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NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel says it has hired Caitlyn Jenner as a contributor, with her first appearance set for Thursday on Sean Hannity’s program.
Jenner, the former Olympic decathlete, ran an unsuccessful campaign for California governor last year. The network said she’ll offer commentary and analysis across various Fox News Media platforms.
“Caitlyn’s story is an inspiration to us all,” said Suzanne Scott, Fox News Media CEO. “She is a trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community and her illustrious career spans a variety of fields that will be a tremendous asset for our audience.”
Jenner won the Olympic gold medal in the decathlon in 1976. She later came out as a transgender and identifies as a female.
She said in a statement she was “humbled by this unique opportunity” to speak directly to Fox’s audience. | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/fox-news-hires-caitlyn-jenner-as-contributor-and-commentator/ | 2022-04-01T00:42:52Z |
Wildfire forces thousands of South Koreans to evacuate
Deadly wildfires raced through an eastern region of South Korea this weekend, destroying at least 159 homes and forcing the evacuation of 6,200 people.
The fires sparked near the coastal town of Uljin on Friday morning and later spread nearly 15,000 acres to the city of Samcheok, The Associated Press reported.
As of Saturday afternoon, around 7,000 firefighters, 65 helicopters and 513 vehicles were battling the blaze, according to the news wire.
South Korea President Moon Jae-in issued a natural disaster alert and raised another alarm after the fire spread near the Hanul Nuclear Power Plant, Reuters reported.
Hundreds of firefighters helped contain the blaze near the plant before it spread north toward Samcheok, the AP noted.
Footage shared by Reuters on Twitter shows the conflagration burning up forested hills and land near the power plant and a populated urban area.
Heavy smoke can also be seen billowing for miles through the coastal region in the video.
South Korea battled a similar wildfire in 2019 near Seoul, which killed two and displaced hundreds, according to an AP report.
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Men’s use of diabetes drug linked to raised risk of birth defects, study says
(CNN) - Men who take a popular diabetes drug are 40% more likely to conceive a child with birth defects, according to a study.
The study was published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
It showed that men who used metformin in the three-month period before they conceived a child had a 40% higher risk of birth defects in their offspring.
The research followed more than 1 million births between 1997 and 2016, comparing the risk of major birth defects in babies based on paternal exposures to diabetes medications.
The study observed only children who were born to women younger than 35 and men younger than 40, and babies born to women with diabetes were excluded.
The researchers considered men exposed to metformin if they filled a prescription for it in the three months before conception, which is how long it takes the fertilizing sperm to fully mature.
Researchers said more studies are needed to determine if men taking metformin should make any considerations.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An 84-year-old defrocked priest was sentenced to five years of probation for lying to the FBI about whether he knew a former altar boy and his family.
Robert Brennan, of Perryville, Maryland, was ordered to spend the first two years on house arrest. Under a plea agreement, he admitted he lied to the FBI when agents visited his home in 2019 as part of a broader federal probe of priest abuse in Pennsylvania.
Brennan had been named in more than 20 abuse complaints during his long church career, and Philadelphia prosecutors charged him in 2013 with raping former altar boy Sean McIlmail in 1998. However, those charges were dropped when the 26-year-old McIlmail died of a drug overdose before trial.
His family instead filed a civil lawsuit against the Archdiocese after his death, and settled for an undisclosed amount.
When federal investigators examined the issue, and visited Brennan, he said he did not know McIlmail despite pictures of them together.
The McIlmails, who attended Thursday’s sentencing, said they were disappointed but not surprised given the plea agreement that Brennan reached with prosecutors last year.
“I’m disappointed because it just continues to show how the church and the courts …. are not in favor of the victim,” said Debbie McIlmail of Willow Grove, Sean’s mother, who hoped Brennan would get at least some jail time.
Still, she said, “it was the first time we had an opportunity to face him and read an impact statement.”
A public defender representing Brennan did not immediately return messages seeking comment Thursday.
In Pennsylvania alone, at least four prosecutors have conducted sweeping investigations into child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic church, only to find most complaints too old to lead to charges.
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are the victims of sexual assault without their permission, which Debbie McIlmail granted on her son’s behalf.
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TORONTO, March 31, 2022 /CNW/ - VM Hotel Acquisition Corp. (TSX: VMH.U) (TSX: VMH.WT.U) ("VMH") is reporting its financial results as of December 31, 2021 and for the year ended December 31, 2021. VMH's audited financial statements have been filed on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") and may be viewed by shareholders and interested parties under VMH's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
About VM Hotel Acquisition Corp.
VMH is a special purpose acquisition corporation incorporated under the laws of the Province of British Columbia for the purpose of effecting a qualifying acquisition within a specified period of time. VMH's head office is located at Brookfield Place, 161 Bay Street, Suite 2420, Toronto, ON, M5J 2S1 and its registered office is located at 1600 - 925 West Georgia Street Vancouver, BC V6C 3L2.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
4-7-3-9
(four, seven, three, nine)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
4-7-3-9
(four, seven, three, nine) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Evening-game-17049820.php | 2022-04-01T00:42:56Z |
Mutations in the TP53 tumour suppressor gene are found in ~50% of human cancers [1,2,3,4,5,6]. TP53 functions as a transcription factor that directly regulates the expression of ~500 genes, some of them involved in cell cycle arrest/cell senescence, apoptotic cell death or DNA damage repair, i.e. the cellular responses that together prevent tumorigenesis [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Defects in TP53 function not only cause tumour development but also impair the response of malignant cells to anti-cancer drugs, particularly those that induce DNA damage [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Most mutations in TP53 in human cancers cause a single amino acid substitution, usually within the DNA binding domain of the TP53 protein. These mutant TP53 proteins are often expressed at high levels in the malignant cells. Three cancer causing attributes have been postulated for mutant TP53 proteins: the inability to activate target genes controlled by wt TP53 (loss-of-function, LOF) that are critical for tumour suppression, dominant negative effects (DNE), i.e. blocking the function of wt TP53 in cells during early stages of transformation when mutant and wt TP53 proteins are co-expressed, and gain-of-function (GOF) effects whereby mutant TP53 impacts diverse cellular pathways by interacting with proteins that are not normally engaged by wt TP53 [1,2,3,4,5,6]. The GOF effects of mutant TP53 were reported to be essential for the sustained proliferation and survival of malignant cells and it was therefore proposed that agents that can remove mutant TP53 protein would have substantial therapeutic impact [7,8,9]. In this review article we discuss evidence for and against the value of targeting mutant TP53 protein for cancer therapy. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556546525080/aerobic-exercise-promotes-the-expression-of-atgl-and-attenuates-inflammation-to-improve-hepatic-steatosis-via-lncrna-sra | 2022-04-01T00:42:56Z |
Scout Willis has shared a sweet photo of herself and Bruce Willis following the announcement that he is stepping away from acting due to a health issue.
The news was shared by his family earlier this week, with it said that he had been diagnosed with the condition aphasia - which can affect a person's cognitive abilities.
It means that the actor, 67, will be taking a step back from his career, though his acting legacy will remain through films such as Die Hard, Pulp Fiction and the Sixth Sense.
There has been an outpouring of support since the news was announced on social media, with his daughter Scout, 30, having opened up about the response that it's had.
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She spoke about the experience on Instagram last night, sharing a photo of herself and her father sat together - with them seen smiling at each other in the sweet snap.
Alongside the photo, she wrote a message to her "papa" as well as to his supporters - with her expressing gratitude over the way that the situation has been received.
She wrote: "Yesterday was so surreal, sharing something so personal. I didn't know how it would be received. There's always an unknown when sharing out so vulnerably into the world."
She continued: "I'd hoped for some love and compassion. I truly never could have anticipated the depth and breadth of the love we received as a family yesterday."
Scout - whose mother is Demi Moore, 59 - said that it was "humbling" experience, with her realising how much "love, energy and prayers" were being sent.
Addressing fans directly, she said: "I am so grateful for your love. I'm so grateful to hear about what my papa means to you. Thank you so much to everyone who reached out."
Bruce's family announced his departure from acting with a statement across their social media platforms, which was signed by his close relatives, including his daughters.
They said that he has been "experiencing some health issues" and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which they said is "impacting his cognitive abilities."
The family said he would be stepping away from his career amid his health issues and further commented in the statement that it is a "really challenging time" for them.
The statement was signed by his wife Emma Heming Willis, 43, ex-wife Demi and his daughters; Rumer Willis, 33, Scout, Tallulah, 28, Mabel, nine, and Evelyn, seven.
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International donors stepped up Thursday with more than $2.4 billion to keep Afghanistan from a humanitarian collapse, despite misgivings about the country’s Taliban government.
“Without immediate action, we face a starvation and malnutrition crisis in Afghanistan,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a virtual pledging conference. “People are already selling their children and their body parts, in order to feed their families. Afghanistan’s economy has effectively collapsed.”
With Afghanistan suffering from the effects of decades of war, successive severe droughts and COVID-19, the United Nations has appealed for $4.4 billion to assist 20 million Afghans with food, shelter, medical care and other essentials — its largest-ever single appeal.
Among the major donors were Britain with $374 million; the United States, which announced nearly $204 million in new assistance; Germany with $218 million and Japan with $109 million. In all, the U.N. said 41 donors pledged new funding.
With more than 24 million Afghans — 60% of the population — needing humanitarian assistance, and 9 million people at risk of famine, it is one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world.
This week, U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths briefly visited the capital, Kabul, and Bamiyan in central Afghanistan.
“I saw human suffering during those three days that left me quite speechless,” Griffiths said from Doha, Qatar, where he had just arrived. Qatar, along with the United Nations, Britain and Germany, are co-hosting the pledging conference.
Griffiths visited a children’s hospital and was deeply shaken by the sight of tiny babies too weak to even cry.
“In Kabul, I visited the Indira Gandhi hospital and saw severely malnourished children and newborns — newborns — clinging to life, sharing run-down, rickety incubators,” he said. “These babies were emaciated, listless and far too small. Mind you, this is downtown Kabul, not out in the rural, poorer areas of the country.”
Griffiths said humanitarians are just managing to stave off extreme food insecurity, preserve some basic services and are “barely preventing a complete meltdown of the country.”
Since the Taliban takeover in August, Afghanistan’s economy has gone into free fall.
Billions of dollars in international assistance that propped up the economy has dried up, and $9 billion in Afghan central bank reserves have been frozen abroad, leading to a severe financial crisis.
Western donors have reservations about their funding being appropriated or misused by the Taliban. The Taliban’s decision last week to renege on a pledge to resume education on March 23 for girls from secondary school up has confirmed a deep mistrust of them and the belief that they have not changed from their previous time in control of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, when they repressed human rights.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that decision was “inexcusable.”
“It is impossible not to feel a sense of profound outrage when we see girls and young women across Afghanistan wracked with tears as they learn they will have to leave their classrooms after all,” she said in a video message to the conference.
Thomas-Greenfield and many others called for the reversal of this decision, emphasizing that education is a fundamental human right and essential to the country’s economic recovery and stability.
While there is a lack of confidence in the Taliban, there was strong international support for the Afghan people and a recognition of the need to help stabilize the country and its economy.
Next month during the spring meetings of the international financial institutions, there will be a ministerial meeting to further discuss the Afghan financial crisis. | https://www.voanews.com/a/donors-pledge-2-4-billion-for-afghan-relief-/6510150.html | 2022-04-01T00:42:57Z |
Homeowners with flood insurance will likely be seeing their rates go up starting April 1 under FEMA’s new risk pricing.
Risk Rating 2.0 is the National Flood Insurance Program’s new model for more accurately calculating flood risk and how much homeowners should pay insurance. It takes into account several factors like the cost of the home, how often it floods, elevation and proximity to water. It also accounts for new factors like rainfall and ocean surge.
Most homeowners on Long Island will see their annual premiums go up about $10 a month. Connecticut homeowners will see the largest share of sharp increases with 11% of homes facing increases of $100 a month or more. | https://www.wshu.org/news/2022-03-31/flood-insurance-rates-to-increase-with-connecticut-being-hit-harder-than-most | 2022-04-01T00:42:57Z |
LVMPD: Suspect, armed with starter pistol, said he would ‘kill a cop’ before fatal downtown shooting
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Before his death, Michael Allensworth pointed a starter pistol loaded with two rounds of live ammunition at police, threatening to “kill a cop,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said in a news conference Thursday. In that incident, police say the suspect fired no rounds.
On the evening of March 28, police were called to a burglary inside a home in the 2000 block of Palm Street located near Fremont Street and St. Louis Avenue. The 911 caller told authorities the suspect, who was also a resident of the mobile home park, was involved in a confrontation with the homeowner in days prior.
According to LVMPD Assistant Sheriff Andrew Walsh, the 41-year-old suspect had jammed two .22 caliber rounds into a k-model 314 starter pistol, a device often used for racing or prop play.
During the incident, Allensworth stated he would “kill a cop today,” before aiming the gun at officers, Walsh said. Police then tried to de-escalate the situation for 30-40 minutes.
When the situation became more heated, LVMPD then employed Supervisors Tactics for Armed Response (STAR) Protocol, a system that uses clear communication between supervisors and subordinates amid a charged event.
“Mike, listen man, nothing’s changed,” an officer said, in a body-worn camera audio recording. “We’re still here to help you. Just drop your weapon. Mike, set it that gun down. Put the gun down.”
After failed negotiations, Allensworth refused to drop his weapon. Once he pointed it toward officers, he was shot, an investigation revealed.
He was transported to UMC hospital where he later died.
It is unclear whether Allensworth was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the shooting. Walsh said those details were pending a toxicology report from the Clark County Coroner’s Office.
No one else was injured or struck by gunfire during the incident, police said, but three officers, James Villarreal, Johnathan Cole, and Beau Cooley, fired a total of 11 rounds in the shooting.
Due to the nature of starter pistols, Walsh said investigators believe the weapon could have exploded in his hand, had he pulled the trigger.
This marks the 5th officer-involved shooting of 2022 for LVMPD and 3rd fatality.
This is an ongoing investigation. LVMPD’s Critical Incident Review Team is also reviewing the incident.
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Janus Henderson Group plc (NYSE:JHG – Get Rating) Director Edward P. Garden bought 16,042 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 29th. The stock was acquired at an average price of $35.77 per share, for a total transaction of $573,822.34. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website.
Shares of JHG traded down $0.64 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $35.02. 1,393,444 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,211,758. Janus Henderson Group plc has a fifty-two week low of $29.27 and a fifty-two week high of $48.55. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a current ratio of 3.06 and a quick ratio of 2.17. The business has a 50-day moving average of $34.60 and a 200-day moving average of $40.36. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.92 billion, a P/E ratio of 9.93 and a beta of 1.45.
Janus Henderson Group (NYSE:JHG – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 3rd. The company reported $1.05 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $1.03 by $0.02. Janus Henderson Group had a net margin of 22.29% and a return on equity of 15.75%. The company had revenue of $697.20 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $701.39 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.04 earnings per share. Janus Henderson Group’s revenue for the quarter was up 6.1% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, analysts forecast that Janus Henderson Group plc will post 3.64 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
JHG has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. StockNews.com initiated coverage on Janus Henderson Group in a research report on Thursday. They issued a “hold” rating on the stock. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft decreased their target price on Janus Henderson Group from $36.00 to $33.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 18th. Macquarie lowered Janus Henderson Group from an “outperform” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday, February 4th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research downgraded shares of Janus Henderson Group from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Thursday, March 10th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating and five have issued a hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $48.13.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Trian Fund Management L.P. increased its position in shares of Janus Henderson Group by 19.3% during the fourth quarter. Trian Fund Management L.P. now owns 28,272,648 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,185,755,000 after buying an additional 4,570,336 shares during the period. BlackRock Inc. grew its holdings in Janus Henderson Group by 5.3% in the fourth quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 18,325,280 shares of the company’s stock worth $768,563,000 after purchasing an additional 918,742 shares during the period. Ariel Investments LLC grew its holdings in Janus Henderson Group by 4.4% in the fourth quarter. Ariel Investments LLC now owns 3,357,323 shares of the company’s stock worth $140,806,000 after purchasing an additional 139,961 shares during the period. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. grew its holdings in Janus Henderson Group by 3.5% in the fourth quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 3,147,470 shares of the company’s stock worth $132,005,000 after purchasing an additional 105,109 shares during the period. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC grew its holdings in Janus Henderson Group by 2.4% in the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 2,377,876 shares of the company’s stock worth $99,727,000 after purchasing an additional 56,183 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 76.75% of the company’s stock.
About Janus Henderson Group (Get Rating)
Janus Henderson Group Plc is a holding company, which engages in the provision of asset management services. It offers investment solutions including equities, quantitative equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternative asset class strategies. The company was founded on Jan 23, 1998, is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
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RUBY PIPELINE FILES TO REORGANIZE UNDER CHAPTER 11 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE
HOUSTON, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ruby Pipeline, L.L.C. (Ruby), a natural gas pipeline joint venture between Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) and Pembina Pipeline Corporation (NYSE: PBA) that extends from Wyoming to Oregon, filed to reorganize under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in response to an upcoming debt repayment obligation. In recent months, the joint venture owners have been working diligently with Ruby's bondholders in an effort to work out a mutually satisfactory resolution. While those efforts will continue, Ruby's current financial condition necessitates this filing.
KMI will continue to operate the pipeline as chapter 11 permits daily operations to continue. Ruby's customers should notice no difference in its operations.
We will continue to keep Ruby's customers and other stakeholders informed of developments relating to Ruby's reorganization process. The voluntary petition was filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington. The case number is 22-10278. Additional information regarding Ruby's petition and claim procedures is available through the following website: https://cases.primeclerk.com/rubypipeline.
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Colorado couple charged in toddler's fentanyl death
A Colorado couple face felony charges in connection with the fentanyl death of their 1-year-old child
BRIGHTON, Colo. -- A Colorado couple face felony charges in connection with the fentanyl death of their 1-year-old child, whom prosecutors say died after ingesting enough of the extremely lethal drug to kill an adult.
Alonzo Montoya, 31, and Nicole Casias, 30, of the Denver suburb of Brighton were charged with child abuse resulting in death and distribution of a controlled substance in connection with the girl's death on Jan. 2, the 17th Judicial District's Office said in a statement Thursday.
It said the Adams County Coroner had determined that the child died after ingesting fentanyl and that Montoya and Casias “participated in illicit drug activity” in the child's presence at home before and after her death.
Montoya was being held on $250,000 bail at the Adams County Jail. Bail was set at $100,000 for Casias. A status hearing for both was set for Monday.
Telephone and email messages seeking comment from Casias' attorney, Rachel Lanzen, were not immediately returned. Montoya was being represented by the public defender's office, which doesn't comment on pending cases.
Court records that would provide details on the accusations weren't immediately available from the county district court. Christopher Hopper, a district attorney's spokesman, said he could not provide additional information.
Fentanyl is an unpredictable and powerful synthetic painkiller blamed for driving an increase in fatal drug overdoses. It’s 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/colorado-couple-charged-toddlers-fentanyl-death-83798756 | 2022-04-01T00:42:58Z |
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As casino executives and gaming regulators prepared to mark the official launch of the PlayMyWay program at MGM Springfield on Thursday afternoon, about 200 gamblers had already enrolled to use the voluntary gambling budget tool.
The program that's been available to players at Plainridge Park Casino since 2016 allows gamblers to set a slot machine budget for themselves and then track their spending against that budget. Once enrolled, players get automatic notifications when approaching 50%, 75 % and 100% of the budget they set for daily, weekly or monthly wagering.
Daniel Miller, MGM Springfield's compliance manager who was sporting a green PlayMyWay t-shirt, told the Gaming Commission on Thursday that the program began to roll out Monday morning and that about 200 people had signed up as of 3 p.m. Wednesday. He said 170 of those gamblers had already redeemed the $10 food credit that came as a perk of signing up.
A study of more than 1,500 Massachusetts gamblers released last year found that 77% of those survey scored high on a personal responsibility metric -- meaning they clearly understand the need to gamble only within their means -- and that most players know when it's time to stop gambling and can control their betting.
Dr. Richard Wood, a psychologist who specializes in the study of gaming behavior for the firm Gamres, told the Gaming Commission that "gambling literacy and pre-commitment certainly are areas that would benefit from a little bit more focus going forward."
Miller said the responsible gaming program is "definitely gathering momentum" at MGM.
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Gaming Commission Director of Research and Responsible Gaming Mark Vander Linden, MGM Springfield President Chris Kelley, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno, Springfield Health & Human Services Commissioner Helen Caulton-Harris officially launched the program during a Thursday afternoon press event at the casino.
PlayMyWay is "COMING TO ENCORE BOSTON HARBOR SOON," according to the Gaming Commission's GameSense website. | https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/gamblers-budget-tool-rolls-out-at-mgm-springfield/2683220/ | 2022-04-01T00:42:57Z |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
3-8-4, FIREBALL: 5
(three, eight, four; FIREBALL: five)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
3-8-4, FIREBALL: 5
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities discovered the remains of an 18-year-old northern Nevada woman who was kidnapped over two weeks ago, officials said.
The Lyon County sheriff’s office said late Wednesday that investigators acting on a tip about the disappearance of Naomi Irion found a gravesite in a remote part of northern Nevada on Tuesday. An autopsy on Wednesday confirmed the body was Irion, the sheriff said in a statement.
Earlier Wednesday, a 41-year-old man with a violent criminal record was charged with first-degree kidnapping. A judge in rural Lyon County left Troy Driver’s bail unchanged during a brief court hearing Wednesday. It had been set at $750,000 after his Friday arrest.
Driver, of Fernley, has yet to enter a plea. He was arraigned from jail Wednesday via Zoom.
Justice of the Peace Lori Matheus said Driver will have to wear a GPS monitoring device if he posts a bond.
Driver has been held at the Lyon County Jail in Yerington as a suspect in what authorities say was Irion’s kidnapping.
She was last seen around 5:25 a.m. March 12 in her car in a Walmart parking lot in Fernley about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Reno. Security video showed a masked man wearing a hooded sweatshirt get into her car.
Driver abducted her “on or about March 12” and “did hold or detain her for the purpose of committing sexual assault and/or purpose of killing her,” according to the two-page criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Lyon County’s Canal Township Justice Court.
The FBI offered a $10,000 reward for information to locate Irion. Hundreds of volunteers have joined searches during the past two weeks, looking for clues in a vast desert area.
Irion lived in Fernley with her older brother, Casey Valley, who told reporters after the hearing that the family was “all in shock” that any bail was set.
Irion’s vehicle was found three days after she went missing near a paint manufacturing facility in an industrial park along Interstate 80 not far from the store.
Valley said earlier his sister usually catches a bus from the Walmart lot to work at a Reno-area Panasonic facility. Valley said she never arrived at work and he contacted family members and authorities when Irion didn’t return home that weekend.
Matheus set a court date for Driver next Tuesday, and a preliminary hearing April 12 to decide if there is evidence for Driver to be tried in state court. He could face life in prison without parole if he is convicted.
His defense lawyer, Mario Walther, did not immediately respond to requests for comment following the hearing.
Several news outlets have reported that Driver was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a 1997 murder case in Northern California.
Mendocino County Court records show he pleaded guilty that summer to robbery, burglary and firearms charges as well as to being an accessory to a felony after the fact.
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Dana Simas said in an email to The Associated Press he was sentenced to 15 years on those charges on Aug. 19, 1997, was released to state parole supervision in 2012 and discharged from parole supervision in 2014.
Before authorities announced that her body had been identified, Valley told reporters Wednesday that family members appreciate the support from the community and praised efforts by sheriff’s deputies and federal agents to find his sister.
“Lyon County and the FBI are working very hard,” he said. “I wish there was more and everybody does.”
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Associated Press Writer Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/body-of-missing-nevada-woman-found-suspect-charged/ | 2022-04-01T00:42:57Z |
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The World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI)’s programme for financial inclusion, Scale2Save, has reiterated the importance of inclusive financial services for Nigerian women, youths and farmers as a way to fuel the country’s economic recovery and growth. This was stated at the Scale2Save financial inclusion knowledge sharing event attended by key financial stakeholders across the country. Scale2Save is a six-year programme of the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation aimed at establishing the viability of low-balanced savings accounts and to unravel the extent to which savings help vulnerable people in the society to boost their financial wellbeing. The Scale2Save Programme Director, Weselina Angelow, highlighted the importance of stakeholders’ knowledge sharing events such as this towards Nigeria’s quest for inclusive growth and economic development. According to her, “as we intensify efforts to improve financial inclusion, it is important that all stakeholders are a part of knowledge and insight-based discourse as this to improve on their processes and make informed financial inclusion decisions.” Angelow stated that the mission of Scale2Save is to support financial inclusion initiatives to help millions of Nigerian youths, women and farmers. “We focus on adding value to all stakeholders along the service value chain by empowering our financial service provider partners to become savings-driven, customer- centric institutions,” she said. Commenting on the need to deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria, the Chief Operating Officer, Nigerian Microfinance Platform, Adetunji Afolabi, stated that attention has been focused on credit, however, to attain a desirable level of inclusion, savings must be prioritised among Nigerians.
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‘The Last Letter’ wraps up Jewish Bookfest season, commemorates Yom HaShoah
By Deb Silverthorn
Karen Baum Gordon is coming home to Dallas to share her book — “The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust” — the result of her search for her family’s history.
Beginning at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 24, at Temple Emanu-El, the Margot Rosenberg Pulitzer Jewish BookFest will host Gordon and commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“I’m excited to come back to Dallas, [my] home, where, with my book I can share the story of my father so many people in Dallas ‘knew,’” said Gordon, now a resident of both Brooklyn, New York, and South Hero, Vermont.
“My parents were both from Germany, my father from Frankfurt and my mother from Nuremberg, and I knew a little bit of what had happened but they didn’t talk to us kids about it much at all,” said Gordon. “Dallas was the heart of the Bible Belt but we had a very strong German-Jewish community. We were not alone.”
Gordon lived on North Dallas’ Del Norte Lane with her parents Rudy and Hanne Baum, now both of blessed memory, and her siblings Diane (Clive) Martin and Dick (Robin Camhi). She worked at The Grape while a student at Hillcrest High School, her inner foodie triggered in part by her father’s close friend Karl Kuby, whose restaurant’s delicacies were always in their home. She graduated from Harvard University, where she says there were students like her, second-generation survivors, all holding on to a responsibility to succeed.
After graduation, Gordon trained in France and England to become a chef, then returning to the U.S. to live and work in New York. Thinking she might someday open her own restaurant, Gordon earned an MBA at Columbia University — that dream detoured when she found a position at the global consulting firm of McKinsey & Company, where she spent six years.
Gordon was introduced to her husband Bob by a mutual friend, and the two have been married for 37 years. Together they built a family, with sons Matthew and Adam, and a business, Strategic Horizons, Inc. “As executive coaches, we help leaders become more effective,” she says. “Human beings are really human ‘becomings’ and we help them along the way.”
Gordon’s father was 86 years old when he closed his garage door with the car running — creating, said his daughter, his own gas chamber, nearly killing him. Hanne arrived home just in time from an afternoon at the JCC, and his life was saved. This “moment” in the Baum family had Gordon looking deeper into her family’s history — much deeper — than anything she’d ever heard from her parents, further into that which brought her father such anguish.
Gordon’s grandmother Julie began letters with “My dear Rudolf,” and bade farewell with “Love Muttie” on most of the onion-skin thin handwritten pages that Gordon explores and shares in the book, her deep-dive search allowing her to discover her family’s experiences during the Nazi period and the psychological bearing that echoed for future generations.
It was important to Gordon, who made numerous trips to Frankfurt and one to Poland, that this story be witnessed by the next generation — so in 2013 she, her husband and their sons traveled together to Germany.
In “The Last Letter,” Gordon delves into the lives of her grandparents, Julie and Norbert Baum, whom her father tried to save but couldn’t. His sister, Gretel Merom, had left Germany in 1934 for Palestine, where she died in 2019. His mother visited Switzerland in 1937; his father went to Luxembourg, on business, in 1938. Gordon questions why her grandparents stayed, and how she and her siblings were so unaware of their father’s pain.
“We lit yahrzeit candles, and my grandparents’ names were read in synagogue on the same date each year. It was always very somber but we never spoke more about it,” she said. “When I was young there were albums with photos from the liberation of Buchenwald, which my father participated in. I asked questions and got just a few answers.”
Gordon has the letters, 88 of them, written from her grandparents, mostly her grandmother, to her father from November 1936 to October 1941. Her father donated a copy of the letters to the Leo Baeck Institute and Gordon had them professionally translated into English.
The Baums were involved in Temple Emanu-El’s community from their arrival in Dallas in 1949. Rudy was very close to Rabbi Levi Olan, Rabbi Gerald Klein was a dearest friend and Rabbi David Stern a confidant in later years.
Out of respect to Baum’s lineage, the congregation promised perpetual care of the grave of his ancestor, Rabbi Abraham Geiger, a founder of Reform Judaism and the namesake of the Abraham Geiger College — the first rabbinic seminary founded in Central Europe after the Holocaust.
When “Gates of Prayer” was introduced at Temple, Baum’s dedicated efforts, and that of a few others, were credited with the formation of the congregation’s Union Prayer Book (UPB) minyan that continues today.
“Rudy was a stalwart of our congregation. His life was one of strength and vitality, he was funny and smart and phenomenal — and yet he held so much in,” said Rabbi Stern. “We sometimes think survivors have just ‘survived’ by emerging from the Shoah, but for some that means surviving from being a survivor. This is a reminder that the finish line wasn’t just making it out, but it is making it through every day since. Patient and powerful is how Karen tells this story.”
In tribute, Temple Emanu-El’s choir, directed by Chris Crook, will present liturgy of the Union Prayer Book and other selections, beloved by Baum and appropriate for recognizing Yom HaShoah, which, this year falls on April 28. The temple’s cantors, Leslie Niren and Vicky Glikin, will also participate.
“We’re honored to fuse our voices with this beautiful story and to allow our audience to connect,” said Cantor Niren. “Music touches people, it’s in our soul and it sparks a connection to our memories.”
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum (DHHRM) honors Baum in this program as he was a docent, regular speaker and lifetime member of the board of the Museum.
Baum came to the United States in 1936 and worked, first as a stock boy, then as a driver for a traveling salesman. He registered for the draft in 1940, reported for duty to the U.S. Army in 1941 and became a naturalized citizen in 1942.
Later that year, Baum discovered his parents had died in the Lodz Ghetto, the circumstances unknown.
In 1943, he was assigned to Camp Ritchie in Maryland with its troops, many of them German-speaking immigrants, a primary source of intelligence to counter German troops, weapons, equipment and strategic plans. In 1944, Baum was sent to Germany.
“The first rotating special exhibit I worked on at the Museum was about the Ritchie Boys. We supplemented it with material from our own archives including Rudy’s U.S. Army footlocker and examples of the propaganda flyers that his unit dropped over Germany,” said Sara Abosch Jacobson, the DHHRM Barbara Rabin chief education officer. “Rudy was one of the soldiers that liberated Buchenwald and a display photo, in that 2012 exhibit, was of a young Rudy in uniform with other American soldiers and German civilians who had been brought to see what had been done to Jews and others.”
“I don’t know how he went back,” said Gordon. “He returned to Frankfurt and saw his partially bombed childhood home and the synagogue ruined from having been filled with armaments. At Buchenwald he saw carts of bodies and lampshades of human skin. Before his suicide attempt, I never fully knew his reality.”
After Baum returned to the U.S. it was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that he and Hanne (her family came to the States in 1934) first settled, shortly thereafter moving to Dallas, where he began his 40-year career as a traveling shoe salesman.
In their later years, the couple moved to the Edgemere senior community, where he lived seven more years as “the mayor.” Hanne Baum died in 2007, and Rudy Baum, in 2009.
“The Last Letter” closes the season for the JCC’s Margot Rosenberg Pulitzer Jewish BookFest; this event, shared with other organizations in the community, brings the community together as one.
“We’re thrilled to have Karen share the story of her father, her family, through her voice and we are so happy to welcome her home,” said Rachelle Weiss Crane, the director of Israel Engagement and Jewish Living for the Aaron Family JCC. “With Temple [Emanu-El] and the Museum, the J is honored to provide this special afternoon of education, enrichment and togetherness.”
In Baum’s last letter, to his children, he asked them to observe the yahrzeit of the grandparents they never knew, but who had contributed so much to their lives. Gordon does that and more with “The Last Letter,” keeping their memories a blessing.
For more details and to register, visit jccdallas.org/event/karen-baum-gordon. | https://tjpnews.com/karen-baum-gordons-book-explores-family-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=karen-baum-gordons-book-explores-family-history | 2022-04-01T00:42:59Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday by denouncing “hateful bills” being passed at the state level as the White House played host to “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, the first openly transgender winner on the popular quiz show.
Schneider met with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who joined Rachel Levine, the assistant health secretary and the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, for a conversation with transgender kids and their parents.
Schneider used the moment in the Washington spotlight to speak out against bills affecting transgender people.
“They’re really scary and some of them in particular that are denying medical services to trans youth, those are, those are lifesaving medical treatments,” Schneider told reporters. “These bills will cause the deaths of children and that’s really sad to me and it’s really frightening.”
Biden, in a brief video message, said that “the onslaught of anti-transgender state laws attacking you and your families is simply wrong.” The president said his administration “is standing up for you against all these hateful bills. And we’re committed to advancing transgender equality in the classroom, on the playing field, at work, in our military and our housing and health care systems.”
The administration announced several actions to make the federal government more inclusive for transgender people and said the Health and Human Services Department will be the first agency to fly a trans pride flag.. The steps come as Republican leaders have advanced state measures targeting transgender people as part of a broader push to stoke culture wars heading into a critical election season.
The administration said the federal government will become more inclusive for transgender people, including through the use of a new “X” gender marker on U.S. passport applications, beginning on April 11, and new Transportation Security Administration scanners that are gender-neutral.
It is working to expand the availability of the “X” gender marker to airlines and federal travel programs and will make it easier for transgender people to change their gender information in Social Security Administration records.
Visitors to the White House complex soon will also be able to choose an “X” gender marker option in the White House Worker and Visitor Entry System, which is used to conduct screening background checks.
At airports, changes will be made to screening scanners along with the introduction of the use of an “X” for travelers going through Precheck who do not identify as male or female. Transportation Security Administration agents will receive new instructions on how to make screening procedures less invasive and will work with airlines to promote acceptance of the “X” gender marker.
“Jeopardy!” star Schneider spoke of “being a trans person out there that isn’t monstrous and isn’t threatening and is just a normal person, like we all are,” and said “the more that people like me can be seen, the harder it is to sustain the myths that are … kind of driving a lot of this hate and fear.”
In his video, Biden said there is work still to be done to end “the epidemic of violence against transgender women of color and girls of color” and to ensure that transgender seniors “can age with dignity.” He called anew on Congress to pass the Equality Act to help transgender people around the world “live free from discrimination and violence.”
Biden tried to reassure any transgender person who is struggling, telling them to remember that “you’re not alone.”
“You’re so brave. You belong. And we have your back,” Biden said.
The administration’s actions follow recent steps at the state level to limit activity by transgender people. At least 10 states have banned transgender athletes from participating in sports at all levels in a way that is consistent with their gender identity.
In Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking reelection, has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to probe reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is running for reelection and considering a 2024 presidential bid, on Monday signed into law a measure that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. The law has drawn intense national scrutiny from critics who argue it marginalizes LGBTQ people. Republicans and advocates of the law argue that discussion of these topics should be between parents and their children.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Grammysmight be missing stars like Drake, The Weeknd and Kanye West as a performer, but the biggest night in music could still shine bright on the Las Vegas Strip.
The ceremony relocated to Las Vegas for the first-time ever with several artists who could have epic nights including Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Jon Batiste. The awards shifted from Los Angeles because of the rising COVID-19 cases and omicron variant in January. Sunday’s show will air live beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS and the Paramount+ streaming service.
Host Trevor Noah calls Las Vegas a “perfect place to have a celebration” with fans at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Last year, the Grammys had a music festival vibe with parts of the show held outdoors in an intimate in-person setting with music artists mixed with pre-taped performances.
Noah expects an entertaining show with several performers set to hit the stage including Rodrigo, Eilish, Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow, Brandi Carlile, Batiste, Silk Sonic, H.E.R., Chris Stapleton, Leslie Odom Jr. and Brothers Osborne. He said the awards will be a celebration of the music industry coming back to life.
“There’s an element of this (show) that’s like a music camp,” Noah said. “I think it’s going to bring a different energy, and I’m excited to be a part of it.”
It’s still unclear whether the Foo Fighters will take the stage following the recent death of its drummer Taylor Hawkins. The rock band – nominated for three Grammys – is scheduled to perform during the ceremony, but they recently canceled all upcoming concert dates.
The Grammys will continue to move forward without West, known as Ye, after news surfaced earlier this month that he wouldn’t perform at the show because of his “concerning online behavior.” The Weeknd is still boycotting the awards and Drake said he wanted no part in competing for a Grammy, withdrawing his two nominations.
The three popular performers will be missed, but the show will certainly go on.
The multitalented Jon Batiste enters the Grammys as the leading nominee with 11in a variety of genres including R&B, jazz, American roots music, classical and music video. Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and H.E.R. are tied for the second-most nominations with eight apiece.
The awards will introduce its expanded 10 nominees in three major genres — record, album and song of the year. The growing categories will make the competition stronger but could make choosing a winner a lot tougher.
For album of the year, the Recording Academy expanded the category’s eligibility for any featured artists, producers, songwriters and engineers — even if the music creator co-wrote one song on the project. That means there could be a large amount of winners on stage, depending on who wins.
For example, if Bieber’s “Justice” wins at the show, more than 50 creators could pack the stage. The same could be said for Ye, Doja Cat and H.E.R., who have a plethora of contributors.
But Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever” features songs written by the young star and her brother Finneas, who produced all of her tracks. Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga and Rodrigo are sitting in the same boat.
Harvey Mason jr., the academy’s CEO, said the number of creators in a category won’t dictate the winner.
Either way, Noah said he doesn’t mind.
“It’ll be great to see that moment,” he said. “You get to be on stage and celebrated for your work. I’m excited for that. I want to see 25 people on stage celebrating and sharing the love and joy for something they’ve done.”
Before the awards, the academy will hold a couple events including a tribute to Joni Mitchell at the MusiCares Person of the Yearon Friday night. Chaka Khan, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Porter and Beck are among those expected to perform.
On Saturday, Grammy winner John Legend will be honored during the academy’s Black Music Collective. The singer will receive his first-ever Recording Academy Global Impact Award for his personal and professional achievements in the music industry.
Legend will be celebrated with a performance by Summer Walker, D-Nice and MC Lyte as the voice for the evening. Jimmy Jam will be making remarks. | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/grammy-awards-sets-sight-on-las-vegas-for-first-time/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:00Z |
Italian officials seize $156M in yachts, villas from Russian oligarchs
Over $150 million dollars worth of villas and yachts from Russian oligarchs have been seized by Italian officials in an effort to target those with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday that the officials would start seizing Russian oligarch’s properties, The Associated Press reported.
“We must be able to stop Putin’s attack, bringing him to the table, and he won’t go with niceties,” the Italian foreign minister said to Italian state media, according to the news wire.
The oligarchs targeted included billionaires Alisher Usmanov, Gennady Timchenko Alexei Mordashov.
Italian news outlet LaPresse reported that Usmanov’s villa in Sardinia had been seized, according to the AP. The “Lady M” yacht had been taken from Mordashov while officials took Timchenko’s superyacht “Lena.”
The development comes as the international community has sought to isolate Russia economically by sanctioning Putin and other Russian officials, closing stores in Russia and halting business with the country.
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers also have signaled support for a ban on oil and energy imports from Russia, acknowledging that the action could increase prices at the pump.
“We are going to see price increases,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said on Wednesday. “Nobody wants to see that. And this is going to hurt. But we all need to recognize Europe is in the midst of a war with Russia now. Innocent people are dying, children are dying. We have not been in as volatile as a situation as anytime in my life. And so we are looking right now from a very short window.”
The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. | https://thehill.com/policy/international/596992-italian-officials-seize-156m-in-yachts-villas-from-russian-oligarchs/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:00Z |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of a downtown Los Angeles building where an explosion injured 12 firefighters has been allowed to enter a judicial diversion program that allows him to avoid jail time and potentially have all charges dismissed.
A court commissioner on Wednesday granted the diversion request for Steve Sungho Lee. He and his companies must pay more than $125,000 in investigative fees, make sure the property meets fire and building codes and arranging for Fire Department training.
Lee owned a commercial building on East Boyd Street in the city’s Toy District that caught fire on May 16, 2020. Firefighters had to run for their lives when a ball of flames shot out the building and scorched a fire truck across the street.
Firefighters inside the building had to run through a wall of flames he estimated as 30 feet (9 meters) high and wide, and those on the roof scrambled down a ladder that was engulfed in fire.
Fire officials said the building was a warehouse for Smoke Tokes, a wholesale distributor of supplies for smoking and vaping products including butane hash oil, a concentrated cannabis extract that can be eaten, smoked or vaped. Highly flammable butane is used in the manufacturing process.
Most of the injured firefighters still haven’t returned to work and one, Capt. Victor Aguirre, was hospitalized for more than two months and all of his fingers had to be partially amputated, according to a lawsuit he filed against the building and business owners.
Aguirre alleged that the area contained “hundreds of illegally and improperly stored butane canisters and thousands of illegally and improperly stored nitrous oxide cylinders.”
A fire department report concluded that the blaze, which spread to a nearby building, was fueled by an “excessive quantity” of the containers.
Investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded that the fire started under a storage rack in the building and that a worker with a lit cigarette was seen in the area. The cause of the fire was ruled accidental.
However, city prosecutors filed more than 300 misdemeanor charges of violating fire and safety codes against Lee, his companies and owners of businesses in the building and nearby properties. That included more than 160 counts against Lee and his companies.
If Lee meets all conditions of his judicial diversion program for two years, the charges will be dismissed.
“Mr. Lee will be deemed by law to have never been charged,” said his attorney, Blair Berk. “The exhaustive federal investigation of the tragic fire objectively concluded that the cause was accidental, and there was no finding of any wrongdoing by Mr. Lee or his companies.”
City Attorney Mike Feuer opposed diversion for Lee, noting the severity of the fire, the injuries suffered by the firefighters and Lee’s alleged failure “to take steps which could have mitigated the extent of the blaze.”
The owners of Smoke Tokes and another business, Green Buddha, agreed in November 2020 to pay $139,000 each to cover investigative costs and to move out of the building. Charges against them were later dismissed.
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NFL teams must hire a minority offensive coach in upcoming season, league reports
(Gray News) - The NFL will require all of its professional football teams to hire a minority coach or a female as an offensive assistant starting in the 2022 season.
Earlier this week, the league made the announcement as team owners gathered in Florida for the annual league meeting.
Among the NFL’s initiatives to enhance opportunities for minority coaching candidates, teams will now be required to hire a minority coach as an offensive assistant, as reported by the NFL Network’s Judy Battista.
The NFL reports it is also looking at having teams invite staff members to league events. It’s an idea Washington Commanders coach Ron Rivera said he believes would help the cause since it would allow minority candidates to get acquainted with decision-makers in more relaxed settings.
“We’ve worked for years and made progress in many areas to ensure that staff and leaders in our office and at our clubs reflect the racial and gender makeup of America, but we have more work to do, particularly at the head coach and front-office level,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.
League officials also said the NFL is putting together a committee to review its diversity hiring practices.
The diversity advisory committee includes business leaders, academics and former Houston Texans GM Rick Smith.
According to the NFL Network, the group will review league and club policies in light of ongoing concerns over a lack of diversity in hiring.
“The National Football League announced the creation of the NFL Diversity Advisory Committee, following its pledge last month to retain outside experts to review the league’s diversity policies and practices,” the league said in a news release. “The six-member committee will lend its expert, external perspective on industry best practices and will evaluate league and club diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategies and initiatives, including all hiring processes, policies and procedures, with a primary focus on senior-level coach and front office personnel positions.
The 32 clubs released a joint statement Monday regarding their commitment to increasing diversity among ownership:
“The NFL member clubs support the important goal of increasing diversity among ownership. Accordingly, when evaluating a prospective ownership group of a member club pursuant to League policies, the membership will regard it as a positive and meaningful factor if the group includes diverse individuals who would have a significant equity stake in and involvement with the club, including serving as the controlling owner of the club.”
According to the NFL, other diversity, equity and inclusion-related changes are expected before the January 2023 hiring cycle.
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Smart Stocks to Buy on the Dip in April
The market came a long way from the middle of March when the Nasdaq hovered in bear market territory and the S&P 500 was slipping into a deeper correction. Meanwhile, oil prices were skyrocketing and Wall Street appeared on the cusp of an even bigger selloff amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and imminent rate hikes.
The S&P 500 is now back above its 200-day moving average and down just around 5% from its records, taking into account its 1.6% drop on the final day of March. The tech-heavy Nasdaq ripped off a 14% run off its March 14 lows.
The unknowns and setbacks remain and higher rates should be a drag on stocks. Yet even with the Fed putting an end to rock-bottom rates, 10-year U.S. Treasury yields are barely at three-year highs and well within their range over the last decade. And 2.4% yields are insanely low compared to pre-financial crisis levels.
This backdrop could mean Wall Street will be left chasing returns in stocks no matter what happens on the various economic and geopolitical fronts if they hope to outclimb 8% inflation.
Investors with long-term horizons might want to buy some strong stocks in April and in the second quarter.
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Analog Devices, Inc. ADI
Semiconductor maker Analog Devices expanded its reach to help it challenge the leader in the analog space, Texas Instruments, when it completed its acquisition of Maxim Integrated in August 2021. The combined firm’s portfolio features analog and mixed signal, power management, as well as radio frequency, and digital and sensor technologies. ADI boasts around 125K customers globally for its over 75K products.
Analog semiconductors are on the less flashy side of the booming chip space that will remain the backbone of technology and the economy in the coming decades. They play a crucial role in countless devices and industries that next-gen digital semiconductors cannot meet. Analog chips help handle information not easily understood with 1s and 0s, such as temperature, speed, sound, electrical currents, and more.
Roughly half of Analog Devices’ 2021 revenue came from clients in the industrial sector, with 20% in automotive, 15% in communications, and 16% in the consumer markets. Analog Devices executives expect to benefit over the long haul from the constant expansion of automation, electrification (from EVs and beyond), and advanced connectivity. ADI’s revenue and adjusted earnings both climbed by around 31% in fiscal 2021, driven in part by its Maxim deal.
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Analog Devices beat our Q1 FY22 estimates in mid-February and analysts raced to up their FY22 and FY23 earnings estimates following the release, with the consensus figures up 11% and 9%, respectively. This bottom-line positivity helps ADI land a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Current Zacks estimates call for ADI’s revenue to climb another 54% this year to $11.3 billion and around 6% higher in FY23. Meanwhile, its adjusted earnings are projected to pop 29% and 8%, respectively.
Wall Street is rather bullish on Analog Devices, with 75% of the brokerage recommendations Zacks has at either “Strong Buy” or “Buys,” with nothing below a “Hold.” Plus, ADI’s Semiconductor-Analog and Mixed industry ranks #16 out of 250 Zacks industries. The firm in February raised its dividend by 10% (its 19th increase in the last 18 years) and it yields 1.8% right now to top many of its peers and the S&P 500’s 1.3%.
ADI shares have climbed 54% in the last three years and 330% in the past 10 years to outpace the larger Zacks technology sector’s 300%. The stock currently trades 11% below its November records at roughly $166 per share, which gives it 24% upside compared to its Zacks consensus price target.
Analog Devices also trades at a slight discount to its five-year median at 19.4X forward earnings. This also marks 30% value compared to its own highs and 10% vs. the Semi space.
Lowe's Companies LOW
Lowe's is a home improvement giant that mostly operates in the U.S. and Canada. The company and its related businesses operate or service nearly 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores. Lowe's sells nearly everything related to home improvement and construction, from lightbulbs and lawnmowers to wood and washing machines.
Lowe’s and its biggest competitor, Home Depot, have benefitted for years from both the do-it-yourself and professional markets. Lowe’s posted YoY of revenue growth every year since 2010, which includes a whopping 24% expansion in 2020 that saw it surge from $72 billion to $90 billion. LOW then posted another 7.4% sales growth last year as the pandemic housing boom and home spending continued.
Lowe’s comparable sales popped 6.9%, with its digital sales up 18%, and its adjusted earnings up 55% in 2021. The company also managed to improve its gross margin despite rising costs, from labor to products.
LOW’s management projected that is would grow its margins once again in 2022 despite 40-year high inflation. Lowe’s ability to navigate these headwinds helped it raise its bottom-line outlook, even as many S&P 500 companies lower their earnings guidance.
The company’s FY22 and FY23 consensus EPS estimates are both up 4% compared to where they were before its fourth quarter release to help it grab a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) right now. Zacks estimates call for its sales to climb another 2% in both 2022 and 2023, on top of back-to-back years of massive growth. And its bottom-line outlook is even better, with Lowe’s adjusted earnings expected to climb 11% and 10%, respectively.
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Despite rising mortgage rates, Wall Street remains high on the stock, with 13 of the 19 brokerage recommendations Zacks has at “Strong Buys.” Plus, it Building Products–Retail space is still in the top 7% of over 250 Zacks industries. And Lowe’s dividend yield sits at 1.57%, with plans to repurchase approximately $12 billion worth of its stock in 2022.
LOW stock climbed 550% in the last decade vs. its industry’s 400%, Home Depot’s 500%, and the S&P 500’s 260%. Lowe’s outperformance continued in the past three years, with LOW up 92% against the market’s 65% and Home Depot’s 53%. The run includes its 22% drop from its December records that has it trading around $203 per share right now, giving it over 30% upside to the Zacks consensus price target of $275 per share.
Lowe’s big pullback also has it right on the cusp of reaching oversold RSI territory, which might cause some traders and long-term investors to dive in. On the valuation front, Lowe’s trades 12% below its five-year median at 15.4X forward 12-month earnings.
This marks 10% value compared to its highly-ranked industry and 33% below its highs over this stretch. In fact, LOW stock is trading at its lowest levels in the past three years outside of the initial covid market selloff.
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It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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MediWound Ltd. (NASDAQ:MDWD – Get Rating) saw a large decline in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 140,800 shares, a decline of 23.6% from the February 28th total of 184,300 shares. Approximately 0.9% of the company’s shares are sold short. Based on an average trading volume of 133,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.1 days.
Shares of MDWD stock traded up $0.02 on Thursday, reaching $1.99. The stock had a trading volume of 68,842 shares, compared to its average volume of 134,939. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $2.17 and its two-hundred day moving average is $2.72. The firm has a market capitalization of $65.83 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -4.06 and a beta of 1.43. MediWound has a 12 month low of $1.77 and a 12 month high of $6.22.
MediWound (NASDAQ:MDWD – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, March 17th. The biopharmaceutical company reported ($0.15) EPS for the quarter, hitting the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of ($0.15). MediWound had a negative net margin of 57.03% and a negative return on equity of 3,540.43%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned ($0.06) EPS. Research analysts forecast that MediWound will post -0.39 earnings per share for the current year.
Several analysts have commented on MDWD shares. Aegis dropped their target price on shares of MediWound from $9.00 to $7.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, March 21st. Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of MediWound from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, March 19th. Finally, StockNews.com initiated coverage on shares of MediWound in a research note on Saturday, March 26th. They set a “sell” rating for the company. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has given a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, MediWound presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $5.69.
MediWound Company Profile (Get Rating)
MediWound Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company engaging in the development, manufacture, and commercialization of products to address needs in the fields of severe burns, chronic wounds, and other hard-to-heal wounds. Its product is NexoBrid. The company was founded by Lior Rosenberg and Marian Gorecki in 2001 and is headquartered in Yavne, Israel.
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Embattled Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday rejected opposition calls to resign and accused the United States of trying to topple his government as he faces a parliamentary no-confidence vote Sunday.
Opposition parties in the legislative National Assembly, or lower house of parliament, jointly submitted the no-trust motion earlier this month, seeking Khan's ouster for allegedly mismanaging Pakistan's economic and foreign policies.
The 69-year-old former cricket star said Thursday night in an address to the nation that he would not resign and would stand up to foreign intervention, rejecting the misrule charges by his opponents.
"The vote will take place on Sunday. Whatever the outcome may be, I will emerge stronger. I will not let this conspiracy succeed at any cost," Khan said in his address.
In what appeared to be a slip of tongue, the Pakistani leader named the U.S. as the origin of a "memo" that Khan said confirmed a "foreign conspiracy" prompted by his visit to Russia on the day President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
"We got a message from America — oh, not America, I mean a foreign country I can't name," Khan said in the live televised address.
"They say they are angry with Pakistan. ... They say they will forgive Pakistan if Imran Khan loses a no-trust motion. But if the vote fails, Pakistan will have to face serious consequences," Khan said, citing the text of the memo.
Journalists working for mainstream news channels in Pakistan have reported that the message in question was delivered to Islamabad's outgoing ambassador to Washington on March 7, a day before the opposition moved the no-trust vote in parliament.
"They [foreigners] were aware of the no-confidence motion before it was tabled [in parliament]. It means they [the opposition] were in touch with outsiders," Khan asserted, confirming the date on which the message was delivered to the Pakistani ambassador. He added that the alleged conspiracy was meant to punish him for pursuing an independent foreign policy for Pakistan.
'No truth'
Opposition leaders swiftly rejected Khan's allegations as baseless and said they stemmed from his frustration over what they insist will be certain defeat. Washington also dismissed the charges.
"When it comes to these allegations, there is no truth to them," State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters during a regular briefing.
"We are closely following developments in Pakistan. We respect [and] we support Pakistan's constitutional process and the rule of law," Price added.
Khan addressed the nation after chairing an emergency meeting of the national security committee, which comprises the top civilian and military leadership of Pakistan, to discuss the "threatening" memo.
"The committee expressed grave concern at the communication, terming the language used by the foreign official as undiplomatic," said a post-meeting statement issued by the prime minister's office.
The meeting concluded that the communication "amounted to blatant interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan by the country in question, which was unacceptable under any circumstances."
The statement said that Pakistan "will issue a strong demarche to the country in question both in Islamabad and in the country's capital through proper channels in keeping with diplomatic norms."
In a late-night statement, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said, "The requisite demarches have been made through diplomatic channels." It did not name the country.
Analysts say the development is likely to strain an already fragile relationship between Pakistan and the U.S.
"The U.S.-Pakistan relationship will take a hit from events of the last few days," said Michael Kugelman, an expert on South Asian affairs at the Washington-based Wilson Center, in a tweet. "Relations haven't been bad of late — uncertain and unsettled — but not in crisis. The revelations, rhetoric & accusations injected into the public space over the last few days will set things back a bit."
Khan's political troubles
About two dozen of Khan's ruling party lawmakers have defected, and key coalition partners also have abandoned the government and joined the opposition, leaving the prime minister without 172 votes. That is the majority he needs to survive the no-confidence motion in the 342-member legislative assembly.
Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won the 2018 general election but fell short of receiving a majority, forcing him to form a coalition government with the help of political allies.
No Pakistani prime minister has ever completed a five-year term because of what critics cite as direct and indirect military intervention. The military has staged several coups in Pakistan, leading to long dictatorial rules.
Khan's ouster would come more than a year before the country's next general election. It would mark the first time that an elected chief executive would be forced from office through a no-confidence vote.
The Pakistani leader has long criticized the U.S. war on terrorism launched in neighboring Afghanistan 20 years ago to pursue the planners of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on American cities.
Khan renewed his criticism in his speech, saying Pakistan joined the U.S. war at a cost of tens of thousands of casualties and billions of dollars in economic losses but received no praise from Washington for the sacrifices.
"Has anyone said, 'Thank you, Pakistan,' for what we did?" Khan asked in Thursday's address.
He has defended his visit to Putin, saying it was planned well before the invasion of Ukraine.
"Even European leaders went to Russia. But Pakistan in particular is asked, 'Why did you go?' as if we are their servants," he said.
The main opposition parties leading the campaign to bring down the government are the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), led by self-exiled Nawaz Sharif, who has been prime minister three times, and the Pakistan Peoples Party, headed jointly by former President Asif Ali Zardari and his son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
VOA's Cindy Saine contributed to this report. | https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-s-pm-khan-alleges-us-trying-to-topple-his-government-/6510620.html | 2022-04-01T00:43:03Z |
People who suffered from even mild cases of COVID-19 face an increased risk of being diagnosed with diabetes within a year of recovering from the illness, a new study reports.
Researchers found that people who had COVID-19 were about 40% more likely to develop diabetes within a year after recovering, compared to participants in a control group. The likelihood of developing diabetes grew if the patient suffered from a serious infection that led to hospitalization or a stay in intensive care.
"What's surprising is that it is happening in people with no prior risk factors for diabetes" before becoming infected with COVID-19, said Ziyad Al-Aly, the lead author of the study.
These latest findings add to a growing list of studies showing that people who suffered from COVID-19 are at risk of facing other long-term health problems. Those include heart and kidney ailments and chronic fatigue.
Al-Aly also helped lead the study that showed the prevalence of cardiac issues in people who survived COVID-19 infections.
This newest study, published Monday in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, analyzed data from more than 180,000 patients from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The study's authors compared patients who tested positive for COVID-19 and survived the illness for more than a month with more than 4 million other people who didn't contract COVID in the same period. This data was also compared with another 4.28 million patients who were treated at the VA in 2018 and 2019.
The paper states that around 1% to 2% of people who have been infected with COVID will develop diabetes as a result. That may seem like a small number, but nearly 80 million people in the U.S. have had COVID, Al-Aly told NPR — meaning 800,000 to 1.6 million people developing diabetes who might not have otherwise.
"That translates to a really significant number of people with new onset diabetes in the U.S. and many, many more around the world," Al-Aly said.
Nationwide, approximately 34 million people had diabetes pre-COVID, according to Jorge Moreno, an internal medicine physician at Yale University who didn't work on Al-Aly's study. Doctors expect roughly 1.5 million new people to be newly diagnosed with diabetes each year during normal times, he told NPR.
What to look out for
This study shows that as a nation, more attention needs to be paid to the long-term effects of COVID-19, Al-Aly said. More vigilance can start at the doctor's office.
"We need to start treating COVID as a risk factor for diabetes," Al-Aly said, adding that each person who has come down with the virus needs to be screened.
Moreno told NPR he believes this study will create more awareness among general practitioners and endocrinologists, like himself, to screen patients who have had COVID for diabetes and other complications.
Those who've had COVID should also be closely monitoring their health and changes in their body, Moreno said, and should seek help at the first sign of an issue. Major symptoms for diabetes include increased thirst, frequent urination (which is not influenced by how much liquid consumed) and blurry vision. Major weight fluctuations are also a sign.
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Baseball Players Press Lawmakers for Minor League Labor Standards
Lawmakers in a handful of states are crafting policies to protect a workforce that they say has been exploited by poverty wages, restrictive contracts and onerous federal labor laws: minor league baseball players. Over the past few years, players and advocates have drawn increasing attention to the poor conditions...
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Silver Dawn becomes the cruise line's third new ship to debut in nine months
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LISBON, Portugal, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Silversea Cruises, the leading ultra-luxury cruise line, officially named its 10th ship, Silver Dawn, in Lisbon on March 31. Executives from Royal Caribbean Group®, Silversea Cruises, and Fincantieri, as well as local dignitaries and esteemed guests, celebrated the milestone with a formal ceremony and gala dinner. An expression of Silversea's rapid expansion, Silver Dawn becomes the cruise line's third new ship to debut in nine months. The launch of Silver Dawn also marks the debut of Otium, travel's most indulgent new wellness programme, as well as the next iteration of Silversea's S.A.L.T. culinary programme.
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FIRST: THE NAMING CEREMONY MARKS SILVER DAWN'S OFFICIAL DEBUT
After Royal Caribbean Group's customary bagpipe performance, which opened the formal naming ceremony, performers took to the stage, entertaining attendees with a performance that weaved a narrative from the 2021 launch of Silver Moon to the modern day debut of Silver Dawn. Singers recited the national anthems of the U.S.A., Italy, and Portugal, before a religious leader blessed the ship and dignitaries delivered speeches. The newly named Godmother of Silver Dawn, Nilou Motamed—an influential food and travel editor, tastemaker, and television personality—subsequently cut the ribbon to trigger a champagne bottle to smash on the ship's hull, signalling the end of the ceremony.
"Celebrating the naming of Silver Dawn in Lisbon marked an incredibly proud moment for all involved," said Jason Liberty, President and CEO, Royal Caribbean Group. "I thank and congratulate Roberto Martinoli and our entire team, including Captain Failla and the crew, as well as everyone at Fincantieri, our ship building partners. Silver Dawn is a jewel in the Silversea fleet and speaks to Royal Caribbean Group's commitment to delivering the best vacation experiences in a responsible way."
"An evolution of our unique take on luxury, Silver Dawn is the third Silversea ship to be named in the last nine months," said Roberto Martinoli, President & CEO, Silversea Cruises. "As well as S.A.L.T., our immersive culinary programme, Silver Dawn enriches guests' travels with Otium, our indulgent new wellness programme, which is inspired by the ancient Roman lifestyle. She really is magnificent. I extend my gratitude to Jason Liberty and all involved at Royal Caribbean Group, as well as to the team at Silversea, Fincantieri, and Captain Failla and his crew—our most valuable asset. Moreover, I proudly welcome Nilou Motamed as the Godmother of Silver Dawn."
NILOU MOTAMED: GODMOTHER OF SILVER DAWN
An Emmy-nominated television personality and former editor-in-chief of some of the world's leading culinary brands, including Food & Wine and Epicurious, Nilou Motamed has been shaping the conversation in food and travel for more than 20 years. Born in Iran, raised in Paris and New York, Motamed is fluent in four languages — and believes "food is a language of its own, one in which everyone can find comfort, compassion, and community." Her passion for culinary adventures and far-flung cuisines has found a perfect match in Silversea's S.A.L.T. programme, which the New York resident first experienced with its launch in 2021.
"It's a great honour to have been selected as the Godmother of Silver Dawn and to have been on board for her naming ceremony in Lisbon," says Motamed. "Growing up in multiple countries has helped me recognize that one of our deepest common bonds, wherever we go, is food. Like many of Silversea's guests, I always pair my cultural explorations with culinary ones. That's why I've loved seeing the world through Silversea's S.A.L.T. programme. I've dedicated my career to celebrating authentic, local cuisines and cultures. For me, nothing is more rewarding than connecting with people over a shared meal."
"An authority in the world of food and drink, Nilou is a curious, intelligent traveller," continues Martinoli. "Her mission to delve deeper into cultures through food, to truly understand places and their people, reflects that of Silversea's culinary programme, S.A.L.T.. It is this strong spirit of discovery, this commitment to self-enrichment and complete cultural immersion, that makes Nilou the perfect Godmother for our newest ship. Aboard Silver Dawn, our guests will discover the world with purpose, while journeying in Silversea's trademark level of comfort."
SILVER DAWN AND THE OTIVM WELLNESS PROGRAMME
Silver Dawn becomes the latest ship in Silversea's popular Muse class. The most discernible difference between Silver Dawn and her sister ships, Silver Muse® and Silver MoonSM, is the new Otium wellness programme, which launches as a unique innovation. It is the only wellness programme at sea that incorporates champagne, chocolate and other gourmet snacks; signature cocktails; bespoke in-suite experiences; a Roman-influenced spa; and a wellness journey that extends throughout the ship. Grounded in the philosophy and traditions of the ancient Roman lifestyle, in which otium was a period of time dedicated exclusively to leisure, the Otium wellness programme is built on principles of indulgence, pleasure, and pampering. Spanning almost 800m2 on deck six, Silver Dawn's spa has been completely redesigned for a more seamless wellness journey.
Silver Dawn departs on her inaugural voyage on April 1, sailing from Lisbon to Barcelona. She is scheduled to sail in the Mediterranean until November, when she will cross the Atlantic Ocean, via the Canary Islands, to unlock the Caribbean and Central America for guests.
Silver Dawn's media kit:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fqw01ry3zal9ev0/AAB2P40-DmLY3eOO_dclyYMRa?dl=0
Otium media kit:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/upusb70v71w576g/AADzlCltZ9j0D-tXpFvLMvgea?dl=0
Our latest blog post on Otium offers more details. Read it here:
https://discover.silversea.com/ships/silver-dawn/silver-dawn-otium-preview/
Find out more information about Silver Dawn, including her upcoming voyages:
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Oscars producer says police offered to arrest Will Smith
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment,” Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to “Good Morning America.” “They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options.”
But Packer said Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,” Packer said. “And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no.”
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night’s ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer’s interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.”
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.”
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Correction: Idaho-Abortion-Ban-Lawsuit story
In a story published March 30, 2022, about a lawsuit challenging Idaho's abortion ban, The Associated Press erroneously reported the timeline of a similar abortion ban out of Mississippi
BOISE, Idaho -- In a story published March 30, 2022, about a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s abortion ban, The Associated Press erroneously reported the timeline of a similar abortion ban out of Mississippi. The Mississippi law bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, not six weeks. | https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/correction-idaho-abortion-ban-lawsuit-story-83799735 | 2022-04-01T00:43:04Z |
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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Wednesday’s Games
Baltimore 7, Tampa Bay 6
Boston 10, Atlanta 7
Minnesota 9, Pittsburgh 4
Detroit 7, Philadelphia 1
St. Louis 29, Washington 8
Chicago Cubs 8, Seattle 5
Chicago White Sox 7, Texas 0
Oakland 5, Cincinnati 4
San Francisco 9, Kansas City 5
San Diego 4, Milwaukee 2
Arizona 9, Colorado 2
Houston 5, N.Y. Mets 3, 10 innings
Toronto 11, N.Y. Yankees 3
L.A. Dodgers 12, Cleveland 1
Thursday’s Games
Tampa Bay 5, Atlanta 1
Boston 4, Minnesota 3
Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Yankees 3
Baltimore 4, Pittsburgh 4
Toronto 5, Detroit 3
Kansas City 5, Oakland 4
San Francisco 13, Colorado 2
Texas 8, L.A. Dodgers 2
Arizona 8, San Diego 2
L.A. Angels 10, Milwaukee 5
Washington vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Florida, 6:10 p.m.
St. Louis vs. Miami at Sarasota, Florida, 6:40 p.m.
Chicago White Sox vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Arizona, 9:05 p.m.
Cleveland vs. Seattle at Peoria, Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Philadelphia vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
Miami vs. Houston at Palm Beach, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
Atlanta vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
Toronto vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets vs. St. Louis at Sarasota, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
Boston vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
Texas vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Arizona, 3:05 p.m.
Oakland vs. Chicago White Sox at Phoenix, Arizona, 4:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. Arizona (ss) at Scottsdale, Arizona, 4:10 p.m.
Cincinnati vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Arizona, 4:10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, Arizona, 4:10 p.m.
Arizona (ss) vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Arizona, 9:05 p.m.
Kansas City vs. San Diego at Peoria, Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
Seattle vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Pittsburgh vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
Baltimore vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
Atlanta vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
Minnesota vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Florida, 1:05 p.m.
Philadelphia vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Florida, 1:07 p.m.
L.A. Angels vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Arizona, 3:05 p.m.
San Francisco vs. L.A. Dodgers at Phoenix, Arizona, 3:05 p.m.
Colorado vs. Oakland at Mesa, Arizona, 4:05 p.m.
St. Louis vs. Houston at Palm Beach, Florida, 6:05 p.m.
Washington vs. Miami at Sarasota, Florida, 6:40 p.m.
San Diego vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Arizona, 9:05 p.m.
Cleveland vs. Texas at Surprise, Arizona, 9:05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Arizona, 9:10 p.m.
Milwaukee vs. Seattle at Peoria, Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
AD-7C-6D-8H-9H
(AD, 7C, 6D, 8H, 9H)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
AD-7C-6D-8H-9H
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Gas prices are still riding high, and you may be trying anything and everything to save money when you fill up your tank.
In addition to shopping around for the best prices, driving the speed limit and cutting back on trips, you may be considering a gas rewards credit card to save even more money.
There are a lot of options, and experts say some are better than others.
Bankrate.com analyzed 22 cards offered by popular gas retailers, and they weren't impressed.
"We found that the gas-branded credit cards are not the best deal," said Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate.com. "The ones from the stations themselves, they typically only give a 5-or-10%-per-gallon discount. You can do a lot better with a general-purpose credit card."
The gas retailer cards usually only provide a discount at their own stations, so you're limited on where you can buy gas.
Bankrate.com says another drawback of these cards is their high interest rates.
"The average gas station card has an interest rate around 26%, which is really astronomical," said Rossman. "Now, the average for all cards is no picnic, that's 16%, so really, any good credit card rewards strategy is predicated on paying in full, avoiding interest. But the gas-branded cards are especially painful when you're talking about a 26% average interest rate."
Rossman says you can find general-purpose credit cards with lucrative gas rewards and no annual fee, and some offer up to 5% cashback.
"Get a general-purpose credit card with good rewards on gas. Try to stack that discount, too," said Rossman. "Get the free app from the gas station, get another five or ten cents off when you pay that way. You can combine those two discounts, the rewards credit card and the gas app. Some grocery chains offer rewards that can turn into fuel points. That's another way to stack savings, use rewards credit cards and the grocery savings."
More on gas prices
You may not be aware that you already have a credit card that offers you gas discounts. Check out your card issuer's website or call customer service to find out.
Here's a list of Bankrate.com's recommended no-annual-fee credit cards that have lucrative gas rewards:
- Citi Custom Cash Card: 5% cash back on your top eligible spending category each billing cycle (up to $500 in purchases, with 1% cash back on all other purchases).
- Sam's Club Mastercard: 5% cash back on gas (purchased almost anywhere, not just at Sam's Club — up to $6,000 per year). This card also gives 3% cash back on dining and at Sam's Club. Other purchases earn 1% cash back. The total cash back maximum per year is $5,000.
- The Discover It Cash Back Card: 5% cash back on rotating quarterly categories (gas makes an appearance from April 1 through June 30, 2022). The rate applies after activation on up to $1,500 in quarterly spending (then 1% cash back after that).
- Costco Anywhere Visa Card by Citi: 4% cash back on gas (again, purchased almost anywhere, this time with a $7,000 annual cap), plus 3% cash back on eligible travel and dining, 2% cash back at Costco and 1% cash back on everything else.
- PenFed Platinum Rewards Visa Signature Card: Five points per dollar at gas pumps and electric vehicle charging stations, three points per dollar at supermarkets, restaurants and on streaming services with one point per dollar elsewhere. Note that each point is worth approximately 0.8 cents. Among these four cards, this is the only one that does not have a spending cap on its gas rewards category.
- The Chase Freedom Unlimited and Chase Freedom Flex are both offering new customers 5% cash back on gas (up to $6,000 in purchases within their first year). That's in addition to the standard welcome bonus of $200 after spending $500 (on anything) within their first three months. The promotion is scheduled to expire June 30, 2022. | https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/looking-to-save-with-a-gas-rewards-credit-card-some-can-help-more-than-others/2683250/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:05Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for a cumbersome U.S. health care system made more generous, flexible and up-to-date technologically through a raft of temporary emergency measures.
Winding down those policies could begin as early as the summer. That could force an estimated 15 million Medicaid recipients to find new sources of coverage, require congressional action to preserve broad telehealth access for Medicare enrollees, and scramble special COVID-19 rules and payment policies for hospitals, doctors and insurers. There are also questions about how emergency use approvals for COVID-19 treatments will be handled.
The array of issues is tied to the coronavirus public health emergency first declared more than two years ago and periodically renewed since then. It’s set to end April 16 and the expectation is that the Biden administration will extend it through mid-July. Some would like a longer off-ramp.
Transitions don’t bode well for the complex U.S. health care system, with its mix of private and government insurance and its labyrinth of policies and procedures. Health care chaos, if it breaks out, could create midterm election headaches for Democrats and Republicans alike.
“The flexibilities granted through the public health emergency have helped people stay covered and get access to care, so moving forward the key question is how to build on what has been a success and not lose ground,” said Juliette Cubanski, a Medicare expert with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, who has been researching potential consequences of winding down the pandemic emergency.
MEDICAID CHURN
Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for low-income people, is covering about 79 million people, a record partly due to the pandemic.
But the nonpartisan Urban Institute think tank estimates that about 15 million people could lose Medicaid when the public health emergency ends, at a rate of at least 1 million per month.
Congress increased federal Medicaid payments to states because of COVID-19, but it also required states to keep people on the rolls during the health emergency. In normal times states routinely disenroll Medicaid recipients whose incomes rise beyond certain levels, or for other life changes affecting eligibility. That process will switch on again when the emergency ends, and some states are eager to move forward.
Virtually all of those losing Medicaid are expected to be eligible for some other source of coverage, either through employers, the Affordable Care Act or — for kids — the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
But that’s not going to happen automatically, said Matthew Buettgens, lead researcher on the Urban Institute study. Cost and lack of awareness about options could get in the way.
People dropped from Medicaid may not realize they can pick up taxpayer-subsidized ACA coverage. Medicaid is usually free, so people offered workplace insurance could find the premiums too high.
“This is an unprecedented situation,” said Buettgens. “The uncertainty is real.”
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, is advising states to take it slow and connect Medicaid recipients who are disenrolled with other potential coverage. The agency will keep an eye on states’ accuracy in making eligibility decisions. Biden officials want coverage shifts, not losses.
“We are focused on making sure we hold on to the gains in coverage we have made under the Biden-Harris administration,” said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “We are at the strongest point in our history and we are going make sure that we hold on to the coverage gains.”
ACA coverage — or “Obamacare” — is an option for many who would lose Medicaid. But it will be less affordable if congressional Democrats fail to extend generous financial assistance called for in President Joe Biden’s social legislation. Democrats stalling the bill would face blame.
Republicans in mostly Southern states that have refused to expand Medicaid are also vulnerable. In those states, it can be very difficult for low-income adults to get coverage and more people could wind up uninsured.
State Medicaid officials don’t want to be the scapegoats. “Medicaid has done its job,” said Matt Salo, head of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. “We have looked out for physical, mental and behavioral health needs. As we come out of this emergency, we are supposed to right-size the program.”
TELEHEALTH STATIC
Millions of Americans discovered telehealth in 2020 when coronavirus shutdowns led to the suspension of routine medical consultations. In-person visits are again the norm, but telehealth has shown its usefulness and gained broader acceptance.
The end of the public health emergency would jeopardize telehealth access for millions enrolled in traditional Medicare. Restrictions predating COVID-19 limit telehealth mainly to rural residents, in part to mitigate against health care fraud. Congress has given itself 151 days after the end of the public health emergency to come up with new rules.
“If there are no changes to the law after that, most Medicare beneficiaries will lose access to coverage for telehealth,” the Kaiser Foundation’s Cubanski said.
A major exception applies to enrollees in private Medicare Advantage plans, which generally do cover telehealth. However, nearly 6 in 10 Medicare enrollees are in the traditional fee-for-service program.
TESTS, VACCINES, TREATMENTS, PAYMENTS & PROCEDURES
Widespread access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments rests on legal authority connected to the public health emergency.
One example is the Biden administration’s requirement for insurers to cover up to eight free at-home COVID-19 tests per month.
An area that’s particularly murky is what happens to tests, treatments and vaccines covered under emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.
Some experts say emergency use approvals last only through the duration of the public health emergency. Others say it’s not as simple as that, because a different federal emergency statute also applies to vaccines, tests and treatments. There’s no clear direction yet from health officials.
The FDA has granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for those 16 and older and Moderna’s for those 18 and older, so their continued use would not be affected.
But hospitals could take a financial hit. Currently Medicare pays them 20% more for the care of COVID-19 patients. That’s only for the duration of the emergency.
And Medicare enrollees would have more hoops to jump through to be approved for rehab in a nursing home. A suspended Medicare rule requiring a prior three-day hospital stay would come back into effect.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra recently told The Associated Press that his department is committed to giving “ample notice” when it ends the public health emergency.
“We want to make sure we’re not putting in a detrimental position Americans who still need our help,” Becerra said. “The one that people are really worried about is Medicaid.” | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/end-of-covid-may-bring-major-turbulence-for-us-health-care/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:05Z |
As Nigerians prepare for the next general elections, the Chief Missioner of Ansar-Ud-Deen Society Worldwide, Shaykh Ahmad Abdur- Rahman, the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega and other eminent Nigerians have called for a better system that would produce the right set of leaders in the country.
They likened the current set of leadership in the country to having round pegs in square holes, saying that continued appointing and electing inappropriate leaders was undermining, rather than strengthening, governance, democratic and development processes. Speaking during the pre-Ramadan lecture organised by the University of Lagos Muslim Alumni (UMA) with the theme, “Leadership Recruitment – The Missing Anchor in Our National Development” at the main auditorium of the institution, Akoka, Chief Missioner of Ansar-Ud-Deen Society Worldwide, Sheikh Ahmad AbdurRahman, said the leadership recruitment process in the country is faulty. According to him, there should be a mechanism to bring them to account and ease out those not performing, even as he called for a regular assessment of appointed as well as elected leaders.
He charged the religious leaders to be truthful and not go after aspirants’ money, adding that they also have a great role to play in fixing the government. On his part, the former INEC chairman said there is a need to review the current leadership recruitment process in the country, saying that the issue of leadership recruitment at all levels of governance in the country, is central to the current national predicament; and getting it right is key to the resolution of poor governance and development processes.
He said: “Nigerians belong to the category of the unfortunate citizens of the world whose leadership, though in the context of a civil democratic dispensation, leaves much to be desired, in terms of a sustainable vision for our country’s development, selflessness in elective public leadership positions, competence and capacity to lead a country in the 21st century, and in terms of having an enlightened self-interest to galvanise and forge elite consensus on how to reposition, stabilise and develop the country on a sustainable basis. According to him, the leadership recruitment process is central to entrenching good governance and resolving poor governance. He reiterated the need for Nigerians to address the crisis of leadership by improving the leadership recruitment process, which must be done by 2023 at the 2023. Jegga added: “With the terrible result that the electoral processes spew up and recycle most people in elected public offices who either bought, or fraudulently, often violently stole the votes that put them into “elected” and public leadership positions.
“They invariably achieve this because the special purpose vehicle for getting into elections, namely the political parties, is captured by so-called ‘money bags’ , “godfathers,” and powerful patrons, and they operate undemocratically to install clients and otherwise very unprepared and untrustworthy people into elective positions, which require thorough preparation, competence and trustworthiness. “Second, in view of this, we need to enlighten, awaken, and mobilise our citizens as voters, to understand the value of using the electoral process for the protection, defense, and advancement of their human dignity, and then put it to good use by electing into public governance and leadership positions tested and trusted people who have the requisite honesty, integrity, competence, selflessness, and vision for the actualization of collective aspirations for progress and development.” Former Minister of Education, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, stated that the country produces leaders who are at peace in compromising public goods for personal interests and subvert the common goods.
The former Minister, who said that Nigeria lacks the right leadership, however, noted that this pattern of behaviour would lead the country to the lowest common denominator in leadership. “A country can be said to be moving in the right direction if she carries out the right policies and adheres to the rule of law. Adherence to the rule of law means impunity cannot be tolerated, “she said. Earlier, in his welcome address, UMA President Alhaji Shuaib Salisu said the theme was carefully chosen to evolve a better society and address the generally acknowledged leadership challenge at all levels. “There is near unanimity that if our great nation, Nigeria, must attain its full potential, then there is a need to fix the leadership challenge. And in doing so, we must look beyond individual leaders and focus on the process through which leaders emerge, “Salisu said. According to him, Islam places a premium on the importance of leadership, which is based on the principle of trust (Amanah) and offers broad definitions of leadership. Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, said the negligence of knowledgeable and able citizens toward electoral process in Nigeria had led to the issue of leadership that the country suffers. He said: “The poor go out to vote, why the rich sit back to watch and count,” he said. Ogundipe stressed the importance of citizens, including students, to know their citizenship roles and right, and the importance of good leadership in the country | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/sheikh-ahmad-jega-ezekwesili-seek-better-leadership-for-nigeria/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:05Z |
Man allegedly rammed officer head-on after 'slow-speed chase'
COVINGTON - A man is accused of trying to kill a police officer after he led law enforcement on a slow-moving chase and then rammed his vehicle head-on into a police SUV.
The Covington Police Department said the "slow-speed chase" began after officers spotted the suspect, 25-year-old Nestor Javier Sanchez-Martinez, speeding late Tuesday night.
Sanchez-Martinez refused to stop for police and instead continued at speeds "reaching 20 to 30 mph," according to the department.
Police said Sanchez-Martinez then veered into oncoming traffic and slammed head-on into an officer's vehicle. Both Sanchez-Martinez and the officer inside the police vehicle were taken to a hospital.
The officer was released after he was treated for minor injuries.
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Sanchez-Martinez was released from the hospital and booked into the St. Tammany Parish Jail on several charges—including attempted first-degree murder of a peace officer—with additional charges pending. | https://www.wbrz.com/news/man-allegedly-rammed-officer-head-on-after-slow-speed-chase-/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:06Z |
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Manx Care is reminding the public that the best protection against Covid-19 is for the whole community to get vaccinated. While figures are steadying off on the Isle of Man Covid-19 remains a risk for the vulnerable on the Island.
There is still time to get vaccinated with bookable appointments available by calling 111 for first, second, third and booster jabs. The Spring Booster campaign has been launched with vaccines available to the over 75s and immunosuppressed over 12s. This cohort is being contacted by letter which are being sent out in batches.
The 5-11 year olds vaccination programme will commence in April, 2022.
In addition, to protect individuals Manx Care will be offering antiviral treatment to those who are at greater risk of becoming seriously ill with Covid-19. A detailed list of who is eligible for these treatments can be viewed by clicking here (https://covid19.gov.im/general-information/covid-19-antiviral-treatment/).
If an individual falls into an eligible category and they receive a positive Lateral Flow Device (LFD) test, they should contact their GP. Suitability for treatment will depend on a set criteria assessed by GPs who will have a full record of the individuals’ health status. If eligibility is confirmed, the individual will need to attend The Crookall Centre as a PCR test will be required to confirm the Covid-19 positive result.
If the PCR confirms a positive result, treatment will be delivered via the Antiviral Service at Noble’s Hospital which will be located next to the Emergency Department.
Treatment will be delivered in either tablet form or via intravenous infusion. For full details of what treatment will be administered by the Antiviral Service please click here.
Manx Care’s CEO, Teresa Cope commented: “Antivirals medication is a choice, however we would encourage anyone with a Covid positive result, who meets the criteria, to have the treatment. We continue to ask the public to get vaccinated to protect themselves and those around them.” | https://www.energyfm.net/cms/news_story_716078.html | 2022-04-01T00:43:06Z |
Dear Rabbi Fried,
You once argued that displaying dead bodies in a public exhibit flies in the face of the sanctity of the human body. I have trouble fathoming what sanctity there is to the human body any more than any other animal body. I assume you would not take such issue with an exhibit of animal bodies showing their anatomy and would like to understand why your perspective is so different for humans.
Robert T.
Dear Robert,
The holiness of the human body can be understood on a few levels. One area where the Torah reveals this is in the prohibition to maim or inflict any wound upon the body unnecessarily. Even if one wants to do so, we were not given that license as our bodies were not given to us to do as we want, rather entrusted to us as a sacred trust from the Al-mighty to use this body owned by Him. This is much as we do not own our children to do with them as we please but were entrusted with them to help nurture them to grow in their own paths and lives.
The body is said to be a partner with the soul in its struggle to serve G-d in this world. There isn’t a single mitzvah that the soul can perform without its cohort, the body. G-d purposely set up the world in that way, that there are animals that are all body; angels that are all soul; and man, who is the combination of the two. This is the underlying foundation for the Jewish belief in the eventual Revival of the Dead. That period, also known as “Olam Haba” or the Next World, the final world of the ultimate reward, must first be ushered in by the reunification of the bodies with their souls. Why is this so? Why cannot the souls themselves, which are eternal, receive that reward?
My late mentor, R’ Shlomo Wolbe, explained that it is only fair that both partners, the body and the soul, should together share in the final, ultimate bliss which could come about only as the result of their partnership. Since all the mitzvos were performed with the body, the soul could not possibly receive that reward alone. This speaks volumes about the way we look at the human body.
The Kabbalistic writings closely connect every limb, muscle and sinew of the human body to a specific mitzvah of the Torah. There are said to be a count of 248 limbs and 365 main sinews of the body, corresponding to the 248 positive mitzvos (the “dos”) and the 365 negative mitzvos (the “don’ts”). Every time a mitzvah is performed, the part of that body which parallels that mitzvah becomes elevated and sanctified.
Throughout the Torah we find G-d described in human terms: He took us out of Egypt with an “outstretched arm,” His “eyes” are upon us, He “hears” our affliction, etc. This is difficult to understand, as it is a core belief of Judaism that G-d has no physicality.
One answer given by the commentators is that these are anthropomorphisms, meaning just a way for us to have an inkling of what is happening using human experiences we can appreciate and fathom.
The deeper answer given by the Kabbalists is that all that G-d performs in this world is parallel to similar attributes in the human body. There is a type of “spiritual human body” which is the sum-total of all the upper, spiritual worlds. G-d created the physical human body in sync with all that He wishes to relate and express through His divine providence throughout all of human history. This is an entirely new insight on the loftiness and holiness of the human body; its very essence is nothing less than an expression of G-dliness in the world. This is implicit in the verse that man was created “in the image of G-d” (Genesis 1:27).
This explains the tremendous responsibility we hold to be the proper stewards of the gift of the body we have received, and our obligation to treat it with the proper respect and sanctity it deserves.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Fried is dean of Dallas Area Torah Association. | https://tjpnews.com/sanctity-of-the-human-body/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sanctity-of-the-human-body | 2022-04-01T00:43:06Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director William Burns has tested positive for COVID-19, according to an agency statement Thursday.
The statement said Burns is experiencing mild symptoms and working from home, with plans to return to the office after five days and testing negative. The director is fully vaccinated and boosted.
Burns last met with President Joe Biden on Wednesday morning in a socially distanced meeting where the director wore an N-95 mask. The agency says Burns is not considered a close contact of the president by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention standards. The nature of the meeting was not disclosed by the CIA.
Biden is not known to have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began. Several people in recent weeks have tested positive for the virus shortly after seeing the president, including press secretary Jen Psaki, deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin. | https://www.mystateline.com/news/politics/cia-director-tests-positive-for-covid-19-has-mild-symptoms/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:06Z |
The family of a 30-year-old woman killed in a car crash say her death has left a “gaping hole” in their lives.
Aimee Williams was killed in a major crash in Cowford, west Sussex, on Monday morning, along with an 83-year-old man from Worthing.
She has been described as a "beautiful, happy, kind daughter" who had an "infectious smile and positive lust for life".
The horror crash involved a silver Ford Fiesta, a white Ford Fiesta, and a Skania tipper truck, Kent Live reports.
Officers have confirmed that two other women from Kent, both aged 23, were also taken to hospital with major injuries.
The A272 remained closed while emergency services responded to the incident.
A statement released by Aimee’s family said she was a “beautiful, happy and kind daughter, granddaughter, niece, sister and more recently devoted aunty”.
“She had countless friends and work colleagues and touched the lives of many with her infectious smile and positive lust for life.
“Her tragic death has left a gaping hole in all our lives.
"We are grateful to all the first responders who attended the scene and tried to save her life.”
"To lose your daughter in these circumstances is every parent's worst nightmare and our grief is unimaginable and unbearable,” it read.
“We would be grateful if people would respect our privacy at this difficult time."
Aimee worked in the Ultrasound Department at Maidstone Hospital, having previously worked for Norwegian Airways.
Sussex Police is appealing to witnesses for information that can help their enquiries into the incident.
Detective Sergeant Rob Baldwin, of the Surrey & Sussex Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: "We would particularly like to speak with anyone travelling on the A272 between Cowfold village and Littleworth Lane to the west, on Monday morning between 11.15am and 11.30am, who has dash camera footage.
"We'd also like to speak with any resident or business who has CCTV footage showing the road between those locations." Anyone with information is asked to email collision.appeal@sussex.police.uk or call 101 and quoting Operation Banwell.
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Janus Henderson Small Cap Growth Alpha ETF (NASDAQ:JSML – Get Rating) saw a large drop in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 4,800 shares, a drop of 22.6% from the February 28th total of 6,200 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 18,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.3 days.
A number of hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the business. US Bancorp DE increased its stake in shares of Janus Henderson Small Cap Growth Alpha ETF by 119.6% in the 3rd quarter. US Bancorp DE now owns 448 shares of the company’s stock worth $29,000 after acquiring an additional 244 shares during the last quarter. Oakworth Capital Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Janus Henderson Small Cap Growth Alpha ETF in the 4th quarter worth $34,000. Raymond James & Associates acquired a new stake in shares of Janus Henderson Small Cap Growth Alpha ETF in the 4th quarter worth $207,000. Avantax Advisory Services Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Janus Henderson Small Cap Growth Alpha ETF in the 3rd quarter worth $231,000. Finally, Kingsview Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Janus Henderson Small Cap Growth Alpha ETF by 7.2% in the 3rd quarter. Kingsview Wealth Management LLC now owns 3,862 shares of the company’s stock worth $251,000 after acquiring an additional 260 shares during the last quarter.
JSML stock traded down $0.55 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $57.39. The stock had a trading volume of 5,254 shares, compared to its average volume of 16,314. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $56.40 and its 200 day simple moving average is $62.15. Janus Henderson Small Cap Growth Alpha ETF has a 52-week low of $52.30 and a 52-week high of $71.62.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment,” Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to “Good Morning America.” “They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options.”
But Packer said Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,” Packer said. “And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no.”
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night’s ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer’s interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
The academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.”
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.”
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LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg has compiled a handbook for tackling the world’s interconnected environmental crises, with contributions from leading scientists and writers.
Penguin Random House announced Thursday that “The Climate Book” will be published in Britain in October.
It contains contributions from more than 100 academics, thinkers and campaigners, including novelists Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh, climate scientist Saleemul Huq and World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The book aims to help readers connect the dots between threats to the climate, environment, sustainability and indigenous populations — among others — and is intended as a guide to understanding and activism.
Contributors including Kenyan environmentalist Wanjira Mathai, Brazilian indigenous activist Sonia Guajajara, French economist Thomas Piketty and Canadian journalist Naomi Klein offer “compelling stories of change, action and resilience,” the publisher said, alongside Thunberg’s own stories of “learning, demonstrating, and uncovering greenwashing around the world.”
“My hope is that this book might be some kind of go-to source for understanding these different, closely interconnected crises,” Thunberg said in a statement.
Chloe Currens, editor at Penguin Press, said it was “a unique book, alive with moral purpose, which aims to change the climate conversation forever.”
Thunberg began skipping classes once a week to protest climate change in 2018, when she was 15, sparking a series of school walkouts that grew into a global youth movement.
Now 19, the Swedish activist has already published a memoir, “Our House Is On Fire” and a collection of speeches, “No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference.”
“The Climate Book” is published Oct. 27 in the U.K. by Allen Lane and in the U.S. in early 2023 by Penguin Press, as well as in countries around the world. | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/greta-thunberg-aims-to-drive-change-with-the-climate-book/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:07Z |
For Jacques Pitteloud, Switzerland's ambassador in Washington, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought back memories of Soviet tanks rolling into Czechoslovakia in 1968, crushing a set of democratic reforms known at the time as the "Prague Spring."
"That's when I realized for the first time what it meant when free people are being attacked by a bully," he said in a recent interview. "I was 6 years old."
Describing those events as his "first conscious political memory," Pitteloud said, "I remember our cities being flagged with Czechoslovakian flags, I remember the refugees, I remember our old car, our old family car — with Czechoslovakian flags all over the car — just to [show] our solidarity."
Now 60, Pitteloud said he is proud that his traditionally neutral country has chosen to join other democratic nations in supporting Ukraine's defense of its sovereignty through economic boycotts and votes at the United Nations.
But, he said, he hopes the war will drive home to Western leaders the need for closer economic cooperation even in peacetime and reverse the drift in recent years toward greater barriers to trade "even among nations in the free world."
"The conflict in Ukraine is a tragic reminder of the importance of international collaboration and the need for close political and economic ties between democratic nations," Pitteloud told VOA.
Switzerland, he said, is "absolutely convinced" that democratic nations should "intensify" collaboration, and expand trade relations and technology exchanges if they are to prevail in an increasingly competitive global environment.
The issue is of economic as well as geopolitical interest for Switzerland. The exchange of intellectual property accounts for the largest share of trade in services between the United States and Switzerland. While many Americans associate Switzerland with chocolate, watches and banks, in reality exchanges of high-tech and intellectual property now make up 80% of Switzerland's trade and economic presence in the U.S., the ambassador said.
For Pitteloud, the successful relationship demonstrates that trade between nations that share the same values and norms can benefit both. "And that's how it should be," he said.
In a not-so-subtle pitch for his country, the ambassador said that when trading with Switzerland, the United States doesn't need to worry about the theft of intellectual property or having its market flooded with cheap products.
"We don't have cheap products," he said, with a slight wink. Switzerland's per capita GDP is about $20,000 higher than in the U.S.
While the war in Ukraine has prompted questions worldwide about oil and gas supplies, Pitteloud said Switzerland has benefited from having none of either.
"I think we're extremely lucky not to have any natural resources," he said. "We didn't have oil, we didn't have coal, we didn't have diamonds, whatsoever. The only way to be competitive on the world market was to make a difference with the quality of the products that we had."
Pitteloud said his country's industrial development began in the 18th century with textiles. "Then we moved into the machinery industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the chemical industry, and every time we had to have something better than the rest, because we had to pay more for raw material than everyone else because we didn't have any."
If being compelled to make something from nothing has pushed the Swiss to become masters of precision, the country's top diplomat in Washington says he's spotted a quality in American life that his fellow countrymen could profitably emulate.
"The U.S. is a country where failing is proof that you tried; in Switzerland, failing is almost considered a social crime; in that sense, we need to be more American."
A blessing his country shares with the United States, he said, is the talent that arrived through successive waves of immigration.
"You would be surprised at how many of the biggest and most successful companies in Switzerland were created by economic or political refugees of Europe who came because they couldn't find in their own countries the conditions to operate," the envoy said.
"Switzerland was, for a while, after the revolution of 1848, the only liberal democracy in Central Europe," he added. The world-renowned watch industry in Switzerland, for example, benefited from French Protestants who brought their skills when they fled persecutions in 1685.
"It was an incredible opportunity for Switzerland," he said. "In the end what made the U.S. so successful and what made Switzerland so successful is we're able to draw good people into our society, into our universities, into our economy."
Pitteloud said he believes the future belongs to countries that value and encourage diversity.
"What most people don't know is that 35% of the Swiss population is either foreign, foreign-born or second generation," he said, adding that he himself is "one-fourth [native] Swiss, two-fourths or one-half Italian, one-fourth French, and my wife is from Rwanda, Central Africa. I'm a typical Swiss!" | https://www.voanews.com/a/swiss-envoy-sees-lesson-for-democracies-in-ukraine-war-/6510053.html | 2022-04-01T00:43:09Z |
The counting is over in the second union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. But it's too close to call.
There were 993 "no" votes and 875 "yes" votes, but more than 400 contested ballots remain. According to the National Labor Relations Board, there will be a hearing within a few weeks to decide if any of the challenged ballots will be opened and counted.
More than 6,100 workers were eligible to vote in the do-over election, which was ordered after the NLRB found that Amazon had improperly interfered in last year's tally.
Turnout in this year's vote was down from last year when over half of eligible voters cast ballots. But among those who actually voted this time around, there was greater support for the union. Last year, workers voted more than 2-to-1 against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a well-established national union.
"This time around we were able to educate more about unions," said Jennifer Bates, a warehouse employee, noting that organizers were able to get closer to workers now that the pandemic has eased.
The RWDSU called for every vote to be counted.
"The tenacity and courage of these workers never wavered in this unnecessarily long process," said RWDSU president Stuart Appelbaum in a statement. "Workers will have to wait just a little bit longer to ensure their voices are heard."
Meanwhile in a separate Amazon union election on Staten Island in New York, the vote count will continue Friday morning. Roughly 8,000 workers were eligible to vote on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union, an upstart organization led by former and current Amazon warehouse employees. With ballots still to count, the union is in the lead, with 1,518 voting yes so far, and 1,154 voting no.
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Iran signals potential cooperation with UN’s nuclear watchdog
Iranian officials on Saturday signaled an interest in answering questions that have long been posed to the country about its nuclear program by the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a watchdog.
Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, suggested his country was open to answering questions amid a visit from Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the IAEA, The Associated Press reported.
Eslami said he was willing to start “presenting documents that would remove the ambiguities about our country,” according to the AP.
Former President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — also known as the Iran nuclear deal — in 2018, Iran mostly locked the IAEA out of monitoring nuclear production facilities.
The country has previously been suspected of enriching stockpiles of uranium close to the percentage needed for nuclear weapons.
Grossi visited Tehran amid optimism that a new nuclear agreement will be finalized. He told the AP he was visiting Iran to address “outstanding questions.”
“It would be difficult to believe or to imagine that such an important return to such a comprehensive agreement like the [nuclear deal] would be possible if the agency and Iran would not be seeing eye to eye on how to resolve these important safeguards issues,” the director-general told the news service.
Negotiators have been discussing the new JCPOA deal since November in Vienna, Austria, and officials have increasingly signaled a new plan will be struck.
Trita Parsi, the executive vice president for the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, said only a few kinks are left to be worked out between negotiators.
“I do suspect there is a decent likelihood the deal will be struck within the next week or two,” Parsi told Hill.TV last month. “The question is what happens afterwards.”
Amid the discussions, the IAEA reported on Thursday that Iran is generating a growing stockpile of enriched uranium.
The nation has 73.1 pounds of uranium enriched up to 60 percent of fissile purity, which is an increase of 12.1 pounds since November.
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S&P DOW JONES INDICES AND MSCI ANNOUNCE REVISIONS TO THE GLOBAL INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION STANDARD (GICS®) STRUCTURE IN 2023
NEW YORK, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices ("S&P DJI"), a leading provider of financial market indices, and MSCI Inc. (MSCI), a leading provider of research-based indices and analytics, have conducted their annual review of the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) structure.
The annual GICS methodology review is intended to ensure that the GICS structure continues to appropriately represent the global equity markets and, thereby, enable asset owners, asset managers and investment research specialists to make consistent global comparisons by industry. The GICS structure revision is the result of a consultation with market participants.
Based on the consultation feedback received, S&P DJI and MSCI have concluded that the proposed changes related to the reclassification of renewable energy companies and the consolidation of Diversified Banks and Regional Banks will not be implemented due to lack of market consensus. All other changes proposed in the consultation will be implemented.
The changes to the GICS structure will be implemented in GICS Direct and S&P DJI's indices after the close of business (ET) on Friday, March 17, 2023. A select list of large market capitalization companies affected by the changes will be announced no later than June 30, 2022. The full list of companies affected by these changes will be made available to clients no later than December 15, 2022. MSCI will consult with clients regarding implementation in their indexes.
The results of the consultation and changes to the GICS structure in 2023 are summarized below.
CLASSIFICATION OF RETAILERS
The retail landscape has evolved over the years as retailers are opting to pursue an omni-channel approach to sell their products rather than sticking with mainly brick-and-mortar retail or purely online channels. The demarcation between General Merchandise Stores and Department Stores has diminished as well, since both formats are comprised of retail spaces primarily selling consumer discretionary goods. Retailers that are generating a majority of revenue or earnings from consumable staple items such as food, household, and personal care products warrant a consolidation under the Consumer Staples Sector.
Market feedback concerning the proposals for retailers was generally favorable. S&P DJI and MSCI will discontinue Internet & Direct Marketing Retail and classify companies according to the nature of goods sold, merge General Merchandise Stores and Department Stores into a new Sub-Industry called Broadline Retail, shift consumable merchandise sellers to the Consumer Staples Sector, and update the GICS nomenclature for select Retail classifications by replacing the word "Stores" with "Retail".
CLASSIFICATION OF DATA PROCESSING & OUTSOURCED SERVICES
Companies classified as Data Processing & Outsourced Services offer services either customized for select industries such as human resources or travel or to diverse industries, as is the case with transaction and payment processing companies offering payment related transaction and payment processing services by connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, digital partners, businesses, and other organizations. These support activities are closely aligned with the business support activities covered under the Industrials Sector rather than the Information Technology Sector, and with the Financials Sector in the case of payment processors.
Market feedback concerning the proposal for Data Processing & Outsourced Services was generally favorable. Data Processing & Outsourced Services Sub-Industry under the Information Technology Sector will be discontinued and will be moved to the Industrials Sector with an updated definition. In addition, transaction and payment processing companies will be reclassified to a newly created Sub-Industry called Transaction and Payment Processing Services under the Financials Sector. Payroll processing companies will be moved to the Industrials Sector under the Human Resource & Employment Services Sub-Industry with an updated definition. Companies offering travel related data processing and outsourced services will be moved to the Consumer Discretionary Sector under the Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines Sub-Industry.
CLASSIFICATION OF BANKS AND THRIFTS & MORTGAGE FINANCE
The Banks Industry Group comprised of Diversified Banks, Regional Banks, and Thrifts/Savings Banks has evolved over the years with respect to the geographic footprints of these businesses, the laws governing them, and the variety of services being offered. Further, Mortgage Finance, where revenue is more fee-based than interest income based, are distinct from Banks as they mainly offer mortgage finance related products & services for commercial & residential real estate properties. In order to capture these changes, it was proposed to merge Diversified Banks, Regional Banks, and Thrifts/Savings Banks into a single Sub-Industry. And it was proposed to discontinue the Thrifts & Mortgage Finance Sub-Industry under the Banks Industry Group and create a new Commercial & Residential Mortgage Finance Sub-Industry under the Diversified Financials Industry Group (to be renamed Financial Services).
Market feedback concerning the proposal for Banks was mixed, but favorable for the Thrifts & Mortgage Finance. Most clients expressed a desire to retain a distinction between Diversified Banks and Regional Banks, although they found merit in merging Thrifts and Savings Banks into an expanded Regional Banks Sub-Industry. In addition, feedback was in favor of discontinuing the Thrifts & Mortgage Finance Sub-Industry under the Banks Industry Group and creating a new Commercial & Residential Mortgage Finance Sub-Industry under the Diversified Financials Industry Group (to be renamed Financial Services). Hence, the proposal will be partially adopted. There will be no change to the Diversified Banks Sub-Industry, Thrifts/Savings banks will be merged with Regional Banks, and the change for Thrifts and Mortgage Finance Sub-Industry will be implemented as proposed.
CLASSIFICATION OF EQUITY REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS (REITs)
The companies structured as REITs generally focus on distinct property types such as retail properties, data centers, telecom towers, etc., and only a small percentage of these companies invest in diverse property types.
Market feedback concerning the proposal for Equity REITs was generally favorable. Clients confirmed that there is interest in creating additional granularity for REITs to help investors track the increased specialization in the REITs space. It was proposed that Residential REITs will be split into 2 distinct Sub-Industries and Specialized REITs will be split into 5 Sub-Industries. In addition, 8 Industries for REITs and a new Industry Group for Equity REITs will be created. A new Real Estate Management & Development Industry Group and Industry will also be created. Since the consultation feedback concerning the proposals for Equity REITs was largely favorable, the changes will be implemented as proposed.
CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSPORTATION
The Trucking Sub-Industry includes a mix of companies providing cargo/goods and passenger ground transportation services. The passenger ground transportation business has evolved over the years through the development of online apps and marketplaces for taxis and on-demand ride sharing, as well as consumer bicycle and scooter rental platforms. In addition, these companies are distinct from those offering cargo/goods ground transportation services.
Market feedback supported the reasoning behind separating passenger land transportation from cargo/goods land transportation. The Trucking Sub-Industry will be split into two new Sub-Industries to be called Passenger Ground Transportation and Cargo Ground Transportation. For additional clarity, the Airlines Industry and Sub-Industry will also be renamed as Passenger Airlines to better reflect the companies classified there.
CLASSIFICATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANIES
The consultation proposals related to the classification of renewable energy companies will not be adopted at this time. Although there is a rapid growth in investment and capacity in the renewable energy generation space that is transforming the competitive landscape of both the Energy and Utilities Sectors, with renewable energy generation sources becoming significant competitors to traditional energy source providers, feedback from clients and additional internal analysis suggests that there is not a consensus yet on how to reflect these changes in the GICS structure. It is likely that this topic will be revisited in a future structure review by S&P DJI and MSCI.
UPDATE TO GICS DEFINITION: CLASSIFICATION OF CANNABIS
The cannabis industry has expanded rapidly in recent years due to an ease in regulations and increased discovery of uses for a variety of applications. The legality of recreational usage is still inconsistent globally, whereas legal medicinal use is more widespread. Additional uses are still in a nascent stage. In addition, market feedback was also mixed and hence, the Pharmaceuticals Sub-Industry definition will not be updated at this time.
ADDITIONAL UPDATES IN SELECT GICS INDUSTRY AND SUB-INDUSTRY NAMES
Various GICS Industry and Sub-Industry names will be updated to increase clarity and consistency across the GICS structure, in addition to above changes.
The new GICS structure will consist of 11 Sectors, 25 Industry Groups, 74 Industries and 163 Sub-Industries.
For a detailed document covering the upcoming changes, please visit S&P Dow Jones Indices' web site at www.spdji.com and MSCI's web site at www.msci.com.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of a downtown Los Angeles building where an explosion injured 12 firefighters has been allowed to enter a judicial diversion program that allows him to avoid jail time and potentially have all charges dismissed.
A court commissioner on Wednesday granted the diversion request for Steve Sungho Lee. He and his companies must pay more than $125,000 in investigative fees, make sure the property meets fire and building codes and arranging for Fire Department training.
Lee owned a commercial building on East Boyd Street in the city’s Toy District that caught fire on May 16, 2020. Firefighters had to run for their lives when a ball of flames shot out the building and scorched a fire truck across the street.
Firefighters inside the building had to run through a wall of flames he estimated as 30 feet (9 meters) high and wide, and those on the roof scrambled down a ladder that was engulfed in fire.
Fire officials said the building was a warehouse for Smoke Tokes, a wholesale distributor of supplies for smoking and vaping products including butane hash oil, a concentrated cannabis extract that can be eaten, smoked or vaped. Highly flammable butane is used in the manufacturing process.
Most of the injured firefighters still haven’t returned to work and one, Capt. Victor Aguirre, was hospitalized for more than two months and all of his fingers had to be partially amputated, according to a lawsuit he filed against the building and business owners.
Aguirre alleged that the area contained “hundreds of illegally and improperly stored butane canisters and thousands of illegally and improperly stored nitrous oxide cylinders.”
A fire department report concluded that the blaze, which spread to a nearby building, was fueled by an “excessive quantity” of the containers.
Investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded that the fire started under a storage rack in the building and that a worker with a lit cigarette was seen in the area. The cause of the fire was ruled accidental.
However, city prosecutors filed more than 300 misdemeanor charges of violating fire and safety codes against Lee, his companies and owners of businesses in the building and nearby properties. That included more than 160 counts against Lee and his companies.
If Lee meets all conditions of his judicial diversion program for two years, the charges will be dismissed.
“Mr. Lee will be deemed by law to have never been charged,” said his attorney, Blair Berk. “The exhaustive federal investigation of the tragic fire objectively concluded that the cause was accidental, and there was no finding of any wrongdoing by Mr. Lee or his companies.”
City Attorney Mike Feuer opposed diversion for Lee, noting the severity of the fire, the injuries suffered by the firefighters and Lee’s alleged failure “to take steps which could have mitigated the extent of the blaze.”
The owners of Smoke Tokes and another business, Green Buddha, agreed in November 2020 to pay $139,000 each to cover investigative costs and to move out of the building. Charges against them were later dismissed.
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No injuries reported in major house fire
Published: Mar. 30, 2022 at 3:30 PM CDT
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - A home caught fire in west Lawton early Wednesday morning.
The fire broke out a little before 10 a.m. on the 1100 block of northwest Maple.
When crews arrived on scene, the fire was fully involved.
No one was inside when the blaze began and there have been no injuries reported.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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USDA forecasting higher food, grocery costs in 2022
(Gray News) - It looks like elevated food prices are going to continue this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The USDA released its Food Price Outlook for 2022 and predicted the cost of groceries would continue to increase to as much as 4%.
According to the Consumer Price Index, grocery and supermarket food prices were already 8.6% higher in February than last year and up nearly 1.5% from January to February in 2022.
As reported by the Associated Press, prices for U.S. consumers have continued to jump recently, leaving families facing the highest inflation rate since 1990.
“We’re getting into this situation where we have spiraling inflation,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors. “Inflation in one area drives inflation in another.”
Currently, the CPI reports all food categories are increasing in price other than fresh vegetables. Last year, the beef and veal categories had the most significant price increase of 9.3%, and the fresh vegetable category had the smallest at 1.1%. However, no food categories decreased in price in 2021.
Poultry prices are also expected to increase up to 7%, with egg prices predicted to increase up to 3.5% in 2022.
Overall, grocery store and supermarket food purchases are expected to increase up to 4%, with restaurant purchases or food away from home forecasted to increase up to 6.5%, according to the USDA.
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AP PHOTOS on Day 36: Russian tanks destroyed outside Kyiv The Associated Press
March 31, 2022
1of 21 Destroyed Russian armored vehicles sit on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less
2of 21 People hide in a basement of a church which is used as a bomb shelter, after fleeing from nearby villages, that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Petros Giannakouris/AP Show More Show Less 3of 21
4of 21 Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Show More Show Less
5of 21 Ukrainian soldiers pass on top of armored vehicles next to a destroyed Russian tank in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less 6of 21
7of 21 A machine gun of a Ukrainian soldier rests next to condiments for lunch in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less
8of 21 The arm of a dead Russian soldier is seen next to a tank on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less 9of 21
10of 21 People hide in a basement of a church which is used as a bomb shelter, after fleeing from nearby villages that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine,on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Petros Giannakouris/AP Show More Show Less
11of 21 Ukrainian soldiers assist an elderly woman who has hidden from the Russian shelling in a shelter for weeks without food and water, in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Show More Show Less 12of 21
13of 21 Oleksandr, 81, rides a bicycle next to a destroyed Russian tank in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Rodrigo Abd/AP Show More Show Less
14of 21 A Ukrainian serviceman takes a selfie standing on a destroyed Russian tank after Ukrainian forces overran a Russian position outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Vadim Ghirda/AP Show More Show Less 15of 21
16of 21 People take shelter inside a church after fleeing from nearby villages that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Petros Giannakouris/AP Show More Show Less
17of 21 Ukrainian soldiers carry bodies of civilians killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Show More Show Less 18of 21
19of 21 A damaged gas mask lies on the pavement at a Russian position which was overran by Ukrainian forces, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Vadim Ghirda/AP Show More Show Less
20of 21 Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces, 21-year-olds Svitlana, right, and Myroslava, pose for a photograph, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Both Svitlana, and Myroslava, who studied at the same university in Kyiv, decided to leave academia and serve their country by joining the TDF only one month ago. Nariman El-Mofty/AP Show More Show Less 21of 21
Destroyed Russian tanks line a road on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, where Ukrainian troops pose for selfies atop the shell of one vehicle after their forces overran a Russian position. An 81-year-old man bicycles alone past one burned-out tank on the muddy road.
Close to Kyiv, in Irpin, Ukrainian soldiers carry the bodies of civilians killed by Russian forces over a destroyed bridge. Other soldiers assist an elderly woman who has hidden from Russian shelling in a shelter for weeks without food and water.
In the town of Bashtanka, people who have fled nearby villages attacked by the Russian army shelter in a church among the pews and in the basement bomb shelter.
During a break for lunch, a Ukrainian soldier keeps a machine gun close at hand, next to pickles and condiments on the table.
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Leading mobility solutions provider, Simba TVS, is showcasing the latest transportation and logistics solutions at the 33rd Enugu International Trade Fair, according to a press release. The statement said that the trade fair, which started on Friday, March 25 and will end on Monday, April 4, 2022, at the International Trade Fair Complex, Golf Course, G.R.A, Enugu, has the theme, “Opening Up Nigerian Business Windows for Competitiveness in the Emerging Global Markets.” Regional Business Manager, South-East, Simba Group, Rana Sandeep, noted that the firm’s participation in the fair is a testament to its belief in and commitment to the Nigerian entrepreneurial spirit.
He disclosed that Simba will have on display throughout the duration of the trade fair, its top of the range technology products that provide B2B logistics, commercial last mile and personal transportation solutions. According to Sandeep, “we are also here to tap into the pulse of the economy with regards to our industry, to get the customer’s point of view, interact with government delegate, understand the pressures at the business levels for our current and prospective customers.” He added: “We are at the fair with a range of excellent products to ease the transport and logistics challenges of our customers and will be showcasing these products here.” Also, Regional Sales Manager, East region, Simba Group, Amit Seth, stated that the firm’s stand would be open to visitors to the event with experienced staff on hand to respond to all enquiries regarding the firm’s unique range of products, spare parts and service plans and locations. | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/simba-tvs-showcases-latest-mobility-solutions-at-enugu-trade-fair/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:11Z |
Man seen tugging on car doors attacked woman in Ogden Park Thursday morning
BATON ROUGE – A woman was mugged early Thursday morning while leaving her Ogden Park house, according to posts on social media.
Police were called to the attack just after 4:30 a.m. in the neighborhood, a close-knit community between Baton Rouge Magnet High and Acadian to the west and east and Government and North streets to the north and south. The woman was okay.
She was jumped – stomped in the face – and had her bags and cell phone stolen. Police said she was mugged after noticing someone lurking around her vehicle.
Neighbors posted online they believe a man seen rummaging through yards and pulling on car door handles in the minutes leading up to the mugging is responsible. Surveillance video shared on social media showed a shadowy figure walk up to one house, mosey around the carport and look inside vehicles parked for the night.
According to posts on social media, the man’s baseball cap he was wearing fell off in the attack and was left behind.
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More than 100 teachers, students and parents rallied Thursday outside city hall in Newton, Massachusetts, chanting "Fund our schools!" and "Stop the cuts!" after a budget gap prompted plans for the city to lay off more than 50 educators.
The Newton Teachers Association, which claims the total number of cuts could end up being even higher than first predicted, said the layoffs are avoidable.
"It's going to impact our most vulnerable students the most. It's going to hurt them," said Mike Zilles, the union's president. "A lot of the services that are being cut are services that are designed to support students who are struggling."
Zilles and others point to the $63 million in federal funds that the city received from the American Rescue Plan.
About a quarter of that money, which is designed to stimulate the country's economic recovery in the wake of the pandemic, has been allocated to the city's public school system.
The city now has $38 million on hand to allocate by the end of 2024, and teachers said that could be used to prevent layoffs and other hour reductions.
"I feel like Newton probably has the money to keep a lot of our educators that they're threatening to cut," said teacher Sheree Russo, who is keeping her job. "And if they do cut the amount of educators that they choose to, then students are going to have larger class sizes."
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Mayor Ruthanne Fuller has said that she actually increased funding to the schools by 3.5%. She cited increasing needs and rising costs as culprits for what she described as "wrestling with a budget challenge."
When reached for comment on Thursday, the mayor's spokesperson referred NBC10 Boston to the her previous statements on the budget issues. | https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/newton-teachers-supporters-protest-against-plans-for-school-layoffs/2683239/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:11Z |
HONOLULU (AP) — The late Native Hawaiian hula teacher Edith Kanaka’ole is among five women who will be individually featured on a U.S. quarter next year as part of a program that depicts notable women on the flip side of the coin.
The U.S. Mint said Wednesday the other side of each quarter will show George Washington.
It described Kanaka’ole, who died in 1978, as a composer, chanter, dancer, teacher and entertainer.
“Her moʻolelo, or stories, served to rescue aspects of Hawaiian history, customs and traditions that were disappearing due to the cultural bigotry of the time,” it said in a news release.
The Edith Kanaka’ole Foundation in Hilo, which was established in 1990 to perpetuate her and her husband Luka Kanaka’ole’s teachings, said she has been recognized as “the preeminent practitioner of modern Hawaiian culture and language.”
The U.S. Mint said the other four women to appear on the coin next year were: Bessie Coleman, the first African American and first Native American woman pilot; Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady and author; Jovita Idár, the Mexican American journalist and activist; and Maria Tallchief, who was America’s first prima ballerina.
This year, the program is issuing coins featuring five other women, including poet Maya Angelou and astronaut Sally Ride. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/late-native-hawaiian-hula-teacher-to-appear-on-us-quarter/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:11Z |
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Thu, 31 Mar 2022
Islanders are encouraged to commemorate Her Majesty the Queen on becoming the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service.
The official Jubilee celebration will take place over an extended bank holiday from Thursday 2 June to Sunday 5 June. Various events are being organised including a ‘Big Jubilee TT Rideout’ on Mad Sunday, as well as the lighting of Beacons across the Island.
A Platinum Jubilee Event Fund offering a one-off grant to help cover up to 80% of total costs has been launched to encourage local communities to come together and celebrate this momentous occasion.
The fund will allow the Island’s Local Authorities, non-profit making community/voluntary groups and local charities to apply for a one-off grant towards the costs of specific community events celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The event fund will offer the following financial support:
Events eligible for support must demonstrate a clear link to the celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee in terms of theme and event activity. The events can take place from 1 April 2022 until 30 September 2022 and can include but not be limited to the Big Jubilee Lunches, street parties, live music and entertainment, festival activities and specific exhibitions.
Whilst the official celebrations across the Commonwealth are planned for the special extended bank holiday from Thursday 2 June to Sunday 5 June, Islanders are encouraged to celebrate any time from April through to September with the help of this grant.
Those interested can apply using the online application form and for any related enquiries please email eventfund@gov.im. Applications will close on the 31st May 2022.
A full list of information on the Platinum Jubilee can be found online.
More than 1,500 beacons will be lit throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories in recognition of The Queen’s long and selfless service.
Those who wish to register a beacon on the Isle of Man or want to find out more information about organising a beacon, are asked to contact Jane Kelly at jane.kelly@gov.im | https://www.energyfm.net/cms/news_story_716087.html | 2022-04-01T00:43:13Z |
STATERA (STA) traded down 6.9% against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 20:00 PM ET on March 31st. During the last seven days, STATERA has traded down 1.3% against the US dollar. One STATERA coin can currently be bought for about $0.0604 or 0.00000132 BTC on exchanges. STATERA has a total market capitalization of $4.79 million and $112,682.00 worth of STATERA was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Tether (USDT) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002192 BTC.
- XRP (XRP) traded 4.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00001802 BTC.
- Polkadot (DOT) traded 4.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $21.50 or 0.00047111 BTC.
- Shiba Inu (SHIB) traded down 5.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Wrapped TRON (WTRX) traded 0.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0744 or 0.00000163 BTC.
- Lido stETH (STETH) traded 3.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $3,270.20 or 0.07164958 BTC.
- EarnX (EARNX) traded 396,248.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0008 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB) traded 3.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $45,599.75 or 0.99908370 BTC.
- stETH (Lido) (STETH) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $3,479.19 or 0.06807369 BTC.
- Internet Computer (ICP) traded down 4% against the dollar and now trades at $21.15 or 0.00046332 BTC.
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By Stuart E. Eizenstat
(JTA) — “How long have you known me, Stu?” Madeleine Albright asked me that question with a sense of urgency I had not heard from her before.
It was mid-January 1996, and I was in my hotel room in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum. She called me through a secure line from her office in the State Department during the transition following Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection, before she was confirmed by the Senate as the first female secretary of state in American history. I was about to be nominated by the president to the position she offered me as her undersecretary of state for Business & Economic Affairs.
“Well,” I replied, “20 years, since you and I worked together in the West Wing of the Carter White House, you as congressional liaison for the National Security Council under Zbig Brzezinski, and me as President Carter’s Chief Domestic Policy Adviser.”
The next question was even more odd: “What religion am I?”
“Madeleine, of course, you are a Czech Catholic. What’s this all about?”
She explained that a Washington Post reporter, Michael Dobbs, was doing an investigative article on her background as she awaited Senate confirmation, and shockingly determined that she was Jewish, not Catholic. She had known that her parents twice fled Czechoslovakia: first to London as Hitler and the Nazis were going to take over, and then again in 1948, this time to the United States, after her father, a Czech diplomat who returned after the war, was confronted by Stalin and the Communists. She did not know that both of her parents were born Jewish and converted to Catholicism during the war, raising her and her siblings as Catholics.
“What must I do?” she asked. She told me she feared the American Jewish community would oppose her nomination, believing that she was embarrassed by and covered up her Jewish past, and this might sink her confirmation. Moreover, she said, “What am I supposed to say to my three girls? Am I to tell them they should now convert to Judaism?”
My instant advice was to tell the truth, which was that she never knew about her parents’ conversion; to embrace her newly discovered Jewish past with pride; and that of course, neither she nor her three children should feel they needed to convert to Judaism. I also explained that given my work on Holocaust justice in the Clinton administration, and frequent interaction with Holocaust survivors, that the Jewish community understood that during World War II all sorts of methods were used to protect Jewish children, including placing them in Catholic convents or in Christian households where they were raised by righteous Gentiles.
I told her that several of the Jewish friends I had made in Belgium when I was U.S. ambassador to the European Union had been saved in just that way. Tomas Kraus, the head of the Federation of Czech Jewish Communities, later confirmed that “[i]t is common for Jews from this part of the world to be ignorant of their Jewish roots.”
By being candid, I was certain there would be no blowback from either the Jewish community or the Senate. Besides, I reminded her, as U.N. ambassador during Clinton’s first four years in office, she had established herself as a strong, fervent supporter of Israel against Arab attacks.
She followed my advice and was confirmed with a remarkable 99-0 vote. On her first foreign trip as secretary of state, as I was in her office for a last-minute briefing, she looked at her suitcase and, with her characteristic wit, said, “Well, with my newly discovered Jewish background, I suppose I should say I am going to schlep my suitcase!” We all burst into laughter.
But Madeleine Albright went beyond my fondest hopes in identifying with her Jewish past. As secretary of state, in her maiden trip to her Prague birthplace in July 1997, she went straight to the Pinkas Synagogue to look for her grandparents’ names among the more than 77,000 Czech and Slovak Holocaust victims lovingly inscribed by Czech survivors on the wall of the synagogue. She found the names of her paternal grandparents, Arnost and Olga Korbel, who had perished in the Nazi death camps — Arnost in Theresienstadt in 1942 and her grandmother in Auschwitz in 1944. At the synagogue she said publicly, “Tonight…their image will be forever seared into my heart.”
Later during her tour to welcome her native Czech Republic and two other former Soviet bloc countries into NATO — a burning issue today with the Russian invasion of Ukraine — she toured other Jewish sites in Prague, and movingly confronted her past: “The evil of the Holocaust” has taken on “even greater personal meaning” since she learned the fate of her grandparents. “To the many values and many facets that make up who I am, I now add the knowledge that my grandparents and members of my family perished in the worst catastrophe in human history. So I leave here tonight with the certainty that this new part of my identity adds something stronger, sadder and richer to my life.”
She went a step further and on a later trip went to the small villages where her fraternal and maternal grandparents had lived, to try to relive their history.
As her undersecretary, I saw up-close how her background as a refugee from fascism shaped her foreign policy views and her greatest triumphs in the two Balkan Wars, in Bosnia and Kosovo. As U.N. ambassador, she joined with National Security Adviser Tony Lake to successfully urge President Clinton, over Pentagon and State Department opposition, to take aggressive U.S. leadership of NATO and direct military strikes against Bosnian Serbs following the brutality against Bosnian Muslims encouraged by Serbian strongman President Slobodan Milosević.
The July 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 Bosnian men and boys at Srebrenica, dumped into a mass grave, evoked for her the Holocaust her parents had escaped. She confronted Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Colin Powell, stating, “What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” That military action paved the way for the Dayton Accords negotiated by Richard Holbrooke, the peace agreement that ended the war.
In January 1999, following another Serb massacre of Kosovo Albanians at the small Kosovo village of Racak, Secretary of State Albright brilliantly combined diplomacy with NATO military force, again over Defense Department opposition, to secure a peace which lasts to this day.
She was a strong, constant supporter of my work on Holocaust justice in my negotiations with Swiss and French banks, German and Austrian slave labor companies and European insurance companies. She gave the keynote speech at the Washington Conference which led to the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, where she weaved her own Holocaust background into the contemporary challenge of returning looted art. And she asked me to lead the U.S. delegation to the Kyoto conference on Climate Change, giving me strong backing for the Kyoto Protocols.
She decided to name the State Department headquarters after President Harry S. Truman, to symbolize the leadership he had taken to build a new, peaceful, postwar world, with U.S. leadership. We shared a laugh when we found out his middle initial “S” was not an abbreviation for any name, but was just a letter his mother added to his name.
We went through tragedies as well. I accompanied her to Dover Air Force Base, where we met the flag-draped coffins of American diplomats killed in terrorist attacks at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and she gave an uplifting speech on the sacrifices American diplomats take to try to create a better world.
Madeleine Albright, tiny in stature but huge in impact, had a charisma, a sparkle, a brilliance and a fluency in Czech, French, Polish and Russian. She connected the foreign policy she forged with President Clinton to the lives of everyday people around the world. All of these qualities made her larger than life. One of her trademarks was wearing a variety of brooches on the lapel of her clothing to underline her political and diplomatic messages. When I asked why, since she had not done this in our early years together, she recalled when Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein, following his invasion of Kuwait, compared her to an “unparalleled serpent.” She wore a snake pin in response, and a tradition was born.
The United States has lost a great American public servant, a role model for women as the first female secretary of state, a professor at Georgetown University, an author, a lifelong proponent of democracy and human rights, a constant friend of Israel and someone who embraced her Jewish background. And I have lost a dear friend.
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BOSTON (AP) — After a 15-year career in which he etched his name on the Stanley Cup and the Vezina Trophy, Tuukka Rask is focusing now on avoiding the rink.
“Don’t even go there. Not yet,” the retired Bruins goalie said Thursday night when asked if his daughters had taken up hockey. “They’re into dance and whatnot. If I have to go and spend my days at hockey rinks, so be it. But not really at the top of my list.”
A two-time All-Star, and the winner of the 2014 Vezina as the NHL’s top goalie, Rask announced his retirement last month after a setback in his attempt to come back from a torn labrum in his hip. The Bruins invited him back to drop the ceremonial first puck before Thursday night’s game against the New Jersey Devils, and again – perhaps for the last time – the chants of “Tuuuuk!” echoed through the TD Garden.
Rask took the ice with his wife, and their three daughters dressed for a ballet class. He bumped fists with the players on the Bruins bench while both teams tapped their sticks on the ice to salute him.
“I don’t know what the future holds,” Rask told reporters beforehand, saying that he would be showing up at games and golf outings as a team ambassador. “Maybe I’ll get into coaching. Maybe not, but for now, I’ll be hanging out with sponsors.”
The franchise’s all-time leader in wins, Rask helped the Bruins allow the fewest goals in the NHL in the pandemic-interrupted 2019-20 season, when Boston finished with the most points in the league. He injured his hip during the 2021 playoffs and worked his way back to the team midway through this season.
But after just four starts, he aggravated his injury on Jan. 24 against the Anaheim Ducks. Two weeks later, he announced he was through.
“It was kind of time to be honest with yourself,” he said. “I just figured it was better for everybody to call it. I had a great career. No regrets.”
While his hip still has some good days, Rask said no one could talk him out of retirement. His immediate future will involve as much golf as he can squeeze in between shuttling his daughters to dance class and school.
He may need a hip replacement at some point.
“It was at a point where it affected my everyday life,” Rask said. “I’m a guy who makes pretty quick decisions, anyway. So I wasn’t dwelling on it too long.”
Rask was 308-165-66 with a 2.28 goals-against average and .921 save percentage in a franchise-leading 564 games. He was the backup goalie for the Bruins team that won it all in 2011, and he led the team to Stanley Cup Final appearances in 2013 and ’19.
Although coaching is not in his plans, Rask said he would be available if Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman wants him.
“I told him right after I retired: Tell me if you need anything,” Rask said. “Just make sure you don’t get too high or too low.”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose was clear in the months after the 2020 presidential election.
“Elections are run better and more honestly than really I think they ever have been,” he said in response to conspiracy theories being floated about the election. Months later, he said in an interview what has proved true in state after state – that voter fraud is rare.
Fast forward to 2022, when Republican secretaries of state face a delicate test with voters: Touting their work running clean elections while somehow not alienating GOP voters who believe the false claims of fraud fueled by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
LaRose has shifted his tone on Twitter, recently saying the “mainstream media is trying to minimize voter fraud to suit their narrative” and “President Donald Trump is right to say that voter fraud is a serious problem.”
That tweet came a day after LaRose learned he had drawn not one but two primary challengers, both of whom have said they believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
All but one of the eight incumbent Republican secretaries of state seeking to continue as their state’s elections chief have drawn at least one GOP challenger who either outright denies Democrat Joe Biden won the presidency or makes unsubstantiated claims that elections are not secure.
That raises the prospect that the nation’s voting process will become further politicized if candidates who embrace conspiracy theories or promote without evidence the false narrative of widespread fraud win races for offices such as secretary of state, which play critical roles in managing elections and are intended to be neutral.
Trey Grayson, a former Republican secretary of state from Kentucky who has been outspoken against the efforts to delegitimize the 2020 presidential results, said some of the incumbent GOP secretaries need room to maneuver politically so they can defeat opponents within their own party who might seek to undermine fair elections if they win.
“These are guardians of democracy,” he said. “Their opponents are people who don’t show respect for the law or evidence or the vote-counting process. They are willing to ignore counts, willing to ignore safeguards we have in the system. In some cases, they are just making stuff up.”
Trump’sfalse claims have led to restrictive voting laws in Republican-controlled states, partisan election reviews, voting system security breaches and now a wave of candidates seeking to take over election administrationat the state and local levels.
In addition to Ohio, Republican secretaries of state in Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota are seeking to remain in office. Only Iowa’s Paul Pate is running unopposed.
In Alabama, Idaho, Nevada and North Dakota, the GOP incumbents have opted against seeking reelection or are term-limited, leaving open contests. Wyoming Secretary of State Edward Buchanan has yet to announce his plans.
Democratic secretaries are running to keep their seats in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico and Washington. So far, only one has drawn a Democratic challenger.
The job of secretary of state has tended to attract candidates focused more on process than politics. The races are typically low-key contests overshadowed by campaigns for governor and state attorney general.
That changed after Trump disputed his loss and decided to target election officials in political battleground states, sometimes pressuring them to reverse his loss. In one instance, Trump made a phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he asked Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn Biden’s win.
Raffensperger didn’t cede to Trump’s demands and has defended Georgia’s election in a re-election bid this year where he faces three primary challengers. He has sought to counter them by touting his conservative credentials, downplaying differences with Trump and wooing primary voters with a call to ban non-citizen voting. He also has pointed to his efforts to include a photo ID requirement for mail ballots as part of a sweeping election bill passed by lawmakers last year.
At a recent rally in Georgia, Trump blasted Raffensperger as a “lousy secretary of state.” In an interview, Raffensperger said he has been working to counter the continuing misinformation and disinformation campaigns.
“We checked every allegation; I made sure we did,” Raffensperger said. “I stand on the truth, and no one has been stronger on election integrity than me.”
Trump has endorsed one of Raffensperger’s opponents, U.S. Rep. Jody Hice. Hice objected to Georgia’s electoral votes being counted for Biden, despite a lack of any evidence of widespread fraud or tampering. Georgia’s 5 million votes cast for president were counted three times, including once by hand.
Hice has been leading all candidates in fundraising and is part of a new group called the “America First Secretary of State Coalition,” organized by Jim Marchant, a former state lawmaker who is running for the open secretary of state seat in Nevada.
The group, which also includes Trump-endorsed candidates in Arizona and Michigan, has among other things advocated for limits on mail voting.
Trump won Kansas with 56% of the vote, and the state had no significant problems with its 2020 elections. Even so, Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab is facing a Republican primary opponent.
Schwab has pushed back on conspiracy theories and potentially angered many GOP voters in doing so. After a recent hearing in which lawmakers heard from Trump allies making false claims about the 2020 election, he wrote the committee to say the testimony “sought to undermine confidence in our county election officers, election results, and the longstanding systems used to securely conduct elections in Kansas.”
Despite any evidence of problems with Kansas’ elections, Schwab’s Republican opponent, Mike Brown, has called for tougher rules on drop boxes and mail ballots, supports partisan ballot reviews and wants ballots printed on special paper. He said Schwab hasn’t been vigilant when it comes to protecting elections.
Schwab downplayed the criticism and said he has an open line to Trump.
“If he’s got concerns, you know, the president’s team can call our office and say, ‘Hey, we want to talk to you about the 2020 election,’ but they don’t because they know there’s no concerns,” Schwab said.
He and some other incumbents have tried a delicate balance in messaging as they seek to retain their seats — touting election performance in their own state while hinting vaguely at election problems elsewhere.
In South Dakota, Secretary of State Steve Barnett defended the work of his office and blamed “disinformation, misinformation, mal-information” for lowering voter confidence nationwide.
“I can only speak to what went on in South Dakota,” he said. “I can’t speak to what happened in these other states.”
Barnett’s challenger, Monae Johnson, said she was “answering the call of concerned citizens” to run and criticized Barnett for sending absentee ballot applications during the pandemic and supporting online voter registration.
In Ohio, LaRose’s pro-Trump statements haven’t stopped his GOP challenger, former state lawmaker John Adams, from claiming that he hasn’t taken election integrity seriously; a second primary challenger was disqualified for paperwork errors.
Adams told a group of Republicans gathered recently at a sports bar in suburban Columbus that “there’s no way that Trump lost,” likening LaRose to Georgia Democrat Stacy Abrams for his positions in favor of ballot access. LaRose says Adams is basing his campaign on “conspiracy theories and nonsense,” but brushed aside questions about whether his own rhetoric had shifted.
All this has left many GOP primary voters conflicted. Lyle Adcock, 72, a semi-retired computer sales representative who listened to Adams at the sports bar, said he has always trusted Ohio elections but now isn’t sure what to think.
“It’s not like I feel my vote doesn’t count, but I wonder if there is any of this fraud,” he said.
Asked who he was supporting in the secretary of state’s race, Adcock said he hadn’t yet decided.
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Cassidy reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writers Kate Brumback in Atlanta; Stephen Groves in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas, contributed to this report. | https://www.mystateline.com/news/politics/election-skeptics-roil-gop-contests-for-secretary-of-state/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:13Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — Korean pop star Luna is ready to make her Broadway debut this fall in the musical “KPOP” and she’s already dreaming of who might be there on opening night — like BTS.
“I would be thankful if they showed up on opening night,” Luna told The Associated Press through her translator.
She also wants fans and other stars to show up, too.
“This is New York City, it’s got its own celebrities and also audiences who would enjoy this. So, I would love to see New York celebrities, as well as Hollywood celebrities,” Luna said.
Luna was introduced at a press event for the musical Wednesday at the Korean Cultural Center in New York.
Luna began her musical career as a member of the popular K-pop group f(x) before becoming a solo artist. Her latest single, “Madonna,” was released in September.
Her stage resume includes Korean productions of “In the Heights” and “Mamma Mia,” and she’s excited to take her talents to Broadway.
“I have always loved doing all those ever since I was a young child, and I even liked creating some routines,” Luna said.
She added: “For this musical, I get to dance while I sing while I act, that is so exciting, and I cannot wait to do this.”
“KPOP” tells the story of global superstars preparing for a special one-night only concert, when one singer’s inner struggle threatens to dismantle one of the biggest labels in the industry.
The multimedia experience explores the relentless discipline, raw talent, and commercial ambition behind the international phenomenon.
The musical has a story by Jason Kim and music by Helen Park, who has worked on the show for the past eight years. She said she is excited that audiences will finally get to experience her favorite music genre.
“I know recently a K-pop has been really blowing up and a lot of people love the genre. But when we started writing this musical in back in 2014, I was so eager for the world to see what I see. And I wanted to share it with the world in a language that everyone can understand,” she said.
“I think musical theater is that vessel for people to hear and witness other people’s stories and feel the emotions. I really wanted the show to be doing that with the genre that I love so much,” Park said.
“KPOP” begins previews Oct. 13 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, with an opening night scheduled for Nov. 20. | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/korean-pop-star-luna-readies-for-broadway-debut-in-kpop/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:14Z |
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into law a bill that creates a first-in-the-nation statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people.
The law creates a system similar to Amber Alerts and so-called silver alerts, which are used respectively for missing children and vulnerable adults in many states.
The system will notify law enforcement when there's a report of a missing Indigenous person. It will also place messages on highway reader boards and on the radio and social media and will provide information to the news media.
The law attempts to address a crisis of missing Indigenous people — particularly women — in Washington and across the United States. While it includes missing men, women and children, a summary of public testimony on the legislation notes that "the crisis began as a women's issue, and it remains primarily a women's issue."
A 2021 report by a government watchdog found the true number of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the U.S. is unknown due to reporting problems, distrust of law enforcement and jurisdictional conflicts. But Native American women face murder rates almost three times those of white women overall — and up to 10 times the national average in certain locations, according to a 2021 summary of the existing research by the National Congress of American Indians. More than 80% have experienced violence.
In Washington, more than four times as many Indigenous women go missing than white women, according to research conducted by the Urban Indian Health Institute in Seattle, but many such cases receive little or no media attention.
An alert system will help mitigate some problems surrounding investigations of missing Indigenous people by allowing better communication between tribal, local and state law enforcement and creating a way for law enforcement to flag such cases for other agencies. The law also expands the definition of "missing endangered person" to include Indigenous people, as well as children and vulnerable adults with disabilities or memory or cognitive issues.
The measure is the latest step the state has taken to address the issue. The Washington State Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Task Force is working to coordinate a statewide response and had its first meeting in December. Its first report is expected in August.
Many states from Arizona to Oregon to Wisconsin have taken recent action to address the crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women. Efforts include funding for better resources for tribal police to the creation of new databases specifically targeting missing tribal members. Tribal police agencies that use Amber Alerts for missing Indigenous children include the Hopi and Las Vegas Paiute.
In California, the Yurok Tribe and the Sovereign Bodies Institute, an Indigenous-run research and advocacy group, uncovered 18 cases of missing or slain Native American women in roughly the past year in their recent work — a number they consider a vast undercount. An estimated 62% of those cases are not listed in state or federal databases for missing persons. | https://www.voanews.com/a/washington-oks-1st-statewide-missing-indigenous-people-alert-/6510186.html | 2022-04-01T00:43:15Z |
Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest superhero is not, in the conventional sense, either "super" or a "hero," but he does have an unorthodox ailment and a weird skill-set to separate him from mere mortals. His name is Morbius, and while watching his origin story, you may get the feeling that somewhere in the cinematic multiverse, wires got crossed.
The film begins with a helicopter, transporting a cage to the sort of mist-shrouded isle you half expect King Kong to be inhabiting. But Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is looking to capture smaller game as he approaches the mouth of a cave, hobbling with difficulty on two crutch-like canes.
Positioning himself behind the wires of the cage, he slices open the palm of his hand and, as a roar of batwings echoes from inside the cave, murmurs to the copter pilot "if you're gonna run, do it now."
A rare blood disease treated with a bit o' bat
It's tempting to say "consider yourself warned," but the film's first hour or so, while unremarkable, is decently crafted.
Born with a rare blood disease, Michael Morbius has spent his entire life working on two things — a cure, and origami paper-folding. Natch, it occurs to him to fold together bat and human DNA.
Because the FDA would be unlikely to approve human trials, he and his beautiful co-researcher Martine (Adria Arjona) head in a cargo ship for international waters off the coast of Long Island in the company of eight thuggish mercenaries — think bloodbags — and once Morbius has been injected with bat DNA, it's just a matter of time before things go vampiric.
Let it be said that some side-effects from dabbling in "chiropter-y" are less ghastly than others. Bat DNA evidently gives you great cheekbones and abs to go with increased strength and speed.
Less salutary effects include new fangs that sprout from his gums with decades of decay baked in, and claws that erupt from his fingers pre-filthed. I mean, sure...why not? Except this is a man whose hair has the kind of sheen that comes from brushing it three times a day.
One other thing: he now needs to drink human blood every six hours. Happily, on his way to declining a Nobel Prize, Dr. Morbius invented "artificial blood," though that only fools his system for a while.
Color coded smoke effects for a Jekyll and his Hyde
If you're expecting a conventional Marvel movie, you should be aware going in that what Director Daniel Espinoza and his writers have come up with is more a horror flick with Marvel bells and whistles.
That means Leto's Morbius gets purplish smoke effects to go with those fang-baring snarls as he's riding air currents in subway tunnels, while the similarly afflicted Hyde to his Jekyll – a schoolboy chum played as an adult by an amusingly hopped-up Matt Smith, gets blue-ish vapor trails and snappier lines.
But there isn't much tension to their story. Or logic. At one point, Morbius overhears some counterfeiters passing fake $100s, and commandeers their printing press to make what appears to be an artificial-blood machine — because the technologies for fake-bills and fake-blood match up? Maybe that works better in a comic book.
Bat guys everywhere you look
Speaking of which, when the DC Extended Universe first announced that Twilight star Robert Pattinson would play the lead in The Batman in their corner of the superhero multiverse, it seemed like a nice inside joke — from Vampire-teen to Bat-man. But now that the Marvelverse has Leto going full Dracula, it seems as if the casting maybe could've gone the other way 'round.
Leto is as persuasively haunted by the dark side of vigilantism as Pattinson was, and as a result of corporate positioning, is maybe more determined to avoid being a villain. Not unlike Venom, Morbius was a bad guy when he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man comics, back in the 1970's. He needs to be at least an anti-hero now, if a franchise is to be built around him.
But bad guy/bat guy...who's to say? As the trailers reveal, another DC bat-guy, Michael Keaton, shows up in his non-batty baddie Marvel persona Adrian Toomes, just to mess with the heads of anyone trying to keep cinematic universes straight.
But bloodlines will have to be clarified in more robust "Morbius" episodes to come, this origin story being merely adequate, and by Marvel standards, slightly anemic.
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Shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA, +3.60% rose 1.1% in premarket trading Tuesday, after news reports that the electric vehicle giant has raised prices in the U.S. for all of its models. Analyst Dan Levy at Credit Suisse said prices increased 3% to 5% in the U.S., and follows a price hike in China on March 10. The price hikes come after Technoking of Tesla Elon Musk sent a series of inflation-related tweets on March 13, saying that Tesla was seeing "significant recent inflation pressure in raw materials & logisitics," and "What are your thoughts on probable inflation over the next few years?" The company did not respond to a request for comment. Tesla's lower-priced Model 3 starts at $42,690, including potential incentives and gas savings of $4,300, according to Tesla's website. Tesla's stock has tumbled 21.5% over the past three months while the S&P 500. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556550486643/uaw-president-has-had-no-discussions-with-tesla-tsla-on-union-vote | 2022-04-01T00:43:16Z |
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey refused to say Thursday if transgender people actually exist, twice dodging direct questions on the subject just a day after he signed legislation limiting transgender rights.
The Republican worked instead to defend his signatures on bills that bar transgender girls and women from playing on girls high school and women's college sports teams and barring gender affirming surgery for anyone under age 18.
When specifically asked if he believed that there “are really transgender people,” the governor paused for several seconds before answering.
“I’m going to ask you to read the legislation and to see that the legislation that we passed was in the spirit of fairness to protect girls sports in competitive situations,” Ducey said, referring to the new law that targets transgender girls who want to play on girls sports teams. “That’s what the legislation is intended to do, and that’s what it does.”
Asked again if he believed there are “actual transgender people,” he again answered slowly and carefully.
“I ... am going to respect everyone, and I’m going to respect everyone’s rights. And I’m going to protect female sports. And that’s what the legislation does,” Ducey said.
Ducey's response was “appalling,” according to the Arizona director of the Human Rights Campaign, a national civil rights group that advocates for equality for LGBTQ people. The organization worked to ensure families and transgender young people came to the Capitol to testify against the bills as the Republican-led House and Senate considered them this session.
“It's quite shocking that he can't even address trans people or even say that he thinks they exist,” Bridget Sharpe said.
Wednesday's signing of the two transgender bills and a third that bars abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and is currently unconstitutional put Ducey right in the middle of two top issues national Republicans are highlighting in the runup to November's midterm elections.
Ducey also signed election legislation that minority Democrats said amounted to voter suppression by requiring longtime Arizonans to be thrown off the voter rolls if they did not prove their citizenship and residence location.
The governor leads the Republican Governors Association, which is charged with helping elect GOP chief executives in U.S. states. He in is the last year of his second term as Arizona governor and term limits bar him from seeking reelection.
The top Democrat in the state House, Rep. Reginald Bolding, called Wednesday “probably one of the darkest days we've seen in the history of Arizona."
“With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Ducey has hurled Arizona backwards to its ugliest past,” Bolding said Wednesday. “And today, he put in jeopardy pregnant people, transgender youth in danger and curtailed voting rights for people of color.”
Social conservative groups and the Arizona Republican Party praised Ducey's action. The Center for Arizona Policy, whose president shepherded the abortion and women's sports bills through the Legislature, called it a victory.
"Thank you, Governor Ducey, for taking a bold stand for women athletes, vulnerable children, and the unborn by putting your signature on (the bills) in the face of intense opposition from activists," Center for Arizona Policy president Cathi Herrod said in a news release she posted on Twitter.
She said the legislation protects the unborn, ensures a level playing field for female athletes and shows that “Arizona will do everything it can to protect vulnerable children struggling with gender confusion” by enacting the surgery ban.
Ducey said the surgery ban protects children from irreversible decisions.
“These are permanent surgeries of reassignment that are irreversible, and those discussions can happen once adulthood is reached,” he said.
The American Civil Liberties Association has vowed to sue over the surgery ban. U.S. Supreme Court precedent currently says women have a constitutional right to abortion until about 24 weeks of pregnancy, although it is considering whether to uphold a 15-week ban enacted in Mississippi and may overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision enshrining a woman's right to choose.
Arizona joins 13 other states in enacting laws preventing transgender girls and women from playing on girls teams. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a transgender sports ban in his state, saying it would harm transgender girls, but the Legislature overrode the veto. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb also vetoed a sports bill, but lawmakers hope to override his action as well. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Arizona-governor-won-t-say-transgender-people-17049806.php | 2022-04-01T00:43:17Z |
Putin warns Ukraine might lose statehood
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a meeting on Saturday warned that Ukraine might lose its statehood “if they continue doing what they are doing,” The New York Times reported.
“The current leadership needs to understand that if they continue doing what they are doing, they risk the future of Ukrainian statehood,” Putin said in Moscow, according to the newspaper. “If that happens, they will have to be blamed for that.”
During his meeting he also likened sanctions imposed by Western countries toward Russia as “akin to a declaration of war,” the Times reported, demonstrating an escalation in rhetoric by Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine.
Those remarks were rebuked by some U.S. lawmakers.
“Weaponizing migration & attacks on nuke plants are akin to a declaration of war too,” Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted on Saturday. “The problem is NATO would quickly annihilate #Russia’s conventional forces & Putin would then use chemical,biological & non-strategic nukes to freeze the conflict.”
Ukraine has been independent for more than 30 years following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Russia’s invasion of the sovereign nation has been widely condemned by the international community, and Ukraine has called to be included in the NATO military alliance. Russia has demanded that Ukraine not be allowed into NATO.
Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a European Union membership application as the former Soviet Union country seeks to join the bloc.
“Our goal is to be together with all Europeans and, most importantly, to be on an equal footing,” the Ukrainian president said during a video address, The New York Times reported. “I’m sure it’s fair. I’m sure it’s possible.”
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A maternity hospital is temporarily pausing its service while a review takes place over a number of births that took place.
The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has confirmed that the maternity unit at the Lagan Valley Hospital in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, will stop births at the unit while a review of the service takes place, reported BelfastLive.
Expectant mothers will be offered alternative care, including Midwifery Led care from the Ulster Hospital Home from Home unit.
The Trust has said that the pause is a precautionary measure in the interest of patient safety due to concerns raised regarding a "small number" of births at the unit.
These cases are now under active review and the Trust is engaging with the families involved.
A South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust spokesperson told BelfastLive: "The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust is temporarily pausing births in the Lagan Valley Hospital’s Midwifery Led Unit. All current ante-natal and post-natal services will continue to be provided in the unit.
"Expectant mothers will be offered alternative care, including Midwifery Led care in the Home from Home Unit in the Ulster Hospital.
"The South Eastern Trust is taking this precautionary action because of concerns that have been raised about a very small number of cases who have birthed in the unit. These cases are under active review and we are engaging with the families involved.
"We understand this decision may be disappointing for both staff in the unit and expectant mothers, however the Trust has taken this temporary action in the interest of patient safety, pending the outcome of these reviews.
"All expectant mothers scheduled to give birth in the Midwifery Led Unit in the Lagan Valley Hospital and all staff impacted by this temporary action are being contacted by the Trust.
"On average, eight women give birth in this unit each month.
"The Trust is unable to comment at the moment while the reviews are under way. It will however provide further updates when the reviews are complete."
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Red dust flying in Gonzales, residents not happy about lack of maintenance
GONZALES - The sky was painted red Wednesday when red dust was kicked up by the strong wind. Homeowners in Pelican Crossing have been contacting 2 On Your Side about it since they're not happy with the company that's supposed to keep it under control.
This isn't the first time 2 On Your Side has reported on the red dust problem. The dust flies when there are dry conditions and the wind blows. It happened last week during bad weather and again this week. People living in Pelican Crossing in Gonzales say they're concerned about what's landing on their property and what they're breathing in.
It's everywhere - on people's patios, on their lawn furniture, sticks to cars, in the grass, and everywhere in between.
Shelita Bailey has been busy cleaning. The dust has settled at the bottom of her pool, and it's covered her outdoor space. Bailey has seen the dust before but says it's never been this bad.
"Anytime the wind conditions are right, it'll start to blow again," Bailey said.
The dust is coming from a large site next door to Pelican Crossing. Mounds of red dirt can be seen over a levee. A satellite image shows just how large it is. The area is made up of bauxite mud ponds, which are waste generated during the processing of aluminum at the now-closed LAlumina Burnside Refinery.
Recently, 2 On Your Side emailed Logistics and Plant Services Supervisor Aaron Templet. He said the red mud area has a sprinkler system that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The system is meant to keep the area wet to help mitigate dusting, according to the permit with the Department of Environmental Quality. Templet says dry conditions and the strong wind doesn't help the situation.
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Tuesday, WBRZ was in Pelican Crossing and saw the dust flying. People say they can't remember the last time they saw the sprinklers working.
Jodie Crandall moved to the neighborhood about a year ago. Before they built, they asked about the red dirt they can see from their back patio.
"We were told, 'it's just an alumina plant,' but it was shut down, and it wasn't active and not to be concerned," she said.
During the recent dustings, Crandall says she's inhaled it and tasted it.
"It was getting in your eyes and your mouth and it was salty," she said.
Now she's hesitant to plant a vegetable garden.
"I don't know what it is and how it's going to affect us if we grow vegetables in it," she said.
After it rained last week, one resident noticed how the water pouring off her house turned a deep brown-red color. They're concerned about what they're breathing and whether it's harmful when it settles.
"Is it safe to continue to live here?" Crandall questioned. "We have to find out, what is this dust, what are we breathing?"
While homes are still being built in Pelican Crossing and surrounding areas, people already living there say more needs to be done to prevent the dust from blowing.
More questions were asked of the Plant Services Supervisor, but they went unanswered. Calls were not returned and emails were not answered.
DEQ was closed due to the weather Wednesday but confirmed they received quite a few calls about the dust last week and that it's investigating the complaints. Ascension Parish says it's looking into the permits to determine what can be done. | https://www.wbrz.com/news/red-dust-flying-in-gonzales-residents-not-happy-about-lack-of-maintenance/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:18Z |
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Nurses worry conviction for dosing mistake could cost lives
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The moment nurse RaDonda Vaught realized she had given a patient the wrong medication, she rushed to the doctors working to revive 75-year-old Charlene Murphey and told them what she had done. Within hours, she made a full report of her mistake to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Murphey died the next day, on Dec. 27, 2017. On Friday, a jury found Vaught guilty of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect.
That verdict — and the fact that Vaught was charged at all — worries patient safety and nursing groups that have worked for years to move hospital culture away from cover-ups, blame and punishment, and toward the honest reporting of mistakes.
The move to a “Just Culture” seeks to improve safety by analyzing human errors and making systemic changes to prevent their recurrence. And that can’t happen if providers think they could go to prison, they say.
“The criminalization of medical errors is unnerving, and this verdict sets into motion a dangerous precedent,” the American Nurses Association said. “Health care delivery is highly complex. It is inevitable that mistakes will happen. ... It is completely unrealistic to think otherwise.”
Just Culture has been widely adopted in hospitals since a 1999 report by the National Academy of Medicine estimated at least 98,000 people may die each year due to medical errors.
But such bad outcomes remain stubbornly common, with too many hospital staffers convinced that owning up to mistakes will expose them to punishment, according to a 2018 study published in the American Journal of Medical Quality.
More than 46,000 death certificates listed complications of medical and surgical care — a category that includes medical errors — among the causes of death in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
“Best estimates are 7,000-10,000 fatal medication errors a year. Are we going to lock them up? Who is going to replace them?” said Bruce Lambert, patient safety expert and director of the Center for Communication and Health at Northwestern University.
“If you think RaDonda Vaught is criminally negligent, you just don’t know how health care works,” Lambert said.
Murphey was admitted to the neurological intensive care unit on Dec. 24, 2017, after suffering from a brain bleed. Two days later, doctors ordered a PET scan. Murphey was claustrophobic and was prescribed Versed for her anxiety, according to testimony. When Vaught could not find Versed in an automatic drug dispensing cabinet, she used an override and accidentally grabbed the paralyzing drug vecuronium instead.
Such mistakes often end up in malpractice lawsuits, but criminal prosecutions are rare. After Vaught was charged in 2019, the Institute for Safe Medical Practices issued a statement saying it had “worrisome implications for safety.”
“In an era when we need more transparency, cover-ups will reign due to fear,” the statement read. “Even if errors are reported, effective event investigation and learning cannot occur in a culture of fear or blame.”
Many nurses are “already at their breaking point ... after a physically, mentally and emotionally exhausting two years caring for patients with COVID,” said Liz Stokes, director of the American Nurses Association’s Center for Ethics and Human Rights. Vaught’s prosecution gives them one more reason to quit, she said.
“This could be me. I’m an RN as well,” she said. “This could be any of us.”
Vaught was steeped in the idea of Just Culture and says she has “zero regrets” about telling the truth, but her candor was used against her at trial. Assistant District Attorney Brittani Flatt quoted from her interview with a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent in closing arguments: “I definitely should have paid more attention. I should have called the pharmacy. I shouldn’t have overridden, because it wasn’t an emergency.”
It is easy to judge Vaught’s actions in retrospect, Lambert said, but overrides and workarounds are an extremely common part of healthcare, he said: “This is typical, not aberrant or bizarre, behavior.”
Meanwhile, Vaught’s honesty about her mistake has already brought about safety improvements, and not just at Vanderbilt. Because vecuronium should only be used on patients who have a breathing tube inserted, some hospitals have moved it and other paralytic drugs out of automatic dispensing cabinets.
“At my hospital, they’ve changed their policy and put paralytics into a rapid intubation kit because of this,” said Janie Harvey Garner, who founded the nurse advocacy organization Show Me Your Stethoscope. She said that because Vaught owned up to the mistake, Murphey’s death “has probably saved lives.”
While Murphey’s death may serve as a cautionary tale for other nurses, Vaught, now awaiting a sentence of up to eight years, told The Associated Press in an interview that she thinks about her patient every day.
Vaught, 37, discovered that she and Murphey lived in the same small community of Bethpage, about an hour northeast of Nashville, and that she and members of Murphey’s family have mutual friends. It would only be a matter of time before she met one of them in person.
“I’ve imagined so many times how I would feel if this were my grandma, my family member, my husband,” she said.
Recently, while buying farm supplies, she was talking with the young man behind the counter when he recognized her, and told her he was Murphey’s grandson. Instead of reproaching her, he ended up comforting her and patting her on the shoulder, she said.
“He was so kind. He was so incredibly kind,” Vaught said. “I took his grandma away, and he just kept telling me to take care of myself. There are good people in this world.”
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The President, Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN), Mr Adeola Adegoke, has said that the 2020/2021 loans given to some cocoa farmers in the country via the apex bank’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme helped boost productivity by at least 10 per cent, with some increasing their produce from 30 to 40 bags of cocoa beans. Adegoke added that beneficiaries also diversified the base of their incomes by planting other crops and adding animal and fish production through the facilities. He said, hopefully, more farmers would get loans from the ABP scheme before the cocoa planting and maintenance season begins.
The CFAN president explained that even though the country’s agric sector is facing straits amid insecurity and other forms of criminality, local farmers could testify that the ABP scheme rescued the country’s food basket from its slumps. Adegoke, however, said there were some challenges confronting some farmers, such as fire outbreaks, herders’ destruction of farms and impacts of climate change of farmers. Despite these challenges, loan repayment has been very encouraging, and the association had been sensitising beneficiaries to rev up repayment.
The newly confirmed All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) National President, Mudi Farouk, in his speech at the occasion, stated that agriculture was now contributing three times more to the country’s GDP than oil. He said the reason for this was the apex bank’s huge agricultural interventions in the Nigerian economy.
This agric interventions, according to him, has helped to change the status of local farmers in the country. While evaluating the impacts of the ABP scheme, the AFAN national president said the core of the programme was to provide loans (in kind and cash) to smallholder farmers to boost agricultural production, create jobs and reduce food import bill towards conservation of foreign reserve. Farouk added the programme evolved from consultations with stakeholders, including the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, state governments, agro-processors, commodity associations, financial institutions and smallholder farmers to ramp up agricultural production, boost non-oil exports and diversify the revenue base of Nigeria. However, he pointed out that this loan scheme had resulted to the impact on productivity of farmers, availability of industrial raw material and perhaps exports currently in the country’s agric sector. A key representative of the Flour Millers Association of Nigeria (FMAN), Dr. Oluwasina Olabanji, while speaking on the overview of wheat production in Nigeria and ABP’s impacts, said seeds and input challenges were being addressed by CBN (providing quality seeds from Mexico) and FMAN was commitment to off take all wheat grains produced by farmers. Olabanji assured Nigerians that the journey to wheat selfsufficiency had begun in Nigeria and would be sustained with the political will of Nigerian government and various initiatives from FMAN and CBN. Also commenting at the event, the Vice President, Olam Agric, Reji George, said the scheme was capable of producing more crops for food and industrial uses. He said efforts of his firm and out-growers to participate in the 2020/2021 season failed because the company had given our inputs to out-growers before the ABP inputs were ready. “But, this year, we cannot do it because irrigation facilities in Kano and Jigawa are closed down for repairs. We are willing to participate,” he said. “The joint venture has 1,900 out-growers cultivating tomato with off-take agreements. 1000 farmers are in Jigawa and they cultivate 1000 hectares, with others in Bauchi and many other locations too,” he said. | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/stakeholders-link-abp-to-agric-sectors-success/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:18Z |
The conservative media organization The Daily Wire announced plans to invest $100 million to create programming for children to counter "woke media companies."
The move follows Disney's opposition to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education act — which critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — which was signed into Florida law this week. The law restricts discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms. A group of over a dozen students, parents, educators and advocates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s Board of Education.
The Daily Wire said Wednesday it plans to roll out live-action and animated children's entertainment. It also will spend another $100 million on similar content for adults. The programming is scheduled to launch on The Daily Wire's subscription streaming service in spring 2023.
"Americans are tired of giving their money to woke media companies who hate them," Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing said in a statement. "They're tired of giving their money to woke media companies who want to indoctrinate their children with radical race and gender theory. They want to do more than just cancel them. They want alternatives."
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Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
(THE CONVERSATION) The Biden administration on March 31, 2022, said it plans to release an unprecedented 180 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to combat the recent spike in gas and diesel prices. About a million barrels of oil will be released every day for up to six months.
If all the oil is released, it would represent almost one-third of the current volume of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It follows a release of 30 million barrels in early March, a large withdrawal until the latest one.
But what is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, why was it created, and when has it been used? And does it still serve a purpose, given that the U.S. exports more oil and other petroleum products than it imports?
As an energy researcher, I believe considering the reserve’s history can help answer these questions.
Origins of the reserve
Congress created the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 in response to a global oil crisis.
Arab oil-exporting states led by Saudi Arabia had cut supply to the world market because of Western support for Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Oil prices quadrupled, resulting in major economic damage to the U.S. and other countries. This also shook the average American, who had grown used to cheap oil.
The oil crisis caused the U.S., Japan and 15 other advanced countries to form the International Energy Agency in 1974 to recommend policies that would forestall such events in the future. One of the agency’s key ideas was to create emergency petroleum reserves that could be drawn on in case of a severe supply disruption.
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act originally stipulated the reserve should hold up to 1 billion barrels of crude and refined petroleum products. Though it has never reached that size, the U.S. reserve is the largest in the world, with a maximum volume of 714 million barrels. The cap was previously set at 727 million barrels.
As of March 25, 2022, the reserve contained about 568 million barrels.
Oil in the reserve is stored underground in a series of large underground salt domes in four locations along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, and is linked to major supply pipelines in the region.
Salt domes, formed when a mass of salt is forced upward, are a good choice for storage since salt is impermeable and has low solubility in crude oil. Most of the storage sites were acquired by the federal government in 1977 and became fully operational in the 1980s.
History of drawdowns
In the 1975 act, Congress specified that the reserve was intended to prevent “severe supply interruptions” – that is, actual oil shortages.
Over time, as the oil market has changed, Congress expanded the list of reasons for which the Strategic Petroleum Reserve could be tapped, such as domestic supply interruptions due to extreme weather.
Prior to March 2022, about 280 million barrels of crude oil had been released since the reserve’s creation, including a 50 million release that began in November 2021.
There have only been three emergency releases in the reserve’s history. The first was in 1991 after Iraq invaded Kuwait the year before, which resulted in a sharp drop in oil supply to the world market. The U.S. released 34 million barrels.
The second release, of 30 million barrels, came in 2005 after Hurricanes Rita and Katrina knocked out Gulf of Mexico production, which then comprised about 25% of U.S. domestic supply.
The third was a coordinated release by the International Energy Agency in 2011 as a result of supply disruptions from several oil-producing countries, including Libya, then facing civil unrest during the Arab Spring. In all, the agency coordinated a release of 60 million barrels of crude, half of which came from the U.S.
In addition, there have been 11 planned sales of oil from the reserve, mainly to generate federal revenue. One of these – the 1996-1997 sale to reduce the federal budget deficit – seemed to serve political ends rather than supply-related ones.
A better way to avoid pain at the pump
President Joe Biden’s November decision to tap the reserve was also seen as political by Republicans because there was no emergency shortage of supply at that time.
Similarly, the latest historic release of 180 million barrels could also be seen as serving a political purpose – in an election year, no less. But I believe it also seems perfectly legitimate in terms of fulfilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s original purpose: reducing the negative impacts of a major oil price shock.
Though the U.S. is today a net petroleum exporter, it continues to import as much as 8.2 million barrels of crude oil every day.
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But in my view, the best way to avoid the pain of oil price shocks is to lower oil demand by reducing global carbon emissions – rather than mainly relying on releases from the reserve.
This is an updated version of an article originally published on Nov. 24, 2021.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/biden-bets-a-million-barrels-a-day-will-drive-down-soaring-gas-prices-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-180461. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Biden-bets-a-million-barrels-a-day-will-drive-17049686.php | 2022-04-01T00:43:19Z |
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Port St Mary RNLI volunteer crew member Danny Grace will tomorrow start his challenge of giving up alcohol for an entire year, in order to raise vital funds for the RNLI, the charity he dedicates his spare time to.
Danny joined the RNLI as a volunteer crew member back in April 2020. Since signing up as crew he has been equipped by the charity with the necessary kit to volunteer on both Port St Mary’s all-weather Trent class lifeboat Gough Ritchie II, as well as the inshore D-Class lifeboat Spirit of Leicester.
As well as being equipped with the necessary kit, Danny has attended weekly training exercises at Port St Mary lifeboat station both at sea and ashore, learning essential skills such as radio communication, navigation, boat handling, and search and rescue. Working as part of a team, the volunteers practice a wide range of rescue scenarios in order to prepare for any type of call out.
It is all of this which has given Danny the idea of this challenge. Danny is aiming to raise enough money to equip and train one volunteer lifeboat crew member, the equivalent of what the RNLI has invested in Danny, which in total costs £4661. This is made up of £3261 for the kit and £1400 for the training.
In the short time that Danny has been a volunteer crew member of Port St Mary RNLI, he has already been on numerous call outs. His most memorable call-out took place last November when three yachtsmen were saved after their 40-foot yacht became fouled in Bay Ny Carrickey.
Danny’s motivation for doing the challenge is to help raise vital funds in order to keep this vital service running, but also to raise awareness of the RNLI and what it does, with the hope of inspiring the next generation of RNLI volunteers.
As a charity the RNLI is reliant on its supporters and their generous donations, and any amount no matter how big or small will help Danny complete his challenge to help us To Save Every One. | https://www.energyfm.net/cms/news_story_716096.html | 2022-04-01T00:43:19Z |
OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — A U.S. Navy aircraft with three people aboard crashed in waters near the Eastern Shore boundary of Virginia and Maryland on Wednesday evening, killing one, authorities said.
Lt. Cmdr. Rob Myers, a public affairs officer with Naval Air Force Atlantic, told The Associated Press the plane was conducting routine flight operations in the vicinity of Wallops Island, Virginia, when it went down around 7:30 p.m.
Two injured people were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and one was found dead in the aircraft, U.S. Navy E2-D Hawkeye, Myers said.
The plane, an advanced tactical airborne early warning aircraft, is based out of Naval Station Norfolk and assigned to an East Coast Airborne Command and Control Squadron.
Ryan Whittington, a spokesman for Maryland’s Ocean City Fire Department, told The Associated Press that it and other agencies were on the scene after the plane went down in Chincoteague Bay near the community of Stockton.
Whittington said a volunteer fire department in Stockton was the first to respond after getting a call around 7:30 p.m., adding other agencies were assisting.
He said waters in the bay were relatively calm as divers from his fire department and one other helped rescue two people from the plane. He added that they were taken to a hospital but he had no further information on their condition.
The identities of the three were not immediately released by the Navy or others.
“One person was stuck in the plane,” Whittington said, adding crews were working to remove the third person.
A statement released by Myers at Naval Air Force Atlantic in Virginia said the two crewmembers have injuries that aren’t considered life-threatening. The name of the deceased crew member will be released once next of kin is notified, WAVY-TV reports.
Whittington said emergency responders were staged at a George Island Landing, an area just on the Maryland side of the line with Virginia on the west side of Chincoteague Bay. The Eastern Shore location is about 150 miles (240 kilometers) east-southeast of Washington, D.C | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/u-s-navy-plane-crashes-in-eastern-shore-1-dead-2-injured/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:18Z |
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Russell Knox recorded four straight birdies on the back nine and fired a 7-under 65 on Thursday for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Valero Texas Open.
Knox closed out his round with a seven-foot putt to save par at the par-5 18th at TPC San Antonio, and was one shot ahead of Rasmus Hojgaard.
Hojgaard fired a 66 despite a double bogey on his final hole. Matt Kuchar is another stroke back after an opening 5-under 67 and is among a group that includes Denny McCarthy, Aaron Rei and J.J. Spaun.
Defending champ Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy finished at even-par 72. They were outside the top 60 after one round and could flirt with the cut line on Friday.
Bryson DeChambeau had a 1-over 73. After holing a bunker shot for eagle on his 11th hole and following with a birdie on the next, he made bogey on four of his last six holes.
Knox, a 32-year-old Scotsman with two career PGA Tour wins, started his birdie streak at No. 12. All of his birdie putts were inside 10 feet. At the 15th, he was about 20 feet away from a back pin position following his approach and chipped in from the fringe. It was his second chip-in in the round.
“That was one of those kind of bonus birdies that you need when you’re going to have a good day,” Knox said. “Obviously thrilled with the round. It’s been more of the way I want to play.”
Hogjaard, a 21-year-old from Denmark and two-rime winner on the European Tour, had his sights on the first-round lead heading to his closing hole. But, his drive sailed well left of the fairway. It took him four shots to reach the green on the par-4 ninth.
“I had to chip sideways back into the fairway,” he said. “Just was a little too aggressive after that. Yeah, short-sided myself and I didn’t get up and down and suddenly you walk away with double-bogey. Yeah, that was a bit annoying, but it happens.”
Kuchar was 5 under after 11 holes. Thirty feet away from the pin on the next hole, he failed to get up and down and missed a seven-foot putt for par. He got a shot back with a birdie on his 14th hole, and parred out, falling short in a bid to match his season-best round of 64 at the Sony Open, where he finished in the top 10.
“A lot of good and bad that can happen here on this course,” Kuchar said. “I was kind of managing early on in the round and then found a little something on about the fifth or sixth hole. I started having some birdie chances and converted on a few late in my first nine.”
Kuchar has won nine times on the PGA Tour. McCarthy, Rai and Spaun are looking for their first.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Got a dime you can spare? Coins are in short supply — again.
Retailers, laundromats and other businesses that rely on coins want Americans to empty their piggy banks and look under couch cushions for extra change and “get coin moving.”
A group of trade associations that represent individual businesses including banks, retail outlets, truck stops, grocery stores and more is asking the Treasury Department for more help convincing Americans to get coins back in circulation.
The consequences of the circulation slowdown hit people who don’t have an ability to pay for items electronically, they say.
“If retailers are not able to offer change for cash purchases consumers who rely on cash will be vulnerable,” the associations said in a letter to Treasury.
For example, people who do their laundry at coin laundry mats could have a harder time finding change to wash their clothes. And on a larger scale, people who don’t have cash access aren’t able to patronize certain card-only businesses.
It’s not a coin shortage America faces, but a lack of circulation.
“We can’t print our way out of this problem,” said Austen Jensen, a senior vice president for government affairs at the Retail Industry Leaders Association.
Jensen’s group, along with the American Bankers Association, National Association of Convenience Stores, and National Grocers Association, is trying to meet consumer demand and wants a new public campaign to increase coin circulation.
Jensen said his group is also encouraging member retailers to find creative ways to deal with the shortage of coins, including rounding-up purchases for charity promotions. And he says businesses with multiple locations could send coins from one store to another.
This is not the first time during the pandemic that the issue of low coin circulation has arisen.
The coronavirus disrupted consumers’ buying habits and shifted purchases largely to plastic cards to such an extent that in July 2020, the Federal Reserve restricted coin orders by financial institutions.
The Fed also convened a U.S. Coin Task Force, made up of representatives from various federal agencies, which led to a campaign encouraging the public to get coins into circulation.
This February, the task force issued a State of Coin report, which said pandemic lockdowns slowed small transactions that generated change and there was a temporary aversion to cash for perceived hygienic reasons. The report also said the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Mint contracted with a third party consultant to review the coin supply chain.
Coin deposit volumes began to increase gradually starting in the summer of 2020, but businesses say the problem has come up again as people have stopped using coins and have stuck to plastic cards.
The issue has had the biggest impact on people who don’t have bank accounts. An estimated 22 percent of U.S. Americans were “unbanked” or “underbanked” in 2019, according to the Federal Reserve.
The Treasury Department has yet to respond to the letter. The government encourages people to help get coin moving by spending it with retailers, taking it to their banks and credit unions, or using a coin recycling kiosk like the ones found at grocery stores. | https://www.mystateline.com/news/politics/got-a-dime-businesses-seek-treasury-help-with-coin-shortage/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:20Z |
Skippy Foods, LLC has recalled more than 9,000 cases of peanut butter "due to the possibility that a limited number of jars may contain a small fragment of stainless steel from a piece of manufacturing equipment," the company said in an announcement Thursday.
The specific Skippy brands included Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread, Skippy Reduced Fat Chunky Peanut Butter Spread and Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter Blended With Plant Protein all with "best if used by dates" of early May 2023. Those dates are located at the top of the lid.
The company said there have been no consumer complaints related to this issue and the recall is voluntary.
All retailers that received these particular products have been notified, the company said.
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WORLD-RENOWNED CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHER NICOLAS GERARDIN SIGNS WITH ARTM TECHNOLOGIES
Luxury NFT firm teams up with a world-leading photographer.
SINGAPORE, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- World-renowned photographer Nicolas Gerardin has partnered with pioneering platform 1of1 and ARTM Technologies to produce luxury NFTs based on his photography.
The NFTs will include rare and famous images by the French photographer who works with the world's top celebrities, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Jonas Brothers, Priyanka Chopra, Donatella Versace, James Franco, Daniel Radcliffe, Kendall Jenner, Lewis Hamilton, Karim Benzema, Paulo Dybala, Sofia Carson, and many more.
Gerardin's photographs have appeared on the front covers of leading international magazines and were recently hailed by Georgina Rodríguez in the Netflix special 'I am Georgina.' as "the best photographer in Europe."
1of1 is the first official luxury NFT platform for pioneering tech firm ARTM Technologies. It has already established numerous global partnerships with international luxury brands. ARTM is an ERC-20 token used to unlock NFTs, video streaming, metaverse, and gaming add-ons.
Co-Founder Craig Allard shared,
"We are very excited to be linking up with such an internationally-acclaimed photographer. His client list speaks for itself, and we can't wait to see what can be achieved in partnership with our 1of1 luxury NFTs. These will be based on his photographs, including some of his rare work and his more famous pieces. Some will involve experiences and special access to events and celebrities. Our pioneering technology is already changing the world of NFTs, leveraging blockchain technology with new use cases. This latest partnership will add another element to our work, and we look forward to announcing more details in due course."
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TOKYO (AP) — Starting out with funny videos and chat over Mario Kart racing games, two Ukrainian brothers have added a somber tone to their YouTube channel popular with young Japanese with updates from their country that bring the harsh realities of war closer to Japan.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began just after the duo, Sava Tkachov, 26, and his younger brother Yan, 20, celebrated the second anniversary of their YouTube debut with subscribers exceeding 2 million for their Sawayan Channel and Sawayan Gamesthat Sava hosts.
The first word of war came from their father, a business consultant who had returned to Kyiv two months ago just before Russian troops rolled in and has stayed since to help defend his country. The siblings’ YouTube content, which used to be full of pranks, jokes and action videos, has become more serious.
Worried about their 53-year-old father and friends in Ukraine, the brothers in early March announced on their channel that they planned to volunteer as defenders too. It triggered a wave of reactions, some supporting and others criticizing them.
The father objected and the Tkachovs, who have no military training, abandoned the idea, especially when Sava said he received long and serious messages from some of his teenage fans showing their willingness to follow the brothers to Ukraine.
“By sending out messages through our channel, I made kids want to go to war and I cannot say if it was good or bad,” Sava said at a news conference Thursday. “But at least it was meaningful that they became interested in the issue. Fighting the war on the front-line is not the only way.”
Sava, who uses the handle “No War,” instead turned his gaming channel into a driver for donations and charity game events. He collected some 3.6 million yen ($29,500) in three hours, and donated entirely to the Ukrainian Embassy.
The siblings said they also started receiving messages from parents saying their children started thinking about peace and others thanking them for raising important social issues.
“I believe the merit of YouTube is I can convey the real information from the ground that my father is sharing with us about the situation that is very up to date, and I can stream that online almost immediately, so in that sense it could be much faster and accurate than news provided by traditional news media,” Sava said.
He said that his father would send videos of bombardment and bodies “as in war movies,” but he couldn’t use them because they were too graphic. In a recent appearance on a YouTube talk show hosted by popular former vaccine minister Taro Kono, Sava said the brothers were in regular communication with their father from an undisclosed location.
Japan was quick to join other industrialized nations in imposing sanctions against Russia and providing support for Ukraine.
Tokyo has also sent bulletproof vests, helmets, tents, medical supplies and other nonlethal defense equipment to Ukraine as an exception to Japan’s ban on military equipment transfer to countries in conflict.
Japan has taken tougher measures against Russia, worried about the impact of Moscow’s war on East Asia where Tokyo has faced threats from North Korea and China. In response to sanctions, Russia suspended peace treaty talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands, which Moscow has held since 1945.
Sava Tkachov, who arrived with his family in Japan when he was 4 and studied at a top Japanese university, thanked his adopted country for its support but says Tokyo should stick to its pacifist role.
“Japan is the world’s top-class peaceful nation … and what the country is doing right now is very appropriate,” he said. “As to the question of whether Japan should send weapons, I do not think it’s the kind of role Japan should be playing.”
Instead, he said, Japan can better contribute by continuing to appeal for peace and take a leadership role within Asia.
He also said Japan can provide home to many war-displaced Ukrainians. Some may face challenges of language or unfamiliar food, “but I’m sure they can overcome the difficulties with the empathy of the Japanese people and the spirits of the Ukrainians.” | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/ukrainian-youtube-brothers-reach-out-to-japanese-to-end-war/ | 2022-04-01T00:43:21Z |
The Timken Company (NYSE:TKR – Get Rating) has earned an average rating of “Buy” from the ten brokerages that are currently covering the firm, MarketBeat.com reports. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and five have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month price objective among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $81.33.
A number of brokerages have issued reports on TKR. Zacks Investment Research raised Timken from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $73.00 target price on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, January 4th. StockNews.com began coverage on Timken in a research report on Thursday. They issued a “buy” rating on the stock. The Goldman Sachs Group lowered Timken from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and cut their target price for the company from $84.00 to $73.00 in a research report on Sunday, December 12th. Bank of America lowered Timken from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and dropped their price target for the company from $85.00 to $80.00 in a research report on Friday, January 7th. Finally, Evercore ISI raised Timken from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $78.00 price target on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, February 15th. They noted that the move was a valuation call.
Shares of NYSE:TKR traded down $1.60 during trading on Thursday, reaching $60.70. 437,436 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 602,962. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.59, a quick ratio of 1.31 and a current ratio of 2.47. Timken has a 12-month low of $59.20 and a 12-month high of $92.39. The firm has a market cap of $4.55 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.67 and a beta of 1.66. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $64.78 and its 200 day moving average price is $68.27.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, March 4th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, February 22nd were paid a $0.30 dividend. This is a boost from Timken’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.25. The ex-dividend date was Friday, February 18th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.98%. Timken’s dividend payout ratio is presently 25.05%.
In related news, CFO Philip D. Fracassa sold 5,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $68.32, for a total transaction of $341,600.00. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Corporate insiders own 10.79% of the company’s stock.
Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in TKR. Barclays PLC lifted its stake in Timken by 12.6% in the 3rd quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 76,837 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $5,027,000 after acquiring an additional 8,584 shares in the last quarter. Wedge Capital Management L L P NC raised its stake in shares of Timken by 7.4% during the 4th quarter. Wedge Capital Management L L P NC now owns 267,401 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $18,528,000 after purchasing an additional 18,443 shares in the last quarter. Scout Investments Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Timken by 43.6% during the 4th quarter. Scout Investments Inc. now owns 508,773 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $35,253,000 after acquiring an additional 154,413 shares during the last quarter. Olstein Capital Management L.P. increased its holdings in shares of Timken by 28.0% during the 3rd quarter. Olstein Capital Management L.P. now owns 117,100 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $7,661,000 after acquiring an additional 25,600 shares during the last quarter. Finally, First Bank & Trust increased its holdings in shares of Timken by 7.5% during the 3rd quarter. First Bank & Trust now owns 5,114 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $334,000 after acquiring an additional 359 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 80.55% of the company’s stock.
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The Timken Co engages in the engineering, manufacturing, and marketing of bearings and power transmission products. It offers gearboxes, belts, chains, lubrication systems, couplings, industrial clutches, and brakes. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Industries and Process Industries.
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TANGIPAHOA PARISH - Two men were killed in the span of two days during separate house fires across Tangipahoa Parish.
State Fire Marshal deputies said the first fire happened Tuesday evening at a home on Lowes Lane in Hammond. The Hammond Fire Department arrived to find one victim injured inside the home.
The individual, a 65-year-old man, was brought to the hospital but died the next day, deputies say.
The second fire happened Wednesday morning at a mobile home on LA 1055 in Kentwood. The Kentwood Fire Department responded to the blaze and located a body inside near the back door.
The victim was identified as the home's only occupant, a 60-year-old disabled man, according to deputies.
After investigating both fires, State Fire Marshal deputies could not confirm what sparked the flames. However, they were unable to rule out electrical malfunction as a cause in both cases.
Deputies say neither of the homes had functioning smoke alarms. The State Fire Marshal's Office said the following in a statement Thursday:
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