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President Joe Biden marked Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday by denouncing “hateful bills” being passed at the state level as the White House played host to “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, the first openly transgender winner on the popular quiz show.
Schneider met with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who joined Rachel Levine, the assistant health secretary and the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, for a conversation with transgender kids and their parents.
Schneider used the moment in the Washington spotlight to speak out against bills affecting transgender people.
“They’re really scary and some of them in particular that are denying medical services to trans youth, those are, those are lifesaving medical treatments," Schneider told reporters. "These bills will cause the deaths of children and that’s really sad to me and it’s really frightening.”
“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.” | https://www.necn.com/news/national-international/white-house-hosts-transgender-jeopardy-star-amy-schneider/2709129/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:27Z |
WHO: COVID-19 deaths jump by 40%, but cases falling globally
GENEVA (AP) — The number of people killed by the coronavirus surged by more than 40% last week, likely due to changes in how COVID-19 deaths were reported across the Americas and by newly adjusted figures from India, according to a World Health Organization report released Wednesday.
In its latest weekly report on the pandemic, the U.N. health agency said the number of new coronavirus cases fell everywhere, including in WHO’s Western Pacific region, where they had been rising since December.
About 10 million new COVID-19 infections and more than 45,000 deaths were reported worldwide over the past week, following a 23% drop in fatalities the week before.
The jump in reported deaths, up from 33,000 last week, was due mainly to an accounting change; WHO noted that countries including Chile and the United States altered how they define COVID-19 deaths.
In addition, more than 4,000 deaths from Maharashtra state in India that initially weren’t included among the COVID-19 death toll were added last week, according to WHO.
WHO has said repeatedly that COVID-19 case counts are likely a vast underestimate of the coronavirus’ prevalence. The agency cautioned countries in recent weeks against dropping their comprehensive testing and other surveillance measures, saying that doing so would cripple efforts to accurately track the spread of the virus.
“Data are becoming progressively less representative, less timely and less robust,” WHO said. “This inhibits our collective ability to track where the virus is, how it is spreading and how it is evolving: information and analyses that remain critical to effectively end the acute phase of the pandemic.”
The agency warned that less surveillance would particularly harm efforts to detect new COVID variants and undermine a potential response.
Numerous countries across Europe, North America and elsewhere recently lifted nearly all their COVID-19 protocols, relying on high levels of vaccination to prevent another infection spike even as the more infectious omicron subvariant BA.2 is causing an uptick in new cases.
British authorities have said that while they expect to see more cases, they have not seen an equivalent rise in hospitalizations and deaths.
Despite the global decline in reported cases, China locked down Shanghai this week to try to curb an omicron outbreak that has caused the country’s biggest wave of disease since the virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019.
U.S. officials expanded the use of vaccine boosters Tuesday as regulators said Americans ages 50 and older can get a second booster at least four months after their last vaccination.
An AP-NORC poll, meanwhile found that less than half of Americans now regularly wear face masks, avoid crowds and skip non-essential travel.
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Over the last month, Russian forces have assaulted the people of Ukraine. In addition to news of attacks on civilians and families displaced, there are now initial reports that Russian forces have committed sexual violence.
This month, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba claimed that Russian soldiers had committed "numerous" rapes against Ukrainian women. Last week, Ukrainian MPs charged that Russian forces were targeting women and girls specifically and that elderly women had been raped.
No hard evidence for these allegations has yet come to light. But evidence from recent conflicts along with certain aspects of the current invasion suggest cause for great concern.
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Russian armed forces have recently perpetrated sexual violence in other conflicts
First, Russia has a recent history of committing sexual violence in war. According to the Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict data set, sexual violence by Russian forces has been reported in three of seven years of conflict since 2014 in eastern Ukraine.
Most of the sexual violence took place while Russians held women and men in detention. Just in the past two years, Russian-led forces have been reported to have committed rape, sexual torture, forced prostitution and sexual mutilation against detained individuals in Ukraine.
The State Department's 2020 Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Ukraine notes, for example, that Russian-led forces reportedly carried out "beatings and electric shock in the genital area, rape, threats of rape, forced nudity, and threats of rape against family members" in 2020 as a "method of torture and mistreatment to punish, humiliate, or extract confessions" from detainees.
This is also nothing new for Russia. The Russian military is reported to have committed rape in Chechnya every year for seven consecutive years at the turn of the century, against people both in and outside detention.
For example, Amnesty International reported cases of gang rape by Russian forces of pregnant Chechen women in 2002 following military raids on their homes. The State Department wrote in a 2004 report that Russian forces had raped numerous detainees in Chechnya, including Chechen boys as young as 13.
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The Russian military’s lack of unity is a red flag
Second, Russian forces' apparent lack of internal unity is concerning. Research suggests that low levels of internal cohesion within armed groups - meaning that they lack social bonds with one another - correlate with wartime sexual violence. When members of the military don't trust and care for each other, they are more likely to rape. This is because when fighters rape together, it can strengthen loyalty and cohesion within armed groups.
There are strong signs that the Russian army suffers from low morale and a lack of unity. Early reports from Ukraine indicated that many soldiers were not motivated to fight. Many seem confused about the purpose of their mission in Ukraine. Videos on social media show hungry soldiers asking for food and looting Ukrainian stores. Gross inequalities within the military also undermines solidarity.
Researchers find that forced recruitment, especially by press ganging when men are taken with or without notice and forced into the military, may also cause cohesion to fray. The Russian military is conscription-based, so all service is mandatory. But reports suggest Russia is now relying on desperate measures. Men have even been snatched from their cars or the streets in broad daylight.
Sexualized and dehumanizing language has preceded mass rape elsewhere
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Third, dehumanizing and sexualized language may also portend conflict-related sexual violence. Such language has been a precursor of mass rape in other situations, such as the sexualized dehumanization of Tutsi women that preceded the genocide in Rwanda.
One example is Russian President Vladimir Putin's crude remark to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last February, referring to an old joke about marital rape. When discussing the implementation of the 2015 Minsk agreements between Ukraine and Russia aimed at stopping the war in eastern Ukraine, Putin said, "like it or don't like it, it's your duty, my beauty." Experts have traced the Kremlin's gendered and sexualized rhetoric toward Ukraine and described Putin's abusive behavior as "characteristic of rape culture."
Putin has also denied the existence of Ukraine as a country and denied the existence of Ukrainian culture, while bizarrely claiming that the country has been taken over by Nazis (ignoring the fact that Ukraine has a Jewish president).
Syrian soldiers joining Russian forces in Ukraine is bad news
Fourth, Putin's recruitment of Syrian soldiers to fight in Ukraine raises alarms. Syrian forces are reported to have committed systematic rape and sexual torture against civilian populations and detainees every year from 2013 to 2017 in the Syrian civil war. They might bring that practice with them to Ukraine.
Research suggests that recruiting foreign fighters may increase the prevalence of conflict-related sexual violence, at least by rebel groups. This is in part because they may threaten the armed group's internal social cohesion.
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Population matters
Lastly, population size consistently correlates with state repression and human rights abuse, including wartime rape.
When war takes place in countries with larger populations, the people are more likely to endure government-perpetrated rape and other human rights violations than the people in smaller countries. Ukraine, with 44 million people, is a larger-than-average nation.
What to be prepared for in Ukraine
With all these factors in play, initial reports of sexual violence in Ukraine are alarming. In particular, Russia's recent history of conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine and the lack of cohesion within the Russian armed forces are among the most worrying signs.
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Esther Hallsdóttir is a Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a research assistant to the Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict data project. Previously, she was a project manager at UNICEF Iceland and served as Iceland’s Youth Delegate for Human Rights to the United Nations. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/31/wires/are-russian-troops-using-sexual-violence-weapon-heres-what-we-know/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:30Z |
Diabetes mellitus is associated with series of macrovascular and microvascular pathological changes that cause a wide range of complications. Diabetic patients are highly susceptible to hindlimb ischemia (HLI), which remains incurable. Evidence shows that skeletal muscle cells secrete a number of angiogenic factors to promote neovascularization and restore blood perfusion, this paracrine function is crucial for therapeutic angiogenesis in diabetic HLI. In this study we investigated whether sotagliflozin, an anti-hyperglycemia SGLT2 inhibitor, exerted therapeutic angiogenesis effects in diabetic HLI in vitro and in vivo. In C2C12 skeletal muscle cells, we showed that high glucose (HG, 25"‰mM) under hypoxia markedly inhibited cell viability, proliferation and migration potentials, which were dose-dependently reversed by pretreatment with sotagliflozin (5−20"‰Î¼M). Sotagliflozin pretreatment enhanced expression levels of angiogenic factors HIF-1α, VEGF-A and PDGF-BB in HG-treated C2C12 cells under hypoxia as well as secreted amounts of VEGF-A and PDGF-BB in the medium; pretreatment with the HIF-1α inhibitor 2-methoxyestradiol (2-ME2, 10"‰Î¼M) or HIF-1α knockdown abrogated sotagliflozin-induced increases in VEGF-A and PDGF-BB expression, as well as sotagliflozin-stimulated cell proliferation and migration potentials. Furthermore, the conditioned media from sotagliflozin-treated C2C12 cells in HG medium enhanced the migration and proliferation capabilities of vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells, two types of cells necessary for forming functional blood vessels. In vivo study was conducted in diabetic mice subjected to excising the femoral artery of the left limb. After the surgery, sotagliflozin (10"‰mg/kg) was directly injected into gastrocnemius muscle of the left hindlimb once every 3 days for 3 weeks. We showed that intramuscular injection of sotagliflozin effectively promoted the formation of functional blood vessels, leading to significant recovery of blood perfusion in diabetic HLI mice. Together, our results highlight a new indication of SGLT2 inhibitor sotagliflozin as a potential therapeutic angiogenesis agent for diabetic HLI. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556556207698/genetic-alteration-of-heparan-sulfate-in-cd11c-immune-cells-inhibits-inflammation-and-facilitates-pathogen-clearance-during-influenza-a-virus-infection | 2022-04-01T00:44:30Z |
2022 Ram 1500 Laramie, Chrysler Pacifica Limited Nab Best Interiors Honors
Two of the fanciest vehicles in the Stellantis portfolio — the 2022 Ram 1500 Laramie and Chrysler Pacifica Limited — took two of the top spots on Autotrader’s annual list of the Best Car Interiors Under $50,000.
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Autotrader contributor Jason Fogelson ranked the Pacifica Limited No. 2 overall on this year’s list. Recognizing the potential controversiality of putting a minivan so high in the rankings, he backed up the honor by singling out the Limited’s “sophisticated design, luxurious and roomy seating, and attractive finishes and materials throughout the cabin.”
With an MSRP of $49,172, the Pacifica Limited ekes in just under the max $50,000 cutoff. At this trim level, you get plenty of luxury with standard Nappa leather bucket seats as well as a Premium console with dual-level and pass-through storage.
The 2022 Chrysler Pacifica Limited also offers cutting-edge tech. In addition to class-leading standard safety, the Limited gets Uconnect 5 Nav, a built-in 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot, and a 19-speaker Harman Kardon sound system.
Ram 1500 Laramie stands alone among trucks
The 2022 Ram 1500 Laramie is a slightly less surprising entrant on the list of the Best Car Interiors Under $50,000. Coming in at No. 8 overall and also just squeezing in under the roof at $49,250 MSRP, the Laramie is the only truck to make the list. Its competitors in the sub-$50K price range include the Ford F-150 Lariat, Chevrolet Silverado RST, GMC Sierra Elevation, and Toyota Tundra Limited.
“In a class where too much macho can easily overwhelm the senses, the Ram 1500 makes a case for confident elegance,” Fogelson writes. He points to the center stack, which includes the 8.4-inch touch screen, as the most striking feature. But there’s plenty more to go around with a 7-inch digital cluster, leather-trimmed front seats with heating and ventilation, and an Alpine nine-speaker audio system.
Kyle S. Johnson lives in Cincinnati, a city known by many as “the Cincinnati of Southwest Ohio.” He enjoys professional wrestling, Halloween, and also other things. He has been writing for a while, and he plans to continue to write well into the future. See more articles by Kyle. | https://thenewswheel.com/ram-laramie-chrysler-pacifica-limited-2022-best-interiors-autotrader/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:30Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is naming actor Taraji P. Henson and the NBA’s Chris Paul to a presidential advisory board on historically Black colleges and universities.
They are among nine men and nine women Biden is appointing to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the White House announced Thursday.
Several HBCU presidents, the president of United Airlines and the first Black woman to become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency are among Biden’s selections.
They will join Tony Allen, the president of Delaware State University, and Glenda Glover, the president of Tennessee State University, who are serving, respectively, as chairperson and vice chairperson of the board, which was established during the Carter administration.
Henson is a Washington, D.C., native who studied acting at Howard University, a historically Black school and the alma mater of Vice President Kamala Harris. Paul is a 12-time NBA All-Star with the Phoenix Suns and two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Besides Allen and Glover, the presidents of five other HBCUs will also join the board. They are Virginia State University, Norfolk State University in Virginia, Alabama State University, Prairie View A&M University in Texas and Dillard University in New Orleans.
Lisa Jackson, who became the EPA’s first Black administrator in the Obama administration, and United Airlines President Brett Hart will also join the board.
Biden also intends to appoint Paige Blake, a 20-year-old junior at Bowie State University, an HBCU in Maryland.
The White House said the administration has committed $5.8 billion in support to these historically Black colleges and universities through a combination of pandemic relief funding, grants and forgiving capital improvement debt. | https://www.mystateline.com/news/politics/taraji-p-henson-chris-paul-named-to-black-colleges-board/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:31Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, training, targeting and use of weapons in order to better avoid widespread civilian deaths and damage such as the devastating 2017 battle to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants, a new RAND report said Thursday.
The report requested by the Pentagon reflects criticism of the military's airstrike campaign that, according to some estimates, killed more than 1,600 civilians in Raqqa, as the U.S.-led coalition worked to destroy the Islamic State caliphate that wrested control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the report, which lays out a series of recommendations to improve military procedures and strategy, will be used as the department develops its own broader plan to reduce civlian harm.
“No other military works as hard as we do to mitigate civilian harm, and yet we still cause it,” said Kirby. ”We're going to continue to try to learn from past issues.”
RAND concluded that the battle for Raqqa provided important lessons.
Michael McNerney, lead author of the RAND report, called Raqqa “a cautionary tale about civilian harm in urban combat.” He said it "should serve as an extra incentive to the DoD to strengthen its policies and procedures to mitigate, document and respond to civilian harm.”
The RAND report noted that there has been a wide range of estimated civilian casualties during the seige, but also said it believes that 60%-80% of Raqqa was left uninhabitable by the time the city was liberated in October 2017.
Initially the U.S.-led coalition estimted that it was responsible for 38 incidents involving 240 civilian casualties — including 178 who were killed. A consortium of local Syrian and international groups, including Amnesty International and Airwars, put the number of casualties at a “high estimate” of 1,600, but said that about 774 of them could specifically be “verified” by data as the result of coalition action.
The report makes it clear that several thousand more civilians likely died, based on the number of bodies uncovered by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, but many were probably killed by IS or other fighters on the ground.
“Our report focuses on U.S. actions in Raqqa, but the actions of the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian partners undoubtedly contributed far more to civilian harm and suffering in Syria overall,” McNerney said.
The report noted that the challenges in Raqqa were compounded by limits on the number U.S. troops that could be there, as well as where they could be positioned. U.S. troops on the ground could have provided better targeting and civilian information, including on Islamic State militants' efforts to use civilians as human shields, the report said.
RAND recommended that the U.S. military provide more extensive training and guidance on the need to avoid civilian harm, and plan and execute operations in ways to achieve those goals. Changes could include improved planning, better assessments of potential collateral damage, increased mission rehearsals, improved intelligence gathering, and more selective use of air strikes and munitions that minimize bomb fragmentation. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Report-US-military-must-do-more-to-avoid-17049694.php | 2022-04-01T00:44:32Z |
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BERLIN (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Thursday that the country’s natural gas must be paid for with rubles, a demand apparently intended to help bolster the Russian currency but one that European leaders say they will not comply with because it violates the terms of contracts and sanctions.
Putin said Russia will start accepting ruble payments Friday and gas supplies will be cut off if buyers don’t agree to the new conditions, including opening ruble accounts in Russian banks, from which the gas payments will be made.
“If these payments are not made, we will consider it a failure of the buyer to fulfill its obligations, with all the ensuing consequences,” Putin said.
European leaders cautiously insisted they will continue to pay for natural gas in euros and dollars and want to see the fine print of how the Kremlin will implement its decree. It came a day after the leaders of Italy and Germany said they received assurances from Putin about gas supplies.
Putin announced last week the countries deemed “unfriendly” for imposing sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine must pay for natural gas only in Russian currency. His proposal has caused natural gas prices to gyrate and raised fears it could be a prelude to an interruption of supplies to Europe, which is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas and would struggle with a sudden cutoff. At the same time, Russia depends on oil and gas sales for much of its government revenue at a time its economy is under severe stress from Western sanctions.
Putin’s demand appeared to be part of Russia’s efforts to boost the ruble after the currency plunged under Western sanctions. After dropping as low as 143 rubles to the dollar in early March, on Thursday it took 82 rubles to buy a dollar, around the same level as the day Russia launched its invasion.
Economists say switching the gas payments to rubles would do little to support the Russian currency, since gas exporter Gazprom has to sell 80% of its foreign currency earnings for rubles anyway. The White House said Thursday that the ruble is no longer a reliable measure of Russia’s economy because it’s being artificially propped up.
Analysts at Evercore ISI said Putin’s primary motive seems to be “to prove he can bend EU leaders to his will.” They also said that even if Russia is able to force the EU to pay for gas in rubles, the European countries could retaliate by imposing more tariffs on Russian oil imports or banning them outright. While Russia could eventually sell the oil, the price would likely be at a steep discount, the analysts said.
The decree Putin signed and state news agency RIA Novosti published says a designated bank will open two accounts for each buyer, one in foreign currency and one in rubles. Buyers will pay in foreign currency and authorize the bank to sell it for rubles on Moscow’s currency exchange. The rubles would then be placed in the second account, where the gas is formally purchased.
People are “wondering what Putin is up to,” said Tim Ash, senior emerging markets sovereign strategist at BlueBay Asset Management. Putin may have read the German government’s unwillingness to boycott Russian energy “as weakness and is now trying to engineer this energy crisis … the solution here is to call Putin’s bluff and say, sure, cut off energy supplies and see who breaks first.”
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D’Emilio contributed from Rome. AP reporter Colleen Barry in Milan contributed. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/italy-russia-wont-seek-payment-in-rubles-for-natural-gas/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:32Z |
Australia to send armoured vehicles to Ukraine
Australia will send some of its Bushmaster armoured vehicles to Ukraine following a request from the war-torn nation’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in his address to Parliament.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed on Friday morning that some of the Australian-made four-wheel-drive armoured vehicles would be sent over to Ukraine, along with a further $25 million worth of military support announced on Thursday.
“We are not just sending our prayers, we are sending our guns, ammunitions, humanitarian aid, all of this, our body armour, all of these things,” he said.
“We will send our armoured vehicles, our Bushmasters, as well, and we will fly them over there in our C-17s to make sure they can be there to support.”
Defence officials separately told a Senate estimates hearing there had been discussions throughout the night about how the Bushmasters could be supplied after Mr Zelensky specifically asked for them in his address to Parliament on Thursday evening.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne said this included considering whether there were any in place in countries geographically closer to Ukraine which could be moved to the war zone faster than shipping them from Australia.
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US, Poland consider deal to give fighter aircraft to Ukraine: reports
The U.S. and Poland are considering a deal that would provide fighter aircraft to Ukraine, multiple news outlets reported Saturday.
Four U.S. officials told Politico, which first reported on the discussions, that the two countries are in talks about an arrangement that would see Poland sending used MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine and in turn receiving U.S.-made warplanes.
“We are working with the Poles on this issue and consulting with the rest of our NATO allies,” a White House spokesperson told Politico. “We are also working on the capabilities we could provide to backfill Poland if it decided to transfer planes to Ukraine.”
The administration has “in no way opposed Poland transferring planes to Ukraine,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson indicated that it would be difficult for the U.S. to transfer American F-16s to Poland. It could take a long time to authorize, Politico noted.
The Wall Street Journal also reported the potential deal Saturday, citing U.S. officials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked members of Congress on Saturday for more airplanes as his country continues to fight Russian troops who invaded more than a week ago.
He also asked for the establishment of a no-fly zone over Ukraine and for the U.S. to stop buying Russian oil.
Multiple lawmakers have expressed support for a ban on Russian oil imports, with the White House saying Friday that President Biden is considering steps to reduce U.S. consumption of Russian energy.
But both the U.S. and NATO have rebuffed Ukraine’s requests that a no-fly zone be established over the country, saying implementing such a zone could lead to large-scale war.
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Woman arrested in Altus for allegedly helping escapee avoid arrest
ALTUS, Okla. (KSWO) - Altus police say a second person was arrested in connection to the apprehension of a fugitive on Tuesday.
Chief Tim Murphy says Shannon Longman, 39, of Edmond was also taken into custody on Tuesday and faces multiple charges connected to the arrest of Frank Logan, an escapee from the Oklahoma State Reformatory.
Murphy says officers discovered text messages after Logan’s arrest which showed the pair were communicating about where Longman would assist Logan to help him avoid being apprehended.
Longman and her vehicle were found by authorities in a parking lot at 2700 North Main in Altus around noon on Tuesday. After getting a search warrant, officers found a backpack with men’s clothing and a handgun inside.
Police say Longman faces charges of harboring a fugitive, possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, identity theft, false personation and obtaining merchandise under false pretense.
She is being held at the Jackson County Jail.
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SQM (SQM) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
SQM (SQM) closed the most recent trading day at $85.60, moving +0.07% from the previous trading session. The stock outpaced the S&P 500's daily loss of 1.57%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 1.56%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the chemicals company had gained 29.88% over the past month, outpacing the Basic Materials sector's gain of 9.98% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from SQM as it approaches its next earnings report date. The company is expected to report EPS of $1.05, up 303.85% from the prior-year quarter. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $1.21 billion, up 128.36% from the year-ago period.
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ANKARA — The Turkish prosecutor in the case against 26 Saudi nationals charged in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made a surprise request Thursday that their trial in absentia be suspended and the case transferred to Saudi Arabia, raising fears of a possible coverup.
The panel of judges made no ruling on the prosecutor’s request but said a letter would be sent to Turkey’s Justice Ministry seeking its opinion on the possible transfer of the file to Saudi judicial authorities, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The trial was adjourned until April 7.
The development comes as Turkey has been trying to normalize its relationship with Saudi Arabia, which hit an all-time low following Khashoggi’s grisly October 2018 killing. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview on Thursday that Saudi authorities were more cooperative on judicial issues with Turkey but did not elaborate.
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In arguing for the transfer, the prosecutor told the court that the Saudi chief public prosecutor’s office requested the Turkish proceedings be transferred to the kingdom in a letter dated March 13 and that international warrants issued by Ankara against the defendants be lifted, according to the private DHA news agency.
The prosecutor said that because the arrest warrants cannot be executed and defense statements cannot be taken, the case would remain inconclusive in Turkey.
Amnesty International urged Turkey to press ahead with the trial, saying if it is transferred to Saudi Arabia, Turkey will be “knowingly and willingly sending the case to a place where it will be covered up.”
Moving Khashoggi’s trial to Saudi Arabia would provide a diplomatic resolution to a dispute that represented the wider troubles between Ankara and the kingdom since the 2011 Arab Spring.
Turkey under Erdogan supported Islamists as the uprisings took hold, while Saudi Arabia and its ally the United Arab Emirates sought to suppress such movements for fear of facing challenges to their autocratic governments. Meanwhile, Turkey sided with Qatar in a diplomatic dispute that saw Doha boycotted by Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
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Since President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, the Gulf Arab states have set aside — but not fully resolved — the Qatar dispute. Meanwhile, Turkey under Erdogan has faced a rapid devaluation of its lira currency over his refusal to hike interest rates. Bilateral trade to the kingdom and the UAE, a major transshipment point for the world economy, also collapsed.
Since the start of 2022, Erdogan has sought to improve those ties, including making his first visit to the UAE in nearly a decade. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, after fighting through the coronavirus pandemic’s economic effects, facing a grinding war in Yemen, and struggling with renewed tensions with Iran, also want to resolve the outstanding feud.
Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2, 2018, after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, seeking documents that would allow him to marry Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish national who was waiting outside the building. He never emerged.
Turkish officials allege that the Saudi national, who was a United States resident, was killed and then dismembered with a bone saw inside the consulate. His body has not been found. Before his killing, Khashoggi had written critically of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in columns for The Washington Post.
Turkish authorities said he was killed by a team of Saudi agents. Those on trial in absentia include two former aides of the prince.
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Saudi officials initially offered conflicting accounts concerning the killing, including claims that Khashoggi had left the consulate building unharmed. But amid mounting international pressure, they stated that Khashoggi’s death was a tragic accident, with the meeting unexpectedly turning violent.
Turkey decided to try the defendants in absentia after Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish demands for their extradition.
The slaying had sparked international condemnation and cast a cloud of suspicion over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Western intelligence agencies, as well as the US Congress, have said that an operation of this magnitude could not have happened without his knowledge.
In urging Turkey to proceed with the trial, Amnesty International said Ankara would be complicit in a coverup if it grants the Saudi request for a transfer.
“If the prosecutor’s request is granted, then instead of prosecuting and shedding light on a murder that was committed on its territory ... Turkey will be knowingly and willingly sending the case to a place where it will be covered up,” said Tarik Beyhan, Amnesty’s campaign director for Turkey.
Beyhan said he didn’t want to “think about the possibility” that the prosecutor’s request may be related to the improving ties between Riyadh and Ankara.
“Basic human rights ... should not be made the subject of political negotiations,” he said. “A murder cannot be covered up to fix relations.”
Some of the men were put on trial in Riyadh behind closed doors. A Saudi court issued a final verdict in 2020 that sentenced five mid-level officials and operatives to 20-year jail terms. The court had originally ordered the death penalty but reduced the punishment after Khashoggi’s son Salah, who lives in Saudi Arabia, announced that he forgave the defendants. Three others were sentenced to lesser jail terms.
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On Thursday, Khashoggi's fiancee, Cengiz, appeared to criticize the prosecutor’s request in a tweet in English. “It is an exemplary situation in terms of showing the dilemma facing humanity in the modern era,” she wrote. “Which of the two will we choose? To want to live like a virtuous human being or to build a life by holding material interests above all kinds of values.”
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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman convicted in the death of a police officer has been sentenced to 8 to 12 years in prison.
Ashley Kroese of Thompson's Station was 24 years old on June 18, 2020, when she drove on the wrong side of the road in Brentwood, killing Brentwood police officer Destin Legieza, 30, authorities said.
She was previously found guilty of four charges, including vehicular homicide by intoxication. She was sentenced Wednesday for charges in the crash that killed Legieza, The Tennessean reported.
A blood test after the crash found her blood alcohol content was 0.166%, which is twice the legal limit.
Members of Legieza's family spoke at the hearing.
“Ashley. I don’t think you intended to kill anyone that day,” said Heather Legieza, the officer’s widow. “But you moving forward with the trial when you know what you did was with intention, you should have just taken accountability for your actions."
Kroese, who did not testify at the February trial, read from a statement.
“I can’t pretend to understand what you have been going through. I’ve never lost a husband, a son or a brother, and nothing I can say is able to ease your pain, but I am truly and deeply sorry,” Kroese said. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Tennessee-woman-sentenced-to-8-years-in-officer-s-17049754.php | 2022-04-01T00:44:38Z |
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ShockWave Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWAV – Get Rating) Director Laura Francis sold 2,310 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $195.33, for a total value of $451,212.30. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link.
Laura Francis also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Thursday, March 31st, Laura Francis sold 1,890 shares of ShockWave Medical stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.00, for a total value of $396,900.00.
SWAV stock traded up $12.48 during trading on Thursday, reaching $207.36. The stock had a trading volume of 822,510 shares, compared to its average volume of 441,722. ShockWave Medical, Inc. has a 52 week low of $98.89 and a 52 week high of $249.73. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $163.25 and its two-hundred day moving average is $184.64. The company has a current ratio of 5.54, a quick ratio of 4.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05. The firm has a market cap of $7.39 billion, a PE ratio of -691.20 and a beta of 1.28.
A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on the company. SVB Leerink upped their price target on ShockWave Medical from $160.00 to $190.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, February 18th. Wells Fargo & Company raised ShockWave Medical from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and set a $235.00 price target on the stock in a report on Monday, December 6th. Zacks Investment Research raised ShockWave Medical from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating and set a $203.00 target price on the stock in a report on Wednesday, January 12th. Canaccord Genuity Group lowered their target price on ShockWave Medical from $258.00 to $198.00 in a report on Friday, February 18th. Finally, Piper Sandler lowered their target price on ShockWave Medical from $272.00 to $245.00 in a report on Friday, February 18th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, five have issued a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $216.00.
Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. grew its position in shares of ShockWave Medical by 30.3% during the third quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 202 shares of the company’s stock worth $41,000 after purchasing an additional 47 shares in the last quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP grew its position in shares of ShockWave Medical by 2.1% during the third quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 2,565 shares of the company’s stock worth $528,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares in the last quarter. Kovack Advisors Inc. grew its position in shares of ShockWave Medical by 5.4% during the third quarter. Kovack Advisors Inc. now owns 1,475 shares of the company’s stock worth $304,000 after purchasing an additional 75 shares in the last quarter. Fulton Bank N.A. grew its position in shares of ShockWave Medical by 5.9% during the fourth quarter. Fulton Bank N.A. now owns 1,356 shares of the company’s stock worth $242,000 after purchasing an additional 75 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. grew its position in shares of ShockWave Medical by 104.9% during the fourth quarter. Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. now owns 166 shares of the company’s stock worth $29,000 after purchasing an additional 85 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 93.15% of the company’s stock.
ShockWave Medical Company Profile (Get Rating)
ShockWave Medical, Inc, a medical device company, engages in developing and commercializing intravascular lithotripsy technology for the treatment of calcified plaque in patients with peripheral vascular, coronary vascular, and heart valve diseases worldwide. The company offers M5 catheters for treating above-the-knee peripheral artery disease (PAD); C2 catheters for treating coronary artery disease; and S4 catheters for treating below-the-knee PAD.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A lot is known about the few hours that shook American democracy to the core. The defeated president’s incendiary speech, the march by an angry crowd to the U.S. Capitol, the breaking in, the beating of cops, the “hang Mike Pence” threats, the lawmakers running for their lives, the shooting death of rioter Ashli Babbitt. All of that chaos unfolded over about eight hours on one day: Jan. 6, 2021.
But for all that is known about the day,piecing together the words and actions of Donald Trump over that time has proved no easy task, even though a president’s movements and communications are closely monitored.
There’s a gap in the official White House phone notations given to the House committee investigating Jan. 6 — from about 11 a.m. to about 7 p.m., according to two people familiar with the congressional investigation into the riot. Details may still turn up; the former president was known to use various cell phones and often bypassed the White House switchboard, placing calls directly.
And over the past four-plus months a lot has surfaced about what Trump did do and say on Jan. 6 — in texts, tweets, videos, calls and other conversations.
The following account is based on testimony,timelines and eyewitness reporting gathered by The Associated Press and The Washington Post and CBS News, and from officials and people familiar with the events who spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity.
SORE AT HIS NO. 2
Trump entered the Oval Office at 11:08 a.m. By that time, about 400 pro-Trump demonstrators had already massed at the Capitol. Trump placed a call to Vice President Mike Pence — their only conversation of the day. It didn’t go well: Trump wanted Pence to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and he was very unhappy the vice president wouldn’t do it.
At 11:38 a.m., the president left the White House to address his rally on the Ellipse, a big grassy oval behind the White House, about a mile or so from the Capitol. It was bitter cold, but that didn’t keep the crowd away. Trump was up on stage by 11:57 and addressed his supporters until about 1:15 p.m.
Among Trump’s challenging final words: “We fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country any more. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country. So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to the Capitol.”
‘THEY’RE THROWING METAL POLES’
Growing crowds were migrating to the Capitol. Almost immediately after Trump concluded, a Capitol Police officer called for backup.
“They’re throwing metal poles at us,” the officer said in a panicked voice. “Multiple law-enforcement injuries.”
Would Trump himself head for the Capitol, as he’d suggested in his speech? It was unclear at first, but his motorcade turned to head back to the White House.
At 1:21 p.m., Trump met with his valet at the White House, logs say. At the Capitol, meanwhile, then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund begged for help from the National Guard as the crowd started to swell around the west side of the building and became increasingly violent.
By then the TV networks had picked up the melee and were broadcasting live as the mob broke through metal police barricades and advanced toward the doors of the building where lawmakers were gathered to certify the presidential election results. The surreal images soon filled television screens throughout the West Wing, where staffers watched, stunned.
LOCKDOWN
By 2 p.m. the U.S. Capitol was locked down. At 2:11, Pence was evacuated. At 2:15, congressional leaders were evacuated. At 2:43, demonstrator Babbitt was shot trying to enter the House chamber through a window broken by the mob.
No official record has surfaced yet of what Trump was doing during this time. The next entry in Trump’s daily diary is not until 4:03 p.m., when he went out to the Rose Garden to tape a public address after frantic urging.
But during this time Trump was hardly idle. He was in touch with lawmakers and he was, according to aides, watching the violence unfold on national television. And he was tweeting.
At 2:28, he tweeted not about the violence but to show his pique at his vice president:
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
At some point, Trump also talked to lawmakers. Republican Kevin McCarthy told a California radio station that he had spoken to the president.
“I was the first person to call him,” McCarthy said. “I told him to go on national TV, tell these people to stop it. He said he didn’t know what was happening.”
Washington Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler said McCarthy relayed that conversation to her. By her account, when McCarthy told Trump it was his own supporters breaking into the building, Trump responded: “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”
Trump also talked to Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, among other GOP lawmakers. Tuberville later said he spoke to the president while the Senate was being evacuated. Utah Sen. Mike Lee said Trump accidentally called him when he was trying to reach Tuberville.
Others, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, tried but failed to get through to the president.
‘IT HAS GONE TOO FAR’
At 3:14 p.m. a Trump tweet at last made a sideways reference to the havoc. “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
At some point, he sequestered himself in the dining room off the Oval Office to watch the violence play out on TV, rewinding and re-watching some parts, according to former aides. Unable to get through by other means, allies including his former chief of staff and communications director resorted to tweeting at him to try to get through. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was getting a flurry of texts from lawmakers, from Fox News personalities and even Trump’s own children.
“Hey, Mark, protestors are literally storming the Capitol. Breaking windows on doors. Rushing in. Is Trump going to say something?” reads one text.
“We are all helpless,” says another.
As the violence continued, the president’s elder son texted Meadows:
“He’s got to condemn this s(asterisk)(asterisk)(asterisk) Asap,” Donald Trump, Jr. texted.
Meadows responded: “I’m pushing it hard. I agree.”
Trump, Jr. texted again and again, urging that his father act:
“We need an Oval address. He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.”
‘REMEMBER THIS DAY FOREVER!’
At 4:08 p.m. Trump went out to the Rose Garden. At 4:17 p.m. he released a scripted, pre-recorded video, which included a call for “peace” and “law and order” and finally told his supporters “you have to go home now.”
But they didn’t. Things were still wildly out of control. In fact, the Capitol building was not secured until 5:34 p.m.
At 6:01, Trump’s message was back to indignant: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” he wrote. “Remember this day forever!”
At 6:27, he went back to the residence, and started calling his lawyers.
Congress did not resume counting electoral votes until 8 p.m. They finished at 3:40 a.m. and certified Biden as the winner.
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Associated Press Writers Jill Colvin in New York, Nomaan Merchant, Zeke Miller, Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Mike Balsamo contributed to this report. | https://www.mystateline.com/news/politics/trumps-8-hour-gap-minute-by-minute-during-jan-6-riot/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:37Z |
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‘Incorrect’: Minister mistaken on carbon farming endorsement, green group says
By Mike Foley
The Australian Conservation Foundation has rejected a claim made by Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor that it had “backed away” from its warning about fake credits being issued under a taxpayer-funded scheme for carbon farming.
The designer of the Emissions Reduction Fund’s (ERF) carbon credit scheme, Professor Andrew Macintosh, last week alleged most of the money for carbon farming, such as protecting trees or planting vegetation, was being spent on fake carbon reductions.
The scheme has so far paid out about $1 billion for 100 million carbon credits, which are generated by farmers for protecting forests and replanting vegetation, and sold to polluting companies that want to offset their emissions and reduce their carbon footprint.
Professor Macintosh published studies that said up to 80 per cent of the funds were spent on carbon sequestration that was “devoid of integrity” and represented a “fraud on taxpayers”.
“I believe these criticisms are completely unfounded,” Mr Taylor told a forum hosted by the Carbon Market Institute on Friday.
“It is telling that groups like the ACF (Australian Conservation Foundation) have backed away from this latest round of attacks on the ERF and are no longer promoting the claims that have been refuted by the regulator.”
ACF chief executive Kelly O’Shanassy said on Friday that the organisation stood by its claims and endorsed Professor Macintosh’s findings.
“Any speech given by the Energy Minister that claims otherwise is incorrect,” Ms O’Shanassy said.
“Our own investigation are consistent with Professor Macintosh’s revelations about the scheme’s deep flaws.”
A study released in September by the Australia Institute and Australian Conservation Foundation analysed $300 million of credits issued for protecting forests, known as avoided deforestation. It found land clearing in far-western NSW would have needed to have been at least 750 per cent higher to justify the payments made to farmers not to remove trees.
“We found one in five carbon credits issued by the federal government’s $4.5 billion Emission Reduction Fund do not represent real abatement,” Ms O’Shanassy said.
Mr Taylor also told the forum that new ministerial powers had been created that allow the federal government to block new carbon projects to grow native vegetation on farmland if they are deemed damaging to the regional community.
Mr Taylor and Agriculture Minister David Littleproud issued a joint statement that said native vegetation projects that were either larger than 15 hectares, or occupied more than one third of a farm, required ministerial approval from April 8.
“We don’t want to see entire farms locked up, becoming havens for weeds and feral animals as families leave the land,” Mr Littleproud said.
“I support well planned projects that involve the farmer and manage the land, I hope that there will be many projects that present no risk to community.” | https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/incorrect-minister-mistaken-on-carbon-farming-endorsement-green-group-says-20220401-p5a9zj.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed | 2022-04-01T00:44:39Z |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers moved to the brink Thursday of shaking hands on a scaled-back bipartisan compromise providing a fresh $10 billion to combat COVID-19, a deal that could set up final congressional approval next week.
The price tag was down from an earlier $15.6 billion agreement between the two parties that collapsed weeks ago after House Democrats rejected cutting unused pandemic aid to states to help pay for it. President Joe Biden requested $22.5 billion in early March. With leaders hoping to move the package through Congress quickly, the lowered cost seemed to reflect both parties’ calculations that agreeing soon to additional savings would be too hard.
The effort, which would finance steps like vaccines, treatments and tests, comes as Bidenand other Democrats have warned the government is running out of moneyto counter the pandemic. At the same time, the more transmissible omicron variant BA.2 has been spreading quickly in the U.S. and abroad.
“We’ve reached an agreement in principle on all the spending and all of the offsets,” Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the lead Republican bargainer, told reporters, using Washington-speak for savings. “It’s entirely balanced by offsets.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and others were more circumspect.
“We are getting close to a final agreement that would garner bipartisan support,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. He said lawmakers were still finalizing the bill’s components and language, and awaiting a cost estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair of the Senate health committee and another bargainer, said, “I’m hoping,” when asked about Romney’s assessment.
Once clinched, an agreement would represent a semblance of bipartisan cooperation in battling the pandemic that dissolved a year ago, when a far larger, $1.9 trillion measure proposed by the new president cleared Congress with only Democratic votes. That bill was laden with spending to help struggling families, businesses and communities, while this one would be aimed exclusively at public health.
Many Republicans have been willing to go along with the new expenditures but have insisted on paying for them with unspent funds from previous bills Congress has enacted to address the pandemic.
Half the new measure’s $10 billion would be used for treatments, said Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., who has helped negotiate the agreement. He said top federal health officials would be given wide discretion on spending the rest of it but it would include research and other steps for battling the disease, which has killed around 975,000 Americans and millions across the world.
Romney and others said savings the two parties had agreed to for the new bill would not include the cuts in state assistance that House Democrats opposed. He said some unused funds would be culled from another pandemic program that gives state and local governments funds for grants to local businesses.
Blunt said both sides had also agreed to savings that include pulling back an unspent $2.2 billion for aiding entertainment venues closed during the pandemic and more than $2 billion still available for assisting aviation manufacturing.
Romney said the $10 billion might include $1 billion for vaccines, treatments and other support for countries overseas. Blunt said that figure seemed unresolved. One third of the earlier, $15.6 billion measure had been slated to go abroad.
The lowered figure for assisting other countries encountered opposition in the House, where some Democrats wanted to boost the figure. Epidemiologists have cited the need to vaccinate more people around the world and reduce the virus’ opportunities for spinning off new variants.
“It’s a problem,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters. “It’s a shame.”
Kate Bedingfield, White House communications director, said officials were “very hopeful” an agreement would be reached and prodded lawmakers to include funds to help other countries cope with the disease.
“We’re not going to be able to put this pandemic behind us until we stop the spread and proliferation of new variants globally,” Bedingfield said.
Leaders hope Congress can approve the legislation before lawmakers leave for a spring recess after next week.
Republicans have leverage in the Democratic-controlled, 50-50 Senate because 60 votes are needed to pass most major bills. Romney and Blunt both said they believed a finalized package they described would attract significantly more than the 10 GOP votes needed.
Since the pandemic began, Congress has approved more than $5 trillion to address the economic and health crises it produced. Only a small fraction of that has been for public health programs like vaccines.
In an interview earlier Thursday with Punchbowl News, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the measure’s price tag seemed to have fallen to $10 billion because Democrats weren’t agreeing to additional savings.
Minutes later, Schumer took to the Senate floor and mentioned no figures but suggested its size could fall.
“I’m pleading with my Republican colleagues, join us,” Schumer said. “We want more than you do, but we have to get something done. We have to get something done.”
Asked if he thought an agreement could be reached before lawmakers’ recess, McConnell said, “We’ll see. Hope so.”
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to this report. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/mcconnell-says-covid-spending-package-could-shrink-to-10b/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:39Z |
Letter | Beale Street Theater scores with ‘Sound of Music’
Wow! Kingman’s Beale Street Theater has outdone itself with their production of “The Sound of Music.” The singing talent, choreography, music and acting were superb! I was so impressed with every cast member, from the youngest to the oldest. The outstanding quality of the performance would rival any big city. It made me so proud to be a part of the Kingman effort to promote theater and the arts. Kudos go out to all of the cast members and the people behind the scenes. It was wonderful to see such a large, supportive crowd that interacted with the cast. Please do your best to go and see this wonderful production. It will make you very happy to be a resident of Kingman. Thanks and congratulations to all involved. Keep up the good work. Thanks for bringing such great talent to our stages. I will continue my support.
Betsy Parker
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Second evacuation attempt in Ukrainian city canceled
An attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, Ukraine, was canceled on Sunday for the second time in two days.
The mayor of the besieged city accused Russian troops of violating a cease-fire with “intense shelling,” according to The New York Times.
The Mariupol City Council said earlier that the roughly 40,000 residents surrounded by Russian forces would be allowed to leave on Sunday under a cease-fire that was to remain in effect through the evening, Reuters reported.
On Saturday, civilian evacuations in Mariupol also came to a halt after Ukrainian and Russian forces each claimed that the other side violated the agreement.
The renewed attempt at a cease-fire for evacuations came on the 11th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The two sides have participated in two rounds of peace talks thus far, but no major breakthroughs have been reached. After the second round of discussions, however, officials agreed to a temporary, local cease-fire for humanitarian aid and evacuees.
Ukraine’s emergency service announced on Wednesday that more than 2,000 Ukrainian civilians had been killed amid the Russian invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said he had to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the ongoing conflict in his country.
“It’s not about I want to talk with Putin, I think I have to talk with Putin,” Zelensky told reporters. “The world has to talk with Putin because there are no other ways to stop this war.”
Updated at 9:20 a.m.
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Tommy Thompson, just weeks removed from leading the University of Wisconsin System, met with former President Donald Trump on Thursday for a talk about “Wisconsin politics,” a former aide said.
Thompson was elected to four terms as Wisconsin's governor, and earlier this year declined to rule out another bid. Thompson, 80, spent almost two years atop the university system before leaving earlier this month.
Bill McCoshen, a former chief of staff to Thompson when he served as governor, said the two met at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
“The primary topic was Wisconsin politics," McCoshen said. “They talked about the gubernatorial race, the Senate race and what it will take to win in Wisconsin. The topic of running for governor may have come up, but the purpose was to talk about Wisonsin politics more broadly.”
A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
McCoshen said he expected Thompson to make a decision in April. The primary is in August. Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, businessman Kevin Nicholson and state Rep. Timothy Ramthun are Republicans vying to take on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Thompson was first elected to the Legislature in 1966 and was first elected governor in 1986. He resigned midway through his fourth term to serve as Health and Human Services secretary under then-President George W. Bush, and ran briefly for president in 2008. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Thompson-and-Trump-meet-to-talk-politics-17049815.php | 2022-04-01T00:44:44Z |
Nodal peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified (PTCL, NOS) with cytotoxic phenotype is overall rare, with most reports coming from Asia. Given its elusive pathobiology, we undertook a clinicopathological and molecular study of 54 Western patients diagnosed with PTCL, NOS expressing cytotoxic molecules, within a lymph node. More commonly males (M/F-2,6/1) with median age of 60 years were affected. Besides lymphadenopathy, 87% of patients had ≥1 involved extranodal site. High-stage disease (III-IV), International Prognostic Index >2, B symptoms, LDH level, and cytopenia(s) were observed in 92, 63, 67, 78, and 66% of cases, respectively. Ten patients had a history of B-cell malignancies, one each of myeloid neoplasm, breast or prostate cancer, and 4 others had underlying immune disorders. Most patients (70%) died, mostly of disease, with a median overall survival of 12.7 months. Immunophenotypically, the neoplastic lymphocytes were T-cell receptor (TCR) αβ"‰+"‰(47%), TCR-silent (44%) or TCRγδ+ (10%), commonly CD8"‰+"‰(45%) or CD4-CD8- (32%). All except one had an activated cytotoxic profile, and 95% were subclassified into PTCL-TBX21 subtype based on CXCR3, TBX21, and GATA3 expression pattern. Seven patients (13%) disclosed EBER"‰+"‰tumor cells. Targeted DNA deep-sequencing (33 cases) and multiplex ligation-dependent reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay (43 cases) identified frequent mutations in epigenetic modifiers (73%), including TET2 (61%) and DNMT3A (39%), recurrent alterations affecting the TCR (36%) and JAK/STAT (24%) signaling pathways and TP53 mutations (18%). Fusion transcripts involving VAV1 were identified in 6/43 patients (14%). Patients with nodal cytotoxic PTCL, NOS have an aggressive behavior and frequently present in a background of impaired immunity, although the association with Epstein-Barr virus is rare. The recurrent alterations in genes involved in DNA methylation together with genes related to cytokine or TCR signaling, suggest that co-operation of epigenetic modulation with cell-signaling pathways plays a critical role in the pathogeny of these lymphomas. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2556558134776/clinical-relevance-of-tumour-associated-macrophages | 2022-04-01T00:44:44Z |
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AUTO RACING: NHRA: Qualifying, FS1, 6 p.m.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL FINAL FOUR: Louisville vs South Carolina, ESPN, 6 p.m.; UConn vs Stanford, ESPN, 8:30 p.m.
GOLF: LPGA: The Chevron Championship, GOLF, 11 a.m.; PGA: The Valero Texas Open, GOLF, 3 p.m.; PGA Champions: The Rapiscan Systems Classic, GOLF, 9 p.m.
NBA: L.A. Clippers at Milwaukee, BSWI, 7 p.m.; Phoenix at Memphis, NBA, 7 p.m.; Minnesota at Dallas, BSNO, 8 p.m.; New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, NBA, 9:30 p.m.
MEN’S SOCCER: 2022 FIFA World Cup Draw, FS1, 11 a.m.
TENNIS: Miami Open-ATP Semifinal, WTA Doubles Semifinal, TENNIS, noon and 6 p.m. | https://lacrossetribune.com/tv-schedule-friday-april-1/article_3e6797f5-5da9-50c2-8c42-bbf784789e57.html | 2022-04-01T00:44:44Z |
Man shot in leg while leaving apartment building in Pittsburgh's Arlington Heights neighborhood
The victim told police he was leaving the apartment building when another man began shooting.
The victim told police he was leaving the apartment building when another man began shooting.
Pittsburgh police said a man was shot in the leg while leaving an apartment building in the city's Arlington Heights neighborhood on Thursday.
Police said officers were called to the apartment building in the 3100 block of Cordell Place around 4 p.m.
The victim, who had been shot in the leg, told police he was leaving the apartment building when another man began shooting.
Police said officers applied two tourniquets to control the bleeding until paramedics arrived.
The victim was taken to an area hospital in serious condition, police said.
Police said the investigation is ongoing. No arrests have been announced. | https://www.wtae.com/article/arlington-heights-pittsburgh-man-shot-in-leg/39603449 | 2022-04-01T00:44:45Z |
EAST HARTFORD — A fire this morning on Tolland Street damaged one apartment, but caused no major injuries, the fire chief said.
The fire started about 8:30 a.m. at a four-unit apartment building located at 551 Tolland St., but affected only one of the units, Fire Chief Kevin Munson said today.
One person received minor injuries that were treated on the scene, Munson said.
Munson also added that residents can return soon to other three apartments, but the apartment where the fire started will “require a little bit of clean-up,” particularly in the kitchen, which was heavily damaged.
The American Red Cross said it is helping the two adults and three children that were displaced by the blaze.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the fire marshal, Munson said.
Munson added that the fire marshal's office offers smoke alarm installations for residents who need them. Residents can call the office at 860-291-7400. | https://www.journalinquirer.com/towns/east_hartford/east-hartford-fire-damages-apartment/article_4c057440-b146-11ec-8d93-8326b809a14f.html | 2022-04-01T00:44:45Z |
What it's like to go glamping with a view of flamingos at Jurong Bird Park
It's not every day that you get to spend a night at a bird park, much less wake up to the sight of flamingos. CNA's Try Sutrisno Foo got a taste of Jurong Bird Park's 2-day, 1-night glamping experience.
If the thought of camping with flamingos makes you tickled pink, Jurong Bird Park has just the right option for you for a fun staycation.
From Jun 10 to Jul 30 this year, it's offering a glamping opportunity where you get put up in air-conditioned bell tents with a stunning view of Flamingo Lake.
It's home to 160 greater flamingos, the largest species of flamingos, and a sight to behold when they are together in such numbers.
On the first day of a media preview, this writer got to enjoy dinner while watching these gentle giants alternate between preening and walking around delicately on their stilt-like legs.
Interestingly, the collective noun for a group of flamingos is flamboyance, but the only thing loud about these birds was their colour. At least it seemed so, watching them through a thick wall of glass.
In person, flamingos make charming honking sounds, which I imagine could make quite a din if you were truly camping amongst them.
As night fell, I was pleasantly surprised to see fairy lights coming on, making the tents glow and lending a warm and cosy feel to the room.
Outside, the flamingos looked like ethereal dancers as they waded about the lake with lights shining on them.
Each tent can accommodate four people and comes with two double beds with blankets, four soft pillows and two cushions. A fan and a power socket are also provided.
I was told that for a price, peckish guests can also opt for add-ons such as a snack basket or a cheese platter and wine basket to spice up their stay.
The bed was comfy enough, but for those who have trouble falling asleep, you can try counting flamingos.
UP CLOSE WITH THE BIRDS
Besides looking at flamingos, guests are also treated to a host of activities. There's no winging it here – they get to go on guided tours around the park and join keepers during bird-feeding sessions.
This is where the experience truly stood out for me: Getting up close and very personal with an array of fine feathered friends – birdseed in hand – made for great photo opportunities. It is every birder's dream to see them like this, and other visitors and myself were able to study their iridescent plumage and sometimes equally brilliant crowns and beaks.
For those who favour larger, more fearsome birds, there is a session for guests to get to know some of the park's resident birds of prey, such as vultures, under the safe watch of their keepers.
Overall, the glamping experience was unique and entertaining. At S$1,099 this is by no means a cheep thrill, but two days, chockfull of interactions with birds made for a fun lasting memory at Jurong Bird Park before it eventually relocates to Mandai.
CNA Lifestyle had a Staycation With The Flamingos at Jurong Bird Park at the invitation of Mandai Wildlife Group. The staycations will run from June 10 to July 30, 2022. Guests can book a stay here. | https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/travel/singapore-jurong-bird-park-staycation-flamingos-glamping-308586 | 2022-04-01T00:44:45Z |
After PDP-Laban backs Marcos' bid, Duterte insists to remain neutral
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — After bagging the support of the majority ruling PDP-Laban party, presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has yet to earn his much-hoped endorsement from the incumbent President Rodrigo Duterte.
On Thursday night, Duterte said partly in Filipino: "Let me reiterate.... I am not supporting any presidential candidate. I am neutral."
"So this is not a campaign because I am not campaigning for any particular candidate," Duterte was quoted in a tweet report by The STAR.
‘NEUTRAL AKO’
— The Philippine Star (@PhilippineStar) March 31, 2022
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday evening emphasized that he is not endorsing any presidential candidate in this year’s national elections.
“This is not a campaign because I am not campaigning for any particular candidate,” he added. #BilangPilipino2022 pic.twitter.com/ner1Ejl8oS
Last March 24, Palace spokesperson Martin Andanar confirmed last week that Duterte met with Marcos, but he said the outgoing president only talked about his experiences and insights with the presidential aspirant.
Marcos has long admitted to courting the incumbent president for his endorsement, and so far, he already bagged the support of several political parties including PDP-Laban.
But the majority ruling party’s chairman, Duterte, has yet to give his endorsement of the survey frontrunner.
After his party declared support to Marcos’ bid, Duterte however talked about the issue of unpaid estate tax. Although he did not identify anyone, Marcos is being hounded by the estimated P203 billion tax deficiencies their family has yet to pay. This is also an issue he himself refused to address personally.
UniTeam
PDP-Laban, although, has long adopted Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, the running-mate of Marcos, as their vice presidential bet.
Marcos and Duterte, dubbed as UniTeam, wooed Mindanao voters this week. In an ambush interview with reporters in Carmen, Davao del Norte on Wednesday, the presidential daughter distanced herself from the meeting between her father and running-mate.
“I do not know what they talked about. I was not there during the meeting,” she said partly in Filipino.
Marcos in a recent interview said he identifies himself as an administration ally. Although at some point, when Sen. "Christopher" Bong Go was still in the presidential derby, Rodriguez said this was then inaccurate. Marcos had promised to continue the administration’s programs like the Build, Build, Build. — with repot from The STAR
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Newswise — BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, March 30, 2022 – The Board of Trustees of ASM International, (formerly the American Society for Metals), has elected Nikhil Gupta, professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering a Fellow of the Society. ASM, a global organization with over 20,000 members, bestows Society Fellowships, which it established in 1969, upon those whom it recognizes as having made significant contributions in the field of materials science and engineering.
Gupta, who is also affiliated with the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering, and the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, received the honor — among the highest in materials engineering — for his pioneering contributions to the science and technology of lightweight polymer and metal matrix composites. He is also recognized for exceptional dedication to the education of public for scientific discoveries. As a Fellow, Gupta becomes a member of a broadly based forum for technical and professional leaders to serve as advisors to the Society. In 2021, ASM elected 20 researchers and experts in the field to be Fellows.
With a range of research foci, including sustainable manufacture of composite materials, developing new security methods for 3D printing, and using machine learning methods for materials characterization, Gupta has presented over 100 keynote and invited lectures and authored 23 book chapters and over 200 journal articles. He has also written or edited several books and is an inventor on 7 issued US patents.
Among awards and honors Gupta has received are the 2020 Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Brimacombe Medalist Award, the ASM International Silver Medal, the Minerals Metals and Materials, the TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award, and Visiting Lectureship Award from the ASM-Indian Institute of Metals.
His research interests, educational initiatives and innovations traverse a wide landscape, including:
“Nikhil's election to the elite ranks of ASM Fellows is a well-deserved acknowledgement of his scholarship, research, and mentorship of students. It also speaks to the quality and innovative work of our faculty in all of our areas of excellence,” said NYU Tandon Dean Jelena Kovačević.
Gupta served as the Chair of the Composites Materials Committee of TMS (2016-2018) and Membership Secretary of American Society for Composites. Currently he is serving on the editorial board of Materials Science and Engineering A, Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials and the Journal of Materials Processing and Characterization.
Gupta will accept the ASM Fellow Award at IMAT’22 in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 12-16, 2022.
About the New York University Tandon School of Engineering
The NYU Tandon School of Engineering dates to 1854, the founding date for both the New York University School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. A January 2014 merger created a comprehensive school of education and research in engineering and applied sciences as part of a global university, with close connections to engineering programs at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai. NYU Tandon is rooted in a vibrant tradition of entrepreneurship, intellectual curiosity, and innovative solutions to humanity’s most pressing global challenges. Research at Tandon focuses on vital intersections between communications/IT, cybersecurity, and data science/AI/robotics systems and tools and critical areas of society that they influence, including emerging media, health, sustainability, and urban living. We believe diversity is integral to excellence, and are creating a vibrant, inclusive, and equitable environment for all of our students, faculty and staff. For more information, visit engineering.nyu.edu. | https://www.newswise.com/articles/nyu-tandon-expert-on-novel-materials-and-3d-printing-security-elected-as-fellow-by-the-materials-society-asm-international?sc=rsbn | 2022-04-01T00:44:45Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airport security procedures will become more gender-neutral, with changes to scanners used for screening and the use of an “X” for travelers going through Precheck who do not identify as male or female, the Biden administration said Thursday.
Transportation Security Administration officers will also receive new instructions on screening intended to make procedures less invasive, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
They are among a series of travel-security measures announced by the department in conjunction with Transgender Day of Visibility. President Joe Biden is marking the day by advocating against what his administration terms “dangerous anti-transgender legislative attacks” that have passed in statehouses across the country.
“DHS is committed to protecting the traveling public while ensuring that everyone, regardless of gender identity, is treated with respect,” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the statement.
The use of the “X” pronoun in the TSA Precheck advanced security program will begin April 11 and is intended to keep pace with identity documents that already include that option, DHS said. A new “X” gender marker on U.S. passport applications also begins April 11.
Later this year, TSA will begin using scanners with new technology that will replace gender-based systems and are intended to “advance civil rights and improve the customer experience.”
The TSA will work with airlines to promote the acceptance of the “X” gender marker and will also update the guidance for airport security screening officers to remove gender considerations when validating documents, DHS said. | https://www.mystateline.com/news/politics/us-airport-security-screening-to-become-more-gender-neutral/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:45Z |
By Greg Baum
Goalkicking godfather Peter Hudson sees no reason why a future Buddy Franklin can’t kick 100 goals in a season and 1000 goals in a career.
No one has kicked a century since Franklin for Hawthorn in 2008 and last week, when he became the fifth player to reach 1000 career goals, there was a consensus that it was a feat never to be repeated. Hudson asks ‘why not?’
“You’ve got a bloke playing at the moment who in one year kicked 100 goals and 70 or 80 behinds,” Hudson said. “He’s had 180 shots in a year, which to me says that when the next Buddy Franklin or Gary Ablett or Jason Dunstall comes along, who’s to say they can’t kick 150?”
“I’d give anything to see somebody (else) come along and kick 1000 goals in my lifetime. I don’t believe for one minute that nobody could ever do it again.”
Hudson thinks it’s cyclic. He notes that no one kicked a century between Essendon’s John Coleman in 1952 and himself in 1968. A free-scoring period followed almost until the end of the century. Since Tony Lockett in 1998, only Franklin has kicked 100.
“People say the game’s played differently today,” Hudson said. “But every so often a Ben Brown will bob up and kick a bagful. Buddy could kick 10 or 12 on a given day. The thing that makes me chuckle inwardly is that, while the game might have changed, the grounds are better than they used to be 40 or 50 years ago. Those sort of things count.”
Hudson disagrees that full-backs have more tricks now. “I don’t think so. I can remember driving home before mobile phones thinking there was a phone ringing.” he said. “I’d been hit in the back of the ear. You can’t hit blokes in the ear any more, and you can’t chop their arms.”
Statistically, the unorthodox Hudson was the best goalkicker of all, averaging 5.64 in 129 games for the Hawks. Coleman averaged 5.48 in his meagre 98 games for Essendon. Lockett, who leads the aggregate with 1360 goals, averaged 4.84.
Hudson is still an aficionado of goalkicking, but won’t rank the five 1000-plus men. “Lockett was technically almost perfect,” he said. “Jason Dunstall was the hardest worker. I loved watching Doug Wade play when I was at the other end of the ground. Gary Ablett was sensational. Everyone loved watching him.
“I was thrilled to bits when Buddy got his 1000. I like his presence on the field. He looks the part, and when he does something brilliant, it’s super brilliant. He’s got the score on the board. It’s hard to fault him, really.”
Hudson, 76, is an undying footy fan. “I love it. I often say I’d watch it eight nights a week if it was on television. The skills are so good,” he said.
“The only thing I didn’t like about the game was when they kicked backwards. We went through that period of a year or two when they kicked backwards. But they fixed that. You don’t see it so much any more.
“I always thought they should have paid a free kick if you got the ball and kicked it backwards at all.”
Remarkably, no-one had written a biography of Hudson until this week, when Dan Eddy’s A Football Genius was launched.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain at historic lows.
Jobless claims rose by 14,000 to 202,000 for the week ending March 26, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The previous week’s tally of 188,000 claims was the fewest since 1969. First-time applications for jobless aid generally track the pace of layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which compensates for weekly volatility, fell to 208,500 from 212,000 the previous week.
In total, 1,307,000 Americans were collecting jobless aid for the week ending March 19, the fewest since December 1969.
Employers added a robust 678,000 jobs in February, according to recent government data, the largest monthly total since July. The unemployment rate dropped to 3.8%, from 4% in January, extending a sharp decline in joblessness to its lowest level since before the pandemic erupted two years ago. The government reports March jobs data on Friday, and analysts forecast that the U.S. economy gained 477,500 jobs for the month.
Job openings hovered at a near-record level in February, little changed from the previous month, continuing a trend that Federal Reserve officials see as a driver of inflation. There were 11.3 million available jobs last month, matching January’s figure and just below December’s record of 11.4 million, the Labor Department said Tuesday.
The number of Americans quitting their jobs was also historically high, at 4.4 million, up from 4.3 million in January. More than 4.5 million people quit in November, the most on records dating back two decades.
The Federal Reserve launched a high-risk effort two weeks ago in an effort to tame the worst inflation since the early 1980s, raising its benchmark short-term interest rate and signaling up to six additional rate hikes this year.
The Fed’s quarter-point hike in its key rate, which it had pinned near zero since the pandemic recession struck two years ago, marks the start of its effort to curb the high inflation that followed the recovery from the recession. The rate hikes will eventually mean higher loan rates for many consumers and businesses.
The central bank’s policymakers have projected that inflation will remain elevated at 4.3% through 2022.
Also Thursday,an inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, with sharply higher prices for food, gasoline and other necessities squeezing Americans’ finances. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/more-americans-apply-for-jobless-benefits-layoffs-still-low/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:46Z |
Letter | Let the government work
Simple question? If at your work an employee refused to do the job he was hired for, caused chaos between other workers, prevented your company from getting the work done, and was paid an outrageous salary, how long do you think he would stay employed? So why do you people keep re-electing these Republicans that not only refuse to govern (the job they were elected to do) but prevent our government from getting anything done for the people that elected them. Mitch McConnell has shut down the Senate for over eight years preventing any bills from even being considered. Why are they still there?
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Lendefi (LDFI) traded 1.6% lower against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 19:00 PM ET on March 31st. One Lendefi coin can now be bought for about $0.0002 or 0.00000000 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Lendefi has a market capitalization of $1.06 million and approximately $3,280.00 worth of Lendefi was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last week, Lendefi has traded up 15.9% against the U.S. dollar.
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Trump jokes US should ‘put the Chinese flag’ on F-22 fighter jets and ‘bomb the s—‘ out of Russia: report
Former President Trump reportedly joked on Saturday that the U.S. should “put the Chinese flag” on F-22 fighter jets and “bomb the shit” out of Russia.
Trump made the comment to top Republican National Committee donors at a retreat in New Orleans, according to CBS News.
The network reported that the former president suggested that the U.S. should blame China for the offensive and then watch as the two countries engage in a conflict.
“And then we say, ‘China did it,'” Trump said, which, according to an unidentified source cited by CBS News, elicited laughs in the room. “Then they start fighting with each other, and we sit back and watch.”
The Washington Post also reported on Trump’s comments.
Trump sparked criticism last month for calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “smart” and “pretty savvy” as Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. A number of GOP figures pushed back on those comments, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
Days later, the former president appeared to shift his tone, calling the conflict in Ukraine “a Holocaust” during a wide-ranging interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo and urging Russia to stop fighting. He said Moscow had “to stop killing these people” and suggested that a deal could be reached to end the conflict.
During that same interview, Trump said he believed China would invade Taiwan sooner rather than later.
He said such an offensive would occur on a faster timeline “because they’re seeing how stupid the United States is run.”
“They’re seeing that our leaders are incompetent, and of course they’re going to do — this is their time,” he added.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A $64.1 billion supplemental state budget that spends on statewide programs ranging from homelessness and behavioral health to the ongoing COVID-19 response was signed Thursday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
The supplemental plan builds off of the $59 billion, two-year spending plan adopted by the Legislature last year, and benefited from the significant influx of revenues the state has seen over the past year. Additionally, lawmakers used more than $1 billion in remaining pandemic-related federal relief funds in the budget.
While there are no general tax increases in the plan, there are also no across-the-board tax cuts, something Republicans had argued for throughout the legislative session that ended March 10.
A small business tax credit was included that would affect about 125,000 small businesses in the state, and was among the bills signed by Inslee Thursday.
Starting in January, businesses making less than $125,000 a year would pay no state business taxes, and those making up to $250,000 a year, business taxes will be cut in half.
The supplemental operating budget also spends state or federal money on things like adding more social supports like nurses and counselors for students, increasing rates to vendors providing services to people with developmental disabilities or long-term care needs and shoring up the state’s paid family leave program, which officials warned was nearing a deficit.
It also allots funding for raises for state workers. According to the Office of Financial Management, about 63,800 general government employees will get a 3.25% general wage increase, about 6,700 state corrections workers will get a 4% general wage increase and about 1,200 state patrol officers will get a 10% general wage increase. The last general wage increase for represented employees was July 1, 2020.
The operating budget also transfers more than $2 billion to the nearly $17 billion, 16-year transportation revenue package that Inslee signed last week. The plan leaves about $3 billion in total reserves.
Inslee had several full or partial vetoes of bills, including a section of a bill that would have expanded the state’s existing warehouse sales and use tax to include smaller warehouses of at least 100,000 square feet. In his veto notice, Inslee said that while he understood the importance of manufacturing and warehousing to rural economies, he said the tax incentives in the bill were overly broad.
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Gov. Spencer J. Cox appoints Judge Diana Hagen to Utah Supreme Court – Cache Valley Daily
SALT LAKE CITY — A new judge has been nominated to the Utah Supreme Court. Gov. Spencer Cox named Utah Court of Appeals Judge Diana Hagen as his choice for the highest court in the state. The governor’s Tuesday nomination is subject to confirmation by the Utah...
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Australiana is a novel set in a nameless town in rural Australia, where Yumna Kassab explores interconnected experiences of inequality. In doing so, she also makes us pause and reflect on how Australia is represented through literature
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After leading Midland Dow to its fourth consecutive Saginaw Valley League title, Kyle Theisen was named the Associated Press Division 1 Coach of the Year.
The AP released its Division 1 girls basketball all-state team Thursday, naming Theisen as its Coach of the Year and Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central senior Theryn Hallock as the Player of the Year.
Hallock, the daughter of former Michigan State football player Ty Hallock, has committed to play at MSU.
Theisen took over as the Dow girls basketball varsity head coach in the 2014-15 season and has recorded six 20-win seasons and has won or shared the Saginaw Valley League title in seven of his eight seasons.
The Chargers were 23-2 in 2021-22 after reaching the Division 1 semifinals in 2021. In his eight seasons as the Dow head coach, Theisen has led the Chargers to a 166-24 record.
Dow guard Alexa Kolnitys, the MLive Saginaw Player of the Year, earned second-team honors after averaging 18.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.6 steals and 4.5 assists. Kolnitys was also the Saginaw Valley League Most Valuable Player, eclipsing the 1,000-point career mark as a senior.
Kolnitys will play next season at Davenport University.
Saginaw-area honorable mention selections to the AP Division 1 all-state team included Midland Dow’s Abby Rey and Heritage junior Zar’ria Mitchell. Rey averaged 17.6 points and 5.2 rebounds, while Mitchell averaged 17 points and 3.5 rebounds.
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Allyson Hobbs ’97, whose award-winning writing, scholarship, and teaching tackle the history and lasting impact of race in the U.S., will serve as this year’s chief marshal of alumni, the Harvard Alumni Association announced today.
Following a tradition that goes back more than 120 years, Hobbs was elected by her classmates and will play a number of ceremonial roles in celebration of their 25th reunion. In June, she will lead the alumni parade as part of Harvard Alumni Day and host a special luncheon in Widener Library, where University leadership convene with a small group of alumni leaders and other dignitaries, including the Harvard Medalists and the Alumni Day featured speaker.
Hobbs said she felt “deeply honored” to be chosen, and called the Class of 1997 “the most wonderful group of people I’ve ever known. My gratitude for the opportunity to celebrate with my classmates, all in person, is boundless, and I’m counting the days until we can all be together again on campus.”
Alumni will be able to reconnect in person for Harvard Alumni Day, reunions, and other alumni programs across the campus, after the pandemic kept many from visiting for two consecutive years. Events will be simultaneously live-streamed for those who cannot attend in person.
“As a respected historian and storyteller, teacher, and scholar, and community-builder, Allyson Hobbs has spent her career helping us understand racial injustice, its complex human cost, and how its history is something that links and impacts all of us,” said Vanessa Liu, HAA president. “Fierce in her conviction that the past has much to teach us, Allyson is an example of the countless Harvard alumni who are shaping our world, like all of the chief marshals before her.”
Hobbs’ book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,” explores the phenomenon from the late 18th century to the present. It won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for the best first book in American history and the Lawrence W. Levine Award for the best book in American cultural history, as well as other honors.
Hobbs is an associate professor in Stanford University’s Department of History, director of African and African American studies, and a Kleinheinz University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. She is the recipient of Stanford’s highest teaching prize.
She is currently writing two books, “Far from Sanctuary: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights,” which examines the road trip through the lens of 20th-century African American motorists, and “To Tell the Terrible,” which explores the collective memory of sexual violence among generations of Black women.
She has published essays on race and politics for The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Nation, TheRoot.com, The Guardian, Politico, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Hobbs has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at Stanford. She was honored by the Silicon Valley chapter of the NAACP with a Freedom Fighter Award. She has served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in history and as a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
Hobbs earned her Ph.D. in American history from the University of Chicago.
Hobbs said she realized while at Harvard “that a university would be my professional home. I love the partnership between teachers and students, not only to engage with scholarship but to work to understand a changing world and to try to change the world ourselves. This collaboration never fails to fill me with joy.”
She called writing her thesis about the Highlander Folk School, nestled in the mountains of Tennessee, transformative. “It was a very unique place that began as a labor-organizing school and later became a center for civil rights and nonviolence activism that trained leaders and Civil Rights icons like Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks,” she said. Hobbs traveled to the school the summer before her senior year. “The moment when I was handed the keys to Highlander’s archive was the moment when I knew I wanted to be a historian.”
Hobbs was extremely active outside the classroom as well, including participating in the Crimson Key Society and the First-Year Outdoor Program. “I wanted to make Harvard a welcoming place for all first-years, especially those who might otherwise have felt intimidated or apprehensive about starting their College experience,” she said. When Hobbs joined Harvard’s Black Student Association, she was able to “connect to the Black community at Harvard socially and intellectually.”
She was also involved with the Association of Black Radcliffe Women, Harvard Arbitration Association, Harvard Black Register, First-Year Outdoor Program, intramural crew, Institute of Politics, and the Phillips Brooks House Association.
As an alumna, her service to Harvard has included interviewing prospective students, coordinating the Harvard Black Alumni Society’s San Francisco chapter, and working on the Harvard College Fund Gift Committee for her Class’ 15th Reunion.
“My connection to Harvard is fundamental to who I am today,” Hobbs said. “The pride that I felt in joining the Class of 1997 had to do with what Harvard means as an institution, to its long history of prioritizing scholarship in the arts and sciences, and with the commitment to lifelong learning as central to the lives of its graduates.”
Since 1899, the 25th College Reunion class has been charged with selecting a chief marshal based on criteria that include success in one’s field as well as service to both the University and the broader society. As this year’s chief marshal, Hobbs joins a list of illustrious alumni who have held the position, including former U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith ’94, who is this year’s featured Harvard Alumni Day speaker; astronaut Stephanie Wilson ’88; Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Linda Greenhouse ’68; City Year co-founder Alan Khazei ’83; former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86; and former Rhode Island Gov. (now Secretary of Commerce) Gina M. Raimondo ’93. | https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/03/allyson-hobbs-is-elected-class-of-1997s-chief-marshal/?utm_medium=Feed&utm_source=Syndication | 2022-04-01T00:44:51Z |
‘There’s a level of anxiety’: Ricciardo learns to cope with pressures of home grand prix
By Matthew Clayton
Daniel Ricciardo has read the news, scoured social media and heard enough anecdotes from friends to realise this year’s Australian Grand Prix could be the biggest of his Formula One career, but he believes the 2014 event in Melbourne will always stand as his defining home race.
With Albert Park ticket sales at record levels after a dramatic 2021 season, the “Netflix effect” on the sport’s fan base thanks to its Drive to Survive series opening up F1 to a new audience and a three-year gap between grands prix in Melbourne, Ricciardo is itching to take to the grid at a home race for McLaren for the first time, with Melbourne’s 2019 race doubling as his debut for Renault.
The 32-year-old feels the 2014 Melbourne race, where he qualified on the front row of the grid for the first time and finished a superb second before his Red Bull Racing machine was disqualified for breaching a fuel-flow regulation, was the first moment he was considered one of the sport’s premier drivers.
“From what everyone tells me, it feels like this year is going to be big – but for me, 2014 was always the race that felt biggest because I’d just joined Red Bull,” Ricciardo says.
“It was the first race of the season for me and I had a reigning four-time world champion (Sebastian Vettel) as my teammate. They were big stakes because people wanted to know ‘does this guy really have it?’ I wanted to show the team that it wasn’t too much for me, that I could really do this.
“But in terms of the build-up, because Australia hasn’t had a race in so long, they’ve re-done the track and it sounds like the crowd will be huge – 2022 has potential to be something pretty special.”
Ricciardo is well aware of the hoodoo that hangs over home drivers at Albert Park; since Melbourne came on to the grand prix calendar 26 years ago, no local driver has finished on the podium. While McLaren’s early-season struggles in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia before arriving in Melbourne don’t point to that drought ending, he’s learned to cope better with being the centre of attention.
“It’s extremes with Australia because everything is magnified,” he says. “When it’s great, it’s awesome … when it’s bad, it’s way more miserable. In 2019, my race was more or less over after five seconds (after he ran off track and broke his Renault’s front wing) and it wasn’t the most fun day I’ve had.”
Ricciardo admits the pressure of being the sole Australian on the grid for six of his eight grands prix at home has, at times, been difficult to deal with. “It can get to a point where there’s a level of anxiety because of the sheer scale of the attention,” he says.
“It’s quite foreign to get that level of attention, and it can easily get in your head a little bit. I’ve not always done the best job with that, and sometimes it’s best to roll with the punches so you don’t create tension that stops you performing at your best.
“Do you give too much of yourself to things that are outside of driving, or do you shelter yourself away and almost focus too hard on driving and try to shut down everything else? You can lose energy trying to push back and stay under the radar, which you can’t anyway because it’s your home GP.
“Neither is a natural way to go racing, so there’s a compromise you have to accept, and just do the best you can with what you have.”
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Newswise — New research from City, University of London shows how platform firms (such as Uber or Deliveroo) have adapted to regulations to provide different services and gain infrastructural power.
This power – which stems from their position as mediators across a variety of interests – is shaped by pre-existing regulations and the firms’ strategic response of ‘contentious compliance’.
This double movement involves adapting to existing regulations while also continuing to challenge them.
Study author Dr Jimena Valdez, a Lecturer in City’s Department of International Politics, applied this framework to the expansion and regulation of Uber in New York City, Madrid, and Berlin.
Dr Valdez said:
“These firms mediate between producers and consumers of goods, services, and information. In so doing, they create an ecosystem that depends on them.
“In this way, platform firms become increasingly relevant in our economies and accumulate power.”
But while platform firms are usually depicted as radical disruptors and in general disregard for the law, the study shows that these companies have in many cases been compliant and adapted to the law.
The paper, published in Regulation & Governance, shows that the power of these firms is tied to their normal operation – that is, the provision of their services – and stems from the specific position these firms occupy in the economy.
Because different cities and/or countries have different legislations, platform firms adapt to different rules across locales, meaning they work in different ways.
“In other words,” said Dr Valdez, “there is no one Uber – rather a slightly different Uber in each different city.”
The study’s reference to the firms’ strategy as one of "contentious compliance" refers to their technique of adapting to existing legislation to be able to provide their services, while continuing to challenge regulations as aggressively as possible – essentially a push-pull process between firms and governments.
Dr Valdez said: “Firms accept existing rules only because they take every opportunity to expand and display their services; to build the power necessary to continue to push for more favourable regulatory change."
The study highlights the importance of simultaneously analysing institutional settings and platform firms' strategies.
The ability to accumulate infrastructural power is not a predetermined natural outcome, but deeply contextual.
The capacity to become the infrastructure of the economy depends on a specific business model and a way to deploy technology, and both certainly require the permission (if not assistance) of governments, as well as citizens.
This challenges the inexorability that is sometimes tied to these new business models and their corresponding economic and labour relations.
Read the full paper: ‘The politics of Uber: Infrastructural power in the United States and Europe’, in Regulation & Governance.
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TULALIP, Wash. (AP) — 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, to help address a silent crisis that has plagued Indian Country in this state and nationwide.
The law sets up a system similar to Amber Alerts and so-called silver alerts, which are used respectively for missing children and vulnerable adults in many states. It was spearheaded by Democratic Rep. Debra Lekanoff, the only Native American lawmaker currently serving in the Washington state Legislature, and championed by Indigenous leaders statewide.
“I am proud to say that the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s and People’s Alert System came from the voices of our Native American leaders,” said Lekanoff, a member of the Tlingit tribe and the bill’s chief sponsor. “It’s not just an Indian issue, it’s not just an Indian responsibility. Our sisters, our aunties, our grandmothers are going missing every day … and it’s been going on for far too long.”
Tribal leaders, many of them women, wore traditional hats woven from cedar as they gathered around Inslee for the signing on the Tulalip Reservation, north of Seattle. Afterward they gifted him with a handmade traditional ribbon shirt and several multicolored woven blankets.
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.”
Besides notifying law enforcement when there’s a report of a missing Indigenous person, the new alert system will place messages on highway reader boards and on the radio and social media, and provide information to the news media.
The legislation was paired with another bill Inslee, a Democrat, signed Thursday that requires county coroners or medical examiners to take steps to identify and notify family members of murdered Indigenous people and return their remains. That new law also establishes two grant funds for Indigenous survivors of human trafficking.
This piece of the crisis is important because in many cases, murdered Indigenous women are mistakenly recorded as white or Hispanic by coroners’ offices, they’re never identified, or their remains never repatriated.
A 2021 report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office 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.
The bill signing began with a traditional welcome song passed down by Harriette Shelton Dover, a cherished cultural leader and storyteller. Dover recovered and shared many traditions and songs from tribes along Washington’s northern Pacific Coast and worked with linguists before her death in 1991 to preserve her language, Lushootseed, from extinction. Women performed an honor song after the event.
Tulalip Tribes of Washington Chairwoman Teri Gobin said Washington and Montana are the two states with the most missing Indigenous people in the U.S. Nearly four dozen Native people are currently missing in Seattle alone, she said.
“What’s the most important thing is bringing them home, whether they’ve been trafficked, whether they’ve been stolen or murdered,” she said. “It’s a wound that stays open, and it’s something that we pray with (for) each person, we can bring them home.”
Investigations into missing Indigenous people, particularly women, have been plagued by many issues for decades.
When a person goes missing on a reservation, there are often there are jurisdictional conflicts between tribal police and local and state law enforcement. A lack of staff and police resources, and the rural nature of many reservations, compound those problems. And many times, families of tribal members distrust non-Native law enforcement or don’t know where to report news of a missing loved one.
An alert system will help mitigate some of those problems by allowing better communication and coordination between tribal and non-tribal law enforcement and creating a way for law enforcement to flag such cases for other agencies. The law 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 law takes effect June 9 and some details are still being worked out. For example, it’s unclear what criteria law enforcement will use to positively identify a missing person as Native American and how the information will be disseminated in rural areas, including on some reservations, where highways lack electronic reader boards — or where there aren’t highways at all.
The measure is the latest step Washington 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.
The law is already drawing attention from other states, whose attorney generals have called to ask how to enact similar legislation, said state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who called the law “truly groundbreaking.”
“Any time you’re doing something for the first time in this country, that’s an extra heavy lift,” he said. “This most certainly will not be our last reform to make sure that we bring everybody back home. .. There is so much more work that needs to be done and must be done.”
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Flaccus reported from Portland, Oregon.
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In just 14 months, Joe Biden has done more damage to our nation than any president in modern history. With inflation at a 40-year high, record-breaking illegal immigration, gas prices up 70 percent, and Biden now warning families to prepare for food shortages, the American way of life is under attack like never before. It is no surprise that the president’s approval rating has plummeted to an all-time low.
In 2022, conservatives have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to save America from decline and decay brought on by progressive policies, and to build a true governing majority that could last for generations. But in order to win, conservatives must do more than criticize and complain — we must unite our movement around a bold, optimistic agenda that offers a clear and compelling choice to the American people.
Elections are about the future. Leftists would love nothing more than for conservatives to talk about the past — anything but the mess the Left has made of the present, or the disastrous future that awaits if it remains in power.
Conservatives must be relentlessly focused on the future if we hope to stop the radical Left from destroying this country. That’s why the advocacy group I founded, Advancing American Freedom, has released a detailed Freedom Agenda developed with the help of nearly 50 of the brightest stars in the conservative movement.
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The Freedom Agenda provides a clear road map for conservative leaders looking to connect deeply with the American people on their top priorities. It is built upon the belief that Americans want to create more economic opportunity, want to restore American leadership on the world stage, and are proud of traditional American culture and want to preserve it.
Under the Freedom Agenda, conservatives should not hesitate to take bold stands in support of local law enforcement, tough sentences for violent criminals, and powerful border-security measures to shut down illegal immigration. Conservatives should demand that parents be given the right to choose where their children go to school, that schools embrace patriotic education rather than political indoctrination, and that participation in sports be determined by one’s gender at birth as a matter of fairness and common sense.
To preserve our God-given rights, the Freedom Agenda calls for cracking down on Big Tech censorship, adopting universal voter ID and limiting mail-in ballots to only the rarest of circumstances, and permanently ending taxpayer funding for abortion. Most importantly, it provides a framework to return the sanctity of life to the center of American law, and to preserve the right of all Americans to live, work, and worship according to their faith.
For America to be prosperous again, conservatives should work to extend the Trump–Pence tax cuts, restore American energy independence, and support reciprocal trade deals that bring jobs back home to America. At the same time, conservatives must move toward a merit-based immigration system that prioritizes the jobs and wages of American citizens.
Finally, the Freedom Agenda encourages conservatives to embrace policies that will restore American power and prestige in international affairs. As war rages in Eastern Europe, America must stand strong against Russian aggression and rally our Western allies to defend freedom. Conservatives must demand renewed military investments, including in cybersecurity and technology, to counter the growing threat posed by countries such as China and Russia. Finally, conservatives should work to revoke China’s Most Favored Nation trading status and maintain the tariffs imposed by the Trump–Pence administration.
Merging traditional conservative values with the successes of the Trump–Pence administration is a proven formula that will lead to extraordinary growth for the United States.
Today in America, what’s at stake is the very survival of our nation. We cannot afford to take our eyes off the task in front of us, or to be distracted by grievances of the past. In 2022 and beyond, the American people will decide whether their children and grandchildren stand tall as citizens of the freest nation on earth, or whether they are forced to live in the economic, moral, and spiritual poverty of socialism.
With the Freedom Agenda, conservatives can keep our eyes firmly fixed on the future and build a bigger, broader, and bolder majority that lasts for generations to come. | https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/a-freedom-agenda-is-the-conservative-path-to-victory/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:53Z |
While checking my email, my wife was reviewing the March 15 Dixon City Council meeting. The council was advised by the city’s finance director that the city received $4.9 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. The funding could be used for:
• Construction of schools and hospitals.
• Road-building — Parkway Overpass, maintenance, other infrastructure.
• Health services.
• General government administration.
• Environmental remediation.
• Police, fire, other public safety — vehicles and equipment.
The finance director advised the council that the funds should be spent on one-time items and not on recurring items like personnel, who could face the possibility of being laid off when the funds ran out. However, the director did provide the council with spending options that included personnel and equipment. Members of the public spoke and some council members spoke out against the hiring of personnel — again due to the possibility of the individuals being laid off in future years.
Councilmember Pederson ignored all the advice provided. He wrapped himself in the glory of the need to hire additional police and fire as well as procure them more equipment so that Dixonites would have his No. 1 Goal: “A safe community,” even if the staffing positions might not be funded in future years. He quickly proposed approving all the options that the finance director provided, which included $3.3 million in staff and equipment for police and fire. His proposal was then approved by himself, Mayor Bird, and Councilmember Hendershot. Councilmember Ernst was absent from the meeting. Councilmember Johnson is to be commended for using wise judgment, listening to constituents, not caving into Pederson’s grandstanding, and dissenting.
But, considering that Pederson is up for re-election in November, one has to wonder whether his proposal to hire additional fire and police and provide them additional equipment was truly altruistic. Is he showing a deep concern for Dixonites or was this just a campaign stunt showing his constituents that he is fulfilling a campaign promise which is to ensure they have a safe community? He can then include these items in his campaign flyers and in requests to obtain endorsements and contributions for his possible re-election campaign, in order to get votes and get re-elected.
If Pederson’s No. 1 Goal is truly a safe Dixon community and he sincerely believes this requires immediate increased police and fire staffing along with equipment, why didn’t he bring this up in earlier council meetings? Why didn’t he propose funding these items out of the current budget instead of spending nearly $4 million for a park downtown when there was one a block away? Why did he vote to give the city manager a $60,000 pay raise? It’s not as if the city manager is going to put out a fire or arrest a criminal.
If there were not enough funds in the budget, why didn’t he propose a sales tax increase to fund the items along with Parkway Overpass, which allows for quicker fire department response.
— David Dingman/Dixon | https://www.thereporter.com/2022/03/31/david-dingman-grandstanding-in-dixon/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:53Z |
After launching it months ahead in China, OnePlus finally announced its flagship, the OnePlus 10 Pro in global markets. The phone packs a 6.7″ Quad HD+ E4 AMOLED curved screen with LTPO 2.0 for 1-120Hz variable refresh rate switching. It is powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 5G SoC with up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB UFS3.1 storage.
In terms of optics, there is a 48MP main (Sony IMX789) sensor that was seen on the previous generation phone with OIS, a 50MP ultra-wide-angle Samsung JN1 sensor with a 150-degree field of view, and an 8MP 3.3x telephoto camera. There is also a 32MP (Sony IMX616) selfie camera on the front. The phone uses the second-generation Hasselblad Pro Mode offers 12-bit RAW photography from all the rear cameras. This also includes the Hasselblad color science 2.0. OnePlus also has improved the construction of the phone and the rear camera module now has a ceramic cover, along with Gorilla Glass on the back and Gorilla Glass Victus on the front with a metal frame.
The phone gets a dual-cell 5,000mAh battery with support for 80W SUPERVOOC fast charging, 50W Warp Charge 50 Wireless fast charging, and reverse wireless charging. Other notable omissions this time comes in the form of a lack of IP rating, and some changes done in the optics compared to the OnePlus 9 Pro.
Pricing and availability
The OnePlus 10 Pro comes in Volcanic Black and Emerald Forest colors options. It is priced at INR 66,999 for the 8GB RAM and 128GB storage version while the top-end 12GB RAM and 256GB storage model costs INR 71,999. The phone will be available from Amazon.in, OnePlus.in, and other offline channels starting April 5th. | https://pc-tablet.com/oneplus-10-pro-with-snapdragon-8-gen-1-announced-globally/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:53Z |
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don't have an answer for how that's going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that's a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs." Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?" Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden's social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden's agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven't abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden's economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they'd help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That's done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she's looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control. It’s an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don't reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can’t afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a “total disaster” for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
“This will make private insurance for people with diabetes a much more attractive proposition,” said Glied. | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/nation-world/insulin-cap-35-dollars-month-bill/507-855508ee-6b9d-4ce8-9937-22fa115af232 | 2022-04-01T00:44:53Z |
Wall Street brokerages expect that Hillman Solutions Corp (NASDAQ:HLMN – Get Rating) will post earnings of ($0.01) per share for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Three analysts have issued estimates for Hillman Solutions’ earnings. The lowest EPS estimate is ($0.02) and the highest is $0.01. The business is expected to announce its next quarterly earnings results on Monday, January 1st.
On average, analysts expect that Hillman Solutions will report full year earnings of $0.20 per share for the current financial year, with EPS estimates ranging from $0.08 to $0.26. For the next year, analysts anticipate that the firm will post earnings of $0.33 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $0.19 to $0.41. Zacks Investment Research’s earnings per share averages are an average based on a survey of sell-side analysts that cover Hillman Solutions.
Hillman Solutions (NASDAQ:HLMN – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March 2nd. The company reported $0.06 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of ($0.01) by $0.07. The company had revenue of $344.49 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $332.50 million.
In other Hillman Solutions news, CMO Jarrod Streng bought 9,500 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, March 7th. The shares were acquired at an average price of $10.45 per share, with a total value of $99,275.00. The acquisition was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, CEO Douglas Cahill acquired 94,786 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, March 7th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $10.60 per share, for a total transaction of $1,004,731.60. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. Insiders acquired a total of 161,186 shares of company stock worth $1,694,802 in the last ninety days.
A number of institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Hillman Solutions by 0.5% in the 4th quarter. Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC now owns 7,992,553 shares of the company’s stock worth $85,920,000 after purchasing an additional 38,225 shares during the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. grew its holdings in shares of Hillman Solutions by 36.7% in the 4th quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 7,447,974 shares of the company’s stock worth $80,066,000 after purchasing an additional 1,997,697 shares during the last quarter. Brahman Capital Corp. grew its holdings in shares of Hillman Solutions by 1.0% in the 4th quarter. Brahman Capital Corp. now owns 6,679,795 shares of the company’s stock worth $71,808,000 after purchasing an additional 63,032 shares during the last quarter. Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. grew its holdings in shares of Hillman Solutions by 19.4% in the 4th quarter. Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. now owns 6,069,949 shares of the company’s stock worth $65,252,000 after purchasing an additional 986,863 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Samlyn Capital LLC grew its holdings in shares of Hillman Solutions by 3.0% in the 4th quarter. Samlyn Capital LLC now owns 6,031,429 shares of the company’s stock worth $64,838,000 after purchasing an additional 175,327 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 87.80% of the company’s stock.
Hillman Solutions stock traded up $0.32 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $11.88. 1,299,800 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 833,987. The company has a quick ratio of 0.49, a current ratio of 2.41 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.79. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $9.81 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $10.48. Hillman Solutions has a 1-year low of $8.12 and a 1-year high of $13.46.
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Founded in 1964 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hillman is a leading North American provider of complete hardware solutions, delivered with industry best customer service to over 40,000 locations. Hillman designs innovative product and merchandising solutions for complex categories that deliver an outstanding customer experience to home improvement centers, mass merchants, national and regional hardware stores, pet supply stores, and OEM & Industrial customers.
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Editors Pick
Halifax offers £1K cashback on borrowing for energy-efficient home improvements
Homeowners looking to upgrade their heating could save a total of £7,000 on the cost of fitting a heat pump to replace an old gas boiler, said Halifax.
The lender is offering £1,000 cashback in addtion to the £6,000 grant available through the Government Boiler Upgrade Scheme from 1st April.
It said that, with the cost of heating our homes set to rise, many homeowners will be looking at ways to reduce their energy use.
Save money
Halifax estimates that improving your home’s Energy Performance Certificate rating could save over £300 on bills each year for each band it moves up – helping offset the cost of the work needed.
For many, the immediate action will be addressing the areas where heat is lost. Draft prevention, double or triple glazing, and loft or wall insulation can all help reduce the amount of energy it takes to keep a home warm.
For those that have already addressed their homes’ insulation, how it is heated will be one of the next things they can look at changing. Across the country, most homes rely on mains gas for their heating, with fewer than 1% choosing a heat pump.
Barriers to improvements
The cost of a heat pump is higher than that of a replacement gas boiler and some may see this as a financial barrier.
However, the combination of the two schemes could reduce the cost by as much as £7,000, making a heat pump much closer to the cost of a gas boiler and without the same monthly fuel costs.
Andrew Asaam, mortgages director at Halifax, said: “The cost of heating our homes has risen dramatically this year, and people will be looking at how they can reduce that both quickly and over the long term. Simple changes like extra loft insulation and draft exclusion can make a difference for relatively little outlay.
“For those who have already insulated their home well, need to make more significant improvements, are at the point where they need to update windows or a boiler, or just want to lower their carbon footprint, the investment can be more significant.
“With our Green Living Rewards cashback offer, we hope to support these homeowners with some of the bigger energy efficiency improvements they might want to make, like better insulation, solar panels, or a heat pump.” | https://www.yourmortgage.co.uk/editors-pick/halifax-offers-1k-cashback-on-borrowing-for-energy-efficient-home-improvements/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:54Z |
Letter | Thanks, Beale Street Theater
Originally Published: March 31, 2022 2:12 p.m.
A big thanks to the Beale Street Theater players for the super performance of “The Sound of Music.” The newspaper ad is not complete enough. There will be three more performances – Friday, April 1 at 7 p.m., and Saturday, April 2 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the door. Lets support these wonderful performers and all the future efforts for the Beale Street Theater Renovation.
Ruth Copeland
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12-year-old dies after being shot at South Carolina middle school, suspect in custody
A 12-year-old has died after being shot at a middle school in Greenville, South Carolina, on Thursday.
Community activist Bruce Wilson said Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson, 12, died at the hospital.
Wilson released the following statement on behalf of the family:
"We are all devastated by today’s tragedy. We love Jamari dearly and we would ask that our privacy be respected as we grieve during this very difficult time."
Greenville County deputies said a school resource officer at Tanglewood Middle School requested backup just before 12:30 p.m.
More than 200 law enforcement officers arrived at the school.
A suspect, who is also 12 years old, was taken into custody near the school, Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said.
He is is being charged with murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, possession of a firearm on school property and unlawful possession of a weapon by a person under the age of 18, Lewis said.
Because of his age, the suspect's name was not released.
"Unfortunately, these are two young men who attended school here," Lewis said. "We don't really know the specifics of why it occurred and why so many people resort to violence, especially with firearms."
Greenville County School Superintendent Burke Royster also spoke outside the school after the shooting.
"I’m not sure after a full and thorough law enforcement investigation anyone will really know what was going through the mind of that young person who took this rash act," Royster said.
Students from the school were taken to Brookwood Church by bus to be reunited with their families.
One mother told sister station WYFF that she was in the school parking lot when she saw police begin arriving.
"I was getting out and the police told me, ‘Get back, get back. You can’t come in,’ and I was like, ‘What’s wrong? What’s wrong?’" Angela said. "They wouldn’t tell me, he said, 'Get back in your car.’ When I was getting in my car, all the police came. Every police in Greenville County was there and ambulance. They were running in with guns, not handguns, rifles."
Angela’s daughter, Prentasia, said they were changing classes when the shooting happened.
"We heard a gunshot, and this boy had a gun and he shot at one boy in his side," Prentasia said. "We all pretty much went into a classroom and some people went outside. We were just in the classroom ‘til it was over."
Another mother spoke to WYFF shortly after she arrived at the school to pick up her son.
"But I was speechless," she said. "My stomach is still upset. I just want to see my son and hug him and just make sure he's fine."
That mother said she wishes there were metal detectors in school.
"So, I would love for Greenville County to do something and put metal detectors. They all come through the same door. They go to the cafeteria they do that. Why don't they put a metal detector and then at least detect there's something there," the mother said.
Greenville County School District spokesman Tim Waller said Tanglewood Middle will have an optional day on Friday. Teachers, students and staff can come and talk to each other and counselors but are not required to attend school on Friday. | https://www.wtae.com/article/deadly-school-shooting-south-carolina/39603272 | 2022-04-01T00:44:55Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have revoked the license of a Nevada-based gun manufacturer that was accused of illegally selling guns and went bankrupt but then rebranded itself.
The revocation comes after a lawsuit that alleged the Justice Department didn’t conduct proper oversight before issuing the license.
The decision to revoke the license of JA Industries was spelled out in a court filing late Wednesday as part of the lawsuit brought by Illinois; Kansas City, Missouri; and gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
The lawsuit alleged that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a law enforcement agency in the Justice Department, awarded the license to JA Industries, renamed from Jimenez Arms, after it violated federal firearms law. The suit also alleged that the company’s guns were contributing to rising violent crime rates in Chicago and Kansas City.
Kansas City and Everytown had sued Jimenez Arms and several gun dealers previously, alleging they contributed to surging gun violence in the Kansas City region by ignoring evidence that guns were being sold illegally in the area. Jimenez Arms filed for bankruptcy about a month after the suit was filed.
That suit contended that Jimenez Arms every year made tens of thousands of cheap handguns that turned up at crime scenes in Kansas City and Chicago “at a rate disproportionate to the company’s market share.”
The plaintiffs alleged in their suit against the ATF that the company’s owner, Paul Jimenez, applied for a new license under the name JA Industries and that it took the ATF less than a month to award the license. The suit alleged that company officials had made false statements to the ATF and had unlawfully shipped guns to a firearms trafficker, which should’ve made the company and its officials ineligible for holding a federal firearms license.
A message seeking comment from JA Industries on Thursday was not immediately returned.
Everytown for Gun Safety heralded the decision to revoke the company’s license.
“We can only hope this decision marks the beginning of a new era at ATF, one that is consistent with President Biden’s commitment to holding rogue and reckless members of the gun industry accountable for breaking the law and putting lives in danger,” said John Feinblatt, Everytown’s president.
In a statement, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said it was a “bold action to stop the flow of illegal firearms into Kansas City.”
An ATF spokesperson, Erik Longnecker, declined to comment specifically, citing the ongoing case. But he said the agency “revokes Federal firearms licensees who are found to have committed willful violations of the Gun Control Act and have an adverse impact on public safety.” | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/nevada-gun-manufacturers-license-is-revoked-after-lawsuit/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:53Z |
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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As the Lakers cling to the hope of making the play-in game as the season winds down into its final week, LeBron James and Anthony Davis are both eyeing returns on Friday. Davis’ rehab has progressed to the point that Friday’s game against the Pelicans is the target date for himself and the team, while LeBron’s status will be a game-time decision, according to multiple reports on Thursday.
Both are expected to miss Thursday’s game against the Jazz, obviously, but it sounds like they are trying to be back in the lineup on Friday.
James, out since Sunday with the left ankle sprain, returned to LA to rehab mid-week. Both James and Davis are out vs. Utah tonight. Lakers are 1/2 game ahead of Spurs for final play-in spot and trailing Pelicans for ninth by 1.5 games ahead of Friday's meeting in LA.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 31, 2022
Lakers star Anthony Davis plans to return Friday vs. the Pelicans, barring setback, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Davis has been sidelined since Feb. 14 due to mid-foot sprain. Big Lakers-Pelicans game with Play-In ramifications.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 31, 2022
Key here is Woj saying, “Anthony Davis won’t be 100% in his return for the Lakers” pic.twitter.com/092DJ3n8kk
— Dr. Evan Jeffries, DPT (@GameInjuryDoc) March 31, 2022
James sprained his ankle in Sunday’s loss to the Pelicans, and while he finished the game, the swelling after the contest had sidelined him in games against Dallas on Tuesday and Utah on Thursday.
That he did not stay with the team in Utah and returned to Los Angeles to receive treatment on his ankle is noteworthy, and perhaps a sign of his desire to get back onto the court before season’s end.
Update: LeBron returned to Los Angeles to have his ankle evaluated further, and continue to get treatment, with team permission. https://t.co/EtZ9u51IoC
— Mike Trudell (@LakersReporter) March 30, 2022
If both James and Davis return to the court on Friday, it’d be the first time the pair have played together since Davis’ injury on Feb. 16. Assuming Russell Westbrook is available to join them, it’d be just the 21st time the trio has taken the floor together this season, as they’ve spent just 376 minutes alongside each other over the course of the year.
Injuries have played a key role in the Lakers' struggles this season, as they sit in 10th place in the Western Conference ahead of Thursday’s game against the Jazz. This late into the season, each game carries significance, but Friday’s game against the Pelicans will be the final contest of the season against either team the Lakers are directly competing against in New Orleans and San Antonio for a spot in the play-in game, so that one has extra value.
James and the Lakers are aware of that, which likely leads to his push to get back onto the court within the same week of a nasty-looking ankle sprain. Even at less than 100%, LeBron is far more talented than any other options the Lakers have available in his absence.
If both can return on Friday, it makes the race for the final play-in spot all the more intriguing over the final week of the season.
For more Lakers talk, subscribe to the Silver Screen and Roll podcast feed on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. You can follow Jacob on Twitter at @JacobRude. | https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2022/3/31/23005017/lebron-james-lakers-sprained-ankle-return-pelicans-injury-timeline-anthony-davis | 2022-04-01T00:44:56Z |
‘Cruella’ Wins Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Disney’s “Cruella” won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony.
Jenny Beavan accepted the award for her work on the film, with the award marking her third Oscar win in 11 nominations, previously winning for her work on “A Room With a View” and “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Beavan noted that she nearly declined work on the project before signing on.
“I have to say when Kristin Burr and Craig Gillespie asked me to do this movie, I truly didn’t think we had time. I mean, I actually nearly said no,“ said Beavan. “Glad I didn’t. The only reason I didn’t was because Clare Spragge, who’s sitting just there sparkling said she would come on board as costume supervisor and bring the team, the team of the most phenomenal, creative, clever, generous, amazing people without whom obviously it wouldn’t have happened.”
The movie tells the origin story of Cruella de Vil, played by Emma Stone, who dreams of being a fashion designer. The movie features a “punk-rock aesthetic crossed with high fashion” and features outfits such as an embellished military jacket worn over a red skirt made of 5,060 hand-sewn organza petals.
“Cruella” was up against “Cyrano,” “Dune,” “Nightmare Alley” and “West Side Story” for this year’s award. | http://www.apparelnews.net/news/2022/mar/30/cruella-wins-academy-award-best-costume-design/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:56Z |
Updated March 30, 2022 at 2:00 PM ET
STRZYZOW, Poland — After Russia invaded Ukraine, Olena Kudlach said goodbye to her husband, a Ukrainian soldier, and left for neighboring Poland with their two young children.
"I worried that maybe the Polish would not want us," says Kudlach, 32, who's from the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil. "But I could not have been more wrong."
She says Polish border guards carried the family's luggage and wrapped her children — Nazar, 10, and Viktoria, 2 — in blankets. Volunteers at a reception center in the village of Korczowa handed them hot soup. And in the crowd there, Kudlach spotted a cheerful woman smiling at them.
"That was Ela," she says. "She had come to take us to her home."
Ela Zamorska, a 28-year-old teacher and hairdresser, embraced them all.
"I first saw Olena's little daughter, all dressed in pink, looking so sweet, and it was love at first sight," she says. "You just saw that they were very good people who had to be helped at all costs."
This scene has replayed again and again in Poland, the country that's taken in the most Ukrainian refugees by far — 2.3 million — since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Polish families, volunteers and nonprofits have largely cared for Ukrainians arriving here. And the Polish government continues to welcome Ukrainians even as housing options dwindle, prompting local authorities to open shelters around the country, and social services are pushed to the limit.
The war feels close by for Poland
Sabina Stankowska-Kobylecka, a 33-year-old lawyer in the Polish city of Rzeszow, says she knows one reason why.
"Here, in Poland, the war feels close, and we have our own history with Russia," she says, referring to the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and its decades behind the Iron Curtain. "I hear people saying, we might be next."
Stankowska-Kobylecka is housing 22 Ukrainians — nine women and 13 children — in her late grandmother's stone-and-brick house in Rzeszow, a city in southeastern Poland that has become a hub for Ukrainian refugees, aid organizations and Western diplomats who left Ukraine after the invasion.
No one had lived in the house for years, so dozens of friends helped Stankowska-Kobylecka and her husband clean and fix up the place in three days.
It's now the place Oksana Horysh and her three children call home. Horysh, a 40-year-old bookkeeper, is from Lviv, a western Ukrainian city very close to the Polish border. Her husband stayed behind to defend Ukraine.
"Here, we have been able to rest because we are tired with worry for my husband, for my country," she says.
She and Stankowska-Kobylecka sit together on a sofa bed, sharing freshly baked coconut cake with their children, who often play together, speaking in a hybrid of Ukrainian and Polish.
Horysh imagines a future reunion in Lviv, in a Ukraine free of war.
"I call Sabina to go to my home and have cake and coffee," she says. "My friend — she helps us in a difficult time."
Previous refugee groups met a backlash in Poland
Poland has taken in over half of the more than 4 million people who have fled Ukraine since the war began in February, according to data from the United Nations refugee agency.
The Polish response to Ukrainian refugees has largely been a grassroots effort, with some assistance from local authorities. That generosity has been lauded by the United States and the European Union, which are promising billions of dollars in aid to Poland.
But on another swath of the Polish border — the one with Belarus, which is run by a close Kremlin ally — it's a very different story.
"It's absolutely night and day. I cannot use a stronger metaphor to describe it," says Monika Matus, an activist with Fundacja Ocalenie, a refugee advocacy organization in Poland.
Since last fall, thousands of refugees fleeing other conflicts have tried to enter the European Union from nonmember Belarus. Belarusian authorities escorted these refugees to the border with Poland and cut the barbed wire fence separating the EU from Belarus. Polish border guards violently pushed back the refugees.
"People crossing from Belarus have been on the road for many years, trying to reach [the] European Union from Syria, from Afghanistan, from Iraq, from Iran, from Yemen," Matus says. "In Poland, they are pushed back to Belarus. They are threatened. There's no hiding that."
Lamis Abdelaaty, a political science professor at Syracuse University, sees the same stark contrast between how Poland and other European countries welcome Ukrainians — and how they wanted to keep out non-European asylum-seekers arriving in 2015. Many were fleeing the war in Syria.
"In 2015, European politicians talked about the arrivals of large numbers of people as a crisis for Europe," says Abdelaaty, whose book Discrimination and Delegation examines state responses to refugees. "Today, with Ukraine, we're hearing politicians frame the exodus of millions of people from Ukraine as a crisis for Ukraine, which is the more correct and more humane use of the term 'crisis.' "
She adds that "this conflict, as terrible and heart-wrenching as it has been, is really evidence that the European Union is more than capable of welcoming large numbers of refugees who are desperate for protection. ... I just wish we could bring this empathy to all refugee groups."
She grew up hearing how her grandma sheltered Polish Jews from Nazis
Ela Zamorska, who's housing a Ukrainian mother and her two children in her apartment, says she would like to believe she would empathize with any refugee in need. She grew up hearing stories about her grandmother, who sheltered Polish Jews fleeing the Nazis.
"My grandmother taught me that you should help people fighting for survival no matter what, even if you put yourself at risk," she says.
But she admits it's easier for Poles to feel comfortable around Ukrainians, who have so much shared history and are next-door neighbors. While Zamorska is at work, Kudlach cooks borscht and dumplings — dishes that are also part of Polish cuisine — that they share for dinner.
"I feel like she could almost be my sister," Zamorska says of Kudlach, who sits next to her at a table in Zamorska's small, tidy kitchen. Kudlach squeezes her hand.
"I can speak with her about my husband, because I'm very worried about him, since he's in Ukraine and also a soldier, and I rarely hear from him," she says. "Ela listens to me, and our languages are similar enough that it's like she understands. It makes me feel better."
Back in Rzeszow, Stankowska-Kobylecka and her family live two streets away from the Ukrainian families they're hosting in her grandmother's house. They spend a lot of time with each other.
"We can see so much of ourselves in Ukraine, in our new friends," she says. "People in Poland are afraid, you know. Sometimes my friends ask me if we are prepared for war. Some even have packed luggage to take if they need to escape quickly."
She hopes the Polish government drafts a long-term plan to care for Ukrainian refugees, especially as more arrive every day. She asks herself: Will there be enough work for everyone? Enough apartments? Enough spaces in schools?
"Sometimes, I worry about keeping up with the bills, because in Poland bills for things like electricity are very expensive," she says.
She's hoping the Polish government offers financial support to the many generous Poles housing Ukrainians in their family homes.
But if this doesn't happen, Stankowska-Kobylecka says she will raise the money herself.
"When the war started, my son was crying and afraid of war coming to Poland," she says. "And when he saw children leaving Ukraine, he cried even more, and said, 'Mom, bring them to us. Show them that they have another home.' "
Szymon Grela contributed reporting from Strzyzow and Rzeszow, Poland.
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“I want to say as plainly as possible, please don’t make the people of Afghanistan suffer twice,” Martin Griffiths, the United Nations humanitarian affairs chief, appealed to a conference of donor countries Thursday. “Please don’t reduce assistance because of this wretched decision that we heard last week.”
Only 13 percent of this year’s $4.4 billion emergency humanitarian request for Afghanistan — the largest U.N. appeal ever for a single country — has been funded so far. The virtual conference, jointly hosted by Germany, Qatar and the United Kingdom, and attended by senior officials from dozens of countries, was long planned as a jolt to international donors to step up their efforts.
But their enthusiasm was undermined when girls above the sixth grade arriving for the first day of the Afghan school year last week were told to go back home indefinitely. The Taliban dictum reversed an announcement — demanded by and promised to donor countries — just days earlier that all schools for girls would be open. The change was variously attributed to a scarcity of female teachers, facility problems, delay in approving suitable school uniforms, and what an Education Ministry spokesperson said were some “cultural and religious obligations” still under consideration.
A number of Afghan experts, however, blamed it on what they described as deep ideological schisms within the Taliban leadership related to basic rights for women and girls, among other things. The school announcement was followed by rulings limiting the travel of women outside the country, and reports that no passports would be issued until further notice.
Top Taliban leaders reportedly rejected the girls’ schooling decision after interventions from hard-liners during a meeting in Kandahar the weekend before the opening — and rapid closure — on March 23. But “there are also indications that the reversal is a symptom of the movement’s broader failure to create a clear mechanism for making national policy decisions,” Ashley Jackson, an Afghan scholar who has written extensively about the relationship between civilians and the Taliban insurgents, suggested in a report for the Afghanistan Analysts Network.
The Taliban did not have a blanket policy on female education in the territory the group controlled before taking over the whole of Afghanistan in August. In some provinces, there was not a single girls school in Taliban-controlled territory. In some other areas, local leadership allowed women to pursue higher education.
In remarks to the donors conference, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, called the decision “inexcusable” and said it “must be reversed.”
Donations for humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan had already slowed after a massive outpouring of aid last year following the Taliban takeover and U.S. troop withdrawal in August. The initial flow came as international aid organizations warned that the abrupt cutoff of foreign financing that had long provided more than 75 percent of Afghan government income would lead to mass unemployment and humanitarian catastrophe as the harsh winter approached.
The United States and most of the rest of the world provided donations for aid flows through the United Nations and other nongovernmental organizations, closely monitored so none of the food and medical supplies would go through the militants now in charge of the country. Diplomatic recognition and any direct assistance were withheld until the Taliban replaced what it said was a temporary governing structure that was more inclusive; ensured human rights for all, including women, girls and minorities; and eliminated any support for global terrorist groups.
Early this year, as it became clear that the lack of a banking structure and the absence of any cash income would lead to the collapse of infrastructure and services throughout the country, a U.N.-led effort was launched to pay salaries directly to health-care workers, teachers and other public-sector employees, and to develop at least a temporary financial system outside the reach of the Taliban to help stabilize the economy.
The World Bank agreed to release $1 billion from its Afghanistan development trust fund, which was frozen by bank member countries when the Taliban took over, to add liquidity to the banking sector. In February, President Biden signed an executive order to release $3.5 billion — about half of Afghan government assets held in the U.S. Federal Reserve that the administration had frozen — for the same purpose.
With no progress reported on an inclusive government, and little visible on the counterterrorism front, world attention turned to human rights, with the reopening of schools following Afghanistan’s traditional winter break seen as an opportunity for the militants to put actions behind their promises.
Within days after the Taliban about-face on education for girls, the United States canceled a round of U.S.-Taliban talks scheduled to take place this week in Doha, Qatar. The World Bank, expressing “deep concern,” said grants being prepared to spend part of the trust fund on “agriculture, education, health and livelihoods” would not be presented for approval until there is “a better understanding of the situation and assurance/confidence that the goals of the projects can be met.”
A State Department spokesperson, speaking on the condition of anonymity under government-imposed rules, said the administration was “still working to establish a mechanism to allow” the $3.5 billion covered by Biden’s executive order “to be used to help Afghans stabilize their economy.” But there was no indication that would happen soon.
During the Thursday donor conference, no one disputed the sorrow and deprivation being endured by Afghans. “Ninety-five percent do not have enough to eat,” U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said. “9 million are at risk of famine. … Global food prices are skyrocketing as a result of the war in Ukraine,” he said, and “without immediate action, we face a starvation and malnutrition crisis.”
Families are selling some of their children to feed the rest, Guterres said, more than 80 percent of the population is in debt, key workers have not been paid for months, farmers cannot buy feed or fertilizer, and “international aid agencies can barely function.” The international community, he said, “must find ways to spare the Afghan people. It must make cash available so the Afghan people can breathe and the Afghan people can eat.”
Griffiths was visibly moved as he described a visit to a Kabul hospital this week, where he said the sight of malnourished and dying infants “left me quite speechless.”
Many countries pledged to increase their donations to humanitarian assistance, including the United States, which announced more than $200 million in additional funds. The State Department spokesperson emphasized that the aid for basic human needs was “unconditional” and separate from the $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan assets.
But there was widespread agreement that distributing food and medicine was only a stopgap remedy, without much more money to reestablish a functioning economy and financial system. That, several donors said, was a question that would depend on the Taliban.
“Even as we respond urgently to the crisis of Ukraine, we can’t neglect the people of Afghanistan,” said British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. At the same time, she said, “our potential to provide support will depend on how willing the Taliban are to engage. … Women and girls must be allowed to study at all levels.”
Susannah George in Islamabad, Pakistan, contributed to this report. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/31/afghanistan-aid-taliban-girls-education/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world | 2022-04-01T00:44:56Z |
"We have grown three times more than last year, so we're really on the hunt for more instructors to train. We're in need of more instructors," Bartell said.
Darla Bartell is the owner of Bullfrog. She purchased the facility from Jan Thomas, who ran a swim school for nearly 60 years.
Business is going so well at the Willow and Shepherd location that Bartell needs instructors and is paying $17 to start.
She's encouraged her own employees to post on social media and has been at college job fairs.
New hire Sarah McDonald is excited about her first swim season.
"The pay, the flexibility of scheduling, but also working with the children. I've always had a great connection with children," said Sarah McDonald, swim instructor
The owner says she is looking for reliable extroverts who love to swim and work with kids.
Bartell says parents have been calling earlier to book swim sessions for their babies and kids.
"Swim lessons are in high demand. Parents are fearful of their children near the water. We do teach the I can save myself learn to swim method," Bartell said.
Ten private, 30 minute Sessions cost about $550. Kids can share with a friend.
Bullfrog has been in business for 12 years but opened at this location during the pandemic.
This year marks her third season here, helping kids feel more comfortable in the water.
Bullfrog swim school is hiring for more than two dozen positions. They hope to have them filled by mid-June. | https://abc30.com/bullfrog-swim-clovis-swimming-lessons-kids/11696945/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:56Z |
Ukrainian refugees expected to top 1 million in Poland
The number of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion to Poland is expected to top 1 million on Sunday.
“Forecasts indicate that today the number of people who entered Poland from Ukraine from February 24 will exceed 1 million,” Polish Border Guard spokeswoman Anna Michalska said, according to Reuters. Feb. 24 marked the first day of Russia’s invasion.
Polish border guards have already cleared more than 922,000 Ukrainian refugees, the news service noted, adding that authorities cleared as many as 129,000 people crossing the border on Sunday, which was the largest single-day number since the invasion started.
Michalska said check-ins are “as simplified as possible.”
“The point is to confirm the identity of persons, verify documents, check the databases if they are not wanted persons. It takes a few minutes,” she added, according to Reuters.
Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski last month said his country was preparing for “various scenarios” in anticipation of the potential flow of refugees if Russia were to invade Ukraine.
The U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Sunday said more than 1.5 million refugees have fled from Ukraine to nearby countries, noting that the wave of movement is the “fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.”
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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/2556559231848/nu-9-improves-health-of-hsod1-mouse-upper-motor-neurons-in-vitro-especially-in-combination-with-riluzole-or-edaravone | 2022-04-01T00:44:57Z |
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MUSKEGON – The Associated Press recently released its All-State teams for Divisions 1 and 2 and there was a healthy representation from the Muskegon-area girls basketball community.
Below are the players and coaches who were selected by the panel of eight sports reporters from across Michigan.
DIVISION 1
Honorable Mention
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Jamya Robinson, Muskegon
The senior guard for Muskegon averaged 12.9 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 2 blocks per game this season including a season-high 25 points and 11 rebounds in a game against Wyoming.
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Olivia Sobczak, Mona Shores
The senior guard for the Sailors averaged 11 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 1.7 steals per game this past season. Her leadership played a key factor in helping Mona Shores go 33-8 the past two seasons with two OK Green Conference titles and two district championships.
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Khaleeya Cook, Mona Shores
The first-year varsity starter averaged 10 points, six rebounds, two assists and 3 steals per game for the Sailors.
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COACHES
Mike Phillips, Mona Shores
Phillips has helped lead the Sailors to a 33-8 record in the past two seasons with two OK Green Conference titles and two district championships.
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DIVISION 2
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FIRST TEAM
Jaxi Long, Newaygo
The senior guard for the Lions averaged 19.4 points, four steals, 3 assists and 3 rebounds per game and shot 89 percent from the free-throw line (5th best in MHSAA history), shot 38 percent on 3-point attempts (made 182 which ranks 33rd in state history) and finished her career with 1,348 points (third in school history).
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Honorable Mention
Sophia Hekkema, Reeths-Puffer
The junior forward for the Rockets averaged 15 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and one block per game. She led the team in minutes played (777), scoring (246), rebounds (147), blocks (18), and field goal percentage (.462). The two-year varsity starter was asked to play out of position for most of the season as a point-forward and still was the most dynamic and impactful player on the court in most contests.
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RyAnn Rohrer, Ludington
The senior for the Orioles averaged 11 points, eight rebounds, three assists and three steals per game. She was asked to play all five positions for her squad and was the team’s primary ball-handler against top-tier competition such as Hartland, West Bloomfield, and Detroit Edison. She was the best player on a team that went 20-6, won the Lakes Eight Conference and advanced to the Division 2 state semifinals for the first time since 2004.
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Ariel Walker, Reeths-Puffer
The junior guard for the Rockets averaged 13 points, three assists and two steals per game and led her squad in 3-pointers made (19), free-throw percentage (.726) and was second on the team in scoring (203 points).
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Emmerson Goodin, Newaygo
The senior forward for the Lions averaged 15 points, 8 rebounds, and five steals per game and finished her prep career with 946 points (10th in school history) and 674 rebounds (fifth in school history). She joined teammate Jaxi Long in helping Newaygo win 74 games during her prep career including three district titles, three regional finals appearances and one state runner-up finish.
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Kendall Osborne, Montague
The sophomore guard for the Wildcats averaged 11.4 points, 5.6 rebounds, 4.4 assists, and 3.2 steals per game this season. She shot 56 percent on 2-point attempts this season and recorded three double-doubles (points and assists). She earned first-team all-conference honors in the West Michigan Conference.
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Jennifer Judge, Spring Lake
The senior guard for the Lakers averaged 10 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals per game. The four-year varsity starter and two-time OK Blue All-Conference selection sacrificed a lot of individual stats this season to help lead a younger inexperienced squad after averaging nearly 13 points and 8 rebounds a game as a junior. The team’s best defender helped the Lakers win two district championships in the past three seasons.
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Meet the 2022 Michigan Associated Press Division 3 girls basketball all-state team
Meet the 2022 Michigan Associated Press Division 4 girls basketball all-state team | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2022/04/see-the-muskegon-area-girls-basketball-players-named-to-the-division-1-2-all-state-teams.html | 2022-04-01T00:44:57Z |
Nearly 3.9 million Ukrainians have fled the country as of March 27 to escape the escalating bloodshed of the Russian invasion, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Daniel Farber Huang, A.L.M. ’20, has traveled the world for years to chronicle and raise awareness of the plight of refugees in places such as Haiti and China, Central America and Greece. Huang and his wife, Theresa Menders, both documentary photographers, recently traveled to the Ukraine-Poland border to chronicle the situation there. The interview was edited for clarity and length.
Q&A
Daniel Farber Huang
GAZETTE: What have you seen at the Ukraine/Poland border that makes this different from some of your other assignments over the past half-dozen years?
HUANG: There are many unique elements of the Ukrainian tragedy, but there are two particular aspects relative to our work in other humanitarian crises, such as with refugees and displaced people in Greece, Turkey, Bangladesh, and Mexico. First is the immediacy of the situation: Russia launched its first attack on Ukrainian cities about four weeks ago, with massive force and brutality, displacing well over three million Ukrainians (with over one million people crossing into Poland), creating an immediate, massive humanitarian crisis. Second, the vast majority of refugees are women, children, and the elderly, as Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 to 60 are prohibited from leaving the country while martial law is in place. By contrast, when we were documenting refugee camps in Greece and Turkey in 2017 and 2018, a noticeable proportion of people we met were single, military-aged men from Syria, Iraq, and neighboring countries who were fleeing persecution from the Syrian regime, ISIS, and other forces, but there certainly was a broad spectrum of men, women, and children.
GAZETTE: What are some of the fears and concerns expressed by the refugees?
HUANG: We’re seeing countless mothers bringing their children across the Poland/Ukraine border, by foot, bus, or train depending on the location. One immediate problem refugees face is that Ukrainian money has become virtually worthless outside of the Ukraine, so people are severely limited in their personal resources to find both near- and long-term safe haven.
There are enormous practical considerations displaced people must navigate, from things as immediate as finding water, food, and shelter to obtaining information. Fortunately, at present, there is an outpouring of compassion in many parts of Poland where resources are being directed to help Ukrainians, such as basic relief supplies from NGOs, temporary shelter in state-run reception centers, free SIM cards being offered by cell operators, and free train and bus tickets offered by the Polish government.
GAZETTE: With so many stories to capture, is there any one moment you experienced that particularly resonates with you?
HUANG: Sadly, there are so many horrible situations people are facing it’s hard to narrow it down. At the Medyka border crossing, which is in southeastern Poland, we spent meaningful time with a young mother traveling with her 2-year-old son. After walking across the border, she was able to find a temporary space at a makeshift women and children safe area inside a tent organized by Sauveteurs Sans Frontiers (Rescuers Without Borders). It’s clear that many refugees suffer from PTSD, as we all would if faced with a similar situation. Because of the horrors of what she must have experienced, she became terrified whenever she heard police sirens or other loud noises. And she had to take care of not only herself but her toddler as well. She kept asking if she was safe there and was visibly shaking. Fortunately, she was able to get the medication that she needed, and her son was able to rest. The tent could only handle being a temporary respite so she was able to spend the night with her son there, but after that her journey was far from over and she would have to continue onward.
As photographers, we try to be respectful of people’s right to privacy. On one hand, it’s so important that the world can see what is happening in humanitarian crises so that change can be spurred. On the other hand, we believe people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. At the border, there was a mother with two children — a teenager and a toddler — who was clearly upset, with a pained, tearful look on her face, as she stepped through the gate into Poland. Through our interpreter, the mother, Lyudmilla, she said that her home and neighborhood in Chernihiv (about 35 miles to the east) was bombed and destroyed, with her family inside. Her 17-year-old son, Slava, pulled her and her infant out of the rubble. Her parents built the house. Her husband stayed in Ukraine to fight. Tears flowed down her face as she said, “Bombs started detonating. Everything started exploding, destroying itself. I was afraid. It was terrifying … They were dropping bombs on our children, such tiny children …”
GAZETTE: What do you hope to convey through your work? Is there a message you want others to understand when they see these images?
HUANG: Wherever we may be, we work hard to show people with their inherent beauty, courage, dignity, and grace. We’ve been a documentary photography team for about the last 20 years, with a focus on women’s and children’s issues and the alleviation of poverty around the world. We’ve documented shanty towns, favelas, invasion neighborhoods, and squatters, and similar situations where people are plagued by extreme indigence. According to the United Nations, more than 84 million people have been forced to flee their homes as of November 2021 (this number was only around 40 million in 2010). This does not include the people displaced from their homes in Ukraine.
It is easy to get lost in numbers, but remember these are men, women, and children, each with their own unique situation but together seeking the same thing — safety for themselves and their loved ones. We want people to understand that there are many faces to refugees, and anyone can become one depending on the circumstances, which could be due to war, conflict, famine, and even climate. Everyone is deserving of living in a healthy and safe environment. | https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/03/bearing-witness-to-ukraine-war-through-eyes-of-refugees/?utm_medium=Feed&utm_source=Syndication | 2022-04-01T00:44:57Z |
LHT (LHT) traded down 2.9% against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 19:00 PM E.T. on March 31st. LHT has a market capitalization of $120,203.10 and $7.00 worth of LHT was traded on exchanges in the last day. One LHT coin can now be purchased for approximately $0.0024 or 0.00000005 BTC on exchanges. During the last week, LHT has traded 3.9% higher against the US dollar.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- TerraUSD (UST) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002189 BTC.
- DeFiChain (DFI) traded 5.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $4.36 or 0.00009543 BTC.
- Elastos (ELA) traded down 6.6% against the dollar and now trades at $3.25 or 0.00007107 BTC.
- MATH (MATH) traded 3.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.26 or 0.00000558 BTC.
- NerveNetwork (NVT) traded 1.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0310 or 0.00000068 BTC.
- OTOCASH (OTO) traded 226.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0800 or 0.00000175 BTC.
- Max Property Group (MPG) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0109 or 0.00000023 BTC.
- ILCOIN (ILC) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0033 or 0.00000007 BTC.
- Props Token (PROPS) traded up 13% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0064 or 0.00000014 BTC.
- CoinUs (CNUS) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0029 or 0.00000005 BTC.
LHT Profile
SHA-256
hashing algorithm. It was first traded on July 27th, 2018. LHT’s total supply is 1,000,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 50,000,000 coins. The official website for LHT is usdx.cash. The Reddit community for LHT is /r/USDXwallet and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. LHT’s official message board is medium.com/@USDXWallet. LHT’s official Twitter account is @USDXwallet and its Facebook page is accessible here.
According to CryptoCompare, “LHT is the native asset of USDX Wallet and collateral for the USDX stablecoin. LHT can be quickly and with no fees exchanged to USDX stablecoin via USDX Wallet app. The combination of the LHT token and USDX stablecoin is boosting global cryptocurrency usage and increasing its safety. LHT coins are put into circulation annually starting from 27.03.2018 in the amount of 10% (100 million) of the total number of tokens in two equal parts of 50 million LHT each. They increase Distribution fund (needed for the circulation of LHT and USDX) and Collateral fund (needed to maintain the collateral). If some LHT coins remain available for purchase by the time new LHT coins are ready to be put into circulation, then this action is postponed by a year. “
LHT Coin Trading
It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as LHT directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade LHT should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Coinbase, Changelly or Gemini. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy LHT using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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Rangers could face legal action after Sydney Super Cup snub
By Vince Rugari
The organisers of the Sydney Super Cup have hit back at Rangers, who could face legal action for pulling out of the NSW government-backed tournament and a planned Old Firm derby against Ange Postecoglou’s Celtic.
Following weeks of speculation over their involvement, the Scottish champions have confirmed they will not take part in the four-team event in November, for which tickets have already gone on sale.
In a statement released overnight, the club accused tournament organisers of being “unwilling to fulfil their commitments to Rangers” and said they’d terminated their agreement to play in the Sydney Super Cup with immediate effect. According to Sky Sports News, those commitments involved the non-use of the term ‘Old Firm’ in official communications, which Celtic avoids in deference to parts of their fanbase who believe the ‘Old Firm’ ceased to exist when Rangers went bust in 2012.
But TEG and Left Field Live, the co-promoters of the event, have returned serve, accusing Rangers of bowing to fan pressure and letting down their Australian-based supporters, and rejecting any claim they had gone back on their commitments to the club.
“We were disappointed to wake up this morning to Rangers FC’s statement that it will not be participating in the Sydney Super Cup,” the promoters said in a statement.
“The Rangers Board committed to these matches following extensive negotiations over eight months. Seemingly in response to negative fan reaction, they have pulled out of their contracted commitment.
“We have worked closely with all stakeholders to bring this exciting event to Sydney, and we refute any suggestion that we were unwilling to fulfill our commitments to Rangers. We have acted in good faith and have put the event on sale with a great response from fans here.
“In changing their minds, the Rangers Board has let down many, many fans in Australia and the Asian region. We will now consult with our stakeholders before determining our response.”
The decision to withdraw from the Sydney Super Cup will come at a hefty cost for Rangers, with overseas reports indicating they would be hit with a legal bill for breach of contract in the event of a withdrawal.
It does, however, end any fears of fan violence in Sydney between Celtic and Rangers supporters. Representatives of the Sydney-based fan clubs of both teams had expressed serious concern over policing, logistics and the lack of segregation at not only Accor Stadium but pubs, trains and buses across the city during the week leading up to the November 20 fixture.
Never before have Celtic and Rangers played a match against each other on foreign soil, and it may be some years before such a plan is revisited after this false start.
It’s unclear whether organisers will seek a replacement team for the Sydney Super Cup - which is also slated to involve A-League teams Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers - or if Rangers’ withdrawal puts the entire project in jeopardy. TEG Live was contacted for further comment.
The tournament, announced only last month, was not well-received by Celtic and Rangers fans, some of whom believed the venture would cheapen their age-old rivalry - even though an executive from Rangers said the trip to Sydney would earn them more money in eight days than they would through an entire Scottish Premiership season.
Rangers fans have been staging protests at games to make their displeasure clear to the club’s board, throwing tennis balls and toilet rolls onto the pitch at an away fixture a fortnight ago to express their angst against the Sydney Super Cup, as well as the positioning of their club as a ‘foil’ for Celtic and Postecoglou on his planned homecoming tour.
Celtic, who are three points clear on top of the Scottish Premiership ladder, travel to Ibrox to face Rangers on Sunday night (AEDT) in a match that could be decisive in the title race. | https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/rangers-could-face-legal-action-after-sydney-super-cup-snub-20220401-p5aa08.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed | 2022-04-01T00:44:58Z |
(NEXSTAR) — Consumer goods company Unilever has initiated a voluntary recall of two of its Suave antiperspirant products due to concerns over benzene content – exposure to high levels of the chemical has been linked to several types of cancer.
The affected products are Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirants, both the “Fresh” and “Powder” scents. The 4-6 ounce spray cans feature the UPC codes:
- 079400751508
- 079400784902
- 079400785503
Items with these UPC codes and expiration dates through September 2023 are the only Unilever/Suave products affected by the recall.
Unilever explains that the antiperspirants themselves don’t contain benzene but a review showed “unexpected” levels from the propellant that sprays the product from the cans. The company says the 24-hour deodorant sprays were discontinued last year for unrelated business reasons and were previously in limited distribution at U.S. stores and online.
Retailers who carried the items have also been notified to pull any that remain, Unilever says. Anyone who has the affected products should discard them immediately.
Customers with questions or concerns can contact Unilever at (866) 204-9756. More information on the products and reimbursement can also be found at the Suave Recall page. The Food and Drug Administration says customers who may have experienced adverse reactions to the aerosols can report to its MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting.
Benzene
So what is benzene?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains that benzene is a colorless or yellow liquid when at room temperature. It can be naturally occurring – in volcanoes, forest fires and oil, for example – or found in human manufacturing.
Benzene is among the top 20 chemicals used in the U.S., the CDC says. It’s used to make plastics, nylons and some types of lubricants, rubbers, dyes, detergents and drugs. Tobacco smoke is a large source of benzene exposure to humans.
How is it harmful?
The CDC reports benzene damages the human body by causing cells to malfunction. For instance, bone marrow can stop producing adequate amounts of red blood cells. Additionally, it can cause changes in antibodies and white blood cell loss. Immediate symptoms of exposure include headaches, dizziness, tremors, vomiting and confusion.
Long-term exposure (longer than a year) can result in cancers, per the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. | https://www.mystateline.com/news/some-suave-antiperspirants-recalled-due-to-high-levels-of-cancer-causing-chemical/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:59Z |
A group of nine flight attendants filed a lawsuit against the CDC earlier this month over the federal mask mandate on public transportation, arguing that being forced to wear masks and to enforce the mandate for passengers poses a risk to their own health and safety and hinders their ability to do their jobs.
Alaina Trocano, a 38-year-old commercial flight attendant based in Miami and the lead plaintiff in the suit, told National Review in a recent interview that the “safety of the flight is paramount,” and masks are “inhibiting” flight attendants’ ability to ensure that safety.
“There isn’t a blanket treatment or one-size-fits-all when it comes to health,” said Trocano, who is a former paramedic. “But people need to get where they’re going, and they should feel safe when flying. Especially when flying.”
Trocano, who has been a flight attendant since 2014, joined flight attendants from Allegiant, American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, and United in filing the suit against the mandate.
The suit is the first of its kind from flight attendants but follows at least 19 other lawsuits that have challenged the legality of the mandate, including a suit filed by ten pilots in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on March 15.
The flight attendants’ 61-page lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Colorado on March 24 argues that the mask mandate, which the Transportation Security Administration has extended through April 18, is unconstitutional.
The CDC recommended an extension of the mandate, which requires that face coverings be worn on airplanes and other forms of public transportation, despite issuing guidance in February that most Americans could stop wearing masks.
“As flight attendants for major airlines, we have seen up close and personal the chaos in the sky created by the FTMM, with thousands of reports to the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) of “unruly” passenger behavior since the FTMM took effect Feb. 1, 2021 — nearly all of which have been caused by incidents related to masks,” the complaint reads.
The Federal Aviation Administration recorded 5,981 unruly-passenger incidents in 2021, 4,290 of which involved masks.
“The pandemic, as far as the masks [are concerned], has been increasingly difficult,” Trocano said. “Needless to say, it’s created a lot of hostility between passengers and crew members and even crew members with other crew members.”
She added that while the job of a flight attendant is to ensure safety, the hostility created by enforcing the mandate has made doing so increasingly difficult.
Trocano and the other flight attendants also expressed concern about about the potential health effects of being forced to wear a mask for hours on end while at high altitudes day after day.
Trocano, who has an underlying health condition, said she began to notice that she felt ill at work, with a laundry list of symptoms including headaches, lightheadedness, dizziness, and nausea. She said the mask-wearing seemed to be exacerbating her health condition, and she became worried that she would fall and hurt herself inflight.
In December, she pulled her mask down because she was having difficulty breathing. She said a passenger approached her and asked her to wear her mask properly. When she explained why she had removed her mask, the passenger continued to insist she wear her face covering.
“Instead of even understanding that, he kept going, and he was like, ‘Well, you make us wear it, and you’re a representative of the company,’” she said.
“All I could say was, ‘I’m just in a very difficult situation right now, and if I can’t breathe, there’s going to be a problem on the flight,’” she said, adding that thankfully, other passengers came to her defense.
“I understand where the passenger’s coming from, because nobody, nobody likes the masks but . . . it was almost like, it didn’t matter that I couldn’t breathe,” she said, saying that the passenger’s attitude was, “If I have to do it, so do you.”
Trocano noted that the TSA’s order on the mask mandate specifically states that “persons who are experiencing difficulty breathing or shortness of breath or are feeling winded may remove the mask temporarily until able to resume normal breathing with the mask.”
She said, “But the problem with that is even if you do that, you still have a fear of getting harassed. That’s not right.
“I understand passengers are upset about the mask mandate, especially by crews that have been extremely forceful with it,” she said. “I just hope they know that there are a lot of us out there that support them. Especially ones with medical conditions or children with medical conditions. I feel horrible for [those who] are afraid to fly because of that. People don’t want to worry about being harassed when flying, let alone have it be put on the Internet.”
Trocano said this is why she decided to pursue a lawsuit attempting to end the mandate and permanently prohibit the CDC and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, from issuing such a mandate again.
The suit comes as a number of other industry leaders have called on the Biden administration to finally end the mandate.
Ten CEOs of U.S. passenger and cargo airlines wrote a letter last week urging the administration to lift its mask mandate and Covid-testing requirements for air travelers.
The administration currently requires travelers flying into the U.S. from abroad to present a negative Covid test prior to takeoff.
“The science clearly supports lifting the mask mandate, as demonstrated by the recently released CDC framework indicating that 99 percent of the U.S. population no longer need to wear masks indoors,” wrote the group of CEOs, which included American Airlines CEO W. Douglas Parker, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary C. Kelly, and United Airlines head Scott Kirby.
“It makes no sense that people are still required to wear masks on airplanes, yet are allowed to congregate in crowded restaurants, schools and at sporting events without masks, despite none of these venues having the protective air filtration system that aircraft do,” the letter adds.
The International Air Transport Association and the union representing Southwest Airlines’ flight attendants have also both called for an end to the requirement.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, 21 Republican state attorneys general filed a suit against the Biden administration to block the mandate.
Send a tip to the news team at NR. | https://www.nationalreview.com/news/flight-attendant-who-sued-over-mask-mandate-says-it-endangers-staff-passengers/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:59Z |
Republicans and Democrats should be able to agree that no president, regardless of party, should be able to obstruct and undermine the will of the American people or exploit weaknesses in our political system for personal gain.
That’s where the Protecting Our Democracy Act comes in. If passed, it would prevent future abuse of presidential power and corruption, increase transparency, and ensure presidents of either party can be held accountable.
Strengthening the guardrails on presidential power is just common sense. If the average person used their office for personal gain, they’d go to jail. If the average person could pardon themselves, there would be no rule of law.
No president should be above the law. That’s why I’m urging Congress to pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act. We must prevent future presidents of any party from abusing the power of their office.
— Rebecca Lord/Vacaville | https://www.thereporter.com/2022/03/31/rebecca-lord-its-time-to-pass-poda/ | 2022-04-01T00:44:59Z |
On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled his proposal for the next federal budget.
Though Congress has the final say in the annual budget, presidents create a proposal highlighting their fiscal priorities. Then, the president typically spends time advocating for their plan to the public, arguing for those priorities.
While promoting his latest proposal, Biden tweeted, “This year, my administration is on track to cut the deficit by more than $1.3 trillion… that would be the largest one-year reduction in the deficit in U.S. history.”
THE QUESTION
Would a $1.3 trillion reduction in the deficit be the largest single-year reduction ever?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, if the deficit shrinks by $1.3 trillion this year, that will be the largest single-year reduction in history.
WHAT WE FOUND
Both the Federal Reserve and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) track how much money the federal government takes in each year, and how much it spends. The Fed has records dating back to 1901, and the CBO dating to 1962.
If the government makes more than it spends, there’s a budget surplus. Since 1962, there have only been five years with a surplus, and none since 2001.
More commonly, the government spends more than it takes in. That’s a deficit, and it results in the U.S. borrowing money to make up the difference, which in turn adds to the federal debt.
According to the Fed and the CBO, the year in which the deficit shrank the most was 2013. In 2012, the budget was nearly $1.08 trillion in the hole, and in 2013, it was just under $679.8 billion. The deficit decreased by roughly $396.8 billion, more than in any other year in history.
If the deficit drops by $1.3 trillion in 2022 like Biden projected, it would indeed be the largest deficit reduction in American history, by a big margin.
The Fed and CBO track numbers on a fiscal-year basis, with the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30. So we won’t really know if Biden’s projections for 2022 are accurate until at least October.
But budget experts VERIFY spoke with agreed it’s likely the deficit reduction could wind up being more than a trillion dollars. However, they said that drop is mostly due to COVID-related spending programs expiring.
“It's not really due to any particularly aggressive policy action to, say, raise more revenue than we would have otherwise, or spend less. It's mostly just a factor of temporary things,” said Alex Muresianu, a federal policy analyst for the Tax Foundation.
“We had deficits that were over $3 trillion [in 2020], and one that was $2.8 trillion [in 2021]. That was as a result of a huge recession, and trillions of dollars that we were spending to fight COVID. So we will be dropping for sure. The deficit will be closer to a trillion dollars this year,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-profit group. “But that doesn't come from policies to reduce the deficit.”
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Brokerages expect Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. (NYSE:GSBD – Get Rating) to report $0.43 earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Two analysts have provided estimates for Goldman Sachs BDC’s earnings. The lowest EPS estimate is $0.42 and the highest is $0.44. Goldman Sachs BDC posted earnings of $0.48 per share during the same quarter last year, which indicates a negative year over year growth rate of 10.4%. The firm is scheduled to report its next earnings report on Monday, January 1st.
On average, analysts expect that Goldman Sachs BDC will report full-year earnings of $1.78 per share for the current fiscal year, with EPS estimates ranging from $1.77 to $1.78. For the next year, analysts anticipate that the company will report earnings of $1.88 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $1.80 to $1.96. Zacks Investment Research’s earnings per share averages are a mean average based on a survey of research analysts that follow Goldman Sachs BDC.
A number of research analysts recently issued reports on the company. StockNews.com assumed coverage on Goldman Sachs BDC in a report on Thursday. They set a “hold” rating on the stock. Wells Fargo & Company lowered Goldman Sachs BDC from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and lowered their target price for the stock from $21.00 to $19.50 in a report on Monday, February 28th.
Shares of NYSE GSBD traded down $0.06 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $19.61. 364,406 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 552,650. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $19.83 and a 200 day moving average price of $19.32. The company has a market cap of $2.00 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.41 and a beta of 1.34. Goldman Sachs BDC has a 52 week low of $18.31 and a 52 week high of $20.65. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.15, a current ratio of 0.93 and a quick ratio of 0.93.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 27th. Investors of record on Thursday, March 31st will be paid a $0.45 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 30th. This represents a $1.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 9.18%. Goldman Sachs BDC’s dividend payout ratio is currently 95.24%.
Goldman Sachs BDC Company Profile (Get Rating)
Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc is a business development company specializing in middle market and mezzanine investment in private companies. It seeks to make capital appreciation through direct originations of secured debt, senior secured debt, junior secured debt, including first lien, first lien/last-out unitranche and second lien debt, unsecured debt, including mezzanine debt and, to a lesser extent, investments in equities.
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Mohave County could join a lawsuit seeking to limit or possibly ban the use of electronic voting machines in Arizona. County Supervisor Ron Gould, a proponent of the lawsuit, is pictured. (Miner file photo) | https://kdminer.com/news/2022/mar/31/mohave-county-could-join-case-limit-e-voting-machi/ | 2022-04-01T00:45:00Z |
Buddy Wayne Evans age 32, of Manchester, passed from this life on March 27,
2022. He was born on May 24, 1989 to Glen Evans and Melissa Alford Hice. He
was a 2007 graduate of Manchester Central High and had received a
certification in welding from Tennessee Technology College. He will be
remembered by the love he had for hunting, fishing, and being outdoors.
Buddy was sweet, loving, caring and so kind. He was free hearted, giving and
his children were his world. He is preceded in death by paternal
grandfather, James “Buddy” Evans; niece, Britannie Phipps and maternal
grandfather, Jeffery Prosser. He leaves to mourn his passing and cherish his
memories his children, Bristol, Kalix and Anthony Evans; mother, Melissa
Alford Hice; father, Glen Evans; sister, Brittany (Jacob Duke) Evans;
brother, James (Rachel) Marler; paternal grandmother, Virginia Evans;
maternal grandmother, Judy Prosser; maternal grandparents, Gary and Virtie
Alford; a host of nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and
extended family. Rest in peace baby boy, your family loves you dearly. A
graveside service will be held at Bethany Cemetery, in Normandy, on Saturday
April 2, 2022 at 3:30 p.m. Online condolences may be shared at
www.watsonnorth.com
Watson-North Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. | https://www.thunder1320.com/obit/115039/ | 2022-04-01T00:45:00Z |
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The pain was sharp and familiar. It reminded David Price of where he has been. It also told him he still might be able to be the pitcher the Los Angeles Dodgers thought they had nearly 26 months ago.
Price’s quiet spring began the way others have in the five-time All-Star’s 13-year career: His left elbow hurt after his first live batting practice a couple of weeks ago, and he knew the resumption of an old routine was underway.
“Always the elbow,’’ Price said. “It happens every year, all the way back to 2010. Now, everything feels good – arm, elbow and shoulder.’’
It was good enough to impress Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and anybody else who watched Price make his first spring appearance against Cleveland on Wednesday night. The left-hander worked only an inning, but he had two strikeouts and was clocked at 93 mph.
In an abbreviated camp, it wasn’t enough to determine his role. It did remind the Dodgers that Price is still in the mix.
From starter to bullpen, Price’s role with the Dodgers has been uncertain since they acquired the 2012 American League Cy Young Award winner from the Boston Red Sox in a three-team deal that included right-fielder Mookie Betts in February 2020.
Price didn’t pitch at all that year, opting out because of concerns about COVID-19. In 2021, he bounced between the starting rotation and the bullpen with 11 starts and 28 appearances as a reliever. His overall ERA was 4.03.
He arrived at camp in mid-March ready to do anything. Then Roberts mentioned him as a possible starter.
“I’m preparing that way, yeah,” said Price, who is in the final year of a seven-year, $217 million contract. “I think it’d be silly of me to prepare to be a reliever if I’m asked to start. So, I’m preparing to be a starter until otherwise.”
Otherwise looks to be the case. Roberts projects his starting rotation will be Walker Buehler, Julio Urias, Clayton Kershaw, Andrew Heaney and Tony Gonsolin. He cautioned that nothing is set in stone, mostly because pitchers were limited in a camp cut short by major league baseball’s lockout.
The Dodgers signed career starter Tyler Anderson in mid-March, just in case. As for Price, Roberts said: “I just think that David, right now, is not an option in the sense of, he’s not built up. It just doesn’t seem feasible right now.”
The 36-year-old left-hander could still have an immediate role, like one inning in relief early in the season, Roberts said, and moving up to multiple innings as he gets stronger.
“I’m confident in David in any role,’’ Roberts said. “I like his versatility. The role doesn’t matter. It’s just knowing that he’s going to pitch valuable innings in whatever role.”
NOTES
Cody Bellinger took batting practice Thursday on the minor-league side of the Dodgers’ camp. The 2019 National League MVP is 4 for 27 with 17 strikeouts this spring.
“I wouldn’t say I’m alarmed,’’ Roberts said. “I think ‘progressing’ is the word. We’ve got to continue to log at-bats to make him feel as comfortable as possible when the season starts.’’
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LONDON (AP) — OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia decided Thursday to stick to a modest increase in the amount of crude they pump to the world, a step that supports higher prices even as the Biden administration plans to try to lower them by releasing oil from strategic reserves.
The group, known as OPEC+, said it would add 432,000 barrels per day in May, as it works to gradually restore production cuts made during the depths of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s slightly up from 400,000 barrels in previous months, with officials saying they’re revising baseline production levels.
The alliance has been unmoved by pleas from oil-consuming countries to pump more oil as energy prices soar, fueling inflation worldwide. High prices have helped Russia — the world’s largest exporter with 12% of the global market — offset some of the economic pain from Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.
The U.S. and European sanctions have dealt a severe blow to Russia’s economy but contain exceptions for energy payments. That is a U.S. concession to European allies who are much more dependent on Russian energy than the U.S., which has banned the import of Russian oil. Europe by contrast gets 40% of its natural gas and 25% of its oil from Russia, and officials there have shied away from a boycott, instead aiming to reduce dependency through conservation and boosting wind and solar energy as fast as they can over the next several years.
Oil prices have risen as global demand rebounded for fuel for cars, trucks and airplanes. The war pushed them ever higher over fears Russian oil might be lost to the market if sanctions tighten.
They have a major influence on how much U.S. drivers pay at the pump, with crude oil accounting for about half the price of a gallon of gas. To combat high gasoline prices — averaging $4.24, up $1.38 from a year ago — U.S. President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels per day from strategic petroleum reserves, with an announcement expected as soon Thursday.
Diesel fuel for trucks, farm equipment and factories has also jumped in price, to a U.S. average of $5.25 per gallon, up $2.02 from a year ago, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
In November, the White House announced the release of 50 million barrels in coordination with other countries, and after the war began, the U.S. and 30 other countries agreed on an additional release of 60 million barrels.
Oil prices slumped on expectations of a new release, but analysts at UniCredit bank said the impact of such moves on prices “is usually short-lived.” That’s because reserves are finite, and the production shortfall is open-ended. Once reserves fall below a certain level, the market might fear they would be insufficient to combat a further shortfall and prices would go up.
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Marcus Bingham Jr. is moving on.
The Michigan State senior center announced via social media on Thursday night he is declaring for the NBA draft. Bingham played four seasons for the Spartans but had the option to return for another year because the NCAA granted athletes an additional season of eligibility due to COVID-19. | https://www.mlive.com/sports/2022/03/michigan-states-marcus-bingham-jr-declares-for-nba-draft.html | 2022-04-01T00:45:04Z |
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President Biden’s recently announced cancer “moonshot” has been described as merely a reboot of the original, unveiled by President Obama in 2016 to much fanfare. But specialists say the effort is not just more of the same, but a reassessment, with new goals and a welcome focus on prevention.
Harvard experts expressed relief that Biden didn’t follow in the footsteps of some campaigns and pledge to eliminate cancer entirely. At a time when scientific truth and accuracy are being questioned, they said, unrealistic goals only further erode the public’s trust in science.
They agreed, however, that one of the project’s chief objectives — halving the cancer death rate — is possible. Optimism stems from dramatic advances over the past two decades in understanding cancer biology, which has translated into more effective treatments. These breakthroughs include precision therapies, which target specific differences between tumor and normal cells in individual patients, and immunotherapy, which activates the body’s defense mechanisms against the disease.
“These new classes of treatments are the two big lessons of the last 20 years, and those are pretty remarkable,” said George Demetri, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and co-director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard. “And I can guarantee you that there’ll be at least two more big ones in the next 20 years.”
Demetri gives the original moonshot a mixed grade. The resources it provided have boosted research, resulting in new technologies such as a needlelike device that can be inserted into a tumor to test several drugs at once for effectiveness. But some things he thought essential and whose progress would be helped by federal support — like standardizing patient electronic records and increasing their portability between systems — have seen little improvement.
“Our ability to extract useful information from medical records is still woefully inadequate,” Demetri said. “The electronic medical records systems are better than chicken scratch on a piece of paper, but they still keep data in a very siloed way that is inefficient, unhelpful to research, and impossible to aggregate into a large-scale learning system.”
Cancer death rates have fallen steadily since peaking in 1990, dropping about a third from 216 cancer deaths per 100,000 to 145 per 100,000 in 2020. While possible, halving the age-adjusted death rate is by no means guaranteed, Demetri said. Cancer is a hugely complex and mysterious disease. Precision treatments, for example, can be amazingly effective, targeting patient-specific alterations in certain tumor subtypes with custom-designed drugs. But those same drugs may be ineffective on other tumors, even with the same type of cancer.
“Precision medicine, for about 15 percent or 20 percent of the patients, is really remarkable, but that leaves 85 percent of the patients saying, ‘Hey, Doc, I thought this was supposed to be a lot better than this,’” said Demetri, who was a working group member of Blue-Ribbon Panel that helped set priorities for the Obama initiative.
Demetri also isn’t a fan of the “moonshot” comparison. Though obviously a massive undertaking, the physics to land a human on the moon were known. The challenge for scientists was putting existing knowledge to work through engineering and scaling the results.
“With cancer research, there are still so many unknowns that you never really know where the next breakthrough is going to come from,” Demetri said. “What worries me about this moonshot messaging is that it sets up a public expectation: ‘Put this money here and in five years you’ll be invited to Cape Canaveral to see a big rocket go up,’ and everybody will be happy. Research doesn’t necessarily work that way in biomedical science discovery.”
While the analogy may be faulty from a scientific standpoint, the idea that progress against cancer will take moonshot-scale financial resources is not, according to Timothy Rebbeck, the Vincent L. Gregory Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the School’s Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention.
“We don’t know what that money is going to look like and we don’t know how it’s going to be administered,” he said. “If you supplement and facilitate all the great work that’s going on now and the progress we’ve had in the right way, we absolutely could meet this 50 percent goal, there’s no question. But the devil is in the details in politics. We’ll see.”
Better treatment isn’t the only way to improve the cancer landscape, however. Rebbeck said rethinking the health risks posed by different cancers, like prostate and thyroid, may mean more people will be able to live with cancer as a chronic disease. Cancer’s reputation as a death sentence is not only outdated, it can cause a panic and rush to treat that may be harmful, such as when medicines against a slow-growing cancer come with debilitating side effects.
“Maybe we need to stop thinking, in some cases, about a cure for cancer,” Rebbeck said. “Some cancers are curable and that’s good, but others won’t be curable. Maybe they don’t need to be curable for us to have long, healthy lives, and to live well. It’s hard for a patient to hear, ‘You have prostate cancer and we’re not going to do anything,’ but that might be the right answer.”
Rebbeck and Karen Emmons, professor of social and behavioral science at the Chan School, welcomed the emphasis on prevention in the Biden plan. Prevention has the potential to make a significant impact on mortality because, unlike treatment, there is already a lot of knowledge about how to prevent cancer. The problem — one that plagues many public health campaigns — is how to educate and motivate people to take action.
Tackling lifestyle-related causes can make a big difference in the numbers of Americans who die from cancer, Emmons noted. Ideas include more effective anti-smoking campaigns and a stronger commitment to reducing obesity, which is linked to 13 cancers, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Though there has been progress on smoking for decades — it has fallen from 42 percent to 14 percent among U.S. adults since 1962 — 34 million Americans still light up daily and the CDC says that 1,600 youths try their first cigarette each day.
One straightforward way to cut smoking would be to spread successful anti-smoking strategies as broadly as possible. In 2006, for example, 40 percent of Massachusetts Medicaid patients smoked, twice the rate of the general population. In response, Massachusetts’ Medicaid program, MassHealth, started covering treatments to help people quit smoking.
“The smoking rate dropped like a stone,” Emmons said “It went from 40 percent to 28 percent in two years, which is blown-out-of-the-water amazing. And it had a huge impact on savings, more than $2 for every dollar spent.”
Other prevention strategies include stepped-up screening, which can catch colorectal, skin, and breast cancers when they’re relatively simple to treat, and vaccines, which can stop cervical, vaginal, and other cancers caused by viruses. Though the human papilloma virus vaccine can prevent 90 percent of HPV-associated cancers, a 2019 CDC report showed that just 51 percent of all teens had received the recommended doses.
“We know a lot about cancer prevention,” Emmons said. “We could actually prevent about half of the cancers in the country if we just did what we know right now. So how do we do it?”
To boost prevention measures, the original moonshot created Implementation Science Centers around the country. Emmons heads one such program, the Chan School’s Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control Equity, where her projects include a collaborative effort to increase health care providers’ ability to refer patients for lung cancer screening and smoking cessation services.
“We’re really trying to make what we know, what we do, for everybody,” she said. “In the end, moonshot will succeed to the extent that everybody gets evidence-based preventive care.”
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Ukrainian ambassador: ‘What democracy can feel safe right now?’
The Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. on Sunday warned that other democracies would not remain safe if Russia’s aggression against her country is not stopped.
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Oksana Markarova stressed that Ukraine was a peaceful country that had not made threats against Russia.
“So if this situation, you know, happened to Ukraine, who is safe? What democracy can feel safe right now?” Markarova asked. “So I think, you know, the events of the past 11 days clearly shows that we have to act together and that Russia can attack anyone, being totally unprovoked, like they did with Ukraine. So it’s time for all of us to step up.”
Her remarks come on the 11th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Peace talks between Ukraine and Russia are expected to resume this week. The two countries had agreed to a cease-fire last week and for the creation of humanitarian corridors in order to allow civilians to escape. However, recent reports have indicated that these agreements have not yielded the desired results.
Fox News Channel’s chief legal correspondent and “Fox News Sunday anchor,” Shannon Bream, asked Markarova if Ukraine trusted Russia to negotiate in good faith.
“We see that we cannot trust them and they are attacking us at the moment. They are killing our civilians. They are bombing our cities. They committed war crimes in Ukraine,” Markarova responded. “At the same time, our president said numerous times that he’s always ready for peace talks, because he values and he would like to save every Ukrainian life possible. So we will respond to any peace talks.”
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Cost of living crisis is already crippling families
February has seen a rise in the proportion of people seeking debt advice related to the cost of living crisis.
The latest client data report from debt charity, StepChange, showed the cost of living crisis was the fourth most cited reason for getting into financial despair, being brought up by one in nine clients.
With no specific assistance measures targeted at the most financially vulnerable households in the Spring Statement, StepChange expects to see an increase in the proportion of clients whose income won’t be able to meet essential expenditure, which was already at 32 per cent in February.
The Bank of England’s latest Money and Credit data shows consumers borrowed an additional net £1.9bn in consumer credit, of which £1.5bn was new lending on credit cards, which the charity said will be driven by people borrowing to meet essential spending.
Bills are crushing families already with 28 per cent of the charity’s clients finding themselves in arrears on electricity, and 23 per cent were behind on their gas this February. StepChange expects this to worsen after April when the new Ofgem price cap takes effect.
Debts owed to the government, like council tax, also have a massive impact as 39 per cent of the charity’s new clients were in arrears in February. Such debts are typically more aggressively pursued, such as by bailiffs, and are less likely to be able to be rescheduled in a debt repayment plan than consumer credit arrears.
Peter Tutton, head of policy, research and public affairs at StepChange, said: “To fully understand the current household debt landscape requires a wider perspective. More and more, what we are seeing is that people experiencing problem debt have problems meeting not just their credit repayments, but also their priority bills.
“We’re convinced that as the year goes on the chancellor is likely to need to find a way to provide more – and more targeted – support for those who are simply unable to absorb the cost of living increases into their household budgets.
“In the meantime, we urge anyone struggling to make ends meet to seek help from a reputable debt advice organisation at an early stage, rather than turning to potentially more harmful coping strategies such as high-cost credit.” | https://www.yourmortgage.co.uk/news/cost-of-living-crisis-is-already-crippling-families/ | 2022-04-01T00:45:04Z |
A major responsibility for tech companies is to monitor content on their platforms for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and if any is found, they are legally required to report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Many companies have content moderators in place that review content flagged for potentially being CSAM, and they determine whether the content should be reported to the NCMEC.
However, Facebook has a policy that could mean it is underreporting child sexual abuse content, according to a new report from The New York Times. A Facebook training document directs content moderators to “err on the side of an adult” when they don’t know someone’s age in a photo or video that’s suspected to be CSAM, the report said.
The policy was made for Facebook content moderators working at Accenture and is discussed in a California Law Review article from August:
Interviewees also described a policy called “bumping up,” which each of them personally disagreed with. The policy applies when a content moderator is unable to readily determine whether the subject in a suspected CSAM photo is a minor (“B”) or an adult (“C”). In such situations, content moderators are instructed to assume the subject is an adult, thereby allowing more images to go unreported to NCMEC.
Here is the company’s reasoning for the policy, from The New York Times:
Antigone Davis, head of safety for Meta, confirmed the policy in an interview and said it stemmed from privacy concerns for those who post sexual imagery of adults. “The sexual abuse of children online is abhorrent,” Ms. Davis said, emphasizing that Meta employs a multilayered, rigorous review process that flags far more images than any other tech company. She said the consequences of erroneously flagging child sexual abuse could be “life-changing” for users.
Facebook (which is now under the Meta corporate umbrella) and Accenture didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment from The Verge. Accenture declined to comment to The New York Times. | https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23005576/facebook-content-moderators-child-sexual-abuse-material-csam-policy | 2022-04-01T00:45:05Z |
- A new study published in the journal Environmental International has found traces of microplastics in human blood.
- Researchers from the Netherlands found polymers—likely broken down from food packaging—in the blood of 17 study participants.
- More research is needed to identify just how widespread this problem may be.
Microplastics are ubiquitous. They’ve been found everywhere from the deepest depths of the ocean to the slopes of Mount Everest. They’re in our food, our beer, our poop. Everywhere.
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New research published March 24 in the journal Environmental International has revealed that microplastics are in our blood, too.
A team of scientists from Detare—an independent Dutch firm that researches water quality issues—Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Amsterdam University Medical Center in the Netherlands collected blood samples from 22 people and sifted through them, looking for traces of microplastics ranging in size between 700 nanometers and 5,000 nanometers (for reference, the width of a human hair is roughly 17,000 nanometers). Of those 22 participants, 17 had traces of microplastics in their blood.
In total, the team identified four different types of plastic polymers in the blood samples—including two common types of plastics used in food packaging: polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polystyrene (PS).
The first type, Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), is frequently found in products like plastic water bottles. The second most common type of plastic found in the samples was polystyrene (PS), which is often used in food packaging. Poly(methyl methacrylate) and trace amounts of Polypropylene—almost too small to register—were also found in the participants’ bloodstreams.
The researchers suggest a few possible points of entry for these tiny bits of plastic. The most likely scenario, according to the team, is that people ingest these particles along with the food and beverages they consume. There could also be tiny traces of plastic that enter the system through the use of things like chapstick and toothpaste, or even through dental procedures. Some populations who work in industrial or manufacturing settings may also become exposed to airborne plastic particles. (The team did not track participants’ plastic use over the course of the study, so it’s difficult to assess exactly how these particular compounds may have entered their bloodstream.)
For now, there’s no telling what exactly happens to these minuscule pieces of plastic as they travel through our body. Do they travel freely within different organs? Is there a risk that they could stick together and eventually form clots? (Microplastics have been found to build up in the guts of various marine organisms.) And how long do they stay in the blood stream?
“The typical residence time of plastic particle in the bloodstream is at present unknown, as is the fate of these particles in the human body,” the researchers write in their study. “From polymeric nanocarrier research, we expect the residence time to vary with particle chemistries, surface charges, shapes, and sizes.”
Furthermore, it’s difficult to say exactly how common this issue could be, given the study’s small sample size. Ultimately, more research (and more study participants) are needed to understand just how widespread this issue is among the general population. | https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a39588187/your-blood-could-be-filled-with-microplastics/ | 2022-04-01T00:45:05Z |
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Prince Andrew took over £1 million from Turkish ‘fraudster’
By Hayley Dixon, Robert Mendick and Victoria Ward
London: Prince Andrew was given more than a million pounds by an alleged Turkish fraudster and is now embroiled in a High Court battle over missing money.
Andrew and his former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, both received “suspicious” payments on the orders of Selman Turk, a former Goldman Sachs banker, as part of an international £40 million ($70 million) fraud, it is alleged.
This included a £750,000 “gift” paid to the Prince by Nebahat Evyap Isbilen, a 76-year-old Turkish millionairess, who was told that she was paying for help with a passport so she could flee political persecution in her homeland.
The first payment was made days after Turk won an award at the Prince Andrew’s Pitch@Palace competition at St James’ Palace.
Isbilen has told the High Court that she believes the payment to Andrew was connected to Turk’s appearance at the event.
Further payments linked to Turk of £350,000 were made to Andrew through a third-party account that also gave £225,000 to the Sarah Ferguson.
The revelation comes days after Andrew escorted the Queen at a memorial service for his father, Prince Philip, in what was seen as an attempt to begin a rehabilitation of his image.
It also comes weeks after he paid a purported £12 million to settle a case with his sex abuse accuser.
Isbilen is pursuing Turk and various businesses associated with him in the High Court for the return of an estimated £40 million.
Jonathan Tickner, head of fraud and commercial disputes at Peters and Peters, who is representing Isbilen, last night said she was the victim of a “serious fraud” and was “determined to prosecute her claims against all those involved”.
The £750,000 was transferred to Andrew on November 15, 2019, days after he presented Turk with a “people’s choice award” for Heyman AI, a digital bank aimed at millennials that went bust a year and a half later.
Court documents show that Tickner wrote to Andrew in March last year, but he “declined” to respond to questions or give any account of his relationship with Turk. He has repaid the £750,000.
In her witness statement, Isbilen said she had attended the Pitch@Palace event, which she believes may have been at the invitation of Turk. “I can only wonder if there is any connection between this event and the Duke of York transfer,” she said.
Turk’s claim that she needed to pay the Prince for her passport “or for any other purpose” was “false”, details of the High Court civil claim reveal.
Since the case began, her legal team has secured court orders allowing it to search Turk’s bank accounts and those of companies linked to him, which have revealed the further payments to Prince Andrew and Sarah.
Andrew received transfers of up to £350,000 in regular instalments through Alphabet Capital. Tickner said in documents lodged with the court: “The pattern of payments is... consistent with a calculated attempt to facilitate transfers to Prince Andrew and to mask the source of funds.”
He said that “given the circumstances” of the £750,000 payment, and the timings and references of the payments to Andrew and Sarah, there are “strong grounds for inferring” the payments were all made at Turk’s direction.
Ferguson received payments after she was announced as a brand ambassador for Pegasus Group Holdings, a renewable energy firm, in July 2019.
Bank records show that on November 28 2019, £19,000 was transferred to Turk from Las Vegas-based Pegasus, under the reference “Duchess fee pop service”.
At least £225,000 was transferred to an account in the name of Ferguson from Alphabet in regular instalments, and in most cases under the reference “PEG001”, documents allege.
Alphabet was described as “a fraudulent and covert front” in court documents to make payments to those “associated” with Turk, including Andrew, and Isbilen says that she had no knowledge of them.
The Turkish woman said she had trusted Turk “completely, if not blindly” with the management of almost all of her financial affairs after he helped her flee Turkey at a time when she feared she would be arrested and have $US90 million in assets seized.
Ilhan Isbilen, her husband and the former deputy of the ruling AK party, was imprisoned in 2015 after an attempted coup in the country.
Isbilen said she was still in the dark about the extent of her losses but alleges that Turk may have caused her “as much £39.37 million of loss”.
Turk, who has a worldwide freezing order on his assets and has surrendered his passport, denies the allegations against him.
The case involves a complex web of businesses and payments to accounts set up in the UK and abroad, including the Cayman and British Virgin Islands.
David Halpern QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, granted a search of his premises earlier this month saying there was a “strong prima facie case” for “major fraud” through “undue influence by a trusted adviser over a woman who was vulnerable because of her age, her inability to speak English and her status as a refugee from abroad, and who trusted him as if he were a family member”. The Prince declined to comment when he was approached by The Telegraph.
A spokesman for Sarah Ferguson said: “The Duchess was completely unaware of the allegations that have since emerged against Mr Turk. She is naturally concerned by what has been alleged against him.”
Tickner said: “Mrs Isbilen is the victim of serious fraud and financial wrongdoing carried out at the hands of Selman Turk, a man she trusted to help her through extremely difficult circumstances. He abused her trust and she has brought her claim in the High Court to recover the money taken from her.
“The court documents and decisions given in her case to date speak for themselves. She is determined to prosecute her claims against all those involved.”
Telegraph, London
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