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Tougher year-over-year comparisons in US inflation begin in April and that, combined with a drop in gasoline prices makes it increasingly likely that we've seen the high water mark for price acceleration, according to CIBC.
"Although March likely represents the peak for inflation, as the indices will be lapping some strong year-ago readings starting in April, the Fed will still have to raise rates by 125bps over the rest of this year to achieve on-target inflation in 2023, with the next hike likely to be 50bps in May," economists write following today's CPI report.
They forecast a 50 bps followed by a series of 25 bps hikes until a temporary pause in Q4.
On inflation, CIBC notes that more than half of the monthly rise in prices of 1.2% was due to gasoline. Since then, pump prices have come down, putting a negative bias into April data if current oil pricing holds.
Core inflation was lower than expected but shelter and airfares could be a continuing tailwind.
"Judging from the deviation in the home price-to-rent ratio relative to its normal level, there is ample room for rent prices to rise further. Given the stickiness in that component and the fact that it's the largest weighted component in the index, the Fed will be especially cognizant of that," they write.
What it will come down to is flat-to-falling goods prices competing with services inflation as the economy reopens. While this is likely to mark the peak of inflation, CIBC expects price rises to broaden and that will keep the Fed on a hiking path. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/march-likely-represents-the-peak-of-us-inflation-cibc-20220412/ | 2022-04-12T17:54:18Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/march-likely-represents-the-peak-of-us-inflation-cibc-20220412/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Treasury auctions off $34 billion of 10 year notes at a high yield of 2.720%
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The WI level at the time of the auction was 2.69%
The U.S. Treasury auctioned off $34 billion of 10 year notes:
- High yield
Yield
A yield represents the earnings generated by an investment or security over a certain time period. Yields are typically displayed in percentage terms and are in the form of interest or dividends received from it.These figures do not include the price variations, which separates it from the total return. Consequently, a yield applies to various stated rates of return on stocks, fixed income instruments such as bonds, and other types of investment products.Yields can be calculated as a ratio or as an internal rate of return, which may also be used to indicate the owner's total return, or portion of income.Why Do Yields Matter?At any point in time, all financial instruments compete with each other in a public marketplace. Analyzing yields is one among many metrics used by analysts and investors and reflects a singular part of the total return of holding a security. For example, a higher yield allows the owner to recoup his investment sooner, and thus mitigates risk. By extension, a high yield may have resulted from a falling market value for the security as a result of higher risk. Yield levels are also influenced by expectations of inflation. Fears of higher levels of inflation in the future suggest that investors would ask for high yield or a lower price versus the coupon today.The maturity of the instrument is also one of the elements that determines risk. The relationship between yields and the maturity of instruments of similar credit worthiness, is described by the yield curve. Instruments over longer intervals commonly have a higher yield than short dated instruments.The yield of a debt instrument is typically linked to the credit worthiness and default probability of the issuer. The more the default risk, the higher the yield would be in most of the cases since issuers need to offer investors some compensation for the risk.
A yield represents the earnings generated by an investment or security over a certain time period. Yields are typically displayed in percentage terms and are in the form of interest or dividends received from it.These figures do not include the price variations, which separates it from the total return. Consequently, a yield applies to various stated rates of return on stocks, fixed income instruments such as bonds, and other types of investment products.Yields can be calculated as a ratio or as an internal rate of return, which may also be used to indicate the owner's total return, or portion of income.Why Do Yields Matter?At any point in time, all financial instruments compete with each other in a public marketplace. Analyzing yields is one among many metrics used by analysts and investors and reflects a singular part of the total return of holding a security. For example, a higher yield allows the owner to recoup his investment sooner, and thus mitigates risk. By extension, a high yield may have resulted from a falling market value for the security as a result of higher risk. Yield levels are also influenced by expectations of inflation. Fears of higher levels of inflation in the future suggest that investors would ask for high yield or a lower price versus the coupon today.The maturity of the instrument is also one of the elements that determines risk. The relationship between yields and the maturity of instruments of similar credit worthiness, is described by the yield curve. Instruments over longer intervals commonly have a higher yield than short dated instruments.The yield of a debt instrument is typically linked to the credit worthiness and default probability of the issuer. The more the default risk, the higher the yield would be in most of the cases since issuers need to offer investors some compensation for the risk.
Read this Term 2.72%
- WI level 2.69% at the time of the auction
- Tail 3.0 BPS
- Bid to cover 2.43X versus six month average of 2.50X
- Directs (a measure of domestic demand) 17.9% versus a six month average of 16.5%
- Indirects (a measure of international demand) 64.3%% versus a six month average of 70.9%
- Dealers (they take the rest) 18.66% versus a six month average of 12.7%
The last auction came in at a high yield of 1.920% with a tail of 0.3 basis points. The six month averages for tails is -0.2 basis points.
Auction grade: F
Lowlights:
- Tail of 3 BPS vs an average of -0.2 bps
- Directs were the only bright spot at 17.9% above the 6 month average but it did take 3 bp tail too
- Indirects were much lower than the 6-month average. So international investors did not show up
- Dealers are saddled with well above the six month average
CNBCs Santelli gave it a D- grade. He was generous.
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The U.S. Treasury will auction off $34 billion of 10 year notes at the top of the hour. The six month average of the major components of prior auctions shows:
- Bid to cover 2.50X
- Directs (a measure of domestic demand) 16.5%
- Indirects (a measure of international demand) 70.9%
- Dealers (they take the rest) 12.7%
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Heavy Russian artillery fire is targeting eastern Ukraine Tuesday, as new accounts reveal evidence that the death toll there is likely higher than initially reported.
This comes as President Vladimir Putin tells the Russian state news agency Tass that his country’s military goal in Ukraine is “noble” and meant to help the people of the Donbas region.
CNN’s Ben Wedeman joins host Anthony Brooks from Barvinkove, a frontline town 20 miles from the Russian border.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Pakistan has a new prime minister after cricketer turned politician Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote on Monday.
NPR’s Diaa Hadid tells us about the latest political instability in Pakistan.
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After a Texas woman was arrested, charged with murder for what officials say was a “self-induced abortion” and jailed for three days, the district attorney for Starr County Texas is moving to dismiss the case.
Even with Texas’s new abortion restrictions, under the state’s law, a pregnant person can’t be charged with murder or homicide for having an abortion.
Stephen Vladeck, professor at the University of Texas School of Law, discusses this case and the chilling effect it could have on legal access to abortion in Texas.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Twitter users have long asked for an edit button, and now the company says it’s finally coming. But skeptics warn it could change Twitter — and not for the better.
NPR tech correspondent Shannon Bond reports.
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Updated April 12, 2022 at 1:21 PM ET
India, the world's largest democracy, has not yet condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine — and the U.S. wants to change that.
President Biden tried to lobby for India's support during a virtual summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, while Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with their Indian counterparts.
Here's what to know about the context and takeaways from those discussions.
Why has India remained neutral so far?
Modi condemned the civilian killings in Ukraine on Monday, but didn't say who was responsible.
On the one hand, India shares democratic values with the U.S. On the other hand, India doesn't always trust the West. India has a colonial past, it was nonaligned during the Cold War, and it wants to make its own decisions. And it also buys a lot of weapons, fertilizer and oil from Russia.
It's also worried that if it alienates Russia, it could push Russia closer to China.
What is the U.S. doing to try to change India's stance?
A U.S. deputy national security adviser visited India a few weeks ago and warned of consequences for countries that circumvent Western sanctions on Russia. But the White House is also careful to say it respects India's decisions and doesn't want to tell it what to do.
In their public comments yesterday, Biden and Modi spoke about friendship and shared values. But a White House official said afterward that during their private meeting, Biden asked Modi not to accelerate purchases of Russian oil.
In other words, the U.S. is not asking India to cut off Russian oil completely — just not to increase its reliance on it.
What is India saying?
Essentially, India listened and made no promises. Indian officials have bristled at the topic, because Europe buys much more Russian oil and gas than it does.
"Probably our total purchases for the month would be less than what Europe does in an afternoon," India's external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar, said at a press conference on Monday. "So you might want to think about that."
Modi and Biden also talked about defense cooperation and trade between their nations and are meeting in Tokyo next month with leaders from Japan and Australia to talk about countering China.
While the U.S. would like to hear India condemn Russia, it also needs its help on China — so it may have to pick its battles.
The digital version of this story originally appeared in the Morning Edition live blog.
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Updated April 12, 2022 at 1:19 PM ET
Ten people were shot at a New York City subway station on Tuesday during morning rush hour, according to the New York Fire Department. In all, 16 people were hurt and five victims are in critical but stable condition, officials said at an early afternoon news conference.
New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell told reporters that officials have not ruled out any motive in the attack.
Authorities said they are still looking for the shooter who was aboard a Manhattan-bound N train waiting to enter the 36th Street Station in Brooklyn's Sunset Park around 8:30 a.m.
The shooter donned what appeared to be a gas mask before removing a canister from a bag, Sewell said. The train began to fill with smoke, before he opened fire striking multiple people on the subway and on the platform, she added.
Police said he was wearing green construction-style vest.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said New Yorkers' "sense of tranquility and normalness was disrupted — brutally disrupted — by an individual so cold-hearted and depraved of heart that they had no caring about the individuals that they assaulted."
WNYC broadcast engineer Juliana Fonda said she was on the N train when she heard the shots.
"People were pounding and looking behind them, running, trying to get onto the train," Fonda said. "The door locked between cars and the people behind us, there were a lot of loud pops and there was smoke in the other car."
Earlier, published reports cited fire officials and law enforcement sources saying several undetonated devices were also found. Sewell told reporters that there are currently no known explosive devices on subway trains.
New Yorkers have been warned to avoid the Sunset Park area. Following the shooting, power was shut off on various lines, and major delays were expected throughout the city.
Follow WNYC/The Gothamist's coverage.
This is a developing story. Some facts reported by the media may later turn out to be wrong. We will focus on reports from police officials and other authorities, credible news outlets and reporters who are at the scene, and we will update as the situation develops.
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For the first time in a decade, overdose deaths among teens in the United States rose dramatically in 2020 and kept rising through 2021 as well. That's according to the results of a new study published Tuesday in JAMA.
"This is very alarming because what we've seen in other parts of the population is that when overdose death rates start to rise, they tend to continue to do so for quite some time," says Joe Friedman, a public health researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the lead author of the new study.
"We're still really in the early days in terms of teen overdose. And that makes this an especially important time to intervene," he adds.
Friedman and his colleagues found that fatal overdoses among adolescents nearly doubled from 492 in 2019 to 954 in 2020, an increase of 94%. There was an additional 20% rise in 2021 compared to the previous year. The highest rates were among Native American and Alaskan Native teens, followed by Latino teens.
"For decades, we've seen overdose rates rising among adults, and teens have been insulated from that," says Friedman. "And now, for the first time, the overdose crisis is reaching teens as well."
It appears that the rise in deaths was fueled not by greater numbers of teens using drugs – substance use in this age group actually went down during the pandemic – but by use of dangerous and highly potent forms of fentanyl. The study found that fentanyl-related deaths increased from 253 in 2019 to 680 the following year. And in 2021, 77% of all teen overdose deaths involved fentanyl.
However, unlike in adult overdose deaths, it's not fentanyl in heroin that's responsible for the deaths among teens, says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who wasn't involved in the new study.
"Teenagers don't seek out illicit opioids, [but] they do seek out prescription opioids and that has always been one of their favorite drugs: Vicodin, OxyContin, hydrocodone," she says. "And they also seek out benzodiazepines."
And they often end up buying counterfeit versions of these medications – fakes that look like the commonly used prescription medications – which have increasingly become contaminated with fentanyl in the past couple of years.
"It is estimated that at least one third of those illicitly manufactured pills are contaminated with fentanyl," says Volkow, something that most teenagers and their families are unaware of.
"In the past, you would just get sedated," she adds. "Now you can take one benzodiazepine, one pill and it can kill you."
This means that occasional or recreational users can be at risk of dying, says Sheila Vakharia, deputy director of the department of research and Academic engagement at the Drug policy Alliance.
That's why there's an urgent need to better educate teens about the risks of counterfeit pills and give them tools to help them use safely, she says.
Friedman agrees: "It's pretty clear that teens don't understand that many of the pills that are available right now on the street are actually counterfeit [and containing fentanyl]."
It's also important to educate them that not all drugs are equally dangerous, he adds. "Alcohol and cannabis are not risk free, of course. But we know that those drugs have never been found to be contaminated with fentanyls, whereas pills and powders are at a very high risk of being contaminated."
Vakharia says it's important to give kids more information about drug use.
"So many of our young people are so busy being taught to not use drugs that when they are exposed to them or they're surrounded by it, they actually have very little information to go off of to keep themselves or their friends safe around the decisions they make surrounding drugs," says Vakharia,.
Vakharia and her colleagues have developed a school curriculum called Safety First, which teaches youth about the risks of drug use and how to identify signs of an overdose and how to address it.
Pilot studies of this curriculum in schools around the country revealed that students who took this training knew the signs of an overdose and how to respond to it, says Vakharia.
She adds that schools need to play an important role in addressing this, not just by adopting curricula like the one she and her colleagues created, but also by making naloxone, the overdose medication, easily available to their students.
"Naloxone ... is an incredibly safe medication that we'd love to see in school first aid kits," she says. "And to be getting our young people trained on these medications and using this medication for an overdose."
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WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – West Springfield firefighters were called to a two car accident Tuesday afternoon on Memorial Avenue.
Around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, the West Springfield Fire Department shared photos of a two vehicle crash at the intersection of River Street and Memorial Avenue. The two vehicles involved in the accident were heavily damaged in the front end of both cars.
Waze is reporting traffic in the area before the Morgan Sullivan Bridge. There is also construction on Memorial Avenue in front of the Eastern States fairgrounds.
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The makers of Suresh Gopi starrer ‘Ottakomban’ faced another legal setback after the Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed against the stay order upheld by the High Court. The team of ‘Ottakomban’ had challenged the order of the district court in the copyright violation case that was filed by screenwriter Jinu Abraham.
The apex court noted that there was no need to interfere in the current status of the copyright violation case filed by Jinu accusing that ‘Ottakomban’ was based on his screenplay. Besides, it instructed the trial court to make the trial proceedings swifter. In the order, the Supreme Court, asks both parties to settle the case, in an amicable manner, within a year.
The Kerala High Court, in 2021 April, had upheld the district court order barring the makers of ‘Ottakomban’ from developing the screenplay, producing and releasing the movie. The latest order from Supreme Court turned out to be another legal setback for the producers of ‘Ottakomban’ who have been mired in the legal battle for the last two years.
‘Kaduva’ directed by Shaji Kailash, with Prithviraj in the lead role, was announced first. The screenplay of this movie is by Jinu Abraham. The first look poster of the film was also released. It was only later that director Mathew Thomas announced ‘Ottakomban’ which was the 250th film of Suresh Gopi. Tomichan Mulakupadam is the producer of ‘Ottakomban’ which is written by Shibin Thomas. The motion poster of this movie too was released. Jinu Abraham had filed a suit accusing the makers of ‘Ottakomban’ for copyright violation. Apparently, the name of the protagonists of both the movies is Kaduvakunnel Kuruvachan.
The district court then ordered that the makers of ‘Ottakomban’ cannot use the name Kaduvakunnel Kuruvachan or the theme of the movie ‘Kaduva’. The High Court too had upheld the order.
Meanwhile, the filming of Prithviraj starrer 'Kaduva' has been wrapped up and is getting ready for release. The mass entertainer has an ensemble cast of Vivek Oberoi, Sanyukta Menon, Arjun Ashokan and Seema. Prithviraj plays the role of a planter in the movie. The film is bankrolled by Prithviraj Productions and Magic Frames. The makers hope to release the movie in May or June 2022. | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/04/12/prithviraj-kaduva-suresh-gopi-ottakomban-legal-tussle.html | 2022-04-12T18:04:03Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/04/12/prithviraj-kaduva-suresh-gopi-ottakomban-legal-tussle.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP)Byron Buxton and Luis Arraez each had three hits and Dylan Bundy earned his first win in a Twins uniform as Minnesota won its series finale against the Seattle Mariners 4-0 on Monday night.
The Twins, who hit six home runs Sunday, entered the day leading the majors with nine. Minnesota didn’t go deep for the first time all season but scored enough runs anyway as it split the four-game series.
”That was great because we know we have a really good team,” Arraez said. ”We just go out there and hit the ball and play baseball.”
After Jorge Polanco doubled in Buxton for the first run in the first inning, the Twins scored on three straight singles in the fifth. Arraez, Polanco and Gio Urshela all picked up RBI singles as Minnesota built a 4-0 lead.
That was enough run support for Bundy, who tossed five scoreless innings to win his Twins debut. The right-hander allowed just one hit, a two-out double in the second. He struck out two and walked one in 67 pitches.
Bundy (1-0) posted a career-worst 6.06 ERA in 23 games last year with the Angels, but the Twins signed the veteran this offseason with the hopes he could bounce back to bolster Minnesota’s rotation.
Including Bundy’s scoreless outing, Minnesota’s starting pitchers have a 4.00 ERA through the first four games.
”I think we have a bigger statement to make,” Bundy said. ”I think every guy in the rotation can go deeper into games, and we will going forward.”
Chris Flexen (0-1) took the loss in his season debut. The righty allowed three runs on five hits and was lifted after 4 1/3 innings. Flexen is coming off a 14-win season in his first year with Seattle after spending the 2020 season pitching in Korea.
Two of Buxton’s three hits were doubles. He scored two runs and also got his first stolen base of the season in the sixth inning.
Seattle had just two runners reach third base all game. Julio Rodriguez was stranded on third in the third, and the Mariners couldn’t drive in Cal Reigh from third in the eighth against reliever Joe Smith.
”We struggled to get much going offensively,” manager Scott Servais said. ”Obviously we had seen Bundy a bunch in the past, but he kept us off balance.”
TRIPLE DIGITS
Twins reliever Jhoan Duran pitched a scoreless ninth inning and repeatedly hit 100 mph on the Target Field radar gun. His fastest pitch was clocked at 102 mph.
”I haven’t seen 102 too many times,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. ”I know guys throw hard these days, but that’s some next-level stuff.”
The 24-year-old Duran spent his minor league career as a starter but has made his first two big league appearances in relief with the Twins.
SHOWING SOME GLOVE
New Twins shortstop Carlos Correa, signed in late March, was honored pregame with not one but two awards for his defense last season with the Houston Astros. He received his first Rawlings Gold Glove as the top defensive shortstop in the American League in 2021. In addition, he won the Platinum Glove as the top Gold Glove winner at any spot in the AL – as decided on by a combination of fan votes and sabermetrics. Correa received both trophies in an on-field presentation.
COMFORT WITH PITCHCOM
Servais estimated about 50% of his pitchers have used MLB’s new PitchCom system so far this season. ”I think it speeds up the game, which I think is important,” he said.
UP NEXT
Mariners: RHP Matt Brash makes his MLB debut when the Mariners open a three-game series at the Chicago White Sox.
Twins: RHP Chris Archer will start his first game with the Twins as Minnesota begins a two-game home series against the Dodgers.
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ATLANTA (AP)Maikel Franco knew he needed an adjustment after his 1-for-13 start to the season.
A new approach paved the way for a dramatic turnaround for Franco and the Washington Nationals.
Franco drove in five runs on four hits, including a two-run homer, as the Washington Nationals beat Huascar Ynoa and the Atlanta Braves 11-2 on Monday night.
Franco homered to cap a five-run third inning, then added a three-run double off Tucker Davidson when the Nationals scored five more in the eighth to turn the game into a rout.
”That was a great adjustment for me today, just coming back, don’t think about anything, just go out there and see the ball and have a good game for me and for my team,” Franco said.
Franco said his main adjustment at the plate was ”just don’t chase those pitches down and away” and ”attack my zone.”
The Braves (2-3) lost their second in a row. Most fans in the sellout crowd of 42,263 left with their World Series replica rings, a much-anticipated promotion, well before the end of the game.
Josh Rogers (1-0) allowed only one run on two hits in 5 1/3 innings in an impressive fill-in start for Washington. The left-hander was recalled from Triple-A Rochester when scheduled starter Anibal Sanchez was placed on the 10-day injured list with a stiff neck.
”I think I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t mad or down,” said Rogers of his emotions when sent to Rochester. ”I tried to go to Triple-A and have a good attitude and turn the page.”
Manager Dave Martinez said he promised Rogers ”’You’re going to be up here. Be patient. You’re going to be the first one we call.”’
Lane Thomas doubled in two runs off Ynoa (0-1) in the third inning before Franco’s homer over Washington’s bullpen in left field pushed the lead to 5-1.
Ynoa allowed five runs on seven hits and two walks in three innings.
”He’s still trying to figure things out,” said Braves manager Brian Snitker of the 23-year-old Ynoa. ”He’s not a finished product yet. … I have confidence in him making the adjustments he needs to make.”
Spencer Strider gave up one run in 3 1/3 innings.
Ozzie Albies doubled and scored on Marcell Ozuna’s two-out single to give Atlanta a 1-0 lead in the first. Rogers retired the next 10 batters.
Thomas drove in three runs with two hits, including a run-scoring single in the seventh. Josh Bell drove in two runs with two hits.
SHOCKING ANNOUNCEMENT
Martinez met with his coaches before the game after learning the Nationals might be put up for sale. Martinez said managing principal owner Mark Lerner called him Monday morning to say his family is exploring the possibility of selling the team.
”To say the least, I was shocked,” Martinez said. ”… We’ll see where it takes us but I don’t want any distractions down here. We’re still going to play baseball and play to win.”
BIG TURNOUTS
The attendance total was the fourth-largest in Truist Park history. The Braves have drawn more than 40,000 fans in four of their first five games. Sunday’s game against Cincinnati drew 38,233.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Nationals: Martinez said Sanchez, 38, was ”still moving very gingerly but he does say he feels better.” The move to place Sanchez on IL with a cervical nerve impingement in his neck was retroactive to Friday. ”We want to make sure he’s healthy before he even attempts to start throwing,” Martinez said.
Braves: C Manny Pina (sore left wrist) was held without a hit in his first start of the season. Snitker said he plans for Pina ”to do a lot of catching” as the top backup to Travis d’Arnaud.
UP NEXT
Nationals: LHP Patrick Corbin (0-1, 4.50) will start Tuesday night’s second game of the series after he lasted only four innings, allowing five hits and two runs, in a 5-1 loss to the New York Mets to open the season. He is 6-7 with a 3.48 ERA in 17 career games, including 15 starts, against Atlanta.
Braves: Snitker has not announced his starter. LHP Tucker Davidson was a candidate before he was gave up five runs in 2 2/3 innings in relief behind Ynoa and Strider. Now the Braves are more likely to call up one or two pitchers from Triple-A Gwinnett.
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WASHINGTON (AP)The Lerner family that has owned the Washington Nationals since 2006 is exploring the possibility of selling the Major League Baseball franchise.
Manager Dave Martinez said before the team’s game at Atlanta that managing principal owner Mark Lerner called him Monday morning to deliver the news. Lerner, who has taken over a lead role with the team from his father, Ted, has in recent years said the family would never sell the team.
”To say the least, I was shocked,” Martinez said. ”Those are big decisions that the Lerner family had to make. I’ll support than in any way possible. This doesn’t mean my relationship with the Lerner family goes away. We’re still in this. I know know they’re very committed to this organization, as am I.”
The Lerners hiring a firm to find potential investors to buy part or all of the Nationals was first reported by the Washington Post.
Forbes valued the team at $2 billion. Hedge fund manager Steve Cohen bought the New York Mets in 2020 for $2.4 billion.
The Lerners bought the Nationals from MLB for $450 million 16 years ago after the team was moved to the U.S. capital from Montreal. The franchise won its first World Series title in 2019.
Martinez said he speaks with Mark Lerner daily and met with coaches Monday to talk to them about the news. It’s his goal to keep it from being a distraction for players.
”We always talk about the circle of trust, and the Lerner family and this organization is part of that circle,” he said. ”But this is our main focus, so let’s get the boys ready to play and go play good baseball.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)The only big mistake that Cleveland rookie Steven Kwan has made during his first four big league games came in left field, where he was trying to rush a catch-and-throw to the plate and had a flyball bounce off the heel of his glove.
He hasn’t made many mistakes with a bat in his hands.
And after that gaffe in the outfield Monday, the 24-year-old from Oregon State came right back to belt a bases-loaded triple, becoming the first player to reach base at least three times in each of his first four games while leading the rechristened Guardians to a 10-7 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
”He was trying to do it a little too quick and it hit the heel of his glove. But then his at-bat was terrific,” Guardians manager Terry Francona said. ”His at-bats are really, really good. That’s stating the obvious.”
Might as well drive home the point: Kwan went 5 for 5 and reached safely six times a day earlier, when Cleveland rolled to a 17-3 win over the Royals. He reached base three more times and added his first three RBIs on Monday, finishing the series 9 for 13, reaching base in 15 of 19 plate appearances and scoring four times.
”Pretty cool,” Kwan said in his typical understated manner. ”Pretty surreal.”
Oscar Mercado added a two-run homer for the Guardians, who scored just once over the first two games in Kansas City but piled up 27 runs over the last two. The result was a split of the season-opening set between AL Central rivals.
”I’m done trying to figure this out,” Francona said of the scoring disparity.
Logan Allen (1-0) earned the win Monday with two scoreless innings of relief in his first appearance of the season.
The finale was tied 4-all in the seventh when Royals reliever Jake Brentz (0-1) gave up a single, sacrifice bunt and walk. Josh Staumont then gave up bloop singles to Jose Ramirez and Franmil Reyes as Cleveland took a 6-4 lead.
The Royals loaded the bases in the bottom half against Bryan Shaw before Hunter Dozier hit a flyball that Kwan dropped. As a run crossed the plate, Myles Straw threw out a runner at second base in a bang-bang play that stood upon video review. Nick Sandlin relieved and got Adalberto Mondesi to ground into an inning-ending double play.
”Just tried to do too much,” Kwan said of the flyball that got away from him.
Not to worry. Kwan atoned for the mistake with his triple in the eighth inning.
”He’s a tough out. You can tell that already,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said.
Kwan’s now gone 72 plate appearances, including Triple-A and spring training, since his last strikeout, and his 15 times on base through his first four games is the most since in the major leagues since at least 1901.
”There are a lot of player development people who have their chest out right now, as they should,” Francona said. ”I know we’re four games in, but every single one of them kept saying `Hey, he’s going to be OK, man.’ So I know they’re proud.”
Mercado also had a big finish to the series. He hit a grand slam and had five RBIs in the Guardians’ 17-3 romp Sunday, then drilled a two-run homer into the left-field bullpen to give Cleveland a 4-1 lead in the fourth on Monday.
”I mean, shoot, man, we’re rooting for everybody,” Francona said. ”We’re not biased. We want everybody to do well.”
The Royals answered Mercado’s latest shot in their typical fashion: They scratched and clawed and scrapped for runs. It took two singles, a walk, a sacrifice bunt, a stolen base, an error and a run-scoring groundout, but the Royals managed to coax three runs in the fourth inning to even the score 4-all.
Only one of the four runs off Cleveland starter Aaron Civale was earned, and he left after 3 1/3 innings. Carlos Hernandez lasted another inning for Kansas City but was responsible for all four runs that he allowed.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Guardians OF Josh Naylor was 3 for 13 through four games at Triple-A Columbus as he continues to work his way back from a right ankle injury. He is expected to play two more games in the minors this week before being reevaluated.
ROSTER MOVES
The Royals reinstated RHP Joel Payamps from the family emergency list and optioned RHP Jackson Kowar to Triple-A Omaha. Kowar, who will start in the minors, allowed seven runs on 11 hits and a walk in 3 1/3 innings of relief Sunday.
UP NEXT
The Guardians play the first of two games in Cincinnati on Tuesday with RHP Shane Bieber on the mound. The Royals head to St. Louis for two games beginning Tuesday with LHP Daniel Lynch first on the mound.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP)Nearly 1,600 miles away, the final out was determined to end a home-opening loss for the Texas Rangers.
Colorado manager Bud Black asked for a replay review in the bottom of the 10th inning after second baseman Brendan Rodgers, with new Rangers catcher Mitch Garver sliding hard toward him, made an errant throw that allowed a run to score while taking away the chance for a game-ending double play.
Upon further review from MLB headquarters, it was a double play that ended the Rockies’ 6-4 win over the Rangers on Monday.
”At first, I didn’t really think we were going to get the replay. Then I finally saw the replay, and I did think that it probably was interference,” Rodgers said. ”But the heat of the moment, I thought I had to rush the throw a little because I know (Adolis) Garcia can run a little bit.”
After both teams got solo homers in the ninth, Jose Iglesias’ fourth hit was a tiebreaking RBI single in top of 10th inning for the Rockies before Connor Joe added a homer off Greg Holland (0-1), the eighth Texas pitcher.
Garver walked with one out in the Rangers 10th, then was forced out sliding into second base while Rodgers’ relay throw was wide of first – allowing Marcus Semien to score from second and Garcia to move up a base. Black’s challenge was prompted by Colorado’s video coordinator.
”The rule is, you have to make contact with the dirt before the base and you have to slide into the bag first and you have to be able to maintain grasp of the bag or touch the base. All of those things, I did,” Garver said. ”Momentum carried me through the top of the bag. That’s a baseball play, man.”
Umpire crew chief Bill Miller, who relayed the final decision of the replay from the MLB office, told a pool reporter that Garver didn’t maintain possession of the base.
”And he not only did not maintain possession, he came off the base and made contact with the fielder above the knee. That constitutes a violation on two terms,” said Miller, adding he had never had an ending like that.
According to the pool report, the replay center supervisor explained that it was determined Garver failed to engage in a bona-fide slide, while also hindering and impeding the fielder.
Texas manager Chris Woodward was visibly angry after the decision, and was frustrated that he couldn’t get an explanation and really couldn’t argue the call.
”It’s more of a technicality at the end,” Woodward said. ”It’s really frustrating to lose a game like that. … There’s nothing we can do about that. We have to play better baseball, towards the end of games.”
Texas had a 3-1 lead going into the seventh before Colorado scored in each of the last four innings.
The Rockies got unearned runs in the seventh on third baseman Charlie Culberson’s fielding error, and in the eighth on new shortstop Corey Seager’s throwing error wide of first when trying to turn an ending-inning double play.
C.J. Cron, who had an earlier RBI triple, led off the Rockies ninth with a 451-foot homer over the bullpen in left field to put them up 4-3.
Willie Calhoun homered off Daniel Bard (1-0), before Ashton Goudeau worked the bottom of the 10th for his first save after the lengthy review ended the game.
”I saw the replay a couple of times. That rule is in effect for that reason, for protection of the middle infielders. It’s really subjective. It really is. It went our way,” said Black, who got his 1,001st career managerial victory. ”But when we look at that play, there’s a lot of different ways to look at it. It’s a tough call, but it’s in there and the umpires have to make a hard call.”
SEAGER HOME DEBUT
Seager has hits in all four games he has played for the Rangers, who signed him to a $325 million, 10-year contract on Dec. 1 before MLB’s 99-day lockout. The two-time All-Star threw out a runner at the plate in the first inning, but also had the throwing error in the eighth that allowed the Rockies to tie the game. He was 1 for 5 and scored a run.
SEATS STILL AVAILABLE
The Rangers played their 51st home opener in Texas, and third in the retractable roof stadium which debuted without fans in the COVID-delayed and shortened season in 2020. The first regular-season game played there was a 1-0 win by Texas over Colorado on July 24, 2020.
With an announced crowd was 35,052 in the stadium with a listed capacity of 40,518, it was the first time since 1996 the Rangers home opener wasn’t a sellout.
UP NEXT
A matchup of starters in their season debuts with new teams, though Texas left-hander Martin Perez is back with his original big league team. Right-hander Chad Kuhl starts for Colorado after pitching in 100 games (84 starts) his first five big league seasons with Pittsburgh. Perez played his first seven MLB seasons with the Rangers, then left in free agency for Minnesota for the 2019 season and pitched for Boston the past two years.
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Philadelphia became the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate on Monday after reporting a sharp increase in coronavirus infections, with the city’s top health official saying she wanted to forestall a potential new wave driven by an omicron subvariant.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases have risen more than 50% in 10 days, the threshold at which the city’s guidelines call for people to wear masks indoors, said Dr. Cheryl Bettigole, the health commissioner. Health officials believe the recent spike is being driven by the highly transmissible BA.2 subvariant of omicron, which has spread rapidly throughout Europe and Asia, and has become dominant in the U.S. in recent weeks.
“If we fail to act now, knowing that every previous wave of infections has been followed by a wave of hospitalizations, and then a wave of deaths, it will be too late for many of our residents,” said Bettigole, noting about 750 Philadelphia residents died in the wintertime omicron outbreak. “This is our chance to get ahead of the pandemic, to put our masks on until we have more information about the severity of this new variant.”
Health inspectors will begin enforcing the mask mandate at city businesses on April 18.
Most states and cities dropped their masking requirements in February and early March following new guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that put less focus on case counts and more on hospital capacity. The CDC said at that time that with the virus in retreat, most Americans could safely take off their masks.
Philadelphia ended its indoor mask mandate March 2, and Bettigole acknowledged “it was wonderful to feel that sense of normalcy again.”
Confirmed cases have since risen to more than 140 per day — still a fraction of what Philadelphia saw at the height of the omicron surge — while only 46 patients are in the hospital with COVID-19. The CDC says community spread in Philadelphia remains low, a level at which the agency says that masking can be optional.
The restaurant industry pushed back against the city’s reimposed mask mandate, saying workers will bear the brunt of customer anger over the new rules.
“This announcement is a major blow to thousands of small businesses and other operators in the city who were hoping this spring would be the start of recovery,” said Ben Fileccia, senior director of operations at the Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Association.
PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia said Friday that while it expects some increased transmission in the northern U.S. over the next several weeks, hospital admissions have remained low and “our team advises against required masking given that hospital capacity is good.”
Bettigole said requiring people to mask up will help restaurants and other businesses stay open, while a huge new wave of COVID-19 would keep customers at home. She said hospital capacity was just one factor that went into her decision to reinstate the mandate.
“I sincerely wish we didn’t have to do this again,” Bettigole said. “But I am very worried about our vulnerable neighbors and loved ones.”
In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has paused his push to unwind many of the city’s virus rules as cases have risen, opting for now to keep a mask mandate for 2 to 4-year-olds in city schools and preschools. But Adams, a Democrat who has said New Yorkers should not let the pandemic run their lives, has already lifted most other mask mandates and rules requiring proof of vaccination to dine in restaurants, work out at gyms or attend shows.
Adams was asked at a virtual news conference Monday afternoon if he was considering reimposing the New York City mask mandate in light of Philadelphia’s decision. The mayor said he would listen to his team of medical doctors for their advice on whether to bring back any restrictions. Adams himself tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.
New York City is now averaging around 1,800 new cases per day, about three times higher than in early March when New York began easing rules. That does not include the many home tests that go unreported to health officials.
The latest outbreak has struck many high-profile officials in Washington, including Cabinet members and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut. Some universities have reinstated mask mandates.
D.C. health officials say they have no immediate plans to change virus protocols, but they reserve the right to change course down the road.
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Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., who was twice sickened in incidents he suspected were poisonings, has been detained in Moscow by police, another prominent opposition figure said Monday.
Ilya Yashin said on Twitter that Kara-Murza was detained Monday near his Moscow residence. It was unclear whether he had been charged.
Kara-Murza was hospitalized with poisoning symptoms twice, in 2015 and 2017. A journalist and associate of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was shot and killed in 2015, and oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Kara-Murza nearly died from kidney failure in the first incident. He suspects he was poisoned but no cause has been determined.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The mass shooting that police say was a gun battle between rival gangs that left six dead and 12 wounded earlier this month shook the downtown core of California’s capital — and created another challenge for a city trying to redefine itself as a destination for more than just government workers.
In recent years, downtown Sacramento has benefited from billions of dollars of development but has been rattled by rising crime, protests resulting in property damage and an economic drubbing caused by the pandemic. Now, the city is reeling from the aftermath of the April 3 shooting, when at least five gunmen fired 100 shots as people left bars and nightclubs.
The violence just blocks from the Capitol highlights the successes and challenges many U.S. urban centers are facing as struggles with crime and homelessness persist despite revitalization efforts.
Though Sacramento is home to more than 500,000 people, it’s considered sleepy by California standards. The derisive nickname “Cowtown” grew out of its agricultural roots.
Today, downtown is at the center of the city’s efforts to become an entertainment and food destination. Local officials have worked to rebrand the city as “America’s Farm to Fork Capital,” a nod to a large number of well-regarded restaurants that get ingredients from the region’s many farms.
A major part of the revitalization is a six-block strip of K Street anchored by a renovated convention center and the Golden 1 Center, home to the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and a regular stop for major concert tours. The shooting happened on a block that’s home to high-end nightclubs but also dotted by vacant buildings that once housed coffee shops and restaurants.
Police have made two arrests connected to the shootings, but no one has been charged with homicide. The violence “came at a really pivotal moment for downtown,” said Sacramento City Councilwoman Katie Valenzuela, who represents the area.
“It’s causing me to sort of reflect on where we go from here — and as a city, not just as downtown,” she said.
A century ago, K Street was a bustling, diverse center of activity. But the strip struggled as people moved into the suburbs — giving way to decades of failed revival efforts, including the construction of a mall in the late 1960s and the launch of a light rail commuter line in the 1980s.
A fresh wave of investment came to the area about a decade ago, with new businesses opening on K Street as part of an effort to revive downtown after the financial crisis. The Golden 1 Center’s 2016 opening sought to build on that, helping generate $6.7 billion in nearby investment and spurring the opening of 150 new businesses, according to the Downtown Sacramento Partnership business group.
Then the pandemic hit, sending many of downtown’s 100,000 workers home and forcing some businesses to close. Now about 45,000 people work downtown daily, according to the partnership.
As employment fell, crime rose. Aggravated assaults, burglaries and vandalism were up in 2020 and 2021 compared to the five previous years for a roughly 100-square block area that includes the Capitol and the arena, according to Sacramento police crime data.
The city’s central hub has also served as the epicenter for protests focusing on racial justice and police misconduct. Protesters in 2018 shut down a downtown freeway entrance and blocked fans from entering the arena after Sacramento police shot and killed a young Black man. Then demonstrations in 2020 over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis swept the city. Many downtown properties were vandalized and some were ransacked.
“We’ve had a lot of different realities kind of hit downtown in different waves,” said Dion Dwyer, director of public space services for business partnership.
Now Sacramento is among the ranks of cities recovering from recent mass shootings. Since 2017, there have been 133 mass shootings in the U.S., according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.
Dayton, Ohio, in 2019 was shaken when a gunman killed nine people and wounded 17 just after midnight at a bar in the main entertainment district for the city of 140,000. Sandy Gudorf, president of the Downtown Dayton Partnership, said officials mounted an “intentional strategy to reclaim the district” after the shooting.
Within three weeks of the violence, there was a free performance by Dave Chappelle, who lives outside the city. The community rallied to support local businesses, but it took time for people to feel comfortable returning to nightlife. The pandemic hit just as that activity was rebounding, Gudorf said.
“In people’s minds and hearts they knew that this did not define who we are. It was an incident, it was a tragic incident where we lost lives and people were inured,” she said. “I think it just took time to process all of that.”
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg repeatedly said people should continue to feel comfortable going downtown.
“It’s not one or the other” when it comes to enjoying the city’s entertainment offerings and feeling safe,” he said last week.
Rachel Muro, a manager at the locally owned Capital Books several storefronts away from the shooting, said downtown has problems like any city but that people should not avoid it. The bookstore’s owners recently opened a board game cafe just around the corner.
“We believe in this part of town enough to continue to help make it thrive,” Muro said.
Elsewhere on the block, the area’s troubles are obvious, with many office and restaurant spaces vacant. Homelessness downtown and elsewhere in Sacramento has been a vexing problem.
Last week the City Council voted to place a measure on the November ballot requiring the city build to more shelter beds and ban encampments on public land. Valenzuela, the councilwoman, opposed the plan and said it was inappropriate to debate that proposal so soon after the tragedy.
Crystal Sanchez, president of the Sacramento Homeless Union, said homeless people live downtown because the area has street lighting and lots of activity and plenty of alcoves near businesses where they can shelter.
“People are here because there are coves for protection,” Sanchez said.
At a brewery a few blocks from the shooting site, co-workers enjoying a drink reflected on whether the shooting changed their view of the city.
Braden Kolb, who was at a downtown bar for a friend’s 30th birthday the night before the shooting, said he patronizes downtown about once a month and that the shooting “is not going to change my behavior.”
But his friend Jason Slieter said the incident made him wonder if Sacramento is the right place to raise his family, saying he felt a sense of heaviness downtown when coming to work after the six people were killed.
“It definitely felt like something had changed,” he said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Many New Yorkers just want their city to feel orderly, functional and fun again after two years of plague and social disruption. Their new mayor, Eric Adams, has promised to deliver.
The question is, can the Democrat who pledged to bring back New York’s “swagger” gain momentum in the face of repeated setbacks?
Adams’ optimism remained high even as he marked his 100th day as mayor Sunday by going into quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19.
A hands-on politician and nightlife enthusiast, Adams, 61, caught the virus after a whirlwind week typical of his persona and time in office: He had attended the Gridiron dinner in Washington, gone to a New York gala, posed with Robert de Niro at a film festival, attended the Yankees opener and a slew of events in the state Capitol.
“I’m going to continue to try to be as visible as possible as we get through COVID and many of the other crises that we’re facing,” Adams said Monday, promising to resume his busy schedule after recovering from the virus.
In his first 100 days in office, Adams has projected an aggressive confidence as he’s implemented policies aimed at combating an image of New York City as hobbled by the pandemic and beset by rising crime.
He dropped many COVID-19 precautions and is reluctant to bring them back, even as virus cases have steadily risen.
He’s ordered homeless encampments removed from public spaces, despite complaints from activists that the sweeps are inhumane.
Over the objection of progressives, Adams, a former police captain, brought back an NYPD anti-gun unit disbanded by the previous mayor, saying that with better oversight it will shed its past reputation for usingexcessive force.
Critics say Adams is embracing the worst tendencies of previous mayors known for their heavy-handed approaches to policing and social services.
Adams says he doesn’t like chaos, as “Saturday Night Live” noted in his first days in office. Instead, he is seeking to harness the city’s tangly dynamism.
“That is what I think our failure is in our city … We have thrown up our hands and said this city is not manageable. That is just not true,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, prior to testing positive for COVID-19.
He said he starts every morning poring over a series of spreadsheets filled with data on his key initiatives.
When inspecting his efforts to clear tents and makeshift shelters set up by homeless people, Adams scrolls through hundreds of color-coded rows listing individual encampments reported to the city — some that the mayor has phoned in himself.
He checks to see if the entries are shaded blue by someone in his administration, indicating city workers have posted notices they’re about to clean the area. He checks to see that the blue entries are later turned yellow, coded as a “successful cleanup.” If too many days pass and the colors don’t change, he’ll make a call to find out why.
At a news conference last month, he said the city cleared 239 encampments in its first 12 days. Although the city didn’t offer data about how many people were living at the encampments, only five accepted offers to move to a shelter.
Adams said he thinks the number will grow, as it did with efforts to reach out to homeless people in the subway system.
The mayor also checks daily spreadsheets laying out data on crime, the city’s sprawling transit system, affordable and supportive housing units, and hires and promotions in his government.
He likened himself to an airline pilot who sits down and checks his instruments before taking off, calling the city a “complex piece of machinery.”
“You have to constantly inspect what you expect, or it’s suspect,” Adams said, using one of his favored catchphrases.
Adams, a former New York City police captain, state lawmaker and elected borough president of Brooklyn, had to deal with unrelenting crisesin his first month in office.
A fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building, killing 17 people; a baby was wounded by gunfire; two police officers were fatally shot while responding to a call; a woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway train by a stranger.
“Outside of 9/11, I don’t know if another mayor was just inundated with so much at one time,” Adams remarked.
Crime, which has risen in cities across the U.S., has become one of his chief concerns.
It’s by far the thorniest issue Adams took on, said Jon Reinish, a Democratic political strategist in New York City. But 100 days is still early, Reinish said, and a better barometer of progress would be a year into the administration.
“I think that he has navigated that well so far, but Rome wasn’t built in a day,” he said.
New York City’s elected public advocate Jumaane Williams, a progressive Democrat who serves as a city ombudsman, praised Adams for partnering with him on issues like food insecurity, Black maternal health and summer jobs for young people. But he said he’s concerned about too much emphasis on policing and not enough focus on mental health.
Adams, who is Black, points out that he spoke out about racist and unjust practices in the department while he was an officer. He says police can learn from the mistakes of the past while using new tools like body cameras to stay accountable — but the city also can’t go back to the days of high rates of violent crime.
“I know I don’t want to go back to the violence or the abuse. Some people only talk about not going back to the abuse,” he said.
Critics have also called Adams’ actions to clear homeless encampments short-sighted, especially when some people living on the street say they don’t feel safe in the city’s shelters and there’s not enough affordable housing to provide a long-term solution.
“It sounds to me like we’re doing the last thing first,” Williams said.
Adams contends it’s inhumane to accept that people sleep on the street, and defends his plan by pointing to to a city law guaranteeing a right to space in a shelter for any homeless person who needs it.
But he also notes that when an encampment is cleared, “It is just unbelievable how visually, it just changes your mindset of your neighborhood. And that is part of the goal. Because we’re dealing with an actual problem and the perception of a problem.”
Perception, he said is also why he’s posting photos and videos on social media of himself shoveling snow during snowstorms or is seen meeting people all over the city and hitting up restaurants, night clubs and glitzy events.
“We have to get the city back up and operating and many New Yorkers are starting to do so. And they need to see me in the process,” he said. “As I deal with the crises, I also have to be on that red carpet. Because Broadway is a major economic driver for our city.” | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/politics/new-nyc-mayor-adams-strives-for-order-post-covid-comeback/ | 2022-04-12T18:10:15Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/politics/new-nyc-mayor-adams-strives-for-order-post-covid-comeback/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Kelly Tshibaka, who has received the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, on Monday officially filed to run as a candidate for U.S. Senate in the race against the incumbent Republican.
Tshibaka will face off against U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who drew Tshibaka’s aim during a news conference after Tshibaka filed with the state Division of Elections in Anchorage.
“Lisa Murkowski has forgotten us because she cares more about being popular with her friends in Washington, D.C.,” said Tshibaka, also a Republican.
Tshibaka claimed Murkowski was helping the agenda of President Joe Biden, a Democrat, with her vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson — whom Tshibaka described as a “leftist judge” — to the U.S. Supreme Court. At the same time, she criticized Murkowski for not backing two Trump nominees to the court, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
Murkowski opposed and later voted “present” on Kavanaugh’s nomination. She voted to confirm Barrett in 2020, after earlier saying she did not support taking up a nominee for a Supreme Court vacancy so close to a presidential election.
Tshibaka chastised Murkowski for supporting other Biden nominees, including Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
“These are not the votes that a senator from Alaska should be casting,” Tshibaka said. “Murkowski has made poor decisions like this over and over, and we, the people of Alaska, continue to pay the price for her popularity in Washington, D.C.”
Tshibaka is a former commissioner in the Alaska Department of Administration. She formerly worked in the offices of inspector general for the U.S. Postal Service, Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice before joining the administration of Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, according to her resume.
A message sent to Murkowski’s campaign seeking comment was not immediately returned Monday. Her campaign did send a news release showing the support of more than a dozen Alaska mayors and other officials who are endorsing Murkowski.
When Murkowski filed for office in November, she was asked about running against a Trump-backed opponent.
Murkowski told reporters at the time there will be “plenty of people on the outside who will be gunning for me, who will suggest that I am not right for Alaskans. I would put that directly to the people of this state.”
Murkowski, who has held the Senate seat since late 2002, had about six times the cash on hand over Tshibaka at the end of 2021. The latest quarterly fundraising reports — reflecting the first three months of this year — are due around mid-month. Tshibaka’s totals will include money collected from a fundraiser at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Trump has said he would campaign for Tshibaka after vowing revenge against Murkowski, who voted to convict him in his second impeachment trial and called on Trump to resign after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“He said that he’ll come up into a rally for us, and I think that’ll be great for voter turnout,” Tshibaka said.
Trump also has endorsed former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who is one of 48 candidates running to fill the remainder of U.S. Rep. Don Young’s term after he died last month. Palin was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.
When asked if the two big personalities of Trump and Palin could overshadow her campaign, Tshibaka said that is separate from the Senate campaign.
“I’m completely focused on Lisa Murkowski and the damage that she’s done and the fact that she serves as Biden’s chief enabling officer, helping him every step of the way,” she said.
In addition to Murkowski and Tshibaka, 10 other candidates so far have filed to run in the Senate race. Under a new election system approved by Alaska voters in 2020, the top four vote-getters in the August primary, regardless of party, will advance to the November general election, where ranked choice voting will be used. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/politics/trump-backed-alaska-hopeful-officially-files-for-senate-run/ | 2022-04-12T18:10:22Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/politics/trump-backed-alaska-hopeful-officially-files-for-senate-run/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Which dryer is best?
Unless you prefer to take the time to dry your clothes on a line, you probably use a dryer. There are a dozen reasons to shop for a new one but hundreds of factors to consider. How the dryer is powered, how much laundry it can hold and what drying modes it has are some of the most important.
The best dryer is the Samsung 7.5-Cubic-Foot Platinum Electric Dryer With Steam. It uses a standard electrical hookup, can hold more than enough clothes and has a steaming mode to reduce wrinkles.
What to know before you buy a dryer
Power source
Dryers are powered via electric or gas hookup.
- Electric models are most common. They cost less upfront and can be installed in any home with a proper outlet. The downside is their energy consumption, which can cost more over 10 years than a gas dryer.
- Gas models are uncommon. They have higher upfront costs and require special natural gas connections most homes lack. They also still need access to electricity. Their installation is complex and typically requires a professional to complete. However, they have two considerable benefits. They have much lower energy costs and dry clothes much faster.
Capacity
Capacity is given in cubic feet. Dryers come in three capacity tiers: compact, standard and oversized.
- Compact models have capacities between 1-3 cubic feet. They can handle up to 8 pounds of clothing, enough for one to two people.
- Standard models have capacities between 3-5 cubic feet. They can handle up to 16 pounds of clothing, enough for three to four people.
- Oversized models have capacities of 5-plus cubic feet. They can handle up to or more than 20 pounds of clothing, enough for five or more people.
Dimensions
Dryer dimensions are hard to predict as they rarely align with capacity. For example, one 5-cubic foot capacity dryer could be a few inches smaller all around than another. When shopping, know how much space you have for installation, leaving a minimum of 3 inches empty space on all sides.
What to look for in a quality dryer
Modes
Most dryers have a huge variety of modes including timed or sensor drying, temperature changes and the use of steam. It may seem beneficial to have as many modes as possible but ask yourself if you’ll actually use all of them. If not, you’re wasting money.
Light
It may seem unimportant, but not having an internal light can be a frustrating experience. The recessed drums of a dryer make it difficult for light to enter, so it will be hard to see if you’ve retrieved all your items.
How much you can expect to spend on a dryer
A basic dryer big enough for one person costs $400-$700. Midrange options good for any circumstances cost $700-$1,000. The huge feature-packed models can cost as much as $2,000-plus.
Dryer FAQ
Are there safety precautions to take when using a dryer?
A. Yes, with the most basic being ensuring your electric or gas connection is secure and properly installed. If you are even slightly unsure of your ability to install properly, hire a professional. Also, routinely check your power connection to make sure it stays secure. Leave at least 3-6 inches of space on all sides for proper ventilation. Don’t overstuff the dryer, and make sure to empty the lint trap after each cycle. Finally, don’t let the dryer run while you’re away from home, lest a fire start when you’re away.
Are there things I shouldn’t put inside a dryer?
A. Yes. Delicates shouldn’t be dried unless your dryer has a specialized setting for them. Antimicrobial clothes and any kind of shoe shouldn’t be dried, either.
Do gas-powered dryers leave a gassy smell on clothing?
A. Not if the dryer is operating as it should. If you do smell gas, you have an extremely hazardous situation on hand that a professional will likely need to be brought in to fix, preferably immediately.
What’s the best dryer to buy?
Top dryer
Samsung 7.5-Cubic-Foot Platinum Electric Dryer With Steam
What you need to know: This has plenty of features at an excellent cost.
What you’ll love: A matching washing machine can be bundled for a discount. The steam setting kills 99.9% of bacteria and greatly decreases wrinkles. The door is reversible. It’s also available in a gas-powered version and it comes in three finishes.
What you should consider: It can make a surprising amount of noise. Some consumers had issues with the heating element failing within a few years.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top dryer for the money
Whirlpool 7-Cubic-Foot 120-Volt White Gas Vented Dryer With Autodry Drying System
What you need to know: It has more than enough space and capability.
What you’ll love: A matching washer is available in a discounted bundle. It has 14 drying cycles with three temperature levels. You can choose a drying length or let AutoDry detect when clothes are done to prevent overheating them. The door opens downward to stop clothes from hitting the floor.
What you should consider: Drying time can be much longer than with most models and on rare occasions, it needs a second cycle to fully dry. It isn’t stackable.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
LG Electronics 7.4-Cubic-Foot Vented Smart Electric Dryer With Sensor Dry
What you need to know: This is a great dryer for smart-home enthusiasts.
What you’ll love: A matching washer is available in a discounted bundle. Sensor Dry runs the dryer precisely as long as each load needs. It’s Energy Star certified, runs quietly and is stackable. And it can connect to your phone for alerts and troubleshooting.
What you should consider: Drying time is a little longer than with most models, and it doesn’t have an interior light. A few consumers had issues with door leaks.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Jackie Robinson Day is April 15, and, in its annual tradition, Major League Baseball will pat itself on the back for allowing a Black man to don a uniform.
Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers 75 years ago on April 15, 1947. While there was constant growth of Black participation in baseball from that day until the early 1990s, today’s game sees a glaring absence of African Americans. This isn’t just on the field. It’s in managerial and coaching offices, front offices, and the stands.
It's a low tide for player inclusion in Major League Baseball and all the platitudes and self-serving speeches headed our way on Friday will not change the situation.
USA TODAY and the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) choose April 15 to release respective reports on the number of Black players on MLB Opening Day rosters.
Black players made up just 7.6% of 2021 Opening Day rosters in MLB, down from 18.7% in 1981, according to SABR.
The 2022 numbers weren’t available for this edition. Unless there are two dozen or more Black players out there that I’m not aware of the analysis will conclude that too few African Americans are in the Majors.
The baseball talking heads and beat writers will say “it’s bad,” and then refuse to acknowledge that racism still plays a role.
You’ll hear lack of equipment, lack of playing fields, lack of Black interest compared to football and basketball, lack of this and lack of that.
What you will not hear is that too many owners, general managers, and fans could care less about the number of Black players. They will praise Jackie Robinson, call him a great man, then joyfully cheer for a franchise that has one, two, even no Black players.
FORBES reported last week that the Philadelphia Phillies did not have a Black player on its 25-man season opening roster for the first time since 1959, 12 years after Robinson broke the so-called “color barrier.”
It will also be the first Phillies team without a starting Black player since 1984.
All players and on-field staff will wear Robinson’s No. 42 in Dodgers blue on April 15, and an MLB video celebrating “Jackie’s legacy as a Hall of Fame and trailblazing player, social justice advocate, civil rights icon and pioneer in business and broadcasting” will part of pregame festivities. The St. Louis Cardinals will be sporting theirs in a road game at Milwaukee.
Note the use of “Jackie” by broadcasters on April 15. I never use just his first name. It now seems acceptable when it is disrespectful. Few people in baseball ever met Robinson. Yet they feel they can call him by his first name only.
You can’t have a self-serving event without a self-serving logo and MLB will display a 75th Anniversary patch “that shows an unmistakable illustration of Jackie Robinson and his impending swing in minimal form.”
Don’t get me wrong; Robinson deserves all honors for being a first and being one of baseball’s greatest all-time players.
But all the Robinson acknowledgments do not earn MLB a free pass for its past – and current – attitude about race, players, and staff.
The Reid Roundup
Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris, who hails from Columbia, Missouri, has relatives in the Kirkwood area and several traveled to New Orleans to watch the KU win the national championship…Harris' Columbia Rock Bridge team defeated North Carolina guard Caleb Love's CBC squad 63-59 in the Missouri Class 5 championship on March 16, 2019, in Springfield…The late Frank Robinson became MLB’s first Black manager on April 8, 1975 for the Cleveland Indians. Forty-seven years later, MLB has just two current Black managers, Houston’s Dusty Baker, and the L.A. Dodgers Dave Roberts…A revised edition of the United States Football League kicks off this week and two of its eight head coaches are Black. Former Houston, Texas A&M and Arizona coach Kevin Sumlin leads the Houston Gamblers. Kirby Wilson brings 36 years of coaching experience, including 24 as an NFL assistant coach to the helm of the Pittsburgh Maulers…Don’t be surprised if Jayson Tatum receives a few MVP votes after his finest NBA season which saw him average 26.9 points, 8 rebounds, and 4.4 assists….At 51-31, Tatum’s Boston Celtics finished first in the NBA Atlantic Division and second in the Eastern Conference. Boston opens the playoffs on April 17 and will likely face the Brooklyn Nets in a first-round series. | https://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/national-portrait-gallery-smithsonian-institution/article_1f40c7c6-b9e2-11ec-914e-93c23f89ee07.html | 2022-04-12T18:11:47Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/sports/sports_columnists/sports_eye/national-portrait-gallery-smithsonian-institution/article_1f40c7c6-b9e2-11ec-914e-93c23f89ee07.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What are the 10 most popular Nars products at Sephora?
With its high-end black packaging and award-winning products, Nars Cosmetics is one of the most recognizable brands at any beauty store. What started as a line of 12 lipstick shades now includes a full range of beauty products for all skin tones and types.
Since many Nars products have become cult favorites, it might be hard to choose just one. Luckily, you can find almost their entire line at Sephora, which has stores all over the world. If you’re wondering which products to start with, here are the 10 most popular Nars products at Sephora.
How to choose Nars beauty products
Skin tone
Nars Cosmetics is known for being one of the first beauty brands to have an expansive shade range suitable for a wide array of skin tones. For example, most of their foundations have 40 shades, and there are options for cool, warm or neutral undertones. To figure out your undertone, look at the veins on your wrist.
- Cool undertone: If the veins on the inside of your wrist look blue, you’re most likely cool-toned.
- Warm undertone: You probably have a warm undertone if the veins on your wrist appear to be green.
- Neutral undertone: If you see both green and blue veins on the inside of your wrist, you most likely have a neutral undertone.
Skin type
There are four main types of skin — dry, normal, combination and oily.
- Dry: If your skin appears dull and often flakes or feels rough, you likely have dry skin. It may also feel tight or itchy at times.
- Oily: Those with oily skin often feel like their face looks greasy or shiny. People with oily skin are also more prone to acne.
- Combination: If your skin has both dry and oily areas, that’s known as combination skin.
- Normal: Normal skin doesn’t feel dry or oily. It’s not particularly prone to acne or flaky patches.
What to consider when buying Nars products at Sephora
Size
When buying Nars beauty products, one feature to consider is the size. Remember that the packaging may be much larger than the product within.
Ingredients
Many Nars products include quality skin care ingredients like vitamin C or hyaluronic acid, which benefit the skin. However, if you have sensitive skin, you might want to avoid products with added chemical fragrance.
Coverage
If you plan to create a full glam look, you probably want to consider a foundation with full coverage or blush with high pigment. On the other hand, a sheer lipstick or light coverage tinted moisturizer is better for those no-makeup look days.
Most popular Nars products at Sephora
With 40 shades, this foundation has a match for just about every skin tone. It offers medium coverage that provides a natural no-makeup look but can also be built up for a full coverage look. The formulation includes a few skin care ingredients, including vitamin C and turmeric.
Sold by Sephora
This best-selling concealer brightens and corrects for a radiant finish that lasts up to 16 hours. The medium coverage can be built up for full coverage or worn alone for a natural look. From dry to oily, all skin types can appreciate this perfecting concealer.
Sold by Sephora
After a swipe of this award-winning blush, it’s not hard to see why it’s beloved around the world. There are a variety of shades in shimmer, matte or satin finishes. Since it’s formulated with superfine micronized powder pigments, you’re sure to get a seamless finish.
Sold by Sephora
If you have dry skin or dislike powder blush, this liquid blush that comes in a matte, shimmer or sheer finish is a great alternative. Tamanu oil provides extra moisture and allows it to glide on the skin. Additionally, the formulation is free of parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde and sulfates.
Sold by Sephora
Nars Soft Matte Complete Concealer
Cream concealer is ideal for blurring imperfections on the face, and this option provides a full coverage in a matte finish. You’re also getting the benefits of skin care ingredients, including peptides, hyaluronic acid and antioxidants with vitamins A, C and E.
Sold by Sephora
Nars Air Matte Liquid Lipstick
This liquid lipstick is formulated with a color-diffusion complex that instantly diffuses color for a soft and comfortable finish. The matte color is buildable and blendable with the custom-designed applicator. It comes in nine shades.
Sold by Sephora
Nars Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 30
Those who prefer lightweight, sheer coverage with moisturizing benefits will enjoy this tinted moisturizer. It comes in over 15 shades and has vitamin C in it to even out your skin tone and brighten your complexion. Plus, it features broad spectrum SPF 30.
Sold by Sephora
Whether you want to sculpt your face or add a healthy glow, this bronzer powder is a top choice. It comes in four different shades with a radiant finish, and it’s free of mineral oil, phthalates, parabens and gluten.
Sold by Sephora
Nars Velvet Matte Lipstick Pencil
If you don’t enjoy using liquid lipstick but want to add color to your lips, you’ll love this velvet matte pencil. It delivers the bold color of a lipstick with the convenience of a pencil. It’s enriched with vitamin E and emollients for a nondrying, long-lasting and creamy texture.
Sold by Sephora
Nars The Multiple Cream Blush, Lip and Eye Stick
This multipurpose stick is perfect for on-the-go, quick makeup looks or those who prefer a natural makeup look. It comes in five colors with a shimmer or radiant finish, and it can be used on the eyes, lips or cheeks. The cream-to-powder formula features vitamin C and acai oil.
Sold by Sephora
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ARLINGTON, Va., April 12, 2022 – The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has taken another step toward improving the efficiency and effectiveness of its logistics information system through the fielding of hundreds of wireless, electronic barcode scanners at the program’s globally distributed warehouses.
The scanners will enhance the speed and accuracy of managing inventory at the warehouses, reducing the time to complete administrative tasks and records by as much as 50%, according to the F-35 Maintenance Systems Data Team.
“Considering the thousands of parts that are delivered and consumed across the F-35 fleet annually, this improvement will introduce efficiencies that JPO expects will generate savings across the program’s operating life,” said F-35 Maintenance Systems Program Management Office Program Manager, Air Force Col. Dan Smith.
“By reducing administrative workload and eliminating a source of data error, fielding these scanners into the fleet will avoid delays in providing necessary parts to the aircraft maintainers, and it will avoid the cost and delays of correcting improperly entered data.”
Smith added that the benefits of fielding these scanners will contribute to the JPO’s initiatives to reduce operating costs. But, just as importantly, their use improves the user experience – eliminating manual data entry, speeding up the process of receiving parts, and making those parts available for use more quickly.
In early March, the program began fielding 342 barcode scanners – devices similar to scanners used in commercial factories and warehouses – with initial shipments of 33 devices to Luke Air Force Base, Arizona; and Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The remaining 309 devices will be distributed to warehouses supporting the U.S. services and partner nation fleets, as well as to three of the program’s six foreign military sales customers.
The devices, delivered by Lockheed Martin, add a new and adaptable capability to the global F-35 enterprise. The scanners bring efficiency to shipping and delivery processes by making use of standard parts markings for spare components and assemblies.
The benefits of the scanner’s automation include reducing the time to process and receive new items; eliminating data transcription errors; and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of warehouse personnel, while reducing extra touch labor, technology frustrations and data misalignment associated with manual entry.
“These devices are small but mighty – barcode scanners are key to long-term efficiency improvements underway across the entire F-35 enterprise,” said F-35 Program Executive Officer, Air Force Lt. Gen. Eric Fick.
“Here at the JPO, our mandate is to deliver a capable, affordable, and available fifth generation aircraft to the warfighter,” Fick continued. “No solution is too large…or too small. With these devices, our teams have reduced the time it takes logisticians to log parts on receipt, and eliminated the data entry errors inherent in manual processes. Multiple initiatives like these all add up to help us meet program performance objectives.”
Last summer, the JPO and Lockheed Martin worked with the United States Air Force to conduct a demonstration of the scanners at one warehouse on Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The demonstration was a huge success and the results were very impressive, according to Air Force Master Sergeant Mintesnot G. Woldetsadik, who works as section chief in charge of the F-35 Aircraft Parts Store on base.
“Manually entering receipts is neither as fast nor as accurate as using a scanner,” writes Woldetsadik, whose team used the barcode scanner to process a total of 47 line items that encompassed 94 assets.
While processing those line items, Woldetsadik noted that it took a process time of 23 minutes to complete all steps to make a new part available under the old manual methods, versus just 11 minutes per item by utilizing the new device.
“(The scanner) is a great device that is perfect for reducing man-hours,” he added.
The Data Team expects to complete shipment of the barcode scanners by late May of 2022.
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Which miter saw is best?
Miter saws are a workshop staple and an essential tool for any craftsperson. Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned maker with decades of experience, miter saws are great for making a variety of cuts in your wood. Additionally, unlike most other power saws, you can transport them quite easily.
Miter saws are more accurate than ever before, and many come with precision alignment systems. However, with so many brands and models to choose from, finding the right miter saw for your needs can be difficult. One solid choice is the DeWalt Sliding Compound Miter Saw. It is a high-quality, durable miter saw that can do it all.
What to know before you buy a miter saw
Blade size
Miter saws come in many blade sizes, but bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better. Larger blades tend to wobble slightly more than smaller blades, making them less precise in their cuts. If you need a larger blade to handle thick lumber or sheet material, saw blades larger than 12 inches deliver optimal results. They’re especially effective when you use them with a sturdy stand.
Saws with 10-inch blades or less maximize portability over capability and are ideal for anyone who does a lot of trim work. Miter saws with blades that are exactly 10 inches offer a combination of capacity and portability.
Saw type
Before you buy a miter saw, consider how you plan on using it. This way, you’ll get a saw that works for your needs without paying for features that you don’t want. There are three distinct types of miter saws.
- Standard miter saws, also known as chop saws, rotate from side to side, allowing the user to cut angles from the top of the material. However, they do not tilt from right to left at an angle. Standard miter saws are the most affordable design.
- Compound miter saws turn left to right and also tilt at an angle. Compound miter saws allow you to make bevel cuts, straight cuts and miter cuts. Compound miter saws cost more than a basic miter saw.
- Sliding compound miter saws are the most complex of the three saws. In addition to tilting and turning in both directions, they also include a sliding mechanism that increases the total cut capacity without increasing the size of the blade. Sliding table saws give you maximum control over your cuts, and they are the most expensive design option.
What to look for in a quality miter saw
Blade material
The blade is the core of any miter saw, and high-quality models include blades made from durable materials. Look for blades made from carbide or blades with carbide-tipped teeth, as these features make more efficient cuts.
Alignment system
The best miter saws tend to include a precision alignment system that increases the accuracy of your cuts. DeWalt uses LED lights to cast a shadow of the cutline, while companies like Bosch often equip their miter saws with a laser that shows the cut line directly onto the material. Some saws also include integrated fences and stop blocks that enhance accuracy and your ability to make repeated cuts.
How much you can expect to spend on a miter saw
Miter saws can be expensive, but you can still get something practical on a budget. Expect to spend between $240-$300 on a high-quality, affordable miter saw. Expect to spend more than $400 on top-of-the-line models.
Miter saw FAQ
Do I need a miter saw stand?
A. You can use your miter saw on any stable, flat surface. Contractors will often use stands because they’re convenient and portable, but you can set up your saw on a sturdy table. Remember to ensure it’s stable and won’t move as you’re cutting, and check that the blade is set to 0 degrees after you move the saw to avoid any mistakes.
Can I cut warped or twisted wood with a miter saw?
A. Ultimately, it’s not a good idea to cut warped or twisted wood with a miter saw. In fact, it’s best to stay away from cutting warped or twisted wood altogether. If the warp is slight and barely noticeable, a clamp will likely be able to hold it flat for the duration of the cut. However, if the warp is severe, it may cause the blade to pinch, sending the material flying.
What’s the best miter saw to buy?
Top miter saw
DeWalt Sliding Compound Miter Saw
What you need to know: This rugged miter saw is designed to withstand tough conditions and comes with plenty of premium features that are perfect for hobbyists and professionals alike.
What you’ll love: Powered by a robust 15 amp motor, this miter saw cuts through various materials, including knotty hardwoods. Plus, it’s incredibly accurate thanks to the unique XPS alignment system, which uses LED lights to cast a cutline shadow onto the material. This miter saw has a double bevel, safely cutting various materials for all kinds of projects.
What you should consider: This miter saw is on the more expensive side, and the large 12-inch blade has a bit more wobble than 10-inch and 8-inch blades.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top miter saw for the money
Craftsman V20 Sliding Miter Saw
What you need to know: If you’re in the market for an affordable, reliable compound sliding miter saw that’s easy to transport, look no further than the Craftsman V20.
What you’ll love: This miter saw is ideal for anyone short on space or needs to be able to transport their saw between job sites. In addition to being cordless, the V20 is only 21 pounds and comes with carrying handles, making it easy to move it around. Although the blade isn’t big, the motor runs at 3,800 RPM and can handle standard hobbyist projects.
What you should consider: Because this saw is cordless and has a rather small blade, it may not have the power to tackle larger contractor-style projects.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Bosch CM8S Single Bevel Sliding Compound Miter Saw
What you need to know: The Bosch CM8S miter saw is the sweet spot between a heavy-duty professional saw and a hobbyist option.
What you’ll love: This saw is well-designed and intuitive to use. It’s packed with convenient features, such as the integrated expanding base extensions and the thumb-activated miter detents. Although the blade is less than 9 inches, the sliding feature gives this saw the same cutting capacity as a standard 10-inch stationary miter saw.
What you should consider: The Bosch CM8S is expensive and lacks an LED or laser alignment system.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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How to manage seasonal allergies
Spring is in full bloom, and plenty of pollen is swirling around the air triggering seasonal allergies. If you’re looking for ways to manage your symptoms, including congestion, a few products can help you breathe more easily.
Stuffy noses can leave you coughing, sniffling and sneezing. To get relief, you’ll need to open up your nasal passages. Besides popular over-the-counter allergy medicine, many people invest in everyday products and devices that can help them breathe better. And depending on your symptoms, it may be worthwhile to invest in a few of these during peak allergy season.
What to know about managing seasonal allergies
What are seasonal allergies?
Seasonal allergies, or allergic rhinitis, occur when you breathe in allergens, including pollen, dander, mold and dust. When the body responds to these allergens, it may cause coughing, sneezing, congestion or other symptoms. Spring weather, in particular, is often connected to an uptick in allergy symptoms, especially on warmer days when pollen is more likely to circulate.
Seasonal allergy treatments
Many people manage seasonal allergies with a broad range of nonprescription and noninvasive treatments, including products that minimize congestion or improve indoor air quality.
- Nonprescription medicine: Over-the-counter allergy medicine may minimize allergy symptoms, including antihistamines and decongestants. Some OTC medication is taken daily, whereas others are taken as needed.
- Devices: Certain devices may improve air quality for easier breathing, such as humidifiers, air purifiers and fans. Many of these devices are portable, and you can easily move them from room to room.
- Aromatherapy: Many people turn to aromatherapy products, such as essential oils or body balms, to open nasal passages. These products typically have potent peppermint, menthol and eucalyptus scents.
- Bedding: Hypoallergenic or breathable bedding helps some people breathe better while they sleep. Hypoallergenic bedding is made without chemically treated fibers, while breathable bedding promotes airflow around the body.
- Nasal products: Nasal congestion is often treated with OTC nasal relief products, such as antihistamines, corticosteroids and saline sprays. Most of these sprays are travel-sized, so you can keep them in your pocket or bag to use them as needed.
When to see your doctor about seasonal allergies
It’s recommended to speak with your doctor about seasonal allergy symptoms to determine the best course of treatment. Although many people manage symptoms independently, certain cases may require prescriptions or specialized treatment plans.
How much do seasonal allergy treatments cost?
Nonprescription medication is the most affordable seasonal allergy treatment at $3-$10, whereas nasal relief products cost $10-$35. Aromatherapy products run between $5-$18. The most expensive options include devices and bedding for better breathing, and you can expect to spend $25-$250.
Top seasonal allergy products that help you breathe easier
Levoit Smart Bedroom Humidifier
Humidifiers add moisture to the air for easier breathing. This smart Levoit model, which works with Alexa and Google Assistant, has an extra-large tank and runs for up to 60 hours between refills. It’s a popular choice for main bedrooms and other large rooms.
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If you need to clear your nasal passages quickly, reach for this Vicks inhaler. It delivers a quick, potent burst of menthol and camphor. And because it’s pocket-friendly, it’s a top allergy treatment option among travelers and commuters.
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BodyRestore Eucalyptus Shower Steamers
These eucalyptus shower steamers release soothing vapors in hot showers. Besides slowly opening nasal passages, they help you enter a state of deep relaxation. Each tablet dissolves without leaving residue around the shower.
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Breathe Right Original Nose Strips
For those with nighttime congestion, these Breathe Right strips gently lift nostrils to allow better airflow. The soft, flexible strips are made with nonirritating adhesive, making them suitable for sensitive skin.
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Dr. Bronner’s Organic Magic Balm
The Dr. Bronner’s Magic Balm is a topical treatment you can rub on your chest, pulse points and clothing for long-lasting relief. The quality formula is made with USDA Organic products, including beeswax, jojoba, avocado and hemp oil.
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GermGuardian 3-In-1 True HEPA Air Purifier
This GermGuardian air purifier filters up to 99.97% of allergens, including pollen and dust, up to 0.3 microns. It also has an activated charcoal filter that neutralizes odors, and because it runs quietly, it can be placed in nurseries and bedrooms.
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If you have a stuffy nose, Sinus Plumber Nasal Spray is a natural, non-GMO formula made with horseradish, cayenne pepper and wintergreen. It’s also said to be effective at relieving allergy-related headaches and migraines.
This six-piece sheet set is hypoallergenic and has OEKO-TEX certification, which means they’re free of harmful toxic substances. The cool-to-touch sheets have an ultra-soft weave suitable for sensitive skin, and they’re backed by a 180-night guarantee.
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The Eastern Conference play-in game Tuesday will have a familiar feel after the Cleveland Cavaliers and Brooklyn Nets just faced each other on Friday.
The Cavaliers hope this visit to New York turns out much better than the one that ended in a 118-107 defeat over the weekend.
The Nets outscored Cleveland 35-19 in the fourth quarter in that game. The Cavs also never found an answer for All-Star forward Kevin Durant, who led all scorers with 36 points.
The teams finished the regular season with a 44-38 record, but Brooklyn earned the No. 7 seed by virtue of winning their head-to-head season series 3-1.
The winner of Tuesday’s game will advance to the first round of the playoffs against the No. 2 seed Boston Celtics next week. The loser will play Friday against the winner of the 9-10 play-in game between the Atlanta Hawks and Charlotte Hornets.
The Nets had to hold off Indiana 134-126 on Sunday to earn the seventh seed.
“We got up to (seventh place),” Brooklyn head coach Steve Nash said. “We were 10th a week ago.”
Nash said having played Cleveland last week is beneficial. Then he took a wider look at the situation. “It’s helpful for both teams,” Nash said. “It’s whoever plays better will win.”
The Nets had four players score 20 or more points against the Pacers, including former Cavs guard Kyrie Irving, who had a game-high 35 points.
The 6-11 Durant shot the ball poorly, going 5 of 17 from the field and 0 of 6 from 3-point range. However, he still had a triple-double with 20 points, 10 rebounds and a career-high 16 assists.
“When he’s a playmaker, it shows you how special he is,” Irving said. “He has a poise about him. He plays the game the right way.”
Cleveland ended the regular season by beating a band of Milwaukee reserves 133-115. Forward Kevin Love was productive in his 15 minutes off the bench with 32 points and 10 rebounds. He was 8 of 11 from 3-point range.
”I like our chances when it comes down to a dog fight,” Love said. ”That’s what it’s going to be come Tuesday night.”
After four meetings between the teams this season and the recent date, there is nothing to hide.
“We understand who they are and how they defend us,” Cavs coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. “I feel we are in a good place and what it takes for us to win.”
Cleveland would receive a big boost if All-Star center Jarrett Allen could return from a broken left middle finger. He missed the last 18 games of the regular season, with the Cavs going 7-11 in that stretch. Allen had an intense workout before Sunday’s game and is no longer wearing a splint.
Bickerstaff said he wanted his young club to appreciate the moment of competing in the play-in game. The Cavs were not considered a threat to make the playoffs this year, yet they finished with a 22-game improvement in the win column from a year ago.
The emergence of All-Star point guard Darius Garland, along with rookie Evan Mobley, turned Cleveland into a playoff contender. Garland leads the team in scoring (21.7 points per game) and assists (8.6).
“These opportunities are not promised,” Bickerstaff said. “They are not guaranteed. I want them to get a taste of it and have a desire to get back.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP)Indiana Pacers president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard sent a clear message at the trade deadline.
It’s time for a shakeup.
After posting a second straight losing record at home, missing the playoffs for the first time in seven years and recording their fewest wins in a season since 1984-85, the Pacers are embarking on their biggest offseason overhaul in years.
A three-trade flurry in February culminated in sending two-time All-Star Domantas Sabonis to Sacramento and Caris LeVert, widely considered one of Pritchard’s cornerstone pieces, to the Cavaliers.
”This franchise, right now, is in one of the most exciting positions it could possibly be with the potential for a top-five pick and the potential to possibly have Cleveland’s (first-round) pick,” coach Rick Carlisle said, noting Indiana also holds Houston’s early second-round pick. ”We’re going to get it right in the draft, and we’re going to have a great summer, and next year’s going to be an exciting year.”
Things certainly can’t get much worse than they did this past season.
Injuries again derailed the Pacers’ postseason plans as Carlisle won just 25 games in the first year of his second tenure with the team. Lengthy absences of guards Malcolm Brogdon and T.J. McConnell, forward T.J. Warren and center Myles Turner – all projected to be key rotational players – prompted Pritchard to pull the plug and start dealing.
The new plan is to build around point guard Tyrese Halburton. Indiana views the 22-year-old as a budding star, capable of ending its long quest to find a playmaking ball-handler.
Haliburton’s new teammates embraced the move.
”I’m especially excited about playing with Tyrese, just the way he came in here and made an impact on our organization, on our fans and on the guys around him,” Turner said Monday. ”He makes everybody better.”
What else did the Pacers learn from mixing, matching and experimenting with lineups over the final 26 games?
Buddy Hield, who came over from Sacramento with Haliburton, and Jalen Smith, who arrived in a trade with Phoenix, also were solid players. Rookie center Isaiah Jackson provides a different kind of post presence and rookie guard Chris Duarte became one of Indiana’s most consistent players until an injured toe sidelined him.
Forward Oshae Brissett continued to develop, and Carlisle may have unearthed a couple more hidden gems with midseason pickups Duane Washington Jr. and Terry Taylor.
This summer could be equally busy as Pritchard tries to put the Pacers back in playoff position.
”I think first we’ve got to get healthy, that’s obvious and then it’ll be up to the front office what pieces they add, what pieces they trade,” Brogdon said. ”When you make a move like we did, a monumental move in the middle of the season, I think there are other moves that follow and I think we’ll be seeing that this summer.”
WHAT’S NEXT
Brogdon and Turner would be the most attractive trade candidates. Both are proven veterans, capable of helping a playoff team become a title contender and both are on expiring contracts. Brogdon counts $22.6 million against the salary cap while Turner, a two-time blocked shots champ, would be an $18 million cap hit. The Pacers could be looking to add more draft picks, free up cap space for free agency or add veterans.
WATCHING THE CAVS
The Pacers thought they’d definitely have two first-rounders when they got the Cavs’ lottery-protected pick two months ago. But a late-season swoon has jeopardized that possibility. Cleveland finished eighth in the Eastern Conference and now needs to win one game to make the playoffs. Two losses would mean they’ll keep the pick, preventing the Pacers from having three of the top 35 picks in June.
NOT FINISHED YET?
Fan favorite Lance Stephenson provided a second-half spark on and off the court for Indiana. While it seems unlikley Indiana would keep the soon-to-be 32-year-old on a young team building for the future, Stephenson isn’t ready to end his career.
”I’m just trying to keep my body strong and sharp,” he said. ”I’m just mad that the season is over because I feel great right now, I feel like I can keep going.”
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Eisenhower High School will host a Celebration of Life Saturday, April 16, 2022, for Yakima Valley sports icon and former physical education department chair Carol Finney, who died March 16, 2022, at the age of 80, according to the Yakima School District.
The event will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Eisenhower High School Auditorium, according to the announcement. Guests should enter on the Tieton Drive side.
Finney’s friends, family members, and former players will be in attendance. There will be a slide show of Finney’s life and accomplishments, as well as information on her final financial support for Yakima female athletics. Following the event, guests can also visit Eisenhower’s Carol Finney Softball Field.
Finney built a strong legacy in Yakima girls athletics. She taught at Eisenhower for 35 years, serving many years as its physical education department chair. She was the girls softball coach for 21 years, from 1983 through 2004. She also founded and coached the girls basketball and track and field programs in the early 1970s. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/celebration-of-life-planned-for-valley-sports-icon-carol-finney-on-saturday/article_b440fc75-16a7-5d02-9c1c-8d15a09daa0f.html | 2022-04-12T18:15:24Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/celebration-of-life-planned-for-valley-sports-icon-carol-finney-on-saturday/article_b440fc75-16a7-5d02-9c1c-8d15a09daa0f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BONN, Germany (StudyFinds.org) – Apparently, one plus one equals tu-na. A new study reveals that fish are capable of doing simple math problems, just like people!
Researchers in Germany have found that cichlids and stingrays are both able to recognize and calculate small quantities without really having to count them — just like a person looking at their change on a table.
“We trained the animals to perform simple additions and subtractions,” explains Dr. Vera Schluessel from the Institute of Zoology at the University of Bonn in a release. “In doing so, they had to increase or decrease an initial value by one.”
Although some call fish the “dunces of the animal kingdom” because of their memory span — which can last just three seconds — the new study revealed their capacity for complex sums, adding and subtracting from one to five.
Their numerical skills were on a par with other invertebrate and vertebrate species and experts are beginning to suspect they are as intelligent as birds and mammals.
“Successful fish showed abilities far above chance level, specifically in the stingrays. Again, this raises the question of what abilities fish may be capable of if being asked the ‘right’ question,” the researchers write in the journal Scientific Reports.
Color-coded math problems
In experiments, the team trained the animals to recognize the colors blue and yellow as symbols for adding or subtracting by a factor of one. Eight of the fish were freshwater stingrays and the others were a species of cichlid known as zebra mbuna. During the experiments, blue meant “add one” and yellow meant “subtract one.”
Study authors showed each fish cards with shapes displaying either color in their tank and then presented them with two gates. They contained signs with different numbers of shapes — one of which was the correct mathematical answer. For example, if a fish saw three blue shapes, they would add one to three and swim through a gate displaying four shapes — gaining a food reward for answering correctly.
Six zebra mbuna and three stingrays learned to consistently associate blue with addition and yellow with subtraction. On average, it took the zebra mbuna 28 sessions to figure out the math problems and 68 sessions for the stingrays. In general, they performed well although addition was easier to learn.
Overall, success among the zebra mbuna varied, with the fish correctly answering 296 out of 381 (78%) tests. Meanwhile, stingrays answered 169 out of 180 (94%). For the subtraction test, zebra mbuna answered 264 out of 381 (69%) correctly, while stingrays got 161 out of 180 (89%) right.
“Overall, it seems likely that fish, independent of whether there is a direct biological need or not, can solve complex numerical tasks,” the researchers write.
So, what do fish need math for anyway?
The team notes their findings were surprising, since math skills don’t have an obvious benefit for either species.
“Both are opportunistic feeders not hunters, that show no mating- or reproduction related behaviors relying on numbers (e.g. counting stripes or eggs),” study authors continue. “Neither species nests nor is there any information available about preferences for particular sized social groups.”
However, there may be important ecological advantages for fish who are good at math that scientists haven’t discovered yet.
“Arithmetic abilities could be one of many cognitive byproducts that may be useful to enhance individual recognition (e.g. by using phenotypic characteristics) or help detect changing environmental or socials conditions,” the team explains. “As both species live in complex habitats (rocky lake and coral reef environments), a certain degree of behavioral flexibility is essential for survival.”
“To possess an enhanced cognitive skill might be advantageous under some environmental circumstances but not possessing it might not necessarily present a disadvantage either.”
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday that Russia’s bloody offensive in Ukraine would continue until its goals are fulfilled and insisted the campaign was going as planned, despite a major withdrawal in the face of stiff Ukrainian opposition and significant losses.
Russian troops, thwarted in their push toward Ukraine’s capital, are now focusing on the eastern Donbas region, where Ukraine said Tuesday it was investigating a claim that a poisonous substance had been dropped on its troops. It was not clear what the substance might be, but Western officials warned that any use of chemical weapons by Russia would be a serious escalation of the already devastating war.
Russia invaded on Feb. 24, with the goal, according to Western officials, of taking Kyiv, toppling the government and installing a Moscow-friendly regime. In the six weeks since, Russia’s ground advance stalled, its forces lost potentially thousands of fighters and the military stands accused of killing civilians and other atrocities.
Putin insisted Tuesday that his invasion aimed to protect people in parts of eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed rebels and to “ensure Russia’s own security.”
He said Russia “had no other choice” but to launch what he calls a “special military operation,” and vowed it would “continue until its full completion and the fulfillment of the tasks that have been set.”
For now, Putin’s forces are gearing up for a major offensive in the Donbas, which has been torn by fighting between Russian-allied separatists and Ukrainian forces since 2014, and where Russia has recognized the separatists’ claims of independence. Military strategists say Russian leaders appear to hope local support, logistics and terrain in the region favor Russia’s larger and better-armed military, potentially allowing its troops to finally turn the tide in their favor.
In Mariupol, a strategic port city in the Donbas, a Ukrainian regiment defending a steel mill claimed a drone dropped a poisonous substance on the city. It indicated there were no serious injuries. The assertion by the Azov Regiment, a far-right group now part of the Ukrainian military, could not be independently verified.
It came after a Russia-allied separatist official appeared to urge the use of chemical weapons, telling Russian state TV on Monday that separatist forces should seize the plant by first blocking all the exits. “And then we’ll use chemical troops to smoke them out of there,” the official, Eduard Basurin, said. He denied Tuesday that separatist forces had used chemical weapons in Mariupol.
Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said officials were investigating, and it was possible phosphorus munitions — which cause horrendous burns but are not classed as chemical weapons — had been used in Mariupol.
Much of the city has been razed in weeks of pummeling by Russian troops. The mayor said Monday that the siege has left more than 10,000 civilians dead, their corpses “carpeted through the streets.” Mayor Vadym Boychenko said the death toll in Mariupol alone could surpass 20,000 and gave new details of allegations by Ukrainian officials that Russian forces have brought mobile cremation equipment to dispose of the corpses.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, acknowledged the challenges Ukrainian troops face in Mariupol. He said on Twitter that they remain blocked and are having issues with supplies, while Zelenskyy and Ukrainian generals “do everything possible (and impossible) to find a solution and help our guys.”
“For more than 1.5 months our defenders protect the city from (Russian) troops, which are 10+ times larger,” Podolyak said in a tweet. “They’re fighting under the bombs for each meter of the city. They make (Russia) pay an exorbitant price.”
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the use of chemical weapons “would be a callous escalation in this conflict,” while Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said it would be a “wholesale breach of international law.”
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a statement that the U.S. could not confirm the drone report. But he noted the administration’s persistent concerns “about Russia’s potential to use a variety of riot control agents, including tear gas mixed with chemical agents, in Ukraine.”
Britain, meanwhile, has warned that Russia may use phosphorus bombs — whose use in civilian areas is banned under international law — in Mariupol.
In the face of stiff resistance by Ukrainian forces bolstered by Western weapons, Russian forces have increasingly relied on bombarding cities, flattening many urban areas and leaving thousands of people dead. The war has also driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes — including nearly two-thirds of all children.
Moscow’s retreat from cities and towns around the capital, Kyiv, led to the discovery of large numbers of apparently massacred civilians, prompting widespread condemnation and accusations that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine.
Reports have primarily focused on the northwestern suburbs such as Bucha, but Ukraine’s prosecutor-general’s office said Tuesday that it was also looking into events in the Brovary district, which lies to the northeast.
The prosecutor’s office said the bodies of six civilians had been found with gunshot wounds in a basement in the village of Shevchenkove and that Russian forces were believed to be responsible.
Prosecutors are also investigating allegations that Russian forces fired on a convoy of civilians trying to leave by car from the village of Peremoha in the Brovary district, killing four people, including a 13-year-old boy. In another attack near Bucha, five people were killed, including two children, when a car was fired upon, prosecutors said.
Putin falsely claimed Tuesday that Ukraine’s accusation that hundreds of civilians were killed by Russian troops in the town of Bucha were “fake.” Associated Press reporters saw dozens of bodies in and around the town, some with hands bound who appeared to have been shot at close range.
The Russian leader spoke at the Vostochny space launch facility in the country’s Far East, during his first known foray outside Moscow since the war began. He also said that foreign powers wouldn’t succeed in isolating Russia.
He said that Russia’s economy and financial system withstood the blow from what he called the Western sanctions “blitz” and claimed they would backfire by driving up prices for essentials such as fertilizer, leading to food shortages and increase migration flows to the West.
Addressing the pace of the campaign, Putin said Russia was proceeding “calmly and rhythmically” because it wanted to “achieve the planned goals while minimizing the losses.”
While building up forces in the east, Russia continued to strike targets across Ukraine in a bid to wear down the country’s defenses. Russia’s defense ministry said Tuesday that it used used air- and sea-launched missiles to destroy an ammunition depot and airplane hangar at Starokostiantyniv in the western Khmelnytskyi region and an ammunition depot near Kyiv. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/putin-vows-to-press-invasion-until-russias-goals-are-met/ | 2022-04-12T18:16:08Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/putin-vows-to-press-invasion-until-russias-goals-are-met/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Two men were shot Monday night in what Chattanooga police are calling a targeted incident.
Police found both men, one 31 years old and the other 19 years old, suffering from gunshot wounds in a car in the 8000 block of Volkswagen Drive, after a report of a person shot.
Police say that there is no evidence to suggest that there is a continuing threat to Volkswagon employees or to the public at large.
Both men were both transported to a local hospital by Hamilton County EMS with what police describe as non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators with the Violent Crimes Unit are conducting the investigation.
Chattanooga Police ask anyone with information regarding this incident to call 423-698-2525 or submit a tip via the CPD Mobile App. You can remain anonymous. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/two-men-shot-on-volkswagen-drive-in-targeted-incident/article_9db46500-ba77-11ec-9ed7-d31be21c63b0.html | 2022-04-12T18:16:40Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/two-men-shot-on-volkswagen-drive-in-targeted-incident/article_9db46500-ba77-11ec-9ed7-d31be21c63b0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Getting spit on.
Death threats.
Threatening phone calls.
Those aren't the expectations election workers have when they show up to work the polls on Election Day, but they have become a regular occurrence amid continued fallout from the 2020 election.
We've covered this issue in a previous newsletter, but since then, a handful of Democratic-led states have enacted legislation to protect election workers, while a few more are considering similar bills.
Most of these measures deal with concealing identifying information of election workers and creating new criminal penalties for harassing them.
For example, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee in late March signed a bill into law that makes it a felony to harass election workers online. The new law also allows election workers and their families to hide their address if they are targets of threats.
A similar bill was enacted in Oregon recently, and the Maine legislature passed similar protections last week.
Meanwhile, California, Colorado and Vermont lawmakers are considering bills in the same vein.
Proponents say such laws are necessary as election workers continue to face an uptick of threats and harassment. So far, two people have been arrested by the US Department of Justice for threatening workers. Back in January, the DOJ said it had received more than 850 referrals on such possible crimes.
Those who support the laws also argue that the new protections would help strengthen the democratic process.
Many of these measures aim to protect not only the individuals who run elections but poll workers -- those individuals who volunteer to work a handful of days a year for long hours and often little pay. People who sign up to be poll workers are usually local residents who want to do their part to help elections run smoothly. Poll workers tend to be older, according to a Pew Research Center report from April 2020, the majority of them 60 or older.
Maine state Rep. Bruce White, a sponsor of the legislation in the Pine Tree State who also volunteers as a poll worker, told Kelly that the atmosphere at polling places in recent years "does seem a little tense and uncomfortable at times." White hopes his legislation, which awaits Democratic Gov. Janet Mills' signature, will bring an added sense of relief to election workers.
"Some people say a law isn't going to prevent somebody from doing this. I don't agree with that. I think when people know that there's penalties, they will take a step back and say, you know, the consequences are different than if you're just getting a small fine," White said.
As we previously reported, the spike in threats has led to a poll worker shortage, which Democratic state lawmakers hope the new laws will help to address.
Many of the laws will be in effect by the November general election, when many people will be voting in person with control of Congress on the line.
Banning guns at polling places
It's not just election workers who state lawmakers are looking to protect. They also want to keep polling locations safe.
In Colorado, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed in late March a law that bans the open carry of firearms within 100 feet of a polling place. Local election officials supporting the measure include Josh Zygielbaum, the clerk and recorder of Adams County in the Denver suburbs. He told Kelly he now wears a bulletproof vest to work due to safety concerns.
"I never thought it would come to this. I thought my days wearing body armor were over when I left the Marine Corps. The strangest part and the hardest thing is not only not knowing if I'll come home to my family at night but when I give my kids a hug and a kiss and they ask why I'm wearing it," Zygielbaum said.
Similar legislation has been introduced in Michigan. At least 11 other states, including Arizona and Florida, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, already ban firearms and other weapons in polling places, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
You should read
- A look at how election deniers who continue to push falsehoods about the 2020 election have created a toxic political environment for local government in Green Bay, Wisconsin, from Politico.
- This piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that spotlights how redistricting and new voting laws have scrambled preparations for the upcoming primary elections in one large Atlanta-area county.
- This CNN exclusive story about Donald Trump Jr. texting then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows ideas for overturning the 2020 election before it was called.
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Here is a look at the life of future US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Personal
Birth date: September 14, 1970
Birth place: Washington, DC
Birth name: Ketanji Onyika Brown
Father: Johnny Brown, attorney
Mother: Ellery Brown, school principal
Marriage: Patrick Jackson (1996-present)
Children: Leila and Talia
Education: Harvard University, B.A., 1992, magna cum laude; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1996, cum laude
Religion: Nondenominational Protestant
Other Facts
Ketanji Onyika is an African name meaning "lovely one."
While at Harvard Law School, Jackson served as a supervising editor for the Harvard Law Review.
Jackson is the first Black woman to be nominated to the United States Supreme Court.
Jackson will be the first justice to be a former public defender.
Jackson is related by marriage to former House Speaker and longtime Republican Rep. Paul Ryan.
Timeline
1992-1993 - Staff reporter and researcher at Time magazine.
1996-1997 - Law Clerk for District of Massachusetts Judge Patti B. Saris.
1997-1998 - Law Clerk for First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Bruce M. Selya.
1998-1999 - Associate at Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin LLP.
1999-2000 - Law Clerk for Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer.
2000-2002 - Associate at Goodwin Procter LLP.
2002-2003 - Associate at Feinberg Rozen, LLP (formerly known as The Feinberg Group, LLP).
2003 -2005 - Assistant Special Counsel at the United States Sentencing Commission.
2005 -2007 - Assistant Federal Public Defender in Washington, DC.
2007-2010 - Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster LLP.
2010-2014 - Vice Chair and Commissioner at the United States Sentencing Commission.
September 20, 2012 - President Barack Obama nominates Jackson for US District Court Judge. On March 23, 2013, the Senate votes to confirm Jackson.
March 30, 2021 - President Joe Biden announces his intent to nominate Jackson for the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. On June 14, the Senate votes 53-44 to confirm Jackson.
February 25, 2022 - Biden announces he has selected Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court.
April 7, 2022 - The Senate votes 53-47 to confirm Jackson.
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Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday signed a bill into law that makes performing an abortion illegal in the state, with an exception only in the case of a medical emergency.
"As governor, I represent all 4 million Oklahomans and they overwhelmingly support protecting life in the state of Oklahoma. We want Oklahoma to be the most pro-life state in the country. We want to outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma," the governor said.
Senate Bill 612, which cleared the state Senate last year and the House earlier this month, makes performing an abortion or attempting to perform one a felony punishable by a maximum fine of $100,000 or a maximum of 10 years in state prison, or both. The law does not provide exceptions in cases of rape and incest.
Under the measure, the woman would not be criminally charged or convicted for the death of her "unborn child." The legislation does not prohibit the use, sale, prescription or administration of contraceptives.
The governor was joined at the signing by members of the Oklahoma legislature, faith leaders from across the state, as well as representatives from anti-abortion advocacy groups.
"I know this bill will be challenged immediately by liberal activists from the coast, who always seem to want to come in and dictate, and mandate, and challenge our way of life here in the state of Oklahoma. The most important thing is to take a stand and protect the unborn and protect life in the state of Oklahoma," Stitt added.
Stitt's signature on the legislation made Oklahoma the latest Republican-led state to approve new restrictions on abortion access in recent weeks. Last month, Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law a ban on most abortions in the state after 15 weeks, similar to a Mississippi law that's before the US Supreme Court, and South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has signed legislation that further restricts access to medication abortions in the state.
In Idaho, the state Supreme Court temporarily blocked legislation recently signed by Republican Gov. Brad Little that was modeled after Texas' law that bans abortions after about six weeks. Idaho had become the first state to follow the controversial Texas statute that allows private citizens to enforce the restrictions with lawsuits.
Oklahoma Republican state Rep. Jim Olsen, SB 612's principal House author, previously told CNN that he believes "rape and incest is a horrible crime" and though the baby is conceived in a "horrible situation" that it "still has a right to life."
"The baby should not be liable for the sins of the father," he said. "It's still a life."
The bill was decried by abortion rights proponents throughout the legislative process, including the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which said last week that the law "would be devastating" for Oklahomans and also Texans, who make up nearly half of the patients who seek abortion care in Oklahoma.
"We will fight back against these cruel bans in court because people shouldn't have to cross state lines in secret to access care that should be available in their communities," Emily Wales, interim president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, said in a statement released following the signing.
The Oklahoma state Senate is also considering legislation, House Bill 4327, modeled after the controversial Texas law. That bill would ban most abortions at any point in pregnancy and allow private citizens to enforce the law through civil litigation.
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The rainfall from hurricanes during the deadly, record-breaking 2020 season was as much as 11% higher because of the human-caused climate crisis, scientists reported Tuesday.
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, found global warming supercharged hourly rainfall rates in tropical storms and hurricanes by 5 to 10%. When they looked at only hurricanes — the strongest storms — the increase was 8 to 11%.
"What that means is not only is climate change impacting our hurricane season, but it's also impacting the most extreme storms a little bit more," Kevin Reed, a climate and hurricane scientist at Stony Brook University and lead author of the study, told CNN. "So the key takeaway is that climate change is here, and that it's already affecting our hurricane seasons."
Hurricanes — also called tropical cyclones or typhoons outside North America — are enormous heat engines of wind and rain, feeding on warm ocean water and moist air. And scientists have become increasingly confident over the years the climate crisis is making them more potent.
Behind storm surge, flooding from rainfall is the second-biggest killer in landfalling hurricanes and tropical storms. Tuesday's study suggests the threat has already been increasing over the past few decades, and will likely increase more in the future, because warmer air can hold more water vapor, which leads to higher rainfall rates.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active on record, with 30 named storms. The season tore through the alphabet so quickly, officials had to use Greek letters as names starting in September. Twelve named storms made landfall on the US coast, including Laura and Delta, which devastated parts of the Gulf Coast.
The science of climate change attribution, which focuses on how much of a role human-caused global warming played in certain extreme weather events, has made significant advances in the past decade, according to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As humans continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the Earth will continue to warm and hurricane impacts will become worse, scientists say.
Allison Wing, a climate researcher at Florida State University, told CNN the study aligns with what scientists have predicted.
"This study, consistent with expert assessment, implies that hurricane rainfall will continue to increase with future warming," Wing told CNN. "Overall, this study adds to our expectation that in a warmer world, we are more at risk from stronger, wetter storms."
And as climate change accelerates, Reed said he expects the strongest storms to have an even higher rainfall rates.
"What's important to know is that if Hurricane Katrina existed in 2022, if that happened in this upcoming season, the rainfall from that storm would be more than it was in 2005," Reed said. "All of these historical records that we've understood in the past; when New York is planning to make sure that the impacts of Hurricane Sandy don't happen the same way they did in 2012, we have to plan for what Hurricane Sandy would look like in 2030, or 2040."
Unless the world changes course and drastically cuts the use of fossil fuels, Reed said people should expect progressively worse effects from hurricane season.
"Climate change is not just a problem 70 years from now; climate change is here and it's impacting our weather on a day-to-day basis," Reed said. "We need to adapt and make our systems more resilient, but we have to use this as a sense to inform decision-making about how to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels that produce these greenhouse gases."
Scientists in 2020 reported another significant change in US hurricanes: They are maintaining their strength long after they make landfall. Typically, hurricanes weaken once they move over land because they have lost access to the warm ocean water that sustains them. The change means areas farther inland are experiencing more significant impacts than they did in decades past.
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The jewel in Safaricom’s crown is its mobile-money service, M-Pesa. The payments that flow through it each year are worth 50% of Kenya’s gross domestic product, and it recently overtook voice calls and SMS messaging as Safaricom’s biggest earner.
Top 500 Companies: Safaricom calling Ethiopia
Few companies can claim success on the scale of Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom (#56). Since it was founded, in 1997, it has grown to become East Africa’s second most valuable firm in The Africa Report’s Top 500 Companies ranking, with a domestic subscriber base that represents two thirds of Kenyan mobile users. Its market capitalisation of $12.5bn is nearly twice that of the nine next biggest Kenyan companies combined. | https://www.theafricareport.com/192913/top-500-companies-safaricom-calling-ethiopia/ | 2022-04-12T18:18:04Z | afar.com | control | https://www.theafricareport.com/192913/top-500-companies-safaricom-calling-ethiopia/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Alabama elementary school principal accused of ‘excessive paddling’ of student
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - An Alabama elementary school principal is on leave for paddling a child too much according to authorities.
In a letter obtained by WAFF from the district’s attorney, the principal of Hazelwood Elementary in Lawrence County, Alabama, is accused of using a wooden paddle on a child ten times in a row.
Corporal punishment is legal in the state of Alabama, meaning using paddling as a form of punishment is allowed. But there is a line, which Lawrence County Schools Superintendent Jon Bret Smith says was crossed.
A letter sent to Hazelwood Principal Dr. Datie Priest accuses her of paddling a third-grade student ten times in a row one time and five times in a row during a separate incident.
According to WAFF’s news partners at the Decatur Daily, Smith has said no more than three licks at a time is allowed.
The letter goes on to say Priest told Lawrence County School board members about the paddling on March 11.
She was then placed on detached duty.
Smith says Priest later told him and another supervisor that the child was given a choice of “two licks by his teacher or ten by me and it’s my personal belief that he would not take a paddling from a white teacher.”
Vice president for the Alabama NAACP Bobby Diggs said the organization recommended Priest for the principal position and stands by her, despite the accusations.
“The NAACP remains perplexed that the accusations against Priest were in her personnel file but accusations against Ron Rikard (principal at East Lawrence High School) were not in his file at the central office,” said Diggs. “It is in our opinion that the superintendent is being bias{ed} and discriminatory in the treatment of the two principals.”
Smith said he cannot comment on personnel issues.
State law also requires a student receive a written slip after a paddling. Smith said the student was not given one. The letter includes a few other accusations including leaving work early and mismanaging funds.
Priest is currently on paid administrative leave. However, the school district may not renew her contract, according to the Decatur Daily.
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Brian Blum named next Maysville Local Schools superintendent
NEWTON TOWNSHIP — After months of searching and more than a dozen interested candidates, Maysville Local Schools has a new superintendent.
On Monday night, the Maysville Board of Education unanimously voted to hire Brian Blum, who currently serves as a superintendent of Van Buren Schools in Northwest Ohio.
The district started a search for a new superintendent in February after current Superintendent Ruth Zitnik announced her retirement last fall.
More:Here's who applied for Maysville Local Schools superintendent
Blum will start Aug. 1 ahead of the 2022-23 school year, with a base salary amount of $135,000 a year.
Blum was part of a second round of applicants after the district reopened the job posting. The TR requested the resumes for the second round of applications, but the request was not filled until after Blum's hiring.
According to his resume, Blum has been superintendent of Van Buren for a little less than two years.
Since 1999, he has served at six different districts in various administrative positions, mostly principals of elementary schools. But he said he plans to be with Maysville for a long time.
"The one common theme I saw (at Maysville) was a passionate community," he said. "I don't see any more moves."
He graduated with a bachelor's degree in special education from Wright State University. He also earned a master's degree in education from Ashland University, and a superintendent license from Miami University.
As the Van Buren superintendent, he is credited with developing a continuous improvement plan, overseeing the district when it renewed an operating levy, leading community forums and leading district curriculum, finance and faculty committees.
Board President Kelli Israel said he told the board he plans on staying, adding the board was impressed by his experience and his willingness to be directly involved with students and faculty.
"I liked that he isn't an office guy; he likes to be out and about," Israel said. "We liked the idea of having somebody who would stay."
The school board screened 18 candidates before hiring Blum.
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Local News Briefs: Zanesville men charged in Coshocton drug best
Zanesville men charged in drug bust
COSHOCTON — Two Zanesville men were officially charged on Monday in relation to a drug bust Sunday by the Coshocton County Sheriff's office.
Jason A. Kirk, 47, and Herbert G. Newton Jr., 51, were charged with one count each of aggravated trafficking in drugs, a first-degree felony.
The sheriff's office said a buy-bust operation was executed about 5:44 p.m. Sunday on Ohio 16, near the intersection of Franklin Township Road 287. The two men were taken into custody at the scene and a large amount of suspected methamphetamine was confiscated.
OVO having show
McCONELLSVILLE — Erica Dodge of Marietta and Morgan County native Shanon Woodward will perform at 6 p.m. April 23, at Twin City Opera House, 15 W. Main St., McConnelsville.
The show will also include Marvin and Deana Clark, Matt Coleman, Jada Riley, Mike Morrison and Mike, Gary and Bryan Sigler.
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at ohiovalleyopry.com or by calling 740-525-9218. Doors open at 5 p.m. Those 17 and younger are free.
Homeless presentation at library
ZANESVILLE — Could You Live the Homeless Life will be at 5 p.m. April 25 at the John McIntire Public Library, 220 N. Fifth St. The event will feature an introduction to the Think Tank on Poverty, open mic about living the homeless life and a panel discussion.
For more information, go to thinktankonpoverty.com or email zttpgroup@gmail.com.
Maysville BOE to meet
ZANESVILLE — Maysville Local Schools Board of Education will meet in regular session at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the administrative center, 3715 Panther Drive.
Zane State Trustees meeting
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Zanesville man, 66, will spend rest of life in prison for sexually abusing child
ZANESVILLE — A Zanesville man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted on 10 charges related to the sexual abuse of a child.
Robert Hearing, 66, was sentenced Monday in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court to life in prison plus 27 years, without the possibility for parole.
Charged with 10 felonies, Hearing was found guilty on all charges following a day-long bench trial March 2.
He was convicted on one count gross sexual imposition, a third-degree felony; one count of rape of a child under 10 years old, a first-degree felony; and eight counts of pandering obscenity, a second-degree felony.
More:Zanesville man convicted on rape, child abuse charges faces life without parole
A Muskingum County Sheriff's Office detective, a Nationwide Children's Hospital doctor, a sheriff's deputy, and adult member of the victim's house all testified.
The Nationwide pediatrician testified that the way the child was touched included penetration, which prosecutors argued constituted the rape charge instead of the lesser gross sexual imposition charge.
Detective Brady Hittle said that during two interviews conducted after the incident, Hearing admitted to touching the child and taking sexually explicit photos, but not rape.
The deputy testified that video found on a home camera partially showed Hearing taking photos of the naked child.
Additionally, the household member was able to identify the defendant and the victim.
Hearing's attorney, Brad Koffel, was not present at the time of the 10 a.m. sentencing. Hearing opted to postpone the hearing until he could have attorney present, which was later that morning. Koffel has a contempt hearing on Friday, according to the prosecutor's office.
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Man arrested on child pornography charges in Morgan County
McCONNELSVILLE — A 52-year-old man faces six charges related to child pornography, according to the Morgan County Sheriff's Office.
Robert Maxwell was arraigned in Morgan County Common Pleas Court on Monday.
Maxwell is charged with five counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, and one count of illegal use of a minor or impaired person in nudity-oriented material or performance. All are second-degree felonies.
He was recently arrested after deputies executed a search warrant at an East Bone Road location.
Sheriff Douglas McGrath said the charges stem from the handling of child pornography. Maxwell is accused of uploading videos and images and sharing them with others.
His bond has been set at $100,000.
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Toyota, the top-selling automaker in the US, is rolling out its first fully electric vehicle in eight years.
The company on Tuesday unveiled the battery-powered bZ4X small SUV, which starts at $42,000 and can go up to 252 miles per charge.
The bZ4X, which will be sold globally, adds to the 38 electric vehicle models now on sale in the US, with more than 120 expected by 2025.
While it doesn’t have ground-breaking range or performance for an electric vehicle, the bZ4X is an important entry because it’s from a trusted brand that will convince some buyers to make the switch from internal combustion engines, said Stephanie Brinley, principal analyst for S&P Global Mobility.
“You’ve got buyers who are interested in checking this out but may not be willing to try a new brand, or leave (Toyota) to go to Chevrolet or Ford,” Brinley said. “As we transition to a market that is more dominated by electric vehicles, the answer is really convincing normally ICE (internal combustion engine) owners to try something new.”
The bZ4X looks similar to and is slightly longer, lower and wider than Toyota’s RAV4, the top-selling vehicle in the US that isn’t a pickup truck. It is Toyota’s first EV since 2014, when it last sold an electric version of the RAV4.
Like most electric vehicles, it’s fast when compared with internal combustion engine vehicles. The all-wheel-drive version can go from zero to 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour) in as little as 6.5 seconds, Toyota says.
Sales will start in states that have zero-emissions vehicle requirements, then spread to the rest of the US, Toyota said. The bZ4X will be on display at the New York International Auto Show, where press days start this week. The show opens to the public from April 15-24.
Toyota says it plans to offer 15 electric vehicles by 2025, with seven with the bZ brand, which stands for “Beyond Zero.”
When the bZ4X arrives in US showrooms in May, owners likely will have to hurry to get the $7,500 federal tax credit that would make it more affordable. The automaker expects that sometime before the end of June it will reach a 200,000-vehicle cap on the credits.
After it hits the cap, the credits will be phased out over the next year, reaching zero as Tesla and General Motors already have.
Toyota reached the cap largely by selling plug-in gas-electric hybrid vehicles such as the RAV4 Prime, which can go 42 miles on electricity before switching to a hybrid system that uses an internal combustion engine.
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Retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Shawn Runnells prepares to compete in the 2022 Invictus Games by training in wheelchair rugby during the 2022 Invictus Games Team U.S. Training Camp, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, April 11, 2022. Team U.S is a part of more than 500 participants from 20 countries who will take part in The Invictus Games The Hague 2020 featuring ten adaptive sports, including archery, field, indoor rowing, powerlifting, swimming, track, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair ruby, and a driving challenge.
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HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – All tenants of an apartment complex on Congress Avenue in Holyoke were evacuated following a reported fire Tuesday morning.
Around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, firefighters were called to a 12-unit apartment complex on Congress Avenue for a report of a fire. When firefighters arrived, they found tenants had already evacuated from the building and smoke could be seen from the roofline.
Firefighters entered the apartment complex and put out the fire in the bathroom of a third-floor apartment. Crews had to open the wall to completely to put out the fire that had traveled to the roof of the building.
All 30 tenants were safely evacuated and no injuries were reported. The American Red Cross is assisting them. The cause of the fire is being investigated by the Holyoke Fire Department as well as the State Fire Marshall’s Office.
Holyoke firefighters were also called to another report of a fire Tuesday around noon at a home on Mountain Road. Crews found smoke on the enclosed front porch and were able to quickly extinguish the fire.
The homeowners were not home at the time and no injuries were reported. The fire is also being investigated by the Holyoke Fire Department with assistance from the State Fire Marshall’s Office. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/tenants-evacuated-after-fire-on-congress-avenue-in-holyoke/ | 2022-04-12T18:24:55Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/tenants-evacuated-after-fire-on-congress-avenue-in-holyoke/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Airmen assigned to the 911th Airlift Wing Honor Guard present the colors in front of the house of Joseph Wilbon, a World War II veteran, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 11, 2022. The 911th AW Honor Guard presented the colors during a birthday celebration ceremony that honored the veteran who turned 104 years old. (U.S. Air Force photo by Joshua J. Seybert)
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New Delhi: Gujarat has topped Niti Aayog's State Energy and Climate Index-Round 1 (SECI) among larger states, which ranks states and Union territories (UTs) on six parameters, including discoms' performance, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability.
Gujarat was followed by Kerala and Punjab, according to the government think tank's report. Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand were placed at the bottom.
Among small states, Goa topped the Aayog's index, followed by Tripura and Manipur. Among union territories (UTs), Chandigarh topped the index, followed by Delhi and Daman & Diu/Dadra & Nagar Haveli (D&D and D&N).
Punjab was the best performer in discom performance parameter among larger states, while Kerala emerged as the top performer in access, affordability and reliability category among larger states.
Likewise, Haryana was the best performer when it comes to clean energy initiatives among larger states, while Tamil Nadu emerged as the top performer in the energy efficiency category.
The index is based on 2019-20 data.
Releasing the report, NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar said that this index that compares states and UTs across many indicators will encourage them towards energy transition, and all the necessary steps must be taken to achieve this.
Kumar further said there is a need to convert the country's efforts towards achieving the 'Panchamrit' targets announced by the Prime Minister at COP-26, Glasgow into a peoples' movement.
NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat said synergy and partnership among the centre and the states will be critical for achieving energy and climate-related goals and making the country self-reliant in the energy sector.
He said that after extensive discussions with stakeholders, several key parameters have been identified to track and rank the performance of the states in this report.
The report said the state governments need to prioritise policies to facilitate inclusive growth by providing affordable, accessible, reliable, and sustainable energy to the citizens.
Energy being the centre-piece of any development process, the government needs to ensure access to sustainable and clean energy sources through various schemes, it added.
The State Energy and Climate Index (SECI) Round-1 ranks states and UTs on six parameters -- discoms' performance; access affordability and reliability of energy; clean energy initiatives; energy efficiency; environmental sustainability; and new initiatives.
These parameters include a total of 27 indicators based on the outcome of SECI Round-1 scores, states and union territories have been categorised into three groups -- front runners, achievers, and aspirants.
The index can be used by the states and UTs to benchmark their performance against their peers, analyse the potential challenges to develop better policy mechanisms, and efficiently manage their energy resources.
At the national level, India's overall score on a scale of 100 stands at 40.6. The average score at the national level for discoms' performance being is 56.8 while it is 11.1 for new initiatives, which is the lowest among all parameters. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/12/gujarat-tops-niti-energy-and-climate-index-kerala-ranks-second.amp.html | 2022-04-12T18:26:17Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/12/gujarat-tops-niti-energy-and-climate-index-kerala-ranks-second.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: Gujarat has topped Niti Aayog's State Energy and Climate Index-Round 1 (SECI) among larger states, which ranks states and Union territories (UTs) on six parameters, including discoms' performance, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability.
Gujarat was followed by Kerala and Punjab, according to the government think tank's report. Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand were placed at the bottom.
Among small states, Goa topped the Aayog's index, followed by Tripura and Manipur. Among union territories (UTs), Chandigarh topped the index, followed by Delhi and Daman & Diu/Dadra & Nagar Haveli (D&D and D&N).
Punjab was the best performer in discom performance parameter among larger states, while Kerala emerged as the top performer in access, affordability and reliability category among larger states.
Likewise, Haryana was the best performer when it comes to clean energy initiatives among larger states, while Tamil Nadu emerged as the top performer in the energy efficiency category.
The index is based on 2019-20 data.
Releasing the report, NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar said that this index that compares states and UTs across many indicators will encourage them towards energy transition, and all the necessary steps must be taken to achieve this.
Kumar further said there is a need to convert the country's efforts towards achieving the 'Panchamrit' targets announced by the Prime Minister at COP-26, Glasgow into a peoples' movement.
NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat said synergy and partnership among the centre and the states will be critical for achieving energy and climate-related goals and making the country self-reliant in the energy sector.
He said that after extensive discussions with stakeholders, several key parameters have been identified to track and rank the performance of the states in this report.
The report said the state governments need to prioritise policies to facilitate inclusive growth by providing affordable, accessible, reliable, and sustainable energy to the citizens.
Energy being the centre-piece of any development process, the government needs to ensure access to sustainable and clean energy sources through various schemes, it added.
The State Energy and Climate Index (SECI) Round-1 ranks states and UTs on six parameters -- discoms' performance; access affordability and reliability of energy; clean energy initiatives; energy efficiency; environmental sustainability; and new initiatives.
These parameters include a total of 27 indicators based on the outcome of SECI Round-1 scores, states and union territories have been categorised into three groups -- front runners, achievers, and aspirants.
The index can be used by the states and UTs to benchmark their performance against their peers, analyse the potential challenges to develop better policy mechanisms, and efficiently manage their energy resources.
At the national level, India's overall score on a scale of 100 stands at 40.6. The average score at the national level for discoms' performance being is 56.8 while it is 11.1 for new initiatives, which is the lowest among all parameters. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/12/gujarat-tops-niti-energy-and-climate-index-kerala-ranks-second.html | 2022-04-12T18:26:24Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/12/gujarat-tops-niti-energy-and-climate-index-kerala-ranks-second.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: Five years after the death of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, a premier research university was established in his name by an act of Parliament in 1969.
During the discussion in the Lok Sabha, parliamentarian Bhushan Gupta voiced the opinion that this should not be yet another university. New faculties should be created, including scientific socialism, and one thing that this university should ensure was to keep noble ideas in mind.
However, 50 years after its formation, Jawaharlal Nehru University, with each passing day is becoming an epicentre, a podium and a battlefield of the Left Vs Right politics that is often marred by incidents of violence.
Just a day ago on April 10, the University once again bore witness to bloodshed between warring camps. As many as 16 students were injured during a fight that allegedly started over consumption of non-vegetarian food on the occasion of Ram Navami.
Minor scuffles do take place in universities but Sunday's incident was not the first time that the students-turned-miscreants became thirsty for each other's blood inside the campus.
In January 2020, masked men and women carrying sticks and rods barged into the hostels of the University, attacking students and teachers. The campus property was damaged. Nearly 30 students, including JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh were injured in the incident.
The scale of violence was such that the administration was forced to call the police which had to conduct a march inside the campus. Several left leaning political parties blamed the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) for allegedly creating mayhem, however, nothing has been proved even after two years of the incident.
It was not a fight for prestige between students, as is usually seen at other universities in the country, rather the violence was a result of Left and Right politics.
The JNU has always been a hotbed of politics and the politicians, both left and right, have a keen interest in whatever transpires within the campus walls. JNU is probably one of the most used words during election campaigns.
But the varsity received serious political attention after February 9, 2016 when the 'Azadi' slogans rent the air of the campus.
Some alleged anti-India, anti-judiciary slogans raised there in 2016, after six years still become the main point in TV debates. The term 'Tukde-Tukde gang' is often used to brand the left leaning alliances in JNU. It was coined after those slogans were raised.
Interestingly, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs in an RTI reply in January 2020, had said that it has "no information" concerning the 'Tukde Tukde Gang' – a term that has been used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah themselves.
Apart from all the misadventures that have taken place in the University, according to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) – the central government's ranking for higher educational institutions in the country – JNU is still the second topmost university in India. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/12/why-jawaharlal-nehru-university-is-an-epicentre-of-left-vs-right.amp.html | 2022-04-12T18:26:42Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/04/12/why-jawaharlal-nehru-university-is-an-epicentre-of-left-vs-right.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Interstate 80 from the junction with Interstate 25, shown, to the Happy Jack exit ner Laramie is closed because of winter conditions, the Wyoming Department of Transportation reports. The estimated re-opening time is sometime between noon and 2 p.m. Along with the closure of this stretch of interstate, I-80 also is closed to light, high-profile vehilces from Laramie to Rawlins.
A blast of winter closed Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Laramie for about six hours Tuesday morning, the Wyoming Department of Transportation reports.
Freezing temperatures and blowing snow created slick and dangerous winter driving conditions on I-80, prompting its closure from the junction with Interstate 25 in Cheyenne to the Happy Jack exit near Laramie, according to the WYDOT.
As of 11:30 a.m., WYDOT shows I-80 is open again between Cheyenne and Laramie.
In addition, I-80 between Laramie and Rawlins remains closed to light, high-profile vehicles.
The National Weather Service reports a 30% chance of snow showers mainly after 11 a.m. with a high near 35 degrees in Laramie. It also will be breezy with westerly winds blowing 20-25 mph with gusts as high as 35 mph. The overnight low will dip to about 12 degrees.
Wednesday also is expected to be cold with a high near 30 and a 40% chance of snow showers after noon. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/i-80-between-laramie-and-cheyenne-re-opens/article_f7bf6f48-2da5-527c-8207-fa9126b5da62.html | 2022-04-12T18:31:00Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/i-80-between-laramie-and-cheyenne-re-opens/article_f7bf6f48-2da5-527c-8207-fa9126b5da62.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations of up to one inch.
Winds gusting as high as 45 mph.
* WHERE...South Lincoln County, Rock Springs and Green River,
Flaming Gorge and East Sweetwater County.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions and areas of
blowing snow.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The combination of snow and blowing snow
could reduce visibility to around a tenth of a mile.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
The latest road conditions for the state you are calling from can
be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
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ROCK SPRIINGS — The affirmation of the intent to move forward with the construction of an addition on the Rock Springs campus for the health sciences and nursing programs was approved at the Western Wyoming Community College Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, April 11.
“The board is aware that Western’s health sciences program facilities have been a topic of discussion for the past few years. Western commissioned an abbreviated level I study in late 2018 to explore consolidating the nursing program instructional spaces into one facility, and in September of 2020, the board authorized administration to conduct a level II feasibility study for the health sciences/nursing programs.
“The board reviewed the level II study draft during the workshop on Jan. 14, 2021, and approved the study for submission to the Wyoming Community College Commission on Feb. 11, 2021.”
According to the agenda, the study “explored” three options for the facility: construction of an addition on the Rock Springs campus; renovation of the Green River Center; use of the old Memorial Hospital building in Rock Springs.
Also included in the agenda are the results from the level II study that was conducted.
“As explained in the level II study, ‘the professional analysis of the three locations, in concert with the discussions of the executive committee, resulted in the decision to locate the facility on the Rock Springs campus. This option allows those enrolled in the program to take advantage of the adjacencies to existing student programs and amenities on campus, and allows for more convenient access to other educational programs that are required for the health science students.’”
Through the study, the conclusion was made that the renovation of the old hospital building, which has an estimated cost of $8.44 million, “would not be an optimal solution because ‘the existing structural grid is not conducive to the larger skills labs required and a portion of the program would have to be located in the basement, which is not ideal for access or daylighting.’”
It was also found through the study that due to the age of the building, several of the spaces and systems would need to be brought up to current code.
According to the agenda, the estimated cost of an addition on the Rock Springs campus is $7.6 million.
“Administration is asking that the board affirm the intent to move forward with constructing an addition on the Rock Springs campus for the health sciences and nursing programs.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/intent-to-move-forward-with-construction-approved-by-western-s-board-of-trustees/article_cd7033bc-7cd9-59ec-aedb-8bfd254648b7.html | 2022-04-12T18:31:06Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/intent-to-move-forward-with-construction-approved-by-western-s-board-of-trustees/article_cd7033bc-7cd9-59ec-aedb-8bfd254648b7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations of up to one inch.
Winds gusting as high as 45 mph.
* WHERE...South Lincoln County, Rock Springs and Green River,
Flaming Gorge and East Sweetwater County.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions and areas of
blowing snow.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The combination of snow and blowing snow
could reduce visibility to around a tenth of a mile.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
The latest road conditions for the state you are calling from can
be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
&&
Observed each year in the United States on April 12th, National Big Wind Day commemorates the recording of the highest natural wind gust measured on the Earth’s surface. On the afternoon of April 12, 1934, the Mount Washington Observatory recorded winds at 231 miles per hour.
Mount Washington is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at 6,288 ft, and it is the most prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River.
Observers Wendell Stephenson, Alexander McKenzie and Salvadore Pagliuca reported the wind gusts in 1934 from the Mount Washington Observatory. The record even held for several decades. In 1984, the observers returned to the observatory to celebrate the record-breaking wind’s 50th anniversary. Then in 1996, the big wind award from atop Mount Washington fell. A typhoon struck a small island off of Australia with wind gusts of 256 mph.
HOW TO OBSERVE #NationalBigWindDay
Hold on to your hat and share stories of windy day events.
Visit an observatory near you to find out more about how they study atmosphere changes, weather, and wind changes.
Try flying a kite into the wind.
Take a windblown selfie.
Use this day to learn more and use #NationalBigWindDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL BIG WIND DAY HISTORY
While the day celebrates the anniversary of the record-breaking wind at Mount Washington’s Observatory, we have not identified the founder of the day. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/today-is-national-big-wind-day/article_fb433c78-c21d-5d01-9109-c174efc2fcf9.html | 2022-04-12T18:31:13Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/today-is-national-big-wind-day/article_fb433c78-c21d-5d01-9109-c174efc2fcf9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ten years ago, Nate Storey was completing a Ph.D. in agronomy from the University of Wyoming while working to develop a new company with a bold objective of revolutionizing the way produce is cultivated and sold.
He and a partner had just won the UW College of Business entrepreneurship competition, receiving $12,500 to help start their company and one year of free business counseling services and space at UW’s business incubator.
Today, Storey is chief science officer for Silicon Valley startup Plenty Inc., which acquired his company, Bright Agrotech, in 2017. Plenty soon will open the world’s highest-output, vertical, indoor farm in Compton, Calif. It’s a major step for a new industry that is gaining increasing attention for its ability to supply high-quality produce year-round using relatively small amounts of water and land, and without the use of pesticides.
Walmart recently announced it has taken a stake in Plenty, becoming the first large U.S. retailer to significantly invest in indoor vertical farming as a way to deliver fresher produce to its stores.
It has been an eventful decade-long journey for Storey, who still lives with his family in Laramie while traveling frequently to California for his job. He says his success shows that a good idea, early stage support, intense effort, persistence and a willingness to learn and adapt make it possible for UW graduates to achieve their ambitions.
“When we competed in the first $10K (competition), we didn’t even really have a business at that point, just a concept with some work behind it,” Storey said. “Over the next couple of years, we built a business and got a crash course in how businesses work, how you set things up, how you manage people, taxes, overhead and compliance — all of the work that comes with starting a business. Since then, a lot has happened.”
Off the ground
Bright Agrotech emerged from UW’s business incubator in 2015 and established an indoor farm in Laramie, using vertical towers and other technology Storey developed and patented under license with the university.
The company grew quickly, generating several million dollars in annual revenue and employing dozens of people.
“I started to realize that Bright Agrotech was incapable of having the impact I’d hoped for on the food supply,” Storey said. “I was thinking about that problem when I ran into some guys from California who said they had the same idea for a food production business and liked our technology. They said, ‘Why not join us?’”
So, Storey joined Matt Barnard and Jack Oslan to co-found Plenty, handing off Bright Agrotech to partner Chris Michael. Subsequently, Plenty’s acquisition of Bright Agrotech folded in Storey’s patents and original equipment “to consolidate that technology.”
The Laramie operation remains and serves as Plenty’s research and development farm, employing about 80 people. Michael is now Plenty’s senior internal communications manager.
It has taken much more work in Laramie and at Plenty’s flagship farm in South San Francisco to take Bright Agrotech’s technology and develop it for large-scale application.
“We’ve gotten great traction with Plenty, but we have had hard technical problems to solve, and it’s complex from a business standpoint also,” Storey said. “No one in the world had a vision for these things. Developing that vision has required contact with the laws of physics, markets and customers.”
Steep learning curve
Storey describes the last 10 years as exhausting, “a decade of no sleep, of 100-hour work weeks, of selling and pitching.”
Plenty has raised nearly $1 billion for its next steps, and the first is monumental: opening its 95,000-square-foot indoor farm in Compton, which is expected to deliver its first produce in October to Walmart stores in California.
“This is the largest, most automated indoor farm in the world, by a long shot,” Storey said. “It contains a lot of the technology that we’ve worked really hard to develop at Plenty, a lot of the technology that represents the first steps to creating an entirely new form of agriculture.
“It’s something we’re all very excited about, even as we’re still in the rush and chaos of building it. It represents a lot of incredible work by a lot of incredible people.”
Plenty says its vertical farming towers are designed to grow multiple crops on one platform in a building the size of a big-box retail store.
Its systems feature vertical plant towers, LED lighting and robots to plant, feed and harvest crops using 1% of the land an outdoor farm requires while delivering anywhere from 150 to 350 times more food per acre.
The vertical farms are intended to supplement, but not replace, traditional farming practices while helping increase the food supply in a sustainable way.
“Plenty is going to be building many of these farms. These farms are very sophisticated assets that bring jobs to communities,” Storey said. “We are going to grow pretty meaningfully over the next few years to become a global ag production and technology business. As we grow, add new crops and invest in improving technology, we will see growth in our science team in Laramie as well.”
Storey’s success is exactly what UW had in mind when it launched the Wyoming Technology Business Center, now IMPACT 307, said Fred Schmechel, the incubator program’s interim director.
The university is augmenting its efforts to boost business startups with the launch of the Wyoming Innovation Partnership and the Wyoming Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in conjunction with the state’s community colleges, the Wyoming Business Council and others.
Plans call for establishment of IMPACT 307 incubators in communities around the state, in addition to the existing ones in Laramie, Casper, Cheyenne and Sheridan.
“Nate’s story is a great example of how the university helps students and faculty develop ideas and then take them to the marketplace,” Schmechel said. “His story is particularly impressive, but a number of our incubator clients have gone on to become successful businesses in the state and beyond as well.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/laramie-man-living-a-true-success-storey/article_7a5f60c6-ba88-11ec-a726-83b9290f9369.html | 2022-04-12T18:31:19Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/laramie-man-living-a-true-success-storey/article_7a5f60c6-ba88-11ec-a726-83b9290f9369.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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ESPN has a new overlord for the NFL Draft. A friend of mine, Jordan Reid, will soon be “the next Mel Kiper Jr.” That’s cool to read, having read Jordan’s work during the past couple of years.
Jordan released a 7-round mock draft on the worldwide leader. Unfortunately, we don’t get too many of those from “experts,” so let’s check out who he picked for the 49ers.
Cam Jurgens, C, Nebraska
Write this one in pen for one of my favorite team-player fits. Jurgens’ gap-to-gap style is a perfect fit in Kyle Shanahan’s scheme. For a team searching for interior help and a young center, he could turn into a contributor quickly here.
Based on how this draft has gone up to this point, there isn’t an edge rusher or safety that makes sense at this spot. So instead of reaching for a specific position of need, the Niners draft Jurgens, who could wind up beating out Daniel Brunskill at right guard and serve as Alex Mack’s replacement after the 2022 regular season.
Jurgens has rare power and movement skills that allow him to reach second-level defenders most interior offensive linemen can’t.
Sports Info Solutions has a “bounce percentage,” meaning the running back was forced to bounce a run when running behind the specific offensive lineman. Jurgens was the seventh-best among all interior linemen.
Nick Cross, S, Maryland
The 49ers are in need of help on the back end, and Cross is an underrated prospect in a loaded safety class. As a traditional single-high, high-post safety, he provides a unique presence on the third level.
Cross has been one of the more popular players mocked to the Niners this cycle. Cross is a consistent tackler who can flat-out fly while excelling in man-coverage. Another positive trait that stands out when you watch Cross is not only his range, but you can see him directing traffic before the ball is snapped.
Communication is critical for any successful defense, especially for the 49ers, who interchange their safety responsibilities from play to play.
105. San Francisco 49ers*
Marcus Jones, CB, Houston
Primarily a nickel corner on the next level, Jones was a touchdown waiting to happen in college. Whether it was as a return specialist or creating turnovers, good things seemed to always occur when he was around the football. The 49ers should create some competition at the nickel spot, and Jones is a serviceable option with the potential to make an impact defensively and on special teams.
Jones is another player the Niners have visited with during this draft cycle.
I worry about how Jones will match up against bigger wideouts on obvious passing downs. Your initial reaction would be to put him in the slot, but more and more play-callers are moving wide receivers around the formation.
Jones didn’t test during Houston’s pro day as he was still recovering from shoulder surgeries, but he runs like the wind. Ironically, despite his on-ball production, you’ll notice Jones give up more big plays down the field than you’d expect.
This would be a home run pick if Jones never played a snap on defense as a rookie due to being one of the most electric return men in college football history. I’d place a confident wager in Jones returning a punt or kick to the house as a rookie.
134. San Francisco 49ers: Thomas Booker, DT, Stanford
172. San Francisco 49ers: Tyler Badie, RB, Missouri
187. San Francisco 49ers (via DEN): Bo Melton, WR, Rutgers
220. San Francisco 49ers*: David Anenih, EDGE, Houston
221. San Francisco 49ers*: Ryan Van Demark, OT, UConn
262. San Francisco 49ers*: Brock Purdy, QB, Iowa State
You’ll see plenty of “A” grades for the Niners if their draft ends up anything like the one above. The secondary is addressed while you also fill a hole along the interior offensive line.
Booker adds athleticism along the interior. The 309-pound defensive lineman ran a 4.94 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine. Booker doesn’t have a deep bag of pass-rushing moves, but that’s what you pay Kris Kocurek for — to develop players.
Melton is another wideout that’s visited the 49ers. Melton needs to become more consistent, but he’s a playmaker with the ball in his hands and a threat in the open field. Kyle Shanahan gets another playmaker.
I’ve never seen Anenih or Demark play. Still, you can’t go wrong with addressing the trenches in the draft — especially with Mike McGlinchey coming off a severe injury and not having a backup, assuming Jaylon Moore works with the guards.
I wondered whether the team would add a potential long-term backup in the draft, and that’s Purdy. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/4/12/23020602/49ers-draft-a-center-at-no-61-in-espns-latest-7-round-mock-draft | 2022-04-12T18:31:54Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/4/12/23020602/49ers-draft-a-center-at-no-61-in-espns-latest-7-round-mock-draft | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When people noticed that Deebo Samuel scrubbed his Instagram account of 49ers mentions, many fans said it was much ado about nothing. Yesterday, things may have taken another step in a bad direction.
In his latest column for NBC Sports Bay Area, Matt Maiocco writes:
“There has been no indication the 49ers are openly shopping Samuel in a trade. But coach Kyle Shanahan said it himself a year ago: Nobody on the team is off-limits for trade discussions. He and Lynch would consider any legitimate offer.”
Consider the source here. NFL teams use the media to get their message out there all the time, and it’s no secret that Matt is very tight with the 49ers. Very. Tight. While it may be true that the Niners haven’t publicly put Deebo Samuel on the trading block, Matt Maiocco kind of just did.
Teams were likely already checking in on Samuel once his Instagram page went scorched earth, but this is like a power boost to that signal. Call the team; they’ll listen. And before you start, spare me with the “teams listen on everyone” comeback. No, they don’t. If someone called the Chiefs to trade for Patrick Mahomes, the call would be over before they finished the question. Kansas City is hanging up the phone and getting back to real life. That’s what you do when you aren’t open to trading someone. Clearly, according to the godfather of 49ers beat writers, that’s not what they would do with Deebo.
Then there’s this sudden pivot from Matt on what Deebo’s new contract should look like:
“It is difficult to justify Samuel’s next deal reaching the ranges of Adams, Hill and Diggs. After all, those players have been among of the league’s most-explosive and consistent receivers over the past half-dozen seasons. Logically, Samuel’s next contract should amount to somewhere from $20 million to $22 million annually. There. That’s the easy part.”
Yet on March 31st Matt’s projections for Deebo’s deal were a little higher:
“[Adams’ and Hill’s] deals actually make things a lot less complicated for both sides, sources this week told NBC Sports Bay Area at the NFL Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida...Based on the contracts signed around the NFL this offseason, the true numbers on Samuel’s contract extension can be expected to be no lower than $22 million per season and, probably, no higher than $24 million annually.”
Why would the floor from March 31st become the ceiling on April 11th? Especially after sources at the league meetings (featuring John Lynch, Kyle Shanahan, and Jed York) said, Hill’s and Adams’ contracts make things easier? Again, remember, this isn’t some random egg on Twitter making a wild ass guess. This is Matt Maiocco, the guy who has been covering this team for almost three decades.
As we’ve said before, none of this means Deebo is definitely getting traded. George Kittle’s contract talks were ugly for a while before they hammered out a deal two years ago. But like we wrote last week, the team likely wants to have a trade offer in their back pocket, and this is one way to help get that.
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The 49ers have nine picks in the 2022 draft, but most crucial will be the three they are currently slated to make at 61, 93, and 105. The top 100 or so picks in any draft will always have an added significance due to the number of impact players that tend to fall within that range.
So what kind of value is it realistic to expect with the 49ers' picks in the second and third rounds? To help assist with this question, I took a look back at the last five drafts and broke down how the picks in that range have panned out.
I’ll lay out what positions have been selected the most frequently in that span and which positions have produced the most high-end talent on day two since 2017.
All the data I will be using is compiled from picks 50-105 from every draft between 2017-2021. I chose pick 50 as the baseline because I think the possibility of the 49ers trading up from 61 is certainly within the range of outcomes. I wanted to have a data point that properly reflected them being within striking distance of picking in that range.
Let’s start with the position group that has been selected the most often. Of the 280 selections made on day two since 2017, 44 have been offensive lineman. Of course, football games are won and lost in the trenches, so it should come as no surprise that this is the area that teams have regularly swung on when selecting in the back end of the top 100.
Addressing the offensive line is in play for the 49ers at any of those three picks between 61 and 105, as there is a tremendous amount of uncertainty beyond this season at every position on the line minus left tackle.
Alex Mack probably hangs it up after next season, and Dan Brunskill is likely to generate a sizable pay raise if he plays as well in 2022 as he did last season. Mike McGlinchey is a more than appealing option when healthy, but nobody knows how or when he will return to form following a devastating leg injury during the 2021 season.
With all of those unknowns at play, I think it’s more likely that the 49ers will use one of their first three picks to address at least one offensive line position. Some very intriguing interior offensive prospects should be within reach with those three picks and, depending on how the board falls, perhaps a high ceiling tackle like Abraham Lucas.
The second-highest amount of selections came at the wide receiver position. Of the 280 picks made, 38 were wide receivers. Among the notable wide receivers selected in that span is Cooper Kupp, D.K. Metcalf, Terry McLaurin, Chris Godwin, A.J. Brown, and Diontae Johnson.
This is the position on day two where the high-end return has truly outshined all others. There have been 22 pro bowlers who were drafted between picks 50 and 105 since 2017. Ten of them were wide receivers. The next closest position group was the offensive line, which has four.
If we are talking star power, It’s not even close. The wide receiver position has been by far the best bet for any team searching for a pro-bowl-level talent in this range during the last few drafts. While the receiver isn’t as pressing of a need as some other spots are for the 49ers, it’s hard to ignore the hit rate on true difference-maker type players from the position in recent memory.
Based on how their roster looks at the moment, I don’t think the 49ers will sink significant capital into a receiver in this draft, but it would be wise to make sure they aren’t missing out on yet another wave of game-changing players at the position who come off the board in day two.
Coming in third was the edge position. This one is particularly interesting because there have been 36 players selected at that position in that range during this timeframe, but only one has turned into a pro bowler at the NFL level. I do think that Azeez Ojulari, who was the 50th pick last year, has the potential to be that kind of player one day, but the objective accolades are not there yet.
There have been quality starters like Sam Hubbard taken in this area, but the only player to truly ascend to that high-end level as an edge player has been Trey Hendrickson, who, funny enough, is teammates with Hubbard in Cincinnati.
This doesn’t come as too much of a surprise when you go through and look at who the top-end edge rushers are in the league and where they were selected in the draft. Save for a few exceptions, the majority of these players were taken near the top of the draft in the first round.
This is important to remember coming into this draft, as the 49ers have shown they are not shy about spending their first selection in a draft on a defensive lineman. While every draft is different, it is hard to ignore the results in recent seasons league-wide from edge players taken between 50-and-105.
I do like a lot of the edge players in this class, and I think a handful who absolutely could be on the board at 61 has the potential to be viable starters in this league. That is the distinction that has to be clear entering this draft; however, if the 49ers do decide to go edge at 61, the expectation should not be that it will be a high-end pass rusher.
If it happens to work out that way, fantastic. But based on the historical precedent set in recent years, a much more realistic outcome for the 49ers is to grab a player who maxes out as a dependable starter on the defensive line.
It’s important to remember that finding someone who can provide consistent output as a secondary option on the defensive line would be a net win here. For the most part, there just aren’t game-wrecking players at the position who are available at this point in the draft.
Next in line was the cornerback position, with 34 players selected in that range since 2017. When discussing the 49ers, their track record would lead you to believe they aren’t particularly fond of spending their top 100 picks at the position.
Since Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch took over, they have only spent two picks in the top 105 on cornerbacks. However, one of those was last season when they selected Ambry Thomas at 102, so perhaps there has been a change in philosophy there.
There have been two pro bowlers at the cornerback position selected in that range since 2017, including Trevon Diggs, who led the NFL in interceptions in 2021.
On the other side of the spectrum, the position group that was taken the least often was quarterbacks. There have only been 10 selected in that range during that span, with none being major difference makers outside of the lone current starter in Jalen Hurts.
The 49ers took C.J. Beathard in that range in 2017, but it’s safe to say they won’t be anywhere close to selecting a quarterback that early in this draft. Maybe in the future to develop a strong backup for Trey Lance, but as of now, it’s not on the table.
Tight end was the second-fewest with 18 picks, and there wasn’t much of a track record of standout players there either. Mark Andrews is the lone pro bowler from the position taken in that range during that time frame. Pat Friermuth had a strong rookie season in 2021 and could certainly reach that threshold one day based on the ability he showed this past season.
I do think the 49ers could stand to improve the position, but unless a player like Trey McBride falls to them or is in range for a trade-up, I just don’t see it happening.
To summarize, in the last five drafts, less than 8% of the players selected between 50 and 105 have been selected to a pro bowl. The odds of landing a franchise-altering player in this range are slim but not impossible.
The 49ers themselves have found a star player of their own in this range during this span. All-Pro linebacker Fred Warner is the only player at his position taken in this range during this timeframe to be named to a Pro Bowl and was an absolute steal when the 49ers selected him at number 70 overall in the 2018 draft.
Among the names already mentioned who were selected in this range, there were also included the likes of Alvin Kamara, Kareem Hunt, Orlando Brown, JuJu Smith-Schuster, and a pair of pro bowl guards in Dion Dawkins and Jonah Jackson.
So while those truly game-changing players do exist on day two, the 49ers are much more likely to end up with players whose ceiling might not ever come close to that. And that’s okay because given how talented the top of the roster is currently, the 49ers aren’t in dire need of landing blue-chip talent.
They simply need to find players who are capable of playing at a consistent level in the NFL while making winning contributions to a team that is already loaded with talent. If they come away with a player or two from this range that ultimately develops into a starter for the team, it’s objectively a success for the front office.
Here is the full breakdown of the number of players at each position who were taken between picks 50 and 105 since 2017, sorted out by the years they were drafted. I’ll also include the pro bowl players.
2017
Edge: 7 - Pro Bowler (1) - Trey Hendrickson, pick 103
Defensive Interior : 3
Linebacker: 8
Cornerback: 8 - Pro Bowler (1) - Shaquill Griffin, pick 90
Safety: 2
Offensive line: 12 - Pro Bowler (1) - Dion Dawkins, pick 63
Wide Receiver: 8 - Pro Bowlers (4) - JuJu Smith-Schuster - pick 62, Cooper Kupp - pick 69, Chris Godwin - pick 84, Kenny Golladay - pick 96
Running Back: 4 - Pro Bowlers (3) - Alvin Kamara - pick 67, Kareem Hunt - pick 86, James Connor - pick 105
Tight End: 4
Quarterback : 3
2018
Edge: 7
Defensive Interior: 6
Linebacker: 7 - Pro Bowler (1) - Fred Warner, pick 70
Cornerback: 5
Safety: 5
Offensive Line: 8 - Pro Bowlers (2) - Brian O’Neill - pick 62, Orlando Brown - pick 83
Wide Receiver: 4 - Pro Bowler (1) - D.J. Chark - pick 61
Running Back: 8
Tight End: 4 - Pro Bowler (1) - Mark Andrews - pick 86
Quarterback: 1
2019
Edge: 5
Defensive Interior : 3
Linebacker: 4
Cornerback: 4
Safety: 6
Offensive Line: 8
Wide Receiver: 11 - Pro Bowlers (4) - A.J. Brown - pick 51, Mecole Hardman - pick 56, D.K. Metcalf - pick 64, Diontae Johnson - pick 66
Running Back: 6
Tight End: 6
Quarterback: 2
2020
Edge: 7
Defensive Interior: 7
Linebacker: 6
Cornerback : 7 - Pro Bowler (1) - Trevon Diggs - pick 51
Safety: 5
Offensive Line: 10 - Pro Bowler (1) - Jonah Jackson - pick 75
Wide Receiver: 7 - Pro Bowler (1) - Devin Duvernay - pick 92
Running Back : 3
Tight End : 3
Quarterback: 1
2021
Edge: 10
Defensive Interior: 5
Linebacker: 4
Cornerback: 10
Safety: 5
Offensive Line: 6
Wide Receiver: 8
Running Back: 4
Tight End: 1
Quarterback : 3 | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/4/12/23021537/49ers-nfl-draft-second-third-round | 2022-04-12T18:32:06Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/4/12/23021537/49ers-nfl-draft-second-third-round | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tony Pauline of Pro Football Network reported the 49ers brought in Cincinnati running back Jerome Ford for an official top-30 visit. We’ll add Ford to the ongoing tracker of 49ers’ draft visits.
You may scoff at the notion of Ford, who figures to go in the late third round or early fourth round, but he was a transfer from Alabama. The 210-pound running back ran a 4.46 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine and participated in the Senior Bowl.
The Niners are interested in Ford for all of the reasons you might imagine. He’s a bigger back that is comfortable in a zone scheme with speed and elusiveness. A lot like Elijah Mitchell, Ford lacks leg drive and power. That doesn’t mean he won’t break tackles, but pushing the pile isn’t his style.
Judging by the running backs the team is bringing in, Kyle Shanahan is on the prowl for a third-down running back. Also, the Niners could be drafting a running back on Day 3 — perhaps earlier than a lot of us might think.
After Mitchell was banged up last season and the uncertainty of how Trey Sermon will be in Year 2, investing in a running back during the draft makes sense. Ford is consistent but won’t blow you away in any facet. He turns his carries into positive gains and will occasionally break a long run.
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A small huddle of video cameras sat at the main entrance of the Fairfax County Courthouse as actor Johnny Depp’s legal team presented opening arguments Tuesday in his $50 million defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard in downtown Fairfax.
As attorneys unloaded boxes of documents, a small cluster of spectators waited in the hopes of seeing a movie star in their midst.
Standing next to the courthouse entrance with a sign reading, “We believe you Johnny, have faith,” David LaMan, who came from Atlanta, Georgia to bolster Johnny Depp, watched the live-streamed coverage from Court TV on his phone, noticing that Depp was already in the courtroom.
“I came out here to show [Johnny Depp] my support for him in this really tough time,” LaMan told InsideNoVa. “I really just hope that he wins his case and it helps exonerate him and shows the world that he’s not that kind of person that [Amber Heard] painted him out to be.”
LaMan said he had to go back to Atlanta this week, but intends to return, as the trial is expected to take about three weeks.
Andrea Ceisler, public information officer for the Fairfax County Sherriff’s Office, said while such a high profile case is fairly unusual for Fairfax; it’s been fairly quiet at the judicial complex.
“We've come in contact with about 10 or so reporters including New York Post, Vulture, the Telegraph, Daily Mail, the U.S. Sun and the Associated Press Television,” Ceisler said. There was even a reporter from Channel One Russia filing a report as opening arguments got underway.
Standing quietly with her mother, Victoria Guerrero, who moved to Fairfax from Seville, Spain two years ago, said she’s a huge Johnny Depp fan, and was hoping to get a glimpse of the star during the trial.
“I think he’s a great actor, and I just trust him. I hope he’s a really good person,” Guerrero said.
Johnny Depp, 58, is seeking $50 million in damages from Amber Heard, 35, based on a 2018 Washington Post opinion piece she wrote in which she discussed her experiences with domestic violence, but never mentioned Depp by name. Depp filed the lawsuit in Fairfax, as that is where the Washington Post houses its data servers.
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Jaelin Kauf and Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon hold up the ‘Silver Jae’ run sign dedicated to Kauf by Grand Targhee Resort in honor of her silver medal winning performance at the 2022 Winter Olympics. The run will be underneath the new Colter chairlift next season.
In a Grand Traghee closing day celebration, Alta, Wyoming’s Jaelin Kauf received not one but two distinctions for her silver-medal success at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.
It was fitting that after a rather sunny morning, the snow intensified right at the beginning of the announcements.
The first honor, bestowed by Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon, named April 10, 2022 as Jaelin Kauf Day in Wyoming.
“Folks from Idaho, you can cheer for Wyoming too,” said Gordon. “Jaelin learned to ski fast and with amazing technical ability at Grand Targhee Resort. She has represented the United States and the state of Wyoming extremely well. Jaelin became the first of many Wyoming skiers to earn a medal at any Winter Olympics when she claimed the silver medal in women’s freestyle mogul competition.”
Kauf was elated to share the honor at her home resort.
“Thank you all so much. I’m stoked to make it out to Targhee Closing Day, and thanks to our Wyoming Governor for coming out and making this an extra special day. I am so stoked to share this with all of you,” said Kauf.
Jaelin’s brother Skyler, who is GTR’s Marketing Manager, presented his sister with a rare honor from the resort: a run named in her honor.
“Grand Targhee has decided to name a run after Miss Jaelin Kauf. The run will be called ‘Silver Jae’. It will be our lift-line run on the new Colter chair on Peaked Mountain. We are stoked to call you our own here at Targhee. Well done.” | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/community/kauf-receives-wyoming-governors-proclamation-targhee-names-run-in-honor/article_dee6b375-e687-57b1-8b6b-1d96db18cc71.html | 2022-04-12T18:40:29Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/community/kauf-receives-wyoming-governors-proclamation-targhee-names-run-in-honor/article_dee6b375-e687-57b1-8b6b-1d96db18cc71.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We had a blockbuster performance at the Spud Drive-In this week, starring the wind. A sound in the night, stars where the screen should be, and nearly 70 years of Teton Valley history were laid low by the wind, roaring in excess of 50 MPH at the nearby airport during the 9 PM hour Monday night.
No one was hurt; cleanup and rebuilding began right away, but the power of the wind was made terribly clear. Many were left asking why.
If our Earth were really a flat, even surface, the atmosphere would sit motionless on top like water in a baking pan. We wouldn't have any wind to worry about. But since Earth isn’t that simple, being a tilted globe with different materials on its surface, our planet is heated unevenly by the Sun. We have warm and cold spots that change by the minute and season. We also have mountains and canyons that force the moving atmosphere to swirl around and through them. The result is a very chaotic, active wind pattern, especially when cold and warm air clash. Instead of calm water in a pan, it’s more like the rapids and eddies in the Snake River.
Where the air is warmer, it rises. That’s true in the big picture and on a small scale. Air rises at the equator and over a blacktopped city or plowed field where it’s warmer. When hot air rises, we aren’t left without air to breathe. Air rushes in to fill the void, and we have wind.
This week’s destructive wind was rushing in to fill a void left bytherising air in anarea of low pressure to ournorthwest. Because the world is a rotating globe, the path of that rush gets twisted into a counterclockwise swirlaround that low, coming at us from thewest and southwest at the time of the strongest gusts Monday night. That was broadside to the back of the Spud’s screen, too much for the old timbers to withstand. It fell to the east, away from the road and away from Old Murphy and its giant potato. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/weatherblog/gone-with-the-wind/article_b41665ac-b903-11ec-bc54-dbf2e2f78df2.html | 2022-04-12T18:40:35Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/weatherblog/gone-with-the-wind/article_b41665ac-b903-11ec-bc54-dbf2e2f78df2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220408-N-SR275-1004 WASHINGTON (April 8, 2022) — Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro delivers a message for Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class T. Logan Keown/Released)
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A Coeur d’Alene High School graduate received a Fulbright Specialist Award to Uzbekistan at Karakalpak State University, as reported by our partners, The Coeur d'Alene Press.
Dr. Lee Thomas Ostrom currently lives in Idaho Falls and is the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Idaho, as well as the Director of Academic Programs at Idaho Falls Center.
Ostrom will complete a project at Karakalpak State University that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within engineering education.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to build lasting connections between the people of the U.S. and people from other countries.
Ostrom is one of over 400 U.S. citizens who will share expertise with host institutions abroad through the program each year.
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WASHINGTON — Boeing has removed 141 airplanes from its backlog of pending orders, many of them because of what it termed geopolitical considerations including restrictions on sales because of sanctions like those imposed on Russia for its war against Ukraine.
The big aircraft manufacturer said Tuesday it took 38 net new orders for planes in March, most of them single-aisle 737 Max jets. Air Lease Corp. placed an order for 32 Maxes.
Boeing removed 141 previously ordered planes from its backlog of more than 4,000 planes because accounting rules make it unclear whether the sale will be completed. Sometimes planes are removed from the backlog because of an order cancellation, other times because the buyer's financial problems place the deal in jeopardy.
This time, however, Boeing said that about two-thirds of the planes removed from the backlog resulted from geopolitical reasons including sanctions. It declined to identify the customers whose orders were, in effect, downgraded to questionable.
Boeing previously indicated that it had undelivered orders for 34 planes with Russian carriers Utair and Volga-Dnepr and seven with SkyUp Airlines of Ukraine.
In the past 10 years, Boeing has taken orders for 86 planes from Russian companies including 30 from Utair, 22 from Sberbank Leasing and six from Aeroflot, the nation's flag carrier.
The United States and its allies have been imposing steadily escalating sanctions on Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February. Sberbank is among the targets.
Boeing Co. said it delivered 41 planes in March, including 37 737s, most of them Max models. The Chicago-based company has delivered 95 planes so far this year, providing crucial cash because airlines typically pay a large part of the purchase price on delivery. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/geopolitics-leads-boeing-to-remove-dozens-of-jet-orders/507-ed87b7bc-58e4-49f9-8219-7d2e5c7248bb | 2022-04-12T18:50:36Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/geopolitics-leads-boeing-to-remove-dozens-of-jet-orders/507-ed87b7bc-58e4-49f9-8219-7d2e5c7248bb | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON, UK — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said Tuesday that he and Treasure Chief Rishi Sunak will be fined by police for breaching COVID-19 regulations following allegations of lockdown parties at government offices.
The news came after London's Metropolitan Police force said earlier Tuesday that they were issuing 30 more fixed penalty notices in relation to the “partygate” scandal, which has angered many in Britain and seen dozens of politicians and officials investigated over allegations that the government flouted its own pandemic restrictions.
“The Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer have today received notification that the Metropolitan police intend to issue them with fixed penalty notices,” a spokesperson for Johnson's office said. “We have no further details.”
It was not clear how much Johnson and Sunak were fined.
Johnson has denied any wrongdoing, but he is alleged to have been at half of the dozen events in his 10 Downing St. office and other government buildings that are being investigated by the police.
Johnson’s government has been shaken by public anger over revelations that his staff held “bring your own booze” office parties, birthday celebrations and “wine time Fridays” in 2020 and 2021 while millions in Britain were barred from meeting with friends and family because of his government’s COVID-19 restrictions. Thousands of people were fined between 60 pounds ($79) and 10,000 pounds ($13,200) by police for rule-breaking social gatherings.
Opponents, and some members of the governing Conservative Party, have said for months that Johnson should resign if he is issued a fine for breaking rules he imposed on the rest of the country during the pandemic.
“Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have broken the law and repeatedly lied to the British public," said Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour Party. “The Conservatives are totally unfit to govern. Britain deserves better.”
Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, called for Parliament to be recalled for a vote of no confidence in Johnson.
The COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group said “there is simply no way” that Johnson or Sunak can remain in their jobs.
“Their dishonesty has caused untold hurt to the bereaved," said the group's spokesman Lobby Akinnola. “Not only that, but they have lost all credibility with the wider public."
In total, police say they were issuing at least 50 fines for the breaches, but did not identify who the recipients are. Police say they have sent questionnaires to more than 100 people, including the prime minister, and interviewed witnesses as part of the investigation.
In January, civil servant Sue Gray published a report into some of the gatherings, the ones not under criminal investigation. She said “failures of leadership and judgment” in Johnson’s government allowed events to occur that should not have happened. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/johnson-to-be-fined-over-lockdown-parties/507-fb574599-18c6-46b1-9b79-9d51d9e6b821 | 2022-04-12T18:50:42Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/johnson-to-be-fined-over-lockdown-parties/507-fb574599-18c6-46b1-9b79-9d51d9e6b821 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Token's price drop illustrates challenge in play-to-earn gaming
The long decline in the price of Axie Infinity's Smooth Love Potion (SLP) token illustrates the challenge of play-to-earn (P2E) gaming: players need more than a way to earn some random token, the token needs mechanics that enable it to hold value.
The big picture: P2E worked great, particularly with one game, Axie Infinity (whose treasury clocked $1.3 billion in revenue last year), until profits took a dive in early December that it has never recovered from, as Token Terminal shows.
Details: The "Smooth Love Potion" (SLP) token is the fuel that Axie Infinity runs on.
- To access the game, players need once valuable NFTs called Axies. Axie owners can breed more Axies with their Axies, but they need to spend SLP to do so.
- Users spend SLP in the game and it gets destroyed, decreasing the supply. That's supposed to help maintain the price, but there's been too much earning and not enough burning.
- The token has been in a long fall since the peak of its strength last July, because too few players are using SLP to make more Axies, analytics firm Naavik contends.
By the numbers: On July 13, the time of SLP's all time high, the game would send $2.8 million from players to the treasury, according to Token Terminal.
- Its best revenue day was still ahead, though, bringing in $17.5 million on Aug. 6.
State of play: Daily revenue to the Axie Community Treasury now amounts to a little over $40,000. | https://www.axios.com/fall-of-play-to-earn-gaming-p2e-axie-infinity-slp-21dd29ed-55c3-46be-a064-3e50a0927354.html | 2022-04-12T18:53:02Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/fall-of-play-to-earn-gaming-p2e-axie-infinity-slp-21dd29ed-55c3-46be-a064-3e50a0927354.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With the combined chaos of the ongoing travel issues across Kent at the moment, the UK's Brexit vote has been brought back into the limelight. Operation Brock, Easter holiday traffic, Port of Dover delays due to P&O suspensions and extra paperwork checks at the border because Britain is no longer in the EU... it's quite the concoction.
Dover is at the heart of the mayhem as lorries attempt to make their way from Dover to Calais and into Europe. The port town voted convincingly to leave the European Union in 2016 with 62.2% of the vote. But how do people living in Dover feel about that decision now?
After years of wrangling from the vote in 2016, including two different Prime Ministers, Britain officially left the bloc on January 31, 2020, and became a "third country". This means the UK no longer has access to the Single Market or the Customs Union as a member state and so anyone travelling to and from the bloc is now subject to EU bureaucracy, red tape and convoluted checks and regulations.
READ MORE: Thanet and Dover to be 'pushed into poverty by Rishi Sunak's cost of living failure'
Lorries have been hit particularly hard by the new border checks which have been exasperated by the turmoil caused by P&O Ferries' suspended services and increased traffic due to the Easter holidays. While Kent hasn't quite become a "lorry park" as projected by some, it isn't far off with lorries waiting more than 24 hours to pass the border.
'There were so many lies'
"I wouldn't vote for Brexit," said Jonathon Parker, 72, from Oslo in Norway, but who worked on the Channel Crossings years ago. "I actually emigrated in 1977 after the first referendum because we voted to stay in the EEC.
"But there were just so many lies told during the referendum in 2016 that a lot of people just didn't have the correct information. Norway is part of the EEA so it doesn't have the problems that the UK has at the moment."
The EEA stands for the European Economic Area. Countries in Europe are outside the European Union but have access to the Single Market and therefore have what is dubbed as "frictionless trade" which allows free movement between the countries. The countries include Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.
'Boris let us down'
Other people in Dover were much more passionately pro-EU. Amanda Guilder, 61, said: "I voted to stay and I don't think we should have ever left. Boris Johnson has a lot to answer for.
"I think he is just awful and the worst Prime Minister we have ever had. I can't see why anyone would vote for that man. Boris let us down."
Some people KentLive spoke to admitted to having "second thoughts" about their original choice to vote for Brexit. Phil Umont, 45, said: "I did vote to leave but I am having second thoughts.
"I don't know if I would change my mind about my decision. But what with everything that's going on then it makes you think twice.
"People say there were a lot of lies told during the campaign. This was undoubtedly true but there are always lies told during any vote, even general elections."
Brexit transcended political boundaries and unlike general elections, people did not vote according to "tribal politics" for either Labour or Conservatives. All political parties had Eurosceptic branches who campaigned to leave the union.
The vote proved incredibly divisive across the country, including within families themselves. Sisters Suzanne Stanford and Josette Graeme were at completely other ends of the spectrum.
Josette said: "I voted to leave because I wanted to have my country back. I voted for it because I thought it was the right thing to do and the best thing for out country. If I could go back in time I think I would still vote to leave. Because my opinion hasn't changed about it all."
But Suzanne said: "I voted to remain because I thought it would be bad for business. Especially around Dover because it is so vital for our economy. To be honest, I think people in Dover voted to leave because they didn't want immigration. But I just don't think they were looking at the big picture."
KentLive's Dover poll
KentLive conducted a straw poll in Dover of 50 people asking how they would vote if they could repeat 2016. Remain won with 25 votes against 14 votes for Brexit. There were 12 people who were undecided or said they "didn't care" about Brexit.
Everyone who voted for Brexit in the poll all said their opinions were completely unchanged since the referendum. However, five people who voted for remain in the poll said they had previously voted for Brexit and have since changed their minds.
Is Operation Brock fit for purpose? Have your say as traffic misery spreads in Kent.
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Tributes have been paid to a couple who were found dead in a Kent tattoo shop. Police were called to Lower Bridge Street in Canterbury yesterday evening (March 11).
Catalin Micu and Ramona Stoia were pronounced dead at the scene. The Romanian couple both worked in GothInk Studio, which Ramona owned.
Eyewitnesses in the area reported seeing at least eight police vehicles and four ambulances with a helicopter and armed police also attending. Tributes for the pair have now been pouring in.
Read more: Canterbury couple found dead at GothInk tattoo shop named as Catalin Micu and Ramona Stoia
Commenting on a tattoo by Ramona, Eve Defu on Instagram wrote: "The most beautiful work by the most beautiful person. You will be missed."
Ezier Rose, also commenting on Instagram paid tribute to Ramona. She said: "We will miss you and your beautiful talent. Sending love to your family."
Nikki Jackson on Facebook wrote: "This is so sad." While Linda Pope said: "Had my tattoos done there. Very nice couple. Thoughts are with his son."
Earlier today eyewitness Radoslav Stoyanov, 38, spoke of the 'terrible' aftermath he saw at the scene. He said: "I came past the shop at about 5.35pm. The police were already there. I looked into the shop inside. I was looking to see what was happening. I saw one woman and one guy on the floor.
"They were both dead. It was a terrible thing, I wouldn't wish to happen to anyone. There was a woman outside. She was talking to the police. There was just the woman and the police. She was talking on the phone (as well). I am shocked from this situation. When I saw this guy on the floor and the woman."
The circumstances of their deaths are still under investigation but Kent Police have said "officers are not currently looking for anyone else in connection with the investigation". A Kent Police spokesman said: "Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating the deaths of two people in Canterbury.
"At 5.19pm on Monday 11 April 2022, officers attended an address in Lower Bridge Street, where a 54-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman, who were known to each other, were pronounced deceased at the scene. Enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the incident are ongoing. However, officers are not currently looking for anyone else in connection with the investigation." | https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/tributes-paid-couple-found-dead-6944221 | 2022-04-12T18:56:43Z | kentlive.news | control | https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/tributes-paid-couple-found-dead-6944221 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is visiting corn-rich Iowa on Tuesday to announce he’ll suspend a federal rule preventing the sale of higher ethanol blend gasoline this summer, as his administration tries to tamp down prices at the pump that have spiked during Russia’s war with Ukraine.
Most gasoline sold in the U.S. is blended with 10% ethanol. The Environmental Protection Agency will issue an emergency waiver to allow widespread sale of 15% ethanol blend that is usually prohibited between June 1 and Sept. 15 because of concerns that it adds to smog in high temperatures.
Senior Biden administration officials said the move will save drivers an average of 10 cents per gallon at 2,300 gas stations. Those stations are mostly in the Midwest and the South, including Texas, according to industry groups.
The move comes as Biden is facing growing political pressure over inflation, as new data Tuesday showed prices are rising at the fastest pace in more than 40 years, driven in part by soaring energy prices during the Russia-Ukraine war. The Labor Department said Tuesday that its consumer price index jumped 8.5% in March from 12 months earlier, the biggest year-over-year increase since December 1981.
Gas prices accounted for more than half of the monthly jump in prices. Food and housing costs also climbed in March in ways that could weigh on families. Inflation began to accelerate last year amid robust hiring after the passage of Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, a challenge for U.S. consumers that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine then amplified.
Administration officials said the EPA has begun analyzing the “emergency” step of allowing more E15 gasoline sales for the summer and determined it is not likely to have significant on-the-ground air quality impacts. That’s despite some environmentalists long arguing that more ethanol in gas increases pollution, especially during warmer summer months.
Biden is to announce the move at a biofuel company in Menlo, west of Des Moines. Iowa is the country’s largest producer of corn, key to producing ethanol.
The waiver is another effort to help ease global energy markets that have been rocked since Russia invaded Ukraine. Last month, the president announced the U.S. will release 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve over the next six months. His administration said that has helped to slightly reduce gas prices lately, after they climbed to an average of about $4.23 a gallon by the end of March, compared with $2.87 at the same time a year ago, according to AAA.
“Not only is this decision a major win for American drivers and our nation’s energy security, it means cleaner options at the pump and a stronger rural economy,” Emily Skor, CEO of the biofuel trade association group Growth Energy, said in a statement.
Members of Congress from both parties also had urged Biden to grant the E15 waiver.
“Homegrown Iowa biofuels provide a quick and clean solution for lowering prices at the pump and bolstering production would help us become energy independent once again,″ said Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley. He was among nine Republican and seven Democratic senators from Midwestern states who sent Biden a letter last month urging him to allow year-round E15 sales.
The trip will be Biden’s first as president to Iowa, where his 2020 presidential campaign limped to a fourth-place finish in the state’s technologically glitchy caucus.
After bouncing back to win the Democratic nomination, Biden returned for a rally at the Iowa state fairgrounds four days before Election Day 2020, only to see Donald Trump win the state by 8 percentage points.
Biden heads back to the state at a moment when he’s facing yet more political peril. He’s saddled with sagging approval ratings and inflation at a 40-year high while his party faces the prospect of big midterm election losses that could cost it control of Congress.
The president also planned to promote his economic plans to help rural families struggling with higher costs, while highlighting the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law enacted last fall. The law includes money to improve internet access, as well as for modernizing wastewater systems, reducing flooding threats and improving roads and bridges, drinking water and electric grids in sparsely populated areas.
“Part of it is showing up in communities of all sizes, regardless of the results of the last election,” said Jesse Harris, who was a senior adviser to Biden’s 2020 campaign in Iowa and directed get out the vote and early voting efforts for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008.
Harris said most presidents who visit Iowa typically go to the state’s largest cities. Hitting an area like Menlo, part of Guthrie County, which backed Trump over Biden by 35 percentage points in 2020, “does speak to the importance the administration places on infrastructure broadly but also infrastructure in rural and smaller communities.”
The Biden administration plans to spend the coming weeks pushing billions of dollars in funding for rural areas. Cabinet members and other senior officials will travel the country to help communities get access to money available as part of the infrastructure package.
“The president is not making this trip through a political prism,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. “He’s making this trip because Iowa is a rural state in the country that would benefit greatly from the president’s policies.”
Still, administration officials have long suggested that Biden travel more to promote an economy that is rebounding from the setbacks of the coronavirus pandemic. The number of Americans collecting unemployment has fallen to the lowest levels since 1970, for example.
But much of the positive jobs news nationally has been overshadowed by surging gas, food and housing prices that have offset wage gains.
“Maybe a trip back to Iowa will be just what Joe Biden needs to understand what his reckless spending, big government policies are doing to our country,” Iowa Republican Party Chairman Jeff Kaufmann said in a statement.
After Iowa, Biden will visit Greensboro, North Carolina, on Thursday.
Psaki blamed Russia’s war in Ukraine for helping to drive up gas prices and said the administration expects the consumer price index for March to be “extremely elevated” in large part because of it.
The EPA has lifted seasonal restrictions on E15 in the past, including after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. The Trump administration allowed for selling E15 in the summer months two years later but had the rule struck down by a federal appeals court.
A group representing petroleum refiners blasted the move, saying the only emergency was Biden’s dropping poll numbers.
“We are right there with the administration on wanting to see relief for consumers at the pump, but an unlawful executive order is not how to solve the problem,″ said Chet Thompson, president & CEO of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers.
Emergency fuel waivers are meant to be short-term solutions to supply disruptions from disasters such as a hurricane, Thompson said. The new waiver “is politics, not a real solution for drivers.”
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/biden-waiving-ethanol-rule-in-bid-to-lower-gasoline-prices/article_4b28fafc-ba73-11ec-9664-3701d37e4708.html | 2022-04-12T18:56:44Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/biden-waiving-ethanol-rule-in-bid-to-lower-gasoline-prices/article_4b28fafc-ba73-11ec-9664-3701d37e4708.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation soared over the past year at its fastest pace in more than 40 years, with costs for food, gasoline, housing and other necessities squeezing American consumers and wiping out the pay raises that many people have received.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that its consumer price index jumped 8.5% in March from 12 months earlier, the sharpest year-over-year increase since December 1981. Prices have been driven up by bottlenecked supply chains, robust consumer demand and disruptions to global food and energy markets worsened by Russia’s war against Ukraine. From February to March, inflation rose 1.2% , the biggest month-to-month jump since 2005.
Across the economy, the year-over-year price spikes were widespread in March. Gasoline prices have rocketed 48% in the past 12 months. Used car prices have soared 35.3%, though they actually fell in February and March. Bedroom furniture is up 14.7%, men’s jackets suits and coats 14.5%. Grocery prices have jumped 10%, including 18% increases for both bacon and oranges.
Even excluding volatile food and energy prices, which have driven overall inflation, so-called core inflation jumped 6.5% over the past 12 months, the biggest such increase since 1982.
The March inflation numbers were the first to capture the full surge in gasoline prices that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Moscow’s brutal attacks have triggered far-reaching Western sanctions against the Russian economy and have disrupted global food and energy markets. According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of gasoline — $4.10 — is up 43% from a year ago, though it has fallen back in the past couple of weeks.
The escalation of energy prices has led to higher transportation costs for the shipment of goods and components across the economy, which, in turn, has contributed to higher prices for consumers.
The latest evidence of accelerating prices will solidify expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates aggressively in the coming months to try to slow borrowing and spending and tame inflation. The financial markets now foresee much steeper rate hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as last month.
“The Fed will be pressing firmly on the brake pedal — not just pumping the brakes — in an effort to slow demand and bring the inflation rate back down,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.
Even before Russia’s war further spurred price increases, robust consumer spending, steady pay raises and chronic supply shortages had sent U.S. consumer inflation to its highest level in four decades. In addition, housing costs, which make up about a third of the consumer price index, have escalated, a trend that seems unlikely to reverse anytime soon.
Economists point out that as the economy has emerged from the depths of the pandemic, consumers have been gradually broadening their spending beyond goods to include more services. A result is that high inflation, which at first had reflected mainly a shortage of goods — from cars and furniture to electronics and sports equipment — has been emerging in services, too, like travel, health care and entertainment.
The expected fast pace of the Fed’s rate increases will make loans sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses. Mortgage rates, in particular, though not directly influenced by the Fed, have rocketed higher in recent weeks, making home buying more expensive. Many economists say they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and might end up acting so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
For now, the economy as a whole remains solid, with unemployment near 50-year lows and job openings near record highs. Still, rocketing inflation, with its impact on Americans’ daily lives, is posing a political threat to President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies as they seek to keep control of Congress in November’s midterm elections.
The American public’s expectation for inflation over the next 12 months has reached its highest point — 6.6% — in a survey the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has conducted since 2013.
Once public expectations for inflation rise, they can be self-fulfilling: Workers typically demand higher pay to offset their expectations for price increases, and businesses, in turn, raise prices to cover their higher labor costs. This can set off a wage-price spiral, something the nation last endured in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Economists generally express doubt that even the sharp rate hikes that are expected from the Fed will manage to reduce inflation anywhere near the central bank’s 2% annual target by the end of this year. Luke Tilley, chief economist at Wilmington Trust, said he expects year-over-year consumer inflation to still be 4.5% by the end of 2022. Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he had forecast a much lower 3% rate.
Inflation, which had been largely under control for four decades, began to accelerate last spring as the U.S. and global economies rebounded with unexpected speed and strength from the brief but devastating coronavirus recession that began in the spring of 2020.
The recovery, fueled by huge infusions of government spending and super-low interest rates, caught businesses by surprise, forcing them to scramble to meet surging customer demand. Factories, ports and freight yards struggled to keep up, leading to chronic shipping delays and price spikes.
Critics also blame, in part, the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion March 2021 stimulus program, which included $1,400 relief checks for most households, for helping overheat an already sizzling economy. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/us-inflation-jumped-8-5-in-past-year-highest-since-1981/article_35255f5c-ba6e-11ec-896e-1f2d072d7c13.html | 2022-04-12T18:57:02Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/us-inflation-jumped-8-5-in-past-year-highest-since-1981/article_35255f5c-ba6e-11ec-896e-1f2d072d7c13.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Every party promises Edinburgh clean-up in local council election pledges
Edinburgh’s political parties have promised cleaner streets, improved waste collection services and a crackdown on fly-tipping and dog fouling if voted in at the council elections.
With under a month to go until polling day, plans for a cleaner capital have been put forward across all the party manifestos.
Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives have all vowed to scrap bulky uplift fees to reduce fly-tipping rates in the city.
The Tories and Lib Dems have also made a promise to do-away with charges for brown garden waste bins which currently cost residents £35 a year.
As part of their re-election bid, the SNP says it will increase funding for bin collections and street cleaning by £10 million over the next five-year term.
The group’s 2022 manifesto commits to extra cash for the council to tackle ‘unwanted graffiti’ in Edinburgh and the creation of new spaces for street art and murals.
If elected to help run the next administration, they also plan to introduce more wardens on the beat to stop businesses from using residential bins and issue fines for dog fouling.
And they want to carry out a “full review” of the roll-out of new bin hubs, retain gull proof-sacks “where they are wanted” and redirect funds for the project to put communal bins underground “where possible”.
Edinburgh’s Labour Group have pledged to increase the frequency of street cleaning and bin collections, enforce the “toughest penalties” for fly tipping and dog fouling and extend food waste collections to all homes across the capital.
In addition, the party plans to reduce the amount of waste plastic going to landfill by promoting the use of re-usable nappies and sanitary products, whilst investigating ways of recycling plastic film.
Meanwhile, the Greens have vowed to improve bin collections and recycling with a “recycling action programme” and more street cleaning carts in each neighbourhood.
A fly-tipping action plan and more environmental wardens would be put in place under the Greens’ manifesto in a bid to tackle illegal roadside dumping and dog fouling.
The Liberal Democrats say they will make recycling in Edinburgh ‘easier and more ambitious’ by opening new council-run recycling centres and increasing the number of public waste bins around littering hotspots.
They have pledged to review bin hubs and the decision to remove gull-proof sacks in historic parts of the city and will tackle littering and dog fouling and push for increased fining powers. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/every-party-promises-edinburgh-clean-up-in-local-council-election-pledges-3651738 | 2022-04-12T18:57:04Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/every-party-promises-edinburgh-clean-up-in-local-council-election-pledges-3651738 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) - Partly cloudy skies with passing windward and mauka showers, isolated showers leeward. Highs 83 to 88. Trade winds 10 to 20 mph.
Moderate to locally breezy trade winds will stick around as a high-pressure system to the north of the Hawaiian Islands over the next seven days. Expect periods of passing showers favoring the windward and mountain areas of each island with higher chances in the overnight to early morning hours.
Unstable cloud bands from a dissipated cold front will drift into the islands from the north on Saturday and Sunday producing increasing rainfall coverage over all islands.
A series of small northwest swells will move through the islands during the next 7 days, keeping north shore surf from going flat most days.
Fresh to strong trades over and far upstream of the islands will generate trade wind swell that will keep above average surf along east facing shores through Wednesday. Surf will drop to near average levels during the second half of the week into the weekend.
Several overlapping south swells will keep south shore surf elevated today. Surf will then decrease back to seasonal levels Wednesday through Friday, before trending back up over the weekend.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/tuesday-weather-breezy-trade-winds-passing-windward-and-mauka-rain/article_ad049ad0-ba6c-11ec-9cf9-e7a1889ca505.html | 2022-04-12T18:57:08Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/tuesday-weather-breezy-trade-winds-passing-windward-and-mauka-rain/article_ad049ad0-ba6c-11ec-9cf9-e7a1889ca505.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Police are searching for a gunman who filled a rush-hour subway train with smoke and shot multiple people Tuesday, leaving wounded commuters bleeding on a Brooklyn platform as others ran screaming.
Officials said the gunfire wounded at least five people, and at least 11 in all were injured in some way in the attack at the 36th Street station in the borough’s Sunset Park neighborhood.
A train rider’s video shows smoke and people pouring out of a subway car. Wails erupt as passengers run for an exit as a few others limp off the train. One falls to the platform, and a person hollers, “Someone call 911!” In other video and photos from the scene, people tend to bloodied passengers lying on the platform, some amid what appear to be small puddles of blood, and another person is on the floor of a subway car.
“My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming,” eyewitness Sam Carcamo told radio station 1010 WINS, saying he saw a gigantic billow of smoke pouring out of the N train once the door opened.
According to multiple law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation, preliminary information indicated that the suspect who fled was a man wearing a construction vest and a gas mask.
Investigators believe the suspect deployed a smoke device before opening fire, one of the law enforcement officials said. Investigators are examining whether the suspect may have used that device in an effort to distract people before shooting, the official said.
Fire and police officials were investigating reports that there had been an explosion, but the police department tweeted that there were “no active explosive devices at this time.” Multiple smoke devices were found on the scene, said mayoral spokesperson Fabien Levy, who confirmed the initial shooting injury count.
At least 11 people were being treated at two local hospitals. No MTA workers were physically hurt, according to a statement from the Transport Workers Union Local 100.
Juliana Fonda, a broadcast engineer at WNYC-FM, told its news site Gothamist she was riding the train when passengers from the car behind hers started banging on the door between them.
“There was a lot of loud pops, and there was smoke in the other car,” she said. “And people were trying to get in and they couldn’t, they were pounding on the door to get into our car.”
President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland were briefed on the incident, as was Gov. Kathy Hochul. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is isolating following a positive COVID-19 test on Sunday, was briefed at the mayor’s residence.
The incident happened on a subway line that runs through south Brooklyn in a neighborhood about a 15-minute train ride to Manhattan. Local schools, including Sunset Park High School across the street, were locked down.
Danny Mastrogiorgio of Brooklyn had just dropped his son off at school when he saw a crush of passengers, some of them wounded, running up the subway stairway at the nearby 25th Street station in panic. At least two had visible leg injuries, he said.
“It was insane,” he told The Associated Press. “No one knew exactly what was going on.”
Allan Lee was running his business, Cafe Nube, when a half-dozen police cars and fire vehicles suddenly converged on the block that contains the 36th Street station.
“Then they started ushering people that were on the block to the adjacent block and then closed off the subway entrance” near the cafe’s door, he told the AP. When he noticed bomb squad officers and dogs, he was certain it was no everyday subway problem.
A sea of emergency lights was visible from at least a dozen blocks away, where a police cordon was set up.
New York City has faced a spate a shootings and high-profile incidents in recent months, including on the city’s subways. One of the most shocking was in January when a woman was pushed to her death in front of a train by a stranger.
Adams, a Democrat a little over 100 days into his term, has made cracking down on crime — especially on the subways — a focus of his early administration, pledging to send more police officers into stations and platforms for regular patrols. It wasn’t immediately clear whether officers had already been inside the station when the shootings occurred.
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Associated Press reporters Michael Balsamo in Washington and Michelle L. Price and Jennifer Peltz contributed to this report. | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/gunman-opens-fire-on-brooklyn-subway-at-least-11-injured/article_962d507c-ba76-11ec-b6c5-e31c2cec19b6.html | 2022-04-12T18:57:14Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/gunman-opens-fire-on-brooklyn-subway-at-least-11-injured/article_962d507c-ba76-11ec-b6c5-e31c2cec19b6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A person holds flags during the Bans Off Oklahoma Rally on the steps on Oklahoma state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, April, 5, 2022. (Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman via AP)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law on Tuesday that makes it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, as part of an aggressive push in Republican-led states across the country to scale back abortion rights.
The bill, which takes effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns next month, makes an exception only for an abortion performed to save the life of the mother. Abortion rights advocates say the bill signed by the GOP governor is likely to face a legal challenge.
Its passage comes as the conservative U.S. Supreme Court considers ratcheting back abortion rights that have been in place for nearly 50 years.
Under the bill, anyone convicted of performing an abortion would face up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. It does not authorize criminal charges against a woman for receiving an abortion.
Sen. Nathan Dahm, a Broken Arrow Republican now running for Congress who wrote the bill, called it the “strongest pro-life legislation in the country right now, which effectively eliminates abortion in Oklahoma.”
Abortion rights advocates say the bill is clearly unconstitutional.
“It has never been more obvious that politicians are using tricks and games to pass these harmful laws,” Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Texas and Oklahoma and a board member at Physicians for Reproductive Health, said in a statement. “Oklahoma legislators are trying to ban abortion from all sides and merely seeing which of these dangerous, shameful bills they can get their governor to sign.”
Similar anti-abortion bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature and in other conservative states in recent years have been stopped by the courts as unconstitutional, but anti-abortion lawmakers have been buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow new Texas abortion restrictions to remain in place.
The new Texas law, the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the U.S. in decades, leaves enforcement up to private citizens, who are entitled to collect what critics call a “bounty” of $10,000 if they bring a successful lawsuit against a provider or anyone who helps a patient obtain an abortion.
Several states, including Oklahoma, are pursuing similar legislation this year. | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/oklahoma-governor-signs-bill-to-make-abortion-illegal/article_e44dbe4a-ba71-11ec-bbfa-3bb7d4fe6817.html | 2022-04-12T18:57:20Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/oklahoma-governor-signs-bill-to-make-abortion-illegal/article_e44dbe4a-ba71-11ec-bbfa-3bb7d4fe6817.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast meets reproductive care needs for people across southeast Texas.
For some women, it's the only available option within hundreds of miles to seek an abortion.
"We've been doing it for years, but now all of a sudden we have to say we're not able to, and instead, we're helping them get out of state," said Dr. Bhavik Kumar, a family physician at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.
For decades, conservatives in the state have chipped away at abortion access, and restrictions have shut down many clinics.
In 2021, Texas lawmakers effectively banned termination of pregnancy after six weeks, even though medical experts say most women won't know if they are pregnant during that time period.
They also passed more restrictions on medicated abortion, which typically uses two pills to end a pregnancy.
Dr. Kumar says the restrictive laws compromise his ability to provide safe and legal medical care.
"But now our hands are tied, and having to say no to somebody, especially when I have the medical training and the expertise to provide that care," Dr. Kumar said.
"We've got the team of nurses and the staff and the techs, everyone available to do what they need to make them feel better and to make all the other things in their life somewhat better, and we're not able to do that."
In a report, the University of Texas Policy Evaluation Project says the law's effect reduced abortions in the state by about 50% around 2,100 in September of 2021.
It also says there are only 24 facilities for a state of 29 million people, forcing many women to travel out to places as far away as Colorado.
Dr. Rebecca Cohen from the Comprehensive Women's Health Center in Denver says some women travel hours to seek abortion care, with up to 20% of their patients being from Texas on some days.
The demand surge has lengthened wait times, as other surrounding states are following the Texas law.
"As hard as it is to kind of look to the horizon and see the tsunami, we know that it's coming," Dr. Cohen said.
The wave reproductive health providers expect is that the conservative-leaning Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision which legalized abortion.
"We know what happens when abortion is banned," Dr. Kuma said. "We know that people will continue to need access to this care, so we're not going anywhere. We'll continue this fight. But I think and what I hope will come out of this is more people will understand how critical abortion access is for people's health care and for families and for communities, and that we will begin to turn the tide the other way."
It'll be an uphill struggle for abortion rights in Texas, as anti-abortion conservative Republicans dominate the legislature.
The Texas laws have also created an underground network of sorts, with many legal funds and confidential logistical operations, to help women without the means find abortion clinics out of state and help them travel there, or to help women find access to medicated abortion.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Federal data confirms that 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history.
New research is offering more insights into how it got that bad. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month quietly updated its provisional death statistics, showing there were more than 3.46 million deaths last year. That's about 80,000 more than 2020′s record tally.
Experts say COVID-19 was the major reason. But a new study released Tuesday shows an unprecedented spike in adolescent drug overdose deaths also played a role.
CDC data indicates that more than 373,000 Americans died from all causes in January 2021, a 108,942 increase from January 2020. January 2021 is widely considered the deadliest month of the pandemic in the U.S. with an estimated 95,000 deaths during the month. The United States did not recording a significant number of COVID-19 fatalities until March 2020.
Researchers also believe U.S. life expectancy dropped another five or six months in 2021 — putting it back to where it was 20 years ago. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/covid-19-overdoses-pushed-us-to-highest-death-total-ever | 2022-04-12T19:01:14Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/covid-19-overdoses-pushed-us-to-highest-death-total-ever | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cellphone provider Nokia said it is no longer conducting new business in Russia as it joins a growing list of Western companies to stop doing business in the country.
Nokia said continuing its presence in Russia would “not be possible” as Russia continues its war against Ukraine.
“For humanitarian reasons, Western governments have expressed concerns about the risk of critical telecommunication network infrastructure in Russia failing,” Nokia said. “They have also emphasized the importance of ensuring the continued flow of information and access to the internet which provides outside perspectives to the Russian people. Therefore, as we exit we will aim to provide the necessary support to maintain the networks and are applying for the relevant licenses to enable this support in compliance with current sanctions.”
Nokia said it has stopped deliveries to Russia and is moving out its research and development.
The company said the Russian market accounts for less than 2% of its net sales. Nokia said with strong demand in other regions, it is not expecting the decision to impact its financial outlook for the year. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/nokia-halts-new-business-in-russia | 2022-04-12T19:01:38Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/nokia-halts-new-business-in-russia | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Remember when vacationing to Canada was an easygoing, rated-G lark? An everything’s-good, everything’s-fine escape to a nicer, gentler place where the people dress like us, sound like us (more or less, eh?), but aren’t us?
Welcome to topsy-turvy 2022, where otherwise low-key Canada is currently embroiled in a scandal involving more than a century of racist and deadly child abuse, culminating with a reckoning in the form of lawsuits, protests, reparations and calls for the cancellation of its national holiday.
In other words, it’s doing its best impression of America.
Even the pope had to jump into the mix earlier this month by finally apologizing (and you know how much the Holy See loves to do that) for the Catholic Church’s enormous role it played in the murderous and cringingly euphemized “residential school” system which committed “cultural genocide” of Canada’s indigenous populations from the 1880s up through the mid-1990s.
But in order to heal the deep societal wounds and pain in its wake, apologetic-to-a-fault Canada still manages to keep it unapologetically old-school Canada — spiritually, recreationally, wine o’clockually — for residents and visitors alike, at least in one small, largely indigenous pocket of British Columbia’s Southern Interior.
Half native Secwepemc (Shuswap, in English), half Norwegian blooded, Brittany “Britt” Bakken is a 28-year-old cultural interpreter and healing guide at the Quaaout Lodge & Spa at Talking Rock Golf Resort in Chase, roughly 260 miles northeast of Vancouver by car.
Britt’s breadth of knowledge in history, spirituality, ethnobotany and especially linguistics is as bold and well-rounded as her nose ring — think Ferdinand de Saussure with a dash of riot grrrl. You could say il papa’s mea culpa left her a tad wanting. “To me, an apology alone does not do anything. There are reservations still dealing with dirty, untreated drinking water … brown sludge that children play in,” she says. “Do something about that or shove it. An apology without action is just manipulation.”
The savvy spitfire who hails from nearby Kamloops is shepherding our group of aspiring soul-searchers on a healing journey around the 70-room lodge’s densely forested land on the shores of Little Shuswap Lake. We’re talking 20 acres of prime, pristine Squilax Territory.
We start early in the morning under a cerulean sky by doing a 15-minute gratis smudge ceremony, or what Britt calls a spirit bath. She lights a bundle of sage in an abalone shell bowl, then either she, or the guests themselves, waves the smoke-billowing stick around the parts of the body most in need of cleansing. Hair seems to be the favorite of our group as it’s best at trapping the herb’s waft for all-day olfactory bliss. All of the four elements are represented in the smudge — abalone from the water; sage from the earth, and air to oxygenate the sage’s flame. The number four is kind of a big deal in Shuswap beliefs.
We then leisurely sauntered through the Endor-like woodlands surrounding the lodge — a metropolis of giant cedars, firs and junipers carpeting the ground with their cones.
We stumble upon a grouping of, yes, four fir trees, one of which was not like the others. It had its barky bod blasted by lightning something fierce years ago, but still lives to tell the tale.
That’s all I’ll say about “the Healing Tree,” lest I spoil all the many stories of miracles it and its pitchy goodness have since paid forward which Gordon “Gordo” Tomma will regale you with. As wise as he is wisecracking, Gordo is a half-Irish fiftysomething Shuswap knowledge keeper and fellow culture interpreter who often accompanies Britt.
“He excels at telling me when I’m wrong,” she jokes.
Gordo promises that while all of his Healing Tree tales start the same, they never end as such.
We emerge from the forest onto the shores of icy Little Shuswap Lake, grand Monashee mountains provide the backdrop. A short walk down the beach, we come upon a mysterious, red metal-doored structure.
“This is a sweat lodge, free to use,” Britt explains. “It gets blistering hot in there from the lava stones, so you shouldn’t wear jewelry. I would have to take out my nose ring.”
While owned by the same native band, the steam lodge is private and not part of Quaaout proper, and currently padlocked (possibly because of some bad weather, possibly because of some bad humans). In other words, it’s officially closed to John Q. Public like us. (But, if you happen to know a guy who knows a guy who knows a chieftain, you might just slip on past the proverbial velvet rope one day.)
The capper to our stroll to serenity is a stopover at the lodge’s kekuli, a traditional, semi-subterranean earth lodge with a fire pit as centerpiece, intended to spur storytelling, the sharing of sorrows, prayer or just meditation among its guests.
After learning about the initial 215 child graves discovered outside a residential school nearly a year ago (that number has since ballooned into the thousands), Britt visited the kekuli four days in a row, prayed and gave her thoughts to the departed.
“I let them know they’re not forgotten and offered food to the flame for them to enjoy on the other side,” remembers Britt, who’s also a mother of two “kiddos” and an assistant teacher of linguistics at a local daycare.
When we return to the lodge, Britt gifts us with a small satchel of sage and bid us adieu. Intent on a little après-detox at the lodge’s restaurant and bar — helmed by local chef Chris Whittaker, it partners with local suppliers, farms and wineries (try Recline Ridge’s Riesling-esque Kerner) — the day of healing hasn’t ended just quite yet.
Enter five-treatment room Le7ke Spa. First off, this is totally justified as an authentic indigenous experience beyond just the First Nations-inspired décor and design. Its name, Le7ke, means “I am good” (“well” if you’re a grammar snob) in Secwepemctsín and that “7” is not a hallucination, nor is it a stylized “V” a la the movie “Se7en,” nor is it the actual number — it’s just the best mouth-and-throat-looking pictograph a Qwerty keyboard can conjure up to indicate a glottal stop which occurs quite frequently in the awesomely alphanumeric language. But my nerd-self digresses.
In difficult and heartbreaking times such as these — and not just for Canada’s indigenous folk, but for all of its people — spiritual pit stops like Quaaout Lodges and its passionate crew of cultural guides are essential. Although, if you visit Quaaout’s website, an auto-playing promotional video on the homepage shows an entirely different cultural experience: sunglasses-wearing, beer-tossing, hot dog-scarfing bros, with golf clubs slung over one arm, a stand-up paddleboard under the other, hitting the lake’s sandy beach with their dog.
Each of us grieves in their own way.
Rates at Quaaout Lodge start at $175; Daily 15-minute smudge ceremony is free for guests at 9:30 a.m., space is limited; 75-minute Walk the Land Tour is $32/pp; 75-minute Kekuli Storytelling Experience is $36. The author was a guest of the hotel. | https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/how-an-indigenous-owned-resort-in-canada-is-healing-old-wounds/ | 2022-04-12T19:05:34Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/how-an-indigenous-owned-resort-in-canada-is-healing-old-wounds/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fritz B. Bosquet is a Haitian-born, New York-raised designer who has been passionate about making an impact on the world since the age of 13. He is strongly influenced by his Caribbean and Afro-American culture and his experience as an immigrant, which helped prepare him for his career in fashion and shaped his clothing brands. | https://rollingout.com/2022/04/12/fritz-bosquet-is-giving-fashion-a-new-twist-with-his-heritaj-clothing-line/ | 2022-04-12T19:05:45Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/04/12/fritz-bosquet-is-giving-fashion-a-new-twist-with-his-heritaj-clothing-line/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ameshya Williams-Holliday made history on April 11.
The Jackson State center was selected 25th overall by the Indiana Fever in the 2022 WNBA Draft. She became the first athlete in Jackson State history to get drafted into the WNBA and the first athlete from an HBCU to get drafted from an HBCU in 20 years.
“I just want to thank God,” Williams tweeted after she received the news. “It seems so unreal, but I did it, y’all.”
Williams has one of the most unique sports stories in the country. She was a star high school basketball player in the state of Mississippi before signing to continue her career at Mississippi State. MSU was one of the top women’s basketball programs in the nation at the time, as Williams was a freshman center on the famous team that upset UCONN at the buzzer in the 2017 national semifinals. Williams even played in the national championship game for the Bulldogs against A’Ja Wilson, coach Dawn Staley and South Carolina that year. As a sophomore, Williams began to enter Mississippi State’s rotation, but due to the stress of school and playing at a high-level program, she made the sudden decision to move back home to Gulfport, Mississippi, a few hours from MSU’s campus in Starkville, Mississippi.
The first in her family to attend college, as reported by Mia Berry, Williams was back in Gulfport trying to figure out different ways to make money. College coaches kept contacting her to join their programs, but she ignored them all- except one.
Tomekia Reed was the head coach at a Mississippi junior college and remained persistent when all the other coaches stopped reaching out to her. One day, Williams told Reed she got pregnant while back at home. Reed continued to pursue Williams, as she promised to get the young woman back in classes and help find assistance for watching her son, Jace. Williams’ mother often watched Jace, while at other times, Jace came to practice and sat with some of Jackson State’s coaching staff’s young children along the sideline.
Williams showed immediate signs of promise when she officially re-emerged on the court with a new Mississippi school and put up consistent double-doubles regardless of the competition. In the 2021 NCAA Tournament appearance against Baylor, Williams put up a double-double, but Reed expressed her disappointment in her team’s conditioning after the loss. Williams then returned to the court with a slimmer figure and continued to put up dominant numbers in her final season at JSU.
In a 66-62 loss to SEC-opponent Arkansas on Dec. 9, a now-married Williams-Holliday finished with 21 rebounds, 18 points and seven blocks. This time around at the NCAA Tournament, Jackson State gave LSU an upset-scare in a 83-77 loss. The Tigers held a double-digit lead over LSU within the final three minutes of the game, and LSU made a run once Williams-Holliday had to substitute out briefly with foul trouble.
Now a graduate and the most-decorated player in Jackson State women’s basketball history, the 6-foot-4 athlete who wanted to quit basketball now has the means to provide for her son and family as a professional athlete.
“Jace and [her husband] James, we did it!” Williams-Holliday tweeted after the draft. | https://rollingout.com/2022/04/12/how-this-hbcu-graduate-and-mother-made-wnba-history/ | 2022-04-12T19:05:55Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/04/12/how-this-hbcu-graduate-and-mother-made-wnba-history/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A 3-year-old Pennsylvania girl fell to her death over a 411-foot waterfall in North Carolina after she slipped while playing in the sand, police and her family said.
Nevaeh Jade Newswanger, of Denver, Pennsylvania, was visiting Whitewater Falls with her family Sunday when she was swept away and plunged below, NBC News reported, citing the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
Emergency crews responded to a call about the girl at 5:50 p.m. and recovered her body at about 1 a.m. Monday, officials said.
Nevaeh’s family had been living in Oconee County in South Carolina, where her dad works in construction, and decided to go on a hike on a trail that led to the river above the waterfall about 25 miles from their home, according to the outlet.
“We desperately tried to rescue her but the current was so strong and it swept her down the river and over the falls where the angels caught her,” her parents, Keith and Sheri, wrote in a GoFundMe page.
“She is now our precious angel, so radiant in the presence of God. Her name is heaven spelled backwards. She was truly a piece of heaven to all who knew her,” they added.
The fundraising page — which raised about $5,390 of its $25,000 goals as of Tuesday afternoon — included a poignant photo of the smiling toddler, her sister Tania and their parents sitting on the grass.
Whitewater Falls is the highest waterfall east of the Rockies, according to the US Forest Service.
“First and foremost our prayers are with the Newswanger Family as they grieve the loss of this precious young child,” Jackson County Sheriff Chip Hall said in a statement, NBC News reported.
“With the onset of spring weather we need to be reminded of the dangers associated with many scenic areas of the region such as waterfalls,” he added. | https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/three-year-old-killed-after-falling-into-north-carolina-waterfall/ | 2022-04-12T19:06:04Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/three-year-old-killed-after-falling-into-north-carolina-waterfall/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
At least 10 people were shot and six others were injured when a suspect set off a smoke grenade and unleashed gunfire on a Brooklyn subway train on the morning of April 12. Reportedly, there are no life-threatening injuries among the victims.
The suspect was dressed in orange construction gear and wearing a gas mask. One witness described the gunman as a 5-foot-5 Black man weighing around 170 pounds. They also said that he fired “too many rounds to count.”
According to another witness, the suspect set off a smoke grenade moments before the gunfire began. Five people were shot in one subway car and two were shot in another.
Officials say the injured victims were taken to the NYU Langone of Brooklyn and Methodist Hospital.
No arrests have been made, and schools around the area have been ordered to shelter in place as the search continues for the suspect. It remains unclear whether there is any connection to terrorism, but FBI headquarters is monitoring.
New York Mayor Eric Adams is said to be monitoring the situation, despite currently battling COVID-19.
This story is developing, stay tuned for further details. | https://rollingout.com/2022/04/12/man-in-a-gas-mask-shoots-multiple-people-in-new-york/ | 2022-04-12T19:06:05Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/04/12/man-in-a-gas-mask-shoots-multiple-people-in-new-york/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rap impresario Rick Ross announced he is coming for 50 Cent’s TV throne by conceptualizing his own show which is currently inthe works.
The “Teflon Don” says he is going to multiply his coins by invading the television space, just months after emphatically denouncing all things Tinseltown.
Ricky Rozay, who is also metaphorically and literally called the “Biggest Boss,” took to his Instagram Story on Monday, April 10, to inform his 14.5 million followers of his 180-degree turn on Hollywood pursuits. Once denigrating the endeavor as frivolous and menial, he now says he intends to add a TV content creator title along with being the longtime Maybach Music Group CEO.
“The time has come, and the perfect time is now,” Rozay trumpeted in the IG video while getting his head and face groomed and polished and at his metro Atlanta mansion.
“I’ma go ahead and do me a show. The time is now. It’s going to be about wealth, based on success. We actually filming right now, but I hope y’all are ready for it ’cause I’ma talk some big numbers. Big numbers. This the nine-figure club, you figure? It’s going down like that.”
Ross didn’t deliver any specifics on the upcoming show, where or when it will be aired, nor whether he will be a star in it or just push the concept from the rear.
The “Aston Martin Music” rap icon’s stance contradicts the interview he gave to GQ magazine in December 2021 where he said resolutely that he would not get deep into TV and movies. This is despite the cameos he’s made in such recent projects as Coming to America 2, “The Equalizer” which stars Queen Latifah, and Trick Daddy’s cooking show “B—h I Got My Pots.”
“There ain’t enough money in acting,” he disdainfully bemoaned to GQ while taking a swipe at 50 Cent and the coins collected from the ultra-popular ‘Power’ franchise and ‘BMF’ series in recent years. “Your man made $250K for the season doing that. That little season, Starz TV s–. What channel is it really?”
Rozay then admonished Curtis Jackson by saying “he should’ve just went Revolt (television station). Just go Revolt next time. Tell Curtis I said, ‘Go Revolt.’”
Regardless of what caused Rick Ross to change his mind so quickly about TV, fans seem to be here for it based on their response to the announcement. | https://rollingout.com/2022/04/12/rick-ross-challenging-50-cent-by-filming-his-own-tv-show/ | 2022-04-12T19:06:16Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/04/12/rick-ross-challenging-50-cent-by-filming-his-own-tv-show/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kim Kardashian — who has almost 300 million followers on her main account — likes to keep tabs on her pals’ and fans’ accounts using asecondary account and has also used her friend’s finsta.
Talking to host Amanda Hirsch on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, the mom of four confessed to following her fans from her finsta account.
“I used to follow you from my finsta and then I was like ‘I don’t go to my finsta that often and just want it on my regular feed.’ I had a finsta, that was like a real finsta and it was only following girls who would just post like really wild s— and I was like, ‘This is so lame, I don’t want to be in the finsta game.’
“But then I need a stalking finsta and so my friend Lala, she had a finsta, and I [didn’t] want to make one again, so I asked ‘what is your password,’ so I just used her finsta and I kicked her out of her finsta and now I just use hers, just to stalk people, like fan accounts, or fashiony things or just everyone you could possibly think of,” she said.
The reality star — who is currently dating “Saturday Night Live” comedian Pete Davidson, 28 — previously revealed she rakes in the money using the Meta-owned social media app.
The star claimed she can earn more cash promoting products to her followers than she ever did starring on her family’s now-defunct E! reality show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
Speaking to David Letterman on his Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” she said: “We would not be who we are today without ‘KUWTK’ and that’s why we continue to share our lives. Even if, realistically, we can post something on social media and make more than we do [in] a whole season.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/04/12/this-is-what-kim-kardashian-said-she-did-to-stalk-friends-and-fans/ | 2022-04-12T19:06:26Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/04/12/this-is-what-kim-kardashian-said-she-did-to-stalk-friends-and-fans/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) - 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history, and new data and research are offering more insights into how it got that bad.
The main reason for the increase in deaths? COVID-19, said Robert Anderson, who oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's work on death statistics.
The agency this month quietly updated its provisional death tally. It showed there were 3.465 million deaths last year, or about 80,000 more than 2020's record-setting total.
Early last year, some experts were optimistic that 2021 would not be as bad as the first year of the pandemic - partly because effective COVID-19 vaccines had finally become available.
“We were wrong, unfortunately," said Noreen Goldman, a Princeton University researcher.
COVID-19 deaths rose in 2021 - to more than 415,000, up from 351,000 the year before - as new coronavirus variants emerged and an unexpectedly large numbers of Americans refused to get vaccinated or were hesitant to wear masks, experts said.
The coronavirus is not solely to blame. Preliminary CDC data also shows the crude death rate for cancer rose slightly, and rates continued to increase for diabetes, chronic liver disease and stroke.
Drug overdose deaths also continued to rise. The CDC does not yet have a tally for 2021 overdose deaths, because it can take weeks of lab work and investigation to identify them. But provisional data through October suggests the nation is on track to see at least 105,000 overdose deaths in 2021 - up from 93,000 the year before.
New research released Tuesday showed a particularly large jump in overdose deaths among 14- to 18-year-olds.
Adolescent overdose death counts were fairly constant for most of the last decade, at around 500 a year, according to the paper published by the Journal of the American Medical Association. They almost doubled in 2020, to 954, and the researchers estimated that the total hit nearly 1,150 last year.
Joseph Friedman, a UCLA researcher who was the paper’s lead author, called the spike “unprecedented.”
Those teen overdose deaths were only around 1% of the U.S. total. But adolescents experienced a greater relative increase than the overall population, even though surveys suggest drug use among teens is down.
Experts attributed the spike to fentanyl, a highly lethal drug that has been cut into heroin for several years. More recently it’s also been pressed into counterfeit pills resembling prescription drugs that teens sometimes abuse.
National death trends affect life expectancy - an estimate of the average number of years a baby born in a given year might expect to live.
With rare exceptions, U.S. life expectancy has reliably inched up year after year. But the CDC’s life expectancy estimate for 2020 was about 77 years - more than a year and a half lower than what it was in 2019.
The CDC has not yet reported its calculation for 2021. But Goldman and some other researchers have been making their own estimates, presented in papers that have not yet been published in peer-reviewed journals.
Those researchers think U.S. life expectancy dropped another five or six months in 2021 - putting it back to where it was 20 years ago.
A loss of more than two years of life expectancy over the last two years "is mammoth," Goldman said.
One study looked at death data in the U.S. and 19 other high-income countries. The U.S. fared the worst.
“What happened in the U.S. is less about the variants than the levels of resistance to vaccination and the public’s rejection of practices, such as masking and mandates, to reduce viral transmission,” one of the study's authors, Dr. Steven Woolf of Virginia Commonwealth University, said in a statement.
Some experts are skeptical that life expectancy will quickly bounce back. They worry about long-term complications of COVID-19 that may hasten the deaths of people with chronic health problems.
Preliminary - and incomplete - CDC data suggest there were at least 805,000 U.S. deaths in about the first three months of this year. That's well below the same period last year, but higher than the comparable period in 2020.
“We may end up with a ‘new normal’ that's a little higher than it was before,” Anderson said. | https://www.wboc.com/news/covid-19-overdoses-pushed-us-to-highest-death-total-ever/article_bdf21dfe-ba7b-11ec-a313-977f5f51e85a.html | 2022-04-12T19:07:12Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/covid-19-overdoses-pushed-us-to-highest-death-total-ever/article_bdf21dfe-ba7b-11ec-a313-977f5f51e85a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DOVER, Del.- The Delaware Community Foundation, in partnership with the African American Empowerment Fund of Delaware, has awarded $287,200 to 17 nonprofit organizations led by and serving Black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) through the BIPOC Leaders and Communities Grants Program.
“These grants are part of the DCF’s larger work to advance equity throughout the state and expand the communities served by philanthropy,” DCF President and CEO Stuart Comstock-Gay said. “Through these investments, we are supporting community-driven change and building capacity among nonprofit leaders and organizations throughout Delaware so they can continue to grow and thrive.”
The 17 recipients are:
4th Dimension Leaders – $10,000
Train educators to lead equity efforts at the school and community levels.
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation – $20,000
Recruit and train Delawareans to be advocates on issues such as policing, sentencing, reentry and probation.
Center for Structural Equity – $20,000
Support employment, empowerment and community engagement and advocacy for youth impacted by and/or experiencing poverty and violence.
Choir School of Delaware – $20,000
Conduct strategic planning to pilot a workforce development program that builds a pipeline of people of color in music professions.
Delaware Adolescent Program, Inc. – $20,000
Conduct strategic planning and cultural competency training to ensure organization continues to best serve and strengthen young families of color in Delaware.
Delaware College Scholars – $19,000
Advance Social Emotional Learning in DCS Scholars and their families.
Developing Artist Collaboration – $20,000
Create a historical mural in West Rehoboth, honoring its rich cultural history and uplifting the voices of the original community members.
EDGE for Tomorrow – $20,000
Conduct strategic planning, advance board diversification and support student mentoring.
Harambee Delaware Fund – $20,000
Develop an online resource bank for nonprofit leaders of color in Delaware.
Love-In-Deed Community Development Corporation – $16,200
Support the RISE Independent Living program for youth aging out of foster care.
Mom’s House of Dover – $2,000
Upgrade website to better serve and connect with its community.
Network Connect – $20,000
Conduct strategic planning and professional development and launch CRM software.
One Village Alliance – $20,000
Conduct strategic planning and ensure it can continue to meet the evolving needs and challenges of the community it serves.
Pathways To Success – $10,000
Provide organizational leadership with skill-building, training and mentorship to improve delivery of services to youth, primarily youth of color.
Philadelphia Arms Townhomes, Inc. – $10,000
Conduct strategic and revenue planning, as well as staff and board development, to ensure long-term viability in meeting community needs.
Reel Families for Change – $20,000
Develop BIPOC entrepreneurs in the creative economy with tools and skills to benefit from market growth, economic recovery and contractual opportunities.
True Access Capital – $20,000
Transition to digital/cloud-based loan system in order to serve more BIPOC-owned small businesses in gaining access to capital.
The DCF said it is committed to infusing equity into its work. DCF officials said that in their effort to advance equity, they are engaging in new practices to amplify a broad range of voices and strengthen leaders who reflect the full diversity of Delaware demographics.
The DCF’s BIPOC Leaders and Communities Grants are underwritten by a group of charitable funds created by generous people who believe in the DCF’s work to build opportunity and advance equity in the First State. For a full list of those funds, visit delcf.org/impact-grant-funders.
This year’s Leaders and Communities Grants also were supported by gifts from Corteva and the First State Fund. | https://www.wboc.com/news/delaware-community-foundation-awards-287k-to-17-nonprofits-serving-bipoc-communities/article_30a95c8a-ba7d-11ec-9337-ef58bc3f3301.html | 2022-04-12T19:07:18Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/delaware-community-foundation-awards-287k-to-17-nonprofits-serving-bipoc-communities/article_30a95c8a-ba7d-11ec-9337-ef58bc3f3301.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SIM listing: Safaricom asks subscribers to visit their shops against CA directive
It first was a sigh of relief to millions of Kenyans when the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Sunday clarified that subscribers who have already registered their SIM cards could confirm their validation statuses by dialing *106#.
The USSD code allowed Kenyans to confirm phone numbers registered under their national identity cards. And they did not have to physically present themselves at the tele-service providers’ offices.
Most subscribers, who did so on the very Sunday, particularly Safaricom subscribers, received confirmation messages indicating the phone numbers registered using their national IDs.
But as the April 15 deadline set by the Communications Authority nears, just three days shy, Safaricom appears to have taken an about turn.
From “dear customer, the numbers registered using your ID are… to “Please visit the nearest shop or agent to resubmit their details”, the service provider now allows the customers to present themselves for a fresh entry of details.
Registration status
CA Director-General Ezra Chiloba Sunday April 10, directed all operators to standardise their menus and messages so that once a subscriber dials the USSD code it allows them to check their registration status from wherever they are.
The USSD code, he said, was to be used by all operators for verification. “This means that subscribers do not have to physically present themselves at the operator’s customer service centres unless there is an anomaly,” he said on Sunday.
He also clarified that subscribers were “not required to submit photos of themselves” during the exercise, and that the photo on a subscriber’s identity card would suffice.
Records of subscribers must include details of the national ID, service cards for disciplined forces, passports, and birth certification, whichever was applicable, Mr Chiloba said.
Identity card
Subscribers who registered their SIM cards before 2015, before the regulations were gazetted, were required to visit telecommunication agents to update their details if the *106# query did not produce a valid detail of numbers registered under a particular identity card.
Yet on Tuesday, three days shy of the deadline, Safaricom was asking their subscribers to present themselves to “resubmit their details. Contacted for comment, Mr Wachira Kangaru, Safaricom’s head of communications told the Nation: “We had a challenge. Ask the subscriber to check tomorrow. We will be updated.”
The CA had asked operators and subscribers to cooperate to ensure full compliance with legal requirements of registration, which will continue until April 15.
As of Sunday, Airtel had recorded 52 per cent compliance while Safaricom said it had validated over 65 per cent of its subscribers. | https://nation.africa/kenya/business/sim-listing-safaricom-asks-subscribers-to-visit-their-shops-against-ca-directive-3780274 | 2022-04-12T19:07:53Z | afar.com | control | https://nation.africa/kenya/business/sim-listing-safaricom-asks-subscribers-to-visit-their-shops-against-ca-directive-3780274 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast meets reproductive care needs for people across southeast Texas.
For some women, it's the only available option within hundreds of miles to seek an abortion.
"We've been doing it for years, but now all of a sudden we have to say we're not able to, and instead, we're helping them get out of state," said Dr. Bhavik Kumar, a family physician at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.
For decades, conservatives in the state have chipped away at abortion access, and restrictions have shut down many clinics.
In 2021, Texas lawmakers effectively banned termination of pregnancy after six weeks, even though medical experts say most women won't know if they are pregnant during that time period.
They also passed more restrictions on medicated abortion, which typically uses two pills to end a pregnancy.
Dr. Kumar says the restrictive laws compromise his ability to provide safe and legal medical care.
"But now our hands are tied, and having to say no to somebody, especially when I have the medical training and the expertise to provide that care," Dr. Kumar said.
"We've got the team of nurses and the staff and the techs, everyone available to do what they need to make them feel better and to make all the other things in their life somewhat better, and we're not able to do that."
In a report, the University of Texas Policy Evaluation Project says the law's effect reduced abortions in the state by about 50% around 2,100 in September of 2021.
It also says there are only 24 facilities for a state of 29 million people, forcing many women to travel out to places as far away as Colorado.
Dr. Rebecca Cohen from the Comprehensive Women's Health Center in Denver says some women travel hours to seek abortion care, with up to 20% of their patients being from Texas on some days.
The demand surge has lengthened wait times, as other surrounding states are following the Texas law.
"As hard as it is to kind of look to the horizon and see the tsunami, we know that it's coming," Dr. Cohen said.
The wave reproductive health providers expect is that the conservative-leaning Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision which legalized abortion.
"We know what happens when abortion is banned," Dr. Kuma said. "We know that people will continue to need access to this care, so we're not going anywhere. We'll continue this fight. But I think and what I hope will come out of this is more people will understand how critical abortion access is for people's health care and for families and for communities, and that we will begin to turn the tide the other way."
It'll be an uphill struggle for abortion rights in Texas, as anti-abortion conservative Republicans dominate the legislature.
The Texas laws have also created an underground network of sorts, with many legal funds and confidential logistical operations, to help women without the means find abortion clinics out of state and help them travel there, or to help women find access to medicated abortion.
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Krispy Kreme knows gas prices are soaring, so they are offering a way to sweeten your "pump day."
Over the next four weeks beginning April 13, Krispy Kreme will sell a dozen glazed doughnuts for the price as the national average cost of a gallon of gas.
This week's deal will cost customers $4.11.
"Prices will be updated weekly, so check back each Tuesday to know that week’s offer price," the company said.
The offer is redeemable in-store, the drive-thru, and online pickup.
The sweet deal will take place every Wednesday until May 4. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/krispy-kreme-sells-dozen-doughnuts-for-same-price-as-gallon-of-gas | 2022-04-12T19:17:37Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/krispy-kreme-sells-dozen-doughnuts-for-same-price-as-gallon-of-gas | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Joey and Katie Mims might be the middle-class model. They are raising a son and they found a home in the city they love: Lincoln, Nebraska.
Jobs and homes are two areas that recently have presented Lincoln and other cities with an unusual issue.
Lincoln ranks at the top of a list measuring labor market tightness. In cities like Provo, Utah, and Lexington, Kentucky, the number of job openings is more than double the number of unemployed individuals. In Lincoln, it’s nearly four-to-one.
“We’re a largely rural state, so as people go to college and move out of those communities, people aren’t coming back in. And so, we have a lot of people moving out of our state and they’re trying to figure out ways to bring people into our state,” Joey Mims said.
For the past year, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has tried to find ways to essentially force people to work.
Last fall, the state spent $10 million in federal CARES Act funds on a national ad campaign to convince folks to move there.
Wayne Mortensen runs NeighborWorks Lincoln, a nonprofit that aims to empower homeowners.
“You can’t fill jobs and bring people to Nebraska with housing you don’t have,” Mortenson said.
Lincoln, like many mid-sized cities, doesn’t have enough affordable housing to support the middle-class employees they’d like to lure.
“In our area, anything that goes up for sale is either purchased by an investment company and turned into a rental or is upgraded and flipped and sold for twice what a family just starting out can afford,” Katie said.
Dr. Roger Tutterow, an economics professor at Kennesaw State in Georgia, said times are tough for a lot of people right now.
“If you're in a tight labor market and a tight housing market, it's a tough combination because you may look at a city where there's a great employment opportunity, but if you can't find the housing that's appropriate in terms of affordability or location or suitability, then that may discourage you from migrating," he said.
Joey and Katie had jobs. But in the Lincoln market, they couldn’t find a home until receiving assistance from NeighborWorks.
“Our story isn’t unique, but it means so much to us that I want other people to have the same experience,” Joey said. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/middle-class-faces-lack-of-housing | 2022-04-12T19:17:43Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/middle-class-faces-lack-of-housing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Authorities in four states responded to the scene of deadly shootings over the weekend that took the lives of multiple people.
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, police said two people died early Sunday morning when a shooting occurred inside a nightclub during a birthday party.
Police arrested 32-year-old Timothy Ladell Rush on Monday in connection to the shooting. Police believe one of the victims was the target.
The shooting left 10 people injured, and 25-year-old Michael Valentine and 35-year-old Nicole Owens were the victims killed.
Police in Indianapolis said one man died after a fight occurred during a birthday party at a nightclub early Sunday morning.
According to Scripps affiliate WRTV, 24-year-old Belansky Fanord was killed, and five others were injured. No arrests have been made.
In Georgia, authorities said the Coweta County coroner arrived at a gun range owned by his family and discovered his father, mother, and son were shot to death on Friday, CBS News and NBC News reported.
According to the Associated Press, 40 guns were stolen, and the surveillance camera was also taken from the Grantville business.
No arrests have been made, and a $15,000 reward has been offered.
In Willowbrook, California, police said a 17-year-old and a man were killed after gunfire erupted in a residential area around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, the Associated Press reported.
Authorities said four men and a woman also suffered gunshot wounds.
No arrests have been made. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/multiple-people-killed-across-u-s-after-deadly-weekend-shootings | 2022-04-12T19:17:50Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/multiple-people-killed-across-u-s-after-deadly-weekend-shootings | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands — Holland America is volunteering one of its ships to temporarily house Ukrainian refugees.
The Volendam will dock in the Dutch city of Rotterdam for three months to provide shelter for about 1,500 Ukrainians.
Holland America will provide three hot meals a day to refugees, as well as internet access and other necessities.
To accommodate refugees, the cruise line will cancel three voyages that were scheduled for the Volendam.
Guests will be accommodated on other itineraries.
Service will resume on July 3.
“We are in a unique position to accommodate the immediate need for food and housing, so we felt it was very important to work with the City of Rotterdam and charter this ship,” said Gus Antorcha, president of Holland America Line in a statement.
The Dutch government has pledged to house 50,000 refugees from Ukraine.
The government reached out to the cruise line in March to ask if a ship could be used to house Ukrainians.
So far, 100 Ukrainians have boarded the ship.
More are expected in the coming days. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/cruise-ship-in-the-netherlands-will-house-1-500-ukrainian-refugees | 2022-04-12T19:18:02Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/cruise-ship-in-the-netherlands-will-house-1-500-ukrainian-refugees | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TRI-CITIES, Wash. - The Tri-Cities Influencer Podcast showcases local leaders in hopes of inspiring others. The platform features interviews from a variety of professionals, highlighting their leadership strategies across different professions.
Host, Paul Casey, shares what motivated him to create a locally-based podcast to get to know leaders of businesses and organizations and inspire future leadership in the Tri-Cities.
The Tri-Cities Influencer Podcast will soon release its 100th episode. To learn more and for ways to listen, visit the TCI website or Facebook page. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/madeline-motivates/madeline-motivates-tri-cities-influencer-podcast-aims-to-inspire-current-and-future-leaders/article_915f6f04-ba7a-11ec-bbf4-570c0937f53d.html | 2022-04-12T19:18:02Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/madeline-motivates/madeline-motivates-tri-cities-influencer-podcast-aims-to-inspire-current-and-future-leaders/article_915f6f04-ba7a-11ec-bbf4-570c0937f53d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The New Car Assessment Program, or NCAP, lets you compare the safety of new cars.
The star ratings show everything from how well a car protects you in a crash to rollover resistance.
There’s a proposal to update the rating program, but some advocates are concerned the proposal doesn't address the existing gender gap in car safety testing.
“Most of us think when we go buy a car and it says it has a 5 NCAP star rating, there's a presumption that that's for women also. And to me, there's no excuse for treating men and women differently,” said Susan Molinari at Verity now.
The proposal calls for updating male crash test dummies, but it doesn't include a dummy representative for all women.
Currently, tests are done on a smaller version of a male dummy or with a computer simulation.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration acknowledges that women face a 17% higher risk on average of dying in a crash.
Research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds newer cars are doing a better job of protecting both men and women, but disparities still exist.
“Women are getting injured more with their arms and their legs. While these injuries may not be life-threatening, they most certainly are life altering, both in terms of capabilities of one of one's body, as well as potential mental health implications that could result from these types of injuries,” said Cathy Chase at Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.
More than 60 members of Congress recently sent a letter to the Transportation Secretary asking him to require up-to-date female crash test dummies to be used in the new car assessment program.
The NCAP ratings also show the recommended safety technology that's in the car.
NHTSA is proposing to add blind spot detection, blind spot intervention, lane-keeping support and pedestrian automatic emergency braking.
“The Advanced Driver Assistance technologies are going to work, irrespective of who is in the vehicle so that is going to help either to avoid or to mitigate the collisions. The drawback, however, is that the improvement that's being proposed for NCAP will not actually incorporate those at this point in time into the rating, it will only be a checkbox,” said Shaun Kildare at Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
NHTSA says the new car assessment program has improved safety for both men and women.
The new infrastructure law requires a study of how crash-test dummies are used in car safety tests.
A report on that is required within a year.
You can comment on the proposed safety rating update until May 9th on the Federal Register website. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/safety-advocates-want-gender-gap-addressed-in-car-safety-testing | 2022-04-12T19:18:08Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/safety-advocates-want-gender-gap-addressed-in-car-safety-testing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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