” he said. “But without policies to address their underlying causes, they may increase again when the economy ultimately turns down.”
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Singtel unit Australia Tower Network to buy Axicom for $2.68 billion
:Singtel-owned Australia Tower Network (ATN) said on Friday it will buy telecommunications tower infrastructure provider Axicom for A$3.58 billion ($2.68 billion).
ATN is co-owned by Singtel and superannuation fund AustralianSuper.
Following the deal, Singtel's shareholding in the combined ATN-Axicom business will be 18per cent, with the remaining held by AustralianSuper.
Axicom owns and operates about 2,000 telecommunication sites across Australia.
($1 = 1.3351 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Indranil Sarkar in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)
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Bowie team finishes fifth at state meet; Nocona lifter finishes 10th
The boy’s state powerlifting meet took place on Saturday for competitors from Bowie and Nocona. The Jackrabbits had two of their three lifters finish second in their weight classes to come away with a fifth place finish as a team. Coleton Price set some state...
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Visa said its programme is designed for entrepreneurs in art, music, fashion and film who want to add NFTs to their business model.
Visa has launched a new creator programme to help groups such as artists and musicians scale their businesses through the creation and selling of NFTs.
Selected creators will join a one-year programme designed to build and deepen their fluency in crypto commerce and traditional payments. Each cycle of the programme will support a group of entrepreneurs looking to deepen their understanding of the technology and platforms underpinning NFTs.
Visa said the creator economy is one of the fastest-growing areas of small business, with an estimated size of around €90bn and 50m artists, musicians and creators publishing content as a source of income.
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are unique digital files with ownership recorded and verified using blockchain technology. After a surge in interest last year, the NFT market surpassed an estimated $40bn in value.
As NFTs can establish ownership and authenticity of digital goods and media, Visa believes they can help creators generate revenue and grow their business.
“NFTs have the potential to become a powerful accelerator for the creator economy,” Visa’s head of crypto, Cuy Sheffield, said. “We’ve been studying the NFT ecosystem and its potential impacts on the future of commerce, retail and social media.
“We want to help this new breed of small and micro businesses tap into new mediums for digital commerce.”
The one-year programme is designed to help creators through mentorship, community creation, the opportunity to engage with Visa’s client network and access to thinkers and researchers. It will also provide a one-time stipend to help creators kick-start the next phase of growth.
Earlier this month, it was announced that LimeWire is set to return as an NFT marketplace, more than a decade after the file-sharing platform was shut down following a lengthy legal battle with the US music industry over piracy claims.
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Juniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE:JNPR – Get Rating) COO Manoj Leelanivas sold 13,366 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 31st. The stock was sold at an average price of $38.00, for a total transaction of $507,908.00. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website.
Manoj Leelanivas also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Thursday, March 17th, Manoj Leelanivas sold 10,934 shares of Juniper Networks stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $34.51, for a total value of $377,332.34.
Juniper Networks stock traded down $0.42 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $37.16. The stock had a trading volume of 5,547,133 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,527,868. Juniper Networks, Inc. has a 12 month low of $24.93 and a 12 month high of $38.14. The company has a market capitalization of $11.99 billion, a P/E ratio of 49.61, a PEG ratio of 3.69 and a beta of 0.88. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $34.29 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $32.34. The company has a current ratio of 1.58, a quick ratio of 1.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.39.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 22nd. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, March 1st were paid a dividend of $0.21 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, February 28th. This represents a $0.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.26%. This is an increase from Juniper Networks’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.20. Juniper Networks’s payout ratio is 110.53%.
Hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund boosted its stake in Juniper Networks by 5.2% during the 3rd quarter. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund now owns 186,685 shares of the network equipment provider’s stock valued at $5,138,000 after purchasing an additional 9,200 shares during the last quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its stake in Juniper Networks by 17.7% during the 3rd quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 6,339,346 shares of the network equipment provider’s stock valued at $174,457,000 after purchasing an additional 951,771 shares during the last quarter. Asset Management One Co. Ltd. boosted its stake in Juniper Networks by 23.1% during the 3rd quarter. Asset Management One Co. Ltd. now owns 197,352 shares of the network equipment provider’s stock valued at $5,431,000 after purchasing an additional 37,015 shares during the last quarter. Natixis acquired a new position in Juniper Networks during the 3rd quarter valued at about $1,646,000. Finally, Strs Ohio boosted its stake in Juniper Networks by 2,865.5% during the 3rd quarter. Strs Ohio now owns 102,783 shares of the network equipment provider’s stock valued at $2,828,000 after purchasing an additional 99,317 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 92.87% of the company’s stock.
Several research analysts recently issued reports on JNPR shares. StockNews.com started coverage on Juniper Networks in a research report on Thursday. They set a “buy” rating for the company. Bank of America raised Juniper Networks from an “underperform” rating to a “buy” rating and raised their target price for the stock from $22.00 to $40.00 in a research report on Tuesday, January 11th. Loop Capital started coverage on Juniper Networks in a research report on Monday, February 14th. They set a “buy” rating and a $41.00 target price for the company. Jefferies Financial Group raised Juniper Networks from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and raised their target price for the stock from $28.00 to $42.00 in a research report on Tuesday, December 7th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their price objective on Juniper Networks from $33.00 to $36.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 20th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating and nine have issued a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $34.67.
Juniper Networks Company Profile (Get Rating)
Juniper Networks, Inc engages in the designing, development, and the sale of products and services for performance networks. It offers requirements for global service, cloud providers, national governments, research and public sector organizations, and other enterprises. The company was founded by Pradeep S.
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French research institute CEA and startup C12 Quantum Electronics have announced a partnership to produce multi-qubit chips at wafer scale using carbon nanotubes. C12 and CEA also claim to be the world’s first to manufacture components to control qubits using standard manufacturing processes.
CEA says it manufactures quantum chips on 200mm silicon wafers by relying on standard CMOS processes, while C12 is pursuing carbon nanotubes as a novel approach to build qubits, which are the fundamental building blocks of quantum computers. Combining these two approaches would result in a scalable and ultra-coherent platform for quantum computing. Coherency refers to the lifetime of a qubit: the amount of time it can retain its information before the quantum state is destroyed by noise. A full prototype is expected in 2024.
Addressing qubits using standard processes
Additionally, CEA and C12 claim to have demonstrated for the first time ever the capability to manufacture in volume core components to calibrate, control and read qubits using standard (presumably CMOS) processes. The nanotubes are assembled mechanically by C12 onto the semiconductor chip that has been fabricated by CEA. This allows C12 to design electronic circuits with almost arbitrary complexity, while protecting the qubit from contamination until the last manufacturing step, when the qubits and the silicon chip are combined.
In this approach, the ultra-pure carbon nanotube serves as the qubit, while the silicon chip is used as a quantum communication bus. It also causes the qubits to be isolated. The carbon atoms are isotopically purified (which means that all atoms have the same amount of neutrons in the nucleus of the atom), which would minimize their decoherence by reducing noise.
“This partnership is a key milestone for our company to transfer an academic fab process to an industrial-grade semiconductor fab process, which was a major challenge,” said Pierre Desjardins, CEO and co-founder of C12. “Thanks to CEA-Leti, we will benefit from better quality and higher volume as well as will prepare for industrialization of our devices.”
Finally, the two companies announced that they have started to manufacture chips for C12’s “quantum accelerators,” which are meant for integration into classical supercomputers. This represents the startup’s first product milestone.
C12 closed a $10 million seed round in June 2021.
More on quantum computing
Quantum computing represents a fundamentally new way to do computation, as it makes use of quantum mechanical properties such as entanglement and superposition. Whereas Moore’s Law is based on periodically doubling the number of transistors on a chip, in quantum computing the theoretical capabilities grow exponentially with each new qubit.
Research has been progressing over the last decade across multiple companies and startups. Various techniques have been invented to make qubits. One of the earliest technologies that saw traction was the superconducting qubit.
In contrast, C12’s qubits are created by trapping a single electron in a quantum nanotube. Gate electrodes are used to form a double quantum dot within the nanotube, and to entangle the electronic spin with the double quantum dot. The spin qubit is then addressed through a resonator via microwave pulses. Multi-qubit gates are performed via spin-spin coupling between the qubits.
Besides CEA, the main other company working on a CMOS-based quantum computer is Intel, which uses its 300mm fabs compared to CEA’s 200mm wafers. Intel is working on both silicon and silicon-germanium spin qubits, instead of carbon nanotubes, where a single electron is trapped inside a structure that resembles a classical transistor.
Quantum applications
It is generally believed that it will require thousands or even millions of qubits for quantum computing to gain relevance for practical applications, which could go from chemistry to cryptography, materials science and optimization problems. With the industry currently stuck at around 100 qubits or even less, this means quantum computing still has some way to go before it could become a mainstream technology.
Nevertheless, some are already jumping on the bandwagon by offering the technology to the wider public for early adoption, for instance through simulators or cloud access. One such example is Azure Quantum.
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Higher costs pinch home buyers
(CNN) - As home and rent prices soar, Americans are struggling to keep up with the cost of living.
Many are resorting to taking places they can fix up themselves, only to find that option may be just as expensive.
“This was nothing as I expected purchasing my first home,” said Allison Braun, who bought her first home in February.
After losing bidding wars and paying $75,000 over budget, she settled on a fixer-upper, expecting to save some money.
“It was really surprising getting in here and fixing things up. Overwhelming is another way I’d explain it,” Braun said.
Rents are up a record 17% in the last year, with home prices up nearly 20%. So are construction costs.
Braun, who works for the real estate company Redfin, is redoing nearly every space in her home.
The kitchen needed new counters.
“We were really surprised by the cost, especially the labor, to put them in,” Braun said. “We wanted to figure out a way of how we can do our countertops on our own. So the concrete countertops were born.”
She saved $3,300 by doing them with her partner.
She tried the same with her floors but underestimated how much she would need and the rapidly rising cost of lumber.
“We didn’t estimate enough wood for the first floor, and we went back to buy more wood for the flooring. And it ended up that after a month’s time the flooring went up about 25 cents per square foot,” she said.
But it’s not just homeowners getting stuck with higher costs. Construction materials are up 24% in the last year.
Bill McGrath’s company is installing elevators in a residential housing complex in New Jersey. So far, they have two in.
“Well, right here you have the electronics, which this is a stainless steel. The plastics, electronic boards behind it as cost and more. The ceilings, wood, you’re standing on lumber. There’s steel underneath,” he said.
And all of it is going up.
Supply chain slowdowns and demand have pushed construction costs up – forcing projects to come in over budget and over deadline.
A third elevator “is going to cost 17% more in material cost than the other two that we completed.” McGrath said.
And he said his 18-person company is spending more on gas to bring materials in, 24% in the last month.
All these rising costs have to get passed down in some way. “I guess (to) the people that will be living here,” McGrath said.
For Braun, the higher costs mean accepting some things, like painting the outside of house, get put on hold.
“We’d love to get hire somebody to do that. That’s been put on the backburner now, and we’re just going to have to learn to love the green,” Braun said.
In other economic news, analysts said inflation in the U.S. has hit a 40-year peak, while consumer sentiment has fallen to a low not seen since august of 2011.
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Banff's Sunshine Village completely open for the summer season
After two years of disruptions because of the COVID-19 pandemic, staff at Banff Sunshine Village will be ready to welcome guests to enjoy all the resort has to offer during the sunny summer season.
Everything is open and ready to go this June, says Kendra Scurfield, the director of brand and communications at Sunshine Village.
"We want the world to know we're open for summer 2022," she told CTV News in an interview Thursday.
"We'll have our gondola running seven days a week, we'll have our interpretive centre open, we'll have our interpretive guided walks open to allow our guests to enjoy the beauty of the wonderful Rockies."
This is the first time the resort has been fully open to the public since the start of the pandemic, Scurfield said, adding that she is "very pleased" they'll be able to go ahead with their plans.
Some of those plans include recruiting summer staff and plowing trails once the ski season is officially over in May.
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The COVID-19 closures at the resort for the past two years was definitely a "challenge", Scurfield says.
"We went from being fully open, having one of the best snow and ski years, being on track to have our record year and then, all of a sudden, coming to a stop."
The following winter season was scaled back, she says.
"Our goal was to be open and stay open and we were successful at being able to stay open from Nov. 10 all the way through to Nov. 24."
The pandemic closure, while a huge hit to the resort's revenue, did present staff with the opportunity to make some improvements, particularly in regards to increasing the capacity of Sunshine Village's parking lots.
"We were able to grow our base area parking lot by about 15 per cent, which netted about 250 new parking stalls," Scurfield said. "We were able to put up new retaining walls to push back and grow our existing surface lot at the base of our mountain."
During the course of the pandemic, she says they were also able to build two large Sprung structures to provide an additional 9,000 square feet of lodge space.
Now that travel restrictions are being loosened in Canada, Scurfield says staff are ready to welcome guests, who are free to travel abroad, back to the resort.
"At Sunshine over the summer, we do have some amazing viewsites so I would encourage people to come and explore just how different the summer side is. Late July/early August is the peak for wildflowers. At Sunshine, we are home to some pretty incredible wildflowers and they can be knee-deep."
The resort opens the summer season on June 24.
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Ontario has 'eliminated all our defences' against COVID subvariant: epidemiologist
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MATCHDAY: Full stadiums as Bundesliga resumes in Germany
The Bundesliga resumes to a full house as Union Berlin is allowed a capacity crowd for the first time in months for Cologne’s visit. Coronavirus restrictions are being scrapped in Berlin from Friday, part of a wider trend under national guidelines that will see full stadiums across the league. It’s going to be a special game for Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart, a fan favorite at Union for the two seasons he played at the club before its relegation to the third division in 2004.
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The auriazul board announced the decision they made about the future of the Italian-Argentine midfielder.
While Pumas prepares for Saturday’s match against FC Juárez and the fans are still waiting for the sale of tickets for the first leg of the Concachampions semifinal against Cruz Azul, the university board announced that one of the players on the squad stopped being part of the team, although the reasons are still not clear. all clear. Who is it about?
Since the beginning of Apertura 2021, several footballers on the squad have been criticized for their levels. Although Álvarez, Rogério, Meritao and Diogo raised their level compared to the last championship, there was one foreign player who never contributed much to the team: Cristian Battocchio. The midfielder who had come from Japanese football did not leave a good impression in his first games and did not change it over time, either. so the fans were not very related.
A matter of minutes ago, the club announced what will happen with his future in the team with the following statement: “For personal reasons and in agreement with the Club Universidad board, the player Cristian Battocchio has ceased to belong to this institution. For our team it is important to prioritize the human aspect, so we wish Cristian much success in his future”.
With this text, the passage of the Argentine nationalized Italian by CU was put an end to him, where he did not get to demonstrate his quality. At the moment, the player has not clarified the reasons for his departure, so we will have to wait for some time to get answers. Will there be clarification on the reason for his departure or will he remain unfinished?
Battocchio’s passage through Pumas
Since his arrival in July last year, The 30-year-old midfielder played just 19 games between Liga MX, Liguilla, Leagues Cup and the Concachampions. In total, there were 817 minutes and he could barely provide an assist, numbers that the fans of the university team clearly did not like.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Nevada has joined a multistate $16M dollar settlement due to allegations of Medicaid fraud.
The settlement names MD Spine Solutions LLC, MD Labs Inc. as the party involved. The allegations in the settlement case state that from Jan. 1, 2015, through Dec. 31, 2019, MD Labs improperly billed, or caused to be billed, federal health care programs for unnecessary urine drug testing.
The allegations included both presumptive tests, a less expensive test that quickly provides qualitative results, and confirmatory tests, a more expensive test that is designed to confirm quantitatively the results of presumptive tests.
According to allegations, MD Labs performed both tests at or around the same time and then simultaneously reported the results to health care providers. The suit continues by alleging that MD Labs, Grizelj, and Rutledge knew that this rendered the presumptive test results irrelevant for most health care providers.
The government alleges that MD Lab’s conduct violated the Federal False Claims Act and
the Nevada False Claims Act and resulted in the submission of false claims to the
Nevada Medicaid program.
Attorney General Aaron D. Ford made the announcement on Thursday that Nevada would join other states across the country and the federal government in settling the allegations.
“This settlement is yet another example of how my office will not allow bad actors to game the Medicaid system for personal gain,” said Ford. “I’m proud of the work our Medicaid Fraud Control Unit put in on this settlement, and I hope this serves as an example to bad actors going forward.”
The settlement began as a whistleblower lawsuit originally filed in the United States
District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
MD Labs, is a California corporation headquartered in Reno and operates a clinical laboratory specializing in urine drug testing.
Anyone wanting to report suspicions regarding any of these concerns may contact the MFCU at 702-486-3420 or 775-684-1100.
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The Bigi carbonated soft drink (CSD) brand, from the stable of Rite Foods, is at the forefront of promoting sports among primary and secondary schools in the country with the sponsorship of the International Schools Athletics Championship where 68 schools participated, from 14 to 19 March, 2022, in Lagos. The competition was part of the brand’s support for the growth of young talents in athletics, like other sporting initiatives sponsored in the past, with its 13 variants and table water that have been the hallmark of distinctiveness in the beverage segment of the Nigerian economy. It was also aimed at encouraging togetherness and peace, with 914 participants from 68 schools as well as 5,000 spectators. Commenting on the sponsorship from the Truly World-class company, the Brand Manager, Boluwatife Adedugbe, stated that the premium Bigi CSD brand through its range of products rejuvenated the athletes with the vigour needed for the completion of the games, especially with the Bigi Table Water which is produced with global best practices in purification and offers quality, freshness, confidence, and reliability.
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Russia weighs risks of launching cyberattacks against the West
Although the United States is bracing for retaliatory Russian cyberattacks, experts in the field say the Kremlin is likely still weighing whether destructive action in cyberspace is worth the blowback.
Russia has shown cyber restraint, at least for the moment, even as the West imposes sanctions that have quickly strangled its economy and targeted government leaders and oligarchs.
“The question is not ‘can Russia carry out cyberattacks against Europe or the United States,’ ” said Melissa Griffith, a senior program associate with the science and technology innovation program at The Wilson Center.
“The question is ‘what would Russia have to gain from and what would they risk by carrying out cyberattacks against the United States and Europe.’ ”
Griffith added that intentionally crippling U.S. critical infrastructure through a cyberattack is “risky and unwise” as the U.S. prepares to take countermeasures against Russia, such as imposing further economic sanctions.
The U.S. and Western Europe have taken unprecedented measures against Russia, cutting the country off from roughly $600 billion in reserves held by the Central Bank of Russia, cutting off Russian access to the U.S. dollar and banning the state banks from using SWIFT, a messaging system used by banks to conduct international transactions.
U.S. lawmakers and NATO officials have also raised the possibility that destructive cyberattacks on infrastructure or militaries could trigger NATO’s Article 5, which says that an act of war against any member will trigger a response from the full alliance.
Michael Daniel, CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance and a former cybersecurity official during the Obama administration, said that Russia is “definitely going to be cautious on doing things that could be escalatory.”
But that hasn’t eased U.S. fears of Russian aggression in cyberspace.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Monday during a Washington Post live event to expect the Russians to use cyberattacks following crippling sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the European Union that caused the value of the ruble to plunge.
“I think we will probably see that in the coming days and weeks as Putin tries to lash out against the crippling level of sanctions we’ve put on him.” Warner said.
And last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updated its “Shields Up” guidance for organizations, urging businesses to remain “laser-focused on resilience” following cyberattacks that left several Ukrainian government websites down.
“While there are no specific or credible cyber threats to the U.S. homeland at this time, Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, which has involved cyber-attacks on Ukrainian government and critical infrastructure organizations, may impact organizations both within and beyond the region, particularly in the wake of sanctions imposed by the United States and our Allies,” the CISA guidance states.
“Every organization — large and small — must be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity,” it added.
Cyber experts told The Hill that the U.S. oil and gas industry is particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks because it is not mandated by law to invest in cybersecurity.
The experts also said it’s difficult to predict exactly how the Russians plan to use their cyber weapons against the West.
“I think many of us in the industry expect that some form of retaliation will come through cyberspace because it’s an area that the Russians have a lot of capability and it’s one where the West has a lot of vulnerabilities,” Daniel said.
The vulnerabilities in question are that the U.S. and Western Europe are digitally dependent societies, making it almost impossible to survive without the internet.
“Everything is reliant in some form on digital capabilities, and that means that there are a lot of different avenues to create disruptions … for the West,” Daniel said.
The Biden administration has urged critical infrastructure, including banks, the energy and health care sectors, to strengthen its cyber defenses from a range of attacks including ransomware and distributed denial-of-service attacks, which were used by Russian groups that carried out the high-profile hacks on the Colonial Pipeline and meat processing giant JBS.
During the Washington Post live event, Warner also said that a cyberattack could trigger NATO’s Article 5.
“I absolutely believe that a cyberattack could constitute an Article 5 violation,” Warner said. “I gave you the example earlier of an attack against Ukraine bleeding into Poland, a NATO nation, or even hurting NATO troops, number one.”
Daniel said if a cyberattack has the same consequences as a physical attack, then there’s no reason not to trigger Article 5. “What’s important to focus on there is the effect and not the vehicle that delivered the attack,” he said.
Countries including the United Kingdom, France and the Baltic states should be even more vigilant, as they are the main target for Russian cyberattacks, said James Lewis, a senior vice president and director with the strategic technologies program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Lewis explains that Russia has in the past sent spies to infiltrate the British government and expects the former Soviet nation to do the same when it comes to cyber.
As for France, Lewis said that the Russians are probably “saving their ammunition” for the upcoming presidential election, which will be held in mid-April, to interfere with the process, particularly if President Emmanuel Macron ramps up the country’s response to Russia’s invasion.
“If you are the Russians, you would want to wait for the time when you could have the most effect,” Lewis said, noting that the Russians attempted to interfere in the last French presidential election but the French government was successful in blocking it.
Lewis said that a number of European countries have good cyber defenses, including the U.K., the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and the Baltic states. “There’s a few that have done a good job, but there are many that are unprepared,” he said.
As for Ukraine, Lewis said that the country is uniquely vulnerable to Russian cyberattacks because Russia built Ukrainian infrastructure, including the electric grids and the telecom systems.
However cyber aggression plays into the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war, it will likely highlight how central the digital landscape will be in future geopolitical conflicts.
“Cyberattack is now part of everybody’s military planning,” Lewis said. “It’s the future weapon that countries will use when they fight.”
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It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some industrial cities reached their peak populations before Americans started moving to the suburbs.
Starting Friday, genealogists and historians can get a microscopic look at those sweeping historical trends when individual records on 151 million people from the 1950 census are released.
Researchers view the records as a gold mine, and amateur genealogists see it as a way to fill gaps in family trees, a field of research that has seen dramatic growth in recent years through the popularity of home DNA testing kits.
“This is genealogy heaven when a census is rolled out,” said Matt Menashes, executive director of the National Genealogical Society. “People are waiting anxiously. It’s hard to overstate.”
For privacy reasons, records identifying people by name can’t be made public until 72 years after they are gathered during the once-a-decade U.S. head count. The 1940 records were released a decade ago.
For Wendy Kalman, an amateur genealogist in Atlanta, the 1950 records will help her solidify details about her parents and grandparents and their relatives. She has traced her father’s side of the family back to 18th century Ukraine, and her research has put her in touch with previously unknown third and fourth cousins in the U.S. whom she talks to regularly.
“It’s an interesting journey to find out where you are from and the census records help you find information that isn’t always available,” said Kalman, 55. “Family stories aren’t always passed down and the census records give you a snapshot in time. It helps put together a picture.”
Ronnie Willis’ relatives from both sides of his grandparents’ families were itinerant farmers who traveled through Texas and Oklahoma as a blended group throughout the 1930s and 1940s. But they broke into nuclear family units after World War II. Willis hopes the 1950 census records help him piece together what happened to those relatives who settled in other states.
“That will help get me 10 years closer to putting the puzzle together, a little bit,” said Willis, 53, a software company executive who lives in Greenville, South Carolina.
Therecords released by the National Archives and Records Administration will be indexed into a searchable website. The digitized, handwritten forms have information about household members’ names, race, sex, age, address, occupations, hours worked in the previous week, salaries, education levels, marital status and the country in which their parents were born. The website will include a tool allowing users to fix any incorrect names or add missing names.
Claire Kluskens, a digital projects archivist at the National Archives, acknowledged that what will be on the website starting Friday is “a first draft,” in which specific people are most likely to be found initially only by searching for whoever was listed as the head of their household.
Two outside genealogical groups, Ancestry and FamilySearch, a division of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have teamed up to serve as a quality check on the records by creating their own index separate from the National Archives.
At Ancestry, scores of workers will be ready at 12:01 a.m. EDT Friday to start downloading the more than 6.5 million digital images of the census files. The Utah-based company will scan the millions of surveys, using artificial intelligence to decipher sloppy handwriting and converting the information into readable database form.
“We are so excited to dive into the census,” said Crista Cowan, corporate genealogist at Ancestry.
Anywhere from 400,000 to 800,000 volunteers across the U.S., under the coordination of FamilySearch, will then double-check the entries with the actual digital images. If the digital record of the 1950 census form says “Wilhelmina” but has been entered as “William” in the index, that will be corrected, said David Rencher, director of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and FamilySearch’s chief genealogy officer.
The effort could take six to nine months, he said.
“We believe we will get better accuracy because we are having humans look at it,” Rencher said.
The new data will flesh out the contours of a dramatically different world.
In 1950, the U.S. had less than half of the 332 million residents it has today. Households were larger, with an average of 3.5 people, compared with 2.6 people per household in 2019. Just 9% of households had someone living alone in 1950, compared with 28% in 2019. Adults were also more likely to be married, with more than two-thirds of adult men and women being married in 1950 compared with less than half of men and women in 2019, said Marc Perry, a senior demographer at the Census Bureau.
Elaine Powell is excited because this is the first release in which she will see herself in the census records. The president of the Central Florida Genealogical Society was born in 1946 and grew up in the St. Louis area.
“It’s just exciting. I remember the first time I found my parents in the census, you could hear me whooping and hollering in the library,” Powell said. “It verifies what you have been told by your parents and grandparents.”
It can also correct the record left by family lore. After all, as Powell noted, “genealogy, without documentation, is mythology.”
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Relax Gaming approved to enter Ontario iGaming market
31st March 2022 10:46 am GMTRelax Gaming is the latest online casino games supplier to secure license approval to launch its content in Ontario's regulated iGaming market from next week.
The approval from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) will allow Relax to debut 130 games with multiple operators in the province.
The launch in Ontario marks Relax Gaming's entry into the North American market and will be followed by a rollout in the United States later this year.
“The opening of the Ontario province marks the long-awaited debuts of regulated operations in Canada and is truly a turning point for the industry in the region,” said Relax Gaming chief regulatory officer Alexia Smilovic Rønde. “AGCO's pragmatic regulation and approach to licensing should deliver a good channelisation from all the stakeholders over time.
“Relax Gaming is delighted to be part of this journey from the very beginning, as well as offer its compliant portfolio and suite of partners under our regulatory umbrella, to make an equally swift and brilliant entry on the local scene.”
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Shares of Capital Power Co. (OTCMKTS:CPXWF – Get Rating) have been given an average recommendation of “Hold” by the eleven analysts that are covering the company, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Six research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and three have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average twelve-month target price among brokers that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $44.38.
A number of analysts have commented on CPXWF shares. BMO Capital Markets reduced their target price on shares of Capital Power from C$42.00 to C$41.00 in a report on Friday, February 25th. Royal Bank of Canada reduced their target price on shares of Capital Power from C$44.00 to C$42.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, December 3rd. Finally, National Bank Financial upped their target price on shares of Capital Power from C$46.00 to C$47.00 in a report on Wednesday, January 26th.
Shares of CPXWF traded up $0.05 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $32.53. 341 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,825. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $31.33 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $32.04. Capital Power has a 1 year low of $28.68 and a 1 year high of $36.42.
Capital Power Corp. engages in the development, acquisition, construction, operation, and optimization of power generation facilities. Its projects include Halkirk, Port Dover and Nanticoke, Keephills 3, and K2 wind power. The company was founded on May 1, 2009 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada.
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As Google rolls out a hybrid work policy in its own business, Google Workspace users soon be able to connect and collaborate with a raft of new features for Spaces, Meet and Voice.
Google Workspace is introducing more features to boost collaboration and communication for remote and hybrid workers.
Workspace is Google’s productivity suite and includes tools such as Gmail, Sheets, Tasks and Docs. It replaced G Suite in October 2020 and the tech giant has made several updates since then to serve users working remotely or in hybrid settings.
New features announced today (31 March) include in-meeting emoticon reactions, new integrations and automatic noise cancellation privacy tools for Google Meet.
The company is also rolling out Google Voice to more users and adding to Google Spaces, which was launched last September to allow colleagues to share projects and collaborate virtually.
Google Spaces
Google is introducing inline threading to Spaces following requests from its enterprise customers. The feature will enable members of a space to respond to specific comments and create side conversations. Every teammate can easily browse a space and catch up on topics that are relevant to them, at a time that works for their schedule.
Last week, Google also enabled users to invite others to join a Space via a shared link. Later in the year, it will let users search and join Spaces across an organisation. Team size limits for Spaces will also be increased to 8,000 initially and later to 25,000 to support teams of all sizes.
Google Meet
As it unveiled Spaces last September, Google said that Meet users would soon be able to avail of a ‘companion mode’ to let people join meetings from their personal devices while leveraging in-room audio and video. The company has also begun rolling out automatic noise cancellation to remove background noise.
Google is now making improvements to its livestream experience. Meet users can now host meetings of up to 500 active attendees with the ability to livestream to audiences of up to 100,000 across trusted Workspace domains. Later in the year, meeting hosts will be able to stream meetings directly to YouTube.
To enable interaction between virtual Meet attendees and their colleagues working in an office, the latter group will be able to add their own personal video tile from companion mode and their laptop camera, making it easier for other attendees to see their expressions and gestures.
From next month, Meet users will be able to see their audiences while presenting on the platform as Google is bringing a picture-in-picture feature to Meet running on Chrome browsers. It will be possible for presenters to see up to four video tiles of meeting attendees in a floating window on top of other applications as they share content.
In May, Google will roll out optional client-side encryption in Google Meet. The feature, which is currently in beta, will give users direct control of encryption keys and the identity provider used to access those keys. Optional end-to-end encryption for all meetings will be introduced later this year.
Google Voice
Finally, Google Workspace is bringing new features to its Google Voice telephone service.
In a bid to help European customers adopt Google Voice, the company recently said that Google Voice calls between many European numbers are now included in licenses and no longer subject to international and domestic rates.
Later this year, it will enable customers with operations outside its current coverage areas to move holistically to Google Voice, and admins will be able to manage carrier-provided numbers alongside Google-provisioned numbers.
The tech company is also set to roll out on-demand call recording to Google Voice Standard and Premier subscribers next month. Premier subscribers will have the additional benefit of automated call recordings, which the company said is a top request from customers in regulated industries.
These latest additions to the Google Workspace suite come shortly after Google announced details of its own hybrid work plans, which will see most workers begin to come into the office at least three days per week from 4 April.
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NCAA president decries pace of basketball investigations
By BRETT MARTEL
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert says investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men’s college basketball programs have taken “way too long.” The implicated programs include current men’s Final Four participant Kansas. Emmert did not specify what solutions to speed the process are on the table. But there’s increasing acknowledgement that the process is broken. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey says the Division I Transformation Committee he co-chairs is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies. Emmert also is urging Congress to draft national name, image and likeness policies governing permissible athlete endorsement deals. He says transfer rules also remain under constant scrutiny.
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First-degree murder charges laid against Calgary man
Calgary police say first-degree murder charges have been laid against a 30-year-old man in connection with the death of a 53-year-old man inside a southeast home.
Emergency crews were called to the scene of a house fire in the 100 block of Douglas Ridge Green S.E. at about 5 a.m. on Feb. 18.
Once the fire was out, they found a body inside the home.
The victim has since been identified as Chad Kowalchuk, 53.
Now, police say after a "extremely complex" investigation, murder charges have been laid.
Justin Angus Boucher, 30, is charged with first-degree murder and arson.
Investigators are not releasing any details about the case, but are looking to the public for more information.
"We continue to investigate the events leading up to the victim's death and ask anyone who may have information to please contact police," said Staff Sgt. Sean Gregson with the homicide unit in a release.
Boucher is set to appear in court on April 7.
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Approximately $225 million in rated debt affected
New York, March 31, 2022 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") upgraded STL Holding Company LLC's ("DSLD Homes") Corporate Family Rating (CFR) to B2 from B3, Probability of Default Rating (PDR) to B2-PD from B3-PD and senior unsecured notes to B2 from B3. The outlook remains stable.
The upgrade reflects steady growth and profitability over the past two years while maintaining good liquidity. Moody's expects this strong performance to continue through 2023, including debt to book capitalization trending to 31%, as a result of increased retained earnings, and EBIT to interest increasing to 6.4x. The stable outlook reflects Moody's expectation that DSLD Homes will continue to deepen its presence in existing markets while maintaining a conservative financial policy.
Upgrades:
..Issuer: STL Holding Company LLC
.... Corporate Family Rating, Upgraded to B2 from B3
.... Probability of Default Rating, Upgraded to B2-PD from B3-PD
....Senior Unsecured Regular Bond/Debenture, Upgraded to B2 (LGD4) from B3 (LGD4)
Outlook Actions:
..Issuer: STL Holding Company LLC
....Outlook, Remains Stable
RATINGS RATIONALE
The B2 CFR reflects DSLD Homes' successful asset-lite business model, which minimizes land impairment risk associated with long land exposure. Furthermore, the rating incorporates DSLD's high mix of affordable, entry-level homes, a segment that Moody's expects will grow faster than other housing categories. The rating also considers the favorable long-term fundamentals within the housing market, including increased family formation among Millennials, the largest demographic group in the US, as well as a low supply of existing homes available for sale. These dynamics have, and will continue, to create considerable demand for new single family homes.
These factors are offset by DSLD Homes' relatively small scale relative to rated peers and modest amount of tangible net worth, an important measure for homebuilders due to the high level of working capital needed to operate. The rating is further constrained by high exposure to the state of Louisiana, which represented over 70% of total revenues in 2021. Finally, the home building sector is facing broad based affordability challenges due to rising mortgage interest rates and high home price appreciation, which is expected to constrain growth.
Despite Moody's expectations of modestly negative free cash flow of $5 million in 2022 as a result of increased land investment to support growth, Moody's expects DSLD Homes to maintain good liquidity over the next 12-18 months. Moody's forecasts free cash flow in 2023 of about $30 million a year-end cash balance in excess of $200 million. Liquidity is supported by the company's $75 million unsecured revolver, which is expected to remain undrawn over the next 12-18 months. The company is expected to maintain ample cushion on its maintenance covenants and has an entirely unsecured capital structure.
FACTORS THAT COULD LEAD TO AN UPGRADE OR DOWNGRADE OF THE RATINGS
The ratings could be upgraded should DSLD Homes increase its scale and geographic diversification while maintaining conservative credit metrics, including debt to total capitalization at or below 50%, EBIT interest coverage above 3.0x and gross margin at or above 20%. A ratings upgrade would also reflect maintenance of positive market conditions, good liquidity and sustained positive free cash flow to fund growth.
The ratings could be downgraded if debt to total capitalization approaches 60%, EBIT interest coverage drops below 2.0x or if the company's liquidity weakens. Also, a downgrade could result from weakening industry conditions causing meaningful revenue and gross margin declines.
The principal methodology used in these ratings was Homebuilding And Property Development Industry published in January 2018 and available at https://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?docid=PBC_1108031. Alternatively, please see the Rating Methodologies page on www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.
DSLD Homes is a private homebuilder focused on the construction of entry-level homes predominantly in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. The company operates in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Texas. Total revenues for the twelve month period ended December 31, 2021 was about $970 million.
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and sensitivity analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity to Assumptions in the disclosure form. Moody's Rating Symbols and Definitions can be found at: https://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?docid=PBC_79004.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Churchill County Sheriff’s office and the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office announced that they are investigating the death of 18-year-old Naomi Irion as a homicide Thursday.
According to a post from the Churchill County Sheriff’s Office, the Nevada woman’s exact cause of death is known but cannot be released due to the ongoing investigation of her death.
Her body was discovered Tuesday in what deputies described as a remote gravesite, they said. The Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Irion’s identity on Wednesday.
She was last seen alive on March 12 getting into the passenger seat of her car outside of a Walmart around 5 a.m.
Officials had said video surveillance showed a person from a nearby homeless camp lurking near vehicles around the same time of Irion’s disappearance. The man was then seen getting into Naomi’s car and leaving.
Deputies arrested Troy Driver, 41, last week, charging him with first-degree kidnapping. Officials have not said if Driver is the man in the surveillance video.
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Edaoto Agbeniyi, popularly known as Edaoto, is a multiple award-winning Afrobeat singer, songwriter, performer and the leader of the globally-acclaimed Edaoto & the Afrogenius Band, an 11-member ensemble that has graced several performance stages around the world with its Afrobeat music. In this interview with TONY OKUYEME, Edaoto – who was also featured in a CNN Anthony Bourdain’s documentary of Part’s Unknown in 2017 – talks about his latest album, ‘Rock On’, piracy, fake lifestyle, conscious music and sundry issues
What makes your band Afrogenius?
Of course, when I wanted to start my band, I think we needed to have a name apart from my name. I was looking at all the greats before we were born, what’s the name of their band? How is it related to their music? Then my muse introduced me to us as geniuses, so I said Afrogenius! The beautiful people in my band are geniuses and they weather the storms of playing live music with me.
You recently introduced your new album ‘Rock On’, describing it as one of the best albums of all time. What makes it different from your previous efforts?
This album is one of the best of all time. Look at the lyrics, form, energy, arrangements and more. It’s far away from the unsolicited noise that rent our airwaves these days. You know a lot of people are now confused, they don’t even know which one is the real authentic sound of Africa anymore. At some point whatever our people hear the most is what they’re going to compare with others. The uniqueness of ‘Rock On’ makes it stand out and I’m sure it can be placed on good grounds. There are 11 solid indefatigable tracks in this album. They discuss different issues of life, from politics to love, communal living to supplication etc. Despite all the problems inherent in Africa, this album gives hope. While reminding us that our joyous future lies in our hands and everything good is achievable. While we keep fighting for a better continent we will continue to ‘Rock On! Just like the lyrics of ‘Rock On’, “they don’t know who we are. Let them know that we are the descendants of that magnificent race!” ‘Rock On’ reminds us that the people before us were great, and encourages us to march unto glory that is before us as a race.
What is the inspiration behind it?
The idea was from the people before us, in the ancient African society, while the war and fight for a better life, they still rejoiced in the victory they were sure would be theirs. We would not stop struggling for a better life, yet in that struggle, we will continue to ‘Rock On!
What are your expectations regarding this album?
Like every good thing, I’ll like it to circulate. I want it to be in every household as a constant reminder that while we fight on we will ‘Rock On’. I want the young and old to listen, dissect and engage it.
You and your band were featured in the European tour of the prestigious Ancienne Belgique Brussels Belgium. Tell us your experience…
When we were in Europe, we were so proud that we were that received. The audience throughout our stay there made us feel like kings. Ancienne Belgique was filled to the brim. We opened for Arsenal Band but the reception throughout was so massive. The Band we opened for is a very popular band the whole show was sold out. Each time we come upon the stage, they made us feel our time was too short and always wanted us to come back.
How was it different from your previous shows?
Before then, most of our tours had been in Africa and were mostly in festivals that were done on open grounds. We couldn’t believe such a huge crowd could be in a closed-door concert, the crowd in the closed-door was massive.
Conscious music, what does it mean to you?
Music plays a pivotal role in nationbuilding. If we have enough conscious music on our airwaves as we have the glorification of vain that we have at the moment, a lot of things would have changed. Check our dressings today;check our discussions today between young and old. Fraud is becoming a norm and if you’re not participating or glorifying it, you’ll become a sort of an outcast. Corruption is endemic, very few people are singing against it. The same thing with our movies; the worst in human characters are becoming role models even in politics. Gutter attitude is becoming the in-thing. All of these are contributions to our arts. So if we have enough conscious musicians and artists as much as we have these veins, it would have re-channelled the energies of our people to positive progressive thoughts.
Do you think conscious music is getting a pride of place in the Nigerian music landscape today? Why?
The orientation of our people changed at some point and that changed the direction of our musical thought. So conscious music has become like a torn on the flesh of the music power brokers in this country. Because almost everybody is part of the rot or is planning to help expand the rot. Conscious music is like ‘a pain in their asses’. You won’t expect that form to sit comfortably with the noise with which they want to control the people.
Again, I ask: What is it about Afrobeat, a genre of music, that made you stay focused and committed to it?
Afrobeat called me and I heeded that call. It comes with its rigours and challenges but we are weathering the storm.
Why have you not gone into highlife music?
Afrobeat and Highlife are distant cousins. Core Afrobeat artists are close to highlife, so I play with it sometimes, in most cases to pay homage to some of the greats who had gone. But the most important thing is that Afrobeat called me and I’ve answered; it does not mean that at one time or the other I won’t play with its family.
In my last interview with you, you said if you were not a musician you would probably be a lawyer because growing up, you wanted to speak for the people, fight on their behalf. Any regrets about not being a lawyer?
I have no regrets whatsoever. I wanted to be able to speak up and fight for the people including myself, music has also afforded me that opportunity to do so in a greater way. In fact with music, I’m able to reach larger people and fight more diverse causes. Several good lawyers do that today, which I would have done were I to be a lawyer. Mic and stage allow me to reach wider people.
How can piracy be curbed in the industry?
Everything wrong with Nigeria is wrong with the music industry. If the police are sincere and are working to protect lives and property, if they’re unbiased, diligent and the judiciary is serious about truly putting things straight, we won’t be talking about piracy and theft of intellectual properties in this country anymore. To solve that problem is to solve the problem of this country where justice, equity, fairness and truth shall prevail.
Where do you see the Nigerian music industry in the next five years?
New acts will emerge. The direction of the music will also change. Technology will change the cause of things and there will be prosperity in the industry.
What is your opinion about a fake lifestyle generally?
Living a fake lifestyle is not worth it; it doesn’t pay in any way. It’s an issue of inferiority complex; an excess lack of self-esteem. Those living fake lifestyles are only trying to impress people who originally don’t know they even exist.
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Within the majesty with which the eight stadiums in which the World Cup Qatar 2022there was always one that drew attention because of the materials that would be used to build it.
stadium 974 It stands on the coast of the Persian Gulf and, unlike the other five buildings that were made specifically for the World Cup and the two that were renovated, this one not only had a much lower cost, but will disappear when the competition is over.
“We do not have the final cost, since it was barely finished for the Arab Cup [que se jugó a finales del año pasado]but if you compare the cost of this stadium with others with the same capacity —40 thousand fans—, but made with traditional construction materials, this one is cheaper by approximately 20%”, commented Mohammed Al Atwaan, who is project manager of the stadium, which gets its name – as well as the number of shipping containers used in its construction – from the telephone dialing code for Qatar.
What is the difference in cost with the other stadiums?
With monumental constructions, such as the Lusail Stadium [de 80 mil espectadores]which represented a expenditure of approximately 800 million dollars, For most of those who know the 974, it is quick to understand why it has not had a high cost, not only because of the type of materials, but because it will not use a mechanical air conditioning system, since those same materials will help in regulating the temperature. .
About 230 million dollars were used to make the 974, in a comparison with another stadium for 40 thousand spectators, such as Al Thumama, for which around 350 million dollars were invested. Hence, that reduction to which Al Atwaan refers.
This property, the work of the Spanish firm Fenwick Iribarren Arquitectos, will have six games in the group stage and one in the round of 16.
“We had some Arab Cup games, but in the World Cup we will have six ”he added
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https://d1softballnews.com/the-974-the-cheap-stadium-that-will-disappear-after-the-world-cup/
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Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum bond over humour and action in 'The Lost City'
LONDON : Hollywood stars Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum say they became close while making the new blockbuster "The Lost City", connecting over their shared, juvenile sense of humour.
The romantic comedy adventure stars Bullock as Loretta Sage, a successful novelist who becomes a recluse after her husband's untimely death. Persuaded by her publicist to embark on a press tour to promote her latest book with her handsome cover model Alan (Tatum), life starts to imitate her art when an eccentric billionaire, played by Daniel Radcliffe, kidnaps Sage, convinced she can lead him to an ancient treasure he believes is buried on a tropical island.
Alan springs into action to rescue Sage, helped by his mysterious acquaintance Jack Trainer (Brad Pitt) and a high-adrenaline escape through the jungle ensues.
"We're very similar, oddly," Bullock said of Tatum, as they premiered the film in London on Thursday.
"We discovered that and it confused us. It was a little perplexing as to why are we so similar. But our sense of humour is just very sophomoric and we take care of each other," Bullock, who also produced the movie, told Reuters.
"She's like my sister. We're like siblings. We have a whole backstory that we were created in a petri dish together and they put her out first to see how she was going to do. And then once she survived, they put me out. We were just separated at birth, really," said Tatum.
"The Lost City" was filmed in the Dominican Republic during the pandemic, with Bullock dressed in a sparkly sequinned pink jumpsuit and high heels throughout the action scenes that see her rock climbing, swimming in leech-infested rivers and wading through vegetation.
"I love being physical, especially with comedy, it's always funny. I'm a physical comedian. I don't do as well with just words and not having something to do with my body. I love it. As long as you can do it, do it," the 57-year-old actor said.
Directed and co-written by brothers Adam and Aaron Nee, "The Lost City" debuted at the top spot at the North American box office last weekend, overtaking "The Batman," and is being rolled out globally in March and April.
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Editing by Karishma Singh)
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From our Reporter
There is palpable tension in the Nigerian military following the killing of two officers and 12 soldiers in a community in Niger State, near the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Several others were injured in the ambush. The wounded officers were taken to the Army headquarters, Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA) Hospital, Abuja, where some of them are said to be in critical conditions.
The soldiers from 102 Guards Battalion, under the Guards Brigade, were on an offensive operations after credible information revealed the presence of the bandits in their large numbers in the area when the came under fire.
The incident has thrown the entire Guards Brigade and the Nigerian Army into a mourning mood. The Mambila and Lungi Barracks have also been thrown into mourning as relatives, friends and colleagues of the deceased’s officers stormed homes of the deceased.
Daily Sun gathered from military sources that the 102 Guards Battalion had received intelligence on the presence of over 200 strange persons taking refuge in a forest not too from the headquarters of the Battalion, located at Zuma Barracks on the Abuja/Kaduna highway. It was gathered that the commanding officer in charge of the command mobilised soldiers to confirm the information which they found to be true. The commanding officer was said to have mobilised troops in about five operational vehicles and headed to attack the base.
It was gathered that the bandits who were over 400, sighted the soldiers and engaged them in a shoot out with heavy artillery powers.
In the cause of the attack, several soldiers were said to have been killed and others injured. Some soldiers, who could not stand the firepower of the bandits, were said to have escaped from the scene, while those who survived ran to the barracks, reported the matter while a reinforcement was deployed. Several bandits were said to have been killed by the soldiers sent on reinforcement.
The source told Daily Sun that the criminals, mostly foreigners, operated with motorcycles and sighted by villagers in the area.
When contacted, Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, said he was yet to confirm the incident and promised to get back to Daily Sun.
“I am yet to find out or get any information about the attack, I will get back to you as soon I find out,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Army has described the soldier who claimed to have gone missing in the bush in a video trending on the social media as a saboteur.
The soldier from Guards Brigade, S. Musa, reportedly ran away during an operation and abandoned his colleagues.
A top military officer who confirmed this to Daily Sun, said the soldier would be made to face the appropriate sanctions.
He did not state weather or not the soldier has been found and arrested by military authorities.
However, the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) said it had identified several camps, makeshift facilities and settlements used as logistics bases by bandits, terrorists and kidnappers in forests along the Abuja/Kaduna highways and train routes.
The camps located at Rijana, Katari and Kasarami are used to coordinate and launch attacks on innocent passengers on that route.
They have also become safe havens for kidnappers, bandits, drug addicts, gun runners, prostitutes, fleeing Boko Haram terrorists and other violent criminals.
Daily Sun gathered the revelations emerged at an emergency intelligence meeting called by the DIA following the attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train Tuesday night.
The meeting held at the DIA headquarters in Asokoro, Abuja was part of the outcome of the meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and the service chiefs.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Airforce (NAF) said it killed scores of bandits on Wednesday after obtaining intelligence on their movement of bandits along the Akilibu – Sarkin Pawa Road, near Mangoro Village. NAF aircraft engaged terrorists in different waves with rockets, while those fleeing were mopped up with canons decisively.
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Into the wild: Animals the latest frontier in COVID fight
GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. (AP) — To administer this COVID test, Todd Kautz had to lie on his belly in the snow and worm his upper body into the narrow den of a hibernating black bear. Training a light on its snout, Kautz carefully slipped a long cotton swab into the bear’s nostrils five times.
For postdoctoral researcher Kautz and a team of other wildlife experts, tracking the coronavirus means freezing temperatures, icy roads, trudging through deep snow and getting uncomfortably close to potentially dangerous wildlife.
They’re testing bears, moose, deer and wolves on a Native American reservation in the remote north woods about 5 miles from Canada. Like researchers around the world, they are trying to figure out how, how much and where wildlife is spreading the virus.
Scientists are concerned that the virus could evolve within animal populations – potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people, spread among us and reignite what for now seems to some people like a waning crisis.
The coronavirus pandemic has served as a stark and tragic example of how closely animal health and human health are linked. While the origins of the virus have not been proven, many scientists say it likely jumped from bats to humans, either directly or through another species that was being sold live in Wuhan, China.
And now the virus has been confirmed in wildlife in at least 24 U.S. states, including Minnesota. Recently, an early Canadian study showed someone in nearby Ontario likely contracted a highly mutated strain from a deer.
“If the virus can establish itself in a wild animal reservoir, it will always be out there with the threat to spill back into the human population,” said University of Minnesota researcher Matthew Aliota, who is working with the Grand Portage Reservation team.
E.J. Isaac, a fish and wildlife biologist for the reservation that’s home to the Grand Portage Ojibwe, said he expects the stakes to get even higher with the start of spring, as bears wake from hibernation and deer and wolves roam to different regions.
“If we consider that there are many species and they’re all intermingling to some extent, their patterns and their movements can exponentially increase the amount of transmission that could occur,” he said.
INTO THE WILD
Their research is meant to ward off such unwelcome surprises. But it carries its own set of risks.
Seth Moore, who directs the reservation biology and environment department, recently almost got bitten by a wolf.
And they sometimes team with a crew from the Texas-based company Heliwild to capture animals from the air. One chilly late-winter afternoon, the men climbed into a small helicopter with no side doors that lifted above the treetops. Flying low, they quickly spotted a deer in a forest clearing. They targeted the animal from the air with a net gun and dropped Moore off.
Wind whipped at his face as he worked in deep snow to quickly swab the deer’s nose for COVID, put on a tracking collar and collect blood and other biological samples for different research.
The men capture moose in much the same way, using tranquilizer darts instead of nets. They trap wolves and deer either from the air or on the ground, and trap bears on the ground.
They knew of the young male bear they recently tested because they had already been tracking it. To get to the den, they had to take snowmobiles to the bottom of a hill then hike a narrow, winding path in snow shoes.
When Kautz crawled part-way into the den, a colleague held his feet to pull him out quickly if necessary. The team also gave the animal a drug to keep it sleeping and another later to counteract the effects of the first.
To minimize the risk of exposing animals to COVID, the men are fully vaccinated and boosted and get tested frequently.
The day after testing the bear, Isaac packed their samples to send to Aliota’s lab in Saint Paul. The veterinary and biomedical researcher hopes to learn not just which animals are getting infected but also whether certain animals are acting as “bridge species” to bring it to others. Testing may later be expanded to red foxes and racoons.
It’s also possible the virus hasn’t reached this remote location – yet. Since it’s already circulating in the wilderness of Minnesota and nearby states, Aliota said it’s only a matter of time.
LOOKING FOR MUTANTS
Close contact between humans and animals has allowed the virus to overcome built-in barriers to spread between species.
To infect any living thing, the virus must get into its cells, which isn’t always easy. Virology expert David O’Connor likens the process to opening a “lock” with the virus’ spike protein “key.”
“Different species have different-looking locks, and some of those locks are not going to be pickable by the key,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist said.
But other locks are similar enough for the virus to enter an animal’s cells and make copies of itself. As it does, it can randomly mutate and still have a key that fits in the human lock. That allows it to leap back to humans through close contact with live animals, scientists believe.
Although spillback is rare, it only takes one person to bring a mutated virus into the realm of humans.
Some think the highly mutated omicron variant emerged from an animal rather than an immune-compromised human, as many believe. Virologist Marc Johnson of the University of Missouri is one of them, and now sees animals as “a potential source of pi,” the Greek letter that may be used to designate the next dangerous coronavirus variant.
Johnson and his colleagues found strange coronavirus lineages in New York City sewage with mutations rarely seen elsewhere, which he believes came from animals, perhaps rodents.
What scientists are most concerned about is that current or future variants could establish themselves and multiply widely within a reservoir species.
One possibility: white-tailed deer. Scientists found the coronavirus in a third of deer sampled in Iowa between September 2020 and January 2021. Others found COVID-19 antibodies in a third of deer tested in Illinois, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. Infected deer generally have no symptoms. Testing in many other wild species has been limited or absent.
“It’s possible that the virus is already perhaps circulating in multiple animals,” said virology expert Suresh Kuchipudi of Pennsylvania State University, an author of the Iowa deer study. If unmonitored, the virus could leave people “completely blindsided,” he said.
CAN IT BE STOPPED?
Ultimately, experts say the only way to stop viruses from jumping back and forth between animals and humans — extending this pandemic or sparking a new one — is to tackle big problems like habitat destruction and illegal wildlife sales.
“We are encroaching on animal habitats like we have never before in history,” Aliota said. “Spillover events from wild animals into humans are, unfortunately I think, going to increase in both frequency and scope.”
To combat that threat, three international organizations — the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health and the World Health Organization — are urging countries to make COVID surveillance in animals a priority.
In Grand Portage, Aliota’s collaborators continue to do their part by testing as many animals as they can catch.
With icy Lake Superior sparkling through the evergreens, Isaac slipped his hand beneath the netting of a deer trap. A colleague straddling the animal lifted its head off the snowy ground so that Isaac could swab its nostrils.
The young buck briefly lurched its head forward, but kept still long enough for Isaac to get what he needed.
“Nicely done,” his colleague said as Isaac put the sample into a vial.
When they were finished, they gently lifted the trap to let the deer go. It bounded into the vast forest without looking back, disappearing into the snowy shadows.
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LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN – Get Rating) CEO Damien Mcdonald sold 2,784 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $81.50, for a total transaction of $226,896.00. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website.
Shares of LIVN stock traded up $0.33 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $81.83. 227,054 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 322,815. LivaNova PLC has a fifty-two week low of $68.68 and a fifty-two week high of $93.89. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $75.91 and its two-hundred day moving average is $80.79. The company has a market cap of $4.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -30.91 and a beta of 0.92. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01, a current ratio of 0.97 and a quick ratio of 0.82.
LivaNova (NASDAQ:LIVN – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, February 23rd. The company reported $0.57 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.52 by $0.05. LivaNova had a negative net margin of 12.78% and a positive return on equity of 9.31%. The company had revenue of $270.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $267.20 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.71 earnings per share. LivaNova’s quarterly revenue was up .2% on a year-over-year basis. On average, research analysts anticipate that LivaNova PLC will post 2.6 earnings per share for the current year.
Several analysts have weighed in on LIVN shares. UBS Group raised shares of LivaNova from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $96.00 price objective on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 24th. Needham & Company LLC decreased their price objective on shares of LivaNova from $120.00 to $106.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 24th. The Goldman Sachs Group started coverage on shares of LivaNova in a research note on Friday, December 3rd. They set a “buy” rating and a $108.00 price objective on the stock. Zacks Investment Research cut shares of LivaNova from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Saturday, February 26th. Finally, StockNews.com started coverage on shares of LivaNova in a research report on Thursday. They set a “hold” rating on the stock. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has issued a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $102.67.
LivaNova Company Profile (Get Rating)
LivaNova PLC, a medical device company, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells therapeutic solutions worldwide. It operates through three segments: Cardiopulmonary, Neuromodulation, and Advanced Circulatory Support. The Cardiopulmonary segment develops, produces, and sells cardiopulmonary products, including oxygenators, heart-lung machines, autotransfusion systems, perfusion tubing systems, cannulae, connect, and other related products.
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After a three-year wait, Zedd is coming back with his Zedd in the Park music festival on July 8 at LA Historic Park. Festivities include lots of music, games, art installations and more. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, April 6, at 10 a.m. PT on the event’s website.
Doja Cat says she’s still retiring, but not before she finishes touring with The Weeknd. “For those who are seeing me at the after hours tour, i’m not bailing,” she said on Twitter. “But me not bailing doesn’t mean my a** isn’t gonna disappear right after. i still got s*** i gotta do.” She also said she’s quitting music — not social media.
We know her as Kelly Clarkson, but legally, she’s now Kelly Brianne. People reports the “Breakaway” singer has officially changed her name now that her divorce to Brandon Blackstock has been finalized. Brianne is Kelly’s middle name.
The Weeknd has a new music video on the horizon — this time for “Out of Time.” He confirmed the exciting news, saying the “music video drops next Tuesday,” which is April 5.
Jennifer Lopez isn’t made for baseball. TMZ obtained video of her in the batting cage, and reports she “frequently” struck out and even tried smashing the ball while holding her purse. She was on an outing with boyfriend Ben Affleck and her daughter, Emme.
The Jonas Brothers are jumping into the snack game with their very own specialty popcorn, Rob’s Backstage Popcorn, which you can grab at Walmart for about $4. “When we first tried the popcorn, we fell in love with it,” they said in a statement. “After keeping it to ourselves, we are excited to share it with the nation.”
Lastly, Nick Jonas and Shakira‘s new reality series Dancing with Myself premieres May 31 on NBC.
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Average gas price highest in over a decade
Average gas prices in the U.S. have hit their highest point in over a decade, reaching a nationwide average of $4 per gallon as of Sunday.
According to AAA’s national average gas price monitor, the average price for regular gasoline in the U.S. is now $4.009 per gallon, with states like California, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Hawaii seeing the highest prices, hovering between $4.18 and $5.29.
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that the average price per gallon for regular gasoline in the U.S. hasn’t reached $4 since June 2008, though it came close a few times in 2011 and 2012.
In California, average gas prices are the highest they have ever been, reaching $5.07, as KTVU reported.
According to a forecast from the Boston-based tech company GasBuddy, gas prices could rise up to $4.35 per gallon by May.
These rising gas prices come amid concerns over how a potential ban on Russian oil imports could further increase prices in the U.S. Though the White House has issued a series of harsh sanctions against Russia, it has so far allowed Russian energy imports to continue.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was talking to European allies about a “coordinated way” of banning Russian oil imports while still maintaining sufficient fuel supplies for the world.
President Biden said that tackling inflation — on gas and other commodities — was his “top priority” during his State of the Union address last week.
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Rush Street Interactive names Bruce Caughill managing director, Canada
31st March 2022 10:36 am GMTNew York-listed online betting and gaming operator Rush Street Interactive has appointed Bruce Caughill as managing director of its business in Canada.
Caughill joined RSI this week as the operator prepares to launch its BetRivers online casino and sportsbook in Ontario on April 4, the first day of authorised online gaming in the province.
Caughill joins RSI from his role as chief legal officer at the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), where he oversaw all legal matters and played a role in developing the legislative and policy infrastructure for Canada’s first competitive, regulated iGaming market.
As the managing director of RSI’s Canadian team, Caughill will provide leadership in the commercial and administrative activities associated with the company’s pursuit of business opportunities in the country.
“We welcome Bruce who, with his unparalleled legal, operational and regulatory expertise in Canada’s gaming industry, will provide strong insight, guidance and counsel in this exciting new online market,” said RSI chief executive officer Richard Schwartz. “Bruce’s proven leadership capability, extensive experience and strategic thinking make him a great addition to RSI.”
Caughill has over two decades of experience in Canada’s commercial gaming industry. Prior to his time at AGCO, he served as president and chief executive of Caughill management consulting, providing strategic counsel and regulatory advice to international gaming companies. Before that, Caughill served for more than twenty years as general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer at Falls Management Company, operator of the Niagara Casinos, Canada’s largest integrated casino resort operation.
“I am excited to bring my years of experience in Canadian gaming to support RSI’s pursuit of opportunities in Canada,” Caughill said. “I am particularly excited at the prospect of supporting the many local Canadian employees as the company establishes its Innovation Hub here.”
A long-time member of the International Association of Gaming Advisors, Caughill also serves as an independent member of the Internal Audit and Compliance Committees of Rush Street Gaming.
Shares in Rush Street Interactive Inc. (NYSE:RSI) closed 4.51 per cent lower at $7.62 per share in New York Wednesday.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former hermit in New Hampshire who went back to live on the wooded property he was ordered to leave realizes that his time there is drawing to a close — but he appears willing to keep fighting against his removal for now.
David Lidstone, who just turned 82, failed to show up for a contempt of court hearing Thursday in his tug-of-war with a Vermont landowner over a patch of forest near the Merrimack River that he’s called home for 27 years before his cabin burned down in an accidental fire.
Given his history of not appearing at hearings until he’s arrested, a judge on Thursday interpreted Lidstone’s no-show as a “seemingly deliberate” move and imposed costs to cover some of Giles’ expenses. He said Lidstone would face a $500-a-day fine if he doesn’t leave the woodlot by April 11.
“I am not sure why he missed it,” said Jodie Gedeon, a kayaker who befriended Lidstone years ago. A call to Lidstone’s phone number could not be completed Thursday.
A judge issued an injunction in 2017 for “River Dave” — as Lidstone is known — to leave after the landowner, Leonard Giles, sued him. But there have been delays in the case: Besides the pandemic, Lidstone hasn’t always shown up for court and he’s been in and out of jail as he resisted the injunction.
Court records say the undeveloped property has been in the Giles family since 1963 and is used for timber harvests. Lidstone had claimed that years ago, the current owner’s father gave his word — but nothing in writing — allowing him to live there. He also has disputed whether he’s on the property in the first place.
“I have a great deal of sympathy for Mr. Lidstone,” Judge Andrew Schulman said Thursday, “but it is what it is.”
Giles’ attorney, Lisa Snow Wade, responded, “I look at it from a different perspective. The person who should have the sympathy here is Mr. Giles, who’s an 86-year-old veteran who’s been put through this. This is not that easy for him emotionally, or you know, financially.” She said he’s paid over $39,000.
Snow Wade had suggested a financial penalty for Lidstone, saying time in jail did not seem to change his behavior.
Earlier this month, Lidstone told The Associated Press “I know my days are numbered here,” a day after he was arrested and pleaded not guilty to a trespassingcharge on the land. “Eventually I’m going to have to move.”
Lidstone, who became known as a friendly face to kayakers and an advocate for keeping the river clean, wasn’t sure what he would do next or where he would go, even though he’s had offers of other places to live and more than $200,000 in donations.
Lidstone, a logger by trade, is accused of squatting in a rustic cabin he built on the land in Canterbury. The wooden, two-level A-frame cabin had solar panels, a small, cluttered kitchen with pots hanging from the ceiling, and curtains on the windows. His porch had a footstool with a base made of stacked beer cans. He converted a wood stove into a beehive. He attached lights, a mirror and a pulley for a clothesline to logs supporting the cabin. He also had a vegetable garden.
But while Lidstone was in jail over the property dispute, his cabinburneddown in August as it was being dismantled at Giles’ request. The Canterbury fire chief said the fire was accidental.
Lidstone, who has been representing himself, was ordered to pick up his remaining possessions and leave. An outpouring of support followed. He didn’t think he could go back to being a hermit and lived with some friends. But by late fall, he had turned a shed that survived the fire into a makeshift home, outfitted with a wood stove.
Lidstone was given permission last year to hire a surveyor to give him “peace of mind,” Schulman said, but he has been unable to get someone to come out yet.
It hasn’t been easy to serve Lidstone with a notice to appear in court. There’s no road access to the property, which is about a mile and half (2.4 kilometers) into the woods. In January, one process server slipped, fell down an embankment, and injured his leg in his attempt to reach Lidstone at the woodshed, according to a motion filed by Snow Wade.
“Mr. Lidstone has been painted as a sympathetic figure in the media because he is an 81-year-old veteran wanting to live a romanticized life off-the-grid,” another plaintiff’s motion from December said. “That does not excuse his conduct of returning to Mr. Giles’ land, again, and again, and again.”
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Panther Track & Field team meets regional rivals at Quinn Hoover Invitational
Hancock track and field athletes shined in field events during a regional invitational meet last Thursday, March 24. Ten teams brought their track and field competitors to Clear Spring High School for the Quinn Hoover Invitational, including Hancock, Berkeley Springs, Faith Christian, Clear Spring, Maryland School for the Deaf, North Garrett...
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After Set Photos Of Jonathan Majors' Creed III Look Leaked, The Internet Is Feeling Thirsty
By Sarah El-Mahmoud published
He's Major-ly ripped.
Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed is set to return in an upcoming movie this year, and the heavyweight boxer has a new sparring partner in Jonathan Majors, who's recently appeared in Lovecraft Country, Loki and The Harder They Fall. As set photos of Majors have surfaced of the actor in shape, the internet is getting thirsty for Creed 3’s latest lead.
On Wednesday, photos and video surfaced of Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan shooting Creed 3 in Venice Beach, California, which is the home of “Muscle Beach.” In the footage found on Daily Mail, Majors was shirtless and absolutely ripped as he was caught in action doing bar pull-ups, and Jordan stood behind the camera. As one Twitter user shared upon seeing the photos:
Creed 3 will be Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut after starring as Adonis Creed in the first two films, with Ryan Coogler and Steven Caple Jr. being the spinoff franchise’s previous helmers. Jordan previously said that he wanted to wait to direct until he had a “solid opinion” and “point of view” on a project, and since he’s been in two other Creed films, he feels like he knows the world and characters. But anyway, back to another thirst tweet:
It looks like Creed 3 could give the former Sexiest Man Alive (2020) a run for his money given these reactions. Even people who are not even fans of Creed are getting invested in the upcoming movie thanks to Jonathan Majors. As another user said alongside the photo:
That’s keeping it clean. There are a lot more suggestive reactions to the Creed 3 set photos. In fact, Majors got so much attention that his name was trending thanks to the discourse about him after entertainment writer @shanellegenai graced Twitter with all the pics. Majors is also set to make his Marvel film debut in 2023 with his role as Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and as another fan, @ZamundaTwice, pointed out:
Jonathan Majors has previously shared that Creed 3 is “different” than its predecessors because it is a more intimate film of the trilogy. The actor teased that it’s about “two men trying to work something out.” Creed 3 will also star Tessa Thompson and Phylicia Rashad. You can check out the first image of Creed back in the ring while we wait for the film to hit theaters on November 23, 2022.
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With exactly four weeks until the 2022 NFL Draft, let’s take a look at where things stand for the rebuilding Giants and Jets.
And in particular, let’s examine what their impressive hauls of draft picks mean for their salary cap situations.
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Right now, the Jets have $10.7 million in cap space, according to NFLPA records, while the Giants have $1.5 million. Joe Schoen, the Giants’ new general manager, would free up $12.1 million in cap space by trading cornerback James Bradberry. So that remains possible.
The Jets pick fourth and 10th in Round 1 this year, the Giants fifth and seventh. The Jets are first in Tankathon’s draft assets power rankings, the Giants third, behind the Texans.
In terms of cap space needed for the 2022 draft picks, the Jets are first in the league ($13 million), while the Giants are second ($12.5 million). The Texans are third ($11.7 million). That’s all according to overthecap.com’s estimates.
So that means Schoen and Jets GM Joe Douglas need to free up at least some cap space to pay these draft picks in 2022.
Of course, trading back in Round 1 — in order to acquire, say, a first-round pick in 2023 — would be one way to alleviate the cap impact of the 2022 picks.
Considering Schoen’s pinched cap situation — due to the mess former GM Dave Gettleman left behind — he was asked this week at the NFL’s annual meeting if he will even be able to pay all his 2022 draft picks, presuming he makes the selections in the scheduled order.
Schoen said yes, he can make it happen, because there are always creative cap maneuvers a GM can pull off — like reworking a veteran’s contract, to push his cap hit down the road.
Of course, the easiest way for Schoen to free up immediate cap space in 2022 — without the negative future impact that a contract restructure brings — would be trading Bradberry. And based on what Schoen said at the annual meeting, he remains very much open to doing that.
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April 1 (Reuters) - Singtel-owned Australia Tower Network said on Friday it will buy telecommunications tower infrastructure provider Axicom for A$3.58 billion ($2.68 billion).
($1 = 1.3351 Australian dollars)
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Parker hopes Title IX documentary serves as inspiration
By JOE REEDY
AP Sports Writer
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. Parker considers herself to be a first generation benefactor of Title IX, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The documentary also comes at a time when inequalities between the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are coming under intense scrutiny.
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MORRO BAY, Calif. (KRON) — A great white shark bit a bodyboarder’s head, fracturing his skull and killing him within minutes, during an attack in Morro Bay last December, according to a newly-released coroner’s report.
The bodyboarder, 42-year-old Tomas Abraham Butterfield of Sacramento, suffered “multiple penetrating blunt force traumatic injuries” from bites to his head, chest, and shoulder, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s coroner wrote.
One bite mark was 16 inches in radius.
The fatal attack happened on Christmas Eve of 2021. A coroner released an autopsy report to The Tribune newspaper earlier this week.
A sheriff’s detective found one of the shark’s teeth in Butterfield’s body, the Tribune reported. Wildlife officials were able to confirm that the shark was indeed a great white through DNA.
Before the attack, Butterfield was bodyboarding 100 yards off Morro Strand State Beach near Morro Rock at a surf spot known as “The Pit.”
Ocean conditions that morning were “turbulent” and the water was murky, the Tribune reported.
Some surfers avoid paddling out when the ocean is murky because they believe shark attacks are more likely.
A surfer found a gravely injured Butterfield still tethered to his board. The surfer pulled the bodyboarder out of the water, but the coroner concluded that Butterfield likely died before he made it to shore.
“It appeared that there were about three different primary bite zones: right shoulder, right side thoracic (chest) cavity, and head,” one investigator wrote, according to the Tribune.
His uncle, Grant Butterfield, told the Los Angeles Times: “It’s a terrible loss, at 42, with him getting his surf together and starting to make something of himself.”
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For decades, Lagos State has remained a state where people’s dreams and aspirations become reality. The 2022 International Women’s Day (IWD) was meant to celebrate women who have against all odds thrived in the face of challenges while taking steps to ensure that more women at the grassroots are lifted to greater heights . The IWD is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.
The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Lagos has also honored women’s historic achievements and contributions while recognizing that massive gender gaps still persist. The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu marked the 2022 IWD raising hope of women and recognizing those who have hammed their marks in the sand of history in the state’s business and economic life. Lagos celebrated 100 of women in a project called #Eko100Women to recognize their inputs and commitment to the state’s economy.
The state believes that transformative change toward gender equality requires further investments, changes in law and policies, interventions to shift social and gender norms, and the audacity to change power relations. Lagos sees women as leaders, entrepreneurs, and agents of change for development. Hence, for many women, Lagos presents opportunities, enabling environment and culture to realize their set goals and ignite sustainable economic growth. Lagos offers a glimpse of hope to women given its status as a former capital and financial hub of Nigeria.
A growing body of evidence shows that placing women in the center of the development agenda can increase efficiency in the management of institutions and resources. Also, female leaders can have beneficial impacts on social norms. World Bank report showed that gender empowerment can be used to combat domestic violence, testing interventions such as cash transfers and active labor-market policies to economically empower women, and role of law and justice in achieving gender equality, among others. Lagos Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu recognised the enduring impact of women in the progressive development of Lagos State in a continued celebration of the 2022 IWD.
He believes that although the journey to economic prosperity for the state, its citizens and investors- locally and internationally, has taken off but will be incomplete without the input of women. Spotlighting their contributions to the narrative of ‘A Greater Lagos’, the initiative is in its third year running, having commenced in March 2020.
The programme themed, ‘Eko Women 100’, identifies and honours the women who are blazing the trail in their fields while contributing to the growth of the state and inspiring the next generation. Some of the women honoured on this year’s list include First Lady, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu; Ibukun Awosika, media mogul, Mo Abudu; elder stateswoman, Mrs Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele; Fidelity Bank MD, Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe; Managing Director GTCo, Miriam Olusanya; CEO North- West Petroleum, Dame Win-ifred Akpani, amongst others. Speaking about the initiative, Sanwo-Olu said, “The Women of Lagos are powerful, visionary and represent our great state at the highest level globally. This week we celebrated 100 of them in a project called #Eko100Women. These women have made Lagos their home bringing their expertise and excellence to great effect.”
This year’s event builds on the significant Eko4Women annual celebration, which has honoured over 300 women. In addition, each recipient received a personal letter of recognition from the Governor, showing appreciation for their commitment to excellence. Like the occasions before, the initiative empowered several medium and small female-owned businesses across the state.
These women were drawn from all parts of the state, across various fields and strata of society. “From arts to technology, to business to sports, we touched on as many industries as possible. In my special letter to each woman, I charged them to continue to demonstrate the unstoppable spirit and values of Lagos”, the governor said. Expressing gratitude for the gesture and commending the governor’s initiative, many of the recipients acknowledged the honour from the state government.
“I understand that recognitions such as this are worthy of celebration because this shows that the Government is aware of the little contributions we all make to keep this nation alive”, said Bolanle Austen-Peters, Founder, Terra-Kulture and one of the honorees. In her official statement, Deputy Group Managing Director, AIM Group, Tatiana Mousalli Nouri, noted, “Equality is crucial for the well-being of our world, diversity is wealth, and inclusion is strength”. Rolake Akinkugbe-Filani, Chief Commercial Officer, Mixta Africa, highlighted the significance of the initiative for Lagos women saying, “I’m receiving this on behalf of all the heroines of Lagos state, building silently, building to last, building a legacy, doing great work, doing impactful work in the public and private sector, who often go unnoticed. You, my sisters, are the real centre of excellence and the real MVPs. May your labour of love never be in vain, and may your dreams come true.” Other women honoured under the Eko Women 100 initiative include Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University, Prof. Olatunji-Bello; MD Suntrust Bank, Halima Buba; EcoBank Chairman, Bola Adesola; distinguished stateswomen, Alhaja Lateefat Okunnu and Alhaja Sikirat Jakande; CEO Eleganza Group, Sade Okoya; veteran artist, Nike Okundaye- Davies; renowned architect, Olajumoke Adenowo; movie producer Kemi Adetiba; actress Funke Akindele-Bello; Qatar Airways pilot, Adeola Sowemimo; and celebrity photographer, TY Bello. There have been many movements and advocacy efforts globally about achieving gender equality, promoting social inclusion and the practically empowering women in a largely patriarchal and maledominated world.
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The pandemic has given tablets a second life given the more time we have spent at home, but we have also begun to see them as an interesting companion on trips to watch movies and series and even as work tools.
There are very impressive models, like the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, but also very expensive ones. However, there are others that are equally valid for most and cost much less.
Two of them, the Realme Pad and the XiaomiPad 5can be purchased for between 200 and 400 euros, and both are on sale at Amazon Spain.
Realme Pad
The realme model is perfect if you want to spend just enough but still don’t want to give up having the Google Play Store, a solid construction and an impressive sound.
- It can be purchased on Amazon for 199 euros.
It is the version with 64 GB of internal memory. If you think you need something else, you have the 128 GB version at 235 euros. You can see our analysis of the realme Pad at this link.
- Processor: MediaTek Helio G80.
- RAM memory: 3 / 4 / 6 GB.
- Internal storage: 32 / 64 / 128 GB.
- Micro SD: yes, up to 1TB.
- Size: 10.4 inches.
- Resolution: WUXGA 2000 x 1200 pixels.
- Technology: LCD.
- Main: 8 MP.
- Others: LED Flash.
- 4G/LTE.
- Bluetooth 5.0.
- WiFi 5.
- Battery: 7,100mAh.
- Fast Charge: 18W
- USB-C port.
- 3.5mm minijack.
- Dimensions: 246.1 x 155.9 x 6.9mm.
- Weight: 440g.
- Android version: 11.
- Manufacturer interface: realme UI for Pad.
XiaomiPad 5
The other option is higher level, and higher price. This is the Xiaomi Pad 5, the company’s latest model, which arrived in Spain a few months ago.
This table is much more powerful and is perfect not only for working or watching videos, but even for playing games thanks to its processor.
- It can be purchased on Amazon for 328 euros.
- Qualcomm Snapragon 860.
- RAM Memory: 6GB LPDDR4x.
- Internal storage: 128/ 256 GB UFS 3.1.
- Size: 11 inches.
- Resolution: 2560 x 1600 pixels.
- Technology: LCD – 10 Bit TrueTone HDR10 275 PPP Dolby Vision
- Refresh rate: 120 Hz.
- Battery: 8,720mAh.
- Fast Charge: 22.5W
- 4 speakers.
- Dolby Atmos sound.
- Pencil support.
- Dimensions: 254.69 x 166.25 x 6.85mm.
- Weight: 511 grams.
- Android version: 11.
- Manufacturer interface: MIUI for Pad.
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Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte (NASDAQ:OMAB – Get Rating) and Fuse Science (OTCMKTS:DROP – Get Rating) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte and Fuse Science, as reported by MarketBeat.
Volatility & Risk
Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fuse Science has a beta of 0.01, meaning that its share price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte and Fuse Science’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte has higher revenue and earnings than Fuse Science.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
8.2% of Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Fuse Science shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte and Fuse Science’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Summary
Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte beats Fuse Science on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte (Get Rating)
Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte, S.A.B. de C.V., together with its subsidiaries, holds concessions to develop, operate, and maintain airports in Mexico. The company operates 13 international airports in Monterrey, Acapulco, Mazatlán, Zihuatanejo, Ciudad Juárez, Reynosa, Chihuahua, Culiacán, Durango, San Luis PotosÃ, Tampico, Torreón, and Zacatecas cities. It also operates NH Collection Hotel in Terminal 2 of the Mexico City International Airport; and a hotel under the Hilton Garden Inn name at the Monterrey Airport. In addition, the company provides aeronautical services, which include passenger, aircraft landing and parking, boarding and unloading, passenger walkway, and airport security services. Further, it offers non-aeronautical services, such as leasing of space at its airports to retailers, restaurants, and other commercial tenants, as well as maintaining of parking facilities and advertising; complementary services that comprise leasing of space to airlines, cargo handling, baggage-screening, permanent and non-permanent ground transportation, and access rights services; and diversification services, which consists of operation and lease of the industrial park and real estate services, as well as hotel and air cargo logistics services. Additionally, the company provides construction services. It has a strategic alliance with VYNMSA Desarrollo Inmobiliario, S.A. de C.V. to build and operate an industrial park at the Monterrey airport. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.
About Fuse Science (Get Rating)
Fuse Science, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of SkyPorts drone support technology. The firm also develops XTRAX remote monitoring system, which mesures the production of solar and other renewable energy systems for transmission of the data via cellular and radio frequency network and potentially via microwave transmission network or satellite or in conjunction with solar system installations. The company was founded by Adam Adler and Aitan Zacharin on September 21, 1988 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.
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IRS: Inflation increases tax deductions for teachers up to $300 for the first time
(Gray News) - Teachers and other educators will be able to deduct up to $300 of out-of-pocket classroom expenses when they file their 2022 federal income tax return next year.
The IRS reports this is the first time the annual limit has increased since the special educator expense deduction was enacted in 2002.
For tax years 2002 through 2021, the limit was $250 per year. For people currently filing their 2021 tax returns due in April, the deduction remains at $250.
According to the IRS, the limit will rise in $50 increments in future years based on inflation adjustments.
For 2022, an eligible educator can deduct up to $300 of qualifying expenses. If they are married and file a joint return with another qualified educator, the limit rises to $600. But in this situation, not more than $300 for each spouse.
According to the agency, educators can claim this deduction, even if they take the standard deduction. Eligible educators include anyone who is a kindergarten through high school teacher, instructor, counselor, principal or aide working at least 900 hours during the school year. Both public and private school educators qualify.
The IRS shared educators can deduct the unreimbursed cost of the following items:
- Books, supplies and other materials used in the classroom.
- Equipment, including computer equipment, software and services.
- COVID-19 protective items to stop the spread of the disease in the classroom. This includes face masks, disinfectant for use against COVID-19, hand soap, hand sanitizer, disposable gloves, tape, paint or chalk to guide social distancing, physical barriers, such as clear plexiglass, air purifiers and other items recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Professional development courses related to the curriculum they teach or the students they teach. For these expenses, it may be more beneficial to claim another educational tax benefit, especially the lifetime learning credit.
According to the IRS, qualified expenses don’t include costs for homeschooling or non-athletic supplies for courses in health or physical education. As with all deductions and credits, the agency reminds educators to keep good records, including receipts, canceled checks and other documentation.
With the 2021 tax deadline just around the corner, the IRS said educators still working on their returns can claim any qualifying expenses here.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility in 1971 sued New York state prison authorities on Thursday, saying they’ve unconstitutionally banned her book behind bars.
Author Heather Ann Thompson, a University of Michigan professor, brought the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court over the treatment by New York State Department of Corrections officials of her book: “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971,” published in 2016.
Named as defendants were the department’s acting commissioner and a second official with decision-making authority regarding censorship determinations.
The lawsuit contends that the ban is unconstitutional, particularly because the state has blocked inmates from accessing her book, prevented her from sharing it with inmates and denied her an opportunity to contest the ban.
“People have a right to read, and people have a right to history,” Thompson said in a release. “We also have a right to have our books read. It’s a shame we live in a country where we censor people and ideas.”
In a document issued in late January, the New York State Department of Corrections division of Corrections and Community Supervision said it was department policy to “encourage incarcerated individuals to read publications from varied sources if such material does not encourage them to engage in behavior that might be disruptive to orderly facility operations.”
The document said any materials also “should not incite disobedience towards law enforcement officers or prison personnel.” It added that “incite disobedience” means “to advocate, expressly or by clear implication, acts of disobedience.”
Contacted about the lawsuit Thursday, a corrections spokesperson said the department cannot comment on pending litigation.
The Attica uprising began in September 1971 when inmates angry over living conditions seized control of part of the prison and took some of its staff hostage. Four days later, the disturbance ended when state troopers and guards shot tear gas into a prison yard before firing hundreds of rounds into the smoke.
The gunfire killed 29 inmates and 10 hostages. In all, 11 staff members and 32 inmates were killed in the riot and siege. No law enforcement officers were put on trial for their roles in the massacre.
The lawsuit was brought on Thompson’s behalf by the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Civil Rights Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said the state “cannot censor an important historical text like ‘Blood in the Water’ just because it doesn’t like the content.”
Cardozo’s Civil Rights Clinic Director Betsy Ginsberg said: “It is, simply put, a history book, and its denial to incarcerated people runs counter to this country’s core values.”
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Associated Press Writer Michael Hill in Albany contributed to this report.
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BEIJING, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (HKG: 0386, “Sinopec” or “the Company”) hosted its 2021 annual performance conference on March 28 in Beijing via webinar. Per International Financial Reporting Standards, Sinopec’s 2021 turnover and other operating income was CNY2.74 trillion (USD431.50billion), with profit attributable to shareholders of the company reaching CNY71.975 billion (USD11.33 billion), a 115.2 percent growth year-on-year. This has been Sinopec’s best operating performance in the past decade.
Sinopec hosted its 2021 annual performance conference on Mar.28th, reporting its 2021 turnover and other operating income was CNY 2.74 trillion (USD 431.50 billion), with profit attributable to shareholders of the company reaching CNY 71.975 billion (USD 11.33 billion), a 115.2 percent growth year-on-year.
A dividend of CNY0.47 per share was distributed throughout the year, with a dividend payout ratio of 80 percent. Based on the weighted average share price in 2021, the dividend yield of A shares and H shares reached 10.8 percent and 14.3 percent, respectively.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and a complex macroenvironment, Sinopec focused on advancing high-quality production and operations, transformative development, technological innovation, management reform, risk prevention and control among other aspects in 2021 to achieve a solid start in line with China’s “14th Five-Year Plan.” Overall, Sinopec’s various business sectors have been growing positively, with remarkable achievements in:
- Increasing upstream oil and gas reserves;
- Expanding refining scale and competitive advantages;
- Continuous increase of the sales and operation scale of refined oil;
- Giving full play to leading with innovative and technological support.
In the meantime, Sinopec also focused on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) development with the board of directors coming from more diverse backgrounds and the Company is actively responding to climate change challenges, vigorously saving energy and reducing pollution and carbon emissions, as well as supporting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
Mr. Ma Yongsheng, president of Sinopec noted, Sinopec will give full play to its advantages in the integration of marketing, brand, technology and talent to unswervingly move towards the goal of becoming a world-leading clean energy and chemical company, creating greater value for shareholders and society.
“Looking to the future, Sinopec will actively and constructively embrace energy transformation and the transformation of the industry as a whole, extensively implementing a world-leading development strategy and continuously optimizing the 14th Five-Year Plan and long-term 2035 goal to achieve high-quality, sustainable development,” said Ma.
Sinopec has laid out five key focuses in implementing its new development strategy and strives to:
- Improve corporate governance: Sinopec will promote the integration of risk control, internal control and compliance management to strictly control risks in terms of safety, environmental protection, operation management and more. Sinopec will also further integrate ESG with production, operation and development to improve corporate governance efficiency.
- Execute an innovation-driven development strategy: Sinopec will create a cradle for original technologies to promote the development and application of advanced technologies for oil and gas resources, emphasize technological breakthroughs in oil refining, high-end chemicals and new materials, modern coal chemicals, new energy and more, and strengthen the development of the industry’s key technologies, common technologies and cutting-edge technologies.
- Enhance energy supply capacity: Sinopec is devoting greater efforts in the exploration and development of oil and gas, aiming to achieve major breakthroughs and discoveries of shale oil and gas, promote the coordinated development of natural gas production, supply, storage and sales, maintain domestic oil and gas reserves with steady growth in production, and actively and steadily lay out new energy businesses such as hydrogen energy. It will strengthen the support capability of international trade, improve global resource allocation capacity and explore the establishing a multi-energy complementary energy supply system.
- Promote the upgrade of refining and chemical businesses: Sinopec aims to optimize oil refining and expand and strengthen chemical engineering, speeding up the progress of “crude-to-chemicals” and “petroleum derivative products” to promote the mid- to high-end development of the chemical business and build a large-scale, integrated and intelligent world-class refining and chemical engineering base.
- Build green and low-carbon competitive advantages: Coordinating the relationship between development and emissions reduction, Sinopec continues the optimization of its industrial and energy use structures, improves energy efficiency to set industry benchmarks. Sinopec has also accelerated the R&D of green, low-carbon technologies using the Sinopec Qilu-Shengli Oilfield CCUS project as the foundation.
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Ukraine crisis adds pressure to spending talks
Pressure is ratcheting up on congressional negotiators to finalize talks for a sprawling government funding package by a looming shutdown deadline next week, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle advocate for emergency aid for Ukraine in response to Russia’s ongoing invasion.
Democratic leaders have announced plans to attach supplemental funding for humanitarian and military assistance for Ukraine to a larger spending omnibus package to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year, calling it the quickest vehicle to greenlight the billions in spending.
The push, lawmakers say, tacks even more pressure on Congress to wrap up work on government funding legislation in time for a March 11 deadline, after the cutoff date was previously pushed back several times to buy negotiators more time for spending talks.
Members say the ongoing crisis in Ukraine also adds greater urgency to update spending levels for agencies like the Department of Defense (DoD) and State Department to boost national security and bolster resources to meet future needs.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, said on Thursday that he thinks there’s increased pressure to “not have the Department of Defense on a continuing resolution (CR),” especially amid the ongoing crisis.
“The money for Ukraine is not just in the supplemental. It’s also in the underlying DHS and DoD and Department of State budgets. So, to put those agencies on a continuing resolution in the middle of this crisis would be malpractice,” Murphy told The Hill.
Congress has already had to pass three CRs for fiscal year 2022 to avert a shutdown after Republican and Democratic leaders struggled for months to reach agreement on a host of issues, including parity in annual growth for defense and non-defense spending levels, top-line numbers and other legislative sticking points.
The short-term bills have allowed the government to remain funded under the previous year’s spending levels, set under the Trump administration, while appropriators sort out spending. But members are hopeful there won’t be a need for a fourth, as more lawmakers push for the U.S. to join international allies in bolstering support for Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
“I think that people would very much like to vote for aid for Ukraine,” Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.), the top Republican on the Senate Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, said Thursday. “Hopefully, we can work together and figure out a path forward to get it done in a timely fashion.”
Earlier this week, the White House called on Congress to approve $10 billion in humanitarian, economic and security assistance for Ukraine and nearby allies, as the eastern European nation’s death toll climbs amid Russia’s ongoing invasion.
In recent days, reports have provided a devastating glimpse of destruction wreaked in a now war-torn Ukraine, where officials have named hospitals and memorials among the areas struck by bombings since the outset of the invasion.
As part of its request, White House Office of Management and Budget acting Director Shalanda Young detailed plans to put $4.8 billion toward the DoD for U.S. troop deployments to neighboring countries and provide military equipment to Ukraine, as well as $5 billion to the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to boost security and economic assistance to Ukraine, and humanitarian aid.
Young also laid out an additional ask for $22.5 billion to support ongoing COVID-19 response efforts, in addition to prevention efforts against new variants, while calling on Congress to “act expeditiously” in addressing both requests as part of a comprehensive government funding bill before next week’s deadline.
But although the push for Ukraine aid has found unity among Democrats and Republicans, the latter ask has already ruffled feathers among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill, some of whom have balked at the request while calling for funding legislation for both matters to be delinked.
Pressed over whether he thought the COVID funding request was warranted, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said on Thursday that he did not, before raising the question of “how much unspent money is there.”
“The American people need an accounting on how much is left. Let’s spend that first before we start borrowing more,” Shelby said.
Others have also pushed back on the strategy to attach Ukraine to the omnibus, particularly given the challenges lawmakers have faced in finding common ground in spending talks since last year.
“You don’t have to put the Ukraine aid in an omnibus, either,” Sen. Lisa Murkowksi (R-Ala.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told The Hill. “Omnibus has its own challenges. They’re just trying to get everything in one big bill.”
Her comments come as negotiators are still working to sort through remaining hurdles in bipartisan spending talks in a critical stretch to finish crafting – and hopefully pass – an omnibus package before next Friday is over.
However, Democrats have insisted the omnibus is the fastest vehicle to pass the Ukraine aid, while also doubling down on calls for additional COVID-19 funding as a necessary investment in the nation’s ongoing pandemic response.
“I’m always trusting that, left to their own devices, the appropriators – Democrats, Republicans, House and Senate – understand the urgency of meeting the needs of the American people as we keep government open,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at a press conference on Thursday. “And in this case, we have a pandemic to address and the challenge that we face in Ukraine.”
As appropriators make a dash to finish their work for next week, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) expressed optimism on Thursday in Congress meeting the March 11 deadline. “I definitely want to, and expect to.”
Some appropriators have said they’ve gotten signals from top leaders that they are close to crossing the finish line in speeding talks in recent days, even as negotiators have indicated more work is to be done in thornier, partisan issues like border wall funding.
“We are getting those signals,” Boozman told The Hill on Thursday. “The problem is we’ve gotten those signals for a long time. So, we hope these are good signals.”
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Police offered to arrest Will Smith, Oscars producer says
LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles police were on site and ready to arrest actor Will Smith at the Academy Awards last Sunday (Mar 27) for slapping presenter Chris Rock, the producer of the Hollywood ceremony said on Thursday.
The authorities did take not any action because Rock declined to press charges, producer Will Packer said, echoing what a police spokesperson said on Sunday.
"They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment," Packer said in excerpts from an interview that will air on Friday on ABC's Good Morning America.
"They said, we will go get him. We are prepared. We're prepared to get him right now," Packer added.
During the live Oscars telecast, Smith strode up to the stage after Rock made a joke about the appearance of Smith's wife, then smacked the comedian's face.
Less than an hour later, Smith gave a tearful speech on stage as he accepted the Best Actor trophy for his role in King Richard.
Behind the scenes, police were discussing options with Rock, Packer said.
Rock "was being very dismissive of those options" he added.
"He was like: 'No, no, no, I'm fine.' And even to the point where I said: 'Rock, let them finish,'" Packer said.
Representatives for Rock did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Smith apologised to Rock, producers and viewers in a statement on Monday, saying he had "reacted emotionally".
Rock's joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, made a reference to the 1997 film GI Jane in which actress Demi Moore shaved her head. It was unclear whether Rock was aware that Jada Pinkett Smith has a condition that causes hair loss.
A police spokesman said on Sunday night that the individual involved in the incident had declined to press charges, but did not provide details about the interactions at the awards show.
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The Godfather Of Funk Is Getting His Own Biopic With Eddie Murphy, And The Casting Seems Perfect
By Adam Holmes published
This biopic has the funk!
Since the late 1960s, musician George Clinton has led the Parliament-Funkadelic, the funk music collective that boosted the genre’s popularity and has earned numerous accolades over the decades, including winning Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2019. Well, word’s come in that Clinton is getting his own biopic, and there’s some groovy casting underway, with funnyman Eddie Murphy being lined up to play the Godfather of Funk.
With Eddie Murphy reportedly describing this George Clinton biopic as a “passion project,” the actor is in early talks to star in the upcoming movie. Murphy will also produce alongside John Davis and Catherine Davis from Davis Entertainment, and the trio is currently working to secure the rights to tell Clinton’s story in a cinematic setting. Once that’s accomplished, then they’ll start meeting with writers and look for a place to set up the project.
According to Deadline, the George Clinton biopic will chronicle the musician’s beginnings in 1940s North Carolina, the formation of Parliament and Funkadelic (when they were separate entities) and how he influenced the hip hop artists that followed after him, like Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Outkast and Wu-Tang Clan, among others. Clinton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, but it's unclear if the biopic will go that far into his life, if not further.
This won’t be Eddie Murphy’s first time in the musical cinematic scene, as he previously played James “Thunder” Early in the Academy Award-winning 2006 movie Dreamgirls. However, the George Clinton biopic gives him the opportunity to take center stage as one of the most prominent musicians of the 20th century. At the very least, it’s safe to say that Murphy has more than enough funk to play the Parliament-Funkadelic frontman.
After only appearing in a few movies during most of the 2010s, Eddie Murphy made his big return in November 2019 for Netflix’s Dolemite is My Name (another Davis Entertainment flick), where he played Rudy Ray Moore. The following month, Murphy hosted Saturday Night Live (his first time back on the show in nearly three decades) and later won a Primetime Emmy Award for that gig. Then in March 2021, Murphy reprised Akeem Joffer in Coming 2 America, which a lot of people watched on Amazon. Since the actor now has a three-picture deal established with that platform, maybe that’s where the George Clinton biopic could end up.
Because this biopic is in the earliest creative stages, it’ll likely be a long time until we see the completed product. Luckily, this isn’t the only Eddie Murphy movie to look forward to in the coming years. He’s next set to co-star with Jonah Hill in the Netflix movie You People, and that will be followed by his return to the Axel Foley role for Beverly Hills Cop 4 (yes, that’s still in the works). As for what’s to come closer in the future, our 2022 movie releases guide has that information handily available.
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THE DRIPBaR Drops into Greenwood Village
IV Therapy Concept to Open New Denver Area Location. March 30, 2022 // Franchising.com // GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. - THE DRIPBaR - a Rhode Island-based health center focused on administering IV therapy infusions, is happy to announce the opening of its first Greenwood Village location. The new business will be opened...
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Gaming Realms goes live with Loto-Québec
31st March 2022 10:26 am GMTLondon-listed iGaming content developer Gaming Realms has rolled out its Slingo portfolio in Canada with Loto-Québec.
The provincial lottery corporation operates the only authorised online gaming website in Quebec and can now offer players Gaming Realms' portfolio of Slingo Original games, beginning with the launch of Slingo Extreme and Blackjack Xchange
"Hot on the heels of being awarded our Ontario igaming license, we are delighted to have gone live with Loto-Québec,” said Gaming Realms chief financial officer Mark Segal. “2022 is set to be an exciting time for the Company as we move to establish a strong foothold in the Canadian market and work towards our longer-term plan of expanding further into the North American market."
The rollout with Loto-Québec marks Gaming Realms' first supply contract with a member of the World Lottery Association, with the games made available through its North American distribution partner, Light & Wonder (formerly Scientific Games).
Shares in Gaming Realms plc. (AIM:GMR) were trading 2.06 per cent lower at 30.36 pence per share in London Thursday morning.
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Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Arizona Luminaria on palabra, the digital news site by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
By Beatriz Limón with photo and video by Arizona Luminaria and Daniel Méndez
Where are you from?
It’s a question that Franchela Ulises hears often in Arizona when she speaks in Spanish. In her native language.
She is used to the question. But she’ll never get used to the strange looks from others when she’s in public. She’s seen that look at the grocery store or at the park when she’s with her kids and they’re all talking in Spanish.
Sometimes she laughs it off. Other times, she lets her frustration flow.
Franchela was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Her parents are from the Dominican Republic.
In the country of her parents, Franchela doesn’t attract attention. Here in Arizona, in a desert state on the border with Mexico, a Black woman who speaks Spanish is watched with curiosity and sometimes reveals the prejudice toward people who share her heritage.
Facing discrimination. Not feeling recognized, included or accepted as an Afro-Latina. It’s exhausting, she says.
Franchela channeled her frustration into creating “Mujeres of all Shades.” The organization helps women of all races and cultural and ethnic backgrounds champion their own style, their own identities, their own expressions of beauty and brilliance.
Franchela works as a model, fashion stylist, and social media influencer to empower Afro-Latinas and unite women of all skin colors.
She’s cultivating a collective of women who are changing the fashion industry to be more inclusive of what women want and how they want to be seen and heard.
Together, they fight for confidence and self-esteem and against stereotypes about beauty, race and gender. For Franchela, it is a movement.
She has three daughters. She wants them to see more Afro-Latinas represented on television and other media.
On a cool day in downtown Phoenix, Franchela is posing for photos and speaking in Spanish and English. She explains what life is like for Afro-Latinas in Arizona.
She fixes her hair and adjusts her jacket with splashes of vibrant colors from lime green to indigo blue. She crosses her legs and sets aside her Gucci bag.
Looking at the camera with the confidence of a Hollywood star on stage, a model on the runway or mama with three babies, she smiles and says: “I’m Afro-Latina.”
She releases a mischievous laugh adding, “I’m a little bit of everything.”
Franchela is 30 years old. She tries to explain how she defines herself, shows her identities in simple, straightforward ways that still seem so complicated in the eyes of people who do not know her cultural mix and her roots.
“Look, my parents are Dominican, but I was born in the Virgin Islands, where there are many Dominicans,” she says. “But this is the United States. So, I am African American.”
“But sometimes I’m not Black enough for people here. I’m also not Latino enough in this country. In the end, I think we can all be a little bit of everything.”
Franchela is proud to wear her Afro-Latina identity in Arizona, where laws have been passed to stigmatize race, culture and language. And where some people mistakenly think that all Latinos in Arizona are from México.
Franchela is an American citizen who champions Latino/a/x immigrants like her parents. Francisco Ulises and Elcilia Mercado taught her to love her culture and her language.
“My parents are amazing. They are both Dominican and traveled to St. Thomas, which is the gateway island to the Virgin Islands, before I was born,” she says. “They are a blessing. They always instilled in me our Dominican culture and appreciation for speaking Spanish very well.”
Dominicans represent the fourth largest group of Latino immigrants in the United States, after Mexicans, Salvadorans and Cubans, according to the Migration Policy Institute, or MPI.
MPI data shows that the number of Dominican immigrants in the U.S. increased 33% from 2010 to 2019. Those 1.2 million Dominicans represent approximately 3% of the immigrant population in the U.S., which is about 44.9 million people.
Latinos in the U.S. with Caribbean roots are more likely to identify as Afro-Latinos or Afro-Caribbeans than Latinos with roots in other regions (34% vs. 22%, respectively), according to a Pew Research Center survey. Those who identify as Afro-Latino are more concentrated on the East Coast and in the South compared to other Latinos. An estimated 65% of Afro-Latino immigrants live in these regions versus 48% of other Latino immigrants.
Franchela moved to Arizona 10 years ago to study criminal justice. She arrived with a heart full of dreams, but she found herself rejected. Some people, upon hearing her speak Spanish, looked at her strangely and whispered behind her back.
She felt like she couldn’t escape all the sideways glances.
“People are always shocked when they see me. They’re literally frozen when they hear me,” she says. “They ask me, in surprise, where I learned to speak Spanish.”
It hurts, she says, to know that her Afro-Latino culture is not appreciated enough in her country.
“We’re Latinos, we just look a little bit different,” she says firmly.
She remembers her life and traditions in moments. Living with her grandparents in the Dominican Republic, eating rice and beans and playing with her cousins, speaking in the language they grew up with.
Women of all shades
Franchela faced culture shock when she moved to Arizona. She took that pain and channeled it into creating “Mujeres of all Shades.”
For her, it means everything for every woman to feel confident about her ancestral roots, the texture of her hair, the color of her skin color, her voice and her shape. Franchela feels confident wearing red lipstick and fierce colors. It’s a medicine for a fashion guru to feel beautiful, brave and bold.
Not everyone looks the same just because they’re from the same country or culture, she says.
“We have to change the stereotypes (in the U.S.),” she says. “It’s the same in Mexico, where there are blonde people with green eyes. We must accept that we come in all colors.”
Through her organization, the model offers a series of tutorials for women to feel comfortable in their own skin. She covers personal styling, fashion events, wardrobe checks, outfit planning, shopping plans, fashion consultations, and even a fashionista photo shoot.
She doesn’t only focus on fashion, style and the beauty of women. Franchela seeks to educate Latino and non-Latino communities about cultural, racial, ethnic representation, equality and diversity. She wants Latino communities to recognize and celebrate Afro-Latino cultures.
She hopes people don’t think that observing Black History Month in February is enough. Rather, she wants an inclusive conversation about respecting people of color and people from these communities who speak different languages.
“We are not well represented in the United States. We’re lacking space on television, where our stories are told, so people get to know us,” Franchela says. “We have to focus on the Black and Afro-Latino community every day, not just one month, because the problems we face happen all year long.”
And to begin to make a change, the style consultant and mom has educated her daughters Yoelianny, 9, Alianny, 7, and Leilianny, 2, to feel proud of their Latina roots, the color of their skin and of being bilingual.
“I instill the Latino culture in them,” Franchela says. “We speak Spanish. I explain to them where I come from, where their father Juan Franco, who is Dominican, comes from. I tell them that they are beautiful and that they are also Latinas.”
Franchela Ulises says “not everyone looks the same just because they’re from the same country or culture.” Photo by Arizona Fashion Photographer
‘When people speak to me in English …’
Franchela is active on her personal and business social media networks. The entrepreneur shares her bold fashion sense and stories about her experiences as an Afro-Latina woman.
She often hears back from other Afro-Latinas who feel seen and heard. She hears from people who love her style and culture. But there’s hate, too. Like a recent racist comment on Tik Tok.
“They told me that I was too dark to be Dominican,” she says.
She faced the same old stereotypes. But she saw it as an opportunity to change the way people perceive Afro-Latinas like her.
“I get those comments a lot,” she says. “I use them to educate, because if that person was thinking it, I’m sure there are a hundred others who are thinking it too.”
Franchela uploaded a video with audio from the popular “Caso Cerrado” television show to her social media, using humor and language to talk about being Afro-Latina and proudly speaking Spanish.
She posted it with a banner in black and white: “When people speak to me in English, because they think I don’t speak Spanish.”
“Buenas tardes! No ‘afternoon’ or ‘hello’ here. Spanish is spoken here because this is a program in Spanish”, Franchela says with authority, a head tilt and a hard stare.
The Afro-Latina says there’s been progress over the years in education and action against racism. But there is still rampant “racism that gets swept under the rug.”
“The aggression that people of color [face] is not always so direct anymore, but it is indirect and it is racism all the same,” Franchela says. “It hurts, frustrates and makes you feel bad. It (racism) hasn’t gone away. But it could go away. It’s a matter of people with privilege not thinking they can just recognize our culture for just one month – these issues should be regularly exposed.”
Franchela has also dedicated herself to educating those who think that Afro-Latinos are not Latinos, so people learn to embrace the diversity of our (Latino) community.
Fighting for people’s rights and what she believes in is not new for Franchela. She studied criminology to help young people trapped in the U.S. justice system. She knows that the key to supporting people is to motivate and empower them so they don’t feel defeated.
That’s what Franchela is: A motivator who wants people to feel joyful about their identity and their culture.
A powerful leader who empowers others.
A woman who loves bold colors. All colors. A woman who loves her American and her Latina roots.
She’s Afro-Latina.
She’s ... a little bit of everything.
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Beatriz Limón is an independent journalist who served as a correspondent in Arizona and New Mexico for the international news agency EFE. She has a bachelor’s degree in communication science, is a professional photographer and a columnist for the newspaper El Imparcial.
Daniel Méndez is an award-winning editor/producer with more than 15 years of experience covering news in English and Spanish. He has worked with Telemundo and 12 News. His professional experience contributed to a better understanding of fair and comprehensive coverage of Latino communities, including collaborating on the production of bilingual stories that spawned 12 News en Español.
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(NEXSTAR) — Consumer goods company Unilever has initiated a voluntary recall of two of its Suave antiperspirant products due to concerns over benzene content – exposure to high levels of the chemical has been linked to several types of cancer.
The affected products are Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirants, both the “Fresh” and “Powder” scents. The 4-6 ounce spray cans feature the UPC codes:
- 079400751508
- 079400784902
- 079400785503
Items with these UPC codes and expiration dates through September 2023 are the only Unilever/Suave products affected by the recall.
Unilever explains that the antiperspirants themselves don’t contain benzene but a review showed “unexpected” levels from the propellant that sprays the product from the cans. The company says the 24-hour deodorant sprays were discontinued last year for unrelated business reasons and were previously in limited distribution at U.S. stores and online.
Retailers who carried the items have also been notified to pull any that remain, Unilever says. Anyone who has the affected products should discard them immediately.
Customers with questions or concerns can contact Unilever at (866) 204-9756. More information on the products and reimbursement can also be found at the Suave Recall page. The Food and Drug Administration says customers who may have experienced adverse reactions to the aerosols can report to its MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting.
Benzene
So what is benzene?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains that benzene is a colorless or yellow liquid when at room temperature. It can be naturally occurring – in volcanoes, forest fires and oil, for example – or found in human manufacturing.
Benzene is among the top 20 chemicals used in the U.S., the CDC says. It’s used to make plastics, nylons and some types of lubricants, rubbers, dyes, detergents and drugs. Tobacco smoke is a large source of benzene exposure to humans.
How is it harmful?
The CDC reports benzene damages the human body by causing cells to malfunction. For instance, bone marrow can stop producing adequate amounts of red blood cells. Additionally, it can cause changes in antibodies and white blood cell loss. Immediate symptoms of exposure include headaches, dizziness, tremors, vomiting and confusion.
Long-term exposure (longer than a year) can result in cancers, per the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Shane Bieber to start Guardians’ season opener in KC
GOODYEAR, Arizona (AP) — Shane Bieber will throw the first pitch for the Cleveland Guardians. Bieber will start the season opener on April 7 at Kansas City. It was expected that Bieber would get the start, but manager Terry Francona made the formal announcement after speaking to the right-hander who missed three months last season with a shoulder strain. Bieber will be the 12th pitcher in franchise history to make three consecutive opening-day starts. The 26-year-old went 7-4 with a 3.17 ERA last season, but made only 16 starts.
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Nasdaq, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ – Get Rating) EVP Lauren B. Dillard sold 2,500 shares of Nasdaq stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $180.00, for a total value of $450,000.00. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this link.
Shares of NASDAQ NDAQ traded down $3.68 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $178.20. The stock had a trading volume of 1,078,412 shares, compared to its average volume of 984,019. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $174.00 and its 200 day moving average price is $191.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.75, a quick ratio of 0.94 and a current ratio of 0.94. Nasdaq, Inc. has a twelve month low of $147.01 and a twelve month high of $214.96. The firm has a market cap of $29.30 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.40, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.67 and a beta of 0.90.
Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, January 26th. The financial services provider reported $1.93 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.78 by $0.15. Nasdaq had a net margin of 20.14% and a return on equity of 19.78%. The business had revenue of $885.00 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $866.46 million. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $1.60 earnings per share. Nasdaq’s quarterly revenue was up 12.3% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts forecast that Nasdaq, Inc. will post 7.88 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
NDAQ has been the subject of a number of research reports. Bank of America lifted their target price on Nasdaq from $262.00 to $277.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, January 27th. StockNews.com upgraded Nasdaq from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Saturday, March 26th. Argus upgraded Nasdaq from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $200.00 price target on the stock in a research report on Monday, February 7th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft decreased their target price on Nasdaq from $225.00 to $210.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 18th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities decreased their target price on Nasdaq from $218.00 to $200.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, March 8th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have given a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Nasdaq currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $205.67.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. BOKF NA bought a new position in Nasdaq during the third quarter worth $5,309,000. Credit Suisse AG raised its stake in Nasdaq by 3.8% during the third quarter. Credit Suisse AG now owns 457,878 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $88,379,000 after buying an additional 16,871 shares during the last quarter. TKG Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in Nasdaq in the fourth quarter worth $1,560,000. BlackRock Inc. grew its holdings in Nasdaq by 1.0% in the third quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 8,184,152 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $1,579,706,000 after purchasing an additional 78,709 shares during the period. Finally, Bank of America Corp DE grew its holdings in Nasdaq by 0.6% in the second quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 1,554,572 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $273,295,000 after purchasing an additional 9,958 shares during the period. 71.78% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
About Nasdaq (Get Rating)
Nasdaq, Inc operates as a technology company that serves capital markets and other industries worldwide. The Market Technology segment includes anti financial crime technology business, which offers Nasdaq Trade Surveillance, a SaaS solution for brokers and other market participants to assist them in complying with market rules, regulations, and internal market surveillance policies; Nasdaq Automated Investigator, a cloud-deployed anti-money laundering tool; and Verafin, a SaaS technology provider of anti-financial crime management solutions.
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The Federation of Muslim Women’s Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN) has urged Muslim women to emulate the good quality and leadership style of Vice Chairman of Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area, Alhaja Qudrat Omolara Dada, who died on March 16, 2022 at the age of 64 years. At a special prayer organised for the deceased, the association described her as a pillar of support, a charismatic leader, an astute administrator, a noble personality and a visionary leader.
The Ameerah, FOMWAN Lagos Chapter, Dr. Alimah Shadia Egberongbe, said the deceased contributed significantly to the development of the association and her death has left a vacuum in the association, particularly, the present tenure. She said: “ She was very dutiful, who worked assiduously for the development of the association. She had always been an advocate of moving the organisation to the next level.
She tried her best in this world and I pray to Allah (Swt) to overlook her short comings and grant her success in the hereafter.” The General Secretary FOMWAN, Lagos Chapter, Hajia Sherifah Ajagbe, described late Qudrat, as a highly resourceful, hardworking, committed and kind hearted person. “She was a very firm person. Before her demise, she headed two key committees in the association and those committees really helped to shape the association. We are really going to miss her, we appreciate her effort. May Almighty reward her with Al Jannah Firdaus.”
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WhatsApp announced on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, several new features that renew its voice memo service.
Users will be able stop the recording and resume it and listen to it before sending it. In addition, they will be able to reproduce the voice messages received outside the chat itself, so that, while they listen to it, they will have the option of responding to other conversations.
Among the updates announced, through Twitterthere is fast playback at 1.5 and 2, to listen to the voice memos in less time, and the display of the recordings in the form of waves.
Some of these novelties were already available for two months in devices with system iOS operatingsuch as playback outside of chat and pausing and resuming recordings.
Quick play and out of chat was also available on some terminals with Android since a few weeks.
Your favorite way to chat just got better. With voice messages, you can now:
⏸️ Pause while recording – take your time when you think in Hindi but speak in English
💬 Listen while responding to other chats because when Mom needs an answer, you answer!
Time to hit 🎙️ pic.twitter.com/tlKgVpRMTG
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) March 30, 2022
As usual, some will not be able to receive the update if their phone’s OS version no longer supports that type of upgrade. The user will be able to check if he can install it or not once it is available in the application store, Play Store or App Store on Android or iOS devices respectively.
According to the company, every day 7,000 million voice messages are sent through this application worldwide.
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A National Security Agency employee has been charged with emailing classified national security information to somebody who wasn’t authorized to receive it, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
Mark Robert Unkenholz, 60, of Hanover, Maryland, was arrested Thursday but ordered released after his initial court appearance in Baltimore.
Unkenholz held “top secret” security clearance, giving him access to the information, according to a 26-count indictment. He worked for an NSA office responsible for the agency’s engagement with private industry.
The indictment accuses Unkenholz of using his personal email address to send information classified as “secret” and “top secret” to somebody else’s private company email addresses on several occasions between February 2018 and June 2020.
The recipient held “top secret” clearance from April 2016 until approximately June 2019, while employed at a company that isn’t named in the indictment. However, from July 2019 until approximately January 2021, the person worked for a different company and wasn’t authorized to access or receive classified information, the indictment says.
A grand jury indicted Unkenholz on Tuesday on 13 counts of willfully transmitting national defense information and 13 counts of willfully retaining national defense informaton. Each count carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. Federal sentencing guidelines typically recommend sentences far below the maximum.
Unkenholz pleaded not guilty to all 26 counts at his initial court appearance. U.S. Magistrate Judge Beth Gesner ordered him released after the hearing, court records show.
Gesner appointed the federal public defender’s office to represent Unkenholz. Federal Public Defender James Wyda declined to comment.
The FBI is investigating.
The case against Unkenholz is the latest prosecution from federal authorities in Maryland, home to some of the most secretive government agencies, alleging mishandling or improper storage of classified materials.
One of the more prominent federal cases involved Harold Martin, a former NSA contractor who was charged in 2016 with storing reams of classified records in his Maryland home, car and shed. The information spanned from the mid-1990s to the present and included personal details of government employees and “top secret” email chains, handwritten notes describing the NSA’s classified computer infrastructure, and descriptions of classified technical operations. He was sentenced in 2019 to nine years in prison.
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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker contributed from Washington, D.C.
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Kellogg’s workers win big raises after spate of strikes
Published: Mar. 30, 2022 at 12:40 PM CDT
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Several hundred workers at a Kellogg’s plant that makes Cheez-Its won a new contract that delivers more than 15% wage increases over three years after 1,400 workers at the company’s cereal plants went on strike for nearly three months last fall.
The union that represents those 570 workers in Kansas City, Kansas, said Wednesday that the wages and benefit improvements secured this week are the biggest ones the local union has ever seen.
The deal comes as many companies are struggling to fill the more than 11 million job openings across the country and workers are demanding more after keeping plants operating throughout the pandemic.
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Kraven The Hunter: An Updated Cast List, Including Russell Crowe And Ariana DeBose
By Eric Eisenberg published
The latest title from Sony's Spider-Man Universe.
Following in the wake of Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and Morbius, Sony has big plans for the future of blockbusters vaguely related to Spider-Man. The franchise, known as Sony's Spider-Man Universe, is presently making a number of big projects, all of which are based on beloved villains and lesser-known supporting characters from the wall-crawler’s corner of the world in Marvel Comics. The various movies are all at different stages of development, but the next one set to debut will be J.C. Chandor’s Kraven The Hunter – which is not only well under way, but has put together a stellar ensemble cast.
Written by Richard Wenk (The Equalizer), Kraven The Hunter is a blockbuster that we don’t know too much about as far as plot goes, but we have learned a great deal about what to expect from the feature based on the characters that have been revealed as being included in the story. With the film still being in the works, it’s wholly possible that there are still more names to be announced, but for now, here are all of the actors we know have parts to play in the upcoming feature:
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Aaron Taylor-Johnson has quite a lot of comic book movie experience at this point in his career. His big break came from playing the titular hero in the two Kick-Ass films, and he followed those features by becoming Pietro Maximoff a.k.a. Quicksilver in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (plus there is also his supporting role in The King’s Man). With Kraven The Hunter, his resume in this specific realm will grow further, as he is playing the titular character a.k.a. Sergei Kravinoff in the upcoming film. Not much is known about how the project will treat the famed Spider-Man villain, but we expect that he’ll be striving to be known as the world’s greatest hunter, like his on-the-page counterpart.
Fred Hechinger
Kraven The Hunter isn’t the only Spider-Man villain who is set to have a principal role in the character’s upcoming solo film. Also set to make his live-action premiere in the blockbuster is Dmitri Smerdyakov – the half-brother of Sergei Kravinoff who is best known by the moniker The Chameleon. In the comics, the character is a brilliant master of disguise and can be undetectable when pretending to be another person. Fred Hechinger, coming off a 2021 that saw him star in The White Lotus and the Fear Street trilogy, is playing the part, though we don’t really know anything about how Chameleon will be worked into the plot.
Russell Crowe
Like Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Russell Crowe is another actor who has reached a point in his career when he is collecting comic book film parts. A decade ago, the Oscar-winning actor earned the love of DC fans worldwide playing Superman’s father, Jor-El, in Man of Steel (a role he reprised in Zack Snyder’s Justice League), and he has also become a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – set to play the godly Zeus in Thor: Love And Thunder. Crowe signed on to Kraven The Hunter in February 2022, but one detail left out of the news was anything about the role he will be taking on. Knowing his history, he could easily be playing either a hero or a villain in the upcoming blockbuster, so all bets are off in terms of what to expect from his performance.
Ariana DeBose
Ariana DeBose didn’t exactly demonstrate a great deal of patience when it came to landing her first comic book movie role following her critically acclaimed turn in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. In February 2022, she joined the cast of Kraven The Hunter… and a few weeks later she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She will reportedly be playing the role of Calypso in the film, who is the romantic lead for the eponymous protagonist and probably best known for pushing Kraven into hunting Spider-Man.
Alessandro Nivola
Unlike most of his male co-stars in Kraven The Hunter, Alessandro Nivola doesn’t have any comic book movie experience, but his part in the production is no less exciting as a result, as he has proven himself one of the industry’s most reliable character actors since the mid-1990s. In 2021 he earned praise for his role as Dickie Moltisanti in The Many Saints Of Newark (the Sopranos prequel movie), and in addition to his work on Kraven, he has already finished working on new movies directed by David O. Russell (a project that doesn’t have a title yet) and Noah Baumbach (an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel White Noise). We don’t yet know what part he is playing in the Spider-Man spinoff, but it’s news we anticipate learning in the months to come.
Christopher Abbott
At this point in his career, Christopher Abbott is best known for his work on the small screen, having starred in shows including Girls, The Sinner, and the miniseries Catch-22, but blockbuster experience is on the horizon thanks to his part in Kraven The Hunter. We don’t know anything about how he will fit into the plot of the film, but Abbott is reportedly set up to play The Foreigner – who is another Spider-Man villain from Marvel Comics. The character is a mercenary/assassin who is one of the world’s most gifted, non-super fighters on Earth (this will be his first live-action appearance), and one can imagine him providing a challenge for Sergei Kravinoff in his pursuit of being known as the world’s greatest hunter.
Having started production in March 2022, Kraven The Hunter is very much on its way, and if all goes according to plan, it will be arriving in theaters everywhere in less than a year – specifically on January 13, 2023. We plan to regularly add to this feature as new actors are announced as part of the film’s ensemble, and you can continue to find any and all major updates about the project in the CinemaBlend Superhero section. To learn about all of the big features that are on the way between now and the release of Kraven, head on over to our 2022 Movie Release Calendar.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Thunderstorms, strong wind gusts and possible downpours are expected to barrel through the borough Thursday night, according to a forecaster.
Scattered showers are expected around 7 p.m., with thunderstorms possible for later in the night, the National Weather Service said.
Rob Miller, AccuWeather meteorologist, said while parts of Albany, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia may see more severe weather, the New York City area will still feel effects from the storm system.
“Between the 9 to 11 p.m. time period, there is a good chance for heavy downpours in the area,” Miller said. “There could be flooding with high gusty winds as well.”
The National Weather Service did not rule out the possibility of stronger thunderstorms Thursday night that may bring half-inch-sized hail. Tornadoes are not expected, but the agency said they can not entirely be ruled out.
Miller said thunderstorms and showers could extend past midnight, but by 2 to 3 a.m. the brunt of the system should be gone from the NYC area.
“In general we shouldn’t see any severe weather in the morning,” he said. “Though we might see some lingering showers, which may affect the morning commute.”
Additionally, a hazardous weather outlook was issued by the National Weather Service for Staten Island. Impacts include wind gusts possibly approaching 60 mph, the agency said. Those wind speeds could down trees and cause power outages.
The silver lining of the storm is that it is expected to clear by the weekend.
Friday looks to be partly sunny with a high temperature of 60 degrees. Saturday is expected to be sunny with a high of 56 degrees.
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After Inspiring Run to Sectional Quarters Last Spring, PHS Boys’ Lax Bringing Energy, Excitement Into ’22
STICKING WITH IT: Princeton High boys’ lacrosse player John O’Donnell looks for an opening in a game last season. Senior standout O’Donnell figures to be a key offensive performer this spring for the Tigers. PHS gets its 2022 campaign underway this week by playing at Lawrence High on March 31 and...
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DS Smith (OTCMKTS:DITHF – Get Rating) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report released on Thursday, Zacks.com reports.
According to Zacks, “DS Smith Plc is a manufacturer of corrugated products primarily in Europe. The company’s division consists of paper, plastics, packaging and recycling. DS Smith Plc is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. “
DITHF has been the topic of several other research reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their price target on shares of DS Smith from GBX 588 ($7.70) to GBX 570 ($7.47) in a report on Friday, March 11th. UBS Group upgraded shares of DS Smith from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 16th. Finally, Credit Suisse Group increased their price target on shares of DS Smith from GBX 430 ($5.63) to GBX 435 ($5.70) and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, December 10th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $336.83.
About DS Smith (Get Rating)
DS Smith Plc provides packaging solutions, paper products, and recycling services worldwide. The company offers transit and transport, consumer, retail and shelf ready, online and e-retail, industrial, hazardous, multi-material, inserts and cushioning, and electrostatic discharge packaging products, as well as wrap arounds, trays, and bag-in-boxes; displays and promotional packaging products; corrugated pallets; Sheetfeeding products; packaging machine systems; and Sizzlepak, a stuffing material made of paper, folded in a zigzag shape, and cut into narrow strips, as well as provides outdoor advertising services.
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(KTLA) – The IRS on Wednesday reminded tax filers to claim any missing third-round stimulus payment on their 2021 income tax return.
The tax season gives eligible people who never got the $1,400 payment the chance to claim it.
Since the IRS is no longer issuing the Economic Impact Payments, people who are missing a stimulus payment, or got less than the amount they’re eligible for, will have to claim a Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2020 or 2021 federal tax returns, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
Most eligible people have already received their stimulus payments and won’t need to include anything about the payment when they file their 2021 tax return.
The IRS says it has issued more than 175 million third-round payments worth more than $400 billion to people across the country. Most of those payments were sent out in the spring and early summer of 2021.
Still, there are many who haven’t gotten their payments.
Authorities have identified 644,705 potentially eligible people who had not received payments totaling $1.6 billion, according to a report issued last week by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
What to do if you never received the third payment
The IRS encourages residents to double check their bank accounts first to make sure they never got the third payment, especially in early spring and summer of 2021.
People can also access their IRS Online Account to view the total amount of the third-round Economic Impact Payment issued to them. For married couples filing jointly, each person will need to log into their own online account.
Once people confirm they never got the payment, and their IRS online accounts show a payment amount greater than $0, or if they got a Notice 1444-C or Letter 6475, they should contact the IRS as soon as possible to see if a payment trace is needed.
But they do not need to wait until their trace is complete to file their 2021 tax return, officials said.
When completing the Recovery Rebate Credit worksheet, taxpayers have two options: either use the amount on the Letter 6475 (or EIP 3 amount from the online account) to calculate the recovery rebate credit amount on line 30, or use the amount of stimulus payment the taxpayer believes they received to calculate the rebate credit amount on line 30. (Details on that can be found here.)
Those who contact the IRS to trace the stimulus payment amount will receive notification of the results. If it is found that the taxpayer didn’t get the money, the IRS will adjust the recovery rebate credit amount on the tax return and issue any refund.
If people make a mistake calculating the recovery rebate credit and claim an amount on line 30 for the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit, the IRS will have to correct the amount and send a notice about the changes made. If that happens, there may be a delay in processing the return, officials said.
What if I already filed my taxes?
An amended return may be needed to claim the credit if IRS records show no payment was issued.
For eligible people who didn’t claim a recovery rebate credit on their 2021 tax return (so line 30 is blank or $0), they will need to file a Form 1040-X, Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return to claim the remaining amount of stimulus money — if IRS records don’t show that they were issued a payment.
This includes people who think they didn’t get the full amount of their third-round Economic Impact Payment because their circumstances in 2021 were different than they were in 2020.
People trying to figure out if they should amend their original tax return can use this online tool.
More details on claim the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit can be found here.
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Efforts to decimate Russian economy threaten to boomerang
Efforts to decimate Russia’s economy to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine could have serious and unpredictable implications at home for the U.S. and its allies.
The Russian economy has begun to crumble after the U.S., United Kingdom, European Union and other partners imposed unprecedented sanctions with stunning speed.
The Russian government and major financial firms have been cut off from much of the global financial system, dozens of international companies have pulled out of the country, and the value of the ruble has plunged as the Russian central bank scrambles to prevent a deeper crisis.
“The United States and Europeans are explicitly stating that they’re engaging in economic warfare with Russia,” said Daniel Glaser, former Treasury assistant secretary for financial crimes, during a Thursday webinar hosted by compliance firm K2 Integrity.
“Normally when you hear the U.S. and Europeans talk about the application of sanctions, you hear a lot about how targeted they want it to be,” he continued. “I’m not saying that the U.S. and Europeans don’t care about collateral damage, but that’s not the talking point that they’re using. The talking point that they’re using is how much pain they’re trying to inflict on Russia, and it’s just jaw-dropping.”
U.S. and allied officials have argued intense economic pain is essential to punishing Russian President Vladimir Putin domestically for the invasion of Ukraine.
The sanctions regime is designed to not only hinder the Russian economy but also limit Moscow’s ability to ease the economic pain. The U.S. and its allies blocked transactions with the Central Bank of Russia and froze about half of the $600 billion in Russia’s foreign reserves, which Moscow had parked in other countries. The moved locked up what experts called Putin’s sanctions war chest.
The threat of future penalties has also prompted a mass exodus of international companies from Russia. Dozens of companies that may be able to operate outside of sanctions are leaving Russia instead of risking blowback from the U.S. government and losing access to the American dollar.
“There are certain tools they can use to manage,” said Rachel Ziemba, founder of macroeconomic advisory firm Ziemba Insights, of the Russian government.
“They’re headed toward, yes, a recession but a much more internally focused economy that basically takes all the reforms over the last couple of decades and almost does the reverse,” she added.
Even so, mounting economic pain at home hasn’t curbed Putin’s military ambitions in Ukraine.
Russian forces claimed to take control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant overnight in Ukraine, prompting deep concern among U.S. officials. The attack on the plant, which sparked a fire overnight, drew widespread panic and fueled calls among U.S. lawmakers to take more aggressive action against Putin’s regime.
Members of Congress in both parties have ramped up pressure on President Biden to block Russian oil. Doing so would almost certainly send gas prices higher given the globally connected nature of oil markets.
The U.S. is a net exporter of oil, but higher demand for American crude would push up energy prices globally as European allies scramble to replace Russian petroleum and natural gas.
While Biden has sought to prepare Americans for potential economic fallout at home, experts say the unprecedented nature of the penalties creates unpredictable risks for the U.S. economy.
Energy and food prices are the quickest way Americans could feel shockwaves from Russia’s decline, particularly if Biden takes action against Russian oil imports.
Crude oil prices are up roughly 20 percent over the past two weeks, enough to knock 0.2 percentage points from U.S. gross domestic product, according to economists at Goldman Sachs.
They also expect inflation as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index to 0.2 percentage points thanks to “higher food prices, increased production costs due to rising commodity prices and increased transport costs due to shipping disruptions.”
Ziemba said a ban on Russian oil imports would largely be “symbolic” and simply send barrels to other markets.
“When we’re thinking of the cost-benefit analysis, it’s not clear to me that the pain here justifies the pain to Russia,” she said.
But Ziemba said lifting current exemptions for processing energy-related payments could strike a devastating blow to Russia’s energy industry. If U.S. firms and the U.S. dollar can no longer be used to buy Russian oil and gas, Ziemba said foreign firms would likely ditch Russia to protect their access to American markets.
“If there’s a situation where Russian entities can’t be paid for the oil and the gas they are producing, they’re not going to give the supplies away for free,” Ziemba said.
“As the price adjusts, it would be very painful,” she added.
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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/596962-efforts-to-decimate-russian-economy-threaten-to-boomerang/
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Trading on equities at the Nigerian Exchange Limited recorded a loss of N232 billion in March 2021, following massive profit taking despite release of impressive full year 2021 earnings by some blue chip firms. Checks by New Telegraph showed that activities at the stock market that opened the month on March 1 at N25.543 trillion in market capitalisation and 47,394.53 in index closed on March 31, 2022, at N25.311 trillion and 46,965.48 index points, hence has earned a month-to-date loss of about N232 billion or 0.9 per cent.
However, the market closed the last trading day of the month positive as the bulls maintained grip on market activities to sustain rally for the second trading session. The key market performance measures, the NGX All Share Index, rose by 0.13 per cent as market sentiments extended gaining streaks following investors’ sustained positive sentiment on some stocks.
Consequently, the All- Share Index gained 61 basis points or 0.13 per cent to close at 46,965.48 index points as against 46,904.48 recorded the previous day while the market capitalisation of equities appreciated by N33 billion to close at N25.311 trillion from N25.278 trillion as market sentiment remained on the green zone. Meanwhile, a turnover of 256,02 million shares exchanged in 4,227 deals was recorded in the day’s trading. The banking sub-sector was the most active (measured by turnover volume) with 103.17 million shares exchanged by investors in 802 deals. Volume in the sub-sector was largely driven by activities in shares of Fidelity Bank Plc and Ecobank Plc. The premium sub-sector, boosted by activities in shares of Zenith Bank Plc and Access Bank Plc, followed with a turnover of 42.99 million shares in 1,376 deals.
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https://www.newtelegraphng.com/equities-lose-n232bn-in-march/
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